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

I don't know how journalists can continue to use the phrase 'increasingly isolated' in good conscience or with a straight face.

haven't u heard of 'foreplay'

ha interesting

Holy shit: “When Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced this week that the federal government would begin releasing coronavirus vaccine doses held in reserve for second shots, no such reserve existed”https://t.co/pIBS0tMpcF

— Alex Leo (@AlexMLeo) January 15, 2021

Luke Mogelson in the New Yorker goes long on the Capitol riot and some of the Stop the Steal rallies that led up to it. Lots of detailed on-the-scene reporting. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/01/25/among-the-insurrectionists

dear god

Re: that Pew Pew Pew poll, I've got to assume Biden's people see the same numbers and will advise caution when considering cooperation.

I couldn't make it through that NYer article. So much unfocused, STUPID rage.

The new Post poll has some awful findings among Republicans:

51% say GOP leaders didn't go far enough in nullifying election

56% say Trump bears zero blame for the insurrection

66% say he has acted responsibly

Behold the GOP's authoritarian core:https://t.co/GUjwDOc7g3

— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 15, 2021

sounds about right

any of us actually surprised by that? I mean, I just finished that New Yorker article about the insurrection and.....hoo boy. there is a lot of brain rot.

any of us actually surprised by that? I mean, I just finished that New Yorker article about the insurrection and.....hoo boy. there is a lot of brain rot.

if you are wondering whether house dem leadership likes it when katie porter goes after bank executives, here's your answer https://t.co/AMAN6pCjQX

— Zach Carter (@zachdcarter) January 15, 2021

I dunno, those numbers make me fairly optimistic. Those are way lower percentages than I would've expected, and I can't help but feel that they'll drop further the longer Trump is out of the daily spotlight. Which isn't to say that the party as a whole isn't garbage or that that particular subset of people aren't scary as fuck.

re Porter — absolutely enraging. Yes please keep sidelining the 15% of your caucus that isn’t trash

yeah that's sickening

Current road closures in Washington D.C. pic.twitter.com/YMXp0j5yzO

— Anthony Quintano (@AnthonyQuintano) January 15, 2021

is there an Uber for air travel besides Blade? lol

Those are way lower percentages than I would've expected, and I can't help but feel that they'll drop further the longer Trump is out of the daily spotlight.

This is key. Check back in six months.

This is extraordinarily bad news. Dunn has done PR for...
- Harvey Weinstein re: sexual assault expose (yes, really.)
- Keystone XL pipeline
- Hedge funds post-2008
- Charter school lobby
- NYC landlords/real estate groups to lobby against rent protectionshttps://t.co/VpLBfNKseA

— Max Moran (@MaxMoranHi) January 15, 2021

Can the new two-party system be centrist dems and progressive dems now? Can we just make that happen already?

xp wtf

anita b. dunn with that bullshit

so much energy explaining why bad is actually good, instead of being good and not bad

anita b. dunn with that bullshit

1/3 of Rs think Trump acted irresponsibly. Count me as another who's surprised it's that high.

I admit I was waiting on this one.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jenna-ryan-texas-real-estate-agent-who-flew-to-dc-on-private-jet-arrested-in-capitol-riots

lol map

does No Fly List extend to private jets

a real double threat

Jenna Ryan, a Frisco, Texas real estate broker and life coach

if anything the arrests have been good for learning about shithole towns you didn't know existed

wait who is this Dunn person, I can't keep up

a real double threat

Jenna Ryan, a Frisco, Texas real estate broker and life coach

“You can never cancel Jenna Ryan,” she wrote. However, by Monday, she said her publisher had canceled her self help book that was due out next month. - lol.

Such incredible self-absorption and lack of self-awareness in that article.

Those are way lower percentages than I would've expected, and I can't help but feel that they'll drop further the longer Trump is out of the daily spotlight.
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This is key. Check back in six months.

not to be a negative nancy, but...do you think rising authoritarians/fascists in the GOP are going to idly stand by as trump is out of the spotlight and all of the rage they spent decades fomenting slowly dissipates over several months? if i was a rising authoritarian/fascist, i would recognize that as a time to step up and be the thing that everyone has been worried about since 2016: a competent US fascist

Maybe by self-awareness, I mean humility and compassion.

I don't know how journalists can continue to use the phrase 'increasingly isolated' in good conscience or with a straight face.

Same reason they are still - STILL - going to folksy diners in rural areas to find out what makes Trump supporters tick.

Trump is increasingly isolated from folksy folks in rural diners like this one.

Those are way lower percentages than I would've expected, and I can't help but feel that they'll drop further the longer Trump is out of the daily spotlight.
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This is key. Check back in six months.

not to be a negative nancy, but...do you think rising authoritarians/fascists in the GOP are going to idly stand by as trump is out of the spotlight and all of the rage they spent decades fomenting slowly dissipates over several months? if i was a rising authoritarian/fascist, i would recognize that as a time to step up and be the thing that everyone has been worried about since 2016: a competent US fascist

― Karl Malone, Friday, January 15, 2021 5:45 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

feel like it's time for a jesus-y fascist. hawley is working on it.

Fortunately they're hard to manufacture.

The wannabe Trumps are severely deficient in charisma. At least so far.

O and that thing about Betsy Ross flag sucks. That's not why I have one.

I have one because I like to remember when all the states were East Coast states, and all the voters were highly educated coastal elites.

xpost they could always run a megachurch lunatic, though that would require him taking a massive pay cut.

probably overstated but I saw something about MO voters not exactly loving Hawley atm.

I’m sure it’ll subside tho. ‘They’re all criminals and need to be booted... except mine.’

what this country needs is an ayatollah

xp

The wannabe Trumps are severely deficient in charisma. At least so far.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, January 15, 2021 11:49 AM (thirty-three seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

^ This. I'm sure there are plenty of people vying for the job of Competent Fascist POTUS but not many that could actually go the distance.

gotta get a teeeveee show first

probably overstated but I saw something about MO voters not exactly loving Hawley atm

democrats and people with a conscience in MO fucking hate Hawley. so that's around 45% in MO, tops. the majority are dumbass conservatives, and any dissatisfaction they have with Hawley will only lessen over time as we continue through whatever gigantic world-ending Biden controversy they're going to cook up this year

can not argue w that.

especially if he makes a credible run in 2024

O and that thing about Betsy Ross flag sucks. That's not why I have one.

I have one because I like to remember when all the states were East Coast states, and all the voters were highly educated coastal elites.

― alpaca lips now (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, January 15, 2021 12:49 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

What's this about the Betsy Ross flag?

Apparently the original flag design has become a fetish for mouth-breather trump fans