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

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.)

Yeah, I discovered Witzke's feed this morning when someone shared that same tweet. It's remarkably batshit and makes MTG and Boebert look relatively sane and composed.

'Oversized Satanic Seance' is my fourth favorite GBV track

Does "oversized" refer to the number of Satanists or the concentrated Satanism of the people being inaugurated? And if it's a seance, who are they planning to conjure? So many questions. I guess I'll have to watch this thing after all.

"oversized" = "thicc"

please satan we ask you, our dark lord, put a donk on this inauguration

chonky seance

thicc satanists

Leer at the Devil

Big Beautiful Satanists

since I’m not on Twitter when I clicked on her tweet one of the I guess(?) suggested accounts to follow was this nazi diarrhea monster cartoonist called st0n3 t0$$ which I was only vaguely aware of but holy fuck does his MLK tweet make me want to walk into the ocean

anyway, good to know she’ll probably be running for Congress again soon when she inevitably relocates to a more favorable state/ district

BREAKING: A massive win in our fight against the climate crisis. Today, the DC Court of Appeals struck down the Trump Admnstration's 2019 repeal of the Clean Power Plan. It would have allowed more greenhouse gas emissions from electric power plants. Really proud of our coalition.

— Josh Stein (@JoshStein_) January 19, 2021

is this... what good news feels like?

My Pillow douche has already been dropped by a bunch of major retailers. Good luck with that lawsuit, buddy!

Hey, we're gonna have a whole different president in one (1) day.

Speaking of MLK, I'm not sure I get what fashy Onion was aiming for here:

https://babylonbee.com/news/far-right-extremist-suggests-treating-people-of-all-races-equally

xps

satanists of size

Satanist Size Queens

xp

Ugh, they're basically saying MLK was an "All lives matter" guy.

Meanwhile…

Two U.S. Army National Guard members are being removed from the security mission to secure Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration. A U.S. Army official and a senior U.S. intelligence official say the two National Guard members have been found to have ties to fringe right group militias.

https://apnews.com/article/biden-inauguration-joe-biden-politics-ron-klain-mitch-mcconnell-45d78184ec204e0a775e0f38496ff67b

also remove them from the Guard, k thanks

Get him to the airport, put him on a plane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm51ihfi1p4

(I know--10 million others posting the same thing right now.)

Another affidavit of self-owning:

https://www.justice.gov/opa/page/file/1356326/download

The meat of it starts around point 13. These idiots profess to be well-trained militias with all the fixings, and yet ... they take selfies, talk shit, post self-incriminating stuff on social media with easy to search hashtags. Clearly a lot of these nuts are a different kind of "too online." Like, they don't realize that posting to a platform used by hundreds of millions is tantamount to posting *to* hundreds of millions. I suppose that's the logical endpoint of morons conditioned to think the first amendment applies to their right to use Facebook and Twitter, and this goes for the soon to be former moron in chief, too.

I think my favourite thing about manchin is that he’s a big centrist anti deficit brain on everything except the state of West Virginia where his view is that money is not real and anything is possible when you get down to the nut cuttin.

xpost I'm not sure I agree w that. You could also say nonviolent protests that result in jail time are 'self ownage' i.e. well, maybe, but it's a sacrifice the participants are willing to take on the chin for a larger purpose: making the event resonate longer and more deeply. Or I could just paste this from Garbage Day (from a week ago) which makes the point better:

The ongoing success of the movement or community is determined by how viral the post-event content tail is. Stop The Steal has already succeeded in that regard. 8chan vikings and terrorist militia members were able to create such an incredible amount of content from Wednesday’s insurrection that our feeds are still awash in images and videos of it.

What’s still unclear, though, is whether or not the actual event that the months of hype have been building towards has actually happened yet or if we’re still, very much, in it.

it's a sacrifice the participants are willing to take on the chin for a larger purpose

Maybe for some of them, but it's pretty clear that a lot of them are flabbergasted re: having to face any consequences whatsoever.

Also, some big committee chair shifts since 2009:

Banking: Chris Dodd -> Sherrod Brown
Budget: Kent Conrad -> Bernie Sanders
Finance: Max Baucus -> Ron Wydenhttps://t.co/UkdXPfqW1C

— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) January 19, 2021

this is really good news

it's pretty striking how effective deplatforming Trump has been, we'd be in such a more dangerous place if he was doing 10 angry tweets an hour

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it's almost like moderating content is more effective than relying on the audience to ignore trolls

otm.

this plus that report saying twitter misinformation dropped 73% once trump (and yes, also all the lower-level q accounts) got banned