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Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Inaugural Planning

by Anne Laurie|  January 12, 20217:24 am| 179 Comments

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DC Mayor Bowser urges people to avoid DC as National Guard plans to have at least 10,000 troops in city by the end of the week https://t.co/TeviY5JerL

— David P Gelles (@gelles) January 11, 2021

The good news — let’s take it where we find it — is that this was going to be a mostly-online Inauguration Day in any event, so the Biden team isn’t scrambling at the last minute to put on a good show. They did a fine job with the nominating convention, and it’s the same people working on this project.

Also, there’s gonna be a considerable number of security professionals roaming DC who will be eager to demonstrate they are not on the side of the insurrectionists, which won’t stop the deluded conspiracists, but should give the semi-pro quasi-military terrorists cause to wonder just how much becoming a martyr is really worth, on a personal level.

It’s sure not the event any of us would have chosen, but… as long as President Biden and Vice-President Harris take over the Oval Office, we’ll have plenty of time to enjoy future uplifting spectacles.

I swear if Capitol Police and every other federal and local policing agency don't go hard like diamonds against these terrorists (who are cop-killers) between now and the 20th, Congress should choke off funds to every single one of them. Let's see how Defund the Police hits then.

— Joy WE VOTED!! WEAR A MASK!! Reid ??) (@JoyAnnReid) January 11, 2021

The mayor of DC sent a letter to the WH on Sunday requesting this emergency declaration. By approving it, Trump is acknowledging the reality of the threat his supporters pose more clearly than he has in any statement since he gently told the mob he incited to go home Wednesday. https://t.co/Hn8gRkYVe8

— Olivia Nuzzi (@Olivianuzzi) January 12, 2021

National Park Service is shutting down national monuments in D.C. until after inauguration, @peytonforte reports.

Maryland’s governor plans to send National Guard to help during inauguration, per @TShields3 https://t.co/rn4W6z9VWg

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) January 11, 2021

Department of Defense says they will review troops deployed to Biden inauguration to ensure they don’t have sympathies to domestic terrorists — meaning the US govt is now trying to prevent a military coup.

— Hugo Lowell (@hugolowell) January 11, 2021

An hour after he issued this, it's announced that he is stepping down. It's hard not to conclude that the prospect of being point-man during a real domestic security crisis was a lot scarier than cosplaying in aviators while rounding up people in unmarked vans. https://t.co/qWrHNUfkHa

— Kieran Healy (@kjhealy) January 11, 2021

Sixteen groups — some of them armed and most of them hard-line supporters of President Trump — have registered to stage protests in Washington around the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden, prompting deep concern among federal officials. https://t.co/pBR1bj9IIA

— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 12, 2021

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    1. 1.

      Baud

      January 12, 2021 at 7:34 am

      The good news — let’s take it where we find it — is that this was going to be a mostly-online Inauguration Day in any event

      Yeah. covid is actually a blessing in this one instance.

      In a way, the failed coup attempt was good in terms of timing because if it had happened on the 20th, who knows how prepared security would have been?

      Reply
    2. 2.

      debbie

      January 12, 2021 at 7:36 am

      I’ve heard of protests being denied registration for various reasons. Why not these?

      Reply
    3. 3.

      Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

      January 12, 2021 at 7:38 am

      DC/NPS official on phone call:

      Official: “So I see you’ve registered for an event Inauguration Day, but you haven’t stated the purpose.”

      Goober: “It’s to protest The Steal, and…”

      Official (interrupting): “No”

      Goober: “But mah rights!”

      Official: “No”

      Goober: “This is tyranny!”

      Official: “Go find a court, you fucking fuck.”

      Reply
    4. 4.

      rikyrah

      January 12, 2021 at 7:44 am

      Good Morning, Everyone 😊😊😊

      Reply
    5. 5.

      rikyrah

      January 12, 2021 at 7:45 am

      With Harris’s rise, the Divine Nine Reaches New Heights

       

      https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2021/01/11/aka-sorority-kamala-harris/

      Reply
    6. 6.

      Baud

      January 12, 2021 at 7:45 am

      I have at various times during Trump’s term made the following comment.

      Benedict Arnold
      John Wilkes Booth
      Donald Trump

       

      I have to admit even I am a bit surprised at my prescience.

      Reply
    7. 7.

      Baud

      January 12, 2021 at 7:46 am

      @rikyrah:

      Good morning.

      Reply
    8. 8.

      rikyrah

      January 12, 2021 at 7:46 am

      Inside inauguration, 46 & MVP

      Take the oath in the Library of Congress

      In front of the Constitution

      Reply
    9. 9.

      ByRookorbyCrook

      January 12, 2021 at 7:46 am

      Good morning! Today is going to be a day. Vote on demand for Pence to step up, the possible beginning of impeachment, and Traitor Tang rallying at ‘the Alamo’. The last should in no way be interpreted as a last desperate stand where everyone died in an insurrection versus Government troops.

      Reply
    10. 10.

      Betty Cracker

      January 12, 2021 at 7:48 am

      This happened down the road from where I live:

      An investigation has been opened after a manatee in a Florida river had the word "TRUMP" etched into its side, officials say. https://t.co/rHkXUf1wpX

      — NBC News (@NBCNews) January 12, 2021

      The good news is manatees have tough, elephant-like hides that collect algae, so it probably wasn’t painful for the manatee when it was defaced. When I was a kid, manatees would swim up to people and seem to beg for a scritch like a dog!

      The bad news is there’s a sick motherfucker out there who thinks it’s appropriate to scratch the name of a loser demagogue on the hide of an innocent aquatic mammal. I hope they find that asshole and levy the appropriate fine and jail time. Penalties for harassing manatees are no joke.

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      eclare

      January 12, 2021 at 7:54 am

      @rikyrah:  it makes me nervous that after the inauguration Biden, Clinton, W, and Obama are laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.  That place is wide open.

      Reply
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      Al Z.

      January 12, 2021 at 7:55 am

      In contrast Biden will actually be proud to have the smallest inaugural crowd size in modern history, National Guard aside.

      Reply
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      raven

      January 12, 2021 at 7:56 am

      @eclare: Arlington is securable, believe me.

      Reply
    14. 14.

      Patricia Kayden

      January 12, 2021 at 7:56 am

      Treat the pro-Trump terrorists as if they were POCs. I don’t understand why sixteen pro-Trump groups have been given permission to demonstrate in DC after what happened on Wednesday but 🤷🏽‍♀️.

