While Rudy Giuliani and others attempt to squeeze a few more dollars from their access to the Oval Office, the president is spending his final days in the company of characters like conspiracy theory fan and pillow magnate, Mike Lindell. #Colbert #ALateShow #Monologue
Cannot wait for the time to pass until noon tomorrow in Washington DC, that will be 6pm CET, just right for popping a cork.
re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Cannot wait for the time to pass until noon tomorrow in Washington DC, that will be 6pm CET, just right for popping a cork.
And that’s 9AM on the West Coast!
Here is Mike Dunford’s takedown of the latest crazypants lawsuit:
THREAD:
Good afternoon, followers of frivolous election litigation. There’s a last-minute entry in the competition for dumbest pre-inauguration lawsuit - a totally loony effort to apparently leave the entire USA without a government.
We’ll start with the complaint in a minute.— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) January 19, 2021
Guiliani and Trump working to get $ even as they head for the door.
re: #6 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
who needs an excuse for day drinking?
I’ll be at my Dr’s office then…getting a lecture about my a1c…
Looking forward to Yellen settling in…
Great to see this.
I’ve been crusading against Bitcoin and others since they were created.
It is virtually untraceable and all of our enemies, from Russia to North Korea use it to pay for criminal activities, terrorism, hacking, etc. https://t.co/2HeBnDDSBB— Contented Independent (@ContentedIndie) January 19, 2021
Here is a bit of insanity. This guy was afraid to fly home to India due to fears of covid, so he never boarded his plane and just lived in O’hare airport for 3 months.
This lawsuit makes all the other ones seem almost normal.
I’m cracking up with every paragraph. Just every last one.
We’ve apparently hit “if literally every last federal official except Trump is illegitimate maybe Trump can stay President.”
WHICH IS STILL WRONG. pic.twitter.com/TAEXp2NVHf— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) January 19, 2021
“…this Court should rest assured that [literally yeeting the entire Congress] will not result in the destruction of democracy.” pic.twitter.com/YEqmghTJsf
— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) January 19, 2021
re: #9 danarchy
Here is a bit of insanity. This guy was afraid to fly home to India due to fears of covid, so he never boarded his plane and just lived in O’hare airport for 3 months.
Great idea for a movie
Refreshingly normal interview just now on Today by Jenna Bush (!!!) of incoming First Daughter Ashley Biden, who’s kept a low profile until now. She’s doing an interview tomorrow with Joe’s three (four?) granddaughters. Yes another day I’ll snark about the Bush family’s talent for self-preservation; today it was nice. And Ashley seems wonderful, with a career in social work. She got off a good line about not taking a job in the administration.
During Inauguration, wonder what Drone defense is provided.
Yow…look at you being all racist and shit right before you’re kicked to the curb.
— a different darth (@darthstar99) January 19, 2021
Another loss
Wall Street Journal: “A federal appeals court on Tuesday vacated the Trump administration’s rules that eased restrictions on greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants, potentially making it easier for the incoming Biden administration to reset the nation’s signature rules addressing climate change.”
re: #10 The Pie Overlord!
This is the kind of batcrap insanity we’re expecting from right wing lunatics from now on. Who cares about the law, rules, policy, or facts. These fuckers are going to spew these suits endlessly all while inciting their base to violence over the legitimacy of elections that they lose fair and square.
The GOP have made it explicitly clear that they will not accept elections when they lose. They revert to the claim that the only way Democrats can win is if they cheat - all while GOPers are the ones doing the actual crimes (like Trump, Graham, and others pressuring state officials to overthrow the elections to give Trump a win in places he clearly lost multiple times based on the original vote, the recount, audits, etc.).
GOPers predisposed to this crap will succeed in a favorable environment - and the GOP is trying to get us to that point. The GOP can win only when they suppress turnout and their efforts to roll back mail in balloting and other pandemic measures shows how committed they are to stripping rights of people to vote.
Hope Biden and Democrats move to reinstate VRA and strengthen election laws to make it easier to vote nationwide; setting national standards for mail in balloting - so that localities can count votes within the week of the election; paper trails; etc. enforcing access to ballots to eliminate the long lines seen in many localities; and strengthening the penalties for violating election law.
re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Cannot wait for the time to pass until noon tomorrow in Washington DC, that will be 6pm CET, just right for popping a cork.
It will be 11:00 AM CST. Corks will be popped.
Mike Pompeo isn’t taking his pending unemployment well.
re: #10 The Pie Overlord!
This lawsuit makes all the other ones seem almost normal.
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If Pompeo became President, does ANYONE think he wouldn’t name Trump his VP and then immediately resign, though?
I think anyone left in the Trump cabinet would be in on THAT part of things.— Chrysi Cat (no, Karen is STILL my sister!) (@chrysicat) January 19, 2021
So utterly predictable that Republicans would suddenly start caring about the national debt again, after watching Trump increase it by nearly $8 trillion without a single protest from these lying, hypocritical goons. https://t.co/B6vhXC8lgc
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 19, 2021
re: #21 Chrysicat
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I mean, that is literally the reason I said yesterday that instead of feeling confident in our ability to hold the country, I feared for the lives of all the Dems in the line of succession until such time as we could get a Secretary of State confirmed (or is that even one that works? I think several of Biden’s cabinet aren’t US-born?)
re: #25 lizardofid
I could see Tom Hanks in it.
; )
Yeah and the Qanon assholes will melt down again…
re: #23 Teukka
Tabletop gamers only:
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The real question is, how many natural 20s did they roll?
With a Democrat about to become President, republicans are now pretending to care about deficits and debts again. Let’s not pretend to believe them this time. https://t.co/iXWGe11Tlo
— Bill Pascrell, Jr. (@BillPascrell) January 19, 2021
re: #22 Charles Johnson
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Easy peasy! Under the tax code left by Clinton, we appeared to be on the way to reducing our national debt. So reinstate the Clinton tax code! Ok, ok — probably needs a few changes to reduce tax burden on those who are not wealthy — and maybe other adjustments so that certain taxes better reflect COLA.
Jesus…Trump’s just going through his rolodex asking people if they’ll still be his friend.
In addition to Scaramucci, John Kelly and Don McGahn were invited to Trump’s departure tomorrow. Neither is expected to attend, CNN is told. Kelly called Trump the most flawed person he ever met & said he would have voted to remove him if was in the Cabinet. But was invited.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) January 19, 2021
How it started How it’s going pic.twitter.com/qCq7Z5mxxk
— Brandon Friedman (@BFriedmanDC) January 19, 2021
re: #32 darthstar
Jesus…Trump’s just going through his rolodex asking people if they’ll still be his friend.
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In addition to Scaramucci, John Kelly and Don McGahn were invited to Trump’s departure tomorrow. Neither is expected to attend, CNN is told. Kelly called Trump the most flawed person he ever met & said he would have voted to remove him if was in the Cabinet. But was invited.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) January 19, 2021
Angry Tweet in……….Oh wait nope.
i think this is never going to get old.
re: #20 darthstar
He should be thankful it’s just unemployment and not prosecution and prison time for aiding and abetting an armed insurrection and extortion.
Look at that big fascist grin. https://t.co/Y9VNMHlOKI
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 19, 2021
re: #33 jaunte
Are the two they busted from TX?
.@mtgreenee, we have never met. It appears you think or at one time thought the school shooting in Florida was a false flag. I know you have met Parkland parents. This is my daughter Jaime, she was killed that day. Do you still believe this? Why would you say this? https://t.co/vyxOqdI6lZ pic.twitter.com/vPjFsxynN8
— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) January 19, 2021
re: #34 Dangerman
Angry Tweet in……….Oh wait nope.
i think this is never going to get old.
Trump’s so desperate for support. We’re going to see who the worst of the worst are when they show up for him tomorrow.
re: #22 Charles Johnson
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Enthusiastic supporters of massive tax cuts for the wealthy that blew $2T hole in federal budget suddenly concerned about the cost of spending in the time of crisis.
Shocker./////////
re: #27 Chrysicat
I mean, that is literally the reason I said yesterday that instead of feeling confident in our ability to hold the country, I feared for the lives of all the Dems in the line of succession until such time as we could get a Secretary of State confirmed (or is that even one that works? I think several of Biden’s cabinet aren’t US-born?)
The proposed Secretary of State is American born — Yonkers, New York. But everything depends on Harris being sworn in and Schumer becoming Senate Majority Leader. At which point Leahy will be next in line to the presidency after Pelosi.
Prob just a coincidence that everyone at the Trump riot had people in their personal lives who couldn’t wait to turn them in
— Jess Dweck (@TheDweck) January 13, 2021
Huffpo
An 18-year veteran police officer, currently with the Houston Police Department stormed the U.S. Capitol and then tried to cover his tracks by deleting photos from inside the rotunda and lying about his conduct, federal authorities said Tuesday.
Tam Dinh Pham, a resident of Richmond, Texas, is charged with knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds without lawful authority and violence entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.
The feds said in an affidavit that Pham at first denied that he went into the Capitol building in a Jan. 12 interview about his activities on Jan. 6. But Pham apparently forgot to clear the images completely off his phone, and the feds spotted them after they asked him to open his deleted images folder
re: #41 Hecuba’s daughter
The proposed Secretary of State is American born — Yonkers, New York. But everything depends on Harris being sworn in and Schumer becoming Senate Majority Leader. At which point Leahy will be next in line to the presidency after Pelosi.
My mother is delusional enough to think that we should already have a Dem PPT because Romney would vote to replace the GOP members before Pence had to leave office.
I don’t know why she’s that confused. Yes, we really need Harris to stay safe.
re: #43 Dangerman
Huffpo
I wonder if this is the guy who tromped the South Vietnamese flag around the pre-insurrection rally.
re: #47 Chrysicat
I wonder if this is the guy who tromped the South Vietnamese flag around the pre-insurrection rally.
There’s a Little Saigon in Orange County, CA and you still see a lot of South Vietnamese flags flying. And as I Cuban American, I get it, I really do… but I am willing to bet just like with the Cuban community, the old time hardliners are going to be the last to come along with a better way.
This meme never gets old
DO YOU WANT TO COME TO MY DEPARTURE? pic.twitter.com/6W2XQKOabx
— Christina Lutz 🇪🇺 (@ChristinaLutz17) January 19, 2021
Womp womp
JUST IN: Pence, other GOP officials expected to skip Trump send off https://t.co/GODOmqbHA8 pic.twitter.com/NcuhZ8O9me
— The Hill (@thehill) January 19, 2021
Anxiously awaiting to see who Trump’s decided to strip of their 5A rights to incriminate themselves as relating to Trump’s own crimes. Pardons are one heck of an admission of guilt.
— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) January 19, 2021
Other pressing commitments?
Like he has to wash his hair; or mow his lawn, or buy groceries…
It would have been good if John Kelly had said he had no other commitments, but that he chose not to attend. It would, after all, be somewhat useful for people who in fact disapprove of Trump…to actually express disapproval of Trump. Is that SUCH a hard thing for them to do? https://t.co/9pRrMVcbll
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 19, 2021
This administration was full of monsters.
The Trump administration bailed out prominent anti-vaccine groups during a pandemichttps://t.co/3ndENVZ60u pic.twitter.com/QzjXNgokjH— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 19, 2021
Oh my….
MyPillow Now Offering Discounts With Codes Like ‘QAnon’ and Other Assorted Insanity
“QAnon” currently works as a promo code on mypillow dot com (I’m not joking)
— Italien Feeld 🕳 (@julianfeeld) January 16, 2021
Not only does the code “QAnon” work, but according to a quick but very, very serious Mediaite investigation, other QAnon-related terms such as “Q” and “storm” also give you the opportunity to purchase discounted pillows.
They let 400,000 people die. That’s some accomplishment. https://t.co/xLvv9XYvpY
— Kaili Joy Gray (@KailiJoy) January 19, 2021
It’s hard to believe the rehab /retcon work is starting so soon.
Don’t let them rewrite history.
re: #54 Alephnaught
Oh! I was expecting a cover version of the Leonard Cohen song of the same name…
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I think this is a generational issue.
I’d honestly have thought a video entitled “Closing Time” was an interpretation of Semisonic’s song if I were to run across it on YouTube and not be aware going in that the artist had a different song by that title.
But then I entered the workforce right about when that song was getting its heaviest rotation on radio, and it was heavy even for a 90s “indie” hit.
re: #50 (((Archangel1)))
Womp womp
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Biden scheduled his Wednesday church service meet at 8:45am tomorrow, and a few of the GOP higher ups have said they would attend. Biden knows what he’s doing.
JUST POSTED. In this new piece, I report on how Donald Trump’s four great betrayals of America began with Russia. It was no hoax. It was tragically real. This was the scandal that led to all the other Trump horrors. Please read, RT, like, and share.https://t.co/qSLp0aqqE0
— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) January 19, 2021
re: #21 Chrysicat
Chrysi Cat (no, Karen is STILL my sister!)
@chrysicat
If Pompeo became President, does ANYONE think he wouldn’t name Trump his VP and then immediately resign, though?I think anyone left in the Trump cabinet would be in on THAT part of things.
VP nomination has to be confirmed by Congress (both houses). So no.
re: #56 🌹UOJB!
Oh my….
MyPillow Now Offering Discounts With Codes Like ‘QAnon’ and Other Assorted Insanity
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Not only does the code “QAnon” work, but according to a quick but very, very serious Mediaite investigation, other QAnon-related terms such as “Q” and “storm” also give you the opportunity to purchase discounted pillows.
I, for one, look forward to seeing the MyPillow brand’s eventual return to Bed Bath and Beyond.
As soon as Dominion owns it after successfully sueing Lindell down to his last dime, of course… 😄— Arch (@Arch_LGF) January 19, 2021
re: #58 Chrysicat
I think this is a generational issue.
I’d honestly have thought a video entitled “Closing Time” was an interpretation of Semisonic’s song if I were to run across it on YouTube and not be aware going in that the artist had a different song by that title.
But then I entered the workforce right about when that song was getting its heaviest rotation on radio, and it was heavy even for a 90s “indie” hit.
If I hear the words, I mentally sing them the way that song does.
New right wing talking point emerges: people didn’t like Trump because of his “character flaws!” Everything else about him was wonderful!
Except it wasn’t. Not at all. The narcissistic con man they love took a wrecking ball to the US, and set the country back years. https://t.co/AfPth52qR3— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 19, 2021
re: #56 🌹UOJB!
Oh my….
MyPillow Now Offering Discounts With Codes Like ‘QAnon’ and Other Assorted Insanity
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Not only does the code “QAnon” work, but according to a quick but very, very serious Mediaite investigation, other QAnon-related terms such as “Q” and “storm” also give you the opportunity to purchase discounted pillows.
Honestly, I’m somewhat pleasantly surprised it doesn’t take 88% off.
— Chrysi Cat (no, Karen is STILL my sister!) (@chrysicat) January 19, 2021
re: #57 jaunte
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It’s hard to believe the rehab /retcon work is starting so soon.
Don’t let them rewrite history.
It would certainly help the WSJ to make their case if it wasn’t locked behind a paywall.
Are you going to kiss Putin’s ass next?
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) January 19, 2021
OFFS:
Chuck Todd: Biden’s presidency ‘will have failed’ if he doesn’t deliver 100 million doses in 100 days https://t.co/2EWvQ2EI3m
— Raw Story (@RawStory) January 19, 2021
Needs to be said.
There is no “Storm”
There was no “Kraken”
Trump never had a plan.
Q was wrong about everything.
Mike Pence will be @VP for 1 more day.
Tom Hanks isn’t under house arrest.
Tomorrow Joe Biden will be sworn in as President.
Grow.. the Fuck… Up.— Hal Sparks (@HalSparks) January 19, 2021
re: #65 Chrysicat
“ORDER NOW WITH PROMO CODE ‘QANON_18’ AND GET YOUR MY PILLOW FOR THE UNBELIEVABLE BARGAIN PRICE OF $14.88!!”
re: #28 🌹UOJB!
Yeah and the Qanon assholes will melt down again…
Instead of Tom Hanks, they should cast Sasha Baron Cohen.
cc: @GregAbbott_TX
Guess being in the Nat Guard isn’t as sure a sign of good character and judgment as Gov. Abbott thinks. We aren’t vetting these people as closely as we should - for white supremacists, fascists, and goddamned Nazis.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) January 19, 2021
re: #66 Targetpractice
It would certainly help the WSJ to make their case if it wasn’t locked behind a paywall.
I wonder why they still are.
I mean, at this point, everything else Lachlan owns is likely a loss-leader for it, but at the same time, if he’s as devoted to permanent fascist rule as his father (and nothing says otherwise), you’d think he’d be willing to shoulder the losses even there in order to indoctrinate people to it more successfully.
re: #61 A hollow voice says, 25th my ass, impeach!
VP nomination has to be confirmed by Congress (both houses). So no.
In any case, Pompeo wants to be president. If it devolved on him, there’s no way he would transfer it back to Trump; indeed there is no way he would want Trump in his administration. He wants to be the one in charge and would mightily object to a Trump who sucks up all the oxygen in the air.
re: #68 Targetpractice
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4/29, Chuck: President Biden delivered over 100 Million doses, but doesn’t that mean he could have done more?
You didn’t think I’d send him off without my own departure ceremony, did you? 👋🏻🌈🎶 #SeasonsOfTrump pic.twitter.com/hEI276wISC
— Randy Rainbow (@RandyRainbow) January 19, 2021
I’m surprised the pardons haven’t dropped yet. Is he going to be a predictable asshole and announce them tomorrow to take attention away from the inauguration?
re: #56 🌹UOJB!
Oh my….
MyPillow Now Offering Discounts With Codes Like ‘QAnon’ and Other Assorted Insanity
Not only does the code “QAnon” work, but according to a quick but very, very serious Mediaite investigation, other QAnon-related terms such as “Q” and “storm” also give you the opportunity to purchase discounted pillows.
I had to try.
My best advice to all of us (myself included) going forward is: BE VIGILANT.
The Empire didn’t crumble to dust the moment the Death Star was blown up.
Trump may be out of power, but the monster he created is still out there and will long survive the man himself.
re: #80 Eclectic Cyborg
My best advice to all of us (myself included) going forward is: BE VIGILANT.
The Empire didn’t crumble to dust the moment the Death Star was blown up.
Trump may be out of power, but the monster he created is still out there and will long survive the man himself.
One caveat - the monster was always there, it was simply dormant, sleeping. Trump woke it up. How we put it back down is the question… sadly, I don’t think “sun’s getting real low” is going to work.
re: #78 Dr. Matt
I’m surprised the pardons haven’t dropped yet. Is he going to be a predictable asshole and announce them tomorrow to take attention away from the inauguration?
Come to find out, he doesn’t have to announce them. He could arrange it so that a pardon isn’t found out until the person gets charged.
re: #68 Targetpractice
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Chuck U reciting the latest Frank Luntz talking points…
lel
I live here and can confirm this is true.
Something isn’t right here. It honestly looks like they are setting up for a military coup—not an inauguration.
Not sure why the most popular U.S President-elect of all time (<—still makes me laugh) requires dictator-grade protection. https://t.co/nyttKykM3F— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) January 19, 2021
What can opposition to multiculturalism mean other than, “the US is a white, Christian, patriarchal nation”? Is there some other possible interpretation? https://t.co/JhxVI9snNj
— David Roberts (@drvolts) January 19, 2021
Not agreeing, but I think he would say he’s supporting the idea of a singular American culture that supersedes whatever subculture each of us may descend from. This is a very Bannonesque approach.
— Tim Steller (@senyorreporter) January 19, 2021
Yes, that’s probably what he would say - and it would be a lie, intended to hide his true beliefs, just as it is when Bannon says it.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 19, 2021
I decided to check the MyPillow thing out for myself. “Biden” “Trump” and “Maga” were not valid codes but “Twitter” was.
re: #84 Nyet
Candace, it isn’t a coup until you interfere with the functioning of the government.
re: #84 Nyet
Don’t know which MAGAT is the bigger asshole—Tracey or Nazi Candace.
Have a good one, Lizards. A better day ahead tomorrow. Stay healthy.
re: #86 Eclectic Cyborg
Can you try “save” and “children”?
re: #84 Nyet
lel
Candace Owens
@RealCandaceO
I live here and can confirm this is true.
Something isn’t right here. It honestly looks like they are setting up for a military coup—not an inauguration.
Not sure why the most popular U.S President-elect of all time (<—still makes me laugh) requires dictator-grade protection.
A coup. He’s the legitimately elected candidate — what’s he going to do, seize power 21 hours early?
Expulsion from Congress is a bare minimum. NAME THE FUCKING NAMES.
feel like this should be a major scandal regardless of what trump does https://t.co/nu9TIdSUCA pic.twitter.com/e6dnQjwAQV
— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) January 19, 2021
These treasonweasels must be prosecuted for insurrection.
re: #85 Charles Johnson
It makes more sense when you know that for the last decades, the extreme right has moved away from “race”, replacing it with “culture”.
