My world is going to get busier so I might miss a few of these, but I thought it was important to hear from Biden today, if only to counter having to listen to the orange disease over the weekend.
BTW – impressive press conference from GA SOS office today.
Open thread
Cheryl Rofer
Ossoff up now
RobertDSC-iPhone 8
My truck needs $400 in repairs. The 600 came in handy because I don’t know what I would have done.
Dorothy A. Winsor
While we wait
Litlebritdifrnt
We don’t need the $600. Any suggestions?
daryljfontaine
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Like I’ve said before, if he (and/or the family) wants to retreat to the underground bunker, seal it with concrete behind him.
D
dmsilev
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Cut off the cable TV and the Internet and he’ll be out in thirty seconds.
Geminid
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Darn! I was hoping the plan was to borrow one of those tranquilizer guns from the National Zoo.
NotMax
@Dorothy A. Winsor
Not a fully baked contingency plan.
Winter. Pipes freeze. Just sayin’.
Steeplejack
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
C’mon, that is a no-name account with no credibility and no link to the supposed NBC source. Googling “Secret Service making contingency plans” gets nothing.
dmsilev
@daryljfontaine: I’ve seen that movie. Thousands of years hence, an ancient undying evil, known only in legend as T’rmp, is released to torment the living.
Steeplejack
@Litlebritdifrnt:
Local food bank or homeless shelter? If that even is a thing in merry old England.
ETA: Maybe a shelter for women fleeing domestic abuse?
dmsilev
Business leaders urge Congress to certify Biden win
(emphasis added)
Elizabelle
I hope they lift Trump’s passport, and that of his adult spawn (and Jared). Flight risks extraordinaire.
Wonder how quickly NY State can indict on at least one or two charges; they have time to bring more later.
Would be hilarious if it was Georgia that stopped Trump from traveling, but that’s not going to happen.
Gin & Tonic
@dmsilev:
All of whom fervently hope that Trump stays in Palm Beach forever and never darkens Manhattan’s shores again.
SiubhanDuinne
Just seeing and hearing Joe makes me happy.
Leto
@dmsilev: I imagine this as some type of Gollum (Lord of the Rings) style creature, hacking out, “T’rmp, T’rmp!”
Elizabelle
Joe Biden is a peach. Love him.
re Trump: “I don’t know why he still wants the job. He doesn’t want to do the work.”
hedgehog mobile
Unca Joe is pulling no punches.
mali muso
Loving Joe! Hammering home the oath to the constitution, not a president or a party.
Cheryl Rofer
I wish they could hug
debbie
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Wow!
PST
Joe sounded great this afternoon, didn’t he? He was enthusiastic and spontaneous. Unlike Trump’s expected parade of his own grievances, Biden stuck to talking up the Democratic candidates and ripping the Republicans.
catclub
@Dorothy A. Winsor: So the closest thing to the low speed
OJ freeway escapade.
catclub
@Steeplejack: I hate that plan. I hope it is not real. They need to strap him into a straitjacket and use a furniture dolly.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Steeplejack: You’re right. It was too entertaining to resist.
mrmoshpotato
I wonder if they have any indictments ready to go. It wouldn’t surprise me.
debbie
But what would happen if Trump simply said no?
“Well, I guess by law he would be a trespasser,” a former Secret Service agent said. “We’d have to escort him out.”
Comrade Colette
@Litlebritdifrnt: I was also going to say food bank. If that’s not a pressing need where you are, an organization that helps refugees locally probably could really use it – already-marginalized people in legally precarious situations are really hurting now.
We are also fortunate enough not to need it, and I don’t even know if we’ll get any this time. Last time we got $600 and donated it to the local food bank immediately.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@catclub: Blanco Bronco.
When we got the yorkipom her name was Blanco, she has black fur.
Elizabelle
@mrmoshpotato: They really might. They’ve been …. awfully quiet.
