A beautiful sight: moving boxes arrive at the White House. (Via @erinscottphoto) pic.twitter.com/DkpmSt2zvC
— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) January 14, 2021
I don't know how to unite the country, but I do know how to start. With a question: "who won the election?" Anyone who does not say Joe Biden is un-unitable— either perpetrator or victim in what students of propaganda call the big lie. Against that is the only unity within reach.
— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) January 14, 2021
This is the first time in U.S. history that a party's caucus has been unanimous in voting to impeach the president.
Democrats went 222-0 today.
It didn't happen in 1868, in 1998, or in 2019.
— Taniel (@Taniel) January 13, 2021
"Impeachment of Donald Trump" now has a disambiguation page on Wikipedia pic.twitter.com/8PWnvM2AKY
— Grace Segers (@Grace_Segers) January 13, 2021
We should prohibit George Washington from holding federal office again tbh. The circumstances in which he could even do that seem bad https://t.co/Cj8YZwd5Z6
— counterfactual (@counterfax) January 14, 2021
Part of what is so jaw-dropping about this is the two things are linked! They are almost the same thing! His view of the world is so narrow! https://t.co/U9i9RcBOJS
— ProofOfBurden (@ProofofBurden) January 13, 2021
everyone always attributes democratic behavior to chaos and republican behavior to a plan but this really looks like a party in its death throes https://t.co/AErmL1pIfa
— fully embedded ducklo (@Theophite) January 14, 2021
Theatre reviews:
Self care is not watching Trump's post-impeachment speech. Time for some self-destructive behaviorhttps://t.co/wjszn2UT4n
— ProofOfBurden (@ProofofBurden) January 14, 2021
Mom made me say this, or else I’d be grounded for Homecoming Week.
In a monotone: If you do things I told you, you are hurting me because I am facing consequences for once
— ProofOfBurden (@ProofofBurden) January 14, 2021
This video suggests his staff fears he’s in jeopardy, and likely fears there will be a massacre in the next week and he will be tagged with it.
You don’t de-radicalize people in five minutes if you’ve spent five years radicalizing them.
— LightlyThreatenHat (@Popehat) January 14, 2021
Trump is going to betray each and every one of the lunatics and thugs and lowlifes who have supported him and it’s going to be like grinding up pure joy and snorting it off of Aphrodite’s ass
— LightlyThreatenHat (@Popehat) January 14, 2021
WereBear
Frist!
gkoutnik
The MAGAs probably also see Trump’s pathetic message as a hostage video, and assume he means the opposite of what he is saying.
mrmoshpotato
Seriously, is Lindsey ok in the head?
Baud
At some point in the next few months, the 2024 wannabes will need to turn on Trump. That’s when you’ll start to see a scarcity of popcorn.
Baud
@gkoutnik:
I agree. It won’t quell everything. I do hope it helps at the margins though. If he still had access to twitter, he would tweet something inconsistent with what he said in the video to egg his supporters on.
debbie
As I type, DHS is conducting some sort of raid on the west side (Hilltop) of my city.
debbie
@gkoutnik:
Or it was a coded message. Has anytime timed his blinks?
Baud
@debbie:
Oh wow. I hope it’s MAGAs and not immigrants
mrmoshpotato
Who grinds up pure joy, you monster?
MJS
I can’t wait to see the Q and MAGA interpretation of the moving boxes. “No, Trump’s not leaving. Those are the ballots for him that weren’t counted. There are eleventy billion of them. They’re being sent to the Marshall of the Supreme Court, who will interrupt Joe Biden’s swearing in, arrest him and everyone else present, and certify Trump’s second, third, and fourth terms.”
debbie
@Baud:
That neighborhood is evolving from “immigrants” from WV to a bit more mixed, so both.
Baud
Free market, bitches.
mrmoshpotato
@MJS: You forgot “No collusion. No collusion. You’re the collusion! SAD!”
