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You are here: Home / Information As Power / Pre-Dawn Schadenfreude Open Thread: Who’s Got Two Thumbs & Nothing He Can Do With Them?…

Pre-Dawn Schadenfreude Open Thread: Who’s Got Two Thumbs & Nothing He Can Do With Them?…

by Anne Laurie|  January 9, 20216:06 am| 109 Comments

This post is in: Information As Power, Open Threads, Trumpery, Lock Him Up...Lock Them All Up, Schadenfreude

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And now
The end is near
And so I face the final curtain
My friend, I'll say it clear
I'll state my case, of which I'm certain
But not on
Twitter or Reddit or Facebook https://t.co/mZh8LPx3Mi

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 8, 2021


Gollum has lost his precious.

— Senator Mazie Hirono (@maziehirono) January 9, 2021

Politico rubs it in — “The ‘Hemingway of 140 characters’ has lost his favorite bullhorn”:

President Donald Trump has many prized possessions. But few seemed to inspire as much personal joy as his Twitter feed. Trump routinely boasted of the social media bullhorn he possessed. He credited it with launching his political trajectory. And he used it as a tool to lacerate his foes.

On Friday night, he lost it. And, then, he lost his mind…

For Trump, the Twitter ban was yet another inglorious passage to the final chapter of his presidency. Over the past two days, he’s been admonished by his own aides, chastised by Republicans, and threatened once more with impeachment…

There are no plans to immediately emerge from the cocoon either. One White House official said there were initial internal discussions between White House aides and Trump of doing a “last farewell interview.” But, the official added, “I’m not sure if they’re going to come to fruition,” much to the official’s chagrin.

“I don’t want the lasting impression of this administration to be what happened at the Capitol,” the official said…

Trump campaign account suspended after Donald Trump tried to use the account to evade his ban.

— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) January 9, 2021

Appears the Trump campaign’s digital director tried to give Trump his account. Twitter promptly suspended him pic.twitter.com/7ejWL7GjEc

— Jeremy Diamond (@JDiamond1) January 9, 2021

Donald tried to get on Melania’s Twitter but she told him the password was Barron’s middle name plus his birthday.

— Joe Faina (@faination) January 9, 2021

Hello I am brand new to Twitter, what are you guys up to

— John Barron (@barronjohn1946) January 9, 2021

How it started. How it ended. pic.twitter.com/LL2AYnLA61

— Jennifer Taub (@jentaub) January 9, 2021

You will be able to find this now deleted tweet at the National Archives and maybe a future Trump presidential library https://t.co/adJU2ighxm

— Jason Leopold (@JasonLeopold) January 9, 2021

I ask all of Levin's followers to honor his wishes https://t.co/CpdsrnTgPY

— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) January 8, 2021

Since it’s early (for most of you), note this is *not* the official account…

“Guess who can still tweet motherfuc-” pic.twitter.com/RPUWk5sCw7

— Chris Jackson (@ChrisCJackson) January 9, 2021

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    January 9, 2021 at 6:19 am

    Haha. That last gif.

  2. 2.

    OzarkHillbilly

    January 9, 2021 at 6:21 am

    I look forward to the quiet. s//

  3. 3.

    Baud

    January 9, 2021 at 6:28 am

    Via LGM comments

    Trump’s email provider has removed his service, cutting his campaign off from their email list of supporters. https://t.co/yArEXdk1yE
    — Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) January 9, 2021

  4. 4.

    PsiFighter37

    January 9, 2021 at 6:45 am

    Kind of pathetic that Twitter banning Trump has kind of overtaken the antics from January 6th. What a fucked-up world we live in, with priorities.

    I also cannot believe that the GOP response about this is to whine about Section 230, which, if it did not exist, would mean Trump would face far more legal exposure than he does now. What fucking morons.

  5. 5.

    p.a

    January 9, 2021 at 6:46 am

    “Hello Goodyear? I’d, uh, like to enquire about blimp rentals in the D.C. area?”
    *click*
    “Goddamnit!”