      Reply
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      eclare

      January 12, 2021 at 7:57 am

      @raven:  Good to know.

      Reply
    16. 16.

      Nicole

      January 12, 2021 at 7:57 am

      @Betty Cracker: I saw this when you posted it on your Twitter feed yesterday. I’ve been mad about it since. God, these losers. The cruelty is always the point.

      Reply
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      Patricia Kayden

      January 12, 2021 at 7:58 am

      @Al Z.: Millions will be watching online. We’re not preoccupied with numbers like Trump and his sycophants. We’re adults.

      Reply
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      debbie

      January 12, 2021 at 8:02 am

      @Baud:

      We aren’t!

      Reply
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      Platonicspoof

      January 12, 2021 at 8:02 am

      @debbie:

      Maybe this is still just a request, but from CNET:

       

       Muriel Bowser, the mayor of Washington, DC, has now asked the US Interior Department to “cancel any and all public gathering permits in the District of Columbia, and deny any applications for a public gathering during the period Jan. 11 through Jan. 24.

      Reply
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      debbie

      January 12, 2021 at 8:02 am

      @rikyrah:

      I like that!

      Reply
    21. 21.

      Chyron HR

      January 12, 2021 at 8:03 am

      Sixteen groups — some of them armed and most of them hard-line supporters of President Trump — have registered to stage protests in Washington around the presidential inauguration of Joe Biden, prompting deep concern among federal officials.

      I mean… you can refuse?  Or just round up everybody who applied?

      Reply
    22. 22.

      Patricia Kayden

      January 12, 2021 at 8:04 am

      @Betty Cracker: Sickening.

      Reply
    23. 23.

      Woodrow/asim

      January 12, 2021 at 8:05 am

      @eclare: That worries me the least, actually. Aside from the Secret Service being pros, the Tomb Guards are not window dressing — that duty is not only hand-picked, but only given to those who pass rigorous physical and mental training.

      They will not, in any way, fuck around if someone tries some shit.

      And in general, I would expect the Secret Service knows Arlington well, and how to secure it against a wide variety of threats.

      (Or, on edit, what @raven said!)

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      eclare

      January 12, 2021 at 8:07 am

      @Woodrow/asim:  Thanks, that makes me feel better.

      Reply
    25. 25.

      Raven

      January 12, 2021 at 8:08 am

      @Woodrow/asim: The Old Guard.

      Reply
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      Jay

      January 12, 2021 at 8:10 am

      @rikyrah:

      morning,

      Reply
    27. 27.

      KSinMA

      January 12, 2021 at 8:11 am

      @rikyrah: Totally agree.

      Reply
    28. 28.

      Steeplejack (phone)

      January 12, 2021 at 8:11 am

      @rikyrah:

      Good morning! 🙏

      Reply
    29. 29.

      JPL

      January 12, 2021 at 8:13 am

      RIP Sheldon Adelson.

      After a long illness.   I hope it was complications due to Covid.

      Reply
    30. 30.

      Hildebrand

      January 12, 2021 at 8:13 am

      @ByRookorbyCrook: Trump is going to Alamo, Texas – a town in the Rio Grande Valley.  He feels the need to go boast about his failed wall.   There is also a sizable Border Patrol station there – so he likely wants to rub shoulders with a bunch of macho/fascist law enforcement types.

      Reply
    31. 31.

      Cermet

      January 12, 2021 at 8:14 am

      And now the papers are reporting that three seperate groups are plaining to “ring” various area’s in DC and kill all Dems and select thugs to allow the thug party to take over the government.

      Reply
    32. 32.

      Gin & Tonic

      January 12, 2021 at 8:15 am

      @JPL: Is this true? Brings to mind that Mark Twain (?) quote about having read many an obituary with pleasure. I’m sure someone will correct me on that within 5 minutes.

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    33. 33.

      JPL

      January 12, 2021 at 8:16 am

      @Gin & Tonic:  SAD

      George and Laura have extended their wished to his wife, but I’m not sure about trump yet.  Maybe he will as soon as Fox tells him.

      Reply
    34. 34.

      Spanky

      January 12, 2021 at 8:17 am

      Just an fyi, the DC weather next week is predicted to be fairly moderate – partly cloudy with highs in the mid-40s and lows near freezing.

      IOW, weather looks like it won’t be a factor for any activities.

      Reply
    35. 35.

      Bruce K in ATH-GR

      January 12, 2021 at 8:18 am

      @JPL: I’ve seen corroborating reports on Twitter, though uncertain about their reliability.

      And yeah, I’d search-and-replace “RIP” with “RIH” (as in “rot in hell”). I’m’a do that for a lot of people associated with the current unpleasantness, including but not limited to McConnell, Limbaugh, and so on and so forth.

      Reply
    36. 36.

      Jay

      January 12, 2021 at 8:18 am

      UPDATE: Jacob Chansley (AKA Jake Angeli or QAnon Shaman) will be fed organic food, in line with his strict shaman diet, while in federal custody. "We will abide by the judge's order," U.S. Marshal David Gonzales said. @abc15 https://t.co/k6mxwQeofM— Melissa Blasius (@MelissaBlasius) January 12, 2021

      ICE made Muslims choose between eating expired halal meals or pork https://t.co/Dcu6MGOYqY https://t.co/B9nR3VGVHj— Steve Mullis (@stevemullis) January 12, 2021

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      Immanentize

      January 12, 2021 at 8:19 am

      @JPL: The Big C got him?  I didn’t see that yet?

      Reply
    38. 38.

      JPL

      January 12, 2021 at 8:21 am

      @Bruce K in ATH-GR: Yahoo, Finance had the statement from Sheldon’s wife.    He died from non Hodgkins Lymphoma

      Reply
    39. 39.

      Skepticat

      January 12, 2021 at 8:21 am

      @Baud: In a way, the failed coup attempt was good in terms of timing because if it had happened on the 20th, who knows how prepared security would have been?

      It depresses me that I agree. However, I still worry it won’t be enough. And it boggles what’s left of my mind that they’d issue permits to the groups openly bent on fomenting violence.

      Reply
    40. 40.

      JPL

      January 12, 2021 at 8:22 am

      @Immanentize: Nope..   I was just hoping because he was hell bent on spreading the virus.

      Reply
    41. 41.

      Jay

      January 12, 2021 at 8:23 am

      Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-N.J) has tested positive for Covid-19. She believes she was exposed while sheltering with colleagues who refused to wear a mask during the Capitol riot last week, per office— aída chávez (@aidachavez) January 11, 2021

      Reply
    42. 42.

