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Late Night Repub Stupidity Open Thread: Side Show

by Anne Laurie| January 26, 20211:05 am| 67 Comments

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What do you call Lauren Boebert’s fashion style? pic.twitter.com/bgUwQ412IW

— Abraxsys (@Abraxsys) January 24, 2021

Lookit the big guns on MEEEEEEEEE!!!

Pretty good idea why she named her salmonella shack ‘Shooters’.

There are genuinely dangerous Republicans in Congress, but Boebert is dangerous only to those with range (and then mostly incidentally). To be catty, since all she really seems to want is to stand in the spotlight while awed spectators stare at her, rhinoplasty / chin work / lasik surgery would’ve been more cost-effective than running for election…

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Repubs in Disarray! Open Thread: Kevin McCarthy Is Very Sad

by Anne Laurie| January 25, 202110:41 am| 179 Comments

This post is in: GOP Death Cult, Impeachment, Open Threads, Repubs in Disarray!, Schadenfreude

I wonder how that happened. https://t.co/kH5xIW3vqT

— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) January 25, 2021

You might even call him fekkin’ pathetic!

From the available evidence, McCarthy is neither a spotlight-seeking moron, or a sociopath incapable of understanding normal human reactions. Which makes it that much harder to understand why he chose to put himself forward as the “leader” of the Leopards Eating Peoples Faces Party rump, but as the old joke goes, at least it’s show biz…

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?? "We're eating sh*t for breakfast, lunch and dinner right now," a McCarthy aide told @axios https://t.co/sZaNpYGDng

— Jim VandeHei (@JimVandeHei) January 24, 2021

Why it matters: The House Republican leader had been hoping to use this year to build toward taking the majority in 2022, but his efforts to bridge intra-party divisiveness over the Capitol siege have him taking heat from every direction, eroding his stature both with the public and within his party…

Pressure is mounting on McCarthy financially, politically and publicly.

– Corporate donors are freezing him out for challenging the Electoral College vote on Jan. 6.

– The media is lampooning him for initially saying “the president bears responsibility” for the Capitol attack but amending that last week to say, “I don’t believe he provoked it, if you listen to what he said at the rally.”

– McCarthy also got hit for saying during an interview this weekend that “everyone” bears responsibility for the political temperature in the country.

Meanwhile, the pro-Trump wing of his conference is angry with him for not condemning Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) more forcefully after she voted to impeach Trump…

As Mom would say, you order it you eat it.

— Leslie (@LeslieBryant44) January 24, 2021

“Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.”
—Hannah Arendt https://t.co/uoBc6rgd1b

— Windsor Mann (@WindsorMann) January 24, 2021

Let the Truth & Reconciliation Committee begin right here, right now. BENGHAZI! (but in the U.S. Capital).

I hope everyone understands that even if Pence, Pelosi, and/or other members of Congress had been assassinated by the mob, Republicans would still oppose holding Trump accountable. https://t.co/nU0MPRoYCQ

— Steve M. (@nomoremister) January 24, 2021

To be fair when the gop is telling Dems to move on now that there’s a new president from all their riot & impeachment talk, it is not inconsistent from their past activity. The moment the last new president was elected, the GOP stopped caring about 4 Dead Americans immediately

— Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24) January 25, 2021

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Repub Stupidity Open Thread: These Colors Don’t Run… But We* Do!*

by Anne Laurie| January 23, 20217:15 pm| 225 Comments

This post is in: GOP Death Cult, Information Warfare, Open Threads, Republican Venality, Assholes

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— Phos4 (@Phozz4) January 19, 2021

I read the Washington Post article MisterMix highlighted earlier, but I’m not as pessimistic about the arguments presented there:

… Federal officials estimate that roughly 800 people surged into the building, though they caution that such numbers are imprecise, and the real figure could be 100 people or more in either direction.

Among those roughly 800 people, FBI agents and prosecutors have so far seen a broad mix of behavior — from people dressed for military battle, moving in formation, to wanton vandalism, to simply going with the crowd into the building…

Not one of those dumbfvcks had any business being anywhere near the Capital that day, but insisting LOCK ‘EM ALL UP is the only correct response is no smarter than saying every ‘participant’ at a BLM street protest deserves to be punished for the few troublemakers who break windows or set fires. There’s a dangerous, festering core of true believers at the heart of the insurrection; those people need to be properly prosecuted (and hopefully stripped of any ability to cause trouble in the future). The nice-day-for-a-MAGA-rally tourists who just went along with their herd — and that will be most of them — deserve to be cited for whatever misdemeanors they committed, given a public shaming (if it were up to me, community service picking trash, or the like), and told *not* to be dumbfvcks in the future.

