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

i mean they werent really hacked as far as having their security compromised, their public data was just downloaded, but they were hacked in the sense of someone used their systems in a way they didnt design them for

if someone had done this one weird trick before id think we would have heard about it, tho who knows there could be someone out there sitting on a big pile of parler posts

the worst thing parler did was post images with all the metadata still on there, which is an actual security issue in that their users were effectively sharing their locations without intending to, the rest of it is like yeah you let yr site get scraped too easily but it was all public and prob couldve been scraped anyway with a lil more effort and time

Fascistnating

lmao jim jordan lost 7% of his followers in the twitter purge

GOP officials lost thousands of followers after Twitter banned QAnon accounts. @angelareplica figured out which ones lost the most: https://t.co/PE1gnywvVL

— Keenan (@jktrotter) January 14, 2021

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the worst thing parler did was post images with all the metadata still on there, which is an actual security issue in that their users were effectively sharing their locations without intending to, the rest of it is like yeah you let yr site get scraped too easily but it was all public and prob couldve been scraped anyway with a lil more effort and time

I saw some MAGA lady on FB talking about how with Parler's soon-to-be-glorious-victory over Amazon in court, now is a great time to buy shares of Parler. (Of course you can't actually do that becz it's not a public company, but we can dream.)

Ronan Farrow with an Oath Keeper interview. It doesn't go well for said dude:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/a-former-marine-stormed-the-capitol-as-part-of-a-far-right-militia

In an eighty-minute interview, during which Crowl acknowledged that he was drinking, he confirmed to me that he had entered the Capitol, saying that he had gone to Washington to “do security” for “V.I.P.s” whom he declined to name. He said that his intentions had been peaceful and that he had never been violent, claiming “we protected the fucking Capitol Hill police.” He declined to substantiate the claim.

ok so he stormed the Capitol because he had t pee

*to pee

He repeatedly denied that he harbored racist views or had made racist comments, but he said that he believed in phrenology, the discredited pseudoscience that infers intellectual ability from skull shape, and told me that he had responded to The New Yorker’s request for comment after examining pictures of my head.

To be fair, the Farrows have have shapely skulls.

xpost "Anyone ever tell you that you ssortta ressemble Frank SSsinatra?"

With DC and 50 statehouses to choose from, it's hard to imagine that Maganauts won't participate in further violent insurrectionist activity before Biden has even been sworn in. Trump started signalling his intentions to hang onto power whatever the election results at least a month before Nov. 3.

I don't discount the likelihood of more violence, but I do think — hope — that these demonstrations are going to be mostly notable for being small and pathetic looking. I'm sure they can pull together a few hundred people here and there, but I don't think it's going to be some militia army emerging from deep cover.

In 2016 he said he'd "totally accept election results…if I win". Lol oh that wacky Donnie what a card.

I do think they overplayed their hand with the Capitol storming... kinda like the "blood & soil" march in Virginia. Many will probably lay low for awhile, afraid to lose their jobs, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NYFq7ZJg4c

https://www.npr.org/2016/10/20/498713509/donald-trump-says-hell-accept-the-results-of-the-election-if-he-wins

Still barred from twitter, Trump releases a statement on Afghanistan that’s more like a tweet. pic.twitter.com/6w6C60OmhJ

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 14, 2021

love always finds a way

"For weeks, Trump has been claiming the race is rigged in Hillary Clinton's favor, in part because of deceased individuals and immigrants in the country illegally casting votes and election officials throughout the country colluding against Trump."

At least then he woulda had no federal resources to abuse

He thinks in tweet length now, clearly.

never thought in anything else. It's why he's such a natural at it.

All new White House press releases to include the words "haters" and "beautiful"

_He repeatedly denied that he harbored racist views or had made racist comments, but he said that he believed in phrenology, the discredited pseudoscience that infers intellectual ability from skull shape, and told me that he had responded to The New Yorker’s request for comment after examining pictures of my head. _

One time a friend made fun of my foreign language jones and said "James Redd knows lots of languages but it only comes out in Trump-like tweets."

He thinks in tweet length now, clearly.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, January 14, 2021 2:15 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is the worst thing about being a twitter user.

Caek lemme explain why you're wrong…
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Huh.

Late to this but ... Fall Out Boy is playing the Biden inaugural concert? pic.twitter.com/q4avuVZfOy

— Nick Corasaniti (@NYTnickc) January 14, 2021

"You see, Mr. President, when I said it was an arms race..."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOi1E6dUV30

Carol King AND James Taylor?? Boomers rejoice

This Capital Coup affidavit doc is incredible and worth a read:

https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2191/f/Kevin%20Lyons%20Affidavit%20in%20Support%20of%20Criminal%20Complaint.pdf

Start at point 11, maybe.

Still barred from twitter, Trump releases a statement on Afghanistan that’s more like a tweet.

smh i suggested this as soon as he was banned no one listens

he should just send out a series of tweet length press releases

— br◎seph (@on3ness) January 9, 2021

Hello Nice FBI Lady

With DC and 50 statehouses to choose from, it's hard to imagine that Maganauts won't participate in further violent insurrectionist activity before Biden has even been sworn in. Trump started signalling his intentions to hang onto power whatever the election results at least a month before Nov. 3.

― Respectfully Yours, (Aimless), Thursday, January 14, 2021 1:01 PM (forty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I don't discount the likelihood of more violence, but I do think — hope — that these demonstrations are going to be mostly notable for being small and pathetic looking. I'm sure they can pull together a few hundred people here and there, but I don't think it's going to be some militia army emerging from deep cover.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra),

i hope tipsy's right here. i did see that one of the proud boy leaders is urging everyone to stay home and telling them that it's a "honeypot" designed to entrap them all. whatever, but please stay the fuck home proud boys

It's a small side effect in comparison to all the grotesqueries and preening from GOP types in particular, but there is something telling that a bunch of people who thought they could get away with it -- whatever 'it' was -- found themselves humiliated on the broadest of scales, and clearly had no sense as to how or why they would be.

Start at point 11, maybe.

loool

there is something telling

It tells me they have lived in a bubble of shared delusions large enough to look like the center of political gravity to them. This was not helped by the fact that the president and nearly all Republican office holders in the nation encouraged their delusions even when they knew the president's claims were complete fabrications.

Fall Out Boy is playing the Biden inaugural concert

And Biden is going down swinging

Developments in the ideological–state apparatus. From Popbitch:

"Now he's had his second dose of the vaccine in the UK, Rupert Murdoch is preparing to make his way to NYC to oversee the difficult post-Trump positioning for Fox News. Should be fun."

— Doug Henwood (@DougHenwood) January 14, 2021

I hope they used bleach.

that affidavit is amazing

Hey Nice FBI Lady should be the title of this thread.

otm

murdoch's post-vaccine visit to new york to determine the post-trump future of fox news is some shakespearean shit

A nasty Covid case would be the most benign thing that Murdoch has brought to this country