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

for sure and i am hopeful the new boss can't be as bad as the old boss, but frankly until i and everyone i love (and hey everyone else too) is inoculated against the current plague with the MOTHERFUCKING EXTANT VACCINE THAT OUR DYSFUNCTIONAL GOVERNMENT IS INCAPABLE OF ADMINISTRATING, i am gonna stay mired in my daily existential crisis thanks

every death in this country at this point is even more senseless than before, more egregious, more criminal, more damnable

xxpost i hope so. been shit on so long it's like we're living in a cacastle

found what I wrote on 11/9 on FB:

"He is a bully that ran roughshod over many people. He is a misogynist, a likely sexual assault artist, and a failed business man who was born on third. He is a xenophobic scaremonger that is stoking fires that really shouldn't be stoked.
Putting this man in office validates this behavior to many people.

So forgive me if I don't find your "ho ho ho he's just a President, not a dictator" smugness amusing. There are tensions brewing in this country that this could be set off. Think about the Cliven Bundys of this world. Rebellion against.....being told what to do. Might makes right. That it comes at the expense of what would have been a landmark, the first female President, feels like another blow to the solar plexus."

god I'm glad I didn't have the ability to tell my younger self that it'd be even worse than imagined.

11/9/2016 that is

Frankly, I think we got out of these four years much more easily than we might have. Yes, things are going to be bad for a long while as a direct result of the Trump administration, but they could've been so much worse. Had he been more focused/motivated/competent, we could likely have suffered any number of 1/6-es prior to 1/6.

prior to 2020, I'd have agreed. he decided to do the majority of his worst deeds in a compressed timeframe.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has obtained an arrest warrant for a woman alleged to have stolen a laptop from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, with the intention of selling the device to the Russian equivalent of the Central Intelligence Agency.

In an affidavit signed on Sunday, FBI Special Agent Jonathan Lund said the agency was investigating Riley June Williams after a person described as her “former romantic partner” told authorities that Williams intended to send the computer to a friend in Russia who would then pass it along to the SVR, the country’s spy force.

Lund wrote that the former romantic partner said the transfer of the laptop “fell through for unknown reasons” and that Williams either still has the device or destroyed it.
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/18/capitol-riot-fbi-investigating-woman-said-to-have-stolen-pelosis-laptop-to-sell-to-russia.html

imagining her showing her lover the laptop during coitus and him going into the bathroom and calling the FBI on her and her breaking up with him after she heard the call

it's hard to imagine the pandemic being handled any worse

Brazil, maybe?

(by an american president)

no sooner did he go on his Tweet tirade about the flu killing more people or calling it the "corona flu virus" than a bunch of paint-thinner drinkers in my orbit start to repeat the same line.

generally, not what you want from your Executive branch

I hope Orban, Bolsonaro, and Duterte all fall out of huge trees next

but maybe if trump had taken it seriously bolsonaro would've too

I have never in my lifetime ever read or heard about previous presidents being called into service to advise new administrations

Not, like, literally. Just that as I understand it or thought I'd heard it, presidents have been known to call one another on occasion for advice and recommendations. It is, after all, a pretty rarified club.

omfg about the Pelosi laptop shit, that is nuts

A different pillow company saw the images of National Guard troops bivouacked on the floor of the Capitol building and decided to donate hundreds of travel pillows and sleep masks to the troops. After much wrangling they were able to deliver to a detachment of NG troops on standby in DC.

It's been a long day, but I have pillow news! To recap: National Guard sleeping on hard floors while defending our Capitol. Lots of you tagged us asking if we could help. We tweeted in search of a service member in DC, and had a hit within an hour. 1/8

— One Fresh Pillow (@OneFreshPillow) January 15, 2021

get you a pillow that can do both

Our country has a lot of problems, but I'll be damned if I'm going to see it brought to its knees by a bunch of LARPing assholes worshiping the worst president we will (hopefully) ever see. If sending this stuff helps this group fight the good fight, then it's all worth it. 8/8 pic.twitter.com/9L4xbL3DOu

— One Fresh Pillow (@OneFreshPillow) January 15, 2021

Pillow fight!