They’re not brave people, and they only acted out because they thought ‘everybody’ was on their side. Convince them the ratio has changed — that the Biden Administration will *not* give lawbreakers a free pass, no matter how hard the LameStream Media whines — and I’d assume at least 80% of these Brave Resistance Troupers will go back to their natural habitats at the VFW hall bars and the HOA boards.

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one thing that I think gets overlooked in discussing the coup attempt is how once the mob got to a point where capitol security details were ready to shoot (and in fact did kill someone) it sort of disintegrated.

these guys, despite their plate carriers and camo, are not brave https://t.co/noCgDU9baZ

— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) January 19, 2021

So, what happened to the insurrection? Maybe I'm jinxing it, but the wave of violence many expected didn't materialize before or on Inauguration Day; there were hardly any demonstrators. Where did all the rage go? 1/

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 21, 2021

Big contrast with BLM demonstrations, which persisted despite far more police violence than the Trumpists ever faced. That tells you a lot 3/

— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 21, 2021

Of course, there are hardcore white nationalists and militia members who are still going to cause trouble. But a lot of the people who stormed the Capitol thought they could walk through the Rotunda carrying a lectern without any consequence. Now they know they can't.

— James Surowiecki (@JamesSurowiecki) January 21, 2021

This. Once these idiots realized their ex-wives will gladly snitch or a co-worker will forward an IG selfie from Pelosi's office to the FBI, a lot of these weekend warrior Gravy Seal Rambo-wannabes said "no thanks." Problem is-the leftovers are the real dangerous lone-wolfers.

— Bryan Hall (@bryan____hall) January 21, 2021

"You didn't break in lol"

Yes, I did. Let me be clear in this public forum that I, with my peers, forcibly entered a government building illegally. pic.twitter.com/zgpfOAvOie

— Sen. Lemon Gogurt (R – MS) (@Ugarles) January 19, 2021

Another satisfied Trump University customer pic.twitter.com/mGlpCDSc8d

— CJ Ciaramella (@cjciaramella) January 8, 2021

Yeah we tried to make this weird catty game show guy dictator for life but people got mad at him so he said it was all our idea and now the FBI is at my house

— tier four operator (@AliceAvizandum) January 8, 2021

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Late Night Open Thread: Aspiring GOP Edgelord Finds His MILF

by Anne Laurie| January 17, 202112:02 am| 114 Comments

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Madison Cawthorn thinks he and Lauren Boebert could have talked down the blood-thirsty MAGA mob https://t.co/6nuOXutkTW pic.twitter.com/Aa3Sv2U7zv

— Rachel Olding (@rachelolding) January 16, 2021

It’s not every new-minted Repub Congresscritter gets a profile by journamalistic assassin Olivia Nuzzi, but at the rate he’s moving (his mouth), no telling how long young Cawthorne will be available. For NYMag, “The youngest member of Congress is invigorated by the mob he helped incite”:

… After winning a competitive primary and the November election, he avidly promoted the president’s false claims of voter fraud. In a December speech to Turning Point USA, the right-wing youth organization, he said, “Call your congressman, and feel free — you can lightly threaten them and say, ‘You know what? If you don’t start supporting election integrity, I’m coming after you, Madison Cawthorn is coming after you, everybody’s coming after you.’ ” With digital charisma and total fealty to the Trump election lie, Cawthorn snagged a prime speaking spot at the president’s January 6 “Save America” rally alongside lifers like Rudy Giuliani and Trump’s own son. Facing the MAGA masses, his leather-gloved fist raised in the air, Cawthorn said, “Wow, this crowd has some fight in it!”…

An extremely online Evangelical ex-linebacker son of a financial adviser, Cawthorn so embodied the right-wing ethos of the Trump era — “I don’t want to raise a family in a country run by left-wing socialists,” etc. — that it didn’t even matter to voters when Trump himself endorsed someone else in his primary. That was done on the advice of the White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, who held the seat from 2013 to 2020. Meadows knew Cawthorn personally: A few years before, he had been his intern and then a low-level staffer…

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Cawthorn won his primary by 30 points. “Madison had decent name ID because he became a local hero after his accident, and people love a hero overcoming adversity,” the Meadows aide said with casual cynicism. By the time Cawthorn won the general election, he looked, to liberals, almost like a mini-Trump, adept at owning the libs and racking up liabilities that would have ended most political careers. He visited the U.S.-Mexico border and appealed to QAnon with a claim that children were being kidnapped and sold into sex slavery across the Rio Grande; he was accused of sexual misconduct (Cawthorn maintains he did nothing wrong) and of spreading a lie that, if not for his car crash, he would have attended the Naval Academy (he was rejected prior to the accident). His campaign launched a racist attack against a member of the press; he posted a photo at Hitler’s vacation home with a caption about how seeing where “the Führer” (umlaut and everything) went to decompress had been on his “bucket list.” And on and on.

