Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Following up on Adam’s bulletin below, my son just introduced me to the crab song and meme.
It is the perfect funerary dirge for one Rush Limbaugh:
I’m so with Clarence Darrow on this one:
I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
Open thread. No nil nisi bonum restriction on this one.
NEW: Audio of militia members narrating the Capitol invasion:
“We have a good group: 30 to 40 of us. We’re sticking together and sticking to the plan.”
“We are in the main dome right now.”
“Keep going.”
“…Everything we fucking trained for.”https://t.co/TJnfEnX81H
— Lois Beckett (@loisbeckett) January 14, 2021
I am not a lawyer.
However, that sure as fuck sounds like an overt act of a conspiracy.
And given an overt act of conspiracy, there are going to be a shit ton of small fry who will soon be enjoying the full and unparrelled attention of the US government. They will be getting lawyers who will be telling them that silence gets them 10 to 20 while talking gets them a much shorter and easier sentence.
A lot of people are extremely unlikely to be pardoned in the next week. The incentive to squeal will be extraordinarily high.
But again, I am not a lawyer.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told lawmakers to be prepared to return to Washington for action on President Trump https://t.co/t0bX4tspe3
— Bloomberg (@business) January 10, 2021
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45% of Republicans approve of the storming of the Capitol building. https://t.co/th0ldyK1IC pic.twitter.com/JnFFsZ4obo
— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) January 7, 2021
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Trump repeats claims about the election being stolen from him but says, "We can't play into the hands of these people…So go home. We love you. You're very special…I know how you feel, but go home & go in peace." His former chief of staff said many are "domestic terrorists."
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) January 6, 2021
It would be shameful, but these people — and particularly their Dear Leader — are incapable of shame.
WSJ: Hedge fund investor Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah Mercer are financially backing the social media company Parler.
The Mercers previously financed a number of conservative causes, and have not disclosed their involvement with Parlerhttps://t.co/uRW6Ili87F
— Hamza Shaban (@hshaban) November 14, 2020
“Interesting“, as far as it goes, which probably isn’t far enough. I can’t see most of the article, because I’m not gonna buy an exorbitantly expensive Wall Street Journal subscription for pap like this:
As Facebook Inc . and Twitter Inc . have taken a harder line against unsubstantiated claims of a stolen presidential election, prominent conservatives on both platforms have responded with anger and a frequent retort: Follow me on Parler.
Launched in 2018, the libertarian-leaning social network was the most downloaded app on both Android and Apple devices for most of last week, according to data from Google and analytics firm App Annie. Its leaders envision it as a free-speech-focused alternative to the giants of Silicon Valley.
The platform also has some deep-pocketed investors. Rebekah Mercer, daughter of hedge-fund investor Robert Mercer, is among the company’s financial backers, according to people familiar with the matter. The Mercers have previously financed a number of conservative causes…
ICYMI (as you probably did, what with all the more pressing news out there), this breathless scoop comes hard on the heels of a widely circulated twitter thread…
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The Plague Rat in Chief’s scabbed and pustulent touch has reached the Pentagon.
The US top military leadership have entered quarantine after Admiral Charles W. Wray, vice commandant of the Coast Guard, was diagnosed with Covid-19:
The chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and other top military leaders are under quarantine after a senior Coast Guard official tested positive for the coronavirus, two U.S. officials said.
Gen. Mark Milley and the chiefs of the Army, Navy and Air Force have tested negative for the virus, but remain under quarantine as a precaution, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss information not yet made public. The head of U.S. Cyber Command, Gen. Paul Nakasone, was also among those quarantined.
Up to 14 officials are believed to have been potentially exposed…
This exposure is, apparently, unconnected to the Judge Barrett corona party in the Rose Garden–but this is the direct consequence of the larger Trump failure to create the procedures and culture in which all Americans collaborate that could contain the virus.
We are all less safe because of that–and now we see that such insecurity extends beyond “mere” personal security to that of the nation as a whole.
Enraged open thread
ETA: By popular (sic!) demand…
Image: Anonymous, Three Rats Eating a Fish Head, Edo, 18th c.