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bolverk

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  1. 6 minutes ago, Macklemore said:

    Parler is a platform and is viewpoint neutral. It is not Goebbels ministry of propaganda. Any tool can be used to further violence. Apple is not disabling Telegram, WhatsApp and Facebook. Telegram especially has been used by radical groups. They did go after a platform favored by the right. That is not going to go over well

    You can post all the conservative content that you'd like on any of those platforms for all I care...unless you believe that inciting violence in inherently conservative. Look, for all its flaws, Facebook does have a mechanism for moderating content. I don't agree with a lot of their decisions, but it's there. Parler claims to not moderate in spite of their terms of service, which they apparently don't enforce anyway.

    And we already have plenty of evidence of Parler's abuse from screenshots over the last couple of days. Your claim that it's being used to "just blow off steam" doesn't hold water in that light. It's being used explicitly for the purpose of promoting and planning another terrorist attack by certain fucked up elements of our population. Again, you're allowed (and frankly should be encouraged) to express your 1st amendment rights on any of those platforms SO LONG AS YOU DON'T PROMOTE VIOLENCE.

    I'm becoming an old, so I don't really know what goes on with WhatsApp or Telegram. If those apps are being abused/used to assist in promoting insurrection of our democracy, then fucking ban those too.

  2. Here's is the definitive list of Texas representatives who voted to not certify the election:

    R-1    Louie Gohmert
    R-4    Pat Fallon*
    R-5    Lance Gooden
    R-6    Ron Wright
    R-11    August Pfluger*
    R-13    Ronny Jackson*
    R-14    Randy Weber
    R-17    Pete Sessions*
    R-19    Jodey Arrington
    R-22    Troy Nehls*
    R-25    Roger Williams
    R-26    Michael Burgess
    R-27    Michael Cloud
    R-31    John Carter
    R-36    Brian Babin
    R-24    Beth Van Duyne*

    * Newly elected representative

  3. 12 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    Roger Fucking Stone, conductor  of the 2001 Florida mess, at your service. He played a very very large hand in this behind the scenes. This is his metier and he loves it.

    My husband says for people to keep saying 'worse than Nixon' every single time, every single time, every single time Trump's name is mentioned. Every single time. He says almost no one would admit to voting for Nixon afterwards and that even though Trump is a 'cult' leader (vs Nixon), that the negative, loser bad guy label will begin to stick. He believes it's important to get it to stick so Trump cannot be a victim nor an outlaw--two very  very powerful myths of fairy tales that resonate with populist leaders and their followers.

    I think my husband's thought has merit. Course, I'm biased.

    Agreed with your husband. It was pointed out yesterday in this thread and later echoed by Brisket that the long-term threat here is that Trump will be viewed as a martyr to the old German stabbed-in-the-back myth that Hitler and the Nazis used to full effect in gaining popularity and coming to power. Personally, I believe that this is a legitimate danger given the potential (and likelihood) that diehard Trump supporters have been installed throughout the federal government. We may well have seen evidence of that in Wednesday's (intentionally?) incompetent response to the attack on the Capitol.

  4. Unsourced article from Business Insider has quotes from anonymous European security officials saying that circumstantial evidence points toward a coup. (Yes, I understand how flimsy that sentence reads, but I'm putting it here since we're already speculating.)

    https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-attempted-coup-federal-law-enforcement-capitol-police-2021-1

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    'Today I am briefing my government that we believe with a reasonable level of certainty that Donald Trump attempted a coup'

    One NATO source set the stage, using terms more commonly used to describe unrest in developing countries.

    "The defeated president gives a speech to a group of supporters where he tells them he was robbed of the election, denounces his own administration's members and party as traitors, and tells his supporters to storm the building where the voting is being held," the NATO intelligence official said.

    "The supporters, many dressed in military attire and waving revolutionary-style flags, then storm the building where the federal law-enforcement agencies controlled by the current president do not establish a security cordon, and the protesters quickly overwhelm the last line of police.