Jeffro
@dmsilev: buncha got-damn soshulists!!! ?
related: I am back to enjoying mercilessly needling the ever living fuck out of my RWNJ father and brother, who seem to have no response to this latest ‘perfect call’
mrmoshpotato
11780? 11780? Why 11780?
(add to…)
This fascist shitstain wanted to be declared the winner of Georgia BY ONE VOTE?
SERIOUSLY?
Even the attempted criming is stupid!
debbie
@Elizabelle:
It’s not like Leticia James not to be fully prepared.
Jeffro
@mrmoshpotato: Nickel bet that New York State charges drop on January 21
Baud
@Jeffro: Why not on the afternoon of Jan. 20?
Although I’d prefer not to distract from Biden’s festivities.
Baud
@mrmoshpotato: Hey, he didn’t ask for 11779½. That’s something.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud:
B-day present for me.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: If I were president, I would totally indict your enemies on your birthday.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Baud!20XX!!!
Litlebritdifrnt
@Comrade Colette: Foodbank it is then.
rikyrah
@Litlebritdifrnt:
Food bank.
Women’s shelter.
Jeffro
@Baud: That’s the reason, is my guess.
what a first (half) week Uncle Joe is going to have! ?
mrmoshpotato
@Elizabelle: They can’t do anything until the Soviet shitpile mobster conmam loses the office of the Presidency.
I’m sure waiting is fine with them.
artem1s
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
I cannot even with these people anymore. that the SS even has to think about making such a plan is shameful.
brendancalling
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Put a cage around the perimeter, with concertina wire and guard posts in case he tries to escape in the dead of night.
Although waiting him out could be fun too. A replay of the Malheur NWR standoff, “send snacks,” followed by a slow motion car chase (but preferably taken alive for trial).
Elizabelle
@artem1s: I am really feeling for the DC police and Park Police and Secret Service and everyone who has to deal with the January 6th insaniacs’ arrival in DC to protest the election results.
This while the more contagious variant of Covid is spreading.
These Trump supporters are stupid, selfish and evil people.
The Moar You Know
@Baud: His style would be more like 11779 and 3/5. Because that is how the man rolls.
Baud
@Elizabelle:
Right. That’s the only thing that worries me at the moment, aside from a middle strike somewhere. The potential for escalation is too high.
Baud
@The Moar You Know:
You are spot on.
brendancalling
Pipes can be replaced.
Mike in NC
I’m A-OK with four Secret Service agents carrying a naked Trump to the White House gates, so long as the time is announced in advance for maximum viewership. For some reason he likes “You Can’t Always Get What You Want”, and the Space Force band could be on hand to play it.
Leto
@?BillinGlendaleCA: It’s Avalune and my 25th anniversary that day. I would say a fitting anniversary gift, but I also enjoy living :P
@debbie:
In handcuffs. Will pay extra for a video of the tasing.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@mrmoshpotato:
The state is not bound by the DOJ prohibition on indicting a President. That said, they’d wait.
Roger Moore
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
This is more or less what many of us have said all along. Occupying the White House means nothing, and it will be a lonely, awful place if they can’t get food, water, or power. Nothing would make Trump look weaker and more pathetic than him leaving the White House on January 21st or 22nd because he can’t manage without the heat or food delivery.
pat
@Litlebritdifrnt:
Local food bank or Salvation Army.
schrodingers_cat
I would be surprised if he doesn’t leave on the 20th. He is too chicken to do a sit-in at the WH.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Leto: So you and Avaluna were married 30 years after George and Patti Harrison?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@schrodingers_cat: Especially is they cut off the supply of hambenders.
schrodingers_cat
@?BillinGlendaleCA: And wi-fi.
Comrade Colette
@Mike in NC:
Ha! Thank you, this made my day.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@schrodingers_cat: If they cut the power, there’s no wi-fi.
ETA: Maybe every other day drop off free coupons for hambenders at the McDonalds on 17th Street. TO BE REDEEMED IN PERSON ONLY!
mali muso
@Baud: I think 11779 and 3/5ths would be more on point for him.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Need a signal jammer for his cellphone.
