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  1. 5 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Like Hawley and Cruz, everything Marco is saying has to be taken in the context of his future Presidential ambitions.  He's trying to win Trump's base on his side, and/or he's trying not to get primaried.

    Remember, Marco's seat is up in '22, and he's in Florida.

    Wow, Marco, that’s a serious hot take. 
     

    “Yeah, the guy we’ve spent four years enabling has tried to overturn an election and organized a mob to ransack the place where I work. But jeez, this Biden guy us just overreacting.”

  2. 23 hours ago, berlinerbaer said:

    My heart says that the agreement by the UN to ostracize Taiwan in exchange for China, and the accompanying worldwide severance of diplomatic relations with Taiwan, is a relic of an era when China truly had zero problems with neighbors. That isn't the case anymore. 

    It’s also a relic of an era when the United States could make concessions like this without losing face ourselves, and when China at least pretended to be a responsible actor that was interested in a gradual, peaceful resolution to Taiwan.

    Neither of those things are true anymore. The PRC now insists via non-veiled threats that we (and everyone else) adhere to a ridiculous bit of kabuki theater when interacting with the Taiwanese— a prosperous, democratic, peaceful island that threatens no one except the internal legitimacy of the CCP. It’s one thing to voluntarily offer up some niceties, it’s quite another thing to bend the knee to the demands of the Celestial Ruler. 

    Make no mistake, China is as malign as it gets and is the greatest long term threat to a global order based on rules and even perfunctory lip service to basic human rights. One of the great tragedies of the DJT era, IMO, is that he politicized and tainted the need to respond to China.  It should have our bipartisan attention just like the USSR did at peak Khrushchev.

    We implanted most of these rituals unilaterally and it’s not written down anywhere. I won’t argue that the timing for these changes is honest or appropriate— but anyone who wants to argue that the gotdamn CCP should have veto power over who gets invited to the U.S. Embassy July 4 party should re-evaluate their position. 

     

     

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  3. 3 hours ago, Biff Tannen said:

    Trump Sympathizers. That needs to be the new term. Not supporters. Sympathizers. 

    Remember how (I mean, they still do it) these jackasses used to demand that every Muslim denounce terrorism and the Sharia over and over or otherwise insist they had no right to speak? All Republicans should be forced to denounce DJT and QAnaon (and terror, for that matter) by every journalist and interviewer. Make them say “the GOP is a party of peace.”

  4. 3 hours ago, Patrick Bateman said:

    LOL.  This is going to grind his gears more than anything...... becoming persona non grata.  He'll always have his rednecks but he'll be like OJ, roaming around that shitty or 2nd rate places.

     

    Jack Nicholson Reaction GIF
     

    What I’d really like to see: the USGA refuse to rate any of his courses, authorize them, or accept scores from rounds played at them.

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  5. 1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

    Telling everybody that Trump "won't touch the hot stone again" is basically asking Trump to touch the hot stone again.


    As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
    There are only four things certain since Social Progress began. 
    That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire, 
    And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;

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  6. Today I heard the stupidest shit I’ve heard in a good year or so.

    Thank God not my wife, but a wife at the zoo today, talking to her kid while we visited the herpetarium:

    ”Snakes don’t have bones. They have exoskeletons, their skin is like their bones. They have to shed it when it gets too rigid.”

    Very, very hard not to go over and tell the kid not to listen to his mom, ever. 

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  7. 9 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

     


    There will be additional attacks. They will be more successful than they should be because law enforcement and the SS are compromised.

    This is a real thing. There is a fifth column within law enforcement that supports violence against the state. Agree with the post below.




    Foreboding? That’s already happened. It will continue to happen. That’s how stochastic terrorist movements work.



    Correct. You can’t put the fire out, but you can reduce its intensity.



    100% this. We need to remember our national shame. Problem is, MAGAs will show up and masturbate joyfully I’m front of it.




    These. It would have been a crime scene...if law enforcement wasn’t collaborating with the terrorists. This is a huge, huge problem.

     

    Christopher Reeve Meme GIF

  8. 30 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    I disagree. While undergrounds will always exist, this happened because the Republican Party mainstreamed conspiracy theories and the reactionary underground as a means of coalition building. We neeed a strong and stable Republican Party. It’s a crucial institution. The lunatic fringe is infecting the rest of the GOP and must be treated as a dangerous parasite. They could fix this by rejecting it, but that makes their math a problem, so society will have to do it for them, and as always there’s a role for the business community to play.

    There are a whole range of enterprises that banks will not provide services to because of the reputational risk. This is no different. I’m not suggesting that Regular Republicans be muzzled in any way. I am suggesting that society stop treating dangerous people and dangerous actions as somehow harmless.

    I obviously disagree with my friend, all the shit I wrote about already happened because the social media world enabled and empowered this bullshit.  Forcing it underground puts it back where it belongs.