    "The president then makes a public statement to the supporters attacking the Capitol that he loves them but doesn't really tell them to stop," the official said. "Today I am briefing my government that we believe with a reasonable level of certainty that Donald Trump attempted a coup that failed when the system did not buckle.

    "I can't believe this happened."

     

     

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    'Thank God it didn't work, because I can't imagine how hard it would be to sanction the US financial system'

    The third official, who works in counterintelligence for a NATO member, agreed that the situation could only be seen as a coup attempt, no matter how poorly considered and likely to fail, and said its implications might be too huge to immediately fathom.

    "Thank God it didn't work, because I can't imagine how hard it would be to sanction the US financial system," the official said. By sanctions, he means the imposition of the diplomatic, military, and trade blockages that democratic nations usually reserve for dictatorships.

    "The broader damage around the world will be extensive in terms of reputation, and that's why Putin doesn't mind at all that Trump lost. He's got to be happy to take his chips and count his winnings, which from the Trump era will be a shockingly quick decline in American prestige and moral high ground.

    "Every moment the Americans spend on their own self-inflicted chaos helps China, it helps Putin, and, to a lesser extent, it helps the mini-dictators like [Turkish President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan and [Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor] Orban, who breathe cynicism about politics, human rights, and democracy as their air," the official said. "They won't miss Trump; they'll be glad to see his drama leave so they can enjoy the poisoned political climate."

     

     

  5. 21 minutes ago, dingleberryswitzer said:

    Hey, didn't stop Ted from tryna run for president.

    His mom was American, which further demonstrates farcical claims by Trump and the rest of the Birthers that Obama wouldn't have been eligible to become president if he were born outside the States. A big chunk of Trump's political career was founded upon that conspiracy theory. I guess that makes sense in a sick way since the pillars holding up the GOP during the last decade were all conspiracies: birtherism, pizzagate, Benghazi, stolen elections, etc.

  6. That cop who died had been hit in the head with a fire extinguisher and was taken off life support. Hopefully, they'll have security footage that will identify the murderer. Does this open up the rest of the capitol attackers up to additional charges?

    Moreover, the capitol cops who allowed them in and consorted with them had better face the most severe legal consequences possible for their complicity and/or dereliction of duty.

  7. Thread of a guy enlisting help to ID individuals and their gear. He claims to have ID'd one of the terrorists as recently retired military and has submitted info to FBI. Spoiler alert: that guy was a Longhorn. It's a scary AF thread because it appears to show that those who attacked the Capitol were basically two groups: 1) gawkers/selfie fools and 2) organized paramilitary intent on taking hostages.

    (siap - I haven't been able to keep up this this whole thread)

     

  8. 1 hour ago, clapclapclap said:

     

    Today wasn't a reflection of BLM - it was a follow up to an even earlier act of "protest." I don't know who that twatter is, but he forgot (or is trying to deflect from) these same types of crazies stormed the Michigan capitol before the BLM protests following exhortations to OPEN MICHIGAN?

  9. It's utterly heartbreaking to hear of your loss. As I've scrolled through all the posts, I struggled to find words of comfort that I could share. But, you know, the precise words don't matter. What does is knowing you have a full roster of folks here grieving with you and for your family. We're here for you always, Immortal.

    May your cherished child, Sarah, rest in peace.

  10. On 12/31/2020 at 9:43 AM, Chewy's Hairy Horn said:

    Fran’s is the best and you damn well know it.  
     

    Besides, I hear Dan was a jerk and it’s why she left him, anyway. 

    Best burger in Austin can be found at the Chili Parlor and it's no contest.

  11. 2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

    In NM now. Went through rain, sometimes heavy, almost to Big Spring, where it turned to snow for maybe 25 miles. Got pretty heavy for a while. Big Spring was probably up to an inch or so by the time we left. Snow ended maybe 5-10 miles after town, and all was dry.

    Here in BS, there's probably only about an inch right now, but the local weather guy is saying we should get anither 4"-7" inches tonight. Not sure how we'll be able to take that length.

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