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

I’m not devoting a lot of brain space to this, but does Trump’s right eye look droopy lately? I’m thinking of the OAN still frame, but I thought I’ve seen it before.

p much everything about him looks droopy

Helllloooo folks....

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/droopy_1836.jpg

the Trumplings don't have wallets.

not sure what exactly you have in mind. but Trump's support and Trumpism 100% extend to wealthy suburbanites, country-clubbers, and Big-Donor-level pools of wealth.

_the Trumplings don't have wallets._

not sure what exactly you have in mind. but Trump's support and Trumpism 100% extend to wealthy suburbanites, country-clubbers, and Big-Donor-level pools of wealth.

There's a deeper look for someone to do about the radicalization of the suburbs. It is manifesting all over the country in the anti-mask COVID denialism. I just covered a school board meeting last night that was full of white suburbanites who were just seething with anger that their kids have to wear masks during in-person instruction. And by suburbs, obviously, I mean only a slice of them, because suburbs are also where Biden flipped votes. But I think there are a lot more white suburbanites who were turned on by Trump than turned off by him, and their combined levels of entitlement and aggression make them some of the most unpleasant people I've ever seen at public meetings.

hi! Cuban-American living in Miami middle class enclave here! Blue Lives Matter stickers have replaced Trump flags on SUVs (these households boast at times several SUVs), boat hitches, and motorbikes.

Yup. My glib generalization is "people who own car dealerships," but it's that whole suburban bourgeoisie, fast-food restaurant franchise holders, small business owners and office park workers, people with 2-4 years of college who go to megachurches and run the sports boosters clubs at the high schools. These people are just furious at the world right now. And after Jan. 6 I'm less sure than I used to be that they're not going to risk all of that by committing political violence. Some of them, clearly, will.

some of the most unpleasant people I've ever seen at public meetings.

lowest possible bar

A high bar, actually! Lots of competition.

There was crazy fallout from the 'Unite the Right' march... some of the yahoos lost jobs, etc.; they kind of went underground when they saw real consequences for their participation.

It'll be interesting to see if the Jan 6th thing leads to more of the same, or a whole lot less. Proud Boys et al will always show up, but the suburban owner of a tanning salon might think twice.

top three occupations of those arrested at the coup attempt:

1. business owner
2. cop
3. real estate brokerhttps://t.co/dTB9aiqPR3

— tai lee / dignity hater (@yunghijikata) February 3, 2021

4. Facebook poster

you can get a job doing that?

It IS a job. Thousands of aunts over sixty-five across the country do it.

The Democrats finishing by appealing to the common sense of the Republicans--I can only believe that they weren't really appealing to the common sense of the Republicans, that it was meant more as open mockery of the concept.

I assume the defense will focus primarily on the psychoactive drugs hidden within the Antifa temptresses' vaginas; the entire case rests on Trump trying to soothe this savage crowd who were out of their minds on goofballs and bath salts.

They're supposedly only going to use three or four hours of their allotted 16. Their defense is that air-tight.

they only got paid for 3 hours

they haven't been paid yet

Their defense is that air-tight.

Yes. Their air-tight defense is they have more than 36 senators' votes to acquit already pocketed. Consequently, they feel so confident of acquittal that they'll be willing to waste the senators' time by rating the superhunks.

payment made in Facebook collectible socks, help me get all the socks

I want to hear more of Castor's beat poetry

knock yourself out

They’re going to be paid in expired gift certificates for a Trump property that closed down a decade ago.

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and here comes the 2 to the 3 and 4
Then I drop the motion I have in store

So far only have seen this on Fox, Forbes, National Review, and the following content patch, which has the gist, and a link to the vid-infested NR item---can imagine it being jumped on as hot path back to Repub Sen majority, or of course at the very least as making Trump and Stop The Steal more reality-based:
https://news.yahoo.com/warnock-under-investigation-role-stacey-164135365.html

Trump defense will be 49% "but whatabout BLM, cities burning all summer, etc.," 13% "it was an antifa false flag op," and 38% "the guy's out of office so this is pointless."