Leto
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Apparently! I had to look that up, but yes 30 years and 1 day after theirs.
Matt McIrvin
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Are they gonna have trucks blaring heavy metal outside the house like with Noriega? Geez, anything to avoid a scene I guess.
scav
Put a sign reading “Zoo” over the new White House fence, plus the exact species name of the exhibit “Orangeanus loserus (infant)”. Charge admission (and sell packets of hamburders etc to throw into the enclosure) and drive down the national debt. Place is going to need a thorough cleaning and rehab anyway.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Not needed, it’ll run out of power the first day.
WaterGirl
@Dorothy A. Winsor: That can’t be for real, is it?
Matt McIrvin
@Mike in NC: It’s “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” not “I Can’t Always Get What I Want”!!!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Leto: So your aniversary is the 22nd? I have some friends who’s b-day is that day, mine is the 21st.
Leto
@Baud: just take away the charger. Easier than jamming.
Leto
@?BillinGlendaleCA: 20th! Same day as the Inauguration.
mrmoshpotato
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I stand corrected.
LuciaMia
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Saw a report that the airport near Trump’s Scottish golf resort has been notified of a military plane landing on Jan. 19.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud:
But his phone is secure. Oh that’s right…
Mike in NC
Vanity Fair:
“Trump’s Washington hotel is ramping up room rates and requiring a two-night minimum stay during the inauguration, an apparent attempt to capitalize on his successor’s swearing-in ceremony and anyone coming to town to witness it. Politico reports that a room running in the $400 range during most of the rest of January costs $2,225 per night for January 19 and 20.”
Grifting to the very end, because why not?
prostratedragon
“I’m a Loser,” los Beatles
raven
A plane flew over Athens with an Ossoff banner!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Leto: Oh, OK.
Frank Wilhoit
@Baud:
You mean 11,779 and 3/5 .
mrmoshpotato
@Matt McIrvin: Napalm Death at 1600?
dr. bloor
@LuciaMia: Talk about “Tempting the Gods” with your post-WH plans. There is a nonzero chance that the Scots divert his flight to The Hague.
NotMax
@Matt McIrvin
Betcha Napoleon XIV could be induced to cut a track with new lyrics (as a patriotic service).
:)
?BillinGlendaleCA
@prostratedragon:
“Los Paranoias” – los Beatles
Ken
Deny that he’s in the building, and say that he must have left without anyone noticing. After a week or so, when he’s not turned up, invite his offspring to a dinner to discuss what may have happened to him. Serve tartare and sweetbreads a la Lecter. Send them home with the rest in a large doggy bag.
FelonyGovt
@Mike in NC: Sounds good but can we PLEASE put some clothes on him first?
prostratedragon
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I like, I like!
WaterGirl
@Baud: Did you listen to the call? At one point he says something like “it doesn’t matter if you win by one vote or by a million”.
mrmoshpotato
@FelonyGovt: Yeah! Why no clothes, Mike? WTF?
Prison jumpsuit.
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl: “I like to cheat by the thinest margin, but still lose the electoral college!”
Ruckus
Watching/listening to that live appearance was something after 4 million yrs of even just knowing that shitforbrains is even in the WH, let alone having to listen to his dumb ass for more than 1/10 of a second.
Actual, real humans will be there and be in charge. Damn.
Mo Salad
@Mike in NC: I keep trying to imagine the Space Force Band and every time I find myself coming up with theremins and kazoos.
mrmoshpotato
@Mo Salad: Can we throw in some slide whistles for fun?
Chyron HR
@Mike in NC:
You mean Hawkwind?
Cameron
@artem1s: This sounds really off to me. Why would SS or anybody else release a contingency plan, whether they had one or not? Needless stirring up of the shit storm, plus tipping one’s hand.