      Zzyzx

      January 12, 2021 at 8:23 am

      The good news is that the Free Republic consensus is that these 1/20 rallies are a false flag event to arrest them and they’re warning everyone to stay away. Hopefully that message will spread.

      Reply
    43. 43.

      MattF

      January 12, 2021 at 8:25 am

      Florida man.

      Reply
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      Patricia Kayden

      January 12, 2021 at 8:26 am

      @Baud: Good point.  The 20th is going to be a tense day because dangerous thugs have been ginned on by Trump and company to believe that it’s perfectly fine to overthrow a lawfully elected President. At least the police and armed forces are on notice.  I don’t expect a repeat of the 6th.

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      Chbnna

      January 12, 2021 at 8:26 am

      @Woodrow/asim: Am I the only one who is increasingly anxious about inauguration? I don’t trust any guards or cops, i don’t care how well trained they are, as more info comes out about the people involved in the insurrection we are learning that there were a lot of cops and soldiers among them. So forgive me if I don’t quite believe training and discipline will save the day.

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    46. 46.

      Immanentize

      January 12, 2021 at 8:26 am

      @JPL: Funny, in my family, “the Big C” means Cancer.

      Reply
    47. 47.

      Immanentize

      January 12, 2021 at 8:28 am

      @MattF: Frank’s Wild Years
      Tom Waits

      Reply
    48. 48.

      rikyrah

      January 12, 2021 at 8:29 am

      Do we feel safe with the security of President-elect Biden and Vice President-elect Harris provided by intelligence agencies, Secret Service and other government institutions that are under Donald Trump’s control till noon on January 20th? Every precaution must be taken.— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) January 12, 2021

      Reply
    49. 49.

      Patricia Kayden

      January 12, 2021 at 8:30 am

      @Jay: Selfish pricks. Don’t let them into any federal buildings if they refuse to wear a mask.

      Reply
    50. 50.

      Shalimar

      January 12, 2021 at 8:30 am

      @Skepticat: On a positive note, they may have won the first battle of their civil war, but they picked the terrain very poorly.  Instead of choosing a place when they actually could fight Antifa while law enforcement watched, now they’re in a fight against the U.S. military while Antifa hopefully stays home again.

      Their chances against the military are not good.

      Reply
    51. 51.

      Baud

      January 12, 2021 at 8:30 am

      @Chbnna:

      You can be worried, but we have no choice but to trust the cops and agents to do their jobs.  It’s not like there’s an alternative.

      Reply
    52. 52.

      JPL

      January 12, 2021 at 8:30 am

      @Immanentize: doh!   Today I’m scheduled for my first vaccine for Covid..    It would be wonderful to think that cancer could be eliminated the same way.

      Reply
    53. 53.

      RSA

      January 12, 2021 at 8:30 am

      @Hildebrand:  Trump is going to Alamo, Texas – a town in the Rio Grande Valley.

      Alamo, TX, is four hours by car from the Alamo Mission in San Antonio.  Is anyone feeling a Four Seasons vibe here?

      Reply
    54. 54.

      Patricia Kayden

      January 12, 2021 at 8:31 am

      @Jay: White privilege on full display, once again. Sigh

      Reply
    55. 55.

      rikyrah

      January 12, 2021 at 8:31 am

      THESE. TWO. PARAGRAPHS. ARE. EVERYTHING.👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇👇💥 MUST-READ @MJGerson on the implications of Trump & sedition: https://t.co/o635ILJNhf pic.twitter.com/zKggFbJqp7— Eric Wolfson (@EricWolfson) January 12, 2021

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    56. 56.

      Baud

      January 12, 2021 at 8:31 am

      @Shalimar:

      They didn’t win their first battle.  They did better than expected, but they didn’t win.

      Reply
    57. 57.

      rikyrah

      January 12, 2021 at 8:33 am

      Breaking WaPo: The Secret Service has indicated that it was investigating an officer who posted comments on Facebook in which she accused lawmakers who formalized Biden's win of treason and echoed Trump's conspiracy theories about election rigging. https://t.co/Rb7i2LIzs5— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 12, 2021

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      Splitting Image

      January 12, 2021 at 8:33 am

      @JPL:

      RIP Sheldon Adelson.

      After a long illness.   I hope it was complications due to Covid.

      Riddance good to rubbish bad, as Yoda would say.

      Reply
    59. 59.

      charon

      January 12, 2021 at 8:35 am

      @Hildebrand:

      The Alamo is in San Antonio. Alamo, TX is somewhere else, at the extreme southern tip of TX on the border.

      Reply
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      MattF

      January 12, 2021 at 8:35 am

      @rikyrah: Gerson:

      This is the sad reality of our beleaguered democracy: If the United States does not punish sedition, we will see more of it.

      And not ‘eventually’. Now.

      Reply
    61. 61.

      Dorothy A. Winsor

      January 12, 2021 at 8:35 am

      This morning, Scalzi posted about the “Repeachment” which I thought was clever.

      I see Rep. Jayapal has also tested positive after being cooped up with the yahoos who refused to wear masks and mocked the person handing them out.

      ETA: I expect there will be massive security, including snipers on the rooftops, for the Inauguration. But I am concerned about the violence that’s being called for in state capitals.

      Reply
    62. 62.

      geg6

      January 12, 2021 at 8:38 am

      Disgusting piece of garbage Sheldon Adelson is dead.  May he burn in hell, if there is such a place.

      Reply
    63. 63.

      germy

      January 12, 2021 at 8:38 am

      In upstate NY, a town official (a member of the zoning board of appeals) has resigned after residents recognized her being escorted from the U.S. Capitol.

      Imagine being a person of color with a zoning issue and trying to get anything done in her office?  There’s a sort of sneaky, tight-lipped racism in upstate NY.  They fuck around in a million little passive aggressive ways.  I was happy to see her resign:

      https://dailygazette.com/2021/01/11/malta-town-official-resigns-after-storming-capitol-steps/

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    64. 64.

      Woodrow/asim

      January 12, 2021 at 8:39 am

      @Raven: Yes, “The Old Guard” is the name of the Regiment the Guards serve under.

      However, that Regiment has many more duties than guarding the Tomb. The Tomb Guards, per the Army’s Old Guard site, are called the Tomb Guard Platoon, and referenced to as such — or Sentinels — on that website:

      Tomb Guards are privileged to wear the Tomb Identification Badge on the right breast pocket. The design is an inverted open laurel wreath surrounding a representation of the front elevation of the Tomb. The words “Honor Guard” are engraved at the base of the badge.

