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You are here: Home / Politics / Trumpery / Trump Crime Cartel / And Another Thing About These Fuckers

And Another Thing About These Fuckers

by John Cole|  January 9, 20216:47 pm| 409 Comments

This post is in: Trump Crime Cartel, Assholes, Sociopaths

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One of the enduring lies of the last four years is that Trump speaks for the downtrodden and disfranchised. This has never been true. Sure, there are a lot of racist poor people who vote for him, but as the arrests are pouring in from the McRib Rebellion, you are seeing Trump’s true base. Middle and Upper middle class white people with means. Like this shitstain:

As insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol this week, a few figures stood out. One man, clad in a combat helmet, body armor, and other tactical gear, was among the group that made it to the inner reaches of the building. Carrying zip-tie handcuffs, he was captured in photographs and videos on the Senate floor and with a group that descended on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office suite. In a video shot by ITV News, he is seen standing against a wall adjacent to Pelosi’s office, his face covered by a bandana. At another point, he appears to exit the suite, face exposed, pushing his way through the crowds of demonstrators.

A day after the riots, John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at Citizen Lab, at the University of Toronto’s Munk School, notified the F.B.I. that he suspected the man was retired Lieutenant Colonel Larry Rendall Brock, Jr., a Texas-based Air Force Academy graduate and combat veteran. Scott-Railton had been trying to identify various people involved in the attack. “I used a number of techniques to hone in on his identity, including facial recognition and image enhancement, as well as seeking contextual clues from his military paraphernalia,” Scott-Railton told me. Brock was wearing several patches on his combat helmet and body armor, including one bearing a yellow fleur de lis, the insignia of the 706th Fighter Squadron. He also wore several symbols suggesting that he lived in Texas, including a vinyl tag of the Texas flag overlaid on the skull logo of the Punisher, the Marvel comic-book character. The Punisher has been adopted by police and Army groups and, more recently, by white supremacists and followers of QAnon. Scott-Railton also found a recently deleted Twitter account associated with Brock, with a Crusader as its avatar. “All those things together, it’s like looking at a person’s C.V.,” Scott-Railton said.

Or this fuckknob:

A Texas-based lawyer is among those who have been terminated from their job after being identified as a participant in Wednesday’s riot on Capitol Hill.

“Paul Davis, Associate General Counsel, is no longer employed by Goosehead,” Goosehead Insurance, located in Westlake, Texas, tweeted Thursday.

That’s why the Trump boat flotillas were popular- his base is predominantly crazy white people of means. The poors don’t have 200k boats. Boats are fucking expensive to own and maintain. You weren’t seeing blue collar boys in their weekend bass boats at those things. These were expensive toys.

On top of that, truly poor people can not afford to fly or drive across country, dress up in expensive tactical gear, and riot. They don’t have the means or the money to fly across country on a private jet like this dumpsterfire of a person:

One Dallas-area woman flew by private jet to participate in the initial protest at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday that turned violent as the mob breached the building.

Realtor and radio host Jenna Ryan took a private jet with three others to Washington D.C. to protest the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory over President Donald Trump.

These people have never been disfranchised, they just don’t accept it when their candidate loses and they don’t accept minority voters as their equals. What has happened is the mainstreaming of the Birchers. Add in all the unstable nutjobs who follow conspiracy theories, opportunists and grifters, fascist groups like the Proud Boys and Three Percenters and militias, the Jesus freaks, and your friends on facebook who want their tax cuts and don’t give a fuck about anything else, and there you have the Trump base.

But it isn’t the poor and downtrodden who just want their voices heard.

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  1. 1.

    raven

    January 9, 2021 at 6:52 pm

    CEO arrested for breaching the US Capitol during Trump-fueled insurrection

     

    They fired the whiny bitch too.

    New York (CNN Business)The CEO of a Chicago company said he was arrested after breaching the US Capitol during Wednesday’s Trump-fueled insurrection in Washington, DC.

    Brad Rukstales, CEO of the marketing technology firm Cogensia, apologized for what he called a “moment of extremely poor judgment.”
    “It was the single worst personal decision of my life,” Rukstales said in a statement posted on Twitter.
    Cogensia, based in the Chicago suburb of Schaumburg, sought to distance itself from its CEO, whom the company said has been placed on leave of absence.
    “Mr. Rukstales’ actions were his own; he was not acting on behalf of our company nor do his actions in any way reflect the policies or values of our firm,” Cogensia said in a statement posted on LinkedIn.

    Neither Rukstales nor Cogensia were reachable for further comment. The US Capitol Police did not respond to a request for comment to confirm the arrest

  2. 2.

    Parfigliano

    January 9, 2021 at 6:54 pm

    Whats the Federal Sentencing Guidelines say about sedition?

  3. 3.

    RobertDSC-Mac Mini

    January 9, 2021 at 6:55 pm

    Why are you hating on the McRib by associating it with these assholes?

  4. 4.

    Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)

    January 9, 2021 at 6:56 pm

    Hey they have assets that can be confiscated for restitution and payments to the slain officers family!

  5. 5.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 6:56 pm

    Retired FDNY?

    https://nypost.com/2021/01/09/fbi-asks-fdny-to-id-active-or-retired-firefighters-at-capitol-riot/

  6. 6.

    CarolDuhart2

    January 9, 2021 at 6:58 pm

    Also if you are of the precariat, you know that one bad turn like this makes you unemployable-probably for life.  Do you risk it for 20 years in lockup?  And then w hen you get out-if you do-sleep on couches or the street for life?

    These upper middle class folks have some margin for error-and for keeping the bills paid, like that stay-at-home dad with 5 kids and a doctor wife.  Stay at home dad, of course, may find that wife may kick him to the curb once he gets in to maximum security.

    Also what people don’t realize-is that the browning and blackening of the working class means that most working class people are not Trump’s people at all. Your typical bus driver, waitress,  home care worker, or factory worker is more likely named Jose or James these days.  Yet somehow these people, despite some discrimination and hassle, stay home unless its local and mind their business.

  7. 7.

    MattF

    January 9, 2021 at 6:59 pm

    This Slate article notes that, distributed among the random idiots,  there was a group of ex-military looking to create serious havoc in the Capitol, e.g., executions and hostage-taking. They seemed quite familiar with the building. We were lucky.

  8. 8.

    Starfish

    January 9, 2021 at 6:59 pm

    @Quinerly: They have pensions. Could they be yanked?

  9. 9.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 6:59 pm

    Worth the read:

    https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emmanuelfelton/black-capitol-police-racism-mob?scrolla=5eb6d68b7fedc32c19ef33b4

  10. 10.

    Cheryl Rofer

    January 9, 2021 at 7:01 pm

    “It was the single worst personal decision of my life,” Rukstales said

    Gonna be a bunch more folks saying or thinking that

  11. 11.

    Cermet

    January 9, 2021 at 7:01 pm

    These people (the older ones) are the same entitled that made up the teabaggers. Its the 0.001% that control this country (and fund the poorer ones to get to these rebellions) but thanks to Rump’s lie’s they are being joined by the 0.1%

  12. 12.

    Martin

    January 9, 2021 at 7:02 pm

    Yeah, this is what I’m calling militant white privilege.

    So far, I see 3 CEOs, 6 state legislators, 2 police officers, 4 public school teachers, several lawyers, our real estate agent above.

    I see a lot of hot takes that this is the result of income inequality, but I disagree. This is the result of the loss of social inequality. These are people that believe they have the right to storm the US Capitol and walk away without consequence. They are incensed that they got pepper sprayed for the mere offense of overthrowing the government. They are outraged that they are being shot at when the police are supposed to shoot at BLM. They are angry that white christians don’t get the sole say in who leads us.

    Poor white people don’t do this. Poor white people don’t take 2 days off of work to fly across the country in order to hang the vice president expecting to still have a job when they return. This is the kind of privilege that comes from being white (cops won’t shoot me) and christian (my sins will be forgiven) and rich (let’s take a vacay, whoop it up, take some selfies, and maybe pay a fine if we go too far)

  13. 13.

    encephalopath

    January 9, 2021 at 7:02 pm

    I just saw someone at LGM use the expression “one truck contractor” to describe the Trump base.

  14. 14.

    Martin

    January 9, 2021 at 7:02 pm

    @Parfigliano: up to 20 years, cannot hold public office.

  15. 15.

    John Revolta

    January 9, 2021 at 7:04 pm

    Realtor and radio host Jenna Ryan took a private jet with three others to Washington D.C.

    Just feel that economic uncertainty!

  16. 16.

    Redshift

    January 9, 2021 at 7:05 pm

    @Quinerly: And two Seattle PD were at the protest, and it’s being investigated if they were part of the insurrection.

    Statement from Chief Diaz on SPD Officers in D.C. https://t.co/jeTfxWqKUP
    — Seattle Police Dept. (@SeattlePD) January 9, 2021

  17. 17.

    Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.)

    January 9, 2021 at 7:05 pm

    Yeah.  Birchers.  John Birchers have taken over one of our two major political parties, only it’s like the worst of the Birchers interbred with the worst of the C.C.C.

    I’ve had a theory for a long time that one of the worst things that happened in America was the Southern Strategy.

    Before that, both parties had their odious minorities, racist segregationists in the case of the Democrats, and paranoid, conspiracy minded Birchers and the like in the case of the Republicans.

    And both groups were awful, and they were unending headaches for the two parties, but they were fairly marginalized—the Birchers types more so than the segregationists, admittedly.

    But they weren’t the base of either party, and they didn’t control either party.  Once the segregationists went over to the Republicans, these two groups began to feed off of each other, and in time combined into what now controls the Republican Party.

    I have no fucking clue how to deal with this shit.

  18. 18.

    raven

    January 9, 2021 at 7:05 pm

    Shirtless, Horned Capitol Rioter And QAnon Enthusiast Has Been Arrested

  19. 19.

    Geoduck

    January 9, 2021 at 7:05 pm

    For whatever it’s worth the other “Zip Tie Guy”, the one who made an effort to cover his face, appears to be a bartender.

  20. 20.

    Wapiti

    January 9, 2021 at 7:06 pm

    So talking to my wife about the general nuttiness of these Q folk… It seems like participation in Q nonsense would be a fast track for losing any security clearance one might have.

  21. 21.

    Ksmiami

    January 9, 2021 at 7:07 pm

    @Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!):  Light ‘em up. These people are a waste of space and only successes based on unearned privilege

  22. 22.

    NotMax

    January 9, 2021 at 7:07 pm

    FYI.

    Alaska Airlines has banned 14 passengers following a rowdy five-hour flight from Washington, D.C., to Seattle late Thursday.

    The passengers were on Alaska Flight 1085, which left Washington Dulles International Airport around 5:20 p.m. local time.

    The airline said a number of passengers on the nearly full flight were “non-mask compliant, rowdy, argumentative and harassed our crew members” and that 14 of them were banned from flying Alaska as long as its pandemic mask policy is in place.

    “Their behavior was unacceptable,” airline spokesman Ray Lane said in a statement. “We apologize to our other guests who were made uncomfortable on the flight. We will not tolerate any disturbance on board our aircraft or at any of the airports we serve.”
    [snip]
    During the pandemic, airlines have been banning passengers who don’t wear masks as required. Alaska said it has now banned 302 passengers since early August. Delta has banned about 700 passengers. Source

  23. 23.

    Martin

    January 9, 2021 at 7:07 pm

    @Quinerly: Oh yeah. I have a LOT of FDNY relatives. My dad’s cousin was the head of the FDNY union on 9/11. I have about 20 relatives that were first responders.

    They are all racist, all Trumpers, and I wouldn’t be surprised if every one of them was there.

    My branch of the family is still completely disowned because my aunt married a black guy 40 years ago.

  24. 24.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 7:07 pm

    Has anyone posted this? I’m on my phone so just posting these links.
    https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/several-well-known-hate-groups-identified-at-capitol-riot

  25. 25.

    Bluegirlfromwyo

    January 9, 2021 at 7:08 pm

    The only things these fucksticks have been disenfranchised of is unfettered white people on TV, unfettered advantage taking of the poor, and the ability to say the n-word without getting the side-eye. And they’re willing to do this for those things. Scares the hell out of me.

  26. 26.

    Martin

    January 9, 2021 at 7:08 pm

    @Starfish: For sedition or insurrection, yes. You lose your military/govt pension/benefits. But not for other charges such as trespassing, etc.

  27. 27.

    Baud

    January 9, 2021 at 7:08 pm

    Civil War reenactment programs were a gateway drug for old white men of means.

  28. 28.

    Gvg

    January 9, 2021 at 7:08 pm

    The ones that “dressed up” or acted out notably are going to be the ones citizen sleuths find first. The common crowd may get away with it. Some of the smarter ones (relatively) may have dressed and acted more normal. But think about what the striking looking ones want. Attention as bad as Trump. That fake LEGO set is probably flattering to those real nimrods. I think in spite of their prosperity, some of these assholes don’t like their life, and want to live a fantasy. Not sure what to o about that, if we even can.

  29. 29.

    Ksmiami

    January 9, 2021 at 7:09 pm

    @Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.): denazification and marginalization in every aspect of their lives. Close their religious schools if they f political, refuse them career opportunities without re-education etc

  30. 30.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 9, 2021 at 7:09 pm

    @MattF: As I pointed out last night in Adam’s thread, floor plans of the Capitol are publicly available including in older versions of the Congressional Directory.

  31. 31.

    Redshift

    January 9, 2021 at 7:09 pm

    @Martin:

    Poor white people don’t do this. 

    Well, let’s be clear that doesn’t mean some of them don’t want to. A friend living in Indiana knows someone who was going to come to the DC protest three weeks ago (the one featuring the Proud Boys), but didn’t because Congress hadn’t passed the COVID relief, and he was out of work and couldn’t afford to without the $600.

    It would also be interesting to know if the state capital attacks were less CEO/professional-heavy.

  32. 32.

    CarolDuhart2

    January 9, 2021 at 7:10 pm

    @Starfish: Depends.  Corporate pensions without a doubt.  Federal/state pensions-look up sedition for a better understanding.

  33. 33.

    Mary G

    January 9, 2021 at 7:10 pm

    @Quinerly: I was just coming to post this Buzzfeed piece. The title of the piece is

    These Black Capitol Police Officers Describe Fighting Off “Racist Ass Terrorists”

    Sample

    The officer even described coming face to face with police officers from across the country in the mob. He said some of them flashed the badges, telling him to let them through, and trying to explain that this was all part of a movement that was supposed to help.

    “You have the nerve to be holding a blue lives matter flag, and you are out there fucking us up,” he told one group of protestors he encountered inside the Capitol. “[One guy] pulled out his badge and he said, ‘we’re doing this for you.’ Another guy had his badge. So I was like, ‘well, you gotta be kidding.’”

    So no, not trailer trash at all.

  34. 34.

    raven

    January 9, 2021 at 7:11 pm

    @Geoduck: One of them at Doc Ford’d Bar and Grill on Sanibel. We ate there a couple of years ago. The other one is a retired Air Force Academy Grad, pilot and Lt Col.

  35. 35.

    CarolDuhart2

    January 9, 2021 at 7:12 pm

    @Redshift: Probably not.  Remember a lot of this stuff is the middle of the week right after Christmas break.  You may not have leave time to spare.  And again, do you risk getting on television, and your boss seeing you?

  36. 36.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 7:12 pm

    Worth a read:

    https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/09/us/capitol-hill-insurrection-extremist-flags-soh/

  37. 37.

    Martin

    January 9, 2021 at 7:13 pm

    The ‘Camp Auschwitz’ guy has been IDed and name sent to the FBI, btw. One of his neighbors turned him in.

  38. 38.

    John Revolta

    January 9, 2021 at 7:13 pm

    @raven:He’ll look good in Pelosi’s office

    https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/ea9aea581f2cb16ce82b821544dd8e7550ad692e3dd2057de86c30d79302ab64.jpg

  39. 39.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 7:13 pm

    @CarolDuhart2: Hear hear.

