It will never stop being funny to me how terrified of cities the American Right is https://t.co/8xHepBa28Z
— Connor Wroe Southard ⚔️?? (@ConnorSouthard) December 7, 2020
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It will never stop being funny to me how terrified of cities the American Right is https://t.co/8xHepBa28Z
— Connor Wroe Southard ⚔️?? (@ConnorSouthard) December 7, 2020
Plan B: March around the Supreme Court 7x and blow a shofar. https://t.co/yyAyO3x5NT
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) December 8, 2020
Traffic alert, per local station WTOP:
… According to the event’s website, which provides no contact information, around 17,000 supporters say they’re headed to the District for a rally around the National Sylvan Theater on the Mall — which is currently closed — from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m…
ShutdownDC has launched an effort in newsletters and social media posts, saying “conspiracy theorists, white supremacists, Proud Boys and MAGA supporters marched on our streets while refusing to wear masks” in November. And they’re asking local hotels, including the JW Marriott DC, the Grand Hyatt Washington, Crowne Plaza Crystal City and the Holiday Inn National Airport, to refuse rooms to MAGA March attendees.
D.C. police have released some expected street closures and no-parking areas, from Friday through Sunday…
The DCist website has info on a number of counter-protests.
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If you enjoy Lou Dobbs’s and Stephen Miller’s tears you’ll like this clip pic.twitter.com/NqN2YwlXvI
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 8, 2020
Not entirely sure what’s going on here, but it seems clear enough that the GOP Death Cultists, backed into an increasingly small ‘safe space’, are starting to turn on each other. Why not Ted Cruz, Stephen?!?
If it weren’t so horrifying, it would be mildly entertaining.
Late Night Horrorshow Open Thread: Speaking of Aliens…Post + Comments (97)
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“Two Republicans consider Trump the winner despite all evidence showing otherwise. And another 222 GOP members of the House and Senate — nearly 90 percent of all Republicans serving in Congress — will simply not say who won the election.” https://t.co/DRPVlYgwPK
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) December 5, 2020
Joe McCarthy trained Roy Cohn; Roy Cohn trained Donald Trump…
A list? https://t.co/ys12Mp9RSn
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) December 5, 2020
The good news is that very few of them are crazy. The bad news is that nearly all of them are cowards. https://t.co/sDMuMBVxz8
— David Frum (@davidfrum) December 5, 2020
The same people who said they had to vote for Trump or else they'd end up on lists are now hiding in the tall grass as Trump demands a list of names of those who won't support a coup attempt.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) December 6, 2020
fun fact: every Republican now panicking because Trump is destroying their party voted to acquit him
— Jeff Tiedrich (@itsJeffTiedrich) December 3, 2020
the only problem with this framing is that donald j trump has been miserable every day of his fucking life. he’s the most unpleasant, damaged, and thoroughly repulsive person to every have a position of prominence in american life. it just sucks a little more right now. big sad. https://t.co/RP4cDepqyB
— Normie Transition Team (@CalmSporting) December 5, 2020
You beat it repeatedly until it becomes clear they have no other choice. https://t.co/iuoY12FTHR
— Starfish Who Just Wants To Grill (@IRHotTakes) December 6, 2020
Point & Mock the GOP Open Thread: <em>I Have Here In My Hand… </em>Post + Comments (139)
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Wisconsin court rules there is enough evidence to warrant a trial for Kyle Rittenhouse in the killing of two men and the wounding of a third in Kenosha in August. The killings came two days after the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man.https://t.co/Nn8TlP5lGF
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 3, 2020
While his right-wing-crowd-funded lawyers did their uneven best, it seems that ‘hapless manchild forced to defend himself against angry pervs and violent anarchists’ was an insufficient excuse to just quietly flush this whole unfortunate incident down the memory hole. So here’s some horror tales for a Saturday night:
This says so much about the tragedy that is the United States of America, November 2020:
Easy access to weapons.
Little access to healthcare.
Less access to mental health.
Rage, racism.
Unemployment & economic fearfulness.
