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Accountability, motherfuckers.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

Dead end MAGA boomers crying about Talyor Swift being a Dem is my kind of music. Turn it up.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

It’s a new day. Light all those Biden polls of young people on fire and throw away the ashes.

No Justins, No Peace

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” is supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

We still have time to mess this up!

Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

Trump makes a mockery of the legal system and cowardly judges just sit back and let him.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

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Narcissists are always shocked to discover other people have agency.

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They’re Just Fucking With Us Now, Right?

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Awesome:

“Honey, I’m going on Fox to announce that my biker gang of meatheads will be private security for Trump and bash any protestors that get ‘unruly.’ What should I wear?”

“I dunno, babe. Probably anything but brown. Literally anything but a brown shirt.”

Bonus hilarity- that is Chris Cox, head of Bikers for Trump, who is a “chainsaw artist.”

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  3. 3.

    Jeffro

    Smart move having brown shirted bikers providing security at a March that will be mostly women and some kids … what could go wrong ??

    I am sure that interim National Guard general can handle it – good thing they let the old guy go

  8. 8.

    opiejeanne

    Don’t these guys need a permit to be allowed to do this? I mean, the marchers have permits, were required to get permits, and these bozos think they can just show up and bully people?

    How many are in this group, I wonder.

  9. 9.

    Yoda Dog Democrat

    Cowards. The more these types try to impress me with their machismo, the more I’m convinced they’re all just cowards, more or less. This is why, of course, they would gravitate to the ultimate coward/bully… This is why they would rather be ruled by Putin than represented by a democrat.

  11. 11.

    FlyingToaster

    WTF‽‽‽

    Look, I’m Jewish, my dad was an American airman for WWII and Korea, and I grew up katy-cornered from folks with numbers tattoed into their arms. This shit is NOT funny.

    We have bikers who provide security for funerals (when those asswipes from Kansas show up), but they wear black. Like people in mourning.

    That being said, I’ll still be at Boston’s March next week, after I see WarriorGirl through her 9:30 class.

  16. 16.

    Stan

    The predecessors to the Sturmabteilung (“brownshirts”) were the Freikorps of 1918-20 or so…..I feel very much like we are in that moment here. The Freikorps used to tell folks they had to commit violence in the streets in order to, you know, stop violence in the streets.

    I will be on that march Jan 21 with my wife & a couple of my (adult) children. Screw the bikers.

  17. 17.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @zzyzx: @Jeffro: This isn’t for the march. That’s the next day. It’s still awful optics mind you.

    ??

    so not the women’s march, but some other protest?

  18. 18.

    FlyingToaster

    @Baud: They “have” jerbs. They work at Al’s Gas and Auto Repair, three days a week. And that opioid problem ain’t no big deel.

  21. 21.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @zzyzx: ah, thanks

    so they just wanna get their picture took with president orange hair in the background

  24. 24.

    FlyingToaster

    @Suzanne: WarriorGirl has a 9:15 class, and an 11:15 class that I’d rather she didn’t miss. So HerrDoktor will truck her and her violin over while I drive to where I can park-all-day by a T stop. I’ll miss the beginning of the speakers, but that’s the trade-off.

    He’s attempted to take her to the 9:30 class before: unfortunately, her antics make him sufficiently crazy that he packs her back home and grounds her in her bedroom. Parenting a wanna-be class clown is never easy.

  25. 25.

    raven

    @Baud: I have a good buddy, Marine, wounded at Khe Sahn and a biker. We were at the VVAW demo in April of 71. He ended up moving to DC and he would ride his bike up to the demonstrations at Walter Reed. There would be wingnut bikers on one side of the street and anti-war folks on the other. He’d pull up on his sled in full colors, meander around and then go across the street with the anti-war folks!!!

  27. 27.

    RepubAnon

    “Bikers for Trump” plays well to Trump’s base – so I expect it’s marketing. One wonders whether they’ll have some amateur pro wrestlers dressed up as hippies to pretend to attack the bikers near the Fox News cameras before gigging* themselves and falling to the ground, vanquished by the Trumpistas. People so eager to see “false flag” operations everywhere must be thinking about using the tactic themselves.

    * I had a co-worker that was training to be a pro wrestler – some of them had concealed sharp objects that they’d use to put small cuts on their foreheads that bleed spectacularly – he called it “gigging.”

  28. 28.

    raven

    I hate this “both sides” shit but I have been in street actions where there were people who wanted nothing more that to provoke the cops to fuck people up. I hope it doesn’t happen.

  32. 32.

    Mike in NC

    Idiot has a South Carolina patch on his jacket, too, so he probably plays dress up with the KKK in his spare time.