  6. 6.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 6:48 am

    The website for Shop Donald J Trump has been terminated. “shop unavailable.”

  7. 7.

    OzarkHillbilly

    January 9, 2021 at 6:48 am

    I guess 1 Am was a little too early after all. I’m going back to bed.

  8. 8.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 9, 2021 at 6:55 am

    Politico rubs it in — “The ‘Hemingway of 140 characters’

    Way to insult Hemingway!

    And, then, he lost his mind…

    How many years did this writer stick their own head up their ass?

  9. 9.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 6:55 am

    @PsiFighter37: well, CNN is advertising a two hour special for tomorrow night

    “The Trump Insurrection.”

  10. 10.

    Baud

    January 9, 2021 at 6:55 am

    @PsiFighter37: 

    Nothing has overtaken Jan. 6. This ban is not separate from that, but a continuation of the repercussions from that.

  11. 11.

    raven

    January 9, 2021 at 6:56 am

    The dude in the Bolo thread last night was a bartender at Doc Ford’s Bar and Grill in Sanibel. My buddies and I ate there two years ago after fishing the Everglades.

  12. 12.

    WereBear

    January 9, 2021 at 6:59 am

    @Quinerly: Dagnab, that makes me happy.

  13. 13.

    Baud

    January 9, 2021 at 6:59 am

    @raven:

    One of the insurrectionists?

  14. 14.

    Central Planning

    January 9, 2021 at 6:59 am

    I don’t know about anyone else, but I felt better, maybe less anxious, when they banned him for 12 hours the other day, and the same after they banned him permanently last night. Anyone else feel different now?

  15. 15.

    WereBear

    January 9, 2021 at 6:59 am

    @raven: Classic Florida Man!

  16. 16.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 9, 2021 at 7:01 am

    I really hope these Nazi Twitter clones really are sting operations.

  17. 17.

    zhena gogolia

    January 9, 2021 at 7:02 am

    @Baud:

    “Oh, no! We’re being distracted! We’ll just forget about the attempt at a violent overthrow of our government!”

  18. 18.

    raven

    January 9, 2021 at 7:03 am

    @Baud: This dude

  19. 19.

    zhena gogolia

    January 9, 2021 at 7:04 am

    @raven:

    Did that ID turn out to be true? Adam seemed unsure.

  20. 20.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 9, 2021 at 7:05 am

    @raven:

    My buddies and I ate there two years ago after fishing the Everglades. 

    You fished the entire Everglades?  Got all the fish?  ?

  21. 21.

    Baud

    January 9, 2021 at 7:06 am

    @raven:

    Zip tie dude? Damn.

  22. 22.

    JPL

    January 9, 2021 at 7:09 am

    @p.a: lol

  23. 23.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 9, 2021 at 7:12 am

    @p.a: “You’re a blimp yourself, you orange fascist!”

    *click

  24. 24.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 7:13 am

    @WereBear: I just checked Amazon. Can still buy Trump shit. His corporate shop is still up. Shopify dropped him a couple of days ago. I can’t remember if I saw it here but Rush and Levin have deactivated their Twitter accts in protest.

  25. 25.

    WereBear

    January 9, 2021 at 7:15 am

    @Quinerly:

    Rush and Levin have deactivated their Twitter accts in protest.

     
    Works for me!

  26. 26.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 7:18 am

    Has anyone posted Olivia Nuzzi’s piece? Towards the end of the piece, the source talks about how upset Trump was about how “low class” his supporters looked in their appearance while storming the Capitol. What they were wearing.

  27. 27.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 9, 2021 at 7:19 am

    @Quinerly: And CNN surely will treat it as the threat to the country that it was.

    “Boys!  Make the fanfare louder!”

