Enough With The Cutesy Titles, People Are Dead: US Politics January 2021 pt 2

iirc, all the state-level republican secretaries of state and elections officials resisted Trump's spurious claims of fraud, even though a ton of republican state legislators jumped on the let's-crush-democracy train.

Sharing less for the Hill's broad definition of plummet, and for the optical illusion of Hawley's bitchin' ponytail

Poll: Hawley, Cruz see approval ratings plummet in wake of Capitol riot https://t.co/oUUbhIZ7JK pic.twitter.com/KoLd6LpWCJ

— The Hill (@thehill) January 23, 2021

i said to Mr Veg on inauguration eve that DJT’s view of the presidency was basically the same as a 5 year old being Boss of The Playground on their birthday. Cannot be overstated how much he ~did not care~ about what “should” be done in the role. the presidency to him
was 100% a “do what I say” card and the stories are going to bear that out in soooooo much detail

he is like Bane in Dark Knight Rises except if he had muscular atrophy

Thanks for the cut/paste JIC

Lol, VG

VG otm. Didn't know, didn't care.

"Trump follows the Constitution"

"what's his favorite part?"

"uhh....Chapter 3?"

Some other mania

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/embedding-with-pentagon-leadership-in-trumps-chaotic-last-week

When Mr. Trump said on Dec. 14 that Attorney General William P. Barr was leaving the department, some officials thought that he might allow Mr. Rosen a short reprieve before pressing him about voter fraud. After all, Mr. Barr would be around for another week.

Instead, Mr. Trump summoned Mr. Rosen to the Oval Office the next day. He wanted the Justice Department to file legal briefs supporting his allies’ lawsuits seeking to overturn his election loss. And he urged Mr. Rosen to appoint special counsels to investigate not only unfounded accusations of widespread voter fraud, but also Dominion, the voting machines firm.

the next fucking day. jeeeeezus

Some of this hit HAS to be jailable, right?

Whoops!

WaPo has updated its story to include a somewhat cryptic written statement from Clark, in which he confirms “there was a candid discussion of options and pros and cons with the President.”

Clark dubiously asserts that conversation is privileged. h/t @JanNWolfe pic.twitter.com/cHaPFZ7U4c

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) January 23, 2021

The word "options" = falling on a sword

is it bad that i want Cippollone to write a tell-all

Cannot be overstated how much he ~did not care~ about what “should” be done in the role. the presidency to him
was 100% a “do what I say” card

This also applies to his real estate developments, to his casinos, to his footbal league, to his universities, to his charities, to his taxes, to his approach to sexual consent...

Of course, everyone who constantly created and shared these memes will buy a sweatshirt as part of this charity effort, right?

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/bernie-sanders-meme-inauguration-sweatshirt-charity-1117854/?fbclid=IwAR2CKj82ebBIUSS3z8Z9zGaqjMSYXLIBBGOlf3y_EQV7KSlsE9OqshcdHxg

subject matter waiver and how you do it

if you want a couple of thousand words of schoolhouse rock content on how executive orders work in the specific context of environmental regulation, this is a good piece https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/01/a-look-at-all-of-bidens-changes-to-energy-and-environmental-regulations/

somehow a thousand words and rolling stone don't quite go well together

but seriously, i was wondering, do people really consider previous thread titles to be cutesy?

fbclid=IwAR2CKj82ebBIUSS3z8Z9zGaqjMSYXLIBBGOlf3y_EQV7KSlsE9OqshcdHxg

banana fana fo bclid=IwAR2CKj82ebBIUSS3z8Z9zGaqjMSYXLIBBGOlf3y_EQV7KSlsE9OqshcdHxg

Haha https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/22/us/politics/biden-executive-orders-trump.html

One former senior Trump aide, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear or retaliation, agreed. “Very little of what Trump did was done to ensure permanence. At the pace Biden is moving, everything Trump did will be gone by the time the sun rises on Monday — except his judicial appointments.”

While Mr. Trump lorded over Twitter, important lessons for him lurked, unwatched, on YouTube.

