Nicker on 15/1/2021 at 04:05
Colbert with a slightly different take on Pence.
[video=youtube;XWadLJcYRgY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWadLJcYRgY[/video]
demagogue on 15/1/2021 at 13:11
Well this is interesting timing. So Les Wexner, the Victoria's Secret mogul, has a mansion in Ohio in which he allowed Epstein and his clients to rape teenage girls, and it was equipped with cameras that recorded everything. He & others involved are now being (
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9148553/Victorias-Secret-mogul-Les-Wexner-let-former-friend-Jeffrey-Epstein-abuse-girls-mansion.html) sued by the victims over it.
It's interesting timing because the two rape allegations against T***p that have gone public involving teenagers ... no wait, sorry, one teenager, a 13-year-old and the other a 12-year-old ... were alleged to have happened in that mansion in 1993. (Epstein also abused them, so they could be a part of the suit whether T***p is involved or not.) So the fact that they waited until right as T***p was leaving office to bring the suit is at least suggestive, no? I mean one theory is, if they're going to be releasing tapes, they might not be able to contain that T***p's tape is in the mix, and it doesn't make sense to have that happen while he's still in office.
But I mean it could be a coincidence too & end up a nothingburger... I could hardly dish it out to conspiracy nuts if I was drinking another flavor of kool-aid myself and turned off all my critical facilities.
So I don't know 100% there's a link. But if anything comes of it, you heard it here first.
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Edit: I guess I'm pointing it out because Virginia G., Epstein's most important victim that's led the whole crusade against him & co. from the start, and incidentally QAnon's most important pillar, or one of them, supporting their entire worldview, has just turned on T***p in a big way and added him to the Epstein list. She's the one that retweeted this story and suggested the link.
It probably goes without saying, if the Capitol siege represents the failure of the Storm (not just that it failed, but that the biggest QAnon disciples that planned it & are going to jail for a long time over it were labeled Antifa imposters, lol, although from their perspective, the most bitter pill to swallow is going to be that the Storm was a fantasy from the beginning), then Virginia turning on T***p represents the flip of Pizzagate and the whole raison d'etre of the Storm to begin with...
Not just that T***p wasn't the one crusader against child sex trafficking that was going to bring the criminals to justice (the entire Democratic establishment basically), but that T***p was always the sex predator from the start. Just a little human psychology 101 here, as the central pillar of one's belief system begins to crumble the most, people become the most desperate to double-down on it, because the alternative of facing the total vacuum that it was all a lie is the kind of thing that annihilates people's ego and makes compete shells out of their life. Cf. Schwarzenegger's apt reference to the shells of men he saw as a child in Post War Austria. The whole Q crew, and I suppose the 10s of millions of people still held by the cult, is unsurprisingly not taking it well and looking to make Arnold's prediction come true. (Virginia, bless her heart, is still hash tagging wwg1wga and appears genuinely hurt that her most ardent supporters actually don't care much about child abuse victims and aren't about to "gw1" when that "1" betrays the Dear Leader, and now they're viciously turning against her.)
Edit2: I mean I have to give it props, whoever scripted this thing, the amount of drama we're going to suck out of the next few weeks is gonna be off the charts if there's an actual sweep of mass violence on Biden's inauguration day and if T***p gets arrested and these two worldviews are going to butt heads in the most extreme way possible with no choice but for one to completely crumble, taking the worldview of 10s of millions of people down with it. Well, "props" is the wrong word. I'm not happy about it. Very concerned & upset actually. But damn.
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Edit3: Here's the argument, or one argument based on precedence, for why a post-term impeachment should still be valid: (
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/opinion/trump-impeachment-senate.html) Why Trump Can Be Convicted Even as an Ex-President
lowenz on 15/1/2021 at 14:39
I hope not for Donny.
It's a thing to be a total jerk and a front-man for more subtle power actors, another to be a deranged and dangerous human, abusing others thanks to influence & wealth.
Oh wait.....
Gryzemuis on 15/1/2021 at 20:57
How about a summary of 4 years of Trump?
Anyone got a suggestion? The shorter the better.