    Trash isn’t about money. It never has been. It’s about selfish, thuggish ignorance. People who think being too stupid to give a shit about anyone or anything but themselves makes them billyjoe hardass.

    Put it this way: the Trumpers are every high-school bully that ever gave me shit. They had the exact same attitude. And if you’re a shy skinny nerd who “looks f*ggy”, you get real good at sniffing that ‘tude from a ways off.

    You learn early on that the comfy rich kids are often the worst, because they can AFFORD that kind of snot-nosed attitude.

    You learn the girls are every bit as crass and cruel as the boys, and that the nerdy trash is -breathtakingly- some of the meanest.

     

    You better believe they will teach you more about the actual practice of religion than a whole marching army of apostles, too…

  40. 40.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 7:15 pm

    @Mary G: glad you are pulling out quotes. Everyone should read it. As I said, I’m on my phone. The block quote stuff and copying/pasting ain’t happening.

  41. 41.

    HumboldtBlue

    January 9, 2021 at 7:15 pm

    The GOP will from here on out be known as the White Nationalist Party. It’s the party of white grievance and resentment and white supremacy, a place where Karens and Dougs can rush from their third high ball, grab their guns and threaten a group of citizens protesting peacefully.

  42. 42.

    Jinchi

    January 9, 2021 at 7:16 pm

    @Martin: up to 20 years, cannot hold public office.

    I misread that as cannot hold public office for 20 years.

  43. 43.

    Cheryl Rofer

    January 9, 2021 at 7:17 pm

    @Wapiti: Being a member of a group whose objectives include the violent overthrow of the US government is disqualifying for a security clearance.

  44. 44.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 7:17 pm

    @Bluegirlfromwyo: “But, I done seen…a colored…on my electric televideo machine. That there’s lie-brul media bias.”

  45. 45.

    raven

    January 9, 2021 at 7:18 pm

    @Martin: Good, that motherfucker needs to be fucked up.

  46. 46.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 7:18 pm

    @Ksmiami: I regret to report that only becomes feasible after the next major courthouse bombing.

    Maybe.

  47. 47.

    Martin

    January 9, 2021 at 7:20 pm

    @Redshift: Yeah, I mean, look at who our founders were. Rebellion is an act of the rich. I agree it doesn’t mean the poor don’t agree or don’t want to do it, but they have bigger concerns.

    The founders weren’t held in terribly high regard during the revolution. Most people just wanted these guys to get their thing over with. They didn’t particularly care if we were independent or not, they just wanted to get their crops in.

  48. 48.

    Patricia Kayden

    January 9, 2021 at 7:20 pm

    The big tell is the WH flag is not at half staff in memory of Capitol Police Officer Sicknick.— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) January 9, 2021

  49. 49.

    Yutsano

    January 9, 2021 at 7:20 pm

    OT: a friend just noted that Jon Ossoff is three years older than him. He’s fucking THRILLED to have a Senator from his generation. Which tells me we should be grooming our younger cohorts for office like this. It will really inspire young people to get someone they can somewhat relate to into government.

  50. 50.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 9, 2021 at 7:20 pm

    @raven: From several states away, and I guess just happened to find himself storming the Capitol building with the intention of keeping a traitorous fascist in power illegally.

    Oops!

  51. 51.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 7:21 pm

    @John Revolta: I love this. Posted it in the comment section of a local paper for the article about the guy’s arrest. The RWNJs didn’t understand it and insist he is Antifa.

    Trump not being on Twitter is truly driving them over the edge. It’s like they are all hopped up on meth. It still amazes me the number of women in these small towns that are in love with Trump. It is like they see him as that Rambo like figure in the posters. It’s a cult. They are getting crazier.

  52. 52.

    Just Chuck

    January 9, 2021 at 7:21 pm

    @Quinerly:

    Many commenters in far-right forums have written since the attack, that this is just the beginning of that civil war that many of them have long desired.

    Fine, we’ll treat them as enemy combatants. Or hey if they want to call it a true war, we can just fucking shoot them. They’ve lost any right to parlay with us, however they might choose to spell the word. Their constant screeching about boots on their necks now just makes a majority of the country want to firmly plant them there.

  53. 53.

    Martin

    January 9, 2021 at 7:21 pm

    @Cheryl Rofer: Well, that’s going to change. Can’t deny them to every Republican.

  54. 54.

    Felanius Kootea

    January 9, 2021 at 7:21 pm

    They all just blew up their lives on the word of a conman.  Sad.

  55. 55.

    Bluegirlfromwyo

    January 9, 2021 at 7:21 pm

    @Cheryl Rofer: Except the single worst personal decision of their lives was really becoming a racist, overentitled asshole and letting that freak flag fly. Everything else sprang from there.

  56. 56.

    Martin

    January 9, 2021 at 7:22 pm

    @Just Chuck: Don’t shoot until you see the red of their hats.

  57. 57.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 9, 2021 at 7:22 pm

    And Another Thing About These Fuckers

    Excellent post title.

  58. 58.

    raven

    January 9, 2021 at 7:22 pm

    What about the “Trust the Plan” fucker, he was the one backing the cop up the stairs.

  59. 59.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 7:22 pm

    @Martin: great news!

  60. 60.

    Comrade Misfit

    January 9, 2021 at 7:22 pm

    Recall the retired shitstains to active duty and then court-martial them.

  61. 61.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 7:23 pm

    @Quinerly: Junkies tend to get pretty crazy when you cold-turkey their supply.

  62. 62.

    TruthOfAngels

    January 9, 2021 at 7:23 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: I too enjoyed it muchly.

  63. 63.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    January 9, 2021 at 7:23 pm

    On top of that, truly poor people can not afford to fly or drive across country, dress up in expensive tactical gear, and riot. They don’t have the means or the money to fly across country on a private jet like this

    Except a surprising large number were working class, on the edge and yet managed to take a few days off in the middle of a work week for an expensive plane trip and hotel stay just to be part of coup. There is more to this.

  64. 64.

    raven

    January 9, 2021 at 7:24 pm

    @Martin: Gotta link?

  65. 65.

    raven

    January 9, 2021 at 7:25 pm

    @Comrade Misfit: I’ll believe that when I see it.

  66. 66.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 7:25 pm

    Also worth pointing out that so many media outlets amped that framing because the yuppies of our punditocracy really, really don’t like the idea that smart professionals can be trash.

    Easier to blame them rednecks over in the trailer parks.

  67. 67.

    Baud

    January 9, 2021 at 7:26 pm

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    “Working class” actually covers relatively high incomes.  It’s come to mean traditionally male jobs that aren’t “professions.” Many “working class” Trumpsters easily earn six figures.

  68. 68.

    Mike in NC

    January 9, 2021 at 7:26 pm

    For the past 12 years we’ve lived on a golf course where the population is roughly 99.5% white. The houses are all valued in the $250-350K range. Just about everybody is retired or semi-retired and financially comfortable. At one of the first social events we attended at the country club, there were a few crones at the next table complaining that there was a “Miss Black America” contest.

    The nerve of those people! I wanted to ask them if that was what kept them awake at night.

    In 2016 there were few Trump yards signs and not a single “Thin Blue Line” police flag in the community. In 2020 you couldn’t have spit in any direction without hitting lots of both.

  69. 69.

    JCJ

    January 9, 2021 at 7:26 pm

    @Quinerly:

    Q:  Do you know why it took law enforcement so long to respond to the storming of the US Capitol?

     

    A:  They had to go home and change clothes

  70. 70.

    PsiFighter37

    January 9, 2021 at 7:27 pm

    Starting to think that it might be better if the inauguration doesn’t take place at the Capitol anymore. It seems quite clear that the current government is going to do next do nothing to ensure there is safety.

  71. 71.

    Poe Larity

    January 9, 2021 at 7:27 pm

    SoCal relative says todays Trump Parade was down to two flags trucks from the usual thirty.

  72. 72.

    Richard

    January 9, 2021 at 7:27 pm

    @Cheryl Rofer: i hope so . Who raises these “people “? Does nobody teach them anything? I learned that “viking shaman” is cosplaying a simpsons character. Unbelievable. I would like to see many more arrests. It sounds bad, i know, but at least they will only be slapped on the wrist.

    If they had their way, they would like to kill people.

  73. 73.

    Jay

    January 9, 2021 at 7:27 pm

    BREAKING: Donald trump has been banned from our platform— Pornhub Update? (@Gian_Neon) January 9, 2021

  74. 74.

    WaterGirl

    January 9, 2021 at 7:27 pm

    @Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.): What’s the C.C.C.?

  75. 75.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 7:28 pm

    @Subsole: They are all into Parler today like it’s the cool table in the lunchroom. But they don’t seem to understand it. I was reading Parler’s sign up stuff… if you want to be an “influencer” and I guess to even comment, you have to supply your SS#, copy of drivers license, picture.

  76. 76.

    Baud

    January 9, 2021 at 7:28 pm

    @Jay:

    Oh thank God!

  77. 77.

    Steeplejack

    January 9, 2021 at 7:28 pm

    What if this account that is simply half an onion in a Ziploc bag ended up with more followers than @realDonaldTrump?
    pic.twitter.com/D28lODPZLO

    — Half An Onion (@HalfOnionInABag) January 20, 2017

    I've been keeping a quiet, earnest hope for this account for four years and today it happened.
    https://t.co/xZNkqLxEPB pic.twitter.com/sKRAxhmPdk

    — Zeddy (@Zeddary) January 9, 2021

  78. 78.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 7:29 pm

    @Jay: and Pinterest.

    What a combo.

  79. 79.

    PsiFighter37

    January 9, 2021 at 7:29 pm

    @Felanius Kootea: I don’t feel sad for them one bit.

  80. 80.

    Skepticat

    January 9, 2021 at 7:30 pm

    This is what I want all of Chump’s acolytes to hear over and over and over until perhaps they get a glimmer of how he really feels about those who love him.

    Trump expressed disgust on aesthetic grounds over how “low class” his supporters looked. “He doesn’t like low-class things,” the adviser said.

  81. 81.

    TruthOfAngels

    January 9, 2021 at 7:31 pm

    @WaterGirl: I’m presuming it’s this bunch of scumbags.

     

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Conservative_Citizens

  82. 82.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 7:31 pm

    @Steeplejack: there’s an acct for “Turnip” that has been bragging about the things “Turnip” can do that Trump can’t do. Still no word as to the kind of truck Turnip has. ?

  83. 83.

    Leto

    January 9, 2021 at 7:32 pm

    @Martin:  1 if by $80k truck, 2 if by $200k boat!

  84. 84.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 7:32 pm

    @Skepticat: they won’t believe it. “Fake News.”

  85. 85.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 7:32 pm

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    What kind of working class?

    Like, there is a difference between a teacher working for the district, and a self-employed plumber. Both working class; very, very different lives as far as accountability and pay scales.

    Not trying to infantilize the poor, here. Like I said, money has nothing to do with it.

    But I think the myth of the hillbilly horde is tied up in how we have defined “works for a living” as “wears a hardhat and carries a lunchpail and oh gowd why won’t dad approve of my work it is just as valuable as physical labor I am NOT small dammit”.

    Not to get all Freudian on this shit, y’understand.

  86. 86.

    Chetan Murthy

    January 9, 2021 at 7:33 pm

    @WaterGirl: “Council of Concerned Citizens”.  Descended from the “White Citizens’ Councils”.  Which were what the genteel types who thought the KKK was, y’know, rabble, joined.  White supremacists, notwithstanding.

     

    https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/assets/pdf/combating-hate/Council-of-Conservative-Citizens-Extremism-in-America.pdf

  87. 87.

    CliosFanBoy

    January 9, 2021 at 7:33 pm

    @TruthOfAngels: AKA, The White Collar Klan

  88. 88.

    Scout211

    January 9, 2021 at 7:33 pm

    Parler is still number one on the App Store right now (as it has been all day). Hasn’t the 24 hours expired? What’s going on Apple?

  89. 89.

    Mandarama

    January 9, 2021 at 7:34 pm

    @Quinerly: That reminds me…2nd ZipTieGuy, who was looking like Rambo all in black in the Capitol but turned out to be a bartender from here in my town (Nashville) who was attending this insurrection with his mama? He had a Pinterest board that I got to see before it was taken down. He had boards for “workouts,” “gear” (dumb tactical shit), and “Sexy Girls With Guns.”

    I am not making this up. Hand to God.

  90. 90.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 7:34 pm

    @Poe Larity: Is that the number of trucks, or the number of flags per truck??

  91. 91.

    CliosFanBoy

    January 9, 2021 at 7:35 pm

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: and they could take cheap bus trips organized by wealthy RWNJs.  (Clarence Thomas’ wife for one)

  92. 92.

    dmsilev

    January 9, 2021 at 7:35 pm

    @Jay: I read that he got banned from Pinterest. Which frankly raises many questions, starting with ‘Donald Trump had an account on Pinterest?’.

  93. 93.

    Chetan Murthy

    January 9, 2021 at 7:36 pm

    @Subsole:

    Like, there is a difference between a teacher working for the district, and a self-employed plumber. Both working class; very, very different lives as far as accountability and pay scales.

    Excuuuuse me, but a teacher working for the district[1] is an *elite*, and far, far from working class!
    [1] doesn't matter if she's paying off her student loans, and will be for the next 30yr: she's still an elite!

  94. 94.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 7:37 pm

    @Quinerly: Oh gods above, below and between. ???????

    It really is just a series of infinite, nested sucker-traps, isn’t it???

  95. 95.

    wuzzat

    January 9, 2021 at 7:37 pm

    @Martin: NY passed a ballot initiative a few years ago that would allow the state to revoke pensions of public officers who were convicted of criminal offenses, but I think it was limited to elected officials.  I wouldn’t be surprised to see a similar ballot measure up in a year that covered state employees at large, but I don’t think it would pass.

  96. 96.

    Suzanne

    January 9, 2021 at 7:37 pm

    @Martin:

    This is the result of the loss of social inequality. 

    Yes. Money is only a rough proxy for class. These people are pissed about not having much social currency, diminishing cultural influence. They have a cultural memory of having it, but now fewer and fewer people admire them. That’s why, as much as this isn’t about rich or poor people, it absolutely is about social class.

  97. 97.

    Starfish

    January 9, 2021 at 7:37 pm

    @Yutsano:

    That is exactly what Run for Something is about. It is mostly about lower offices so we can have a deep bench, but it is encouraging people under 40 to run.

  98. 98.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    January 9, 2021 at 7:38 pm

    @Martin: Poor white people don’t do this. Poor white people don’t take 2 days off of work to fly across the country in order to hang the vice president expecting to still have a job when they return. This is the kind of privilege that comes from being white (cops won’t shoot me) and christian (my sins will be forgiven) and rich (let’s take a vacay, whoop it up, take some selfies, and maybe pay a fine if we go too far)

    That’s the crazy bit, stage a coup, kill a bunch of important people  and then sod off back to home for weekend. Apparently they are to White for a counter coup. The word “hubris” doesn’t begin to cover this.

  99. 99.

    TruthOfAngels

    January 9, 2021 at 7:38 pm

    @CliosFanBoy: Coming from a multiracial family, I just call them ‘Those Fuckers’. Pithy, I think you’ll agree.

  100. 100.

    Richard

    January 9, 2021 at 7:39 pm

    @Yutsano: i agree! These old fossilized politicians are not relevant anymore. I am an old person. It is time to trust younger people. They can benefit from our hindsight, and society can benefit from new ideas.

  101. 101.

    Cheryl Rofer

    January 9, 2021 at 7:39 pm

    @Quinerly: if you want to be an “influencer” and I guess to even comment, you have to supply your SS#, copy of drivers license, picture

    That will make it much easier for the FBI when they subpoena Parler’s database.

  102. 102.