  28. 28.

    dogwood

    January 9, 2021 at 7:20 am

    @Central Planning: I’m with you.  That 12 hour ban was the first reprieve we’ve had in 5 years.  I felt at least some tension drain out of me.

  29. 29.

    p.a.

    January 9, 2021 at 7:21 am

    If the motherpfucker  put as much energy into fighting covid back in March as he is trying to do a twitter workaround our results could have mirrored S Korea’s.

  30. 30.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 9, 2021 at 7:22 am

    @Quinerly:

    Rush and Levin have deactivated their Twitter accts in protest.

    Oh goodie!  No one will hear their crap ever again!  (How long until they scream Twitter “censored” them and first amendment, blah blah?)

  31. 31.

    Sm*t Cl*de

    January 9, 2021 at 7:23 am

    @WereBear:

    And nothing of value was lost.

  32. 32.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 7:23 am

    I cruised over to Parler yesterday looking for Lin Wood (trivia… One year ago he was giving a speech to a law school and sounding sane). Anyway, Parler is not user friendly at all. Very hard to follow the threads. As for Lin, looks like he has been banned from Parler for calling for the execution of Pence. He lasted less time on Parler than Twitter if that means anything.

  33. 33.

    JPL

    January 9, 2021 at 7:23 am

    @Quinerly: At least in Charlottesville, they were properly attired.   Am I right?

  34. 34.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 9, 2021 at 7:27 am

    @Quinerly:

    how upset Trump was about how “low class” his supporters looked in their appearance while storming the Capitol 

    Truly a strange strange fascist POS.

    “I want high class traitorous trash to support me!”

  35. 35.

    RandomMonster

    January 9, 2021 at 7:28 am

    @Central Planning: Anyone else feel different now?

    I laughed and then felt genuine physical relief that the flood of screeching lunacy had stopped.

    My concern now is that his domestic terrorist brownshirts will start their attacks in earnest, focusing on tech companies and anything Democratic.

  36. 36.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 7:28 am

    @mrmoshpotato: one thing about it… That video of the Trump Crime Family partying to Laura Brannigan has finally made it to TV and not just on line being passed around. Seen it given heavy play on CNN and MSNBC finally. I’m glad a wider audience is seeing it. What needs to get more airtime is the stuff about these terrorists pissing and shitting in the Capitol. That has really gotten the attention of people I know who “just don’t want to talk politics. “

  37. 37.

    RandomMonster

    January 9, 2021 at 7:31 am

    @mrmoshpotato: “I want high class traitorous trash to support me!”

    Even Hitler liked snappy uniforms.

  38. 38.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 7:31 am

    @mrmoshpotato: article notes he had been particularly upset about Brad Parscale’s meltdown in the summer. Not the actual meltdown but Parscale’s low class “beer shirt.”

  39. 39.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 7:32 am

    @JPL: excellent point.

  40. 40.

    Baud

    January 9, 2021 at 7:32 am

    This is shocking.

    Men and women who endorse “hegemonic masculinity” — an idealized form of manhood where White, heterosexual men have power, status and dominance over women, gay men, men with disabilities, racial or religious minorities and other groups — are more likely to be supporters for US President Donald Trump than those who don’t embrace dominant masculinity, according to new research.

  41. 41.

    topclimber

    January 9, 2021 at 7:33 am

    @RandomMonster: Don’t get him started on Presidents who wear tan suits.

  42. 42.

    JPL

    January 9, 2021 at 7:34 am

    @Quinerly: omg..  What to wear when having a mental breakdown is now being shown only on Trump TV and is hosted by the former first lady Melania.

  43. 43.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 9, 2021 at 7:34 am

    @Quinerly: Not the actual meltdown but Parscale’s low class “beer shirt.”

    As I said, Truly a strange strange fascist POS.

    Now I want to rewatch Parscale getting tackled.

  44. 44.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 9, 2021 at 7:35 am

    @Quinerly: Reminds me that every photo of MLK I can recall seeing has him in suit and tie, even in DC in the summer.