      For another example, here’s an Army article from 2012 on the 1st Black Tomb Guard, and that is the term they use in article: https://www.army.mil/article/74448/first_african_american_tomb_guard_recalls_journey

      I strive to use correct terms to avoid dishonoring any of our service people. If I’m off, please provide me a pointer to the right info, and I will be happy to take the L, and correct in future.

      Thanks.

      Reply
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      ET

      January 12, 2021 at 8:39 am

      I have lived in DC since Clinton’s first term and anyone who lives up here knows, you don’t fuck with the security at inauguration time.  Law enforcement and NG from all over the US come on a normal year, this year, the previous events obvious if soft-is presence of earlier years will be replace with an obvious but don’t fuck with me presence this year.

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    66. 66.

      Shalimar

      January 12, 2021 at 8:39 am

      @Baud: It’s subjective,  so there is no right or wrong answer.  I would argue that they achieved a major objective, penetrating the Capitol complex, beyond their wildest dreams, but failed to exploit it and then lost the aftermath badly as so many of their leaders have been captured.

      My main point is that Antifa staying home on the 6th changed all of the optics, and there is no way the Trumpers can win the war now.  By making it MAGA vs. U.S. government instead of conservatives vs. liberals, they have already lost.

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      Dorothy A. Winsor

      January 12, 2021 at 8:39 am

      @ByRookorbyCrook: That would be the Mexican Government, of course, which would be an interesting twist.

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      debbie

      January 12, 2021 at 8:40 am

      @RSA:

      Not sure about that, but what an opportunity for mockery!

      Reply
    69. 69.

      JPL

      January 12, 2021 at 8:40 am

      @rikyrah: A nice private ceremony inside would be fine with me.  Put up a big screen TV outside, so Ivanka can watch.

      Reply
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      trnc

      January 12, 2021 at 8:40 am

      @Baud: I’m finishing up the book Manhunt, about tracking down Booth after the assassination. He was completely reviled at the time he did it, even by many in the confederacy who just wanted to be done with the conflict. Unfortunately, he became glamorized later on, and his descendants have been trying to get him pardoned for years.

      Would love to think DT would not be glamorized later on, but since most republicans still drool over him, I guess I’ll have to let that feeling go.

      Reply
    71. 71.

      trnc

      January 12, 2021 at 8:43 am

      @Shalimar: My main point is that Antifa staying home on the 6th changed all of the optics, and there is no way the Trumpers can win the war now. By making it MAGA vs. U.S. government instead of conservatives vs. liberals, they have already lost.

      But I saw a guy in a black t-shirt, so that means Antifa leadership was there and the whole group was well represented, and anyway, it was really them and there were no trump supporters there, and ….

      Reply
    72. 72.

      mrmoshpotato

      January 12, 2021 at 8:45 am

      I’m getting a bidet ad in this post.  Hehe

      Reply
    73. 73.

      Baud

      January 12, 2021 at 8:45 am

      @Shalimar:

      I agree that they are on a losing path.  It’s only a question of how much damage they do as they circle the drain.

      Reply
    74. 74.

      Immanentize

      January 12, 2021 at 8:46 am

      @JPL: put up a big screen in a special indoor room where Ivanka, Jared, McConnell, Chao, McCarthy, Hawley, Cruz etc. get to watch with poor ventilation — at least 150 – 200 people.  Masks optional?

      Reply
    75. 75.

      Martin

      January 12, 2021 at 8:46 am

      @RSA: They’ll wind up at the Alamo Rent-a-Car in El Paso.

      Reply
    76. 76.

      Cameron

      January 12, 2021 at 8:47 am

      @Betty Cracker: Yeah, I saw a news report on that.  Appropriate that one of these brave patriots would assault one of the most harmless creatures on the planet.

      Reply
    77. 77.

      CliosFanBoy

      January 12, 2021 at 8:47 am

      @rikyrah: It’s at the National Archives, not the LOC.  A few blocks away.  Nice idea though.

      Reply
    78. 78.

      Dorothy A. Winsor

      January 12, 2021 at 8:48 am

      @JPL: Pete Sousa posts pics on Instagram all the time. Today he posted one of Obama being sworn in during a private indoor ceremony because that year Jan 20 fell on a Sunday. The regular Inauguration celebration was held the next day.

      That apparently happens with some frequency when you think of it.

      Reply
    79. 79.

      ET

      January 12, 2021 at 8:50 am

      @debbie: It may depend on where they applied and that is determined on where they want to be/do. While I am sure it is a bit more complicated than this link suggests, this might be helpful.

      https://washingtonpeacecenter.org/guide-to-the-dc-permit-process/

      Reply
    80. 80.

      Immanentize

      January 12, 2021 at 8:50 am

      @CliosFanBoy: Fun fact, in case of attack, the Constitution itself (on display) drops several stories into the ground down a long fortified shaft to preserve it from the nuke or Shaman attacking, whichever.

      Reply
    81. 81.

      Baud

      January 12, 2021 at 8:51 am

      @Dorothy A. Winsor:

      When was that?  I remember they redid the oath the next day in 2009 because Roberts fucked up the quote.

      Reply
    82. 82.

      Betty Cracker

      January 12, 2021 at 8:51 am

      Re: DC security — hubby and I were talking the other day about how 9/11 seemed to kick off a series of harrowing events that revealed how hollow and inadequate all our much-vaunted post-WWII institutions are, including security, political and regulatory organizations that are supposed to keep us safe from terrorists, industrial accidents, demagogic strongmen, financial meltdowns, pandemics, etc. Some disasters were averted for sure, but that sense if national invincibility he and I grew up with is long gone — our kiddo grew up in a world without it.

      Long-winded way to say: I don’t trust the security apparatus to safeguard the inauguration.

      Reply
    83. 83.

      Baud

      January 12, 2021 at 8:51 am

      @Immanentize:

      We all saw National Treasure.

      Reply
    84. 84.

      Immanentize

      January 12, 2021 at 8:52 am

      @Baud: I didn’t, what is it?

      Reply
    85. 85.

      mrmoshpotato

      January 12, 2021 at 8:54 am

      Maryland’s governor plans to send National Guard to help during inauguration.

      That’s one hell of a sentence.

      Reply
    86. 86.

      Baud

      January 12, 2021 at 8:55 am

      @Immanentize: I can’t believe there are people who haven’t seen National Treasure.

      https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0368891/

      Reply
    87. 87.