    Feathers

    January 9, 2021 at 7:39 pm

    One thing I haven’t heard enough of is thanking the BLM/RealAntiFa(TM)/BlackBlock/etc. for not showing up. I still think we will learn there was much nefariousness behind the scenes in those who were planning security for the event, I’m sure many thought that there would be leftist fighters to blame everything one. When the left didn’t show up, everyone got to see the shitshow for what it was. No bothsidesing. In fact, they had to make up antifa to blame things on.

    Also, where did this An-Teee-Fa pronunciation come from? I’m glad of it because it means I can spot the idiots faster.

  103. 103.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 7:42 pm

    @Richard: When have the youth ever been willing to benefit from hindsight!? ?

  104. 104.

    raven

    January 9, 2021 at 7:43 pm

    CNN) – A man authorities claim texted acquaintances to say he wanted to harm house speaker Nancy Pelosi is due in court next week.

    Cleveland Grover Meredith Jr. went to Washington this week, with hundreds of rounds of ammunition and an assault rifle.

    That’s according to court documents.

    He’s charged with writing the threats, and with possession of an unregistered firearm and ammo.

    The documents say Meredith’s texts talked about shooting Pelosi in the head or running over her.

    He’s one of at least three federal defendants connected to Wednesday’s riot allegedly found carrying significant weaponry

     

    Dude’s a peach, check him out here.

  105. 105.

    Steeplejack

    January 9, 2021 at 7:43 pm

    Michael Ray Stepanek, who told police he drove through a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters in August because they needed “an attitude adjustment,” will avoid prison and have the incident erased from his record if he stays out of trouble for 3 years.
    https://t.co/K8IGTSTNp7

    — Chicago Tribune (@chicagotribune) January 9, 2021

  106. 106.

    Another Scott

    January 9, 2021 at 7:43 pm

    JuanitaJean:

    I’m Just Guessing Here But I’m Probably Right

    January 09, 2021 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

    This guy has been arrested in Florida and charged with violent entry, disorderly conduct, theft of government property, entering and remaining in a restricted area, and obnoxious headwear. Come to find out, he’s only voted in two elections, 2004 and 2020. I dunno, maybe he’s not real political and thought this is what they meant by taking a stand.

    .

    Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.

    :-)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  107. 107.

    catclub

    January 9, 2021 at 7:43 pm

    @Ksmiami: Close their religious schools

     

    The Air Force Academy?

  108. 108.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 7:44 pm

    @Cheryl Rofer: my first thought.

    Second thought was potential hacking Social Security #s. With that said, I got out of the boat yet again and posted this info straight from Parler with link to Parler’s page for these cultists. Of course, that was met with “Fake News.” And, something, something, something Nancy Pelosi’s dead brother raped children. I kid you not.

  109. 109.

    Baud

    January 9, 2021 at 7:44 pm

    @Richard:

    Younger people don’t necessarily trust younger people.  Sanders, Warren, and Market are popular with them. Buttigieg and Patrick Kennedy are not.

  110. 110.

    sanjeevs

    January 9, 2021 at 7:44 pm

    @PsiFighter37:  Trump had the the head of the DC National Guard lose his position at exactly noon on Inauguration Day. He thought Obama might use the National Guard to somehow retain power.

    Because that’s what Trump would do

  111. 111.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    January 9, 2021 at 7:44 pm

    @Subsole: Main theme is “heavily in debt” like the guy who trashed Pelosi’s office.

    I am thinking a bunch of rich a-holes decided to stage their cosplay coup and rented a mob of people who needed  money.

  112. 112.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 7:45 pm

    @Feathers: That’s because antifa has NO fucking illusions about whose heads the cops would crack if they showed up.

    Again, all the q-balls were stunned the cops were fighting them.

    Hell, they were angry. 

  113. 113.

    Ksmiami

    January 9, 2021 at 7:45 pm

    @Just Chuck: Agreed. I want them smashed into bits

  114. 114.

    CarolDuhart2

    January 9, 2021 at 7:46 pm

    @Cheryl Rofer: And Federal employment-ever.  And there was one that was a current Federal employee there-I bet he got walked out when he came back to work-no tolerance there.

  115. 115.

    dmsilev

    January 9, 2021 at 7:46 pm

    Speaking of Parler, Apple has made good on their threat to block the app.

  116. 116.

    Ksmiami

    January 9, 2021 at 7:47 pm

    @catclub: Restructure it top to bottom or just disband the air force and bring it under the Navy. We need to treat the GOP members as the fascist threat they are

  117. 117.

    Steeplejack

    January 9, 2021 at 7:47 pm

    Re Jenna Ryan et al.:

    For so many of these yahoos this was just an influencer opportunity. They scored Q-influencer points (or white supremacist influencer points or etc.) by participating in the insurrection. It's a fine line between branding for the spectacle and reality. ?

    — Jennifer Mercieca (@jenmercieca) January 9, 2021

  118. 118.

    RSA

    January 9, 2021 at 7:48 pm

    @Quinerly: Wow! Thanks for the (depressing) link. Somehow I didn’t realize there were so many hate groups coming together under Trump.

  119. 119.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 7:48 pm

    @Baud: That’s because they dared stand in opposition to the Old Man of the Mountain.

    Sorry, but there is a bad personality cult issue on the left. Not all leftists, of course, but certainly the ones driving The Discourse.

  120. 120.

    Gvg

    January 9, 2021 at 7:49 pm

    @Suzanne: Actually if the behaved like worthwhile people they would get respect. Normal respect. They don’t realize that a different white person with identical job and money who is an actual good guy still commands a tremendous amount of respect. Trash seeking to blame others for their own crap attitude causing people around them to not like them.

  121. 121.

    CliosFanBoy

    January 9, 2021 at 7:50 pm

    @TruthOfAngels: concise and to the point. :)

  122. 122.

    Baud

    January 9, 2021 at 7:50 pm

    @Subsole:

    Right.  I’m just saying, if you want to prioritize youth, you have to deprioritize ideology and other considerations.

  123. 123.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 7:50 pm

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: Hmmmm…maybe. Tea Party style, certainly…

    Whole thing has a radio des milles colines quality to it though…

  124. 124.

    Felanius Kootea

    January 9, 2021 at 7:51 pm

    @PsiFighter37: Don’t worry, I don’t either.

  125. 125.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    January 9, 2021 at 7:52 pm

    @Subsole: That’s what the word the mob during that Michigan State capital thing was a rent a mob.

  126. 126.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 7:52 pm

    @dmsilev: if you want to enrage a Trumper, post this.

    https://www.axios.com/platforms-social-media-ban-restrict-trump-d9e44f3c-8366-4ba9-a8a1-7f3114f920f1.html

  127. 127.

    Roger Moore

    January 9, 2021 at 7:53 pm

    @Gvg:

    Some of these people want their faces to be seen because impunity is an important part of terrorizing people.  They want the rest of us to know they don’t have to fear consequences for what they’re doing because the system is unwilling or unable to prosecute them.  It was the same reason so many lynchings were big, public affairs rather than something furtive; the very public nature of it enhances the terror they’re trying to spread.

  128. 128.

    CliosFanBoy

    January 9, 2021 at 7:53 pm

    Some BLM & Antifa showed up closer to the White House and got into fights with some lingering Maganuts.  (I saw it live on the local news here in DC).  It was a small handful nowhere near the capitol.

  129. 129.

    CarolDuhart2

    January 9, 2021 at 7:53 pm

    @dmsilev: More than likely, like with a lot web operatives, the idea is to reserve as much web real estate as one can.  Even if it isn’t used much, its been claimed and can always be activated at some point.

  130. 130.

    raven

    January 9, 2021 at 7:55 pm

    @raven: The got this dude too.

    Doug Jensen

  131. 131.

    Viva BrisVegas

    January 9, 2021 at 7:55 pm

    The relationship between the mullahs and imams who radicalize believers into killings, bombings and flying jets into buildings, how different is that to the relationship between Trump, Cruz and Hawley and the seditionists who trashed the Capitol Building?

    From DOJ Archives Feb 5th 2013:

    “As the Federal Government implements this effort in the coming months, we will continue to investigate and prosecute those who use the Internet to recruit others to plan or carry out acts of violence, while ensuring that we also continue to uphold individual privacy and civil liberties. Preventing online radicalization to violence requires both proactive solutions to reduce the likelihood that violent extremists affect their target audiences as well as ensuring that laws are rigorously enforced.”

  132. 132.

    debbie

    January 9, 2021 at 7:55 pm

    It takes all kinds. A member of the Ohio Arts Council was asked to resign after her FB post came to light:

    The Columbus Museum of Art joined the Greater Columbus Arts Council Friday urging Governor DeWine to remove Block from the OAC Board and condemn “incendiary hate speech.”

    In a Facebook comment, Block wrote “THERE WILL BE NO ‘HEALING,’” regarding the presidential election. “WE WILL DRAG THIS ILLEGITIMATE PRESIDENT, HIS **** VP AND ALL OF THE DEMOCRATS THROUGH THE SAME **** THEY DRAGGED PRESIDENT TRUMP & HIS SUPPORTERS THROUGH FOR THE LAST 5 YEARS!”

    At the other end of the spectrum, a spokesman for the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office had to resign for pointing out in a tweet that the mob was treated very differently than BLM protesters. (Somewhat surprisingly, the spokesman is white.) The screenshot of the tweet is here, along with the sheriff’s statement that the spokesman had recklessly criticized another law enforcement agency. The spokesman came back with:

    I am thankful for the insight, opportunity, and experience I obtained while working for the Sheriff. I gained tremendous respect and understanding for those who wear the badge and do their jobs honorably every day.

    However, I completely stand by what I posted and what the world saw. The officers at the Capitol failed to do their jobs and, instead, let the mob rule. Many even stood next to the rioters and took selfies.

    The raw emotion of what happened inspired me to comment, and I will never apologize for that. Nobody should ever have to apologize for speaking up and speaking out. Unfortunately, in doing so, I put the Sheriff in a position where he then asked for my resignation.

  133. 133.

    wvng

    January 9, 2021 at 7:56 pm

    @Redshift: a bunch of folks from WV went to the rally, and one WV delegate has been both arrested and forced to resign from the legislature. Lots of working class people here adore Trump and DC is an easy drive. I would be surprised if at least half the crowd didn’t drive in from surrounding states.

     

    A doctor friend of mine in Elkins, WV had trouble sleeping Wednesday night because he was so worried about a super spreader COVID surge coming from the crowds who went to DC from his area.

  134. 134.

    Feathers

    January 9, 2021 at 7:56 pm

    I think some of Pinterest and Pornhub(!) banning Trump preemptively is PR, but it is also because they don’t want his people thinking, Hey, let’s take over Pinterest!

  135. 135.

    CarolDuhart2

    January 9, 2021 at 7:57 pm

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: What kind of debt?  Given that so many of these folks come from the manosphere, it could be non-dischargeable debt like child support-and the resentment that that brings.  Ordinary work-a-day debt? Do you risk job prospects for this?

  136. 136.

    prostratedragon

    January 9, 2021 at 7:57 pm

    @CarolDuhart2: Or maybe something like Jose James?

    “Trouble”

  137. 137.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 7:57 pm

    @Gvg: This.

    Hell, being a decent person gets you more respect, really, because it draws on people people from outside your narrow social pool. You get respect from all sorts of good people, instead of just the people who look like you.

    Altruistic cooperation is the only logical social strategy, really. Wild that these so-called hardboiled realists don’t get that…

  138. 138.

    debbie

    January 9, 2021 at 7:57 pm

    @Quinerly:

    All from Staten Island, I’d bet.

  139. 139.

    raven

    January 9, 2021 at 7:58 pm

    Can fuck face pardon these scumbags?

  140. 140.

    Another Scott

    January 9, 2021 at 7:58 pm

    .@RepDonBeyer calls for @GOPLeader to resign: "Kevin McCarthy embraced and empowered the worst conspiracy theorists in his caucus. He spread the very lies that helped incite this violence. He stood shoulder to shoulder with Trump in trying to destroy our democracy." pic.twitter.com/Svits2MoBM

    — Michael Pope (@MichaelLeePope) January 9, 2021

    Good, good. Call them all out. No more enablers.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  141. 141.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 7:58 pm

    @Baud: Fair. I mean, hell, at least we’re arguing. I’ll take that over “pffffft…politics is for the lamez”.

  142. 142.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 9, 2021 at 7:59 pm

    @Subsole: Sorry, but there is a bad personality cult issue on the left.

    A-freakin’-men.

    As to youth vs age, Conor Lamb is 36, Lauren Underwood is 34, and neither feed the vanguard consciousness, to borrow a term from Marcus Johnson, of those who create idols of twitter adoration (even for commenters on certain stodgy centrist political blogs). And they both flipped and held Republican seats. I remember in his House run a couple years back, Ossoff had a commercial about his belief in fiscal responsibility, and neither he nor Warnoff supported the Holy Grail of Medicare for All (which should really be called BernieCare, cause the slogan that polls well inadequately expresses what those who brandish it like undefeatable talisman mean when they use it).

  143. 143.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 7:59 pm

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: Yeah, heard that was DeVos’ baby…

  144. 144.

    Starfish

    January 9, 2021 at 8:00 pm

    @Baud: Those candidates were old people’s version of what young people should be like as opposed to people with young support. They were some centrist nonsense dressed in young people clothing.

    If young people were to lead things, environmental concerns would be treated with much more seriousness than they are. There would be work on tech policy and information privacy in the digital age. There would be better gun safety policy from the generations that grew up with mass shootings and school-safety drills from the time they were in kindergarten to guard against active shooters.

  145. 145.

    Leto

    January 9, 2021 at 8:00 pm

    @raven: Good; fucking shitlord.

  146. 146.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    January 9, 2021 at 8:01 pm

    @CarolDuhart2: it could be non-dischargeable debt like child support-and the resentment that that brings.

    That would explain why they were after women congress members wouldn’t it? But I have no idea, just the reports I read said “heavily in debt” was common theme. Like the woman who was killed was desperate for the 2K check. Also keep in mind as Donny shows, easy to be rich and underwater from debt at the same time.

  147. 147.

    Wapiti

    January 9, 2021 at 8:01 pm

    @Comrade Misfit:  E-1, bad conduct discharge, no benefits, hard time if you give us any lip.

  148. 148.

    Citizen Alan

    January 9, 2021 at 8:01 pm

    @Cheryl Rofer: Meanwhile, I’m sitting here thinking that the single worst mistake of Philandro Castle’s life was to warn a police officer that he was lawfully carrying a concealed weapon, wile the single worst mistake of Tamir Rice’s life was to play in a public place.

  149. 149.

    debbie

    January 9, 2021 at 8:01 pm

    @MattF:

    I watched a 10-minute clip of Chris Hayes which included lots of video. I had only seen photographs and the difference of seeing the action was chilling. The mob almost crushed a cop between two doors. I had heard about a noose, but I hadn’t known it was intended for Mike Pence. These guys weren’t fucking around.

  150. 150.

    Scout211

    January 9, 2021 at 8:01 pm

    @Scout211:

    Parler just now disappeared from the App Store. I guess the 24 hours is finally up.

  151. 151.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 8:04 pm

    Also, can I just say I love you John Cole? You rock, sir. Righteous post.

    @Viva BrisVegas:

    Good analogy, though honestly Beck, Jones et al. are a better fit for the imams, here. Hawley and co. are better understood as tribal chieftains, I think.

  152. 152.

    Starfish

    January 9, 2021 at 8:05 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Ossoff had a commercial about his belief in fiscal responsibility

    A younger generation that has always been in debt is enamored with Financial Independence, Retire Early (FIRE) right now.

    They also understand that some aspects of “fiscal responsibility” are scams to shame poor people for being poor instead of paying them liveable wages for their work.

  153. 153.

    debbie

    January 9, 2021 at 8:05 pm

    @raven:

    Digital soldier????

  154. 154.

    Citizen Alan

    January 9, 2021 at 8:06 pm

    @Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.):

    I’ve had a theory for a long time that one of the worst things that happened in America was the Southern Strategy.

    More like it’s a subset of the worst thing that happened in America. The Southern Strategy was the result of the end of Jim Crow, which in turn was the result of the end of the slavery.