Elizabelle
Fresno Bee, editorial (Devin Nunes’ major local daily):
Does Devin Nunes deserve the Medal of Freedom given by President Trump? Facts say no
They address his misleading work on the intelligence committees, the fact that he does not apparently actually read the stuff that crosses his desk, which does not stop him from mischaracterizing and weaponizing it, (a fellow at the conservative Hoover Institution took him to task for that, in an article in The Atlantic, which they link) and his penchant for lawsuits he ends up dropping. (One against the Bee, for defamation.)
They have two lovely subheads, in full caps and bolded.
UNDESERVING OF MEDAL
EMPTY LAWSUITS
They suggest he actually deserves the Presidential Medal of Fealty.
The cow is never mentioned.
Elizabelle
Here’s the Atlantic link. Devin Nunes and the Invention of Fake Oversight, by Amy Zegart.
misterpuff
@Comrade Colette: Is that the Mos Eisley Cantina Band in uniform?
debbie
@Mike in NC:
I can’t imagine any supporter of Biden being willing to stay in a Trump property.
surfk9
@misterpuff: Bingo!
laura
@Litlebritdifrnt: give it to a struggling individual or family that you know could really use it. If you do not know anyone who is struggling financially, then a local organization like a food bank or rent assistance. They’d be so grateful and you’ll have done an immeasurable kindness.
cain
Distract? It’ll just add to the festivities. Nothing would more added joy than having that asshole get charged with crimes.
Elizabelle
So: the DC police have just arrested one of the leaders of the Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio, once he set his little boots inside the city again. And: in arresting him, they found 2 high capacity ammo magazines. I wonder if he is now in more trouble than burning a BLM banner.
So: he might be in custody for a while. I hope so.
mrmoshpotato
@Elizabelle: Any word on bail?
Comrade Colette
@Dorothy A. Winsor: @LuciaMia:
Like others above, my first take on this was “bullshit!” but then I reread the Jane Mayer piece in the New Yorker right after the election – the one that quoted Mary Trump about the narcissistic injury T. would suffer if he lost – and it also included this tidbit:
Elizabelle
@mrmoshpotato: Not yet. Breaking news. Will keep you posted.
Spanky
@Elizabelle: Two high capacity magazines and he’s coming from the airport? Ehhhhh …
Punchy
@brendancalling: Place has to be cleaned anyway. Why not start with a bunch of water?
Anya
@Mike in NC: Who’s going to rent his overpriced property now that he’s not president? Does he not realized folks did that before as a form of bribery? there is a new sherif in town, and the deputies, and even the hanger ons have no interest in the loser.
Elie
@mrmoshpotato:
I could see the process server already on site in DC waiting for 12:05 PM on 1/20. Everybody is gonna know where Trump is — especially if he refuses to leave the Whitehouse, right? I read upstring that the SS has a contingency for if Trump refuses to leave…
Dude is sooooo trapped….
cain
@Anya:
He still the head of a cult – and the cult will obey him without question. The rest of these morons are trying to please the cult. They are fools.
CarolDuhart2
@Litlebritdifrnt: Author and food bank in Scotland
Mark Frankland (marksimonfrankland.blogspot.com)
Baud
One more seditionist.
NeenerNeener
OT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOw7QcEu13Q
The new Shiba Inu litter are rolly polly little piglets already.
rikyrah
Baud
Scary stuff.
Calouste
@Baud: Doesn’t she need to get elected for that first?
NotMax
@Baud
Object from where? The balcony? She’s not aware she’s not a member of the Senate at the moment? And may not be again, dependent on the final outcome of the Georgia runoff.
Baud
@Calouste:
She’s in now.
Baud
@NotMax:
Did her term end? She was an interim senator?
Baud
CarolDuhart2
Biden World — CarolDuhart2’s Politics and Civics Place
Baud
Suicide.
Baud
@CarolDuhart2:
Good attitude.
Mai Naem mobile
@Comrade Colette: gawd, I kinda hope that that’s his plan now. Scotland is on lockdown and I don’t think he is going to be able to get his supporters holding rallies there because they’ll be arrested. I don’t know much about Nicola Sturgeon but we all know Orange Lump doesn’t do well with female political leaders.