Thus, multi-culturalism is code for multi-racialism, or, in other words, race-mixing or miscegenation… pic.twitter.com/nN4FaAJkwi— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) January 19, 2021
re: #78 Dr. Matt
I’m surprised the pardons haven’t dropped yet. Is he going to be a predictable asshole and announce them tomorrow to take attention away from the inauguration?
I mean, that’s not entirely unusual… Clinton signed 140 pardons on January 20, 2001. And Obama pardoned 64 people on January 17, 2017, commuted 209 more the same day; and then commuted the sentence of 330 on January 19. 12 of GHW Bush’s pardons came on January 18.
It’s just one of those things that happens.
re: #91 A hollow voice says, 25th my ass, impeach!
A coup. He’s the legitimately elected candidate — what’s he going to do, seize power 21 hours early?
Isn’t that what every sane politician (in Candice’s world) does?
re: #87 Belafon
Candace, it isn’t a coup until you interfere with the functioning of the government.
I thought it wasn’t a coup unless it came from the coup d’état region of France; otherwise it’s just a sparkling insurrection.
re: #98 KGxvi
I thought it wasn’t a coup unless it came from the coup d’état region of France; otherwise it’s just a sparkling insurrection.
a sparkling putsch
re: #92 lawhawk
You aren’t seeking clemency unless you know you are potentially facing criminal charges for breaking multiple laws. If you didn’t do any crimes, you wouldn’t need to seek a pardon or clemency.
These fuckers know that they did something wrong, and Trump’s not having a part of it, because they’re likely to blab to prosecutors.
As always, Trump does everything he can to enrich and protect himself; everyone else is expendable.
re: #94 KGxvi
I mean, that’s not entirely unusual… Clinton signed 140 pardons on January 20, 2001. And Obama pardoned 64 people on January 17, 2017, commuted 209 more the same day; and then commuted the sentence of 330 on January 19. 12 of GHW Bush’s pardons came on January 18.
It’s just one of those things that happens.
Or maybe someone said the wrong thing and he’s changed his mind. About some or all of them.
re: #100 Eclectic Cyborg
I read in the comments that also “kids” might work, dunno.
re: #84 Nyet
lel
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As opposed to the way DC looked this past summer, when we had armed troops on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and in Lafayette Square.
I can understand why Mike and Candace would be confused by National Guard stationed there to protect human lives rather than inanimate objects.///////
re: #102 A hollow voice says, 25th my ass, impeach!
Or maybe someone said the wrong thing and he’s changed his mind. About some or all of them.
Oh, as fickle and thin skinned as he is, it’s entirely possible he’s holding pardons hostage for some pay off later. (Yes, Trump soliciting bribes on his last (half) day in office is completely on brand)
re: #84 Nyet
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I don’t know why I’m responding to someone who should really have either “88” or a Russian flag in her handle, but THE COPS TREATING THEM THAT WAY IS AN INDICTMENT OF THE COPS, not “proof that this wasn’t an attempted lynching of everyone who certified Biden’s win”.
— Chrysi Cat (no, Karen is STILL my sister!) (@chrysicat) January 19, 2021
Just got the official iPhone News alert about 400 000 Covid deaths. Quite the final statement on the Trump Presidency.
re: #93 Teukka
They (R) have been doing this a long time. From an interview with Lee Atwater (the Karl Rove of the 80´s) in 1981.
“You start out in 1954 by saying, “n*****, n*****, n*****.” By 1968 you can’t say “n*****”—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I’m not saying that. But I’m saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “n*****, n*****.”
Here we go again. https://t.co/77T08mMAW0
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 19, 2021
re: #94 KGxvi
I mean, that’s not entirely unusual… Clinton signed 140 pardons on January 20, 2001. And Obama pardoned 64 people on January 17, 2017, commuted 209 more the same day; and then commuted the sentence of 330 on January 19. 12 of GHW Bush’s pardons came on January 18.
It’s just one of those things that happens.
In recent admins, there’s been a trend to do this in the final days of the admin; but with Trump the question of who is seeking pardons and who Trump will pardon gets special scrutiny because of all the crime he and his cronies have engaged in.
Trump’s made it explicitly clear that he views pardons as how they benefit Trump personally - not how legit the merits of a specific pardon case are. Trump’s ignored the office of pardon attorney and directly issued pardons to his cronies, because he thinks it benefits Trump directly.
I am here to watch for the fallout when all these fuckers lose their 5A right to incriminate themselves and have to testify under oath or else face obstruction charges for interfering in ongoing investigations into misconduct by Trump (or they assert 5A rights on other crimes not covered).
You don’t get a pardon if you didn’t do a crime. Allocution means that they are admitting guilt to the crimes under Burdick (and yeah, that should still be a thing).
re: #109 Charles Johnson
Can we yeet that motherfucker into the Missouri River? He needs to just go.
re: #106 Chrysicat
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As the cop pointed out, he was outnumbered. He really wasn’t going to be able to do anything other than keep them from trashing the place.
re: #111 thedopefishlives
Can we yeet that motherfucker into the Missouri River? He needs to just go.
Missouri’s too shallow even for most of its run through the state.
Toss him in the Mississippi off St. Louis.
re: #108 Greup
They (R) have been doing this a long time. From an interview with Lee Atwater (the Karl Rove of the 80´s) in 1981.
You start out in 1954 by saying, “n*****, n*****, n*****.” By 1968 you can’t say “n*****”—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I’m not saying that. But I’m saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “n*****, n*****.”
Yep. Doing the synonym or translation trick to conceal you’re still pushing the same old shit. Like, how “internationalism” has morphed into “globalism” (I leave as an exercise to the reader to figure out what it was before internationalism), cultural bolshevism to cultural marxism. Or how Birch Meadows Destruction facility, and Beechwood Valley and Badger Meadows containment facilities don’t sound scary unless you think of them in German…
re: #114 Chrysicat
Missouri’s too shallow even for most of its run through the state.
Toss him in the Mississippi off St. Louis.
Keep swimming, Josh! You’ve only got another half mile to go!
I’m sure there will be plenty of bottom feeders and grifters, though - his real constituents. https://t.co/bE07QvLU2q
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 19, 2021
Holy cow! CNN reporting Republican lawmakers asked Trump for pardons for their role in the insurrection. And at a Saturday night meeting with White House lawyers he was advised of the risks of pardoning Republicans and his children for his own legal exposure. Now he will not.
— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) January 19, 2021
re: #118 Charles Johnson
Sure, let’s have one more bit of really fucked up shit before he leaves office. Why not?
Mike Dunford is still going on the MOAST INSANEPANTS CRAZYSHIT LAWSUIT IN FOREVER EVER
So they address political question but not really - they just say it should be ignored. Which it will be - there are too many other reasons to dismiss this steaming turdmountain for the court to get that far. pic.twitter.com/P0jE7GsE2Y
— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) January 19, 2021
re: #120 The Pie Overlord!
Mike Dunford is still going on the MOAST INSANEPANTS CRAZYSHIT LAWSUIT IN FOREVER EVER
I’m slowly getting caught up on that thread after clearing my driveway of snow and getting through all my daily meetings. This makes L. Lin Wood look like a legal god and a bastion of sanity and rationality. Holy crap.
re: #108 Greup
They (R) have been doing this a long time. From an interview with Lee Atwater (the Karl Rove of the 80´s) in 1981.
You start out in 1954 by saying, “n*****, n*****, n*****.” By 1968 you can’t say “n*****”—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rights and all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I’m not saying that. But I’m saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “n*****, n*****.”
The thing is, though, it looked for the longest time from 2017 on that they were about to make the N-word “legitimate discourse” again.
It would appear a substantial part of their base disagreed with Atwater that they should ever have pivoted even just in terms of words.
.@JoeBiden will fly to Washington today on a private aircraft, yet another remarkable change in protocol on the eve of his inauguration. No immediate word on why he wasn’t offered - or isn’t flying - on a US government plane, which is standard for a president-elect.
— Jeff Zeleny (@jeffzeleny) January 19, 2021
alright this is a particularly good one of these https://t.co/i7vA7iQdAo pic.twitter.com/23ZL85UMiX
— Mark Berman (@markberman) January 19, 2021
re: #31 Hecuba’s daughter
Easy peasy! Under the tax code left by Clinton, we appeared to be on the way to reducing our national debt. So reinstate the Clinton tax code! Ok, ok — probably needs a few changes to reduce tax burden on those who are not wealthy — and maybe other adjustments so that certain taxes better reflect COLA.
I recall those halcyon days when the US government even had a budget surplus. And Rush was on the air saying that it was immoral for the UG government to take more money away from us than it needs to exist…
re: #123 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Because trump is a man baby. I wasn’t for this but now I am. Drop trump from AF1 right at noon wherever he is. Preferably from around 38,000 feet, without a parachute.
The funnest parts of “Putin’s palace,” judging from visualizations of the floorplans & furniture, look like the “reading room,” “large game room,” “entertainment room” & “hookah bar.” Yankovych’s pales in comparison https://t.co/QOgfk56CGT pic.twitter.com/0H4tgql9kR
— Alec Luhn (@ASLuhn) January 19, 2021
Putin’s bed pic.twitter.com/EBk7P0hcHF
— Alec Luhn (@ASLuhn) January 19, 2021
re: #126 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I recall those halcyon days when the US government even had a budget surplus. And Rush was on the air saying that it was immoral for the UG government to take more money away from us than it needs to exist…
Yep, I remember that shit. Which was how the first round of Bush tax cuts were sold: “Giving back” the surplus to the taxpayers.
re: #98 KGxvi
I thought it wasn’t a coup unless it came from the coup d’état region of France; otherwise it’s just a sparkling insurrection.
Coup d’Tater Tot!
re: #106 Chrysicat
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“Twelve National Guard members have been removed from inauguration duty because they had ties with right-wing militia groups or had posted extremist views online.” https://t.co/MiReiv4NAc
— Amarnath Amarasingam (@AmarAmarasingam) January 19, 2021
Today’s episode of “Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud”… https://t.co/3xMFWxfkOd
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 19, 2021
Simone Gold was on Fox News numerous times in 2020. In one of the appearances, she defended the “demon sperm” doctor that Trump (and she herself) had promoted. https://t.co/hQokMAvBoB https://t.co/DACVHXgEDr
— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) January 19, 2021
re: #132 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Only twelve?
I’m either pleasantly surprised, or terrified that there are still Trump loyalists in the protection detail even AFTER this research. https://t.co/jTtub9ujEX— Chrysi Cat (no, Karen is STILL my sister!) (@chrysicat) January 19, 2021
re: #87 Belafon
Candace, it isn’t a coup until you interfere with the functioning of the government.