  45. 45.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 7:36 am

    Meanwhile, Epoch times is reporting how Trump supporters stopped Antifa from breaking into the Capitol.

  46. 46.

    Baud

    January 9, 2021 at 7:36 am

    @JPL:

    Storming the Capitol? Dress for Success!

  47. 47.

    Baud

    January 9, 2021 at 7:37 am

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Everyone wore suits back then.

  48. 48.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 7:38 am

    @mrmoshpotato: I actually thought he had his shirt off. Big beer belly. Report back after watching it. I was just on Parler looking for Lin Wood. I only have the stomach for so much this AM.

  49. 49.

    Betty Cracker

    January 9, 2021 at 7:39 am

    @Quinerly: Hopefully the Lord will deactivate Rush soon! (Just kidding; I am an atheist. He’ll die of a shitty disease that has killed countless people who were much better human beings than Limbaugh.)

  50. 50.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 9, 2021 at 7:39 am

    @Baud: Study funded by the New England Journal of Duh.

  51. 51.

    Gin & Tonic

    January 9, 2021 at 7:39 am

    @Baud: That’s why they got the Voting Rights Act passed.

  52. 52.

    Waldo

    January 9, 2021 at 7:39 am

    @mrmoshpotato: to be fair, on the day of the siege, Jake Tapper, Chris Cuomo, Don Lemon et al were laying the blame squarely at Trump’s feet. Even the loathsome Rick Santorum offered a mealy-mouthed condemnation.

    Of course, if there’s a way to both-sides this shit show, I’m sure Wolf Blitzer will find it.

  53. 53.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 7:41 am

    @JPL: read, I think, Vanity Fair that all this week Melania has been with photograhers in the WH. She wants to do a coffee table book on the changes she has made in 4 years in how WH is decorated/furnished.

  54. 54.

    Chyron HR

    January 9, 2021 at 7:42 am

    @Baud:

    I guess republicans, like dogs, don’t understand mirrors.

  55. 55.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 7:42 am

    @topclimber: good one.

  56. 56.

    Baud

    January 9, 2021 at 7:42 am

    @Waldo:

    From what I hear, CNN has been more solid than MSNBC over the last few months.

  57. 57.

    JPL

    January 9, 2021 at 7:42 am

    We need to come together as a nation, and understand that those that stormed the Capitol were radicalized, and should be forgiven

     

    please don’t radicalize me, bro.

  58. 58.

    Barbara

    January 9, 2021 at 7:44 am

    The fact that these social media sites are behaving in such a coordinated way makes me fear that they are being influenced by law enforcement, either because new plots are afoot (likely) but also showing them how some of the events on Wednesday were being coordinated through their sites..

    And fuck Ginni Thomas. What a complete mockery and travesty. There is no way she runs around supporting these fire breathers without her husband’s endorsement.

  59. 59.

    RandomMonster

    January 9, 2021 at 7:45 am

    @Quinerly: The first coffee table book with a centerfold.

  60. 60.

    Betty Cracker

    January 9, 2021 at 7:45 am

    @zhena gogolia: Here’s a Twitter thread that IDs two zip tie carriers, one of whom is the same guy from the BOLO post (I think) and the other a retired Air Force officer:

    BREAKING I can now confirm Male #2 w/ restraints is highly decorated combat vet & @AF_Academy graduate Lt. Colonel. Ret. Larry Brock of Texas.

    Releasing his name now after 24h of collaboration w/@RonanFarrow & his investigations team to confirm.https://t.co/nog9HI7DzX pic.twitter.com/ClHImsFucM

    — John Scott-Railton (@jsrailton) January 9, 2021

    Ronan Farrow has a story up in the New Yorker about Brock, who says he just found the zip ties on the ground and was holding them until he could find a cop to give them too. No, really — that’s his pathetic excuse!

