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

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"Raw Data Analytics"?? this shit is for real

raw, given to us with no trivia

I like how Pompeo now considers himself somewhat of an authority on "woke-ism"

Of course he is: he's white, a secretary of state, and former CIA director.

He also used to roadie for Urban Dance Squad back in the day

a lighter shade of soul

rank pompeo's qualifications:

white
man
christian

pompeo took an important stand against multiculturalism today, what a great leader

Make American White Again!

Embrace the monoculture of bland cafeteria food and endless Paul Blart sequels!

these guys are leaving tomorrow

xp Paul Blart is an uplifting tale of everyman triumph, the opposite of failing upward IMO. unfair comparison.

it's also easy shorthand for classist contempt,, but I'm gonna assume that's not what you were going for there

these guys are leaving tomorrow

this really is helping, tonight, knowing this

they'll still have some power, but not the constitutionally recognized kind

was gonna say that going at the Paul Blart creators is almost certainly punching up, but wtf it was written by the voice of Salem the Cat on the Sabrina The Teenage Witch sitcom, and directed by the half of Def Jam's classic-era sleeve design team who wasn't Cey Adams??!?!?

you lost me, buddy. the dude loves his daughter, that's all I remember. plus, he rides some kind of scooter thing and kicks ass

good...good....let the hate flow through you

NEW: Trump has talked to associates in recent days about starting a new party after he leaves the White House.

He wants to call it the Patriot Party.https://t.co/16w6YYhHdE

— Andrew Restuccia (@AndrewRestuccia) January 20, 2021

I honestly think this is him trying to fracture the Senate GOP to prevent a vote against him. Which is still stupid and hilarious.

lol fantastic

LOL the first thing that caught my eye when I read through that FBI Boston tweet was NATICK / crosswords.

lol that is great. may the patriot party cleave the republican share of the vote in half in every state in the union.

I honestly think this is him trying to create his army of orcs.

Hmm, so who throws him off the tower at the end. (Yes yes I know, film version rather than book.)

All the more reason for McConnell & co. to support conviction, so a simple majority can subsequently disqualify Donnie from ever running again.

that works for me too

well shit i went 4 years without knowing who randy rainbow was just to blow it on the last day
horrible

this is all so enjoyable, however fleetingly

bye fuckface!

xxp don’t see the Republican Party fracturing that easily

Trump has zero idea what kind of expertise and organization it would take to create a new political party larger and more potent than the current Libertarian Party, which can't seem to elect anyone. Or, if he does understand how much work it would be, then this is just Yet Another Attention Attraction Ploy that has no substance behind it. Sadly, it seems destined to remain political vaporware, although maybe he could extract tens of millions of dollars from his ardent orcs, before he abandons it.

Yeah he’s more of a “say something and hope other people do it” kinda guy

I dunno...I think some of that old school "ground game" stuff got shown up this time around

he just needs to have people who will vote for him instead of someone else

no one thought he could build a campaign either

i think whoever said he is trying to scare off mcconnell from voting to convict is correct. he is floating this in the media to dare the republicans to kick him out, as he would take his followers (such as they are) with him. it could easily backfire by convincing the senate repubs that he needs to be barred from office for life (best outcome)

i think trump is going to get a show on oan or newsmax or something and then that will be it.

he'll be too obsessive and monotonous for viewers though so he'll just fail at this. i don't see him pulling in as many viewers as tucker or whatever. that is my prediction for the rest of his career.

Trump will be dead by the next election cycle. The next several years will destroy him.

depends on how many lawsuits and criminal trials are actually coming

predictions of death always turn out wrong

Anyway I think KT's thread here isn't far off, ultimately.

the thing about trump building a new political party is everyone knows he can’t build anything worth a shit but he can sure as hell wreck an existing one like a tomahawk missile strike. have fun!

— kilgore trout, brad r’s brother (@KT_So_It_Goes) January 20, 2021

My guess is that the main thing he's learned about political parties is that they are excellent money-laundering operations. A political party set up as a multi-level marketing scheme could be worth some money before it all went to hell and everyone involved except him went to jail.

My sympathy meter is not very high here. But, worth a read, however exculpatory.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/19/qanon-trump-ezra-cohen-watnick-460520

no one thought he could build a campaign either

much easier to do when you've got a political party flush with cash from ridiculously wealthy donors. not to mention the fact that the same networks falling over themselves to give him as much free airtime as possible won't even let him speak live anymore

This can't be over soon enough:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/20/haitian-boy-9-detained-as-trumps-family-separation-policy-pursued-to-bitter-end

Probably everyone has seen this, but a dunk is s dunk.

Don’t forget to dress warm tomorrow.

I heard it’s going to be minus 45.

— Travis Akers (@travisakers) January 20, 2021

Charlie P., cracking wise and a little hopeful at the moment:
But the most interesting hearing was that of Janet Yellen, the nominee to lead the Treasury Department. Yellen is nobody's idea of a socialist. (Well, she might be Josh Hawley's idea of a socialist, but then again, so was the barista who got his order wrong Monday morning.) Nevertheless, she called for some seriously big government to meet the current crises.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a35257873/janet-yellen-treasury-hearing-deficit-national-debt/

Q Anon is so fucked. Choose your own adventure, but it all ends up leading a repackaged "blood libel" narrative.

predictions of death always turn out wrong

can we check the maths on this

xp You mean, the original blood libel against the Jews, or the way Palin applied it to herself when associated w shooting of Gabby Giffords and others that day, just because of her get-out-the-vote rhetoric and visuals? Do Qanon fans think they're being picked on? Hearing that from some other Trump followers online & and on air.

xp i din wanna say but

i think Q Anon is repackaged antisemitism. they lure people in but that is the story at the heart of it, one that is old and familiar.