Baud
I’ve been hoping some decent (white) Christians would step up. Trump is damaging Christianity the same way he is free damaging the country.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@mrmoshpotato: No. No he is not.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: Suck a bag of clean coal dust, Dump.
Waldo
Note to GOPers: Insurrections have consequences.
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
Baud
I can’t believe Trump failed.
Chyron HR
@debbie:
“Drink more Qvaltine”
Baud
RandomMonster
That might be a good time to, say, convict him in the senate.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: I’m sure he’ll tremendous bigly them over the next 6 days with steaks, water, vodka, Dump University, and massively profitable, completely legit casinos!
Amir Khalid
@mrmoshpotato:
Slave-owning was legal back when George Washington did it. Also too, Washington is no longer able to seek public office; impeaching him to prevent him from running again is kind of pointless.
Baud
@mrmoshpotato:
Not too late to impeach Reagan for Iran-Contra.
John S.
@gkoutnik: That’s exactly right. The word from the intersection of Q and MAGA is that the video was either 1) Coerced or 2) Deepfake.
Because no true Trump would ever speak like that or say the things that he said!
ETA: The “No True Scotsman” fallacy is the gift that keeps on giving.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@MJS: The lunatic thing is that sounds like something QAnoners would say. You can’t exaggerate enough.
mrmoshpotato
@Amir Khalid: What kind of splaining was that?
John S.
@Amir Khalid: Tell that to Zombie Washington. When he comes back, he’s out for braaaaains!
mrmoshpotato
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Beware the Marshall Mathers (Eminem) of the Supreme Court.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: Do you call first on pissing on his corpse after we dig up St. Ronnie?
debbie
I’m wondering who inside the administration was running around with his hair on fire like George Tennant before 9/11. //
Dorothy A. Winsor
Lindsey, did Washington send a mob into the capitol to hang the VP and stop an election being finalized? Did he ask a foreign government to create dirt on a political rival? No? Then shut up.
Also, shut up some more.
mrmoshpotato
@John S.: Interesting that Washington would choose to be a post-1985 zombie.
Baud
MJ is trying to rehabilitate conservativism.
Amir Khalid
@mrmoshpotato:
Amirsplaining, of course.
Baud
@mrmoshpotato:
I would support a Justice Slim Shady.
mrmoshpotato
@Dorothy A. Winsor: So when will BillO release Killing Adams? ?
Baud
Good.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: Better five years late than never.
rattlemullet
Someone should inspect those boxes before being sealed. Need to make sure they do not looting anything. After all he did abscond with art and figurines from the Paris Ambassador.
Amir Khalid
@Baud:
Believe it. Trump is a bigly experienced failure.
Baud
@rattlemullet:
Tack on a grand larceny charge to his indictment.
ByRookorbyCrook
Lindsey needs to go back to crying in his bourbon, like last Wednesday. He momentarily poked his head out of Trump’s ass like the Groundhog and saw his shadow, now it is 6 more weeks of carrying Trump water. The question is which personage Graham will attach himself to once Trump is gone? Will he become a Cotton remora or will he become a Grover Dill to Ted Cruz’ Skut Farkas?
Cermet
@Baud: That’s all that so-called christian has to say? The thug party has destroyed that so-called ‘religion of love and caring’ since Ray-gun while not just using its words but with support of all these so-called christians. Yet it took an insurrection and, murder of a cop and storming/occuying the capital to get this person to decry that christian symbols were used for bad purposes. Sorry, far too late and so little self awareness as to borderline on comedy.
Baud
@Cermet:
I’ll take little over none and late over never. We need to hit them from all directions.
Jeffro
@Baud: It’s going to be marvelous.
The odd-numbered sentences in their statements will praise trumpov to the moon; the even-numbered ones will note that he’s a criminal under multiple indictments, incited the Capitol Hill Insurrection, etc etc. Total gaslighting whiplash. Should be fun!
satby
Interrupting the topic flow just to kvetch about my stimulus payment being sent as a paper check, by mail last Wednesday, even though the SSA, and the IRS have current direct deposit info. Of course it’s not here yet. Just can’t wait for competent people back in government, and the malicious incompetents fired /charged.