    It’s so righteous that these pricks are being hunted down online, charged with crimes and fired from their jobs. Because they’re big-mouthed louts and dumber than a bag of hammers, many of them probably texted/posted scads of incriminating comments that will make the convictions easy.

  61. 61.

    Jo Jo las Orejas

    January 9, 2021 at 7:47 am

    @Chyron HR:
    Eso no es verdad. Admiro mi hermosa apariencia en los espejos de mi hombre todo el tiempo. Mi mamá dice que nunca antes había visto a un cachorro hacer eso.

  62. 62.

    JPL

    January 9, 2021 at 7:47 am

    @Quinerly:  Ha..   Jill’s book will be how to rid the White House of the nasties.

  63. 63.

    Suburban Mom

    January 9, 2021 at 7:48 am

    @mrmoshpotato:  It is all about the brand.

  64. 64.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 7:48 am

    @RandomMonster: my morning laugh. TY.

  65. 65.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 9, 2021 at 7:50 am

    @Quinerly: Yes.  Not really a beer belly, but he did get tackled.

  66. 66.

    Barbara

    January 9, 2021 at 7:51 am

    @Baud: I had to turn Maddow off on Thursday because I just couldn’t stand the snap judgment that no one was doing anything.  I understand they live from one news cycle to the next but it doesn’t improve thinking or discourse to operate at such an extreme tilt all the time. I thought her resorting was good, however.

  67. 67.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 9, 2021 at 7:54 am

    A recipe for you Food Wishes viewers.

  68. 68.

    Baud

    January 9, 2021 at 7:56 am

    @Barbara:

    People have an addiction to snap judgments.  It’s the nature and influence of social media, I think.

  69. 69.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 7:56 am

    YouTube has banned Steve Bannon’s podcasts. I actually had forgotten Twitter banned him in Nov over the Fauci remarks. Days sure are running together for me.

  70. 70.

    JPL

    January 9, 2021 at 8:00 am

    trump is running out of ways to get his ego fix, so maybe he’ll go to Mar-a-lago early.

  71. 71.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 8:02 am

    YouTube has removed Rudy’s last podcast. He has a link to it in one of his last Tweets yesterday. But “poof” on YouTube.

  72. 72.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 8:04 am

    @JPL: I stiil remember those rumors that he cracked, threatened suicide and was on a hold back when he was in that string of bankruptcies.

  73. 73.

    John S.

    January 9, 2021 at 8:07 am

    @Baud: Prior to the last few days, I haven’t watched cable news in years.

    CNN had much better coverage than MSNBC on Wednesday. There was strong and firm condemnation from everyone (even Wolf Blitzer) on both channels — except for Santorum. He’s a fucking embarrassment, and the second he appears I switch channels.

    Jake Tapper has been strong. Even John King has been strong. Everyone at MSNBC has been strong, but somewhat repetitive (especially Maddow and Hayes). Even Michael Steele has been a strong voice — if you can forget that it’s Michael fucking Steele.

    But the real treasure is Joy Reid. None of the talking heads are better than her.

  74. 74.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 9, 2021 at 8:09 am

    @JPL: Gotta get his 80s/90s hits fix!

  75. 75.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 9, 2021 at 8:13 am

    @Quinerly: So, is calling for an attack on the US government too far for YouTube, or are they crapping their pants over Democratically-run House and Senate committees?

    Oh Fuckerberg, we’d like another word…

  76. 76.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    January 9, 2021 at 8:13 am

    @Quinerly: That would be like the trash taking itself out.

  77. 77.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 9, 2021 at 8:14 am

    @John S.:

    Michael Steele even has been a strong voice — if you can forget that it’s Michael fucking Steele. 

    Narrator: You can’t.

  78. 78.

    Wag

    January 9, 2021 at 8:19 am

    @mrmoshpotato:  High class Brooks Brothers rioters!

  79. 79.

    Ken

    January 9, 2021 at 8:19 am

    @Quinerly: [Melania] wants to do a coffee table book on the changes she has made in 4 years in how WH is decorated/furnished.