And #COVID19 in the background.https://t.co/X93EUXpRzH pic.twitter.com/HaZzPEqg8f— Laurie Garrett (@Laurie_Garrett) November 19, 2020
… A Washington Post examination of video and police records, along with other documents, sheds new light on the mindsets of the two people principally involved — one a gun enthusiast who thought of himself as a medic, the other a homeless man with a criminal record who was discharged that day from a psychiatric hospital.
The Post found that Rittenhouse, who was too young to buy a rifle, had arranged for an adult friend to buy the weapon for him using money Rittenhouse had received from a government stimulus program.
The Post interviewed Rittenhouse, who spoke publicly for the first time since his arrest. He said he did not regret that he had a gun that night. “I feel I had to protect myself,” he said. “I would have died that night if I didn’t.”
One of Rittenhouse’s sisters told The Post that he supported peaceful demonstrations but objected to violence and called the rioters in Kenosha “monsters.”
The examination also reveals new details about Rosenbaum’s struggles with mental illness and includes the first on-camera interview with his fiancee, Kariann Swart. “I don’t think there’s any sort of self-defense when there’s an unarmed person in front of you, and you’re holding an assault rifle two feet away,” she said. “But yet on the other hand, you know, Joe, you shouldn’t have been down there.”…
Some of the worst people in the GOP Death Cult helped buy Rittenhouse his temporary freedom, some of them are trying to further their political careers off him, and — inevitably — some of the cultists have gone to war with their fellows over him. Meanwhile, the best future this sorry mope can look forward to is a cell adjourning Dzhokhar Tsarnaev‘s in the ‘But It Seemed So Heroic When They Described It to Me’ Supermax…
99% of suburban gun nuts masturbate to this fantasy of winning a heroic OK Corral shootout against murderous invaders. 0% of them will ever have a chance to. It is sad, in a way, until they, fired up by obliging GOP fearmongers like Ted, go actively looking for their chance…
— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) November 22, 2020
For, you see, 99.999% of gun nuts are, to use a technical term, pussies. I haven't shot an actual gun since I was 16 and never plan to again in my life, and I could beat up any one of them with a frying pan without breaking into sweat. They are decadent, bored, suburban pussies..
— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) November 22, 2020
They know that as long as they merely brandish their toys and yell at cops' faces, then, by virtue of being white, they are gonna be fine. Actually pulling that trigger unleashes a world of possibilities they have never contemplated when jerking off to their fantasies…
— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) November 22, 2020
Someone young enough to not understand consequences. Or someone stupid enough to not care about them. Someone like Kyle Rittenhouse, who would have made a perfect Hitlerjugend in the 1940s, or someone like the Michigan would-be kidnappers who are actually violently insane…
— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) November 22, 2020
Rittenhouse won't be the last one. Not all crazy plots will fail. More "heroes" will be elevated by the right. Killing liberals will become normalized. Some suburban pussies may actually be convinced that pulling the trigger won't have dire consequences. You finish this story.
— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) November 22, 2020
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That moment when the GOP has drifted so far rightward that Sarah Palin seems like the reasonable one. https://t.co/qsCHPMJhBn
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) December 4, 2020
Among a bunch of professional grifters, James ‘JO’Ke’ O’Keefe takes the biscuit:
On Thursday evening, the New York Young Republican Club held its 108th annual gala, in person.
It did not feature Sarah Palin, who had been booked for the event but canceled because of concerns about flying to the New York area from Alaska in the middle of a pandemic, according to someone familiar with her thinking…
[W]hen Ms. Palin canceled, Mr. Wax quickly found a replacement: Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida, a close ally of President Trump who, in the early days of the pandemic, wore a gas mask on the floor of Congress as he prepared to vote on coronavirus relief legislation…
Source just sent me this invite from the event which names the venue: Maritime Parc in Jersey City.
If true, would put to rest the mystery that @danarubinstein reported on earlier tonight: https://t.co/TG03X3nf0v pic.twitter.com/nlA0X5AKvd
— Nick Garber (@nick_garber) December 4, 2020
The event’s other headline speaker was James O’Keefe, the conservative activist who runs the New York-based Project Veritas. He also declined to confirm his attendance.