Baud
@satby:
Did the first stimulus arrive by direct deposit?
Jeffro
I hope everyone takes a moment to download the latest INDIVISIBLE guide – “A Practical Guide to Fixing Our Democracy“. Focuses strictly on legislation (not Constitutional amendments) and things currently in the realm of the possible, as well as how to influence MoCs and beat back the inevitable trumpublican astroturf backlash.
I mean, take the week off, enjoy the Inauguration next Wednesday…but then we’ve still got work to do, happy warriors! ;)
Waldo
@rattlemullet: I’d be more concerned about the stuff they leave behind. Imagine the poor bastard stuck mopping up hooker pee in the Lincoln Bedroom.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Baud:
I’m actually OK with this loud identification. The more people that are driven away from the smarmy religiousity of American Christianity, the better.
Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)
@Baud: For me the one last spring was direct deposit, the one last week is a paper check.
germy
Doesn’t sound safe to me.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@John S.:
Of course, Graham is a member of the party that runs the crystal ball to seance the intent of those who drafted the Constitution, soooooo…..
Baud
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
The problem is that people aren’t being driven away faster than Christians are embecoming radicalized.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@mrmoshpotato:
I prefer the notion of Washington being a post-2000 fast zombie.
trnc
CNN reported that DT said not to pay Rudy Caloodie because of the impeachment. I assume this means Half Ass Nosferatu was working this entire time and expecting to get a lump sum at the end. I wonder if DT even paid the single dollar like you see in the movies before a lawyer will give you advice, and whether attorney client privilege applies here.
Baud
@germy:
I thought Biden was coming in on Amtrak.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Baud:
“Ah’m bein’ persecuted fer mah beliefs, jus’ lahk Jaysus…..”
Immanentize
@mrmoshpotato: Has no one seen that the head of Richard Nixon will again be President? It was foretold on Futurama.
Dave
@debbie: I know you kid but there were at least a few trying to read morris code in his hand gestures because it literally impossible to satire and out stupid the “Q” true believers.
Betty Cracker
Cabrera tweet above:
This is probably the only justice we’re ever going to extract from Trump personally, but the good news is that it’s likely to be substantial. It’s also the sort of consequence he can understand.
With any luck, every Trump is already beginning to rue the day Donald Trump became president and the vulture adult children will descend to pick over the depleted carcass, viciously squabbling all the way.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@trnc:
Privilege still applies even without payment – that’s longstanding and clear.
The rub on this, however, is that Rudy’s license is likely to go away forever, so he’ll have no real motivation to honor that privilege.
It’ll be a joy to behold.
Peale
Lindsay Graham should only hope that we go down the path of impeaching George Washington. The crime we are actually interested in, though, happened a week ago. And we are very much focused on that, even though it is technically “in the past”. Next up – “Why aren’t liberals examining their role in this? Until they admit that they are at fault, we can’t be expected to examine our role in it”.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Alberto Gonzalez is actually bringing heat.
Gin & Tonic
@Baud: The Secret Service nixed that plan.
Kristine
@MJS: This actually fits in quite well with all the other Qspiracy predictions I’ve seen. And some of those make a Gordian knot look like a single strand of dried pasta.
Josie
@satby:
The same thing happened to me. Mine is not here yet either. WTF?
Matt McIrvin
@Immanentize: His enormous cyborg body got him the robot vote.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@trnc: And yet this morning I also saw a report that Giuliani will head Trump’s impeachment defense. That puzzled me but maybe Giuliani doesn’t care if he gets paid. Maybe he’s having too much fun being crazy in public.
