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

stop the steal!!

That was a touchdown!!!

Come on now. #Bucs #FACTS

— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) January 18, 2021

So close, and yet so far away. https://t.co/2EOQCC23Wp pic.twitter.com/sxarmrgj0S

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) January 18, 2021

W-1 further advised that HATLEY was sharing his geolocation with W-2 via the application “Life360” during HATLEY’s entire time in Washington, D.C. and had told W-2 he was going to attend the protests against the certification of the election. Life360 is a cellular phone application that allows individuals to track the location of a cellular telephone if the individual has installed the company’s technology on their phone. Individuals can create an account with Life360 that allows the user to share information, such as the location of the user’s cellular telephone, with another user that has downloaded the application. W-1 identified HATLEY’s cellular telephone number for the FBI.

Real brain genius hours

63,985th reference to "Confederacy of Dunces" but

This defendant, an avowed white supremacist, wore his court-ordered ankle bracelet to Trump’s speech on the Ellipse and then to the Capitol on January 6th.

He told his probation officer he would be distributing bibles with the Gideons that day. https://t.co/4Gcxh4812W pic.twitter.com/nKrpmvsVeM

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) January 17, 2021

Florida data scientist in battle with state over Covid dashboard plans to turn herself in
Rebekah Jones, who helped develop Florida’s dashboard, alleged a warrant was made out for her arrest on a charge unrelated to a December raid on her home.

The Florida data scientist, who alleged state officials fired her for refusing to change coronavirus numbers, said she plans on surrendering herself to law enforcement a month after authorities raided her home.

Rebekah Jones, who helped develop Florida’s Covid-19 dashboard, has been in a monthslong public battle with the state since she alleged officials ousted her from her position for her refusal to “manually change data to drum up support for the plan to reopen.” She announced on social media Saturday that she planned on surrendering to authorities.

“To protect my family from continued police violence, and to show that I'm ready to fight whatever they throw at me, I'm turning myself into police in Florida Sunday night,” Jones said.https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/florida-data-scientist-battle-state-over-covid-dashboard-plans-turn-n1254544

xp
"Distributing bibles to the insurgents, c'mon! You know they need them!"

Got ourselves a real specimen here

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cowboys-trump-founder-arrested-after-allegedly-leading-capitol-rioters-prayer-n1254559

was hoping that meant Jerry Jones got arrested

It turns out THIS was Biden's radical new agenda:

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/new-radicals-reunion-biden-inauguration-parade-1115838/

Jason Leopold
@JasonLeopold

https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1349843834948227074/n4oL4wtI?format=jpg&name=900x900
Jon Schaffer, guitarist for metal band Iced Earth, in federal custody after Capitol insurrection, faces 6 charges
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2021/01/17/jon-schaffer-fbi-custody-after-capitol-riot/4200215001/

Pic is of course much more impressive full-size: column ov selfy-taking onslaughters

Man, they *fill* that passageway, wall-to-wall assholes---not so funny.

he walks the streets
no more today
the wicked one
who yelled that day

lol bet he doesn't realize he just ended his career

Other guy in that article is just straight up named chad huh

I've been listening to metal for over 35 years and I don't think I've ever heard a whole Iced Earth song.

i saw Iced Earth in like, 1998 & thought they ruled
i also thought Phil Anselmo was great when i was in high school

so i’m batting a thousand on these clowns

I loved these dudes since teendom and met them only a few years ago. there's a photo of me standing with Schaffer and company somewhere on this borad.

dead 2 me now

kill yr idols why because they are white supremacists

fucking hate this garbage world

brb walking into the ocean

dying to see his mug shot to see if he shaved

lmao

he told a German news station last November that a shadowy criminal enterprise is attempting to run a world government under a Communist agenda

The durability of this storyline is something. I guess it just has an elegant simplicity, endlessly malleable. I wish I had a copyright on it.

Rudy Giuliani now says he won’t on the Trump impeachment defense team. “Because I gave an earlier speech [at the January 6 Trump rally], I am a witness and therefore unable to participate in court or Senate chamber,” he tells me.

— Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) January 18, 2021

Oh so now Rudy knows the law? Doubt it

we should have had a pardon pool...what's the over/under? 20 pardons? 50?

His final act of largesse.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/17/politics/trump-pardons-expected/index.html

large- what?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DDDzrqZU0AAYQuV.jpg

Over/under on a posthumous pardon for Timothy McVeigh?

If every pardon receiving capitol insurgent immediately goes out to further their agenda that means they're liable again dunnit.

I mean every crime committed after a pardon is a fresh unpardoned crime, and whatever protocol there might have been beforehand about trying to give people any form of leeway, which probably wouldn't have been a thing anybody would have adhered to goes out the window dunnit. like, defenestration and fun things like that.

Another specimen

New affidavits this morning in Capitol insurrection investigation. This rioter, who was caught on camera flushing his eyes from pepper spray, allegedly threatened his children if they turned him in. pic.twitter.com/ebZXTUTpQU

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) January 18, 2021

This Axios series, Off the Rails, is quite a thing.

You know, I'm starting to think the US Constitution sucks and is in dire need of an overhaul.

xps

The Axios series is indeed a fun read, especially when you presume the identities of the parties spilling details to cover their own asses. But they coddled this dangerous toddler, so fuck 'em.

uhh

BREAKING: Smoke rising behind Capitol building. Inauguration rehearsal appears to be evacuating. Emergency announcement playing at Capitol grounds. pic.twitter.com/86J9S8CsMY

— Jackson Proskow (@JProskowGlobal) January 18, 2021

NEW: At 10:20am, Hill staffers received the following text per @ArdenFarhi:

“All buildings within the Capitol Complex: External security threat, no entry or exit is permitted, stay away from exterior windows, doors. If outside, seem cover. USCP”

— Weijia Jiang (@weijia) January 18, 2021

Fucking hell.

oh shit

fire at homeless encampment per CNN

sometimes life is art

sometimes life is fart

UPDATE: Appears a burning tent under an overpass triggered the lockdown. No more details at this point. https://t.co/nqKhORlQQa

— Conflict News (@Conflicts) January 18, 2021

t got no place to move to now?

fuck sake now underpants is stuck in my head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW54X5IEgIk

Just want to point out real quick that the 16th and 17th were supposed to be be big days for nationwide follow-up insurrectionist activity and today is the 18th. Take yr good news where you can get it.

i am feeling less nerveracked about Inauguration than I was. it's every day after that I worry about now.

but i gotta live life so....

I was talking abt this w/ someone last night and we speculated that the crackdown/arrests would necessarily put the breaks on any violence before the 20th...fingers crossed though it'll be a whimper

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/18/us-defense-officials-fear-insider-attack-biden-inauguration

i'm glad they're thinking about it/doing their best to vet the people who will be there.

when it comes to the military, it basically seems like we've been told all along - top brass would never accept or go along with a coup, but individuals within the military, even those who might have decent rank, definitely violate their oath to the Constitution.

even though there are 74 million Trump voters I think only a small handful of them are crazy enough to actually attempt a coup. they blew their shot on 2 weeks ago. I don't think they're going to get another chance like that.

Yeah that's the thing here -- there's not a 74 million person army. There was (in comparison to those numbers) an utterly miniscule clutch of deluded/rich/weird supporters who showed up in the first place -- from all over the country! this wasn't a groundswell of specific local support reflecting percentages across the board -- and then a smaller number of them who got in the building and then a smaller number of THEM who were out for blood. None of which is meant to be reassuring or an excuse, people are dead, more might have been, it's terrible all around! But...we gotta keep this in mind.