Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

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

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

The lights are all blinking red.

A fool as well as an oath-breaker.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

The way to stop violence is to stop manufacturing the hatred that fuels it.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

So very ready.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

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There are people for whom it is really, really hard to feel sympathy. And then there are people for whom feeling sympathy would probably constitute a personality disorder…

… Federico Guillermo Klein, a former State Department official, made an initial appearance by teleconference on Friday before U.S. Magistrate Zia M. Faruqui in Washington, where prosecutors said they would seek to jail him pending trial at a hearing next Wednesday.

The court papers obtained by The Washington Post detail Klein’s alleged conduct throughout the siege of the Capitol, tracing his apparent movements and actions from using a police shield to try to pry a door open, to calling for reinforcements from the crowd, to losing his red “Make America Great Again” baseball cap, looking for it amid the chaos, and then grabbing another red hat on the ground that turned out to be the wrong one.

Klein’s arrest is the most direct link yet between the Trump administration and the rioters, despite attempts by some conservatives to dissociate the insurrection from the former president. Many of the 300-plus people who have been charged in connection with the insurrection have described themselves as Trump supporters, while some have ties to extremist groups like the Proud Boys, which Canada has designated a terrorist group, and the Oath Keepers…

Klein had a top-secret security clearance that was renewed in 2019, the FBI said. A LinkedIn profile the FBI identified as Klein’s also lists a top-secret security clearance and shows that Klein has been politically active in the Republican Party since at least 2008, when he began volunteering for political campaigns. Before joining the State Department in 2017, Klein worked for the Trump campaign, which paid him a $15,000 salary…

Prosecutors said they were seeking to jail him pending trial on grounds that he is charged with assaulting an officer. Assistant Federal Defender Shelli Peterson said Klein was retaining private counsel who would oppose that request, arguing that Klein’s charges do not amount to a crime of violence barring his release under appropriate conditions to ensure public safety.

Klein did not enter a plea. However, he asked the judge at the end of the brief hearing, “I wonder if there’s a place where I can stay in detention where I don’t have cockroaches crawling over me while I attempt to sleep….I mean, I really haven’t slept all that much, your honor. It would be nice if I could sleep in a place where there were not cockroaches everywhere.”

Faruqui and Peterson told Klein that he would be transferred to D.C. jail shortly and that they would make sure to address his concerns if there were unsafe or dirty conditions. Klein said, “very well I appreciate that.”…

The Trump appointee faces several felony charges for his alleged role in the riot, including knowingly engaging in any act of physical violence against any person or property in any restricted building or grounds.

Klein’s mother, Cecilia Klein, told Politico that her son had admitted to being in D.C. on Jan. 6 but said he did not specify whether he had entered the Capitol building.

“Fred’s politics burn a little hot,” she told Politico, which first reported the arrest, “but I’ve never known him to violate the law.”

He was always a good boy, such a a nice young man, till he started hanging around with a bad crowd.

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  3. 3.

    dmsilev

    Parenting tip:if you find yourself being interviewed about why your child got arrested for insurrecting, you may have failed in the whole role model thing.

    See also mother-of-Qshaman.

  6. 6.

    Misterpuff

    What’s with all these rioters being defended by their mothers? Do they not have spouses or friends or even fathers?

    Using your Mom as your mouthpiece is skeevy.

    All of them are little Cartmans aged 20 something years.

  8. 8.

    Soprano2

    Awwwww, poor baby……fuck him. He should have thought about not wanting to be with cockroaches before he decided to help Trump overthrow the government.

  10. 10.

    Jay

    BREAKING: In a memo, the @USChamber attempts to provide cover to corporations to resume donating to the 147 Republicans who voted to overturn the election"We do not believe it's appropriate to judge members of Congress solely based on their votes on the electoral certification"— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 5, 2021

  11. 11.

    scav

    Mommy’s certainly clinging to a triple monkey mode.

    “Fred’s politics burn a little hot… but I’ve never known him to violate the law.… While I believe, as he said, he was on the Mall that day, I don’t have any evidence, nor will I ever ask him, unless he tells me, where he was after he was on the Mall,” she added.

    plus

    “Normal schools, decent grades, went to college,” she recalled during an interview on Friday. “It was all perfectly suburban.”

    as though that implied necessarily innocent.

  14. 14.