    Underground radicalism is a danger to people, mainstream radicalism is a danger to nations.

     

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  9. 2 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

    Your second sentence may depend upon the expanse of their bubble and their standing in it, don't you think?

    Your first sentence brings up a topic that we've talked about previously--addiction. This was not just shutting off the spigot of hate rhetoric spewed forth by a madman, it was an intervention of sorts. Those txag and tigerdropping fans that are deleting their accounts, how will they cope? I'm not being sarcastic, either. Many of them have left Facebook already, now they threw their twitter nicotine in the trash, and parler is not on their phone, what will they find? Go down into the darker web? Visit the various forums on reddit that have not been dropped or message boards such as this one? It's a  dopamine hit and they are going to be missing it.

    Funny, they are lamenting the President's 'loss,' and canceling their own voice because of it but cannot see that he has dozens of more avenues of using his voice than they ever have, he just has to *gasp* follow the laws that govern elected officials and citizens.

    Maybe they should write a letter to the editor. Oh wait, you have to use your real name and address for that. Cowards.

    Had a friend tell me he was concerned that the bans would push the speech deeper underground where it would radicalize people and strengthen walls between information silos. 
     

    I’m having forebodings of angry mobs storming capitols and state houses, hatching plots to kidnap and kill elected officials, and murdering police officers.  A world where people consume a steady stream of easily disproven propaganda and become almost religiously attached to its purveyors. 
     

    Truly frightening to contemplate. 

  10. I wonder how long it will be before the WH Comms team starts pushing out directives for agency portals to post POTUS’ messages. Will not surprise me.

    Imagine traveling back to 2016 and telling people at a precinct “if you vote the wrong way today, then in 2021 Twitter will block the official POTUS account because it was used to encourage a mob to attack the U.S.capitol.”

    It somehow all ended worse than we imagined. 

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  11. 22 minutes ago, longhornmatt said:

    Ok, I’m now convinced I am living in a simulation.  What the fucking shit is this even?  

    Has the mind meld between Fox News and its typical audience member finally happened and created some kind of sentient artificial intelligence that broadcasts itself over the air?  Which other one of my uncle’s stream of consciousness ramblings can you do a segment on?  “Breaking news:  for my money, anything other than black coffee is for queers and socialists!  And no, America, you cannot make me wear a seatbelt!  Well, back to you, Ainsley.”

    Have all the rep. You should do a bit, I can’t stop laughing. 

  12. 2 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/01/capitol-riot-senior-trump-official-calls-him-a-fascist.html

     

     

     

     

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    Trump’s world has grown ever smaller as the damage he inflicts on the United States continues to swell. Wednesday’s attack on the Capitol, which left five dead, including a police officer, prompted resignations in the administration and calls for Trump to do the same and threats — from Democratic and Republican lawmakers — of a second impeachment as well as vaguer discussions about the 25th Amendment. Trump is an increasingly symbolic figure — Norma Desmond with the nuclear codes and sycophantic butlers in his ears on a West Wing Sunset Boulevard soundstage. With no power left to grab, many staffers spent the weeks following November 3 making themselves scarce, plotting their post-White House careers, avoiding the president’s calls.

    But many others are keeping their heads down and keeping their jobs, citing, among other self-serving interests, a desire to remain on their health care plans, according to my interviews with staffers. Others justify their continued employment by citing the demands of the continuity of government.

    “There’s not a single person I have talked to at any level, from 23-year-old assistants to members of the Cabinet, who are not disgusted and ashamed with what has happened,” the senior administration official said, adding that the conversations among remaining officials were about how to handle the next twelve days before Joe Biden’s administration — and whether to continue to be a part of the transition of power at all. “It’s different for everybody. If you’re a regular domestic policy staffer in the West Wing or the EEOB, the implications of you quitting are different than if you’re a senior national security official, or you’re tasked with contributing to the continuity of government.”

    “We are in a terrible spot,” the official said, “You can’t just say, ‘Well, this is outrageous and I quit’ in this situation.”

    Trump’s inner circle has contracted amid the self-created chaos and carnage. For this reason, resignations have not had much of an effect on him directly. “He may not even notice,” one adviser said. “People aren’t around to begin with. There aren’t policy meetings with the president and eight or ten people in there anymore.”

    Advisers have expressed concern and anger over Mark Meadows, the chief of staff, whose actions have been perceived as an effort to secure employment with Trump in his post-presidency, perhaps at the Trump Organization.  “Jared has been telling people, ‘Don’t even deal with him anymore,’” one adviser said. “Mark’s responsible for bringing kook after crazy after conniver after Rudy into the West Wing.” A former senior White House official said, “Morale plummeted under him, huge mistakes were made — and now he’s scrambling to stick around after. He’s a dishonest asshole who pretends to be this religious Southern gentleman. Fuck that.”

