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

this is just a summary of stuff that's widely known by but reading articles like this are a real pick me up

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-16/trump-s-shambolic-empire-faces-long-odds-for-one-more-comeback

I just got the reissued/updated version of Dark Towers, the book on Deutsche Bank that got a good amount of attention/press, but am kinda figuring there'll have to be yet another updated edition here soon enough.

no expert on business or finance, but if he somehow survives all this then we'll finally know that no consequences exist for the man

One executive in conservative media who’s still bullish on Trump’s prospects for creating a subscription-based video service conceded that recent events may limit possible platforms, advertisers and partners. Still, the executive said that even controversial porn purveyors can find homes online.

Thank you for that, Bloomberg reporter.

New: US Capitol Police arrested a Virginia man as he attempted to pass through a police checkpoint in downtown Washington Friday with fake inaugural credentials, a loaded handgun & over 500 rounds of ammunition, CNN reporting.

— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) January 16, 2021

(xposts) Another one in the same vein (you need to go incognito to read it):

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/01/donald-trump-after-presidency.html

_One executive in conservative media who’s still bullish on Trump’s prospects for creating a subscription-based video service conceded that recent events may limit possible platforms, advertisers and partners. Still, the executive said that even controversial porn purveyors can find homes online. _


Thank you for that, Bloomberg reporter.

looking forward to getting account at peetape.ai this summer

fake inaugural credentials, a loaded handgun & over 500 rounds of ammunition

Self-radicalized ISIS-identifying terrorists are smart enough to choose softer targets. This bozo might just as well have thrown himself directly into a wood-chipper.

Love this quote:

“It was absolutely my pleasure to crush a white nationalist insurrection... and we’ll do it as many times as it takes.” pic.twitter.com/bsLt7zL36X

— Ben Taub (@bentaub91) January 16, 2021

Moved by that because I am a sucker

yeah that's great

Along the same lines:

"Thank you, but fuck you for being there.” - D.C. police officer Michael Fanone on his response to the few rioters who helped when others were trying to kill him pic.twitter.com/EHKT7QMGvJ

— Vera Bergengruen (@VeraMBergen) January 15, 2021

Looks like Rep. Boebert’s mom may have been giving directions through a megaphone at the rally (and definitely was in town and was given a tour):

The @FBI and @DCPoliceDept are trying identify the lady directing every move with megaphone 📢!

See the picture⬇️⬇️⬇️ Have info? Call the FBI’s Tipline at 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324) @FBIWFOpic.twitter.com/O6kgp7fLBy

— Skyleigh😷#ConvictTrump DAY 339@🏠 (@Sky_Lee_1) January 16, 2021

so are there going to be like 150 pardons announced on Wednesday morning

that was posted above and there seems to be ilx disagreement

(xpost)

oh I didn't even mean rioters...I just mean every one of his criminal associates

Glad to see the #bluewave #resist brains trust is ok the case.

Those videos of cops above are copaganda at its finest.

sometimes there are bad guys

It's excellent that the internet is dissecting every scrap of video minutely and passing on their tips. I wouldn't take that 'Boebert's mom' tweet as anywhere near conclusive. If it could be fitted to a larger pattern of evidence it would have some value; as a standalone it is pretty shaky.

I really don’t think Trump is going to pardon these people, not out of any conscience at all but because it would not be great for his case at either the Senate or any civil cases that may be brought against him post-presidency.

Boebert's director of communications has resigned, two weeks into her term. I look forward to her telling Tucker (and his new co-host, Glenn) what she really thinks about the libtards and the cucks and the mud people, without her staff holding her back.

boebert

I wonder if pushing stuff like this through is going to be easier because the distraction of an impeachment trial is going to make it harder to organise the kind of opposition that makes democrats too nervous to implement their incredibly popular policies.

Sorry like this

Biden’s planning a legislative package with pathway to citizenship for ~11 million immigrants https://t.co/MzveiY1u0j pic.twitter.com/xXu49q7qKB

— Rachel Cohen (@rmc031) January 16, 2021

thats great

In the replies, found the one person who read Matt Yglesias’s book

These people gotta understand China has 1.3 Billion people while the US has 330 million people, if we want to compete with China going forward we are going to need more people. Immigration and expanding the rights to the illegal immigrants is the first step.