  155. 155.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 8:06 pm

    @debbie:

    Lol, sorrynotsorryfuckthisshitI’mout

  156. 156.

    Baud

    January 9, 2021 at 8:06 pm

    @Starfish:

    People can prefer who they prefer. But if they prefer certain people based on policy, I’m not interested in hearing them chastise others for not making youth a priority.

  157. 157.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    January 9, 2021 at 8:07 pm

    I agree Cole. None of these people were particularly poor.

    Saw this BS on the wiki page for the 2020 presidential election in Ohio:

    Mahoning County, anchored by the car-making town of Youngstown, voted Republican for the first time since Richard Nixon’s landslide re-election in 1972. The slim victory by Trump marked a collapse in Democrats’ support among working-class voters, and tightened the President’s grip on blue-collar white voters.

    David Betras, who was Democratic chairman of Mahoning County until 2019, speculated on the disconnect between Democrats in Washington who focused messaging Trump’s unfitness for office, his taxes and possible impeachment, and the concerns of blue-collar workers were supporting Trump for his trade war with China, regardless of economic pain caused by tariffs.

    The article that is cited on the wiki page is from early 2019. I wonder what Mr. Betras has to say after the Trump insurrection on 1/6/21?

  158. 158.

    John Revolta

    January 9, 2021 at 8:07 pm

    @raven: It’s kind of an open question whether POTUS can pardon somebody for crimes they haven’t been convicted of yet. Ford did it for Nixon, but the main reason nobody fought it was that everyone just wanted to “put it all behind us”.

  159. 159.

    Ruckus

    January 9, 2021 at 8:07 pm

    @HumboldtBlue:

    I’ve thought this for decades, it was confirmed a long time ago.

    It has become rather obvious what with one of the worst offenders being elected as pres.

  160. 160.

    Citizen Alan

    January 9, 2021 at 8:09 pm

    @Wapiti: I’d go farther. I’ve said that within 48 hours of Biden’s inauguration, everyone associated with Q Anon, the 3% or the Proud Boys should be on a terrorist watch list and a no-fly list.

  161. 161.

    Starfish

    January 9, 2021 at 8:09 pm

    @Baud: I don’t quite understand what you mean here.

    A lot of the Sanders voters that I knew switched to Warren. The online-left that was shouty on Twitter is not a deeply organized real-life movement that is actually building a political party.

  162. 162.

    bluehill

    January 9, 2021 at 8:10 pm

    @Steeplejack: Another area where it’s good to be white. Probably going to see a lot of examples of this in the next few months.

  163. 163.

    debbie

    January 9, 2021 at 8:10 pm

    @Mary G:

    Have you seen the clip of crowd chasing a black cop up two flights of stairs. Chilling.

  164. 164.

    Felanius Kootea

    January 9, 2021 at 8:10 pm

    @prostratedragon:

     

    I like “Every Little Thing”

  165. 165.

    Mary G

    January 9, 2021 at 8:10 pm

    @Quinerly: Oh, thanks. I’m never sure if that’s OK.

  166. 166.

    Immanentize

    January 9, 2021 at 8:10 pm

    Fuck around and find out.

  167. 167.

    OGLiberal

    January 9, 2021 at 8:10 pm

    Live in NJ but also have a house in NE PA.  Most of the houses with obnoxious Trump signage are clearly not people hurting for cash.  Was the case in both 2016 and last year.  Some of them also fly the Confederate flag, celebrating Pennsylvania’s rich history as one of the key Confederate states.

  168. 168.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 8:11 pm

    @CarolDuhart2:  This white boy damn sure don’t.

    I grew up pretty comfortable. My folks did not. They drilled it into my head early that you really, really don’t want a Federal judge to know your name unless you donated to their campaign. And usually not then, either.

  169. 169.

    Ken

    January 9, 2021 at 8:11 pm

    @Quinerly: if you want to be an “influencer” and I guess to even comment, you have to supply your SS#, copy of drivers license, picture.

    For “platinum” membership level, do you also have to give them your mother’s maiden name, street where you grew up, and name of your favorite pet and restaurant?

  170. 170.

    Mary G

    January 9, 2021 at 8:12 pm

    @debbie: I wondered what would’ve happened to him if that camera wasn’t there.

    He was so brave to slow them down instead of just stepping aside, which I’d probably have done.

  171. 171.

    Wapiti

    January 9, 2021 at 8:12 pm

    @Citizen Alan: Yeah, after watching a couple of Q rant-videos (the dead woman and the Seattle pediatrician), I think association with Q indicates an unstable character. So I agree.

  172. 172.

    Ruckus

    January 9, 2021 at 8:13 pm

    @Yutsano:

    I’m a lot older than you or Jon Ossoff and I think that the age of a lot of the national legislators is too old.

    And look at what the shit heads that rioted want, they want to support something that was wrong when it was the thing, white power. Fuck that, white power has screwed up this country because it is very undemocratic. Also anti humanity. Also it’s just fucking wrong.

  173. 173.

    debbie

    January 9, 2021 at 8:13 pm

    @Quinerly:

    Glenn Beck was speaking with one of his Blaze reporters in Pelosi’s office. Beck asked him if they looked like Antifa, and the reporter said they were “our guys” and he knew that because he knew them.

  174. 174.

    zhena gogolia

    January 9, 2021 at 8:13 pm

    @Feathers:

    How do you pronounce it? I’ve been wondering.

  175. 175.

    Baud

    January 9, 2021 at 8:14 pm

    @Starfish:

    Warren’s not young either.

    What I’m saying is that young people can’t complain about other people not supporting younger candidates if they aren’t committed to that themselves.

  176. 176.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 8:15 pm

    @raven: Ftom what I have heard, depends.

    If he knows their names, yes.

    If he doesn’t, it gets really iffy. Like, he can try for a blanket pardon a la Vietnam dodgers, but he may well get tripped up by legal technicalities.

    Also, bear in mind this is the Trump regime. Their Flynn pardon, it seems, may not actually be entirely airtight. QC ain’t what it used to be. I doubt they’d be as careful for a bunch of nobodies.

  177. 177.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    January 9, 2021 at 8:15 pm

    @debbie:

    I wonder if the Blaze reporters can be prosecuted as well? Or do reporters have immunity?

  178. 178.

    Lyrebird

    January 9, 2021 at 8:15 pm

    @debbie: Wow, good for the young former spokesman.

    And not as good but still way ahead of Cruz and Hawley,

    that WV State Rep actually resigned.  Very graciously.

    Re: Ohio,

    Sounds like it’s time to find some dollars to send to the Tamir Rice center.  I don’t have a lot to spare, but I am not on the edge of running out, either, and gosh darn that place should have more support.

  179. 179.

    debbie

    January 9, 2021 at 8:16 pm

    @Quinerly:

    How stupid must you be to willingly give up your SSN like that?

  180. 180.

    WaterGirl

    January 9, 2021 at 8:16 pm

    @Skepticat: Trump prefers people who don’t get arrested

    While they are taking part in the insurrection he encouraged.

  181. 181.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 8:17 pm

    @Starfish: Curious, how are we defining youngs? I am thinking teens to mid 20s? Just want to be on the same page as everyone, here.

  182. 182.

    Baud

    January 9, 2021 at 8:17 pm

    @debbie:

    Trump supporter stupid.

  183. 183.

    mvr

    January 9, 2021 at 8:18 pm

    @Feathers: That’s a great point. I was worried ahead of time that there would be enough counter-protesters around that it would be like the weekend the White Supremecists ran wild a few weeks back, where they could use that to deflect blame. There was no way to do that this time short of making things up out of whole cloth.

  184. 184.

    WaterGirl

    January 9, 2021 at 8:18 pm

    @TruthOfAngels: Thank you.

    I supposed CCC is intentionally similar to KKK.  They probably think they are so clever.

  185. 185.

    Brachiator

    January 9, 2021 at 8:18 pm

    One of the enduring lies of the last four years is that Trump speaks for the downtrodden and disfranchised.

    From the beginning, white people in Southern California and elsewhere expressed anger and frustration that the elites had abandoned them. I had a coworker who lived in a “nice area” of Orange County confess that she and her father feared that undeserving blacks and Hispanics would invade their neighborhood and take all the stuff that they had worked hard for.

    People like this believed that the Democratic Party only cared about black people and that country club chamber of commerce Republicans only cared about Hispanics. Trump was the first high status guy who promised to set things right and restore the status of the white upper middle class.

    Some pundits tried to twist this into bullshit about the poor and downtrodden. And even politicians like Bernie Sanders filtered reality through his own version of progressive politics that tried to transform white bigots into the hapless proletariat.

  186. 186.

    catclub

    January 9, 2021 at 8:18 pm

    @John Revolta: Ford did it for Nixon, but the main reason nobody fought it was that everyone just wanted to “put it all behind us”.

     

    Jimmy Carter pardoned draft dodgers who were neither named nor arrested.

     

    Also, who this ‘everyone’,  kemo sabe?

    William Safire?

  187. 187.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 8:19 pm

     

     

    @Leto: Shitlord?

    Nah, man. Dude’s gotta LOT of work to put in before he makes it up to shit, let alone lordship of same.

  188. 188.

    WaterGirl

    January 9, 2021 at 8:20 pm

    @Chetan Murthy: Thank you.

    @CliosFanBoy:  That was my thought when I clicked the links.  The KKK in a white shirtand tie instead of a white robe.

  189. 189.

    randal m sexton

    January 9, 2021 at 8:20 pm

    McRib Rebellion hahahahaha.   Why I come here, for stuff like that.

    -Random guy on the internet.

  190. 190.

    frosty

    January 9, 2021 at 8:20 pm

    @Ksmiami: I read a book on this awhile back: Grounded: the case for abolishing the USAF.  The author said the same thing as you: all strategic assets should be run by the Navy. I don’t know, I’d probably give the missiles to the Army since they’re just big artillery, and the planes to the Navy.

    And all the tactical air to the Army (A-10 Warthogs, etc)

  191. 191.

    Suzanne

    January 9, 2021 at 8:21 pm

    @Gvg:

    I think in spite of their prosperity, some of these assholes don’t like their life, and want to live a fantasy. 

    Yes. I think this is a key element of the problem. For a lot of people, they don’t like their lives because no one envies them. Their kids want to follow a different path, big corporations don’t want their money, they don’t attract partners and friends like they want, no one wants to work for their company, and then they see other people getting praise and attention and influence for living their lives differently. Even if you have some money, what’s the point of it if it didn’t get you what you really wanted?

    I remember my grandfather being livid that I didn’t want to follow his path to business school and/or the Army. Mr. Suzanne’s grandfather was deeply disappointed that none of his grandchildren wanted to inherit his farm and continue to work it. The Trumps seethe at the Obamas because the Obamas have seamlessly and easily slid into the social roles they wanted for themselves and couldn’t attain, even with money.

  192. 192.

    Spanky

    January 9, 2021 at 8:22 pm

    @debbie: Izzat a trik kwestion?

  193. 193.

    debbie

    January 9, 2021 at 8:22 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    He will say he was being a journalist, but he should be charged with trespassing at the very least.

  194. 194.

    cliosfanboy

    January 9, 2021 at 8:23 pm

    @WaterGirl: the CCC website inspired the South Carolina church shooter.

  195. 195.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 8:24 pm

    @debbie: We already got spaceforce, why not CYBERFORCE?

    Fuck it, let’s go full Neuromancer!!!

     

    (Please let’s not go full Neuromancer)

     

     

    (Altho the q-balls are basically conservative Panther Moderns…)

  196. 196.

    rikyrah

    January 9, 2021 at 8:24 pm

    “The militia that tried to kidnap the governor of Michigan was the same militia 20 years ago that Timothy McVeigh spent time with. That militia was not disassembled but was allowed to go on & plot the kidnapping of a governor.”@NaveedAJamali pic.twitter.com/cUoQDbVrmy— La Femme Nikita (@LaF3mm3Nikita) January 10, 2021

  197. 197.

    Citizen Alan

    January 9, 2021 at 8:25 pm

    @Richard: Age doesn’t matter so much as beliefs and whether you’re willing to stand up for them. Charlie Kirk is young.

  198. 198.

    WaterGirl

    January 9, 2021 at 8:26 pm

    @dmsilev: So does Apple claw back the app on phones, or does it just not allow any new downloads?

  199. 199.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    January 9, 2021 at 8:26 pm

    @Suzanne:

    I remember my grandfather being livid that I didn’t want to follow his path to business school and/or the Army. Mr. Suzanne’s grandfather was deeply disappointed that none of his grandchildren wanted to inherit his farm and continue to work it.

    I’m sorry you and your husband had to deal with that. I don’t understand the hostility; why wouldn’t a grandparent want their grandchildren to be happy and do what they want with their lives?

  200. 200.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 8:27 pm

    @Starfish: Interesting. Did they say what moved them?

  201. 201.

    Spanky

    January 9, 2021 at 8:27 pm

    Hey, if we’re splitting up the USAF assets, I’m guessing the Army would gladly take the A-10s and any other ground support assets.

  202. 202.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    January 9, 2021 at 8:28 pm

    @WaterGirl: Or awful close to CCCP, so a trifecta of authoritarians

  203. 203.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 8:28 pm

    These fucking yahoos are beginning to look alike so can’t remember if anyone has posted about this Americus atty who just threw his 30 year practice away. (in other news, I just signed a petition of attys here in Missouri requesting Hawley to be disbarred. Not holding my breath but made me feel good)

    https://www.ajc.com/news/georgia-attorney-among-those-who-broke-into-the-us-capitol/MF3IWF57WRGHBO2G2GTSZII374/

  204. 204.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 8:28 pm

    @Ken: Just wait until they get the Trump Executive Deluxe level.

    That requires biometric fingerprint and DNA sample.

  205. 205.

    CarolDuhart2

    January 9, 2021 at 8:29 pm

    @catclub: But the draft boards knew who they were, and so did the DOD.  So it was possible for draft dodgers to get the paperwork proving they were eligible for the amnesty.  These people are mostly unknown and unnamed.  Plus Carter did so early in his term when there was time to do the necessary paperwork.  There’s too many, and only two weeks.  The power ends in eleven days.

  206. 206.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 9, 2021 at 8:30 pm

    @Quinerly:

    They are all into Parler today like it’s the cool table in the lunchroom. But they don’t seem to understand it. I was reading Parler’s sign up stuff… if you want to be an “influencer” and I guess to even comment, you have to supply your SS#, copy of drivers license, picture. 

    What about a photocopy of their butts?  That’s an insane amount of personal information to give over to some random Internet site.

  207. 207.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 8:30 pm

    @Mary G: It bears repeating I was entirely and miserably wrong about the capitol cops in the initial hours of this.

    Pays to keep a cool head, folks.

  208. 208.

    Frank Wilhoit

    January 9, 2021 at 8:30 pm

    @Lord Fartdaddy (Formerly, Mumphrey, Smedley Darlington Mingobat, et al.): I, too, have no fccking idea how to deal with this sh1t.  But: there is, at least, a starting point for figuring that out.

    Granting the detailed accuracy of your chronicle, the root cause is that since FDR, the Republican Party has spent literally and exactly all of its time and thought and energy trying to build a permanent majority, so that elections would no longer be competitive.

    Now, at this point, do not yield to the temptation to ask cui bono?  We are not ready to ask that yet.

    Focus instead on the fact that in a pluralistic polity, the aspiration to build a permanent majority is not a legitimate aspiration.

    Corollary: if the polity was not so defined as to require and enable the punishment of that aspiration, the polity will fail.  That is where we are, and, by the way, bang goes the 1787 Constitution.

    The rest is pseudophilosophy and propaganda, constantly in flux while simultaneously pretending to allude to fixed essential principles, the which are made up of allegories, shibboleths, talismans, fables, and other conceptual rubbish.  But eventually all of the pseudophilosophy becomes tl;dr, and the propaganda has to be distilled and winnowed and simplified until it no longer even appears to have any content: and all that remains then is violence.  That is where we are.