Kinda like what the cult did on Jan. 6.
re: #133 Charles Johnson
Because the GOP are all too aware that have no hope at wining by presenting policies and perspectives that attract voters, only by instituting rules and restrictions that suppress them.
“Biden’s name does not appear in the excerpts of Trump’s speech.”
(via @business) https://t.co/LYNEBavB1H— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla) January 19, 2021
Here comes the book. Watch out, Proud Boys, it weighs a ton.
Prosecutors filed the first conspiracy charges related to the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6 - latest from @aviswanatha https://t.co/TZ7d4vZ7nU via @WSJ
— Paul Beckett (@paulwsj) January 19, 2021
re: #14 Semper Fi
Yeah. After seeing the movie Angel Has Fallen and what the Turks did in Syria drones have moved up my list of worries.
Trump is on tape trying blackmail a Georgia official into overturning the results of an election and has yet to suffer any consequences https://t.co/2bJ03gl7G8
— Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 (@borzou) January 19, 2021
SAG-AFTRA, which represents thousands of broadcast journalists across the country, said that reports of intimidation and physical assaults against journalists “have escalated throughout Trump’s presidency.”https://t.co/WsAqR5MfGO
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) January 19, 2021
re: #137 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Because they are all too aware that have no hope at wining by presenting policies and perspectives that attract voters, only by instituting rules and restrictions that suppress them.
The reality is if they actually attempted to run on policies and ideas rather than voter suppression, they would rapidly become a regional party…if that.
One thing we can count on: Fox News will continue to be a huge problem. The right wing grift is too lucrative for them to ever change direction. https://t.co/P003JTIyCN
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 19, 2021
re: #144 Charles Johnson
Show us ONE, Maria. Just ONE.
re: #145 retired cynic
Show us ONE, Maria. Just ONE.
“Well…we’ve got that video of one guy who the crowd stopped from busting windows. Obviously he was Antifa!”
I feel sorry for the guy who gets Taco Bell.
Observation: you can make a preliminary determination of how fucked your client is by evaluating the quality of the restaurant at which the FBI arranges for the cooperator to record your client saying super-incriminating stuff.
— PardonMeHat (@Popehat) January 19, 2021
The Purge Has Begun
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
re: #148 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
The Purge Has Begun
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That call will become the new “called Florida early” myth going forward, the idea that calling Arizona “early” was what made the courts afraid to give Trump a “fair hearing” on the claims of “fraud.”
re: #148 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
The Purge Has Begun
They’re pivoting away from news, because news did not test well with their audience.
re: #148 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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I doubt it will bring the ratings back up. Amusing that they finally took the hit for not being crazy enough.
re: #152 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Now THERE’S a movie I haven’t seen in a long time. Maybe my Saturday Night Drinking Night entertainment this week.
I don’t even know how to describe this one. There’s crazypants, there’s stupid, and then there’s these two idiots.
OHMYGOD—-
A lawyer put this actual text in an actual motion filed in an actual court. pic.twitter.com/GXnXoqDltQ— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) January 19, 2021
By the way, Charles, in case you weren’t aware, in Spy mode, the images in an embedded tweet will load briefly, then collapse to a link that says “External image”. Is that happening elsewhere? Is that intended?
I promise you, between now and ‘24, there will be more than one “think piece” from the pundit class about whether or not it was a “bad call” to announce Arizona for Biden on Election Night. And all sorts of speculation on whether or not Trump would have succeeded in overturning the results if that call hadn’t been made “early.”
Okay…sad trombone…
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
re: #162 Nyet
*it’s
Honestly, the complete lack of grammar is the least of their worries, triggering as it is to someone like me. I am not a judge, but if I were, I can imagine reading through the pages of these documents with increasing amounts of amusement and disbelief, and telling my clerk to start drafting an Order to Show Cause and get a hearing on my calendar.
re: #128 Dread Pirate Ron
And they thought the Romanovs were tacky and extravagant.
I wonder if Putin has his crown picked out for when he declares himself Tsar Vladimir I. Will he have his own or pull the old one out of the Hermitage?
re: #137 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Because the GOP are all too aware that have no hope at wining by presenting policies and perspectives that attract voters, only by instituting rules and restrictions that suppress them.
The thing about those gripes from the GA GOPer, though? While the proposed changes may indeed make it harder to vote, I don’t see where it is necessarily going to produce more votes for Republicans. Unless they are going on the assumption that Republicans will (famously) “crawl over broken glass” to vote for the GOP, while Democrats are more apathetic and more-easily discouraged? But in Georgia? After seeing what happened in 2020-21? A dubious theory, IMO.
re: #166 Jay C
The thing about those gripes from the GA GOPer, though? While the proposed changes may indeed make it harder to vote, I don’t see where it is necessarily going to produce more votes for Republicans.
They know that the GOP is not going to come up with policies and legislation that are going to attract voters from among “those people”, because they are all about appealing to an ever-more rabid base.
Fuckface Hawley put a hold on Biden’s DHS pick. Expel that fucker now.
Trump ‘spooked’ away from pardoning his children and pro-insurrection lawmakers: report
According to cnn.com, Trump along with Ivanka and Jared Kushner listened in as White House counsel Pat Cipollone and Eric Herschmann that the only way he could pardon himself, his family and the GOP members was if he listed out the crimes that were committed. Listing the crimes in the pardon would essentially give prosecutors a guide for how to charge the Trumps with state or civil crimes, which don’t fall under the pardon.
While it was something that Trump has discussed with his legal advisers along with former Attorney General Bill Barr, this time Trump finally got the message.
“The conversation spooked Trump in a way few others have,” CNN said, citing a person familiar with Trump’s reaction.
.@ProjectLincoln Names please. What a scandal. Does it rhyme with ObergruppenFuhrers Cruz, Hawley, Johnson, Jordan, Gaetz, Brooks? Asking for a friend https://t.co/W2vsbc9rpB
— Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) January 19, 2021
re: #169 Dr. Matt
I’m honestly surprised that Trump’s lawyers didn’t advise him to do an omnibus pardon like Ford did for Nixon.
re: #173 Khal Wimpo (part of the vote-stealing cabal)
The SubReddit for recovering QAnons is frickin’ LIT right now
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And Q-tard hosts on SiriusXM “patriot” channel have been spewing this bullshit story for weeks about the masses of Canadian Chinese about to go Red Dawn III on the US. FFS
No photos with Trump https://t.co/POXX9sDUaU
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) January 19, 2021
Watched the Bidens disembark the plane in DC just now.
It is finally sinking in for me. What relief!
re: #179 HRH Stanley Sea
Watched the Bidens disembark the plane in DC just now.
It is finally sinking in for me. What relief!
The future first couple and their children and grandchildren arrive at Joint Base Andrews. pic.twitter.com/LZ5KLEPi0Q
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) January 19, 2021
re: #111 thedopefishlives
Can we yeet that motherfucker into the Missouri River? He needs to just go.
i just learned this word today
second time i’m seeing it
re: #118 Charles Johnson
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they are all admitting it
Holy cow! CNN reporting Republican lawmakers asked Trump for pardons for their role in the insurrection. And at a Saturday night meeting with White House lawyers he was advised of the risks of pardoning Republicans and his children for his own legal exposure. Now he will not.
— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) January 19, 2021
re: #177 Dr. Matt
And Q-tard hosts on SiriusXM “patriot” channel have been spewing this bullshit story for weeks about the masses of Canadian Chinese about to go Red Dawn III on the US. FFS
What happened to the Israelis?
The Q-tards assured us back in December that 20,000 Israeli troops had massed “on the border” to spearhead the invasion (backed up by the Chinese).
Did they all go home after Hanukkah?
re: #126 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I recall those halcyon days when the US government even had a budget
surplus. And Rush was on the air saying that it was immoral for the UG government to take more money away from us than it needs to exist…
re: #182 Dangerman
gonna make the next three months feisty as all that treason shit goes down and names are dropped.
re: #179 HRH Stanley Sea
Watched the Bidens disembark the plane in DC just now.
It is finally sinking in for me. What relief!
Hopefully he flies over the coast to see all our subs patrolling the coastline for the impending Canadian Chinese invasion.
re: #132 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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any word from Governor Greg Abbott?
“Twelve National Guard members have been removed from inauguration duty because they had ties with right-wing militia groups or had posted extremist views online.” https://t.co/MiReiv4NAc
— Amarnath Amarasingam (@AmarAmarasingam) January 19, 2021
re: #176 Khal Wimpo (part of the vote-stealing cabal)
Meanwhile, poor old US Grant has gotten dragged into this, and now March 4 is FER SHUR FER SHUR the date Trump rises to glory and All Shall Be Revealed.
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In and out as I have to go into the severe transmission area of the Panhandle.
London is part of sovereign citizen magical thinking.
Conspiracy theories often adopt previous conspiracy theories, and Q is working very hard to become the Grand Unified Wingnut Conspiracy Theory as libertarians join in with their sovereign citizen crap. Look for flags with gold fringe soon.
re: #166 Jay C
The thing about those gripes from the GA GOPer, though? While the proposed changes may indeed make it harder to vote, I don’t see where it is necessarily going to produce more votes for Republicans. Unless they are going on the assumption that Republicans will (famously) “crawl over broken glass” to vote for the GOP, while Democrats are more apathetic and more-easily discouraged? But in Georgia? After seeing what happened in 2020-21? A dubious theory, IMO.
You sort of answered your own question: They’re not aiming to get more Repubs to the polls, they’re trying to keep more Dems away from the polls. What these past two elections proved to them is not only does making it easier to vote encourage greater voter turnout, but that even with record-breaking Repub turnout, they still lost the election because demographics simply are not on their side anymore.
re: #133 Charles Johnson
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400,292 Americans dead
- Johns Hopkins COVID data.
1/19/2021.— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) January 19, 2021
re: #180 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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I’m relieved he didn’t take the train because I feared that there was the possibility of an attack.re: #183 Jay C
What happened to the Israelis?
The Q-tards assured us back in December that 20,000 Israeli troops had massed “on the border” to spearhead the invasion (backed up by the Chinese).
Did they all go home after Hanukkah?
Oh no. My family insists that they are Chinese troops at the Canadian and Mexican borders…oh and China already invaded Alaska and Hawaii…
re: #148 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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fired for being……right?
