“It’s a little too quiet” - US Politics February 2021

Ah, yes. My bad.

He could run from jail but I think imprisonment would be one of the few things other than being entirely legally banned from running that would almost guarantee he’d lose.

After 2016 I tend to be pretty wary of chess and triangulation around whether it’s maybe a good thing for dems if Trump runs!

Also true. Predicting "naw, they'd NEVER elect that clown" is what got us here

But he’s have to be IN prison. Losing some court cases, being fined, briefly going to jail and then getting out again, none of those things will lose him votes

I was shocked how different the country felt after just 2-3 days of Trump's twitter ban. Not looking forward to him getting re-platformed during impeachment.

^agreed. since there are no guarantees and this country is exceedingly stupid, i guess i'd prefer to err on the side of caution

I know what you mean but it's funny to think of a trial as "getting a platform"

I don’t have a strong feeling on whether it would be “better” if he ran again or not, but my hope is that he divides the GOP politically and electorally for as long as he lives, and a circus impeachment trial probably helps with that.

But they’re not divided. They never are. There’s the open fascists and the lightly-belied fascists and they are definitely on the same team.

Uh “veiled”

trial as "getting a platform"

oh for sure. i support impeachment and would like to have cowardly gop senators on the record. i mostly meant him testifying which (i may be misunderstanding) could go either way?

You're goddamned right I ordered the Code Q

https://desetaumetnost.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/ndfxdwmyidjf6usxkk5z46ecxwl.jpg

Before I wring my hands over how the Senate will botch the impeachment trial, I think I'll wait until there is something to see and then decide how it's going.

xxp He would surely give his answers on the stand in the form of tweets, with lots of SAD!s and VERY BAD!s. I guess he kind of already kind of talks like that.

greene has continued to double-down on everything and i'm sure the conspiracy will expand to include all congressional republicans who vote to oust her from her committee positions (which, holy shit that she was ever give one in the first place). mccarthy gave her a choice: denounce Q or step down herself. she did what all Q people do: she doubled-down and refused to do either reasonable thing.

i guess greene's fate will go a long way toward answering this Q, but

Q: are more Q people going to run in the 2022 midterms? are some going to win? because imagine like THREE MTGs in congress!! lol

oops, sorry, i thought this was the Q thread for real!

I know what you mean but it's funny to think of a trial as "getting a platform"

― stimmy stimmy yah (Simon H.), Wednesday, February 3, 2021 1:04 PM (twenty-two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

It kinda is, though, for sure. It boosts his signal which is all he cares about.

I'll go on record as prediction that a lifetime twitter ban will ultimately have proven more impactful on Donald Trump than the 'consequences' of two (2) impeachment trials.

prediction predicting

In which the former CEO of Overstock dot Com describes in surprisingly coherent and readable prose about how he walked into the WH, helped talk the President into a coup, and ate all the appetizers. https://t.co/0Q0PzUUNHZ

— Peter Sagal (@petersagal) February 3, 2021

I would be surprised if a more bizarre document exists in Presidential history. It makes Nixon's meeting with Elvis seem like a routine check-in.

— Peter Sagal (@petersagal) February 3, 2021

*carl kasell chuckle in the background*

lol, even the very first sentence of the excerpt is funny:

On the evening of Friday, December 18, Sidney Powell, Mike Flynn, a sharp female attorney on Sydney’s team (whom I will call “Alyssa”), and myself decided to call an SUV and get driven to the entrance that serves the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, which is on the grounds of (and connects to) the White House.

it's like, wait, who is Alyssa? is that her name? is that the lawyer who immediately got fired after her law firm found out she was trying to organize a coup with the president?

sharp like smart or sharp like cheddar

smart like sharp or smart like chmeddar

Speaking of Peter Sagal, I heard Jen Psaki on "Wait Wait" last weekend and she was actually pretty witty.

I’m behind today so apologies if this is old news for the thread

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/02/03/us/biden-administration/more-than-370-congressional-aides-call-for-trumps-conviction

But they’re not divided. They never are. There’s the open fascists and the lightly-belied fascists and they are definitely on the same team.

Can anyone capture the loyalty of our Big Beautiful Boaters? Find out in 2024!

GOP candidates are going to skip the Iowa State Fair in favor of a hunting expo.

i'm still laughing at matt gaetz flying to Wyoming, a state he had never before visited, and telling a crowd of trumpers that liz cheney didn't understand the people of wyoming

HAPPENING NOW: Residents are protesting against the City of Austin outside of the Candlewood Suites hotel. The city plans to use this hotel to provide temporary housing for the homeless.

Neighbors tell me they worry about safety. @KVUE pic.twitter.com/R0Ieb3wcV2

— Hannah Rucker KVUE (@suphannahrucker) January 31, 2021

well, now i'm just fucking angry again. i'm going to go take a shower and take a nap, shit

i'm going to go take a shower and take a nap, shit

not in that order

Fuck “neighbors”

Easy solution: burn down the neighbors' houses and see how they feel about the plan then.

Neighbors tell me they worry about safety being around "poor" people

s2g homeownership predisposes people to evil

where do the neighbors think the people are when they are not inside the hotel?

that is so much "safer" for the neighbors i mean. why are people dumb?

Blaming that on homeownership too

The homeless at that Candlewood are getting for free what the protestors are paying $2500 a month for.

San Francisco had a big kerfluffle over a homeless drop-in center on the Embarcadero, also concerned about 'safety'

Looking at that thread, apparently the motel is on the edge of northeast Austin near the Cedar Park suburb, so this is all vmic.

Biden presidency endangered by scandal:

NEW FARA FILING: People registered as foreign agents through the firm @ArnoldPorter donated $13k to BIDEN's campaign committees from July-Dec. 2020.@ArnoldPorter engaged the BIDEN transition team on behalf of foreign gov'ts including Argentina & Korea. https://t.co/BBQgxY0dFJ

— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) February 2, 2021

Self-XP NORTHWEST SIDE OF AUSTIN

xpost Read that as Arnold Palmer and got thirsty.

if it's the Candlewood Suites I think it is, the neighbors should be more worried about the patrons of the nearby Baby Acapulco and their day-glo vomit that results from downing a ton of blue margaritas and queso and then getting mild concussions from fistfights in the parking lot over who has to take Brianna home because she lives in the fucking 04

i'm sure they will be standing there with signs that say BABY ACAPULCO WRONG LOCATION very soon

apparently it's the one up near Cedar Park so swap Olive Garden for Baby A's, house red for blue margaritas, and breadsticks for queso

so, lowering the phaseout threshold for the $1400 check to 50K a year?

fuck that