Cawthorn’s ideology is an almost convincing patchwork of conservative slogans and concepts, expressed with a child actor’s poised delivery — designed to charm elders and scare off peers. But it is shallow and contradictory. In one breath, he proposes a retreat from identity politics. In the next, he cites Trump’s appointing an openly gay Cabinet official as proof that he is one of the greatest presidents ever. He describes his version of “America First” foreign policy as humanitarian dovishness: “We should be leading with wells, not warheads.” Then he says he wants to cut foreign aid, the less than one percent of the budget that theoretically goes toward well digging.

During an interview with the columnist John Solomon (famous for spreading Ukrainian-themed conspiracy theories ahead of the first Trump impeachment), Cawthorn described his new station in magical terms. “You think of a Harry Potter or a Gandalf in one of these great works of fiction,” he said. “They’re handed a wand. And you as the viewer, you don’t exactly know what they can do with that wand, but you know it holds incredible power. That’s a lot what it’s like coming into Congress, because there’s really no limitations onto what you can and cannot do in Congress. Aside from what the Supreme Court will allow you to do.”…

… Cawthorn is almost certainly in uncharted waters, which is his analogy, not mine. “I feel a lot like Magellan,” he said. “You know — the great explorer during the Age of Exploration.”

(And those of us who were not home-schooled Evangelicals remember how well things went for Magellan — and his unfortunate crew.)

Sidebar: I have been noticing a subtext among the ‘elite’ media, no doubt repeating what Jarvanka tells them, that current Chief of Staff Mark Meadows is the one responsible for all Trump’s most recent missteps. As the old Russian snark-proverb goes, If only the Tsar knew!…

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#ETTD Open Thread: Mike Pompeo, Lord of Swagger

by Anne Laurie| January 14, 20213:47 pm| 161 Comments

This post is in: Foreign Affairs, GOP Death Cult, Trump Crime Cartel

This happened AFTER the storming of the Capitol. https://t.co/wmS6KhEJje

— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) January 11, 2021

Ignore, for the moment, the gunbunny wannabe imagining herself Sarah Palin as played by Tina Fey. Mike Pompeo, self-styled smartest guy in any room, has long imagined that the common American voter would take one look at him and see the next, inevitable President. (That vision may have involved panties being thrown.)

However, after a tenure mostly noted for speaking loudly and waving a very small stick indeed — not to mention using his professional staff as personal servants — he’s burned through whatever credibility he may have had.

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cancelled his Europe trip at the last minute on Tuesday after Luxembourg’s foreign minister and top European Union officials declined to meet him. https://t.co/9WtqeIDjRq

— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) January 14, 2021

U.S. State Department diplomats and staff have expressed outrage at Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s failure to acknowledge, much less protest, President Trump’s role in inciting rioters who laid siege to the Capitol.https://t.co/NvjcKSpta9

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

Here's @ArmsControlWonk on his favorite politician, Mike Pompeo.https://t.co/WAB25gxSzA

— James Palmer (@BeijingPalmer) January 12, 2021

… Since the start of the new year, Pompeo’s Twitter account has been on a rampage, touting the accomplishments, such that they are, of his tenure at the State Department. The account has been posting between 20 and 30 tweets a day, each defending the administration’s record and invoking all the hoary hashtags of “Make America Great Again” social media: #LeadingFromTheFront, #SoMuchWinning, #StillWinning, #MaximumPressure, #AmericansFirst, #PeaceThruStrength, and, of course, #swagger. At the time I filed this column, there were about 200 such tweets…

The tweets are short on diplomatic accomplishments measured in the traditional fashion—there are few mentions of any agreements reached, no statistical measures of progress, nothing. To the extent that concrete actions are mentioned at all, they are largely negative actions, such as withdrawing from international agreements like the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, Paris agreement on climate change, and Iran nuclear deal.