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
re: #150 Punish Domestic Terrorists
They’re pivoting away from news, because news did not
test well withgenerate as much income from their audience.
re: #166 Jay C
The thing about those gripes from the GA GOPer, though? While the proposed changes may indeed make it harder to vote, I don’t see where it is necessarily going to produce more votes for Republicans. Unless they are going on the assumption that Republicans will (famously) “crawl over broken glass” to vote for the GOP, while Democrats are more apathetic and more-easily discouraged? But in Georgia? After seeing what happened in 2020-21? A dubious theory, IMO.
we got no policies, no substance. what else are we gonna do?
re: #167 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They know that the GOP is not going to come up with policies and legislation that are going to attract voters from among “those people”, because they are all about appealing to an ever-more rabid base.
ah, gmta
re: #176 Khal Wimpo (part of the vote-stealing cabal)
Meanwhile, poor old US Grant has gotten dragged into this, and now March 4 is FER SHUR FER SHUR the date Trump rises to glory and All Shall Be Revealed.
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Regarding your photo caption:
Not to the best of my knowledge.
They believe that that the corporations running the country are literally British and that that’s why all the official flags have gold fringe on them since, as a sign that their creators owe allegiance to the corporate US and not the “constitutional” one.
But then again, this stuff is so far gone that even the guy who tried to gift me a subscription to The New American in the 90s would probably grant it’s overboard.
Or not; I should see if
vDibvZWp08ODbXzE7NrBp3yxHq0VfnqN
is on the list of arrested coup participants.
re: #169 Dr. Matt
Trump ‘spooked’ away from pardoning his children and pro-insurrection lawmakers: report
is it just me or is thinking to have this very discussion, and then actually having it, an admission of guilt of something
re: #193 Dangerman
fired for being……right?
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The call was too early, so the decision to make the call wasn’t right. They got lucky that AZ did not flip.
re: #176 Khal Wimpo (part of the vote-stealing cabal)
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Charlie Pierce on MLK Jr Day:
We Honor Dr. King By Acknowledging the Actual Messenger, and What His Message Actually Was
Martin Luther King, Jr. was as much a revolutionary as he was a conciliator—as much a revolutionary as Samuel Adams, or Denmark Vesey, or Michael Collins, or Gandhi, or Nelson Mandela.
Does the arc of the universe really bend toward justice? If it does, it takes God’s own sweet time doing it, and it has a tendency to turn back on itself like an old garden hose with multiple kinks and tangles that prevent the water from flowing. Right now, from the vantage point of the past two weeks, the arc of the universe seems to be faceless and random and extraordinarily unreliable, far too prone to manipulation by villains and lunatics, and by villainous lunatics, and by lunatic villains, all of whom can be American, as hard as we try in our arrogance and guilt to avoid thinking about that.
…
After the last month, I think it’s proper to honor Dr. King by being grim and purposeful, to appreciate the rhetoric but to appreciate the actual history more, to revere the message but to acknowledge the actual messenger and what his message actually was, to accept that Dr. King was as much a revolutionary as he was a conciliator, that he was as much a revolutionary as Samuel Adams, or Denmark Vesey, or Michael Collins, or Gandhi, or Nelson Mandela, and that his message differed from theirs only in its chosen delivery system. He saw a system corrupted by racism and savagery and he wanted to bring it down. He understood freedom better and more deeply than any Texas real-estate broker waving a Gadsden flag. He understood how true freedom is a bond, that freedom ties us all together rather than atomizing us into millions of tiny universes, which bend toward nothing at all.
I certainly agree that Biden’s favored in Arizona, but look the Fox call there is too fast for me. It reminds me of when they called Wisconsin for Trump early in ‘16, when he was up like 4 points at 70% counted. It worked out! But that was not a 99.99% certainty situation IMO
— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) November 4, 2020
re: #192 🌹UOJB!
I’m relieved he didn’t take the train because I feared that there was the possibility of an attack.
Oh no. My family insists that they are Chinese troops at the Canadian and Mexican borders…oh and China already invaded Alaska and Hawaii…
Should tell them that’s what native residents LOOK LIKE. Doesn’t make them from China.
There’s a popular movie review channel (Chris Stuckmann) that I like where the reviewer just spent an hour denouncing his Jehovah’s Witness upbringing and then came out as bi-sexual. This has really been a year for people coming to terms with things they’ve been suppressing for ages. Everyone has been at home thinking about their lives and now seems to be the time to try to make changes as we may be seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. It took me forever to accept that I was gay and finally come out so this was kind of heartening for me to watch.
re: #176 Khal Wimpo (part of the vote-stealing cabal)
Meanwhile, poor old US Grant has gotten dragged into this, and now March 4 is FER SHUR FER SHUR the date Trump rises to glory and All Shall Be Revealed.
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Grant stood up to the Klan and did everything possible to take them out.
Trump encouraged them.
re: #43 Dangerman
Huffpo
Some of us are old enough to remember the Klan Boat Patrol on the Texas Gulf Coast. Nearly four decades later, a person of Vietnamese heritage takes it upon themselves to get involved with white supremacists. Hmmmm.
— PardonMeHat (@Popehat) January 19, 2021
re: #192 🌹UOJB!
I’m relieved he didn’t take the train because I feared that there was the possibility of an attack.
Oh no. My family insists that they are Chinese troops at the Canadian and Mexican borders…oh and China already invaded Alaska and Hawaii…
Your tales of your family kind of make me feel I’m blessed that my family only hates me over my religious beliefs, not that they are crazy.
I’m off to Bridgeport to brave the coronavirs, catch y’all later.
Holy shit…the right wing threats on Biden are more real than I feared.
re: #211 darthstar
Holy shit…the right wing threats on Biden are more real than I feared.
Dare I ask what just happened to make you say that at 5 in the afternoon?
re: #201 retired cynic
Charlie Pierce on MLK Jr Day:
We Honor Dr. King By Acknowledging the Actual Messenger, and What His Message Actually Was
And Charlie on the 1776 debacle:
Trump’s ‘Definitive Chronicle of the American Founding’ Is a Staggering Blizzard of Cockamamie Talking Points
Actual historians tore it to shreds.
The Declaration was a lot of things, most of them good, but if you’d stood up at the Second Continental Congress and announced that it was the beginning of a push to outlaw slavery, they’d have laughed you out onto Chestnut Street. Mainly, what the Declaration did was give British Tories and a number of other people in other countries a glaring hypocrisy through which they could dismiss everything else in the document. Samuel Johnson famously observed, “How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?” And Irish patriot Daniel O’Connell wasn’t fooled, either. “Liberty in America means the power to flog slaves,” O’Connell said, “and to work them for nothing.” I got that last quote from a real historian—Liam Hogan, an independent scholar of slavery from Limerick in Ireland. There’s more truth in that one sentence than in the whole of this spurious mess produced on our dime.
re: #155 thedopefishlives
By the way, Charles, in case you weren’t aware, in Spy mode, the images in an embedded tweet will load briefly, then collapse to a link that says “External image”. Is that happening elsewhere? Is that intended?
Fixed now.
re: #198 Dangerman
is it just me or is thinking to have this very discussion, and then actually having it, an admission of guilt of something
This tells me that at least more than three people (excluding Trump) were present with he brought it up; so if shit hits the fan and they were called upon to testify, they sure as hell won’t fall on their individual swords to protect tRump.
There should be an annual anthology of opinion pieces that age badly. The 2021 edition could include @DouthatNYT’s FUN column from November 12, 2016, “He Made America Feel Great Again,” in which he pretended he was writing in 2020 after Trump’s re-election. Some highlights. pic.twitter.com/F065vdym0O
— Kurt Andersen (@KBAndersen) January 19, 2021
Sort of an ultimate greatest hits collection of wrongness. Never write articles like this, especially if you’re an idiot.
re: #202 Nyet
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— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) November 4, 2020
nonsense
i’ve said it enough so it should be clear
the only ‘announcement’ that matters is the one after all the votes are counted.
anything intermediate is meaningless
because the order the votes are counted is meaningless
only the final total matters - whenever that happens.
yeah, you know which precincts havent reported and how they’ve swung in the past and should this time and absentees and military and on and on.
it’s still guessing.
nevertheless
nate et al spent a year or more prognosticating what was going to happen in each state.
there are maps. everywhere.
all of a sudden you can’t do that on election night?
ok, well if you’re reporting what happened, then my above stands
not a word until the last vote is counted - which will not be election night
if you’re still predicting, then there can be no such thing as ‘too early’
however, if you want to walk this fine line of we’re not predicting but projecting, then it’s time to stop this election night horse race nonsense and reveal it for what it is - a senseless exercise in nothing of substance.
the order the votes are counted and the breathless intermediate reporting updates are meaningless.
re: #212 Chrysicat
Dare I ask what just happened to make you say that at 5 in the afternoon?
Nichole and Brian on MSNBC going over security prep and the fact that some asshole posing as a National Guard got caught apparently.
re: #214 Charles Johnson
just have to say blogmaster, you do an awesome job staying on top of things to keep the commenters happy and sharing and that helps keep the conversation and education a real thing… thank you for the effort and making this such a good place to hang out and share.
re: #220 darthstar
Nichole and Brian on MSNBC going over security prep and the fact that some asshole posing as a National Guard got caught apparently.
The delusional nutjobs who instigated the Capitol riot certainly mean the soon-to-be President and First Lady great harm. I worry about public appearances throughout his entire Presidency with these crazy people.
Momspiracy
— Jordan Fischer (@JordanOnRecord) January 19, 2021
re: #216 Eric The Fruit Bat
This tells me that at least more than three people (excluding Trump) were present with he brought it up; so if shit hits the fan and they were called upon to testify, they sure as hell won’t fall on their individual swords to protect tRump.
pro-insurrectionist lawmakers come to the President of the United States* asking for pardons for planning and/or participating in an insurrection against the United States AND THE PRESIDENT DOESNT TURN THEM IN
* you know - the one who swore to defend the constitution
re: #219 Dangerman
“Too early” is according to some standard, of course, in Cohn’s case seemingly the probability of 99,99%, so anything below that would be too early; while it can be argued that maybe Fox has a lower probability bar (I haven’t checked), Mishkin actually went on record that he was 100% sure, which doesn’t sound like a sober assessment.
Finally.
Gateway Pundit has been a main driver of far right disinformation for many years. As bad as any of the ones who were banned long ago.
They should be permanently banned; there is absolutely no chance that Jim Hoft or his cronies will stop doing this. https://t.co/uEoE7fxHtL— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 19, 2021
So far, no signs of a US military plane at Prestwick. So, no Elvis.
Tiabb
1 hour ago
I’ll explain from what little I’ve heard of this insane theory.They for some unhinged reason believe that Ulysses S. Grant was the last real president of the United States, and that after him the US was overthrown and is now controlled by 3 corporations. So they believe that what trump will do is overthrow the false corporation american government and reestablish the real america, thus becoming the first legitimate president since Grant.