I think I got an excellent one myself. And short too. Let's hear them.
demagogue on 15/1/2021 at 23:27
Well, yeah, daddy didn't love him and so the guy has desperately needed attention and to sow chaos since he was a teenager. He cynically appealed to people's most base instincts (hate outsiders) to get elected and get the attention he requires, but he'll throw his own people under the bus in a heartbeat to save himself a second of discomfort, most easily visible by the fact he can't keep any but a few staff for longer than a few months, almost always disposing of them in the most humiliating and scorched earth way possible. His pièce de résistance is doing that to the US itself.
Fast forward 4 years and now people are breaking into the capitol to wave the confederate flag, shit on the floor, and...
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https://i.imgur.com/NZyZemu.jpgStarker on 16/1/2021 at 00:44
Apparently, secret service agents who guarded Jarvanka weren't allowed to use their bathrooms:
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/14/ivanka-trump-jared-kushner-banned-secret-service-bathrooms)
According to the Washington Post the president's daughter and her top White House adviser spouse have apparently exiled the squad of men and women assigned to keep them from harm's way from using the toilets in their sprawling Washington DC mansion.
“Instructed not to use any of the half-dozen bathrooms inside the couple's house, the Secret Service detail assigned to President Trump's daughter and son-in-law spent months searching for a reliable restroom to use on the job,” the paper reported, citing neighbors and law enforcement official.
It quoted one law enforcement official as saying: “It's the first time I ever heard of a Secret Service detail having to go to these extremes to find a bathroom.”
It added that Secret Service members in the couple's detail who were desperate to relieve themselves had resorted to a porta-potty, as well as bathrooms at the homes of Barack Obama and Vice-President Mike Pence.
The solution to the problem was not a cheap one. Since September 2017, the paper reported, the federal government rented the stricken Secret Service members a basement studio with a bathroom for the purposes of them going to the loo. The cost to taxpayers? Some $3,000 a month.
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Starker on 16/1/2021 at 13:28
Washington post has an account of the attack on the Capitol as seen from the police officers' point of view:
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/01/14/dc-police-capitol-riot/)
The officers at the West Terrace eventually pushed people away from the doors. It was only then that Fanone saw the immense, volatile crowd stretched out in front of him and realized what police were up against.
“We weren't battling 50 or 60 rioters in this tunnel,” he said in the first public account from D.C. police officers who fought to protect the Capitol during last week's siege. “We were battling 15,000 people. It looked like a medieval battle scene.”
Someone in the crowd grabbed Fanone's helmet, pulled him to the ground and dragged him on his stomach down a set of steps. At around the same time, police said, the crowd pulled a second officer down the stairs. Police said that chaotic and violent scene was captured in a video that would later spread widely on the Internet.
Rioters swarmed, battering the officers with metal pipes peeled from scaffolding and a pole with an American flag attached, police said. Both were struck with stun guns. Fanone suffered a mild heart attack and drifted in and out of consciousness.
All the while, the mob was chanting “U.S.A.” over and over and over again.
“We got one! We got one!” Fanone said he heard rioters shout. “Kill him with his own gun!”
A disheveled angry crowd beating a fallen police officer with an American flag while chanting, "USA!" Here's your summary in one picture, Gryzemuis. A shitshow and an embarrassment.
Gryzemuis on 16/1/2021 at 22:02
Yes, that is a powerful picture.
But when we're talking about just words, this sentence keeps popping up in my head:
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Anything Trump touches, dies.
I didn't come up with that myself, of course. I read it somewhere, a while ago. I doubt anyone can come up with a better summary of 4 or 5 years of Trump. Just 4 words.
Starker on 17/1/2021 at 00:27
It's the title of a book by Rick Wilson, one of the nastiest and most effective GOP operatives that became a Never Trumper in 2015 and worked to defeat him in Republican primaries and beyond as part of the Lincoln Project. I've read quite a few of his columns in The Daily Beast and he's really got a way with words. He's quite a frequent guest on US news shows as well, probably on account of him being able to deliver good sound bites at the drop of a hat.
Anyway, here's a Norwegian artist's take on this:
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https://i.imgur.com/T1DsqBv.jpg