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

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.

i'm going to be watching my back when I go out a little more, that's for sure.

but I"m mega paranoid as it is so that part isn't a problem

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/17/business/media/fox-news-seth-rich-settlement.html

fuckin ghouls

Agree with Ned. A lot of pants-wetters are like, "But 74 million people voted for him! The country is teetering on the precipice of insurrection!" Nah. 73,995,000 of those people are lazy fucks who shot their wad on Election Day. Of the remaining 5000 potentially violent/dangerous individuals, at least half are dumb as shit (cf. the guy who wore his police ankle monitor on his trip to DC, or all the ones who shouted their names into the camera, bare-faced, during the 1/6 rampage). This is one of the biggest examples of "Twitter/Facebook/Gab/etc. is not real life" I can imagine.

it was so clear that none of them even considered there would be consequences

they either thought they would a) succeed, with the assistance of the Capitol police and military by their side or b) wouldn't, but would be spared/pardoned by Trump

counterpoint: how many people voted for biden? do we think there are 81M ardent Biden fans willing to die for him? or is it more like a small margin that are the true believers (Jill), and a bunch of other people willing to go along with it? that's why i wet my pants about 74M trump voters. there's the marginal-crazy that can and will "storm the capitol" and then just stand there in it, once stormed, like a dog who is trying to figure out how to have sex with a car it caught. but then there are aaaaaall the other people (including Cruz, Hawley, etc etc) that are willing to step up and validate the marginal-crazy, over and over. it's not just the people who traveled from across the country, it is many more people

xposts

xxpost that one lady who cried and said "this isn't America, why are they shooting at us? they're supposed to be shooting at BLM!" being one of the most disgusting examples of their mindrot

there are armed lefties out there willing to take to the streets, but they knew it a folly to be there on January 6th. would have possibly been a bloodbath

but anyway, not trying to wet my pants about this again. i think the worst is over (for now), and yes, the fact that the 16th and 17th have passed without much trouble is very comforting (less comforting is the fact that the reason they didn't emerge is probably because it was a once in a lifetime event when mainstream media were loudly warning about the possibility of widespread violence for a week in advance, which led to every state making precautions and white supremacists telling each other to back down (for now), smartly, because it's clearly a trap). but i expect that anyone talking about pants-wetting right now, worrying about the issue of white supremacy and violence, was probably also telling me not to wet my pants about potential violence pre-1/6/21

It only takes one dumb as shit (or smart!) person with an assault weapon to do a ton of damage. Seeing a few hundred dumbs shits with weapons and a motive, however ill-conceived, it does not make me feel better that it's just a fraction of the millions of total dumb shits. Which is to say, I'm not worried about an insurrection, as such, I'm worried about all the other shit that could go wrong until these lunatics settle down a little. Which hopefully happens relatively quickly after this week is over, but let's just say as with most things in life these days, I have very low hopes.

also, just because i'm counterpointing everyone right now - unpopular opinion, but there are a TON of dumbasses on the left too

I'm not yet worried about them shooting or blowing up a crowd.

i expect that this inauguration will be "fine", meaning little violence. but that achievement comes in the reality of holding the ceremony in a heavily guarded warzone with a trillion cameras and barbed wire and bulletproof glass and security zones and free speech zones and all the rest. all while pretending that none of that exists, and that instead it's a normal, crisp January inauguration like any other. but it's not

You are right there. It's going to be a little unsettling seeing 25,000 Guardsmen on the lawn who are literally there to prevent a fuckin' insurrection

Not something i ever thought possible in my lifetime a decade ago

Not to mention that we are still taking our shoes off in airports because one guy tried to light his foot on fire and blow up a plane 20 years ago, god knows what this addition need for "security" might spiral into.

Toby Keith concerts must be performed in a dome

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