    The senior administration official put it this way: “The only way it gets to this point are a thousand really bad small decisions. The first time Sidney Powell calls the White House switchboard and is allowed to speak to the president, the next thing you know she and others are in the West Wing — these are areas where the chief of staff has unilateral authority to do what he wants to do.” Instead, the official said, Meadows tells Trump what he wants to hear, and often calls whomever Trump has directed him to call, repeats what Trump told him to say, and then apologizes, explaining that he just needs to be able to tell the boss that he followed his orders.

    Meanwhile, the yes-men are countered mostly by the lawyers, who have tried to convey to Trump that he has put himself at risk of prosecution — not just by inciting Wednesday’s riot, for which the Justice Department is reportedly open to pursuing charges — but for his phone call to Georgia election officials, in which he attempted to pressure them to overturn the results, as well as in the many ongoing investigations related to his businesses and finances.

    “It’s a lot to adjust to. If you think you’re going to be there for four more years, it’s a bit jarring,” the adviser said. “The smart lawyers have gotten to him. It’s all hit him since yesterday: You may have legal exposure from yesterday. You definitely have legal exposure from other things. You have less than two weeks to remain ensconced in here with executive privilege.” 

    This adviser, who spoke to Trump on Wednesday amid the siege, said Trump watched the events on television intently. CNN reported that he was so excited by the action, it “freaked out” some staffers around him. The adviser told me that Trump expressed disgust on aesthetic grounds over how “low class” his supporters looked. “He doesn’t like low class things,” the adviser said, explaining that Trump had a similar reaction over the summer to a video of Brad Parscale, his former campaign manager, shirtless and drinking a beer in his driveway during a mental health emergency in which police tackled him and seized his weapons. “He kept mentioning, ‘Oh, did you see him in his beer shirt?’ He was annoyed. To him, it’s just low class, in other words.”

    The adviser said that Trump recently offered them a pardon, although they have not been charged with any crime. The adviser “politely declined.” Others are taking Trump’s pardon offers more seriously, whether they’ve been investigated or are at risk of jail time or not. “He’s just talking up a storm about giving pardons to allies: His kids, and their significant others, and staffers. He’s pretty generous with the offers. When you’re offered one, it’s like, Should I take it? Is it like insurance?”

    One person close to Trump’s legal team told me that the lawyers have struggled to get his attention. “He’s sort of turning on everybody. The president is so visceral, he just can’t hear people unless he can respect them. And he thinks everybody’s a traitor, even the people who got him through impeachment. It’s just nuts.”

     

    Wait. So a NYC billionaire actually doesn’t feel a sense of solidarity with realtors and hillbillies from places like Tyler and Conway, Arkansas? 

  13. I think you’ll see Antonio Doyle and Andre White at the LB spot, White got a lot of meaningful minutes and Doyle somewhat less— but he saw the field and has the physical tools.

    Layden Robinson will man either a guard or center spot, I think probably guard and Matthews at center.  Kenyon Green is solid as they come.

    I think they’ll trot out a decent line and it will be a question of time to gel. They won’t be at the level of 2020 but it’s not going to be a total shitshow.

    DL, secondary, RB will be the team strength. Wydermyer will be one of the best TEs in the nation but depth will be iffy given injuries. QB will be a bigger battle than some think between Calzada and King in the spring, and the difference between a freshman and a sophomore in the physical department is huge.

    Just the lack of experience at QB and OL means that the team won’t be as good as 2020 but they won’t suck and given the disorder at Auburn and LSU should be second in the SEC-W.

  14. Dear Senator Cruz,

     

    I am a 7th generation Texan, a former Republican voter, and a constituent. It is my civic duty to tell you that your recent words and actions have brought dishonor on our state and your office. They have damaged the Constitutional order. They have diminished the cause of liberty and freedom at home, diminished our standing abroad with friends and Allies, and furthered the goals of our authoritarian adversaries. And they have directly contributed to the death of several American citizens and an officer of the peace.

     

    You have violated your oath to defend the Constitution of the United States against enemies foreign and domestic; in fact you joined forces with enemies to undermine the duly elected President-elect of the United States. You have failed to advance the interests of your constituents in Texas. And you have failed in your duty as an elected official to tell the truth and work to strengthen, not undermine our Republic. You have chosen to tear the fabric of our nation apart in pursuit of partisan political gains and the favor of a man who has repeatedly treated you with disdain and contempt. 

     

    An honorable public servant would tender his resignation immediately; failing that I will support any efforts to impeach you. I look forward to the day when you no longer represent the greatest state in the union and when your voice is no longer heard in the world’s greatest deliberative body. 

     

    Eagerly awaiting your resignation or removal,

     

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