Immanentize
@Matt McIrvin: Every vote counts!
satby
@Baud: No, because they said if you got SS by direct deposit you didn’t need to do anything. I paid taxes by direct deduction in 2019 (and again this year) and all previous years got direct deposit refunds. The IRS has my account info, they just refuse to use it.
germy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-isolated-impeachment/2021/01/13/0595675a-55b6-11eb-a931-5b162d0d033d_story.html
If Rudy doesn’t get paid, will he turn on Trump? Will it become a big face eating leopard party?
Immanentize
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Or, he feels like his only chance to get real paid is to continue down crazy lane?
Immanentize
@satby: Yes, but is the physical check signed by — TRUMP?
Check and mate, Libtard.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Immanentize: Or maybe Trump said Rudy would lead the defense and no one consulted Rudy
p.a.
@satby:
They want you to see, hold a check with the shitstain’s name on it.
hueyplong
I’m not sure Trump is even going to have non-Senator defenders. No one wants to do it, not even the execrable Dershowitz. The tell was Hannity spewing forth about how the whole thing is so absurd that Trump shouldn’t even bother to send a team.
It’s a fluid situation, but I’d bet a dollar that that’s the state of play at the moment.
Letting it leak out that he’s putting the shiv in Rudy is weird. Rudy knows a lot of things. I wonder if he’s normally a tea drinker.
gvg
@satby: I had that happen too and looked online for why. Apparently the direct deposit info they have for most of us involves an intermediate account from whatever company did our processing (I used one of those “free” ones recommended by the IRS. The intermediate accounts have been closed down months after the tax season as the companies gear up for the next year. I gather that the original deposits didn’t come directly to us even though the appeared to. The IRS didn’t ever record our account number? something like this. But the IRS knew this would be an issue, or at least experienced employees did and said so, and nothing was dine to prepare, which they could have. That goes back to incompetence and possibly not believing anything would really get passed.
satby
@Immanentize:
we’ll see when it gets here. It may be payback for sending the stupid letter back with “Fuck you, Trump” last time.
Ken
@germy: Good to see that Trump approves of auditing people’s travel and other expenses (like, say, golf cart rentals for Secret Service).
RSA
@rattlemullet:
Or better, inspect them after they’ve been taken off the premises. Most of the time, prevention of a crime is better than detection and prosecution afterwards, but in this case…
satby
@gvg: not in my case, the IRS has my checking account info because I’ve been making tax payments. I do my own taxes and have direct deposit info on file too. It’s sheer malicious lazy incompetence, I bet folks who work there like Yutsano have been going crazy for four years with the management stupid they’ve had to work under.
John S.
I just heard on CNN that Q nut job announced she is introducing articles of impeachment for Joe Biden the day after his inauguration. Because… reasons.
I’m sure her constituents are proud of what an ignorant fool they elected.
Mallard Filmore
Baud @ 60
https://apnews.com/article/biden-inauguration-capitol-siege-joe-biden-donald-trump-ba7bcefad3a65bf9432e9178633baadd
He will not travel by Amtrak for the inauguration.
hueyplong
I appear to have gotten a direct deposit. Two possible factors:
(1) residence in a former Confederate state that Trump won both times
(2) being so very white that my teenage appearances in shirts vs skins hoop games usually elicited references to Procol Harem.
satby
gotta bail, back to every comment being labelled a duplicate. Even after closing my browser, even after switching devices. Only happens here. Have a good day all.
Josie
@satby:
I think you are right. I have been receiving direct deposit refunds for years and paid taxes last year directly, so they should have my stuff on file. It’s so maddening. I had moving expenses and really needed that money. I can imagine others are in even more dire situations.
raven
@John S.: They love her.
NotMax
FYI.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Immanentize:
I think a published tell-all would more than make up the loss of both the Trump fees and his prospective legal income.
I also figure that most conversations were held with multiple participants, including non-lawyers – privilege issues would be muddy and probably more related to work-product privilege (which may not be enjoinable).
That’s a back of the breakfast napkin guess.
eclare
@Josie: Both last year’s and this year’s were direct deposit. I got this year’s within the last week.