    Jay

    Another good day to remember that QAnon followers have been convicted of terrorism, charged with murder, convicted of arson, charged for plotting an armed kidnapping raid, and charged for vandalizing a Catholic Church. Plus they flooded human trafficking hotlines with bogus tips. t.co/qo5xplMOoD— Travis View (@travis_view) March 6, 2021

  16. 16.

    mrmoshpotato

    Fuck ’em! Cry harder, Trump trash!
    As someone said earlier today, let him sleep somewhere infested with bedbugs.​

  19. 19.

    mrmoshpotato

    @dmsilev: ​
     

    Parenting tip:if you find yourself being interviewed about why your child got arrested for insurrecting, you may have failed in the whole role model thing.

    I was thinking more along the lines of “You might be a fascist shitstain too!” but failing at being a role model fits the bill too.

  20. 20.

    randy khan

    The Mig Greengard tweet is funny, but of course Trump never would have risked his own safety to do something like storming the Capitol, particularly with the likes of his followers.

  21. 21.

    Achrachno

    @Mary G: We don’t want anything bad to happen to him because we need his testimony.  I look forward to the small fish like him pointing out the big ones.

  23. 23.

    Mike G

    Trumpsters cheered for capricious government cruelty, smugly sure in their empathy deficit that the machine would never be turned on them.
    Leopards, faces, etc.

  24. 24.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @scav: I don’t know… I’m seeing a lot of “Of course the boy ain’t right, but it ain’t my fault” in those quotes

  26. 26.

    Jay

    @Achrachno:

    it’s stochastic terrorism.

    the little fish arn’t members of a formal organization, didn’t get orders, there is no command structure.

    It’s just a bunch of people getting het up on self selected social media feeds.

    they have little to nothing to trade,

    3% however,………

  28. 28.

    Jay

    According to a Democratic aide, Portman's amendment extending benefits at $300/week through July 18 is expected to pass – meaning that Manchin will vote for it. But it'll be superseded by Senate Democrats’ new agreement, which Manchin will also support— Grace Segers (@Grace_Segers) March 6, 2021

  29. 29.

    dmsilev

    Via the Post, I kind of feel sorry for the QShaman’s lawyer:

    “I am not belittling my client . . . but my client was wearing horns,” he said. “He had tattoos around his nipples. He wasn’t leading anywhere. He was a follower.”

    Can any lawyers comment on the legal significance of tattoo-encircled nippleage?

  30. 30.

    RaflW

    @Jay: The US Chamber is one of the under-appreciated vectors of GOP sleaze. One of the many fronts we should be attacking corporate overlordism is the Chamber system.

    At annual meetings, activist shareholders should be asking corporate managements about specific lobbying and or model legislation the US Chamber pushes, and how that squares with corporate dues paid to the Chamber system compared to various corporate greenwashing noises the Co. likes to promote, or ESG claims that they tout.

  32. 32.

    scav

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: 
    She’s a bit of a general whiner

    “You know why they’re putting so much pressure on this. It’s because of the T-word. If he hadn’t done a stint for the campaign, no one would complain,” she said. “This is the only one I’m aware of — besides the guy with the horns and the spear — who is getting the kind of treatment that Fred’s getting.”

    She added that she was confident others like him participated in the riot.

    “If you don’t think there were a few other political appointees out in those crowds, I think you’re being very naïve,” she said.

    I mean, “All the other kids were doing it!” isn’t usually the card card played by the parent. Very Very odd. But there’s a thread of entitlement that chimes with the “Where’s my vegan diet!” and the Bigo Barnett rant at the judge we saw earlier today.

  33. 33.

    NotMax

    @dmsilev

    When do we move to “My client was involuntarily exposed for a prolonged period during his most impressionable years to the works of the so-called Doctor Seuss.”

    //

  34. 34.

    HumboldtBlue

    @randy khan:

    That’s why he retreated to a tent to watch it live.

    On another note, the soundtrack to Narcos: Mexico has some real musical gems.

  35. 35.

    Achrachno

    @Jay: I’m not so sure that’s true,  and in any event that guy was employed in the T administration so part of a formal hierarchy.  I’d like to see the squeezing of all these guys to see what they’ll produce.

  37. 37.

    Yutsano

    Since the thread be open…

    The media should stop acting surprised when the GOP’s populist results are negligible. Republicans use White grievance to rile their base while pursuing economic interests that benefit the wealthy donor class. It is not an anomaly; it is standard operating procedure for the party of White grievance.

    J-Rub goes there.

  40. 40.

    HumboldtBlue

    @NotMax:

    I remember a family text thread on Jan 6 when I mentioned  this wasn’t happening without inside help from police.

    Family was incredulous, but it was immediately apparent to even those who don’t regularly read Silverman there was complicity, and it was interesting how quickly the light bulbs lit up.

