Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

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

Tick tock motherfuckers!

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

This chaos was totally avoidable.

The revolution will be supervised.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

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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…

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

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  4. 4.

    PsiFighter37

    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

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

  8. 8.

    mrmoshpotato

    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?

  11. 11.

    raven

    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.

  14. 14.

    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?

  17. 17.

    zhena gogolia

    @Baud:

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

  20. 20.

    mrmoshpotato

    @raven:

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

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

  24. 24.

    Quinerly

    @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.

  26. 26.

    Quinerly

    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.

  29. 29.

    p.a.

    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

    @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?)

  32. 32.

    Quinerly

    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.

  34. 34.

    mrmoshpotato

    @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

    @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

    @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. “

  38. 38.

    Quinerly

    @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.”

  40. 40.

    Baud

    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.

  42. 42.

    JPL

    @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

    @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.

  45. 45.

    Quinerly

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

  48. 48.

    Quinerly

    @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

    @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.)

  52. 52.

    Waldo

    @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

    @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.

  57. 57.

    JPL

    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

    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.

  60. 60.

    Betty Cracker

    @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:

    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

    @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.

  66. 66.

    Barbara

    @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.

  69. 69.

    Quinerly

    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.

  71. 71.

    Quinerly

    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

    @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.

    @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.

  75. 75.

    mrmoshpotato

    @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…

  77. 77.

    mrmoshpotato

    @John S.:

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

    Narrator: You can’t.

  79. 79.

    Ken

    @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

    @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

    @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

    @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.

  89. 89.

    Matt McIrvin

    “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

    @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.

  92. 92.

    Sloane Ranger

    @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

    @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

    @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.

  97. 97.

    A Ghost to Most

    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.

  100. 100.

    E.

    @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.

  107. 107.

    Bill Arnold

    @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

    @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.

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