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

An angry mob could break down my door and drag me out into the street for execution right now and my last words would be "'Trumpy-bear' tho"

lol DJP

All these folks who watched Trump get away with shitting his britches every day for four years and thought it would be a great idea to violently snap off their own social regulation safety catch...should we just consider them feral at this point? Like I don't see them ever tempering their mania sufficiently to ever again contribute to society in any meaningful way. We should just create like a game preserve for them or something, let them scream 'SOOOOOOROOOOOS!' through a bullhorn at cars as they drive through.

where is Ned to say "pobrecito"

It was implied.

Fucker Carlson: “Unmistakably,” he said, “the Democratic party is using those troops to send the rest of us a message about power: ‘We’re in charge now. We run this nation, from Honolulu to our colony in the Caribbean and everywhere in between, very much including where you and your family live. Do not question us men with guns. We control the Pentagon.’ And indeed, they do.”

Indeed they do!

Unmistakeably.

“I was caught up, I was scared, I was excited”

This is like the poster tag to some erotic thriller exploitation flick. Like "Angel V: Capitol Offense."

seems like the kind of message you'd probably want to send after someone attempted a mass slaughter of your legislative bodies and VP

BREAKING --> Fox News political editor Chris Stirewalt was laid off today alongside just under 20 Fox News staffers. Stirewalt sat on the Fox News decision desk, which has come under fire for its early call on Arizona election night. Story forthcoming...

— Sarah Ellison (@sarahellison) January 19, 2021

I'd read somewhere that the Fox decision desk is somewhat independent and actually sort of respected for their calls... oh well, time to purge.

their polling operation's supposed to be excellent too

"Respect? ResPECT!? We can't have a whiff of that stench about the place, begone with them all Jenkins and make it snappy!"

Some last spasms. I do wonder how they'll recalibrate.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/increasingly-militant-parler-refugees-anxious-qanon-adherents-prep-doomsday-n1254775

I assume the decision desk thing is meant to be distancing Fox from what is seen by their viewers as their most liberal arm.

But it may just be part of the broader decision since the election to essentially stop news coverage and go full opinion. (There’s now no news shows after 7pm IIUC)

Why bother having a decision desk if the Republicans can no longer lose an election?

Pundits are cheap as chips, that's the way to go

Is there any scope to get (rid) of presidential pardons altogether

Because the pardon power is granted in the original US constitution, it can only be changed via amendment, which requires massive consensus among Congress and state legislatures. So, no.

those pundits have big contracts but it’s still cheaper than running an actual news operation and i’m guessing many of them get bigger numbers so it’s kind of a no-brainer

xpost And I assume the same thing would be required for instituting a congressional veto or something.

“I was caught up, I was scared, I was excited”

these are the lyrics to "I Know Things Now" from Into the Woods, paraphrased

re: that NBC article that Ned posted - I sure will be glad when it's Thursday

the fervor of belief recalls millenialism

Can radically alter the tone just with an ellipses:

“I was caught up, I was scared, I was ... excited.”

Some last spasms. I do wonder how they'll recalibrate.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/increasingly-militant-parler-refugees-anxious-qanon-adherents-prep-doomsday-n1254775

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, January 19, 2021 3:58 PM bookmarkflaglink

it's gonna be like that season finale of Sleeper Cell where the head of the cell goes to blow up a baseball stadium, realizes the bomb's been disabled by an undercover cop, so he just hilariously runs out of the vehicle and starts shooting a pistol and is quickly and harmlessly slammed down onto the field

I will say it again, I REALLY wonder about the 21st. I've seen some pivoting moves claiming a greater plan at work but otherwise the reports are saying a lot of people are absolutely dead-set for certain on the 20th. Of course any number of them will find a way to squeak past that but the ones that don't...gonna be ugly, I think.

the Guard is gonna be posted in Washington until end of Jan, right?

Doubt it? Maybe a short carryover but I'd expect most troops to head home by the weekend.