      Betty Cracker

      January 12, 2021 at 9:00 am

      @JPL: Warmest wishes to Adelson. And I do mean WARMEST. 🔥

      Reply
    88. 88.

      Punchy

      January 12, 2021 at 9:00 am

      How easy is it to turn that “6” into a “7” on all the monogrammed stuff, in the very non-zero chance he resigns on 19Jan and puts Pence in charge to pardon him?

      Reply
    89. 89.

      Immanentize

      January 12, 2021 at 9:00 am

      @Baud: oh, a Nick Cage film.  I have refused to watch that guy since Raising Arizona.

      Is it worth watching?

      Reply
    90. 90.

      Woodrow/asim

      January 12, 2021 at 9:01 am

      @Chbnna: So forgive me if I don’t quite believe training and discipline will save the day.

      I have some confidence in my answer to the question asked. Someone with more knowledge/experience, like Adam, may swing by and blow my answer out of the water on that topic.

      But you ask a larger question, about the Inauguration as a whole.

      To my eye, as an African-American who’s worked for and with cops, and also supports BLM? I do think the cops who are being pulled for Inauguration work are being, finally, screened for alliances to White Supremacist and allied groups. We know, because it was publically announced, at least one military group is also screening who they are sending.

      The reason the Capitol situation happened, in my eyes, was a toxic brew of White Privilege and years of defunding and downplaying this specific threat, because it allies to the GOP’s long-term strategy. In the violence, they have lost much of that privilege — that video of the fellow screaming he’s being treated like Black folx may be older than this insurrection, but it’s very much of a piece with what these folx thought they could get away with.

      There’s a lot here to unpack, but at the end of the day what the folx in power want is order. Indeed, Dr. King notes that that desire is why he, so early on, came to be deeply frustrated by White “allies”:

      I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice[…]

      I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

      I do not trust we will see true justice at this point. I do trust that, having seen true disorder, the American Government will make every effort to restore and maintain the kind of order that Dr. King talks about, above.

      So to your question, my answer is that LEOs will enforce constraints, for moreso than before, during this Inauguration. And they see that said constrains must include at least sidelining the riskier members of their organizations, for now.

      More than that, we shall see.

      Reply
    91. 91.

      Immanentize

      January 12, 2021 at 9:01 am

      @Punchy: Someone said Pence should just be called 45b.

      Reply
    92. 92.

      Immanentize

      January 12, 2021 at 9:04 am

      @Woodrow/asim: From your fingertips to God’s feed.

      I worry about the Malcolm X or Sadat scenario.  Really only takes one person.

      Or Huey Long — one guy, one bullet.

      Reply
    93. 93.

      raven

      January 12, 2021 at 9:06 am

      @Woodrow/asim: Watch. “Gardens of Stone” sometime.

      Reply
    94. 94.

      Amir Khalid

      January 12, 2021 at 9:06 am

      @Gin & Tonic:

      I Googled it: yes, it’s true.

      Reply
    95. 95.

      PsiFighter37

      January 12, 2021 at 9:07 am

      @JPL: He, like Charles Koch, get no fucking sympathy for me now that they’ve passed. They were assholes who contributed greatly to this country’s decline over the past 10-15 years when they were alive, and they are still assholes now that they are dead.

      Reply
    96. 96.

      Ken

      January 12, 2021 at 9:07 am

      @trnc: Unfortunately, [Booth] became glamorized later on, and his descendants have been trying to get him pardoned for years.

      Sorry, according to reports Trump’s not pardoning anybody because he found out he can’t pardon himself.  Also, all his time is taken up trying to get the PGA to reverse its decision to cancel a golf tournament at one of his courses.

      As far as the glamorization of Booth, I will admit a sneaking fondness for his portrayal in Parke Godwin’s Waiting for the Galactic Bus, where he angrily says “I shot one Republican!”

      Reply
    97. 97.

      evodevo

      January 12, 2021 at 9:09 am

      @Gin & Tonic: Yep…Clarence Darrow said it…or something like it anyway : https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/05/mark-twain-didnt-say-thing-about-obituaries/350238/

      Reply
    98. 98.

      Immanentize

      January 12, 2021 at 9:11 am

      @Amir Khalid: How is your GAS?

      Reply
    99. 99.

      Baud

      January 12, 2021 at 9:12 am

      @Immanentize:

      It’s completely campy, so if you like that sort to thing.

      Reply
    100. 100.

      mali muso

      January 12, 2021 at 9:13 am

      Heard about Sheldon Adelson’s passing on the radio while driving to work today, and I am not ashamed to say that I cheered.  good riddance.

      Reply
    101. 101.

      Immanentize

      January 12, 2021 at 9:13 am

      @Ken:

      There’s a golden moon
      that shines up through the mist
      I know that your name
      will be on that list
      There’s no eye for an eye
      there’s no tooth for a tooth
      I saw Judas Iscariot carrying John Wilkes Booth

      Reply
    102. 102.

      Hildebrand

      January 12, 2021 at 9:13 am

      @charon: Yep – that was the point I was trying to make.  I lived in Edinburg, TX for 10 years – definitely know the difference.

      Reply
    103. 103.

      SFAW

      January 12, 2021 at 9:14 am

      @JPL:

      RIP Sheldon Adelson.

      I think you meant “RIH,” for “Rot In Hell.” Rest in peace? No, fuck him.

      Reply
    104. 104.

      Baud

      January 12, 2021 at 9:14 am

      Biden team launching push to confirm national security nominees ASAP

      Reply
    105. 105.

      Immanentize

      January 12, 2021 at 9:15 am

      @Baud: I like most movies, frankly, but my wife absolutely couldn’t stand Cage.  So, I haven’t dipped my toe in that catalogue for decades.  Thanks!

      Reply
    106. 106.

      Danielx

      January 12, 2021 at 9:15 am

      @Baud:

      YOU may be…but not us.

      Reply
    107. 107.

      zhena gogolia

      January 12, 2021 at 9:19 am

      @Immanentize:

      I’ve never seen that one, but watch Moonstruck. He’s really good in it and everyone else is also brilliant, beginning with Cher.

      Reply
    108. 108.

      mrmoshpotato

      January 12, 2021 at 9:20 am

      @JPL:

      A nice private ceremony inside would be fine with me.  Put up a big screen TV outside, so Ivanka can watch. 

      It can also broadcast all of the trash getting dragged out of our House!