  34. 34.

    raven

    Before Cox was Trump’s loyal biker guy, he was the nation’s heroic Lawn Mower Guy. He achieved national fame during the 2013 shutdown, when he showed up near the Lincoln Memorial and started mowing the lawn, a move that elevated him to a somewhat folksy legend during a time of ultimate Washington dysfunction.

  37. 37.

    Ian G.

    @San:

    IIRC, the Iranian government sent the Basij on motorcycles to crack skulls during the Green Revolution protests in 2009. And the Maduro government in Venezuela uses loyalists on motorcycles to get violent with protesters there. Good company Trump will keep.

  40. 40.

    StringOnAStick

    Judging from how my late BIL acted about his biker groups, there will unfortunately be plenty of Harley types willing to join in without a second thought if they think the “call to action” is real.

  41. 41.

    sigaba

    Three words: Altamont Free Concert.

    Also I take offense at any insinuations about chainsaw art, I’ve known some very talented chainsaw sculptors. Also if we mock chainsaw art, where does that leave butter art?

  42. 42.

    Mnemosyne

    So, just to be clear, this guy says he’s going to show up to the shitty inauguration that people are steering clear of attending rather than the actual, well-attended protest the next day?

    Real profile in courage, this guy. He’s going to prevent us mean liberals from going to a party we’ve already said we don’t want to go to.

  44. 44.

    El Caganer

    I do find it odd that the Trumpers oust the guy heading security, then – by the oddest of coincidences – these bozos decide to show up for the Urination Coronation. Purely coincidental. What could possibly go wrong?

  46. 46.

    EZSmirkzz

    Yawn.

    I’m thinking the cons ervatives are getting some lulz out of this. They like intimidation tactics.

  48. 48.

    Stacy

    I mean, this guy, really?. His father worked in the Labor and Agriculture Departments and grew up in NoVA. He’s trying to get a bill passed to keep parks and monuments open when the government shuts down. “Cox is neither a veteran nor a blue-collar worker, and landed on the idea of harnessing that group after visiting biker bars and noticing that they overwhelmingly supported Trump.”

    hhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/local/meet-the-biker-hosting-the-biggest-pro-trump-demonstration-at-the-inauguration/2017/01/13/e6d3abec-d69d-11e6-9f9f-5cdb4b7f8dd7_story.html?utm_term=.c4e3e814a528

  49. 49.

    Coin operated

    I’m not a biker, per se, but I ride a lot of miles with guys who wear a patch. Including a few retired officers of biker clubs that wouldn’t let this idiot prospect for them at any time, ever. Bikers for Trump can crow about protecting Trump at the inauguration all they want…but nobody wearing a patch would be caught dead harming women and children during the march the day after. The hard core bikers may be brutal to other male patch holders, but women and children are pretty much off limits. And this douche knows it.

  51. 51.

    EZSmirkzz

    @Coin operated: From the WaPo story the man appears to have a political agenda of keeping the National Parks and monuments open during government shutdowns. If I’m not mistaken the House gutting of the regulatory agencies pretty much makes just the opposite likely to occur.

    The bill modifies the Administrative Procedure Act, which was passed in 1946, and represented a compromise between New Deal Democrats and free-market Republicans. It sanctioned the power of government agencies like the National Labor Relations Board or the Federal Communications Commission to regulate the private market, but required public hearings on proposed rulings and court suits to overturn regulations.

    The Supreme Court ruled in 1984 that the courts could only overturn rulings that were “arbitrary and capricious, an abuse of discretion.” In other words, the courts would have to defer to the regulatory agencies in finding whether a ruling was justified. But the Republicans in the House passed a law that would allow the courts to rule without giving deference to the regulatory agencies. A Republican court could, for instance, overrule decisions of the Food and Drug Administration or the Environmental Protection Agency on concocted Constitutional grounds – say, by arguing that it violated the “takings” clause of the Constitution. That could cripple the regulatory agencies.

    Imagine that.

  53. 53.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Speaking as someone who grew up in a Hells Angels town, that dude an’t no biker. Looks like some middle manager to me.

  55. 55.

    Corner Stone

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    Looks like some middle manager to me.

    That dude’s dream job is to manage the late shift at a Hooter’s restaurant. He wants to tell young women they can either lose a few pounds, sleep with him, or get fired.

  56. 56.

    Corner Stone

    @LongHairedWeirdo:

    Chainsaw art is a thing.

    Absolutely true. I am sure it exists in force in other areas but going to Alaska in 2015 it was clear that they take that art form very seriously. And have a market for it. A lot of it is original and very beautiful.

  60. 60.

    laura

    @sigaba: three letters: LSD.
    Also, girl band singer Cherie Curry of the Runaways lives in West Hills, CA. She,too, is a chain saw artist and rocks it! She goes by chainsawchick.
    My parents lived around the corner from her.
    Cherie can often be seen in her front yard getting her art on.
    My favorite was an eagle with a giant wing span.

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