Also 100% "we already know we have the votes to acquit so we could just stand here and sing Burger King jingles for the rest of the day."

I’m going to have to turn off CNN soon; there’s definitely a limit to how long you can watch ostensibly smart people be shocked by Ted Cruz

— DJP (@djperry1973) February 12, 2021

In 2005, Trump's impeachment defense lawyer Bruce Castor - in his capacity as DA - tried to pin the murder of a woman, her daughter and her sister, plus a separate woman's murder six years earlier, on D&D.

"I mean, you have many, many stab wounds and those 'Dungeons and Dragons' fantasy games involve swords and knives and daggers and things of that nature. There may be a connection but I can’t say for sure.”

probably a preview of his strategy tomorrow

the entire insurrection was a LARP tbf

This seems ... sketchy.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.yahoo.com/amphtml/ted-cruz-lindsey-graham-mike-025400678.html

a larp that nevertheless was deadly

it's so insane to me that the republicans are standing by their man, even now

Good morning!

"Sometimes it's hard ... to be ... a footman ... "

it's so insane to me that the republicans are standing by their man, even now

I'm with you. I don't know the proper proportion of ingredients but it's surely a combination of the baseline soullessness of your average GOP lifer, the threat of being primaried by a Q dingbat, the literal threat from deranged Trump supporters with probably a pinch of good ol' fashioned kompromat sprinkled in for a few of them.

Cool system we've got.

it is completely to do with the fear of being primaried by Q dingbats and, in general, losing the support of their base. pure shortsighted opportunism.

trump's mob killed a guy

proof of the shoot a guy on 5th avenue bit?

Hard not to be reminded of that bit, yeah.

i posted somewhere sometime ago, along with all y'all and countless others, "imagine making _trump_ your hill to die on." i... cannot.

They actually found a *more* public way to kill someone than in the middle of 5th avenue

xp i mean, it's horrendous morals because gah trump. but it's just such shitty shitty times a million bad judgment. the guy is not a competent authoritarian. he's not even a competent developer. he'd never have to sell you out because he never was with you.

ha typing that i think of whatever it was, like, "let's march to the CAPITOL- and I'LL BE THERE WITH YOU-..."

he's a very good grifter i guess.

it's so insane to me that the republicans are standing by their man, even now

― treeship., Friday, February 12, 2021 8:57 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

You'd think there'd come a time when this would stop being so insane to you? Like, some time a long time ago

It is fear of the base for sure, but don’t underestimate how many of the newer members of Congress are pretty much on board with all of this stuff. Not the actual invasion of the Capitol itself maybe, but just about every other aspect of the entire movement or whatever you want to call it. They openly hate democracy, which is why they spend a lot of time talking about how we are not one. Their contempt for liberals is deep and at least rhetorically violent. They really don’t think there is any legitimacy to anyone who votes against them.

Absolutely every other argument against selling your soul for Trump aside, he's someone who's demonstrated zero sense of loyalty to anyone not named Ivanka. If he is aware of you, he is probably actively seeking out a bus he can throw you under. No matter how venal a sphincter you may be, willful ignorance of that demonstrable fact is the aspect of slavering Trumpism I will never understand.

I mean, I guess I'm just naive or something, but there was a part of me that, yes, even now, thought that there might actually be some consequences for inspiring a mob to literally murder people on the steps of the Capitol.

it's so insane to me that the republicans are standing by their man, even now

― treeship., Friday, February 12, 2021 8:57 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

You'd think there'd come a time when this would stop being so insane to you? Like, some time a long time ago

― Dan I., Friday, February 12, 2021 11:25 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Never admitting defeat/regret when challenged with reasons has been their primary mission statement this entire time. Dig heels in and double down no matter what anyone says ever for any reason. Never give the other team the satisfaction.