      Reply
    109. 109.

      mrmoshpotato

      January 12, 2021 at 9:22 am

      @Martin:

      They’ll wind up at the Alamo Rent-a-Car in El Paso. 

      No.  They’ll fuck that up too and wind up in an Enterprise parking lot.

      Reply
    110. 110.

      raven

      January 12, 2021 at 9:23 am

      @JPL: Me too, 2pm!

      Reply
    111. 111.

      eclare

      January 12, 2021 at 9:24 am

      @zhena gogolia:  Seconded.  The entire cast is terrific.  One of my faves.

      Reply
    112. 112.

      raven

      January 12, 2021 at 9:24 am

      Full throated freakout.

      Reply
    113. 113.

      germy

      January 12, 2021 at 9:25 am

      Adelson always looked to me like he was drawn by Ralph Steadman.

      Reply
    114. 114.

      mrmoshpotato

      January 12, 2021 at 9:27 am

      @Baud: 

      @Immanentize: I haven’t either.  Is that the movie with Sean Connery welcoming everyone to a rock?

      Reply
    115. 115.

      sdhays

      January 12, 2021 at 9:27 am

      @Punchy: He will not resign. He doesn’t trust Dense, and at this point, a pardon doesn’t really protect him because it can be used as an admission of guilt in any civil suits, which could bankrupt him. He’s backed himself into a corner. I just hope he focuses on browbeating the PGA for the next week until he discovers he’s no longer Preznit.

      Reply
    116. 116.

      The Thin Black Duke

      January 12, 2021 at 9:28 am

      @Immanentize: Captain Morelli’s Mandolin. It’s the only Nicolas Cage film I’ve seen where he plays a human being, and Cage does a good job.

      Reply
    117. 117.

      Baud

      January 12, 2021 at 9:28 am

      @mrmoshpotato: That’s a different excellent movie.

      Reply
    118. 118.

      zhena gogolia

      January 12, 2021 at 9:30 am

      @raven: What are you referring to?

      Reply
    119. 119.

      Booger

      January 12, 2021 at 9:30 am

      @Betty Cracker: I am in the middle of reading “Squeeze Me” by Carl Hiaasen, and I swear as absurd as it get in places, if he had written this I would have tossed the book. SMDH.

      Reply
    120. 120.

      Baud

      January 12, 2021 at 9:30 am

      ✔️ https://t.co/lQmZvooFYW

      Delete your account. https://t.co/Oa92sncRQY
      — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 9, 2016

      — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) January 9, 2021

      Reply
    121. 121.

      Betty Cracker

      January 12, 2021 at 9:31 am

      @zhena gogolia: Moonstruck is AWESOME! If I accidentally land on it while channel surfing, I’ll watch it, even if it’s on a Spanish language channel. I know the dialogue anyway. “Snap out of it!” :-)

      Reply
    122. 122.

      Baud

      January 12, 2021 at 9:31 am

      @Baud:

      The attack on the Capitol makes it even more important that the Senate continue the long-standing tradition of confirming the President-elect’s national security team on day one. https://t.co/jGQcWYWmPm
      — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) January 11, 2021

      Reply
    123. 123.

      JPL

      January 12, 2021 at 9:34 am

      @raven: My appt. is at noon.

      Reply
    124. 124.

      Dorothy A. Winsor

      January 12, 2021 at 9:35 am

      @Booger: I’m reading that too. I’m only on Chapter 5, but it’s fun so far

      Reply
    125. 125.

      Baud

      January 12, 2021 at 9:36 am

      Good.

      Folks, I just received the second dose of my COVID-19 vaccine — and just like the first dose, it was safe, quick, and painless.

      I urge everyone to get vaccinated once it’s your turn. Because only together can we save lives and beat this virus. pic.twitter.com/w1m8gEh2iL
      — Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) January 11, 2021

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    126. 126.

      sdhays

      January 12, 2021 at 9:37 am

      @Baud: Can we finally, as a nation, start listening to this woman?

      Reply
    127. 127.

      Phoenix Woman

      January 12, 2021 at 9:37 am

      @debbie: I wonder if some of the three-letter agencies see this as an opportunity to get all the nutjobs in one place so they can be arrested.

      Reply
    128. 128.

      Woodrow/asim

      January 12, 2021 at 9:37 am

      @zhena gogolia: I believe he’s referring to my note, at the end of my Explainer on using the term “Tomb Guards” vs. “The Old Guard” for the soldiers who protect the Tomb of the Unknown Solider, that I would take corrections. I assume, based on a quick read of IMDB, that he is trying to say this movie Gardens of Stone would bear him out to be correct.

      Not having seen said film, I cannot directly speak to if a late-80s movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola is more correct than the Army’s website, on this matter.

      Reply
    129. 129.

      germy

      January 12, 2021 at 9:40 am

      I thought Cage was good in the movie Adaptation.  He plays a neurotic screenwriter with an overly confident twin brother.

      Great performance by Ms. Streep as well.

      Reply
    130. 130.

      Jay

      January 12, 2021 at 9:41 am

      @JPL:

      congrats, don’t forget to get the 2nd.

      Reply
    131. 131.

      WereBear

      January 12, 2021 at 9:42 am

      @Betty Cracker: I have to say it…

      Oh, the huge manatee!

      Reply
    132. 132.

      LurkerNoLonger

      January 12, 2021 at 9:44 am

      @Immanentize: your refusal has only hurt yourself. You’ve missed some good movies. Others not so good…

      Reply
    133. 133.

      Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)

      January 12, 2021 at 9:45 am

      @sdhays:  If I were lucky enough to meet any famous politician in person, Hillary is the one I would really like to sit down and listen to. She is one of the most impressive people I have ever heard.

      The media bashing of her at the behest of the radical right is one of the great moral crimes of the last 100 years/

      Reply
    134. 134.

      mali muso

      January 12, 2021 at 9:46 am

      So in the spirit of planning for the inauguration, has anyone got a menu for snacks and libations to enjoy while we toast at home?  I was thinking of getting some takeout (support local business!) from Jamaican and Indian restaurants in honor of our new VP’s heritage.  Definitely cracking open some champagne…maybe making mimosas?