  209. 209.

    John Revolta

    January 9, 2021 at 8:31 pm

    @catclub: Yes, he did. And again, it wasn’t challenged.

    (Challenged doesn’t mean “some people bitching about it”. Challenged means taking it through the courts, and eventually to the Supremes.)

  210. 210.

    ballerat

    January 9, 2021 at 8:32 pm

    @Baud: A nazi trumpster family member does just that, earns over 100k a year. House, car, boat, trailer and a big rig to pull them. High-school education, then a stint in the Navy.

    Loves Trump, has lots of ARs and hi-cap mags loaded and ready to go for the race war he is sure is coming.

    He wanted to go to Lansing with his AR and white power buddies and help the militia assholes occupy the state building. Opted not to eventually but I wonder how long before I see him on the news doing felony white supremacist shit.

    He’s not dumb but his critical thinking skills are so easily derailed by his bigotry. He gets right on the verge of figuring it out and …. it’s the Jews! And the N****rs! That’s who is stealing MY MONEY!

    His bigotry is like a gravity well in the space-time fabric of common sense. It’s a black hole of stupid where rays of enlightened rational thought are perturbed by minorities and Jews, bent to be pulled right in beyond the event horizon, never to escape.

  211. 211.

    Gravenstone

    January 9, 2021 at 8:32 pm

    @Skepticat: He looks at low no class things every time he looks in a fucking mirror.

  212. 212.

    Martin

    January 9, 2021 at 8:33 pm

    @raven: Technically, yes. But practically no.

    If nothing else, so much of Trump staff seem to have either abandoned him or are now terrified to go near him that I don’t think he has anyone who could do the paperwork.

  213. 213.

    Geoduck

    January 9, 2021 at 8:33 pm

    @raven: Off topic, but there is/was someone out there who was inflicted with the name Cleveland Grover Meredith, and decided to pass it on to his son.

  214. 214.

    Lyrebird

    January 9, 2021 at 8:34 pm

    Calling musicians:

    The Real Hoarse wants to form a band called

    the Leftist Overlords

    in honor of some bile spewed by Don Jr or somebody like that.

    (link to twitter post)

  215. 215.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 8:34 pm

    @Brachiator: I have, to the twitter left’s credit, seen a few accounts begin to admit that they projected their idea of the proletariat onto the petty bourgeoisie. Small accounts, granted. Still, a glimmer faint but sure.

  216. 216.

    Ruckus

    January 9, 2021 at 8:35 pm

    @Skepticat:

    So, low class is out. How does he feel about no class, such as himself?

  217. 217.

    Scout211

    January 9, 2021 at 8:35 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    It will still work if the app has already been downloaded but no new downloads and no updates.

  218. 218.

    Gravenstone

    January 9, 2021 at 8:36 pm

    @Scout211: Let them all download it. Give the user data to law enforcement. Then brick it remotely.

  219. 219.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 9, 2021 at 8:37 pm

    @Brachiator:

    And even politicians like Bernie Sanders filtered reality through his own version of progressive politics that tried to transform white bigots into the hapless proletariat. 

    Yet another reason Bernie should’ve fucked off in 2016.

  220. 220.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 8:37 pm

    @rikyrah: I keep coming back to the fact that in the Middle Ages these people would be hunted down as the bandits they so clearly, dearly yearn to be.

  221. 221.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 8:38 pm

    @debbie: read that. Actually, I think here. These nuts are beyond Glenn. This is the kinda stuff they believe. (Yes, Lin Wood related):

    January 8, 2021
    “As I write to you today, I have no doubt that this letter will find many of you crushed under the weight of despair or perhaps lost in a maze of confusion. It is my hope that by the time you finish reading this letter you will be able to confidently join millions of others who support the president and another four years.
    Let me be clear: Trump will be president for another four years. Biden will not be president. Yes, I know those are shocking words in these crazy days.
    I have been approached by many saying, “It’s over…” and “Trump conceded the election…”. Nothing of the sort has taken place. Go back and listen to the videos all the way through. At no point does Trump even mention Biden’s name. At no point does he say he concedes. He does say that there will be a peaceful transition to a new administration and he does say that this is only the beginning. Those phrases are important to note. Indeed, we will have a new administration made up of a new vice president and cabinet as the current ones have all made their treason complete. I will touch on this in more detail shortly.
    We do well to remember that for more than four years Donald Trump has been five steps ahead of everyone in every attempt to derail him, impeach him, or confound him. For example, he announced on election night in the early hours of the morning that he “didn’t want a dump of ballots at 4AM.” What happened in just a few short hours at almost exactly 4AM? A huge ballot dump took place which showed that he already knew that it was going to take place. That was a public word to the enemies of our country that he was on to them. Also, consider the recent incident at the capitol building in DC. Trump was late to his speaking engagement and then spoke on a number of rehashed things to the crowd of 500K+ but this created a problem. You see, if Trump had spoken on time and briefly, the MAGA crowd would have been at the capitol building with the Antifa faction and likely would have been drawn into the fray by accident and confusion due to the crowd size. With Trump speaking late and long, the MAGA crowd was PROTECTED and SEPARATED from the Antifa groups. It would be very clear that the disguised Antifa people were 95%+ of the people in the building. Again, Trump countered because he was steps ahead of them. This was clearly a staged event meant to blame Trump supporters and try to frame Trump so the 25th amendment could be used by Congress but it failed. Nevermind the numerous videos showing the police opening the gates for Antifa (they didn’t fight their way in) and then leading them throughout the building.
    I say all this as only two examples out of many that at no point has our president been in a fight of desperation.
    Now you may ask, “Why hasn’t Trump arrested anyone yet? Why did this have to go all the way to Congress?” Multiple reasons: first, Trump has been adamant in following the rule of law and the Constitution. He gives everyone, no matter how dirty, an opportunity to do the right thing (sometimes with warnings such as the phone call with the Georgia Secretary of State recently). He pushed cases through the courts, he presented evidence to the legislatures, and he even told the vice president to do the right thing. But with the betrayal by Pence and Congress, the treason is now complete and nobody can say that Trump did not allow the process to finish before acting. Second, in order to drain the swamp you have to know who are the swamp creatures. They can blend in very well with the crowds. But the false event in the capitol revealed the final traitors for who they were regardless of party affiliation. Trump flushed them out of hiding.
    I need to take a moment to speak on Pence. With his treason completed, many of you may not know of his dealings and political posturing prior to the infamous day in the capitol. Pence was already wheeling and dealing way back during the 2016 election season with…wait for it….Paul Ryan. Remember Ryan? The RINO speaker of the house? Look at these emails that were recently revealed:

    Pence-Ryan Emails

    Pence was also involved with a scheme to oust Trump sometime during his first four years that was orchestrated by Rod Rosenstein and supported by the Clintons. The plan: get rid of Trump, become president and then appoint Rod Rosenstein as the new VP. Why would they want that? Because they felt Pence could be controlled. See these links for the 3 part series for more information:

    Part 1
    Part 2
    Part 3

    More could be said but I don’t want this letter to become more of a book than it already is. Suffice it to say that when Trump said at the DC rally that he hoped Pence would do the right thing, he already knew what he was going to do but was, yet again, giving the man space to choose to do the right thing.

    Now, nobody has been more supportive of Trump than Lin Wood. This man’s career has been fighting defamation lawsuits which means that he doesn’t say things, no matter how outrageous they may seem, without them being true as he knows the consequences of slander. With this in mind, Lin Wood has become a fountain of information and leaks of hitherto unknown information revealing some of the depths of corruption and evil in our highest offices. This is the same man who recently said that arrests are coming over the next few days. He called Pence a traitor well before the counting of the elector votes on the 6th. But did you know that he also said that the president, following the capitol incident, left DC on a “Doomsday” aircraft (used for communications in the event of a nuclear war) with his family and was in Abilene, TX. This aircraft was confirmed by both flight trackers and eyes on the ground. In short, he is a trustworthy source of information. If you have a means to follow Lin Wood on Parler, I would highly recommend that you do so to stay abreast of things taking place. You can also listen to this podcast: Podcast

    So, what comes next? I don’t have the particulars but I can give you milestones to watch for as the coming days unfold:
    Expect the emergency broadcast system to be activated. The FCC just recently released a memorandum speaking to the requirements under Federal law to send messages from the president to the public. See this link
    Expect confusion. We are in a battle for our republic against elites that are attempting the very coup that they are accusing Trump of doing. In battle, there will be disinformation but know that plans are being fulfilled.
    Expect high profile arrests to take place over the next 12 days and at any time. You may wake one morning to find someone in high office is no longer there.
    Expect this to be a bumpy ride to the very end. This is not a television show where things are resolved in 45 minutes.
    Expect more bombshell evidence to be released between now and Jan. 20th.
    Expect some sort of internet blackout or outage: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Gmail are likely going to be affected. If you don’t have alternate forms of communication established now, it would be a good idea to start forming them even if it’s just checking on your nextdoor neighbors.
    Expect Trump to be inaugurated on Jan 20th!
    Expect the executive order from 2018 and/or the Insurrection Act to be enacted. This DOES NOT mean martial law. Remember that we have been under a state of emergency since 2018 which gives the president many powers to act.

    These things may happen out of the order listed and some may happen multiple times. As I have been watching closely, many things have been and are in play as we speak. Remember that Trump has not and will not give up. He actually takes his oath of office to defend the Constitution against enemies foreign and domestic very seriously. This is why they are so panicked in DC: they know that Trump will fight while Congress just rolls over.

    I’ve mentioned this before but it bears repeating. None of us would have believed what we all now know except that Trump and his team have painstakingly taken the time to show the public. Want to show what Congress thinks of you? Highlight that the stimulus bill only sent $600 to each American but billions to other countries (payoffs, money laundering). Want to show the extent of collusion with the CCP at all levels of government? Bring multiple lawsuits against the election fraud from the local courts all the way to the Supreme Court which will show just how brazenly treasonous the judges are. Want the public to see how rigged the election system has been for many years? Present the evidence openly as we have seen. Even this week we have sworn testimony out of Italy that the Leonardo defense contractor used satellites to change the votes from our election in the USA from Italy. These Dominion voting machines were actively sending data to Germany, Serbia, China, Iran, and now Rome. This corruption is MUCH bigger than any of us expected but none of us would have believed it until now. This is why things seem to have taken so long.

    Now, the American public is awake and ready to take back their long forgotten responsibilities to hold the elected officials accountable. I have heard from many of you how upset you are with the obvious and willful disregard for the truth and for justice.

    As the days unfold, let’s maintain communications among ourselves and try to help our neighbor to understand what is happening. Turn off the television as they have demonstrated they are clearly only falsifying the media to maintain control over your thinking. Do not despair but pray for our country, for Trump and his supporters, and for a national repentance to be stirred nationwide.
    The next 12 days will be something to tell the grandchildren! It’s 1776 all over again!

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    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 8:38 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Emulation, flattery and the sincerity thereof, maybe???

  223. 223.

    Suzanne

    January 9, 2021 at 8:38 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    why wouldn’t a grandparent want their grandchildren to be happy and do what they want with their lives? 

    They do…. but they also really want their children and grandchildren to honor them by following in their footsteps. It’s a deep gratification and deeply fulfilling to some people, who grew up with it as an expectation. Also commonly seen when parents, usually fathers, have a family business to pass down and their kids don’t want it. Religious conservatives are incredibly freaked out about not being able to pass down their religious faith to their kids and grandkids, too.

    Mr. Suzanne’s grandfather was so disappointed by the fact that none of his three grandsons were farm boys that he kind of pseudo-adopted a boy growing up on a neighbor’s farm. This kid worked for him for years…. then in Granddad’s old age, he trusted this dude as the executor of his estate and trust. The dude ended up robbing him blind, some of it before Granddad actually died, and he was heartbroken by the betrayal. The court case was settled, but it took years and a lot was lost.

  224. 224.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    January 9, 2021 at 8:39 pm

    @WaterGirl:

    As others have said, no new updates, basically. It will eventually become unusable.

    This won’t stop users from using Parler on a “desktop” computer. Does anybody know who hosts Parler? Does Parler itself own the servers? Perhaps the web domain company hosting Parler could be pressured to drop them?

    ETA: It’s AWS. Paging Mr. Bezos

  225. 225.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 8:39 pm

    @Spanky: Who controls rotary wing assets now? Are the chopper jockeys army, or airforce?

  226. 226.

    The Thin Black Duke

    January 9, 2021 at 8:40 pm

    @Quinerly: Not getting off the boat, sorry.

  227. 227.

    WaterGirl

    January 9, 2021 at 8:41 pm

    @cliosfanboy: I did not recall that.

  228. 228.

    prostratedragon

    January 9, 2021 at 8:42 pm

    @Scout211: Time’s up. (I might not be the first.)

  229. 229.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 8:44 pm

    @Geoduck: Powerful “My name is SUE. How do you DO? NOW YOU GONNA DIE” energy radiating offa that…

  230. 230.

    debbie

    January 9, 2021 at 8:45 pm

    @Quinerly:

    It’s frightening to read something so delusional. He is a very, very sick man.

  231. 231.

    Frank Wilhoit

    January 9, 2021 at 8:45 pm

    @Ruckus: In order to pursue or hold any office, everyone should be required to pass (A) the citizenship exam (B) a security clearance (C) life underwriting.  All to be renewed not less often than every 12 months and if you fail, you are out, instantaneously, no appeal.

    But let’s remember that the gerontocracy in the Democratic Party is due to Reagan painting targets on every Democrat’s back.  Several successive cohorts were intimidated out of politics altogether.  The good news is that that historical parenthesis is now closing.

  232. 232.

    WaterGirl

    January 9, 2021 at 8:45 pm

    @Scout211: Ah.  That’s too bad.  But maybe that will help law enforcement track these people down.

  233. 233.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 8:45 pm

    @Ruckus: AHA! IT IS ALL ABOUT CLASS-ENVY!!!

  234. 234.

    debbie

    January 9, 2021 at 8:46 pm

    @The Thin Black Duke:

    Having read it, rest assured you chose wisely.

  235. 235.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 8:46 pm

    @The Thin Black Duke: I don’t blame you. I damn near drowned today. It’s like they all ate/drank the same thing and have been infected with syphilis, madcow, and rabies all at the same time. And, of course, Biden is the one with dementia.

  236. 236.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 8:48 pm

    @debbie: and one year ago, Lin Wood was sane enough that Mercer Law School invited him to give a speech and to break bread and drink at a fancy reception.

  237. 237.

    Ken

    January 9, 2021 at 8:49 pm

    @debbie: How stupid must you be to willingly give up your SSN like that?

    That’s the brilliance of the scam; it simultaneously selects for the stupid and gullible, and extracts their personal information.

  238. 238.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    January 9, 2021 at 8:50 pm

    @Suzanne:

    They do…. but they also really want their children and grandchildren to honor them by following in their footsteps. It’s a deep gratification and deeply fulfilling to some people, who grew up with it as an expectation. Also commonly seen when parents, usually fathers, have a family business to pass down and their kids don’t want it.

    I totally get that impulse. Especially with a small business. People want their life’s work to be carried on, especially by their children.

    Mr. Suzanne’s grandfather was so disappointed by the fact that none of his three grandsons were farm boys that he kind of pseudo-adopted a boy growing up on a neighbor’s farm. This kid worked for him for years…. then in Granddad’s old age, he trusted this dude as the executor of his estate and trust. The dude ended up robbing him blind, some of it before Granddad actually died, and he was heartbroken by the betrayal. The court case was settled, but it took years and a lot was lost.

    I’m sorry to hear that. Glad it was eventually settled, but holy shit what a piece of human garbage that dude Mr. Suzanne’s grandad took under his wing. Talk about ungrateful ?

  239. 239.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 8:50 pm

    @The Thin Black Duke:

    You sure? We got mangoes,dude.

     

     

     

     

    Seriously tho.

    You chose wisely.