Gin & Tonic
@hueyplong: Doesn’t even have to be tea. They put Novichok in Navalny’s underwear. [No, I don’t want to think about Rudy going commando]
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@John S.:
“She’s fighting for US! It may not improve our lives at all, but it’s what we want!”
Geminid
@trnc: Guliani has criminal exposure in at least one federal criminal case, probably more. Hope for a pardon may explain the desperation with which he’s advocated for trump since the election. Now Guliani may not even get that.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@John S.: Ted Lieu immediately pointed out that the Speaker decides which bills get to the House floor. The Q nut can introduce all the bills she wants. If Nancy is in a good mood, she’ll just file them
Gin & Tonic
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Yeah, but a book takes time, and Rudy’s burn rate is prodigious.
Citizen_X
Going to check Admiral Ackbar’s Twitter feed right now…
Karen S.
@Baud: So much winning…
Peale
@John S.: Unfortunately, they are happy. They elected someone to shoot AOC and I have no reason to believe that at some point, she’ll try.
Cameron
Rudy actually expected to get paid? By Trump?
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Gin & Tonic:
He also will have that slackjawed son of his to support. That guy is fucked – ugly, talentless, and has the lowest paid Trump regime job chained to his neck for eternity.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Cameron:
Shows his legal skill.
germy
@Citizen_X:
It’s a trap!
John S.
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I swear it’s always projection with these scumbags. They think impeaching Trump was a game and political theater, because that’s how they think of it. Just staggering that they think lying about receiving oral sex is an impeachable offense, but fomenting an insurrection is not.
cmorenc
That’s a huge stack of unassembled moving boxes. Since the White House comes essentially fully furnished to each successive incoming President, aside from wardrobe and a few books, papers, and knick-knacks – you’d think the amount of personally owned stuff an outgoing President & family occupants needs to take with them would be significantly less than what would be involved with an ordinary household move from one house to another.
debbie
@Dave:
Don’t they know about “accordion hands”? ?
Geminid
@Betty Cracker: The WaPo had an article yesterday about the vulnerability of trump’s business interests. It begins with the warning friend and adviser Tom Barrack gave trump in November: back off on this election fight, or you’ll hurt your businesses. Deutche Bank has already said they will stop lending, and they were the only big bank that would. trump’s business was built upon his spurious prestige. Now it’s probably about to enter a death spiral, with his properties starting to slowly circle the toilet. There is a trump Winery about 30 miles from me that probably will be one of the first assets sold. Hopefully, at a loss.
John S.
@raven: Her district is nutty fruit cake territory, isn’t it?
ETA: Oh yeah, GA-14. They’ll literally vote for anyone as long as they have an R next to their name.
Patricia Kayden
trnc
Hell, she probably just won reelection by announcing that.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@cmorenc: This Trump, the White House isn’t normally filled with the gold lead covered kitsch that is the Trump brand. So many cat clocks and Kinkade paintings.
O. Felix Culpa
@John S.:
Fixt.
NotMax
@cmorenc
All of them stenciled “College Hunks?”
:)
artem1s
@mrmoshpotato:
maybe not, but his constituents in rural SC will eat this up.
Geminid
@John S.: Since the GA 14th was formed in 2012, no Democratic candidate has won more than 30% of the vote.
trnc
Sure, if we weren’t talking about a criminal enterprise level family. I’d like to think some career staffers will be able to check and make sure property isn’t being outright stolen, but I’m not super optimistic about it. I’m sure it’s also understood that when the congressional law ‘n order crowd hears that DT’s crew stole things and trashed the place like they falsely accused Clinton of doing, there will be a collective yawn.
O. Felix Culpa
@NotMax: Hey, thank you for recommending “Pretend It’s a City.” I binge-watched the first four or five episodes the other day and will return this weekend.
Ken
Don’t they become part of the Q nut’s permanent record?