      Reply
    135. 135.

      mrmoshpotato

      January 12, 2021 at 9:46 am

      @WereBear: 

      1. Terrible.  You ought to be ashamed.
      2. I hope the manatee sits on whoever did this.
      Reply
    136. 136.

      Amir Khalid

      January 12, 2021 at 9:50 am

      @Immanentize:

      Ah, you noticed. Like I said then, I’m thinking of a cherry-red semi-hollow, a 335 type like Chuck Berry played. So my options are — in increasing order of authenticity — a made in China Derulo copy for 700 ringgit, a made in China Epiphone Dot for 1,750 ringgit, and a made in China Epiphone ES-335 for 1,850 ringgit. (A Gibson ES-335 is four or five times the price of the Epiphone, well out of my budget.)

      I might also want a Squier Deluxe Stratocaster in metallic pearl white with maple fretboard, but one thing at a time.

      Reply
    137. 137.

      germy

      January 12, 2021 at 9:50 am

      NEW: NYC says it’s looking for ways to cancel Trump Org’s contracts to run a golf course, ice rinks and a children’s carousel at city parks.

      You laugh, but those contracts bring Trump $17M per year. https://t.co/gHWZ6neV1d

      — David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) January 12, 2021

      Reply
    138. 138.

      Baud

      January 12, 2021 at 9:51 am

      @germy: Governments need to start putting sedition clauses in their agreements.

      Reply
    139. 139.

      Amir Khalid

      January 12, 2021 at 9:51 am

      @WereBear:

      Speaking of which, we haven’t seen that commenter in a while, have we? I hope he’s okay.

      Reply
    140. 140.

      germy

      January 12, 2021 at 9:52 am

      Is this bear serious competition for Betty Crackers butter lamb?

      mentally i’m this rice bear sleeping in this beautiful garden of broth pic.twitter.com/WCsMTnTGug

      — siham yasmin ♡ (@angedecouleur) January 10, 2021

      Reply
    141. 141.

      citizen dave (aka mad citizen)

      January 12, 2021 at 9:52 am

      @Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!): Last night her word “deplorables” just came in my mind for no particular reason.  A truthteller for sure.

      “as long as President Biden and Vice-President Harris take over the Oval Office”

      I know we have much bigger problems and issues, but I often think about how the Oval will need redecorating.  If I were working there I would want it done ASAP.  Get rid of the light rug and for sure the trump gold drapes.  Go back to the navy blue rug and perhaps matching drapes.  Get a different desk as well.

      We’ve discussed it here before.  I’m sure once it’s done, especially if it is early on, it will trigger Right-handwringing of “is this what Biden’s team is focused on?”  But of course it is this and everything else, because they will be BRINGING IT.

      (I never liked how Obama kept the light colored rug from W’s time.  I would have got rid of that thing to get the W/cheney stank out of the place).

      Reply
    142. 142.

      Dorothy A. Winsor

      January 12, 2021 at 9:53 am

      @mali muso: We’re meeting friends at noon on a patio and toasting the Inauguration with champagne

      Reply
    143. 143.

      mrmoshpotato

      January 12, 2021 at 9:54 am

      New Olive and Mabel!

      Home Gym

      Reply
    144. 144.

      JCJ

      January 12, 2021 at 9:55 am

      @Baud: 
      This just shows Biden is much tougher than I am. My arm was pretty sore that afternoon and the next day following my first dose. Not nearly as bad as when I got a typhoid fever vaccine many years ago, but still pretty sore.

      Reply
    145. 145.

      Bruce K in ATH-GR

      January 12, 2021 at 9:56 am

      @Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!): I had the opportunity to briefly interact with Hillary Clinton during the 2004 Kerry campaign, and it left me with a positive impression of her that none of the mudslinging she endured, before or after, could blunt.

      All in all, I’d say it was a privilege to have met her, even briefly, even if I was only a random volunteer.

      Reply
    146. 146.

      Haroldo

      January 12, 2021 at 10:10 am

      @Amir Khalid:

      I’ve mentioned this before, but a good Telecaster should be in every guitarists house.  Surprisingly versatile.  This guitar, however, should not be at the expense of the 335.  Both are essential.

      Reply
    147. 147.

      citizen dave (aka mad citizen)

      January 12, 2021 at 10:12 am

      I correct myself, Obama had a new rug made for the Oval.  It has similar colors to W’s.

      Reply
    148. 148.

      H.E.Wolf

      January 12, 2021 at 10:13 am

      @Jay:

      UPDATE: Jacob Chansley (AKA Jake Angeli or QAnon Shaman) will be fed organic food, in line with his strict shaman diet, while in federal custody. “We will abide by the judge’s order,” U.S. Marshal David Gonzales said. @abc15 https://t.co/k6mxwQeofM— Melissa Blasius (@MelissaBlasius) January 12, 2021

      ICE made Muslims choose between eating expired halal meals or pork https://t.co/Dcu6MGOYqY https://t.co/B9nR3VGVHj— Steve Mullis (@stevemullis) January 12, 2021

      As many an abused waiter knows, spit is organic. :)

      Reply
    149. 149.

      Immanentize

      January 12, 2021 at 10:17 am

      @zhena gogolia: Actually, I liked Moonstruck.  It’s fabulous.  And Cage is very good.  It’s when he decided he was an action hero, not an actor, that he soured.

      Reply
    150. 150.

      Immanentize

      January 12, 2021 at 10:18 am

      @The Thin Black Duke: I love that book so much!  I really couldn’t let any adaptation ruin my inner visions of it.

      Peeing on the herbs….

      Reply
    151. 151.

      Immanentize

      January 12, 2021 at 10:20 am

      I’m so glad for — and a little jealous of — those getting the jab.  Let us know how it goes!

      Reply
    152. 152.

      NotMax

      January 12, 2021 at 10:24 am

      @Immanentize

      Believe it or not, Cage was slated to play Superman.

      Reply
    153. 153.

      Dorothy A. Winsor

      January 12, 2021 at 10:25 am

      @Immanentize: I’m jealous too. It feels so slow.

      Reply
    154. 154.

      H.E.Wolf

      January 12, 2021 at 10:30 am

      @Dorothy A. Winsor: Pete Sousa posts pics on Instagram all the time. Today he posted one of Obama being sworn in during a private indoor ceremony because that year Jan 20 fell on a Sunday. The regular Inauguration celebration was held the next day.

      I think Pete Souza must have partially misremembered. In 2009, January 20th was a Tuesday. Chief Justice John Roberts got some of the wording wrong when administering the oath of office. Obama clearly recognized the error Roberts had made.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1Yff-_9MZs

      Pres. Obama re-took the oath of office, correctly spoken by Roberts, in an indoor private ceremony on the 21st.