In a remarkable interview 10 days before his death in 1973, Lyndon B. Johnson, the most skilled legislator-president in the country’s recent history, explained why he had resisted the temptation to ram through landmark civil rights reforms by using executive orders.

didn't Trump already have aides leaking negative shit to the press like, in Week 1?

another enjoyable diff with Biden admin (or literally every other admin)

Punster the thread title comment about cutesy has more to do with the flurry of puns that were sparked when it was announced this month had a part 2 coming. Which is a precedent caused by the events of Jan 6th causing much debate when there was also going to be an inauguration and new incumbency later. So this would be a very full thread if kept as 1 part.

So weird to me that politicians have merch. Not campaign merch, just merch-merch.

They literally only hold their jobs as a result of regularly scheduled popularity contests.

It's ok to pirate their podcasts, they make all their money off merch and touring

Blimey, this thread having a day off?

May need to get used to things like taht, head of state not going out of his way to embarass himself several timesa day and the ex having no media access.
May have to go cold turkey on teh trepidation of the other boot dropping for a while. YOu could always read back through the monthly threqads for the last 4 years if you are too addicted.,

On the other hand McConnell is going to be a pain wherever he can and Biden is goingto be struggling with trying to do all the good he can but not having a significant majority.

Ha funny that, didn't think the speed of additions to the thread was going to tail off after about the 20th since nothing untoward regularly happening. So the idea that there would be bound to be need for a 2nd or 3rd thread for teh month may have been based on a habit taht was just breaking.

The monthly thread may have to be ditched at this rate :-O

Good

I noted it last night and was...quite surprised and pleased

Blimey, this thread having a day off?

― Mark G, Sunday, January 24, 2021

I loved it!

i have like 3 different depressing news updates i could post, and one of them involves trump

but in the year of extra-magical thinking, 2021 - no i don't, all the news is good

There's a difference between depressing and urgent. There was plenty of depressing political news before Trump, and will be plenty after. But a lot fewer things that will prompt the "JFC DID U SEE THIS LATEST ASSAULT ON ALL THINGS DECENT" reactions that have fueled these threads for the past 4 years. Or here's hoping anyway.

oh, for sure. the things i want to post about today are just expected things - mcconnell is doing his best to make sure as many people die of covid as possible and biden takes the blame; trump is trying to start the Patriot party, and smart people in portland thought burning a biden flag (lol?) on inauguration day would be a good thing. but yeah, none of that compares to what happened a couple weeks ago - trump trying to overthrow the election in yet ANOTHER way by trying to get the acting attorney general thrown out and then installing a stooge to overturn the Georgia results (via...magic?)...anyway, holy shit. the trump years chewed me up and spit me out. i'm a whiny piece of half-solidified blood, hardened bloodsnot after a violent sneeze. the silence of this thread is comforting in some ways

So, no need for a January part two thread, and Feb will most likely be...... quiet

This is the January, part two thread.

It does all feel pretty weird. The silence of the Trump. I do not miss him even a tiny little bit, but it's just like some asshole with a jackhammer has been right outside the window for the past four years, except the jackhammer was hate speech and crazy talk, and now it's just ... gone. Or at least muted to an extent you have to strain to hear it. Takes some adjusting to.

thank god twitter booted him

Both amazing and I guess predictable what a difference that made.

yep

also, fuck those dumbasses in Portland, smdh

🙄

there was a good roasting response on twitter but I've already given it more attention than it deserves

which assholes in portland are these?

some dumb anarchists basically re-enacting the argument we had here on the 20th

Given it's Portland, I guess it could be any number of assholes. Meanwhile:

The Bidens stop at Call Your Mother, the bagel shop in Georgetown, en route back to the White House -- already a big change. Trying to remember but can't recall Trump ever stopping anywhere in DC other than his own hotel.

— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) January 24, 2021

I'm not sure I understand why Donnie didn't just create his own alt-website in order to directly funnel his parasitic filth into his hosts' willing brains.

Trump is getting warm welcome from the skies near Mar-a-lago today pic.twitter.com/S6uUFx3t30

— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) January 24, 2021

really looking forward to the impending eviction from M-A-L:

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/12/donald-trump-mar-a-lago-neighbors