I saw this bit from a Military Times article about the deployments, not sure what this will mean in reality but it sounds like it could set up for at least some continuing coverage.

The length of the missions may vary, but Defense Department officials were authorized to deploy the Guard for up to 30 days for the inauguration and surrounding protests.

tired of predicting the future

Feeling that. It is nearly impossible to solve a problem until you can see its shape and size. I know it's out there and I can see some of its manifestations, but I'm not in a good position to grasp its exact dimensions or direction. So, where things go from here is a dark mystery to me, other than it will involve some extremely delusional people who may become violent.

Maybe Trump will postpone The Great Reckoning & Executions until after St Valentines Day, so as not to disrupt dinner plans, vacation getaways, etc.

Most of this speculation abt pardons in meaningless—we almost certainly won’t know the full list because he is under no obligation to disclose it. He can pardon himself and his whole family and Ghislaine Maxwell or whoever secretly, which wld only come to light later in the event of a prosecution.

In the short-term this insulates him from any political blowback.

we obv desperately need legislation around pardons ASAP

This fucking guy: Washington (CNN) With one day left in his tenure, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo took to his taxpayer-funded Twitter account and denounced multiculturalism, saying it is "not who America is."
"Woke-ism, multiculturalism, all the -isms — they're not who America is. They distort our glorious founding and what this country is all about. Our enemies stoke these divisions because they know they make us weaker," he wrote Tuesday.

I hope he ends up selling time shares in Sarasota Springs or something... never want to hear his name again.

I hope he ends up destitute on a raft slowly drifting out into the Pacific

Another local boy!

A Miami member of the extremist Proud Boys group who once ran unsuccessfully for elected office was arrested early Tuesday on allegations he took part in the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol.

Gabriel Garcia made his first appearance in federal court Tuesday as a criminal complaint against him was unsealed. He is being charged with engaging in acts of civil disorder, entering restricted grounds and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.

According to a criminal complaint, Garcia, 40, recorded and uploaded a series of Facebook videos of himself inside the Capitol along with others in the mob.

“We just went ahead and stormed the Capitol. It’s about to get ugly,” he says in the video.

The complaint alleges that Garcia yelled at U.S. Capitol police, calling them “f---ing traitors” and “USA! Storm this sh-t!”

In one video, he also yells out “Nancy come out and play!” — an apparent reference to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is a frequent target of supporters of President Donald Trump. He also says “Free Enrique,” a reference to Enrique Tarrio, the Miami leader of the Proud Boys who was arrested days before the insurrection in Washington, D.C., according to the complaint.

i am gonna jack it every time one of these idiots gets arrested

tired: Neanderthal's junk
wired: Neanderthal's wrist

Re the last-day pardon flurry, is Trump the lazy fuck really going to be able to sign 60+ pieces of paper in a row. Seems like an lot of effort.

@DailyMail

EXCLUSIVE: Death Row Records co-founder Michael 'Harry-O' Harris' has been pardoned by President Trump

I think Lil Wayne got one too

Yo we bus drivers
Cos we commute time

real g's move in silence like presigdential pardons

lol

This just in: Gabriel Garcia has been sentenced to 100 years of solitude

Some last spasms. I do wonder how they'll recalibrate.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/increasingly-militant-parler-refugees-anxious-qanon-adherents-prep-doomsday-n1254775

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, January 19, 2021 3:58 PM bookmarkflaglink

without being too downbeat: there's millions of Seventh-day Adventists 180 years after Miller's prophecies didn't come true

Oh yeah, _When Prophecy Fails_ etc, but still, different people do different things.

I don't think the cult of Trump will go away completely. He will continue to say that the election was stolen and they will beleive that Biden is an illegitimate president controlled by China. But when we actually don't all become godless communists and trumps only secret power turns out to be fleecing his own followers, they'll end up as more of a fandom than a religion.

ok you gonna pardon Joe Exotic or not

the cult of Trump existed before Trump - they aren't going anywhere.

these are the same people who screamed "NUKE EM" re: Afghanistan the day after 9/11