Shit like this is why I have so little hope that any Q believer can ever be deprogrammed. Believing this is so detached from reality that most will never find it again.
Okay, so that’s straight from the Reichsbürger playbook (along with the so-called “Soviet citizens”). The “this state is actually a corporation/firm” is common to all three.
The promised evidence never came because there wasn’t any. https://t.co/hqUvo0nVa6
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) January 19, 2021
re: #229 Nyet
Okay, so that’s straight from the Reichsbürger playbook (along with the so-called “Soviet citizens”). The “this state is actually a corporation/firm” is common to all three.
Oh, Jesus. I think the last time I saw that argument was in sovereign citizen courtroom shenanigans.
re: #225 Nyet
“Too early” is according to some standard, of course, in Cohn’s case seemingly the probability of 99,99%, so anything below that would be too early; while it can be argued that maybe Fox has a lower probability bar (I haven’t checked), Mishkin actually went on record that he was 100% sure, which doesn’t sound like a sober assessment.
i stand by what i said
it’s either predicting or reporting
if it’s reporting, then this nonsense has to stop.
if it’s predicting, cloaking it in statistics, even valid ones is still predicting.
weeks before this election there were breathless profiles of him as the most brilliantest one out there because of 2012
he predicted arizona. it wasn’t a swag. he was right.
heck, when i said he was fired for being right it was tongue firmly planted in cheek.
maybe we’ll never know why really.
overall though, this nonsense has to stop.
re: #222 thedopefishlives
The delusional nutjobs who instigated the Capitol riot certainly mean the soon-to-be President and First Lady great harm. I worry about public appearances throughout his entire Presidency with these crazy people.
Biden should issue an EO that all Trump appointees, and those that such appointees appoint others who fall under civil service regulations, are automatically removed and further permanently barred from any government position and also permanently banned from lobbying.
re: #230 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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do not say no one let us present any evidence
For clarity, Powell has voluntarily withdrawn her lawsuit in Georgia claiming voter fraud. The President and his legal team voluntarily withdrew their election challenge in GA the day before they would have had to present their evidence. #gapol https://t.co/R9uT40GrT9
— Gabriel Sterling (@GabrielSterling) January 19, 2021
re: #232 Dangerman
Come on, it doesn’t have to stop no matter how one thinks about it. Fox infighting is good.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA *GASP!* HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Only Newsmax is airing Trump’s farewell video pic.twitter.com/AZQQco6jS7
— Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) January 19, 2021
re: #140 Romantic Heretic
Yes, drones are becoming a significant factor in war. Although not in the way the movie clip shows them.
In November, Azerbaijan went back to war with the Armenians in the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave. Previously, the Armenians had significant military superiority over the Azeris.
But this time, the Turks aided the Azeris with drones, among other things. The Azeris, using those drones, quickly and decisively defeated the Armenians within a couple of weeks.
(Turkey is supporting Turkic speaking groups as an outreach towards being a significant regional power.)
re: #68 Targetpractice
OFFS:
Not surprised. Not even in office and the media is undercutting Biden full bore and asking for things that they did not raise a peep about in the past year regarding Trump and his cronies.
Karma is a bitch
“Outgoing secretaries typically get office space at the Pentagon for several weeks to handle any final tasks that remain undone by Inauguration Day.”
Chris Miller will not get that. https://t.co/tfVVExy43u— Connor O’Brien (@connorobrienNH) January 19, 2021
re: #235 Nyet
Come on, it doesn’t have to stop no matter how one thinks about it. Fox infighting is good.
oh totally agree there
let em fight
re: #234 Dangerman
do not say no one let us present any evidence
The crazy-ass lawsuit in Texas actually said exactly that. Even then, they are still wrong; one of the Wisconsin cases was dismissed on the merits when the Trump-appointed judge bizarrely allowed it to proceed.
I frankly hope that Biden’s presidency will be radical enough to be successful.
re: #239 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Karma is a bitch
You know what this tells me? Biden and his team are not laboring under any delusions that Republicans or Trump appointees will play nice. They are in give-no-fucks-and-take-no-prisoners mode.
re: #239 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Plus there should be an investigation of the transition shenanigans and all the guilty should be kicked out.
re: #236 Targetpractice
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA *GASP!* HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
Fox aired it in its entirety during Neil Cavuto’s show. It was pre recorded so I don’t know there is any specified time it was supposed to run.
re: #77 Eclectic Cyborg
Seems appropriate:
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One of the first times I recall hearing that song was going to a movie when I was 14 with my older brother and a few of his friends at a theater in Potsdam, NY.
re: #243 thedopefishlives
You know what this tells me? Biden and his team are not laboring under any delusions that Republicans or Trump appointees will play nice. They are in give-no-fucks-and-take-no-prisoners mode.
Biden’s a nice man but he can fight too.
Man, I’m going to enjoy the hell out of tomorrow.
re: #13 Ferdinand
Jenna Bush seems like a perfectly nice young woman. I remember seeing her in Jamaica talking to the locals and being so down to earth that nobody believed she was a President’s daughter. Plus, I remember her defending the Obama daughters from rightwing criticism. I don’t hold it against her that her father was a horrible President.
re: #226 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
So, he retweeted me (twice), then blocked me?
I guess some folks don’t get sarcasm.
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Wasn’t March 4th the date of the original inauguration before it got changed?
So, it’s a sure thing that Obama and the Pope have not been arrested
— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) January 19, 2021
Biden holding his first presidential ceremony a day before he becomes president because Trump is too butt-hurt over having to move house to acknowledge 400,000 deaths on his watch.
re: #249 Patricia Kayden
Jenna Bush seems like a perfectly nice young woman. I remember seeing her in Jamaica talking to the locals and being so down to earth that nobody believed she was a President’s daughter. Plus, I remember her defending the Obama daughters from rightwing criticism. I don’t hold it against her that her father was a horrible President.
Both First Lady and President Obama have great things to say about how they treated them during the transition. They are unique being grandchildren and children of Presidents but I’ve never detected pretension in them. In fact the oppositex
I’m a good boy with a bow tie pic.twitter.com/NmnydzcAHV
— Puppies 🐶 (@PopularPuppies) January 19, 2021
re: #239 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Karma is a bitch
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Adding this to my list of “Biden knows how to cut you” along with scheduling his morning service to conflict with Trump’s going away party.
re: #257 Jack Burton
0.07 Scaramuccis left
Tomorrow at 11:00 AM Central Time, I am hanging my flag outside.
re: #256 Belafon
Adding this to my list of “Biden knows how to cut you” along with scheduling his morning service to conflict with Trump’s going away party.
I also think this means that Ellis’s appointment to the NSA will be either short lived or he’ll be in Alaska managing snacks.
re: #257 Jack Burton
0.07 Scaramuccis left
After that those will be negatives Scaramuccis, and hopefully soon enough only imaginary ones.
re: #10 The Pie Overlord!
This lawsuit makes all the other ones seem almost normal.
IANAL and what not, but subject notwithstanding, does it violate some sort of unspoken legal rule to not write your complaint like an over-the-top Hollywood spy movie?
re: #260 Nyet
After that those will be negatives Scaramuccis, and hopefully soon enough only imaginary ones.
“Grandpa, what’s a ‘Scaramucci’?”
“A douchebag.”
In roughly 18 and a half hours the 208th consecutive ‘Infrastructure Week’ will come to a close.
Likely a record that will forever remain unbroken
Did Trump ever get around to making his 100 pardons today or did he get distracted and forget?
Lre: #262 Targetpractice
“Grandpa, what’s a ‘Scaramucci’?”
“A douchebag.”
A footnote on the worst reality show ever.
re: #264 darthstar
Did Trump ever get around to making his 100 pardons today or did he get distracted and forget?
Checks haven’t cleared yet.
re: #264 darthstar
Did Trump ever get around to making his 100 pardons today or did he get distracted and forget?
From what I hear pardons don’t have to be public but nothing I heard.
re: #261 Mattand
IANAL and what not, but subject notwithstanding, does it violate some sort of unspoken legal rule to not write your complaint like an over-the-top Hollywood spy movie?
Actually, yes. Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11(b) specifically addresses this.
re: #267 Targetpractice
Checks haven’t cleared yet.
He knows he can’t back date these things on Thursday, right?
re: #270 darthstar
He knows he can’t back date these things on Thursday, right?
“My lawyers, who are the best in the country, tell me I’m still able to do this because my presidential powers haven’t yet ended.”
re: #259 Belafon
I also think this means that Ellis’s appointment to the NSA will be either short lived or he’ll be in Alaska managing snacks.
+1
I just realized that for the first time in four years we’re about to have a Press Secretary that doesn’t lie all the time.
My husband and I tried the pillows four years ago. They weren’t any good. My cat wasn’t even sure of the boxes. pic.twitter.com/EOfzKa6Uel
— Leanne (@LRobinsonWagner) January 19, 2021
re: #270 darthstar
He knows he can’t back date these things on Thursday, right?
i would not take that bet
re: #262 Targetpractice
“Grandpa, what’s a ‘Scaramucci’?”
“What someone says when they don’t know the correct Queen lyrics.”
He’ll resign at 8am and Pence will pardon him…or skip on over to the inauguration because he’ll get to be on stage and get the Marine 1 ride home after!
— a different darth (@darthstar99) January 19, 2021
Sources familiar with Kelly’s thinking say he has to wash his cat. https://t.co/Uh5xU0i9Ip
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 19, 2021
Anything completely horrible that will last more than 11 days but not longer than a couple of months and will certainly end, I will probably continue to use Scaramuccis as a unit of measurement.
In much the same way “Santorum” still has a use in the popular vernacular.
re: #276 Dangerman
i would not take that bet
My thoughts exactly. He’s a blithering moron and a narcissist, he may very well think he can just keep waving pardons around forever like some kind of magical criminal genie.
re: #188 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
In and out as I have to go into the severe transmission area of the Panhandle.
London is part of sovereign citizen magical thinking.
Conspiracy theories often adopt previous conspiracy theories, and Q is working very hard to become the Grand Unified Wingnut Conspiracy Theory as libertarians join in with their sovereign citizen crap. Look for flags with gold fringe soon.
Dig a little deeper and references to “The Plan” and Templars will soon appear.
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re: #253 darthstar
Biden holding his first presidential ceremony a day before he becomes president because Trump is too butt-hurt over having to move house to acknowledge 400,000 deaths on his watch.
That was a beautiful rendition of “Hallelujah”
War is peace.
Ignorance is strength.