  44. 44.

    Ruckus

    @RaflW: 
    Just a little aside, the chamber asked me to come and speak at a meeting, because I’d just opened a new retail business in town. I went and found out they wanted me to pay them to speak. I seem to recall it was $300. It may have included a chamber membership for a year. My speech was supposed to be about how I planned to draw new customers to other chamber members companies. I declined to pay as it was obviously an attempt to shake me down.

  46. 46.

    The Pale Scott

    HaHa,

    I assume he was in a Fed facility that had roaches, (which must be a special cell, Fed facilities are top tier) and he thanked the judge for being transferred to a DC jail.

    Woywho is he in for a surprise! He’s gonna get dropped into a pod for non-violent offenders, which is for homeless trespassers, druggies (mostly methheads (kray kray) now and days), and various varieties of con artists all explaining to him why they’re innocent, and having to take a dump with them  2 feet away.

    Until May? That my friends, is a reality show dying to happen

  47. 47.

    Splitting Image

    @dmsilev:

    Can any lawyers comment on the legal significance of tattoo-encircled nippleage?

    I’m not a lawyer, but my understanding is that if the tattoo is on the left nipple, he’s a leader. If it’s on the right, he’s a follower.

  51. 51.

    Tehanu

    What disgusts me is that this guy is a classic representative of all the Repulsican Dump-lovers out there. These are people who think that jails should be infested with cockroaches and who screech furiously against having to pay a penny to improve conditions for prisoners or even protect them against, say, a deadly disease. Until, of course, the prisoner is them.

  52. 52.

    John Revolta

    Is it just me, or might there be a wee scent of snark in the Judge’s statement that “they would make sure to address his concerns if there were unsafe or dirty conditions” in a D.C. jail?​

  53. 53.

    Gvg

    @scav: The earlier story I read on that mother claimed her politics were the opposite of her sons so they didn’t talk politics anymore. That’s a choice a lot of families make. So she might not know how extreme he had gotten.
    These quotes sound different. Time will tell.

  55. 55.

    David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch

    Meanwhile, the cockroaches say they don’t want to share a cell with a traitor.

  59. 59.

    Cameron

    He was a fine young man…..he just got pushed over the edge.  Think about it, you’re sitting there, minding your own business, watching Fox News – and they announce that a plastic potato has rejected the gender that God assigned it at birth!  The outrage!  The trauma!

  60. 60.

    Baud

    I like how the Today show put it this morning: “the first Trump official to be arrested.”

  62. 62.

    EmbraceYourInnerCrone

    @Misterpuff: they aren’t but the press seems to be harping on that. There was an article a few weeks ago about an Arizona father whose two kids were both arrested because of participating in the insurrection. He may have driven them to DC I don’t remember. Then there the Dad and daughter from I think Maine who went to overthrow the government together. Her mother was horrified and did not defend their actions, I believe that woman was divorced from the asshole dad.  And in the end if you are a grown adult especially one who has been to college and out in the world you are responsible for your actions.  Freddie’s Parents sound like they didn’t believe in consequences for his actions when he did wrong. But he made his own choices.

  64. 64.

    trnc

    @randy khan: The Mig Greengard tweet is funny, but of course Trump never would have risked his own safety to do something like storming the Capitol, particularly with the likes of his followers.

    She was obviously kidding because that news will be hard to miss if and when it happens, but technically, he could be charged with inciting the riot. My question is whether he is in any legal jeopardy for delaying help. I know about the civil suits filed so far, which I assume are a gateway for getting information from the people around DT that day who have more direct knowledge of his actions.

  65. 65.

    trnc

    @Jay:

    it’s stochastic terrorism.

    the little fish arn’t members of a formal organization, didn’t get orders, there is no command structure.

    It’s just a bunch of people getting het up on self selected social media feeds.

    they have little to nothing to trade,

    I would not rule out the possibility of a discussion about “doing whatever we can to stop the steal” being found on a State Dept email server.

    Yes, a State Dept email server.

  67. 67.

    JML

    friend of mine knew ol’ Freddie back in the college days. Apparently he was always a political loon. I’m watching this one with great interest.

  69. 69.

    Barbara

    They didn’t think they would be arrested much less prosecuted. They couldn’t care less about prison conditions for other people. I am guessing as well that it had started to dawn on him that his post-Trump employment prospects weren’t very rosy, and idiot that he was he thought he had nothing to lose. And yo mom, nearly every mass school shooter had a very suburban upbringing. It means squat.

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