    Anyone else read this and think of Marie Antoinette?

    Although the whole thing’s probably cover for the bust-out. “And this room used to be full of tacky old furniture and paintings, but you see how I’ve re-done it in Ikea Modern.  What? The old stuff?  Oh, I think that was sent to storage in Florida or somewhere…”

  80. 80.

    Ken

    January 9, 2021 at 8:21 am

    @mrmoshpotato: Way to insult Hemingway!

    Yeah, in a horror movie Papa’s vengeful zombie corpse would be showing up about now.

    And Tom Nichols has absolutely no sense of meter.

  81. 81.

    leeleeFL

    January 9, 2021 at 8:23 am

    @Baud: No, it’s not.  Any woman who has been in an abusive relationship recognized tRump for what he is and who supports him.

  82. 82.

    cmorenc

    January 9, 2021 at 8:24 am

    @JPL:

    trump is running out of ways to get his ego fix, so maybe he’ll go to Mar-a-lago early.

    Be interesting to see how well and long Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club stays financially viable, especially wrt number of existing dues-paying members and prospective new members willing to pay the initiation fee hold up going forward.  Will this end up being yet another Trump business venture that crashes to the ground in insolvency within a handful of years, or are there enough rich die-hard MAGAs eagerly willing to help Trump keep it afloat

    Surely whatever chances Trump had to viably run for President in 2024 (especially as a Republican) vanished on Jan 6th.  That’s likely to cut down his potential clientele, especially from the business community who might otherwise have sought/kept a membership to curry favor with Trump, especially now that Trump is radioactive outside hard-core MAGA-land.

  83. 83.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 8:26 am

    @mrmoshpotato: I take my wins anywhere. I will never forget Seamus? but I will welcome Mittens to my Dem Party if it will help screw/destroy the Repugs.

  84. 84.

    Quinerly

    January 9, 2021 at 8:28 am

    @Just Some Fuckhead: I can see him martyring himself.

  85. 85.

    leeleeFL

    January 9, 2021 at 8:31 am

    @Quinerly: I read that as tarnished, nor furnished!  Made me snort!

  86. 86.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    January 9, 2021 at 8:33 am

    @Quinerly: That would be great.

  87. 87.

    zhena gogolia

    January 9, 2021 at 8:37 am

    @Betty Cracker:

    Thanks.

  88. 88.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 9, 2021 at 8:41 am

    @Ken: I seriously wonder how much stuff this pile of shit crime family stole from the White House.

  89. 89.

    Matt McIrvin

    January 9, 2021 at 8:52 am

    “I don’t want the lasting impression of this administration to be what happened at the Capitol,” the official said…

    too late

    I guess what with the nuclear football, there’s still time for something else to supersede it.

  90. 90.

    mrmoshpotato

    January 9, 2021 at 8:56 am

    @Matt McIrvin: Fine.  The lasting impression isn’t the Nazi trash attempted overthrow for the government.

    The lasting impression is that and all of the other atrocities of the past four years!

    Seriously, fuck this anonymous dickwad.

  91. 91.

    ThresherK

    January 9, 2021 at 8:59 am

    Useful post on Tumblr about naming and prosecuting some of the chucklefuck mob:

    https://rhyanabbott.tumblr.com/post/639818497377042432

  92. 92.

    Sloane Ranger

    January 9, 2021 at 9:00 am

    @Quinerly: Didn’t he slap Don Jr around once for wearing casual clothing when he went to a football or baseball match or something?

    As every high class person knows there is a dress code for every occasion, even insurrection. Failing to follow it leads to exclusion from Society.

    Talking about CNN, which other posters have, did anyone see Anderson Cooper last night? It’s sad that he felt he had to defend himself for an off the cuff remark about the likely post insurrection behaviour of the rioters. He can be really defensive about his “Mom’s last name.”