At first, Project Veritas’s communications director, Neil McCabe, said that Mr. O’Keefe was unavailable for comment and that “his schedule is private.”
Afterward, Mr. O’Keefe called and offered a New York Times reporter the opportunity to spy on The Times for Project Veritas.
“We’d love to give you one of our hidden cameras, and maybe you could speak with Mr. Baquet,” he said, referring to Dean Baquet, the paper’s executive editor. (The reporter declined.)…
By Thursday night… A New York City Patch reporter tweeted an image of an invitation for the gala, featuring the venue’s name and the guests of honor, Mr. Gaetz and Mr. O’Keefe, who both appeared at the event…
Uh oh. The Rona got loose pic.twitter.com/QSc2dZcs0F
— Ron Coleman (@RonColeman) December 4, 2020
I’ll just add that I hope none of the catering staff or other involuntary participants at this event caught anything, not even an STD.
The Scum Also Rises Open Thread: Proud GOP Death Cult BoysPost + Comments (103)
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We look forward to sharing updates here about events on January 20th as well as ways for Americans to engage with the Inauguration. Visit https://t.co/GCEhB7Yf7l for more information.
— Biden Inaugural Committee (@BidenInaugural) November 30, 2020
Right now, we can use all the luck we can muster!
Politics will probably be comparatively boring, but given we're headed for vaccine distribution, major school- and business-related issues, potential city/state budget shortfalls, and general social life re-ramp up it's not like we're easing off into the great sleep
— Katherine Miller (@katherinemiller) November 30, 2020
Janet Yellen’s first tweet:
We face great challenges as a country right now. To recover, we must restore the American dream—a society where each person can rise to their potential and dream even bigger for their children.
As Treasury Secretary, I will work every day towards rebuilding that dream for all.
— Janet Yellen (@JanetYellen) November 30, 2020
Across the aisle…
Folks, this is just the beginning of the GOP’s hypocrisy on this stuff. Get ready for month if not years of shameless 180s. https://t.co/M7b2ql3wm2
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) November 30, 2020
Neat to see the Trump campaign acknowledge just how many of the things the president says publicly are untrue. https://t.co/RbxaywOErB
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) November 30, 2020
During a talk today, I was asked how Republicans will process their memory of the Trump years. I answered by quoting Don Draper's cynical remark from Mad Men Season 1: "It never happened. It will shock you how much it never happened." https://t.co/c6Lb1DnBY2
— David Frum (@davidfrum) December 1, 2020
Tuesday Morning Open Thread: Rabbit Rabbit RabbitPost + Comments (171)
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Here's what I'm left wondering:
Why Did Even More Americans Vote for Biden?https://t.co/grW4k1bXGX
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) November 27, 2020
Is there a single diner in the US without a mainstream media member still grasping for understanding of how racism works? https://t.co/cVVdOPcCEC
— Slava Malamud (@SlavaMalamud) November 28, 2020
But of course, the thing is, you have to reach out and understand these people, because they're very anxious, and forgotten towns and globalization and shit https://t.co/sfDwbnqhCE
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) November 29, 2020
they’re just shitty human beings. this is not a mystery to be solved nor a knot to be untied. they are bad, dishonest people. you know this already! https://t.co/Mt5qADLr96
— Normie Transition Team (@CalmSporting) November 28, 2020
Great stuff from @RadioFreeTom here. What's doubly galling is that *even after an unprecedented 80 million people voted to oust Trump,* much of the orientation of commentary is *still* towards understanding why 74 million voted for Trump, not why 80 million voted against him. https://t.co/5UukwfqdQD
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) November 27, 2020
I'm so f*cking tired of people going to rural Wisconsin like anthropologists on a field trip. Take those same people from Oshkosh and put them on a bus to Boston or LA and say: "You better learn about these people. They're your fellow citizens and they way outnumber you." /3x
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) November 27, 2020
ding ding ding DING DING DING *bell breaks* https://t.co/NU3KxYjS6T
— Gerry Doyle (@mgerrydoyle) November 29, 2020
Dyspeptic Open Thread: Statler, Waldorf, and MePost + Comments (248)