    I made it about 4 ‘graphs in and started seeing spots and getting a persistent ringing in my ears…

  240. 240.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 8:50 pm

    @debbie: he has toned it down about executing Pence and CJ Roberts. So, there’s that.

  241. 241.

    Ken

    January 9, 2021 at 8:52 pm

    @Subsole: I keep coming back to the fact that in the Middle Ages these people would be hunted down as the bandits they so clearly, dearly yearn to be.

    As I understand it, the term “outlaw” is because people were put outside the law’s protections; anyone could kill them and it was not murder.  It seems appropriate for someone who acts like the law doesn’t apply to them.

  242. 242.

    Puddinhead

    January 9, 2021 at 8:52 pm

    @Quinerly: sounds like something Squeaky Fromme would have written about Charles Manson.

  243. 243.

    zhena gogolia

    January 9, 2021 at 8:53 pm

    I wish we could get Leslie Jones to comment on here.

  244. 244.

    TS (the original)

    January 9, 2021 at 8:54 pm

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    Gonna be a bunch more folks saying or thinking that

    One Donald Trump – deciding to run for president* – definitely the single worst personal decision of his life.

  245. 245.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    January 9, 2021 at 8:54 pm

    @Subsole:

    True

    @debbie:

    At the very least

  246. 246.

    Patricia Kayden

    January 9, 2021 at 8:55 pm

    A caravan of Trump supporters tried to run Joe Biden's bus off the road in Texas, and Sen. @marcorubio praised them saying, "we love what they did."Now he's saying Democrats should not impeach Donald Trump again because it's time for the nation to unite.— Travis Akers (@travisakers) January 10, 2021

  247. 247.

    Ken

    January 9, 2021 at 8:55 pm

    @Subsole: Who controls rotary wing assets now? Are the chopper jockeys army, or airforce?

    The Marines have them too. As Charles Stross once put it, in the US, the navy’s army has its own air force; and if you need air support for a mission, you have a choice of four services.  (I think he missed the coast guard, which also has some choppers.)

  248. 248.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 8:56 pm

    @Puddinhead: very good point.

  249. 249.

    Steeplejack

    January 9, 2021 at 8:56 pm

    @Feathers:

    I don’t want to go out on a limb, but I think that “Pornhub Update,” a.k.a. @Gian_Neon, could be a random “comedy” shitposter with 2,475 followers. ?

  250. 250.

    debbie

    January 9, 2021 at 8:57 pm

    @Quinerly:

    It’s hard to listen to these conspiracy theories and not bust out laughing.  If Wood was more or less normal just a year ago, his descent into lunacy in such a short time is frightening. It can only be the result of too many drugs in misspent youthful pasts.

  251. 251.

    Subsole

    January 9, 2021 at 8:57 pm

    @Ken: Lol. That’s good…

  252. 252.

    debbie

    January 9, 2021 at 8:57 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    I miss her being on SNL. Her rage was cathartic.

    Speaking of, they’re rerunning Dave Chappell / FooFighters tonight, but once again, it’s delayed by some football game.  ?

  253. 253.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 8:58 pm

    CNN reporting that a source close to Pence says he has not ruled out the 25th Amendment

  254. 254.

    prostratedragon

    January 9, 2021 at 8:59 pm

    @Felanius Kootea:  History suggests that if Mr. James wants to sing it, I like it!

     

    ETA I don’t know why so many commenters under it thought there was something wrong with it, some violation of something or other. And I’m an old fogey.

  255. 255.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    January 9, 2021 at 9:00 pm

    @Subsole:

    I keep coming back to the fact that in the Middle Ages these people would be hunted down as the bandits they so clearly, dearly yearn to be.

    Hell, if these people had been flying the Confederate Battle Flag anywhere in the North during the ACW, they would’ve probably been hung from the nearest tree by a mob.

    On a related note, has anybody noticed blue porch/garage lights on houses lately? Another way to express support for the boys in blue I guess

  256. 256.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 9:01 pm

    @debbie: I long for the days when it was just Hillary killing Vince Foster and hanging dildos on the WH Christmas tree.

  257. 257.

    Steeplejack

    January 9, 2021 at 9:01 pm

    @Another Scott:

    Don Beyer! He’s my rep in the fightin’ Eighth. Also owns the dealership where I get the doughty Kia serviced, totally off topic.

  258. 258.

    Suzanne

    January 9, 2021 at 9:02 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I think the urge to have your kids do the same job that you do is a specific “folkway” of a specific caste in the country. College-educated people usually want their kids to go to college, even if they study something different, and even if they would make the same amount of money (or more) in a trade. I think we really cannot underestimate how psychologically destabilizing this is to a lot of lowercase-c conservative people, and I think Trump being essentially a family businessman who saw that those people felt deeply destabilized even if they have money was part of why he has this weird coterie of diehards.

  259. 259.

    Ken

    January 9, 2021 at 9:02 pm

    @Steeplejack: I don’t want to go out on a limb, but I think that “Pornhub Update,” a.k.a. @Gian_Neon, could be a random “comedy” shitposter with 2,475 followers.

    So, 2,475 more than Trump…

    It just occurred to me that there’s suddenly a lot of purposeless software running on Russian botnets. If I were working for Twitter, I’d collect the ongoing queries against the Trump account to help identify fake followers.

  260. 260.

    HumboldtBlue

    January 9, 2021 at 9:05 pm

    Apple removed Parler from app store.

  261. 261.

    Ruckus

    January 9, 2021 at 9:05 pm

    I’ll ask.

    When people say young, what age do they/you mean? 18 can vote, one has to be 35 to be president and I’m rather sure that in today’s world 35 is rather young to be president, not that there may be many 35 yr olds who are far more mature and wise than the current dipshit. Who is 5 yrs old with the racist mentality of a shitty 75 yr old.

    I consider young in politics to be someone under 35 ish but would not hesitate to vote for a 25 yr old (minimum for the house) or 30 (minimum for the senate) who was reasonable. Most 25 yr olds would still have parents alive, quite possibly grandparents as well. I think my concerns for my health as an old fart would be a consideration.

  262. 262.

    The Thin Black Duke

    January 9, 2021 at 9:06 pm

    @debbie: White Supremacy is a hell of a drug.

  263. 263.

    Shalimar

    January 9, 2021 at 9:06 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: How well are those floorplans marked?  Clyburn says they ignored his public office with his name on the door but did find the unmarked one where he actually does most of his work.

    Maybe that 2nd office is for leadership and that is what they went after.

  264. 264.

    debbie

    January 9, 2021 at 9:06 pm

    @Quinerly:

    Can you imagine knowing that Trump had basically ordered your execution because you refused to commit an unConstitutional act? Even blind loyalty has its limits.

  265. 265.

    John Revolta

    January 9, 2021 at 9:08 pm

    @Ken: It’s like the Nigerian Prince emails. Sure, you’d have to be a complete wally to fall for it, but that’s the point!

  266. 266.

    HumboldtBlue

    January 9, 2021 at 9:09 pm

    @Ken:

    Coast Guard has a variety of fixed-wing and rotary aircraft it uses.

  267. 267.

    Mary G

    January 9, 2021 at 9:10 pm

    Losing both senators and now the presidential election has pushed the Arizona GOP all the way around the bend. They are considering a resolution censuring Cindy McCain that is bugfuck nuts.

    1. This proposed resolution to censure @cindymccain which will be voted on by the Arizona Republican Party later this month is absolutely disgusting. McCain has been very public about being in recovery and they go after drug abuse?!(they get the year wrong in the resolution). pic.twitter.com/HicYdtzCu7— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) January 9, 2021

    They call her a drug addict with all the illegalities associated with that behavior, wrongfully supporting leftist policies like gay marriage, condemned President Trump for criticizing John McCain, who was a bad dude, so President Trump was right about him.

  268. 268.

    Starfish

    January 9, 2021 at 9:11 pm

    @Subsole: I was thinking of a broad range of 20-40 which would be the oldest Millennials all the way down to around when Gen Z starts.

  269. 269.

    raven

    January 9, 2021 at 9:11 pm

    @debbie: It’s the NFL wildcard playoffs.

  270. 270.

    Gravenstone

    January 9, 2021 at 9:13 pm

    @Quinerly: No idea where that diatribe you posted came from, but it was 28 fucking phone screens long (yes, I  was so annoyed that I counted) on my device. Couldn’t you have just linked with maybe a relevant snippet quoted?

  271. 271.

    Steeplejack

    January 9, 2021 at 9:13 pm

    @Subsole:

    Around here young is anyone under 50.

  272. 272.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 9:14 pm

    @debbie: Twitter is a flutter today over Rudy unfollowing “Mother” on Twitter. Yes, it’s supposed to be a sign of something to come (related, Karen Pence and VP’s daughter were sheltering in place in the Capitol when Trump’s minions stormed the building)

  273. 273.

    Starfish

    January 9, 2021 at 9:14 pm

    @Subsole: I think that they liked her economic policy proposals.

  274. 274.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 9:14 pm

    @Gravenstone: sorry to inconvenience you.

  275. 275.

    Mallard Filmore

    January 9, 2021 at 9:15 pm

    @Feathers:

     

    One thing I haven’t heard enough of is thanking the BLM/RealAntiFa(TM)/BlackBlock/etc. for not showing up.

    Maybe they were left behind at the Ellipse and didn’t get the message to march down to the Capitol.

  276. 276.

    Ohio Mom

    January 9, 2021 at 9:15 pm

    Goku @255:
    Blue porch lights could be an autism awareness thing.

    As an autism mom, always thought that was a completely dumb idea. I see now they have expanded into blue pumpkins for Halloween, equally dumb idea.

  277. 277.

    Ruckus

    January 9, 2021 at 9:16 pm

    @Suzanne:

    My parents were both working class people, and my mom wanted me to follow my dad in “profession.” It was a massive point of contention with her because I wanted to go into electronics, which in 1960 I saw as the future. OK that’s one right. I did end up with a decent paying fallback if my ideas went belly up or the politicians fucked the public – again. And so I’m still working at the craft I started in back in the early 60s. It isn’t the life I envisioned for myself but it has been a life, and it’s saved me from GWB’s recession. Funny how my mom, a lifelong democrat, seemed to know that every republican president was going to screw the economy, if not into the ground, at least heading for it. Maybe seeing FDR save the country from yet another republican fuck up actually taught her something.

  278. 278.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 9:16 pm

    @Mary G: and to think… Just before the attempted coup, her daughter had posted something about Hawley/Tulsi 2024.

  279. 279.

    HumboldtBlue

    January 9, 2021 at 9:18 pm

    @Mary G:

    I saw that earlier. There is no GOP as we understood circa 2014 or so, anymore.

  280. 280.

    Scout211

    January 9, 2021 at 9:22 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/johnpaczkowski/amazon-parler-aws

    Amazon boots Parler from their web hosting service.

  281. 281.

    Sister Golden Bear

    January 9, 2021 at 9:22 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):  People want others to validate their own lives/life choices.

  282. 282.

    Ksmiami

    January 9, 2021 at 9:23 pm

    @Quinerly: Charles Pierce called it the GOP prion disease. Anyhoo, I have no interest in healing and coming together with lawless traitors.

  283. 283.

    debbie

    January 9, 2021 at 9:23 pm

    @raven:

    Well, that’s marginally better than another college football game. //

  284. 284.

    cain

    January 9, 2021 at 9:24 pm

    @ballerat:

    @Baud: A nazi trumpster family member does just that, earns over 100k a year. House, car, boat, trailer and a big rig to pull them. High-school education, then a stint in the Navy.

    Jeezus, he must be deep in debt. That’s a lot of stuff and even if you’re making over a $100k, stuff like education costs a shitload of money if you have kids.

  285. 285.

    Ruckus

    January 9, 2021 at 9:24 pm

    @Subsole:

    Well in shitforbrains world it is about class. He and his followers have no idea, zero, about what class is. He thinks it’s about money, but then Fred was a classless fuck and passed down all he didn’t know. shitforbrains is just a product of his shitty environment (and his stunning lack of any thought process, intelligence, class, grace, humanity….  He does however have a snoot full of pompous arrogance, which has served him badly)

  286. 286.

    Baud

    January 9, 2021 at 9:24 pm

    @Ksmiami:

    We have no one to come together with.

  287. 287.

    Kent

    January 9, 2021 at 9:25 pm

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:Except a surprising large number were working class, on the edge and yet managed to take a few days off in the middle of a work week for an expensive plane trip and hotel stay just to be part of coup. There is more to this.

    The financial services industry gives out credit cards like candy.

  288. 288.

    Felanius Kootea

    January 9, 2021 at 9:26 pm

    @prostratedragon: It’s the rock vibe, when they were prepared to hear something more jazz-like.

    I like his experimentation with other styles.

  289. 289.

    Ken

    January 9, 2021 at 9:27 pm

    @Mary G: I see the Arizona GOP is following in the footsteps of the Virginia GOP over the last few years, and of the California GOP before that.

  290. 290.

    Ksmiami

    January 9, 2021 at 9:27 pm

    @Baud: nope Democrats and indies have to close ranks against these monsters

  291. 291.

    Sister Golden Bear

    January 9, 2021 at 9:28 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    Does anybody know who hosts Parler? Does Parler itself own the servers? Perhaps the web domain company hosting Parler could be pressured to drop them?

    ETA: It’s AWS. Paging Mr. Bezos

    And some Amazon employees are now demanding the company stop hosting Parler on AWS.

  292. 292.

    raven

    January 9, 2021 at 9:29 pm

    @debbie: Monday night.

  293. 293.

    bluehill

    January 9, 2021 at 9:29 pm

    @Quinerly: She’s caught between the memory of her father and the reality of her [email protected]#$ husband. Not surprised she’s confused.

  294. 294.

    Suzanne

    January 9, 2021 at 9:29 pm

    @Ruckus: My grandfather thought that there were three acceptable paths for women in the world of (middle-class) work: secretary, nurse, teacher. So his wife became a secretary, daughter #1 became a nurse, daughter #2 became a teacher. That was okay because the daughters were married. Then, all of a sudden, they weren’t. And they changed careers, and their kids (me and my cousins) had no interest in what he thought we should do. Literally, none of us even thought to ask his advice. That apparently burned him up. SisterGoldenBear is absolutely right: he wanted us to validate his choices and beliefs and we didn’t.

  295. 295.

    Ken

    January 9, 2021 at 9:31 pm

    @debbie: Yeah, I think that scheme of Trump resigning and getting a pardon from Pence is off the table.

  296. 296.

    Patricia Kayden

    January 9, 2021 at 9:32 pm

    Whoa. ⁦@Forbes⁩ chief content officer warns against hiring ⁦@kayleighmcenany⁩ ⁦or other prominent Trump flacks: “Hire any of Trump’s fellow fabulists above, and Forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie.” https://t.co/KeXF2gVXVV— Andrew Feinberg (@AndrewFeinberg) January 9, 2021

  297. 297.

    Ruckus

    January 9, 2021 at 9:32 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    Do you mean Letitia Jones NY AG or Leslie Jones the writer/comedian?

  298. 298.

    raven

    January 9, 2021 at 9:33 pm

    For all you bitching about the job the Capitol Police did look at what they faced and tell me what you would have done?

  299. 299.

    Kent

    January 9, 2021 at 9:37 pm

    @ballerat:

    @Baud: A nazi trumpster family member does just that, earns over 100k a year. House, car, boat, trailer and a big rig to pull them. High-school education, then a stint in the Navy.

    Loves Trump, has lots of ARs and hi-cap mags loaded and ready to go for the race war he is sure is coming.

    He wanted to go to Lansing with his AR and white power buddies and help the militia assholes occupy the state building. Opted not to eventually but I wonder how long before I see him on the news doing felony white supremacist shit.

    He’s not dumb but his critical thinking skills are so easily derailed by his bigotry. He gets right on the verge of figuring it out and …. it’s the Jews! And the N****rs! That’s who is stealing MY MONEY!