Elizabelle
@Baud: I was afraid of that. When no cause of death was forcoming for days, and 25 years old …
Very sad.
ByRookorbyCrook
Proud Boy leader arrested possessing high capacity ammunition feeders. And the Pentagon approved the National Guard to be deployed to DC for the Stop the Steal rallies. What could go wrong?
NG approval via CNN
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: I object to Loeffler not being fired into the Sun.
Mai Naem mobile
@Baud: I had a feeling it was suicide because of the way they didn’t announce it being a physical illness. That’s just really sad. I didn’t know much about Raskin but I was really impressed with him during the impeachment . I can’t imagine being a parent having a child die. I think COVID is pushing quite a few people with depression over the edge because of the isolation. My cousin’s widow committed suicide a couple of weeks ago. He also committed suicide several years ago but I think his was over financial problems. Their kids are adults but really young. Really really sad situation.
Ksmiami
@Elizabelle: people? More like plague zombies
Ksmiami
@ByRookorbyCrook: I hope they all just shoot eachother
Timill
@Punchy: It doesn’t count as a Labor if Biden has help diverting the course of an adjacent river.
ARoomWithAMoose
The NG deployment approval by the DoD in the CNN story only covers using the D.C. National guard. Looking at their history on wikipedia they are essentially supplementing local police and federal parks services in this role. While Adam last night flagged a potential issue if other states had hand picked NG deployed, this seems to be fairly routine for large D.C. “protest events”.
“The Pentagon on Monday reportedly approved the deployment of D.C. National Guard forces to the nation’s capital this week for pro-Trump protests centered around the certification of Joe Biden’s victory.”
mrmoshpotato
@rikyrah: Yup. That pretty much sums it up. And it’s still stupid because Georgia wouldn’t have put Dump over 270.
WaterGirl
I just finished listening to Raphael Warnock at the rally this afternoon. Wow.
I love that he called Jon Ossoff his brother. I so very much want them both to win these seats. Not just because Loeffler and Perdue are awful and corrupt, but because I believe both Ossoff and Warnock are good men who can be great senators
Now I’m off to listen to Jon Ossoff.
frosty
@Litlebritdifrnt: Local food bank. That’s where my $600 is going.
mrmoshpotato
@WaterGirl:
YES!
Anya
@WaterGirl: I so want them to win. We need good people in the Senate. There are a lot of awful people in congress.
ByRookorbyCrook
@WaterGirl: We do need them in the Senate. We need more good people in elected positions. The Reagan sneer of the Government being the problem let our expectations diminish as a nation. Government is good, if it is a government by the People, For the People, and Of the People. Ossoff and Warnock are citizens who will do that.
ballerat
@mrmoshpotato: I think it was to create a snowball effect for the other election stealing operations in AZ, WI etc.
It’s a rolling coup trying to build a critical mass of manufactured legitimacy and supporters willing to commit violence for their belief in that “legitimacy”.
Patricia Kayden
Mai Naem mobile
I am kind of liking the idea of Stacey Abrams for AG. The only problem is that as a Dem I have to think of relevant experience instead of whoever would look good. She doesn’t seem to have prosecutorial experience which would be badly needed if you want some legit successful prosecutions of Trumpers. I still would like to see the exploding heads of Lindsey Graham, Ted Cruz and Ron Johnson.
Mai Naem mobile
@Patricia Kayden: I am pretty sure its too late for them to pass these rules. IIRC, Biden has a look back of either 3 months or 6 months on rules to reverse them. Remember they did that with Obama’s management OT rules and Elaine Chao got some safety trucking stuff rolled back that was passed towards the end of the Obama admin. The bigger issue is going to be getting rid of the political Trumpers who’ve been hired in civil service positions with civil service protections.
Annie
@Litlebritdifrnt:
I’m going to give mine to a relative who’s self employed and whose business tanked In this mess. I’ve been able to work at home and get my normal salary so I don’t need it.