But good lord, there is a hell of a lot of posturing…

And so the defense of Trump will be this: He restored American toughness, but his chance to reap the benefits were stolen along with the election. All of Biden’s failures will be because Democrats doesn’t love America like Republicans do. And his successes will have been built on the leverage created by Republicans. A generation of aspiring Republican foreign-policy wonks will be expected to learn this catechism by heart or risk being labeled a socialist cuck.

It was, of course, inevitable that Pompeo would defend his legacy—and Trump’s. Even Richard Nixon, after resigning from the presidency in disgrace and accepting a pardon with its implication of guilt, sought to rehabilitate himself. If Pompeo’s efforts look comical in comparison, if they are a bloated mess of obsequious praise for Trump, empty sloganeering, and half-truths, well… they are also a fair reflection of the man himself.

"It’s really something to see Pompeo pleasure himself in such an anatomically unlikely fashion, but I suppose having no spine helps." https://t.co/ttvDcENlhD

— Dr. Jeffrey Lewis (@ArmsControlWonk) January 12, 2021

Mike Pompeo’s legacy will be that he failed to support and defend State Department officials like Marie Yovanovitch. https://t.co/iUrF67oR6R

— Bianna Golodryga (@biannagolodryga) January 14, 2021

Kansas City Star Editorial Board: In about a week, Mike Pompeo's service will mercifully come to an end.

"America will be better when he leaves office. Kansas will be much better if he decides to stay away from his adopted home state forever."https://t.co/XdQHoaxfBJ

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 14, 2021

… His battles with reporters, and reporting, were a theme during his time as secretary of state. He exploded after an interview with NPR. He accused a Nashville reporter of working for the Democratic National Committee, a charge he later leveled at PBS…

This is quite rich coming from a man who whines incessantly about alleged censorship on social media. As we now know, Pompeo may be the most anti-free-press secretary of state in American history.

The secretary’s aberrational behavior doesn’t stop there, of course. He sponsored highly questionable taxpayer-funded dinners at the State Department that appeared to serve little purpose beyond bolstering his political ambitions.

State Department workers were allegedly asked to perform personal errands for Pompeo and his spouse, another stain on his record.

More broadly, he has spent the last few months doing his best to wreck the foreign policy of the incoming Joe Biden administration. This week’s declaration of Cuba as a state sponsor of terrorism is the latest example of this sad behavior…

Now, days after thousands of Americans ransacked our own national Capitol, leaving at least five dead and hundreds terrorized, Pompeo is silent. It appears his concept of morality does not extend to these shores…

But when it comes to personal service, well…

Pompeo tweets the idea of Trump winning a Nobel prize, one of the president's favorite topics, on a day when I'm told advisers are doing whatever they can to keep him calm, a week out from the next POTUS's inauguration. https://t.co/uvdFQkQD8J

— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) January 13, 2021

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Thursday Morning Open Thread: Much As Expected

by Anne Laurie| January 14, 20216:56 am| 154 Comments

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A beautiful sight: moving boxes arrive at the White House. (Via @erinscottphoto) pic.twitter.com/DkpmSt2zvC

— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) January 14, 2021

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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

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Late Night Insurrection Open Thread: GOP Scaff, Raff & Bob-Tail

by Anne Laurie| January 14, 202112:14 am| 106 Comments

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"They're overplaying a lot of things, including the deaths of these people on Capitol Hill" — Rep. Darrell Issa, who supported endless investigations into Benghazi (ht @KailiJoy) pic.twitter.com/z1adqYpN2n

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 11, 2021

The Beergut Putsch had me recalling that useful phrase of opprobrium, which a lazy google informs me originally meant professional beggars, streetcorner loiters, and sex workers of all genders. As the linking implies, those three groups tend to interlock quite a bit, depending on the individual Repub in question…

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Sherrod Brown is reporting that Lindsey Graham, during the attack, took his mask off and was screaming at a capitol officer for not protecting him enough.@LindseyGrahamSC

— David Hoffman (@atdavidhoffman) January 11, 2021

I feel like not enough has been made of Proud Boys leader Joe Biggs having dinner at the Trump hotel with Lindsey Graham before Biggs helped organize an assault on the U.S. Capitol? pic.twitter.com/Ss0YXrF4En

— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) January 12, 2021

Here’s one up&coming young grifter who’s no doubt singing for the feds right now:

when you brought 80 buses of people to an insurrection and want your audience of republican millionaires to forget it pic.twitter.com/phnvCVzJw9

— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) January 11, 2021

update! turning point says that kirk ended up only sending seven buses. i don't trust anyone involved, but all the same, it's worth putting the official denial on the record in this thread. https://t.co/85zrmql7fx pic.twitter.com/wjxUagRSj7

— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) January 12, 2021

here's who gives charlie his money https://t.co/5CSTlJO2Z4

— John Whitehouse (@existentialfish) January 11, 2021

Longstanding congressional human chew-toys…

I’m in the camp that Susan Collins is just truly dumb as shit. https://t.co/2dZAur6mxf

— drew (@ImNotOwned) January 11, 2021

… and rising young gunbunny wanna-bes!