Non-sheeple slogan is “Where we go one, we go all”.
re: #275 Dread Pirate Ron
I’m generally not a big fan of companies whose founder insists on having his face plastered on all the packaging.
re: #285 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m generally not a big fan of companies whose founder insists on having his face plastered on all the packaging.
Seriously, it’s marketing on the level of the Shamwow. Old-school ‘80’s-‘90’s late night infomercials kind of content.
re: #211 darthstar
Holy shit…the right wing threats on Biden are more real than I feared.
Shades of Lincoln getting into Washington while under threat as well.
We have a mourner-in-chief again. Just when we needed one most.
re: #259 Belafon
I also think this means that Ellis’s appointment to the NSA will be either short lived or he’ll be in Alaska managing snacks.
Someone has to count the paperclips.
Oregon Republican Party condemns ‘betrayal’ by 10 House GOP who voted to impeach Trump (MSN)
Trash. Probably white nationalist trash.
Looks like Tiffany took her last shot to announce her engagement at the White House. Seems she will land on her feet, dude apparently from another billionaire family.
re: #288 i(m)p(each)(again!)sos
We have a mourner-in-chief again. Just when we needed one most.
Instead of a moaner-in-chief.
re: #278 darthstar
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not a chance he goes down in history as having ‘resigned’ even one minute early
plus the quid pro quo will be obvious, and certainly challenged
He’ll resign at 8am and Pence will pardon him…or skip on over to the inauguration because he’ll get to be on stage and get the Marine 1 ride home after!
— a different darth (@darthstar99) January 19, 2021
🚨BREAKING: Georgia Secretary of State certifies the 2020 US Senate elections, paving the way for @ossoff and @ReverendWarnock to be sworn in tomorrow.
— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) January 19, 2021
re: #279 Charles Johnson
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Sources familiar with Kelly’s thinking say he has to wash his cat. https://t.co/Uh5xU0i9Ip
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 19, 2021
i tried washing one of our cats just once
way too much hair on my tongue
re: #285 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m generally not a big fan of companies whose founder insists on having his face plastered on all the packaging.
Unless it’s a Jane Fonda workout tape.
re: #93 Teukka
Actually the word “Heritage” has been the code word for their white supremacism for a long long time now. It is no mistake that the same Confederate Flag used to celebrate the supposed superiority of whites was recently paraded through the US Capitol during a Republican coup attempt.
re: #295 Dangerman
i tried washing one of our cats just once
way too much hair on my tongue
That joke was purr-fect. It was littered with humor.
I APOLOGIZE FOR NOTHING.
re: #293 Dangerman
not a chance he goes down in history as having ‘resigned’ even one minute early
plus the quid pro quo will be obvious, and certainly challenged
I agree he will never resign. But what exactly is the quid pro quo for Pence? I don’t see what he would get out of the deal. Would he be eligible for a presidential pension and secret service for life for his 4 hour stint as president?
re: #295 Dangerman
i tried washing one of our cats just once
way too much hair on my tongue
Rachel said the Mooch was invited as well. And each invited could have up to 5 guests, so they seem to be desperate to drum up a crowd of well wishers.
re: #291 danarchy
Looks like Tiffany took her last shot to announce her engagement at the White House. Seems she will land on her feet, dude apparently from another billionaire family.
Don’t particularly care about this sort of thing…it’s like the Bush kids announcing engagements and all. It’s sort of a built in perk that I don’t waste energy caring about.
But, a) hoping she doesn’t end up like her older sister,
b) from what I can tell, all the Bush kids are perfectly fine human beings, which puts them miles above the Trump clan.
re: #285 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m generally not a big fan of companies whose founder insists on having his face plastered on all the packaging.
would you believe i am wearing a hair piece?
this 100 percent undetectable hair piece can be yours
hard to believe????
ah the good old days
this guy
frank perdue
tom carvel
re: #290 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Oregon Republican Party condemns ‘betrayal’ by 10 House GOP who voted to impeach Trump (MSN)
Trash. Probably white nationalist trash.
oregon trying to out Arizona, the Arizona GOP
re: #303 Dangerman
oregon trying to out Arizona, the Arizona GOP
But remember that Arizona has a “2nd Amendment City” that is literally most famous for an event occuring because they had gun control.
“Cineri gloria sera venit”
It is the day to toast Edgar Allen Poe, among other things.
re: #305 Decatur Deb
“Cineri gloria sera venit”
It is the day to toast Edgar Allen Poe, among other things.
Sure. There’s a cask of Amontillado in the cellar, if you want to bring it up for us.
re: #248 Eclectic Cyborg
Man, I’m going to enjoy the hell out of tomorrow.
I’m going to miss Trump’s sendoff party. I don’t want to get up at 6:30 for him. Reruns of the lowlights is more than enough.
re: #299 danarchy
I agree he will never resign. But what exactly is the quid pro quo for Pence? I don’t see what he would get out of the deal. Would he be eligible for a presidential pension and secret service for life for his 4 hour stint as president?
qpq might be the wrong word
with pence at the helm for such a short time it would obviously be ‘orchestrated’
no time for thought, deliberation, consideration etc
and so somehow fraudulently obtained
even if ford and nixon worked it out (im not sure they did) it certainly didnt appear like they did. he took a month and wrote a fairly good explanation as to why.
re: #307 thedopefishlives
Sure. There’s a cask of Amontillado in the cellar, if you want to bring it up for us.
re: #308 stpaulbear
I’m going to miss Trump’s sendoff party. I don’t want to get up at 6:30 for him. Reruns of the lowlights is more than enough.
I’ll be up at 6:30 and hard at work. I give zero fucks about Trump’s send-off and hope to God I never see that man again for the rest of his life. Although I might tune in when he’s laying in state.
re: #310 Decatur Deb
I had no idea this was a thing, but Edgar Allan Poe does seem like the sort of fellow to inspire a kind of cult following.
re: #311 thedopefishlives
I’ll be up at 6:30 and hard at work. I give zero fucks about Trump’s send-off and hope to God I never see that man again for the rest of his life. Although I might tune in when he’s laying in state.
In South Jersey and Philly, hopefully he’ll be relegated to “Hey, remember that loser who managed to run two casinos into the ground in Atlantic City? Whatever happened to him?”
“Self-styled militia members from Virginia, Ohio and other states made plans to storm the U.S. Capitol days in advance of the Jan. 6 attack, communicating in real time as they breached the building on opposite sides and led dozens in a hunt for lawmakers to make ‘citizen’s arrests,’” the Washington Post reports.“The extraordinary real-time narration of parts of the assault on the Capitol came as investigators made public new details of events in unsealed conspiracy charges in which thousands of pro-Trump supporters forced the evacuation of lawmakers and triggered violence that left five people dead.”
Just some good ol’ boys,
Never meaning no harm
re: #307 thedopefishlives
Sure. There’s a cask of Amontillado in the cellar, if you want to bring it up for us.
And if brave patriots chain Trump to the cellar wall, give me the privilege of cementing the first brick in front of him.
re: #312 thedopefishlives
I had no idea this was a thing, but Edgar Allan Poe does seem like the sort of fellow to inspire a kind of cult following.
There was a Kevin Bacon tv series about a murder cult inspired by Poe (fictional).
this is the news now and how it’s being reported
(CNN)
“So, too, was Trump warned that pardons for Republican lawmakers who had sought them for their role in the Capitol insurrection would anger the very Senate Republicans who will determine his fate in an upcoming impeachment trial.”
no more pretense. they’re admitting it.
How about you declassify me some coffee? https://t.co/ng6WOtbBfT
— Thanks For Sharing Jerk (@Thx4SharingJerk) January 19, 2021
Pres.-elect Biden during lighting ceremony at COVID-19 memorial in Washington, D.C.: “To heal, we must remember. It’s hard sometimes to remember. But that’s how we heal. It’s important to do that as a nation.” https://t.co/hZS1xsTE7G pic.twitter.com/TQoVf3jDdP
— ABC News (@ABC) January 19, 2021
re: #318 Dangerman
Proving that Nancy Pelosi had the right of it when she refused to let gun-humper Lauren Boebert sidestep the magnetometers and carry her gun on the floor.
re: #320 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
That sentiment has utility in more than one area….
This is how to do it. Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel allows Ron Johnson to respond to editorial call for resignation or expulsion with with footnoted editorial:
Sen. Manchin presses Austin on the single greatest threat to the United States right now. Austin doesn’t hesitate: the pandemic.
— Ankit Panda (@nktpnd) January 19, 2021
Lloyd Austin: “Quite frankly, the greatest challenge to our country right now is the pandemic. It’s killed over 400,000 of our citizens, and that’s just an incredible loss of life…We have to do everything we can to break the cycle of transmission and turn this thing around.”
— Paul D. Shinkman (@PDShinkman) January 19, 2021
This is how I felt four years ago, as Trump was getting sworn in.
The movie: “And the Band Played On”
Richard Gere looks out the window as death dances in the street as everyone ignores onrushing doomhttps://t.co/lnaouMVDRG— Surreal painters were just ahead of the curve (@MutatedReality) January 19, 2021
I’m trying to find happiness and relief right now. But I keep flashing back to the horror and nausea I felt four years ago, as Trump got sworn in, and I knew, I FUCKING KNEW that it was going to end up like this, or worse.
I don’t think I can ever trust in America again; not when so many of my countrymen are content, gleeful even, at the actions of a deranged toddler set loose with gasoline and matches in the heart of our nation.
Because of course pic.twitter.com/Fc0x1h1YYw
— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) January 19, 2021
WAPO: Newly unseals court documents make it clear that the coup attempt was not a spontaneous outburst, but a carefully coordinated attack by Proud Boys, 3 Pees, and Oathkeepers seeking to make “citizens arrests” of Congress for alleged treason and other alleged crimes.
— LiberalNavySeal (@LiberalNavySeal) January 19, 2021
“The party’s over,” he says.
Next scene is in front of a chalkboard with “Butcher’s Bill” on it, and figures of all the dead & dying.
This is where we are now. It’s not going to get better for a long, LONG time.— Surreal painters were just ahead of the curve (@MutatedReality) January 19, 2021
Right now the “Butcher’s Bill” is at 400,000.
Fox News tells their brainwashed viewers that this doesn’t exist. The numbers are lies. It’s no worse that the flu. Trump has it under control, in fact, it’s a triumph!
I don’t think we get out of this with less than a million dead by the end of 2021.
The new, more transmissible, strains of COVID are going to rage through America, starting in March. I don’t think we are set up for another lockdown; I don’t think we can take this.
“…In charging papers, the FBI said during the Capital riot, Caldwell received Facebook messages from unspecified senders updating him of the location of lawmakers. When he posted a one-word message, “Inside,” he received exhortations and directions describing tunnels, doors and hallways, the FBI said.