Now *that* is how you seize an opportunity.

Speaking of opportunities:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/parler-partially-reappears-support-russian-234401397.html

these USA USA USA USA chanting motherfuckers sure are some patriots huh

Have we talked about the National Garden of American Heroes? Who compiled this list? It is so weird.


https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-order-building-national-garden-american-heroes/

Dr. Seuss but not Malcolm X

Both Houstons, Sam AND Whitney.

Sacagawea but no Pocahontas

Where’s Jon Voight?

kobe but no wilt

Somehow or other, as the inauguration is about about 36 hours away and Trump has not been able to tweet for over a week, the posting on this thread has changed its tenor and seems somewhat less frantic and anxious. I hope it is a sign of better things to come, but I don't feel entirely sanguine about that, yet.

they could always unban him from twitter once he leaves office and it'll be like he never left

For some reason I always imagine that the MyPillow Guy, due to a clause in his contract, has to carry and cradle a MyPillow at all times

The power sharing details.

One thing to say about the forthcoming pardons rampage is that it'll keep him busy on his last day, not to mention ordering all White House staff not to flush any toilets for the entire day.

Finding it hilarious his send-off tomorrow requires guests to be there around 7am. I've envisaged him leaving really slowly and p much delaying the inauguration as much as possible.

would love to see taht secret service detail pick him up like they were removing furniture or better yet garbage. At least taht would make some decent people happy or at least temporarily amused.

Colonel Ralph Albertazzie, who piloted Air Force One flights during Nixon’s presidency, recounted how he called ground control to request changing the “Air Force One” call sign mid-flight in his 1979 book “The Flying White House”:

Air Force One was 39,000 feet over a point 13 miles southwest of Jefferson City, Missouri … The time was 3 minutes and 25 seconds past noon. Albertazzie picked up his microphone and spoke to ground control: ‘Kansas City, this was Air Force One. Will you change our call sign to SAM 27000?’

Back came the reply: ‘Roger, SAM 27000. Good luck to the President.’

‘Roger, 27000.’

And then I hope they make him circle the airport for three hours.

Downgrade him to Economy and lose his luggage

I was about to say "Maybe it'll turn into a pumpkin in mid-air," but then I knew how the jokes would begin writing themselves after that.

hey this is cool

Biden selects transgender doctor, Rachel Levine, as assistant health secretary https://t.co/wSQuLRdtnW

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 19, 2021

xpost put him on No Fly List 5 minutes prior to boarding

no fly for the white guy

💯

Fair play

Important policy news this weekend: @Sen_JoeManchin went on Inside West Virginia Politics and kept the door open to higher stimulus checks up to $2,000 (he prefers they be targeted but didn't draw a red line) and called for spending as much as $4 trillion (!) on infrastructure. pic.twitter.com/yG0aBBcxve

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) January 19, 2021

Manchin, for all of his faults, is still a Democrat*

* I recognize that this is one of his major faults for some but I assume people know what I mean here; he's still largely going to fall on the left side of centrism, which means he's going to support some policies that people to the left of him would support

I remain wary of Manchin, but that sounds very encouraging (and I assume WV gets a big chunk of that $4T)

Also, WVA is a state built on federal largesse, aka pork.

How to boost ratings

The Biden/Harris inauguration is going to be an oversized satanic seance and I highly recommend that Christians avoid it at all cost.

— Lauren Witzke (@LaurenWitzkeDE) January 18, 2021

once again, i wish

Also, WVA is a state built on federal largesse, aka pork.

I was gonna say, if there's anything West Virginia politicians understand, it's infrastructure spending. That state has chronically high poverty and the most beautiful interstates and bridges you've ever seen. (Seriously, if you've never driven the New River Gorge Bridge, it's worth the trip — https://www.nps.gov/neri/planyourvisit/nrgbridge.htm.)