    His bigotry is like a gravity well in the space-time fabric of common sense. It’s a black hole of stupid where rays of enlightened rational thought are perturbed by minorities and Jews, bent to be pulled right in beyond the event horizon, never to escape.

    I’ve got a Trumper cousin who fits some of the same description.  College educated.  Works a a project manager for various tech and tech-adjacent firms in the Seattle area for years.  Every couple years or so a new employer so I’m not sure if that’s him, or the industry.  Lives in the North Seattle suburbs (Mill Creek) and endlessly complains about how the libs have destroyed Seattle.  During the 2016 elections he was the in-your-face MAGA asshole who would do things like go set up a big Trump booth with lots of Trump flags right outside Seahawks stadium to greet the Seattle Sounders crowds coming into Sounders games which is a hyper-liberal crowd. Basically to take and give abuse.  And post endless selfies doing MAGA shit all over FB.

    Last year before the pandemic he bought a chain of laundromats in urban Seattle (to go into business for himself like any good Trumper) but the pandemic has crushed his business.  He had lots of commercial contracts with restaurants for linens and such that all vanished.  So he’s pretty much gone radio silent on FB (other than to post the requisite weekend gun cleaning selfie on occasion (usually with a beer in the pick).  At least he didn’t go out to DC.  Maybe he’s learning.  Or maybe he’s off on Parler or 4chan and I just don’t see it.   But yeah, typical 50-something upper middle class managerial type, probably has a reasonable 401(k) and owns a house in the Seattle suburbs as well as a beachfront weekend cabin on one of the nearby islands in Puget Sound.

    That’s who I think of when I think of MAGA.

  300. 300.

    debbie

    January 9, 2021 at 9:38 pm

    @raven:

    Oh, don’t I know it. It’s been non-stop hype all week.

  301. 301.

    Patricia Kayden

    January 9, 2021 at 9:38 pm

    The entire jig is up. Bye Parler.

    Apple maybe didn't kill Parler but it looks like Amazon just did. https://t.co/feVWhfvY5O— Melissa Ryan (@MelissaRyan) January 10, 2021

  302. 302.

    Sister Golden Bear

    January 9, 2021 at 9:39 pm

    In case anyone needs a respite: find yourself someone who looks at you like this cat looks at its hooman.

  303. 303.

    Steeplejack

    January 9, 2021 at 9:40 pm

    @Mary G:

    Isn’t Cindy McCain a private citizen? (Just checked Wikipedia—yes!) What the hell are they doing censuring a private citizen? What does that even mean?

    . . . Oh, they’re censuring her as a member of the AZ Republican Party and, I guess, booting her out, although the resolution isn’t exactly clear on that.

  304. 304.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    January 9, 2021 at 9:40 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    I wish we could get Leslie Jones to comment on here.

    Her responses to Cole’s home decor posts would be interesting

  305. 305.

    Scout211

    January 9, 2021 at 9:44 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear:

    Awwwwwwww!  So sweet!  Thanks for posting that.

  306. 306.

    Leto

    January 9, 2021 at 9:44 pm

    @Patricia Kayden: looooool “bUT Ur CENzorNG meeEEEEeeeZEEEE!!!!”

  307. 307.

    prostratedragon

    January 9, 2021 at 9:46 pm

    @Felanius Kootea:  Yeah, I guess. But that kind of thing has been a part of jazz for a long time now. I see less objection to this version of “Park Bench People”, which despite “Red Clay” references is more a funk number than straight ahead. (In this version; there’s another around with a different beat.) Can it be just the electronic instrumentation? With the other band I’m not sure they’re that different.

  308. 308.

    rikyrah

    January 9, 2021 at 9:46 pm

    Preach it!

    PREACH?IT?

  309. 309.

    Kent

    January 9, 2021 at 9:47 pm

    @Shalimar:

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: How well are those floorplans marked?  Clyburn says they ignored his public office with his name on the door but did find the unmarked one where he actually does most of his work.

    Maybe that 2nd office is for leadership and that is what they went after.

    I’m utterly convinced that some MAGA staff for the worst GOP Congressmen or Senators were in on this.  They attend all the MAGA rallies so they are the same folks as were outside.  Hopefully with House and Senate inquiries and the FBI under Merrick Garland it will all be sniffed out.

  310. 310.

    Steeplejack

    January 9, 2021 at 9:47 pm

    @Ruckus:

    Leslie Jones the comedian. Zhena Gogolia and I like watching her comment on watching MSNBC.

  311. 311.

    Kent

    January 9, 2021 at 9:48 pm

    @Patricia Kayden: They’ll probably find a server in Russia that will host it.

  312. 312.

    Ruckus

    January 9, 2021 at 9:49 pm

    @Suzanne:

    Like I stated, in a round about way, I validated my mom’s idea about what I should do. I did go back to college after the navy and my major was pre med. But looking at another decade before I’d be a working doc, with bills that would take me a long, long time to pay back and that decade with little idea how to afford rent, food, etc killed that idea for me. When I opened my bicycle shop 15 yrs ago I had a customer who was an ER surgeon and his son in college wanted to follow dad’s footsteps and become a doc. He told me it would cost him a 1/4 mill to get him to his license. That’s approx what I saw for me in total. It’s OK if you make it, it’s a bitch driving that road by yourself.

  313. 313.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    January 9, 2021 at 9:52 pm

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to join Space Force

  314. 314.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 9, 2021 at 9:53 pm

    @Kent: Thing is, if Parler built it on AWS, the design/engineering of the site is tied into AWS API’s, and re-hosting it is a *lot* more work than just finding another hosting company.

  315. 315.

    Amir Khalid

    January 9, 2021 at 9:53 pm

    @Ruckus:

    The New York state attorney general is Letitia James.

  316. 316.

    debbie

    January 9, 2021 at 9:54 pm

    Fuckers.

    A Confederate flag tied to the front of the Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, in lower Manhattan, was discovered Friday morning, according to New York City police.

  317. 317.

    cain

    January 9, 2021 at 9:55 pm

    @debbie:

    I got a new t-shirt to support the Foo Fighters new album!

  318. 318.

    Ruckus

    January 9, 2021 at 9:56 pm

    @raven:

    From all the accounts I’d seen up to that video I figured they were way out numbered and they sure were. The only resource they had was to start shooting, and that would have done nothing but make it worse.

  319. 319.

    Ken

    January 9, 2021 at 9:56 pm

    @Patricia Kayden: Apple maybe didn’t kill Parler but it looks like Amazon just did.

    Not yet. Like Apple, they generously gave them 24 hours – more! – to create and implement a moderation policy that meets the terms of service. Such a moderation policy will destroy Parler’s reason for existence, but oh well.

    I expect AWS will archive the content, in case anyone (*cough* FBI *cough cough*) needs it for some reason.

  320. 320.

    Starfish

    January 9, 2021 at 9:56 pm

    @Ohio Mom: There are some teal pumpkins for allergy awareness, so we can know the people handing out not-candy for the kids who can eat not-chocolate.

  321. 321.

    Steve in the ATL

    January 9, 2021 at 9:56 pm

    @prostratedragon: you never sent me the address on Rembert!

  322. 322.

    O. Felix Culpa

    January 9, 2021 at 9:57 pm

    Where’s Omnes?

  323. 323.

    prostratedragon

    January 9, 2021 at 9:58 pm

    @Steve in the ATL:  Yoiks! Whenever I’ve remembered I was somewhere away from the keyboard. Let me dig up your e-mail now …

  324. 324.

    Ruckus

    January 9, 2021 at 9:59 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    Thought so but one never really knows till one asks.

  325. 325.

    Steve in the ATL

    January 9, 2021 at 9:59 pm

    @O. Felix Culpa: fuck off!  Eighties alternative was the best music!  Go Badgers!

    is that a close enough approximation?

  326. 326.

    Kent

    January 9, 2021 at 10:00 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:@Kent: Thing is, if Parler built it on AWS, the design/engineering of the site is tied into AWS API’s, and re-hosting it is a *lot* more work than just finding another hosting company.

    Well, good.  It’s billionaire Mercer money so they have deep pockets.  But make them spend some of it.

  327. 327.

    O. Felix Culpa

    January 9, 2021 at 10:00 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: LOL. You literally sound just like him.

    ETA: And yet, I haven’t seen OO around for an indeterminate amount of time and miss him. Chacun à son goût, etc.

  328. 328.

    cain

    January 9, 2021 at 10:01 pm

    @Ken:

    Yeah, I know a number of people who work in the AWS area and they are all basically progressives. There is no way they are going to stand for it.

    There is a thread with one of the AWS guys talking about where they could go – (tongue in cheek) I think he suggested Oracle. The Oracle CEO is a major asshole. But I think they are going to have to do what Gab did, and build their own servers – I’ve been told that Parler has been coded.. poorly. So there is that.

  329. 329.

    Ruckus

    January 9, 2021 at 10:01 pm

    @O. Felix Culpa:

    Staying away from the doom and gloom.

    At least he answered someone earlier with there was too much doom around.

  330. 330.

    Patricia Kayden

    January 9, 2021 at 10:01 pm

    I'm never going to unite with the supporters of white supremacist insurrectionists who murdered a Capitol police officer, who wore 6MWE and Camp Auschwitz shirts, and who terrorized members of Congress. I definitely won't listen to elected Republicans who tell me to. #traitors— Mary L Trump (@MaryLTrump) January 10, 2021

  331. 331.

    J R in WV

    January 9, 2021 at 10:02 pm

    @Subsole:

    @Starfish: Curious, how are we defining youngs? I am thinking teens to mid 20s? Just want to be on the same page as everyone, here.

    At my age, people under 50 are young!! Heck, many under 60 are too! But I’m really old now…   ;-)

  332. 332.

    Kent

    January 9, 2021 at 10:04 pm

    @Ken:

    Not yet. Like Apple, they generously gave them 24 hours – more! – to create and implement a moderation policy that meets the terms of service. Such a moderation policy will destroy Parler’s reason for existence, but oh well.

    I expect AWS will archive the content, in case anyone (*cough* FBI *cough cough*) needs it for some reason.

    Can you imagine the job of being a parler moderator and forum host?  Sheesh.  If they go down that road they will probably farm it out to some call center folks in Bangalore or the Philippines.  But still….

  333. 333.

    Steeplejack

    January 9, 2021 at 10:04 pm

    Not seeing an open thread in the offing, so I will mention again that if you subscribe to HBO on your cable system you probably have free access to HBO Max using your cable log-in. I just discovered this a week or two ago. (I’m on Cox.)

    I mention this because a load of great anime just got dropped on HBO Max, including all of Studio Ghibli’s movies (I think all—21, anyway), plus Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering with You, which was the last film I saw in a theater (last January). Also Genndy Tartakovsky’s Samurai Jack and Primal. And of course there’s Wonder Woman 1984 and a bunch of other stuff.

    If you get HBO check it out.

  334. 334.

    O. Felix Culpa

    January 9, 2021 at 10:04 pm

    @Ruckus: Thanks. As said earlier, I miss his comments. We’re ever so much cheerier these days. //

  335. 335.

    Ruckus

    January 9, 2021 at 10:05 pm

    @Kent:

    That’s not billionaire Mercer money that’s the money the Mercer’s owe us. They are supposedly in debt to the IRS for 7 billion in back taxes. And are using some of it to pay attorneys so the they never have to pay it.

  336. 336.

    dmsilev

    January 9, 2021 at 10:06 pm

    @Patricia Kayden: I’m sure, like good conservatives, they will pull themselves up by their own bootstraps and build out server infrastructure and large scale data centers and so forth in the 29 hours Amazon gave them before pulling the plug.

  337. 337.

    Ruckus

    January 9, 2021 at 10:06 pm

    @J R in WV:

    I believe you are younger than I am…….

  338. 338.

    Benw

    January 9, 2021 at 10:07 pm

    @Steeplejack: holy moly if anyone hasn’t seen My Neighbor Totoro yet watch it

  339. 339.

    Steeplejack

    January 9, 2021 at 10:08 pm

    @O. Felix Culpa:

    He commented earlier today that he “went dormant” for a bit because of the doom and gloom. Well, okay, mainly the doom.

  340. 340.

    cain

    January 9, 2021 at 10:08 pm

    It looks like VP is opening considering doing the 25th – it might actually happen. I think there might be enough evidence that Trump is spinning out of control and if they don’t act…

    This might also work out better for the GOP as Pence will take the fall the rest – like a good Jesus like fella.

  341. 341.

    Steeplejack

    January 9, 2021 at 10:10 pm

    @Ruckus:

    She is really funny. She loves her some Steve Kornacki. She was hilarious watching him work his board on election night.

  342. 342.

    Gravenstone

    January 9, 2021 at 10:11 pm

    @Steeplejack: Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering with You

    Ooh! I’ve been waiting for that to finally get streamed. Subbed to HBO Max through YouTube TV and in the process of ditching DirecTV. This gives me more incentive to actually use Max now.

  343. 343.

    Kent

    January 9, 2021 at 10:13 pm

    @cain:

    It looks like VP is opening considering doing the 25th – it might actually happen. I think there might be enough evidence that Trump is spinning out of control and if they don’t act…

    For godsakes, Pence, do something right in your life.

    How many cabinet secretaries are even left?  I’m guessing geriatric Wilber Ross at DOC has been napping through all of this.  And I think Ben Carson is still over at HUD.  Are there any others  Mnuchin.  Do all the unconfirmed Trump loyalist acting lackeys who replaced the others get a vote?

  344. 344.

    Rob

    January 9, 2021 at 10:14 pm

    @Kent: Azar is still at HHS and I think he’s been confirmed.

  345. 345.

    Steeplejack

    January 9, 2021 at 10:16 pm

    @Benw:

    My Trader Joe’s friend is the one who reminded me about the Studio Ghibli drop on the way home from her job today. She said she and her housemate were going to do them all, and they started with My Neighbor Totoro. She agreed with me that if everyone watched that movie once a year the world would be a much better place.

    They were going to do a double feature tonight, so I suggested Kiki’s Delivery Service and Spirited Away.

  346. 346.

    dmsilev

    January 9, 2021 at 10:18 pm

    @Kent: Mike Pompeo. Azar at HHS. Scalia Junior at Labor.

    Yeah, no.

  347. 347.

    Steeplejack

    January 9, 2021 at 10:18 pm

    @Gravenstone:

    I just looked it up a while ago to make sure it’s there and available. It was awesome on the big screen.

  348. 348.

    Ken

    January 9, 2021 at 10:18 pm

    @cain: Opens up an amusing possibility (but too late for this week’s SNL):

    TRUMP: <expletive> low-class <expletive> Pence! How dare that <expletive> betray me! I’ll have him killed! Wait, how do I order him killed without my twitter account?

    MUCH-PUT-UPON-AIDE (WHO HAS BEEN HOPING FOR THIS FOR YEARS): You can reverse it, you know, by showing you’re mentally competent.

    TRUMP: What! How do I do that?

    M-P-U-A: Figuring that out is part of how you show you’re competent. The only hint I can give you is, Pence invoked the 25th amendment…

  349. 349.

    beef

    January 9, 2021 at 10:22 pm

    That’s not billionaire Mercer money that’s the money the Mercer’s owe us. They are supposedly in debt to the IRS for 7 billion in back taxes. And are using some of it to pay attorneys so the they never have to pay it.

    @Ruckus:
    Mercer doesn’t owe $7B.  He’s not that rich, maybe $1B total, so it’d be hard for him to incur that kind of tax bill.  The $7B is a collective tax bill shared by all the investors in Renaissance’s flagship fund.

    Mercer and his daughter funded all this damage because they’re foolish ideologues.

  350. 350.

    Another Scott

    January 9, 2021 at 10:29 pm

    @Steeplejack: My Rep too.  :-)  He’s very, very good.

    Some of my colleagues say we need unity. I agree.

    We should be unified in our will to remove a president who incited terrorists and white supremacists to attack our Capitol and attempt the violent overthrow of our government and assassination of our Speaker and Vice President.