  93. 93.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    January 9, 2021 at 9:03 am

    @Quinerly: That’s like how the called WW1 The Great War as if there would never be another. They should call it “The Trump Insurrection So Far”

  94. 94.

    Splitting Image

    January 9, 2021 at 9:19 am

    @Central Planning:

    I don’t know about anyone else, but I felt better, maybe less anxious, when they banned him for 12 hours the other day, and the same after they banned him permanently last night. Anyone else feel different now?

    Yes. It’s definitely a game-changer. Ben Garrison and other Q-cucks getting the hammer helped too.

  95. 95.

    There go two miscreants

    January 9, 2021 at 9:45 am

    @leeleeFL: No, it’s not.

    I think you have to start by assuming that every Baud comment has the sarcasm tags.

  96. 96.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    January 9, 2021 at 9:50 am

    @Splitting Image: I feel better but not safe yet.

  97. 97.

    A Ghost to Most

    January 9, 2021 at 9:54 am

    So, is everybody ready for Act 2 of the Wile E. Coyote Rebellion? I’ve got to give the nazis props for imaginative ways to die, so far.

  98. 98.

    zhena gogolia

    January 9, 2021 at 9:56 am

    @ThresherK:

    Oh, that is amazing.

  99. 99.

    different-church-lady

    January 9, 2021 at 10:09 am

    @Baud: And it’s not like we’re immune to it right here either.

  100. 100.

    E.

    January 9, 2021 at 10:11 am

    @mrmoshpotato:  Especially since Hemingway could have worked some real miracles out of 84 characters. Ever read his shortest short story? It’s six words long. Here it is, in full:

    For sale: baby shoes, never worn.

  101. 101.

    Chief Oshkosh

    January 9, 2021 at 10:11 am

    @Betty Cracker: Fuckin’ blue-suiters.

  102. 102.

    Chief Oshkosh

    January 9, 2021 at 10:13 am

    @Quinerly: Good. Now maybe they can ban that little shit weasel who does the Epoch Times. Such a punchable face.

  103. 103.

    Uncle Cosmo

    January 9, 2021 at 10:19 am

    @mrmoshpotato: Hemingway? More like Mock Twayne.

  104. 104.

    Uncle Cosmo

    January 9, 2021 at 10:29 am

    @RandomMonster: The first coffee table book with a centerfold.

    And public [sic] hair. Can’t leave out the public [sic] hair…

  105. 105.

    Danielx

    January 9, 2021 at 11:01 am

    Two thumbs way up and nowhere to go.

  106. 106.

    Another Scott

    January 9, 2021 at 11:42 am

    @mrmoshpotato: Be thankful.

    The BBC News has Ron Christie on staff as their “reasonable Republican”…

    :-/

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  107. 107.

    Bill Arnold

    January 9, 2021 at 11:48 am

    @Chyron HR:
    I guess republicans, like dogs, don’t understand mirrors.
    Republican/RW mostly-closed information systems make them very vulnerable; insanity can build up/be made to build up from (metaphorical) internal reflections, and when the bubble breaks they get exposed to the conflicting light of reality.
    (Note: this applies to any closed information systems, including progressive ones; important to keep one’s information sources varied.)

  108. 108.

    Bill Arnold

    January 9, 2021 at 11:54 am

    @Betty Cracker:

    It’s so righteous that these pricks are being hunted down online, charged with crimes and fired from their jobs.

    In normal times I’d say let the FBI and other law enforcement agencies investigate (even though they’ve always been RW-biased), but there are too many complicit people embedded in LE who will make cases vanish because they don’t want to ruin the lives of nice white people due to minor indiscretions like being a member of a copy-killing mob that invaded the capital and caused it to be evacuated and stole things and urinated in people’s offices and …
    So open source investigations must continue, with as much care as possible to not false-id dox people.

  109. 109.

    Chris T.

    January 9, 2021 at 4:13 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: He said fishing, not catching.

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