Dear @FBI You asked for help tracking down the terrorists who attempted to overthrow the govt. I give you Congresswoman @laurenboebert who actually live-tweeted @SpeakerPelosi's location to the rioters. https://t.co/DGMZxV5KX7

— Cary Elwes (@Cary_Elwes) January 10, 2021

Seems she says she was in league with the insurrectionists and a short time later, after they stormed the building, she was live tweeting about Pelosi’s whereabouts. https://t.co/bYDwwPiZ9L

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 11, 2021

Another proud Queens native who can’t manage his money:

Dan Bongino says the Parler takedown bankrupted him.

— Gabriel 25th or impeach (@DigToTheTruth) January 11, 2021

Their biggest tragedy of the week was getting kicked off Parler and losing all their fascist fans on Twitter. That’s the shit that has them sad and broken!

— Joel D. Anderson (@byjoelanderson) January 10, 2021

Last week, five people died as rioters incited by President Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol. But First Lady Melania Trump has identified the worst thing about the entire horrific spectacle: people saying mean things about her online https://t.co/Fp1tCBLVBn

— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 11, 2021

melania is one of the perhaps five living individuals who deserve the experience of being married to donald trump https://t.co/B1CgRtgeqN

— Zoomcock Archivist ?? (@canderaid) January 11, 2021

This isn’t satire — Melania was overseeing a photo shoot at the White House during the Trump riot https://t.co/sPRo1GwFgc https://t.co/boblPkqnSR

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 11, 2021

More GOP legends-in-their-own-minds…

Just the absolute contempt for anyone with basic literacy in the English language it took to write this tweet, knowing the whole world could read it. https://t.co/uxadxOtaJB

— Starfish Who Just Wants To Grill (@IRHotTakes) January 12, 2021

rubio cheered on a caravan of trump supporters who tried to drive a biden bus off the road. https://t.co/5oBXdLrz8Y https://t.co/QGV9CHLEQF

— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) January 10, 2021

At least Rep. Cawthorne has the (flimsy) excuse that he’s a home-schooled 25-year-old edgelord, which is apparently what his constituents were looking for…

"Congressman Cawthorn expresses regret about ___________" is going to be a theme for the next two years. pic.twitter.com/XcKIwWIjkD

— Jim Swift (@JimSwiftDC) January 12, 2021

At a Turning Point USA event in December, Cawthorn encouraged attendees to “call your congressman and feel free — you can lightly threaten them.”

“Say: ‘If you don’t support election integrity, I’m coming after you."

More here: https://t.co/yo7C9O0YBK https://t.co/AIt4XvcLOe

— Jason Hoffman (@JasonHoffman93) January 12, 2021

Hitler Enthusiast looks the part. pic.twitter.com/PSfjt6MmmA

— Ari Cohn (@AriCohn) January 13, 2021

Rep Madison Cawthorn, opposing impeachment, encourages colleagues to "put aside partisan politicking."

Cawthorn's first tweet as an elected official: https://t.co/ayeuDLWhKA

— DJ Judd (@DJJudd) January 13, 2021

I'm thinking the Democrats are going to enjoy painting the GOP as the party of crazy with people like Greene, Boebert and others. https://t.co/UEOiOiZ7gV

— Relentlessly Hasan (@RelentlessYapp) January 11, 2021

No, sorry. You’ve got to carry this baby for the rest of your lives. https://t.co/73CfFSHZ3k

— Jamie L. Manson (@jamielmanson) January 10, 2021

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I’m going back to the respite thread.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Tick tock motherfuckers! Tick fucking tock!

… down to kool-aid drinkers and next of kin at the trump White House

Screw the Judean People’s Front. Splitters.

Something seems odd about that, but i have been drinking.

Almost as fun as hiking the Appalachian Trail

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

Let there be snark.

False Scribes! False Scribes!

Hot air and ill-informed banter

How do you get liars to care about the truth?

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

I’m only here for the duck photos.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

An almost top 10,000 blog!

All your base are belong to Tunch.

Shelter in place is one thing. Shelter in pants is quite another.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Call the National Guard if your insurrection lasts more than four hours.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

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