    — Rep. Don Beyer (@RepDonBeyer) January 10, 2021

    Yup.

    Unity without justice is appeasement.

    — Mark Shatraw (@09mshatraw) January 9, 2021

    Yup.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  351. 351.

    MisterForkbeard

    January 9, 2021 at 10:29 pm

    @cain: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure is serviceable but not expansive. And moving from AWS to OCI is probably not that simple unless AWS was basically just used to host VMs.

    Larry Ellison is a wingnut, but I don’t think the board would take Parler on if they just got booted from AWS. Oracle is very small c conservative and won’t take on that risk.

  352. 352.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    January 9, 2021 at 10:30 pm

    @raven:

    Yes, but why were they so undermanned? They should’ve known this was going to happen. The radical right openly planned this on Parler

  353. 353.

    MisterForkbeard

    January 9, 2021 at 10:32 pm

    @Kent: The acting heads get a vote. All the law says is the “department/cabinet heads” have to approve it.

  354. 354.

    John Revolta

    January 9, 2021 at 10:32 pm

    @O. Felix Culpa: Okay ya weirded me out for a minute there

  355. 355.

    Benw

    January 9, 2021 at 10:33 pm

    @Steeplejack: such a sweet movie. Excellent suggestion!

  356. 356.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 9, 2021 at 10:33 pm

    Just ban golfers from voting or holding office and we solve a lot of problems.

    @Steve in the ATL: You know nothing.

  357. 357.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 10:34 pm

    @Ksmiami: exactly the way I feel. Fuck em.

    I’m loving how they are losing their shit over Twitter and Parler. Never mind what happened Wed.

  358. 358.

    Steeplejack

    January 9, 2021 at 10:34 pm

    I have donated in the past to Bot Sentinel, a site that allows you to check on Twitter accounts to see if they are, uh, bots, so I am on their mailing list. It’s free and very useful. Just saw this in my e-mail:

    We are excited to announce a significant number of Twitter accounts were deactivated/suspended by Twitter!

    Bot Sentinel tracks 1,591,698+ Twitter accounts, and over the past 24 hours [before 10:00 a.m. EST Saturday] 42,966 accounts were deactivated/​suspended. That is approximately 2.7% of every account we are tracking. In comparison, on average, our platform tracks 1,100 deactivations/suspensions per day.

    We don’t have an exact number, but we estimate at least 1 million accounts were deactivated/​suspended based on our numbers. However, it is more likely to be several million accounts. In the three years we have been tracking accounts, this is the most deactivations/​suspensions in a single day.

    After the recent purge, now 35.37% of all problematic accounts we are tracking have been deactivated/suspended. This recent purge is a significant win for everyone who has supported the fight against disinformation and targeted attacks.

  359. 359.

    Uncle Cosmo

    January 9, 2021 at 10:37 pm

    @Starfish: “Centrist nonsense?” Go fuck yourself, asshole.

  360. 360.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    January 9, 2021 at 10:38 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Glad to see you back, Omnes!

  361. 361.

    Yutsano

    January 9, 2021 at 10:38 pm

    @Quinerly: …

    WTF DID I JUST SKIM???

  362. 362.

    gene108

    January 9, 2021 at 10:39 pm

    The calculation Republicans have made is our side won’t try to violently overthrow the government, or kidnap elected Republican officials, so they keep escalating.

    We way way more than likely will not, but I think it plays into Republican calculations to keep feeding the violent extremists conspiracy theories.

  363. 363.

    Steeplejack

    January 9, 2021 at 10:40 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Lawyer fight!

    Please allow me to hold your velveteen smoking jacket for you. Steve can throw his seersucker Matlock jacket over the back of a chair.

  364. 364.

    Leto

    January 9, 2021 at 10:42 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: just like Beetlejuice, say his name thrice and he appears!

  365. 365.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 9, 2021 at 10:46 pm

    @Leto: No, I came back earlier today.  Too many people were being wrong on the internet during my absence.

  366. 366.

    Ken

    January 9, 2021 at 10:47 pm

    @Quinerly: I’m loving how they are losing their shit over Twitter and Parler. Never mind what happened Wed.

    Or covid, which is now killing 4,000 Americans a day, and infecting 1,000,000 every three days.

  367. 367.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 9, 2021 at 10:51 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: And you wanted to add to that number?

  368. 368.

    NotMax

    January 9, 2021 at 10:51 pm

    Just returned from the monthly sojourn to town. Happened to run into a friend who knows more about weaponry and military history than any hundred officers in the services, combined. (Flaming liberal, in case you wondered; makes his own chain armor for SCA events.)

    He mentioned that among the sorry-ass nutballs the other day were those decked out wearing the holders for body armor but without the plates.

    Also passed on something I’d not come across, namely that one of the insurrectionists was pictured holding up a sign reading “Q Sent Me.” And that ST:TNG‘s John de Lancie had thence posted a picture online with him brandishing a sign reading “NO I DIDN’T.”

  369. 369.

    Kent

    January 9, 2021 at 10:51 pm

    @Rob:@Kent: Azar is still at HHS and I think he’s been confirmed.

    I guess he is tanned and rested after doing nothing about Covid for the past 6 months.

  370. 370.

    Ken

    January 9, 2021 at 10:52 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: No, I came back earlier today. Too many people were being wrong on the internet during my absence.

    Ah, I thought things had suddenly changed for the better.

    (Though you missed an opportunity – if you’d said “late yesterday”, we might have thought you had something to do with Trump’s sudden disappearance from all social media.)

  371. 371.

    J R in WV

    January 9, 2021 at 10:52 pm

    @Ruckus:

    @J R in WV:

    I believe you are younger than I am…….

    Yes, probably some 18 months or so… maybe that’s Raven, who is also a little older than I am. Probably between us in age.

  372. 372.

    cain

    January 9, 2021 at 10:53 pm

    @MisterForkbeard:

    Oh for sure. I think Parler is going to get shut down and they’re going to find another place. I’d probably volunteer Librem One – my former employers created a chat service with respect to free speech/privacy etc. I was dir of marketing and I told them that you can’t even use those terms – you’ll have nazis all over the place and reasonable people won’t show up. They refused to put in moderation tools. So after the launch started they were:

    1. hacked
    2. PoC and other communities had a shit fit

    Pretty much everything I and my team warned them about happened. Luckily, my team and I got terminated a week before launch so my reputation remains untainted.

    the service is called librem chat if you are curious.

    Didn’t listen to me. Plus they had a really juvenile ad that they conceived and worked on without telling me. Tech bros.. ridiculous.

  373. 373.

    Another Scott

    January 9, 2021 at 10:54 pm

    18 USC §1751(d) makes it a federal crime to conspire to kill the Vice President.

    — A Crime a Day (@CrimeADay) January 10, 2021

    Surprising!

    Not.

    We must clean out the monsters.

    (via DevinCow)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  374. 374.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 9, 2021 at 10:55 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Something like that.

  375. 375.

    cain

    January 9, 2021 at 10:56 pm

    Oh… new thread.. I’ll make my comment there!

  376. 376.

    NotMax

    January 9, 2021 at 10:56 pm

    @cain

    The country needs more foo.

    ;)

  377. 377.

    J R in WV

    January 9, 2021 at 10:56 pm

    @Kent:

    Do all the unconfirmed Trump loyalist acting lackeys who replaced the others get a vote?

    The senior remaining officers where the official “secretaries” have resigned will also have a chance to vote. The Amendment specifically mentions “principal officer” as opposed to “Cabinet Secretary” of the executive offices.

    Dunno about acting secretaries, maybe their under secretary should have the vote? Lots of the acting secretaries are MAGA RWNJ idjits.

  378. 378.

    Ken

    January 9, 2021 at 10:58 pm

    @Another Scott: 18 USC §1751(d) makes it a federal crime to conspire to kill the Vice President.

    It’s not a crime if the President does it.

    Um. Remember three weeks ago, when we were wondering why Barr suddenly resigned?  I just thought of a plausible reason.

  379. 379.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 9, 2021 at 11:03 pm

    @Steeplejack: Wait, a Democrat who owns a car dealership?  Now you’re just shitting me.

  380. 380.

    a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio

    January 9, 2021 at 11:03 pm

    @Mandarama: I thought his eyebrows were beautifully groomed, at least in the recent pictures, unlike his mugshot from that altercation in Georgia.

    Nashville’s population increase includes a lot of guys like this, I suspect—young people desperately hoping to be cool. Having moved here when it wasn’t cool (about 6 months after Lamar Alexander replaced Ray Blanton), I do hope the rest of them find another way to be cool. Maybe they’ll imprint on Senator-elect Ossoff, or start reading Proust.

  381. 381.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    January 9, 2021 at 11:05 pm

    @NotMax:

    Also passed on something I’d not come across, namely that one of the insurrectionists was pictured holding up a sign reading “Q Sent Me.” And that ST:TNG‘s John de Lancie had thence posted a picture online with him brandishing a sign reading “NO I DIDN’T.

    Oh my god, that’s amazing!

    Just returned from the monthly sojourn to town. Happened to run into a friend who knows more about weaponry and military history than any hundred officers in the services, combined. (Flaming liberal, in case you wondered; makes his own chain armor for SCA events.)

    Medieval fairs, you say?

  382. 382.

    Steeplejack

    January 9, 2021 at 11:06 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Deep blue NoVA, baby!

    I didn’t buy my car there, but the service is great.

  383. 383.

    Steve in the ATL

    January 9, 2021 at 11:07 pm

    @Steeplejack: ah demand, ah say, ah demand satisfaction!

  384. 384.

    Steeplejack

    January 9, 2021 at 11:08 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):

    Aw, that’s mean.

  385. 385.

    Steve in the ATL

    January 9, 2021 at 11:08 pm

    @a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio: Pardon Me, Ray!

  386. 386.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 9, 2021 at 11:09 pm

    @Shalimar: Each member of the House and Senate have public offices and staff in the Congressional Office Buildings(Senate and House) on each side of the Capitol.  The Speaker has an office in the Capitol and other leadership may as well.  I didn’t know until Wednesday that all Senators have offices in the basement of the Capitol.  From what I remember(I’m not going to try and find my copy of the CD), but the basement doesn’t have any id of any offices down there.

  387. 387.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    January 9, 2021 at 11:10 pm

    @Steeplejack:

    The guy who says, “Tell me how the grass tastes little man!” is the guy who gets flattened lol. You can tell it’s him because he yells as he charges the other swordsman and it’s the same voice

    At least I think so

  388. 388.

    prostratedragon

    January 9, 2021 at 11:11 pm

    @NotMax:  Been wondering when some representative of that Q Continuum would be heard.

  389. 389.

    Steeplejack

    January 9, 2021 at 11:12 pm

    @Steve in the ATL:

    I’m gonna finish my bourbon and branch water.

  390. 390.

    Richard

    January 9, 2021 at 11:15 pm

    @Starfish: probably not.  They will keep their pensions. They will never lose their shame.

  391. 391.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 9, 2021 at 11:15 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: Also while we are on that topic.  I am ever so disappointed by Terri Nunn.

  392. 392.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    January 9, 2021 at 11:19 pm

    @Richard:

    How do you know that? If they’re convicted of felonies like sedition/insurrection they absolutely will lose their pensions. It’s federal law

  393. 393.

    Jack Canuck

    January 9, 2021 at 11:20 pm

    @Subsole: No way – the Panther Moderns were way more self-aware, organised, and competent!

  394. 394.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    January 9, 2021 at 11:23 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Also while we are on that topic.  I am ever so disappointed by Terri Nunn.

    I couldn’t believe Berlin was playing Mar a Largo on NYE. It’s like, why would you want such bad publicity? For a lame duck president? During a pandemic where nobody is masked up? They can’t be hurting for money that bad. I also never knew Vanilla Ice was a right-winger. I guess it’s true: Trump really does reveal the corruption in those around him

  395. 395.

    Steve in the ATL

    January 9, 2021 at 11:23 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: because she got that restraining order against you?

    She apologized for playing there, but should have apologized also for being on a bill with Vanilla Ice, Taylor Dayne and the licensed touring version of The Beach Boys

  396. 396.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 9, 2021 at 11:23 pm

    @Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Most will plead to a lesser offense.

  397. 397.

    Omnes Omnibus

    January 9, 2021 at 11:24 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: That’s old hat.

  398. 398.

    Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)

    January 9, 2021 at 11:31 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I hope that doesn’t happen. These POS need to go to prison for a long time to discourage this from happening again

  399. 399.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 9, 2021 at 11:47 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Just ban golfers from voting or holding office and we solve a lot of problems.

    I’m good with that.

  400. 400.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    January 9, 2021 at 11:53 pm

    @Steeplejack: Even in deep blue California, the car dealers are RWNJ’s

  401. 401.

    Steeplejack

    January 10, 2021 at 12:01 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Mostly here, too, of course, but Beyer is what he is. He also owns a Volvo dealership, so maybe he got disowned by his family for trafficking in those “furriner” cars.

  402. 402.

    Ruckus

    January 10, 2021 at 1:07 am

    @J R in WV:

    I thought so. It’s not by much though, and I think raven is 4-6 months behind me. We are going to be close, being in the service about the same time. Although raven went in first but he was 17 if I remember correctly. And still we are getting fucking old. My docs say I’m great for my age. What the hell do they know……

  403. 403.

    Ruckus

    January 10, 2021 at 1:14 am

    @Amir Khalid:

    Are you expecting me to a actually read what I type?

    Silly boy.

  404. 404.

    a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio

    January 10, 2021 at 1:24 am

     

    @Steve in the ATL: I didn’t really mean to do it!

  405. 405.

    Captain C

    January 10, 2021 at 1:25 am

    @Mary G: I definitely didn’t have AZ GOP tries to alienate the McCain family on my January 2021 bingo card.

  406. 406.

    Mandarama

    January 10, 2021 at 2:05 am

    @a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio: My husband also made a crack about the eyebrows! A poser. I know I shouldn’t pile on the guy when he’s clearly a tool, but my BIL also noted that on FB, he had left gushing fan mail for our unfortunately-new-neighbor Tamale Limburger. Ew.

  407. 407.

    ballerat

    January 11, 2021 at 11:35 pm

    @cain: Ah, that’s it though. Kid didn’t go to college, he didn’t go to college, wife didn’t go to college. No education loans to pay off.

    It is amazing the toys you can buy if you aren’t paying another mortgage’s worth every month for 20+ years toward yours and/or your spouse’s education loans, and if you don’t have to put any money every month in a 529 plan for your kids.

    I have no idea if he’s in debt but I don’t think so, for the reasons above.

    Twelve years out of high school saw me looking for a job with 2 degrees and deep in education loan debt, and had just met someone who I wanted to marry, who also had college debt and also was trying to start a career.

    Twelve years out for him and he had a nice chunk of equity built up in his house and was ready to move up to a bigger one, was fully invested in his pension, had been married nearly 10 years and their kid was halfway through grade school.

    This is why I think these blue collar guys don’t see college as worth it. They don’t value education for its own sake so for them it just doesn’t pencil out. Lot of wasted time and money to them.

    And from his perspective for the things he values he’s not wrong.

  408. 408.

    ballerat

    January 12, 2021 at 12:07 am

    @ballerat: Oh, forgot daycare. His wife is the very traditional wife, the stay-at-home housewife who raises the kid.

    My wife and I both worked so we had to pay for daycare for our 2 kids. When both of them were in daycare at the same time that was actually more than our mortgage. We had calculated if we had a 3rd child we would save money by one of us quitting and staying home.

    College educations and raising children, esp if the plan is they are college bound, are very expensive. These are not expenses a blue collar guy has, especially with a traditional role wife.

  409. 409.

    ballerat

    January 12, 2021 at 12:27 am

    @Kent: Yep. My yahoo relative is also 50-something. But also very comfortable and very resentful. I don’t get it.

    As a guy with just a high school education he has no idea how good he’s got it. But then maybe that’s why.

    I know the thread’s dead but I was here so what the heck.

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