(Do elementary schools still scare the kids with that?)
artem1s
@Baud:
so basically anyone seeking funding to go into business with Trump then?
John S.
@Geminid: And I’m sure that’s exactly what they intended when they gerrymandered that district.
burnspbesq
I’d be a lot happier if those boxes were being unloaded by the FBI to hold documents it was siezing pursuant to a search warrant.
germy
sanjeevs
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cruz-contact-info-found-alleged-pro-trump-rioter-truck
Embarrassing for Lonnie Coffman.
germy
Retired Lt. Frank Adams sued the department in 2001 and again in 2012 for racial discrimination. A Black, 20-year veteran of the force, Adams supervised mostly white officers in the patrol division. He told ProPublica he endured or witnessed racism and sexism constantly. He said that before he joined the division, there was a policy he referred to as “meet and greet,” where officers were directed to stop any Black person on the Hill. He also said that in another unit, he once found a cartoon on his desk of a Black man ascending to heaven only to be greeted by a Ku Klux Klan wizard. When he complained to his superior officers, he said he was denied promotions and training opportunities, and suffered other forms of retaliation.
Benw
@Ken: Oh, yeah? Well, don’t get so distressed.
Did I happen to mention that I’m impressed?
Geminid
@John S.: I think that’s a district where gerrymandering doesn’t have much effect. That whole area is just Republican. Clever gerrymandering would have extended it into the Atlanta suburbs and pulled some Democratic voters in, making it a 63-37 republican district. This may happen when the Republican Georgia legislature draws new districts for 2022. It is thought that Republicans want to take out Lucy McBath and/or Carolyn Bordeaux. Some of McBath’s voters may end up in Greene’s district.
BruceFromOhio
The Hat must have some inventory of snappy sayings to help fill out these descriptors; this one is just a classic.
evodevo
@Cermet: As far as the MAGAts/talibangelical religious faction is concerned, the Yale Divinity School is just another snowflake librul institution and worthy only of contempt…nothing this guy could say would have ANY effect on the evangelical community. They don’t consider them to be REAL XTIANS®
Kristine
@hueyplong: Illinoisan here. Received my money via DD within days after the bill passed. My accountant–who’s in another state–files my taxes electronically using my bank info.
JCJ
@Betty Cracker:
I still recall geg6 wanting to see Ivanka end up homeless with all of her belongings in a shopping cart with a bad wheel. I hope geg6 will describe her wish for the other Trumpenkinder since that painted such a beautiful picture.
jackmac
@Baud: Also, it’s about time to complete Nixon’s impeachment.
Geminid
@evodevo: Russell Moore, who heads the Southern Baptist Convention’s public policy arm, called for trump to resign five days ago. But he’s a softshell Baptist who follows the squish Jesus of the Sermon on the Mount. Hardshell Baptists follow the tough, scary Jesus of Revelations.
evodevo
@eclare: So did I…looked in the account the IRS had the number of, and there it was…
hueyplong
@JCJ: Can still remember somebody in 2016 hoping that the Trump family would end up living in apartments in inland Florida (Orlando suburbs, maybe) and working for paychecks.
Don’t give up hope. It could still happen.
trnc
I guess that sounds pretty good until Hobby Lobby owns the banks, and Planned Parenthood and developers of low income housing need loans.
Miss Bianca
@mrmoshpotato: Well, I don’t know about *you*, but sure – if we need to start impeachment proceedings to make sure a guy who’s been dead for over 200 years *stays* dead and ineligible to run for office, *I’m* here for you, Lindsey!
jimmiraybob
I hope that they pack all of the stolen loot with extra care to protect it on its way to insurgent headquarters Mar-a-Lago. Some day after the rebellion we may want to recovery the goods.
trnc
@mrmoshpotato:
I’ve suggested at various times that the constitution should be amended to require presidential candidates to have been elected to office and served at least one term at the federal, state or municipal/county level. Someone pointed out that Eisenhower couldn’t have been elected. I promised not to support retroactively overturning his presidency.