      Reply
    155. 155.

      moonbat

      January 12, 2021 at 10:31 am

      @Betty Cracker:  “Angie, BRING ME THE BIG KNIFE!”
      “No! I won’t do it!”
      “She won’t do it.”
      LOL

      Reply
    156. 156.

      frosty

      January 12, 2021 at 10:32 am

      @Amir Khalid: Wow, you’ve got a really bad case of GAS! I’ve been decessioning, currently looking at a baritone steel National tricone and wondering when was the last time I played it. I just love the sound, but someone else (talented) could make a lot more use of it.

      Reply
    157. 157.

      WaterGirl

      January 12, 2021 at 10:33 am

      @rikyrah: I can’t figure out why they don’t do it privately at noon on the 20th and then do a public ceremony AFTER the 20th, when Biden is President.

      Reply
    158. 158.

      hueyplong

      January 12, 2021 at 10:36 am

      If things look hinky, don’t mess around.  Physically remove the pig and administer the oath to Biden in private.  I don’t recall LBJ (I know, fuck LBJ) being less than president because he took the oath on a plane.

      Reply
    159. 159.

      NotMax

      January 12, 2021 at 10:43 am

      @hueyplong

      Hell, send a car for Roberts (just to keep some of the tradition; the Chief Justice is not a requirement) and do it on Biden’s driveway in Delaware.

      Reply
    160. 160.

      PJ

      January 12, 2021 at 10:45 am

      @Betty Cracker: over the last 25 years, DC has been thoroughly bunkerized against terrorist threats, isolating citizens and residents from the buildings where our government resides (and making daily life more unpleasant).  None of that mattered last week, because the people in charge of security were either incompetent or complicit or both.  When you have one major party and 75 million voters who believe that the choice of the majority of voters is illegitimate and who also believe that good government is an evil and the rule of law should not apply to themselves, it becomes very difficult to protect society or government.

      Reply
    161. 161.

      trnc

      January 12, 2021 at 10:45 am

      @Ken: Yes, the PGA deserves a Medal of Freedom from Biden for distracting DT from all the crap he would otherwise be pulling.

      Reply
    162. 162.

      trnc

      January 12, 2021 at 10:46 am

      @trnc: So earlier I snarked about the insurrection really being Antifa, and once again, life imitates art.

      https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/report-trump-blamed-antifa-for-capitol-insurrection-he-incited-on-call-with-mccarthy

      Reply
    163. 163.

      Elizabelle

      January 12, 2021 at 10:54 am

      @germy:   Steadman.  Yes, indeed.

      First thought on hearing the news: he has returned to his forebears in Hell.  May he burn for eternity.  (I see that sentiment is shared here.)

      Reply
    164. 164.

      germy

      January 12, 2021 at 10:54 am

      @trnc:

      If he still had twitter that’s all he’d be talking about.  He’d be amplifying that “the rioters were really antifa” talking point through the whole world.

      Reply
    165. 165.

      WaterGirl

      January 12, 2021 at 10:54 am

      @raven:

      Full throated freakout.

      It’s not clear… are you describing yourself?  Someone else?

      Reply
    166. 166.

      Subsole

      January 12, 2021 at 10:54 am

      @charon: It’s over by McAllen, between Pharr and Harlingen, I believe.

      Reply
    167. 167.

      louc

      January 12, 2021 at 10:55 am

      @Baud: And Ohio a-hole Rob Portman  is apparently slow-walking confirmation of Biden’s DHS nominee. Ohioans on BJ should start calling his office.

      Reply
    168. 168.

      Ken

      January 12, 2021 at 10:58 am

      @JCJ: This just shows Biden is much tougher than I am. My arm was pretty sore that afternoon and the next day following my first dose.

      See, Biden had already been microchipped by Soros, so the vaccination just gave him COVID immunity. In your case the nanomachines had to build the chip, leaching raw materials out of the tissues in your arm.

      Reply
    169. 169.

      WaterGirl

      January 12, 2021 at 10:59 am

      @Amir Khalid: If you are talking about Odie Hugh Manatee, he was here within the last few days.

      Reply
    170. 170.

      Quiltingfool

      January 12, 2021 at 11:03 am

      @zhena gogolia: My favorite line in Moonstruck, by Olympia Dukakis, is “Don’t shit where you eat.”  One of my personal rules of conduct, lol.

      Reply
    171. 171.

      Subsole

      January 12, 2021 at 11:04 am

      @mrmoshpotato: No, that was the one where he was on the airplane with Steve Buscemi. Prison-air, or something. Sounded French.

      Reply
    172. 172.

      Subsole

      January 12, 2021 at 11:07 am

      @germy: I actually really liked him in Matchstick Men, despite myself.

      Reply
    173. 173.

      Subsole

      January 12, 2021 at 11:08 am

      @mrmoshpotato: Call Dr. Dugong. He has some cuttlefish that might help.

      Reply
    174. 174.

      RSA

      January 12, 2021 at 11:19 am

      @Martin: LOL

      Reply
    175. 175.

      Elizabelle

      January 12, 2021 at 11:21 am

      @WaterGirl:   I would bet that may be what happens.

      Especially since the DC mayor and governors of neighboring states are warning to stay away from the inauguration.

      Most Democrats would not travel in numbers anyway, with a pandemic.  Would be great to have a July 4th or — more likely — autumn solstice national celebration.

      Reply
    176. 176.

      karen marie

      January 12, 2021 at 11:30 am

      @citizen dave (aka mad citizen): Obama changed the rug. I’m not going to spend time searching but it turned out one of the quotes on Obama’s rug was somehow wrong or misattributed.

      Reply
    177. 177.

      D Gardner

      January 12, 2021 at 12:04 pm

      @Baud: Prescience? Or does that indicate you are part of the Deep State? Asking for brain-addled people everywhere.

      Reply
    178. 178.

      Uncle Cosmo

      January 12, 2021 at 12:08 pm

      @Subsole: Con Air.

      Reply
    179. 179.

      Uncle Cosmo

      January 12, 2021 at 12:17 pm

      Maryland’s governor plans to send National Guard to help during inauguration.

      If Larry Hogan really wants “to help during inauguration” he should send the Maryland NG to reinforce whoever is supposed to secure the Amtrak right-of-way between Wilmington DE and DC.

      (Presuming Uncle Joe still has his heart set on training to his inauguration. Which I would absolutely be in favor of under anything approaching normal circumstances. These aren’t. I say cancel that & fly, in a squadron of choppers with armed escorts if necessary. Harder to target you in the sky, and more room to dodge.)

      Reply

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