Another message read, “All members are in the tunnels under capital seal them in. Turn on gas,” the FBI added.
Other arrests Tuesday also underscored law enforcement’s concerns for threats to elected leaders, particularly since so many of the participants in the Jan. 6 chaos are still unidentified.”
washingtonpost.com
Stop spouting bullshit and go make my double espresso already, coffee boy.
— Arch (@Arch_LGF) January 19, 2021
re: #325 Khal Wimpo (part of the vote-stealing cabal)
I’m trying to find happiness and relief right now. But I keep flashing back to the horror and nausea I felt four years ago, as Trump got sworn in, and I knew, I FUCKING KNEW that it was going to end up like this, or worse.
I don’t think I can ever trust in America again; not when so many of my countrymen are content, gleeful even, at the actions of a deranged toddler set loose with gasoline and matches in the heart of our nation.
It’s going to take a fair amount of time to undo the damage, but mark my words: It will be undone. We will get there. We will reduce the factors of privilege and echo-chamber isolation that led to the dangerous delusion, too. It’s not going to be smooth sailing, but we will keep making forward progress.
re: #324 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Austin is wrong. The single greatest threat to the US is the Republican Party and the Great Both-Sides lie that keeps it going even after all the atrocities it commits.
The covid19 epidemic is a very distant second place on the threat list.
But some truths cannot be said.
Tiger King Joe Exotic is ready for his pardon!
CORRECTION: This is the scene outside his lawyer’s office, not at the prison. We have cameras at both scenes though and will continue to bring you updates.
— Annie Vogeler (@AnnieVogeler_TV) January 19, 2021
Fox purging those who stood against the lies.
House republicans trying to remove Liz Cheney from leadership for doing the right thing and voting for impeachment.
Everyone is doubling down. None of this is over. https://t.co/KbqobWHzOp— Molly McKew (@MollyMcKew) January 19, 2021
re: #262 Targetpractice
“Grandpa, what’s a ‘Scaramucci’?”
“A douchebag.”
Italian for “bad fellatio”.
re: #335 Grunthos the Flatulent
Whatever you do, don’t get “Poe Toaster” confused up with “poetaster”.
re: #331 thedopefishlives
It’s going to take a fair amount of time to undo the damage, but mark my words: It will be undone. We will get there. We will reduce the factors of privilege and echo-chamber isolation that led to the dangerous delusion, too. It’s not going to be smooth sailing, but we will keep making forward progress.
Just the end of “backwards progress” (is that a thing? I hereby declare that is now A Thing) is in and of itself, a relief.
The biggest step is going to be undoing the echo chamber that has led so many into madness. It took us 33 years to get here.
Going to take at least that long to get back out.
“MyPillow, the Trump-loving bedtime company, buys as much of 40 percent of all the ad time purchased on Carlson’s show. “
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) January 19, 2021
re: #340 Dread Pirate Ron
Checking on the Chinese Troops amassed on our northern border.
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If they’re trying to cross Lake Superior, they are not going to have a good time.
re: #341 thedopefishlives
If they’re trying to cross Lake Superior, they are not going to have a good time.
Did the gales of November come really, really, really early?
Dominion Voting Systems is expanding its net.
Kelli Ward, the chairwoman of the Arizona Republican Party, has received a cease-and-desist letter from attorneys representing Dominion Voting Systems over her claims that the company’s voting technology was rigged.
Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving person.
re: #340 Dread Pirate Ron
Checking on the Chinese Troops amassed on our northern border.
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There would be a helluva lot of shivering Chinese guys in Alberta right now.
Upside: they might cause Canadians to actually cook some food that has a flavor in it!
re: #337 Eclectic Cyborg
That is hilarious. The payoff!
re: #342 DesertDenizen
Did the gales of November come really, really, really early?
Eh, I guess I’m mistaken. I found this awesome resource from NOAA, and the lake is only just starting to freeze over in places. They could probably still get out of Thunder Bay. I guess that warmer-than-usual winter was well-timed for our Chinese overlords.
Your husband separated families.
Your husband took babies from their parents’ arms.
Your husband is responsible for human rights abuses against, trauma & death of, children.
Your husband’s policies resulted in forced hysterectomies of detainees.
How dare you post this. https://t.co/qNtbhpyk5K— Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg (@TheRaDR) January 19, 2021
re: #345 Khal Wimpo (part of the vote-stealing cabal)
There would be a helluva lot of shivering Chinese guys in Alberta right now.
Upside: they might cause Canadians to actually cook some food that has a flavor in it!
There was a thread on Twitter with all these Canadians saying “I live on such and such border and there are no trips here”. It was hysterical.
Jacobin really going with the “You have to hand it to them” approach to Q. pic.twitter.com/rSViMPAIED
— Joseph Hughes (@nczeitgeist) January 19, 2021
re: #348 jaunte
Betting odds on that being the Antichrist?
Perfect. Trump’s last day.
The Military Band right outside the White House — “Hit The Road Jack”… pic.twitter.com/B0kXDgqggB— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) January 19, 2021
re: #352 EstebanTornado1963
Fake.
Preps for Biden inaugural… you can hear the band playing on WH grounds. pic.twitter.com/8tBdFy1cDS
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 18, 2021
re: #353 thedopefishlives
You must be fun at parties…
They heard that plotters being kicked off of social media talked about moving to ham radio.
FCC Issues Enforcement Advisory: Radio Users Reminded Not to Use Radios in Crimes
— miles reed (@milesjreed) January 20, 2021
Does she have a political future? pic.twitter.com/lQ5XYmwxF6
— 🚨BlueVotr 🚨 (@BlueVotr) January 19, 2021
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 19, 2021
This is the first time I’ve ever seen a letter to the editor with footnotes in this paper.
Editor’s note: After the Editorial Board called on Sen. Ron Johnson to either resign or be expelled from office for his role in spreading disinformation about the presidential election, the senator asked for space to respond. We are providing him that courtesy today. We also are taking the rare step of footnoting Johnson’s commentary to provide additional context so that readers have a fuller understanding of the senator’s actions.
re: #359 Charles Johnson
Wait till it’s in full bloom! pic.twitter.com/aP27Uhr9HW
— The 3-D Zanti Regent (@josephebacon) January 20, 2021
Junior
Ivanka
Jared
Eric
Ghislaine Maxwell
Sidney Powell
Kyle Rittenhouse
Anyone arrested #Jan6— James William Garrett - #HighHeeledBoots (@JamesWGarrett1) January 20, 2021
re: #359 Charles Johnson
What the fuck is that abomination of a dress? The ‘sleeves’ look like two puke-green cloth cones of shame, and it goes downhill form there.
re: #359 Charles Johnson
Hard to have a political future when you’re a treasonweasel enabler and having to deal with all manner of prosecution at state and federal level (and maybe internationally given the shady deals overseas for good measure).
re: #363 EPR-radar
What the fuck is that abomination of a dress? The ‘sleeves’ look like two puke-green cloth cones of shame, and it goes downhill form there.
I can’t help but think of:
SCOOP: State officials told us they’ve been so frustrated by the vaxx distro process that they want to move to purchase it from the companies directly. Team Biden is urging states to hold off, saying help is on the way https://t.co/nufytt1X1C
— Erin Banco (@ErinBanco) January 20, 2021
re: #362 thecommodore
I’m not nearly as focused on who gets the pardon as what it will mean for Trump to pardon any one particular person.
Pardon someone, and they can’t declare 5A as to that crime, which means they would have to testify or else face new charges of obstruction. Testify as to what they did/knew about Trump - and you get more crimes against Trump.
That’s why pardoning Jared, Ivanka, Junior, Eric are less likely.
Trump might not pardon his inner circle for same reasons. But he might pardon those where he thinks he can get something back in return.
re: #360 Amory Blaine
This is the first time I’ve ever seen a letter to the editor with footnotes in this paper.
I hope Ron Johnson has a tub of aloe handy: those footnotes are as third-degree a burn as I’ve seen in a while….
re: #367 lawhawk
What is surprising me most about Trump’s possible pardons is that he apparently isn’t going full steam ahead with omnibus pardons for himself and everyone else. Since when do the crimes being pardoned actually have to be identified in the pardon?
That certainly wasn’t the case for Ford’s pardon of Nixon, which I had assumed Trump would use as his template for everything.
The Biden administration hasn’t even been sworn in yet, but already a fake “insider” account has popped up (@RogueBidenStaff). On a related note, one can report tweets for false claims of affiliation with elected officials/government entities.
cc: @ZellaQuixote pic.twitter.com/CYCa1n5Zx3— Conspirador Norteño (@conspirator0) January 19, 2021
re: #368 Jay C
I hope Ron Johnson has a tub of aloe handy: those footnotes are as third-degree a burn as I’ve seen in a while….
That truly was delightful to read. This should become standard operating procedure for all media vs. all politicians. The difference in substantive footnotes vs. Republicans and vs. Democrats would be staggering.
re: #363 EPR-radar
What the fuck is that abomination of a dress? The ‘sleeves’ look like two puke-green cloth cones of shame, and it goes downhill form there.
But she’ll never have to worry about squirrels attacking her face when she wears it.
re: #370 lawhawk
Seriously, if you don’t believe me about the whole “obvious parody account” thing, have a look for yourself.https://t.co/jJR3ZlZeNJ
— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) January 20, 2021
re: #356 Punish Domestic Terrorists
They heard that plotters being kicked off of social media talked about moving to ham radio.
FCC Issues Enforcement Advisory: Radio Users Reminded Not to Use Radios in Crimes
The hams in my circles are bitching. It’s never them, it’s “those people”. A LOT of hams are wingnuts.
re: #375 Sherlock Hound
The hams in my circles are bitching. It’s never them, it’s “those people”. A LOT of hams are wingnuts.
I would’ve assumed it was more libertarians, as ham radio sounds like a hobby right up their alley. Not that there isn’t some overlap.
re: #175 nines09
She’s Dr. Rockso!
“I woke up with a clowns hand in my pants. That’s what I did today.”
re: #375 Sherlock Hound
The hams in my circles are bitching. It’s never them, it’s “those people”. A LOT of hams are wingnuts.
I’m finding in my experience that when you move to DMR or D-STAR or one of the new digital modes in Ham Radio, the crusty old wingnut conspiracy theorists concentration seems to be reduced.
re: #380 Jack Burton
I’m finding in my experience that when you move to DMR or D-STAR or one of the new digital modes in Ham Radio, the crusty old wingnut conspiracy theorists concentration seems to be reduced.
I use FT8. Less politics. But I do monitor 80 meters after dark to keep tabs on the wingnuts.
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