Omnes Omnibus
@trnc: Still a bad idea.
trnc
You know, my question at this point isn’t why Graham is stupid enough to say something like that – it’s how anyone can hear it and say, “YES! Good point, Senator! Checkmate, libs!”
Uncle Cosmo
Sounds somewhat safer to me than an Amtrak train the morning of January 20, with 100 miles of track to patrol (some through low-density areas known for RWNJ craziness), minimal evasion potential and no good emergency extraction possibilities. Under normal conditions it would be a fine idea, but in the present danger I devoutly hope Uncle Joe reconsiders and chooses a
safermore readily defensible way to his inauguration.germy
@Uncle Cosmo:
He cancelled that amtrak idea, over security concerns.
leeleeFL
@Dave: Is morris code a Hebrew-Yiddish derivative? Just asking for a friend
Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)
@Josie: Madame Rasputin and I got ours. It has the name of the Tangerine Ballsac on it. We figure we can cash it after the 20th, and add “ex” to the word “president”.
Uncle Cosmo
@germy: :: breathes long loud sigh of relief ::
Chris Johnson
On the subject of QAnon nuts in Congress (repeated for emphasis)
We have to keep track of people being groomed to be the new Trump, or the Trump of four or eight or sixteen years from now, and we have to be particularly careful of one thing: the ones who are stoking extreme right-wing populist batshit insanity WHILE NOT BELIEVING IT THEMSELVES. Trump’s big handicap is that he believes his own crap, and that’s probably saved us… to some extent. It’s certainly doomed him, he’s extremely fucked and the question is, what’s happening to his horde?
So we do in fact have to keep track of people like the QAnoners in Congress, because they are looking to martyr themselves, being true believers. But they believe total madness and get so worked up that they become ineffective, they’re the canonical Trump Fleet that sinks because they’re stressed and delusional and can’t operate a boat, handle a taser, or interact with reality without telegraphing how crazy they are. They can’t hide, they can’t plan well.
All my instincts are absolutely screaming that Madison Cawthorn is a liar: not sure how stupid he is, but one of the things about Nazis is that you cannot take them at face value. This holds for the whole alt-right, and is itself stressful to deal with (there’s good videos on this from ‘Innuendo Studios’ on youtube). You absolutely cannot ‘debate’ or negotiate with people like this on the basis that they will say what they mean: it’s always a tactic, you are the enemy, ANYTHING they do or say is a chess move to get in a position where they can kill you and the other enemies. They really enjoy this, it’s about the only thing they do enjoy.
So sometimes ‘dumb’ is a front, an intentional tactic and you want to have a thought to what is being accomplished by such a claim, notably: what’s accomplished if they successfully get you to assume they mean what they say?
That means, you can scorn them, in a sense you can ‘ignore’ them, but you do NOT ignore them in the sense that you’re not paying attention and begin to take their assertions at face value. Some people just fundamentally lie and con and manipulate. Ignore that, and you’re enabling them. You have to call out their untrustworthiness and THEN write ’em off if you like. You do not write them off and then go ‘I’m sure they’re sincere but’… because they are actively violating every norm of civilized society as intelligently as they can in order to conquer it and start killing you.
TomatoQueen
Those moving boxes on pallets were being unloaded not in front of the White House, but the Executive Office Building, next door (ugliest building downtown). The West Wing is a rabbit warren, but the real shoving of paper from one side of the desk to the other, or actual work, is done inside EOB.
leeleeFL
@hueyplong: Oh, one of us, the sheer people?!
Made me chuckle! Tanks!
Starboard Tack
@Chyron HR:
“Qvaltine”
Mine now.
the pollyanna from hell
@Cermet: Liberal Christians have talked like that for years, it just doesn’t get in the news. I think your anger or contempt is misplaced.
misterpuff
@mrmoshpotato: He had to pull back Killing Pence. It was complete and ready to go.
Spoiler: Antifa did it.