— Jaz Tarki ❁ (@JazTarki) January 16, 2021

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/01/15/biden-begins-presidency-with-positive-ratings-trump-departs-with-lowest-ever-job-mark/

lol xp

It’s come to this.

Parler turns on Trump. pic.twitter.com/brWpuhTywf

— Jim Brown (@JimBrownski713) January 16, 2021

In case anyone didn't click through to the thread of interview excerpts with the Secretary of Defense, here's another:

Miller was also asked about his visit to U.S. Northern Command and he said this to say pic.twitter.com/x9c2SvWrrA

— Dave Brown (@dave_brown24) January 15, 2021

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/16/politics/fact-check-dale-top-15-donald-trump-lies/index.html

saying he was going to the capitol with the insurrectionists and then going home and watching it on tv shouldve made the list

Bumble, Tinder and others are freezing out rioters with help from law enforcement — and, in some cases, their own photos. Other app users have taken matters into their own hands by striking up conversations with potential rioters and relaying their information to the FBI.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/16/siege-dating-app-bans/

Re that Parler post, back at the start of Trump’s term I thought that would be the most natural way for the GOP to shrug him off once he became a disaster: He was not really a Republican. But it seems too late now for that to really take hold, not least because his base has made clear they are much more Trump people than they are “Republicans.”

Is there a reason we’re not calling Boebert Q-bert by now?

https://i.insider.com/5a96c069aae605ba008b45c7?width=1136&format=jpeg

The whole "omg he lies all the time!" thing is so annoying. Of course he does! He's a psychopath!
Lukewarm take: the kind of people who get into high(ish) ranking social positions - politicians, political journalists etc - didn't generally grow up in the grip of sociopaths, as the majority of people from that type of background spend way too much of their lives just holding their psyches together and don't get the chance to be successful. They all see the likes of Trump for what he is, and aren't surprised by the lying at all. But no-one listens to them, so you get this endless outrage that someone could be that mendacious, and the ones that could be holding him to account fall into the same trap over and over again.

I never dealt with a psychopath on intimate terms, but his lying is obviously compulsive, continuous, and consciously designed to deflect any possible consequences for his selfish actions.

The weirdest thing with Trump, setting him apart from even most politicians, is how he lies about things that don't matter at all. He'll lie about what he had for breakfast, whether or not he's ever owned a ping-pong table, or who his favourite character was on Happy Days.

It's not weird when you see it through the lens of him rewiring reality for as many people as he can, at which point he's controlling them.

“These people deserve the right to seek a partner in one of the few ways we have to socialize during the pandemic, and seek love,” said Liz O’Sullivan, technology director of the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project, a New York-based nonprofit group fighting discriminatory surveillance.

liz o'sullivan should shut the fuck up

I need to seek love imo

S.T.O.P. in the name of love.

The whole "omg he lies all the time!" thing is so annoying. Of course he does! He's a psychopath!

Feel like it's reasonable for the Toronto Star and CNN to report that the President's lies are not true. Other outlets not doing so seems to have had the occasional deleterious effect.

Is there a reason we’re not calling Boebert Q-bert by now?

― epistantophus, Saturday, January 16, 2021 6:10 PM (fourteen minutes ago) 

Haha I tried yesterday but gave up after two image link fails

Q-bert is up there with Y'All Qaeda for perfect nickname.

The quote that sic posted from acting secdef Miller puts me in mind of the "just four guys in a room jamming" "back to basics" band trope.

Like, we wanted just to go back to basics, two generals in a room talking about killing people. Just like in the old days before Zoom and Teams made everything so sterile and clinical.

BREAKING: @realMikeLindell and @MyPillowUSA are using the promo code “QANON” for discounts on products. @FBI designated QAnon supporters as “conspiracy theory-driven domestic extremists.” Supporters of QAnon were involved in the domestic terrorist attacks on the U.S. Capitol. pic.twitter.com/zx9P37cyLP

— Michael Brodkorb (@mbrodkorb) January 17, 2021

Not sure that merits a BREAKING tag