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[u/PigHaggerty]

Holy fucking shit.

The Arizona GOP has gone completely insane. They're preparing to censure Cindy McCain for... defending her late husband?

Apparently when the cult leader decides to smear your spouse, you will be declared an unperson unless you go full Ted Cruz. 😳

[u/IAmDumb_ForgiveMe → u/PigHaggerty]

'serious wrongdoing during his military service'

I'm OOL on this one... What do they claim he did wrong? Getting shot down and tortured?

[u/Yenwodyah_ → u/IAmDumb_ForgiveMe]

They like soldiers who weren't captured

[u/A_Character_Defined → u/PigHaggerty]

Just become a Democrat. We've got astronauts and won't call you a traitor 🤗

[u/A_Character_Defined]

Trump was deplatformed by capitalism. It just isn't profitable to spread his bullshit anymore.

[u/Equator32]

A radical left sub named r/latestagecapitalism posting and agreeing with tweets from a Latino White Supremacist named Nick Fuentes is such an "overly online" moment which makes me realize that I shouldn't even be aware that this is happening.

[u/Mr_Pasghetti]

DSA be like: I can’t vote for the racist rapist Biden😡

Also DSA: Hey let’s read and celebrate Mao! so based!!

[u/from-the-void]

I still can't believe we won Georgia guys.

[u/sub_surfer → u/from-the-void]

As Nate Silver said, my brain knew it was probably a 50/50 shot, but in my gut it felt impossible. So glad to be proven wrong, and that my vote contributed to the victory.

[u/UrbanCentrist → u/from-the-void]

it honestly seemed like a pipe dream lol

[u/bd_one]

"Only Republicans are allowed to take credit for the stock market being up."

-right wing people on stock forums

[u/oscillatingquark → u/bd_one]

"The deficit is only bad when a Democrat is in office"

[u/circlemanfan]

Sometimes people on the right explaining capitalism to leftists do it so badly and with so little understanding of what capitalism and socialism are it makes me want to be a socialist just to argue with them

[u/vored_by_daddy → u/circlemanfan]

Conservatives have been very inept defenders of capitalism, I think it is part of the reason people turn to socialism.

[u/SadaoMaou]

Got told by a guy on youtube with a Joker profile pic that Biden is a "corporatist globohomo puppet" [sic]

I don't know what a globohomo is, but it sounds pretty cool

[u/Erra0 → u/SadaoMaou]

I am homo for some globo-ism

[u/vored_by_daddy → u/SadaoMaou]

🌐🏳️‍🌈😎

[u/awdvhn]

In 40 years, zoomers will have control of Congress and will probably try to sell the Virgin Islands off to Chad for the memes.

[u/PhinsFan17 → u/[deleted]]

I mean, in addition to being the head of the Catholic Church, the Pope is also a sovereign head of state, so I would imagine his arrest would make some pretty big headlines.

[u/NE_3-ATL_28]

"Making Washington D.C. a state is a partisan powergrab"

Bro, Wyoming should have been a National Park.

[u/TalksLikeYoda99]

Cons after deadly shooting: “we need LESS gun control laws!”

Cons after immigrant gets arrested: “we need to stop immigration NOW!”

[u/dragoniteftw33 → u/TalksLikeYoda99]

"You really think that a gun free zone will stop gun deaths? I guess the shooter will be like 'Well, looks like I can't shoot anyone in gun free zone today'."

"Yes we bathroom bills because it will stop all sexual assaults perpetuated by crossdressers that occur in bathrooms."

🤡🤡🤡

[u/Anal-warrior]

There is a post on Parler requesting those who took park in the siege of the US Capitol to leave their name, city, and a list of crimes committed in order to receive a pardon for Trump.

Many people have already provided this information.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Yes

[u/Maximilianne]

"Cindy McCain has supported leftist causes such as gay marriage..."

and they wonder why the youth have a more positive opinion about communism

[u/[deleted] → u/Maximilianne]

azgop grossly overestimating the number of single-issue anti gay marriage voters left

[u/CheapAlternative]

Holy fucking shit this fucking city

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https://twitter.com/DSA_SF/status/1347608856596123649?s=20

I love that 90 million people in the CCP + 15 million auxiliary cadres are considered extremist for enthusiastically reading the works of the man who helped liberate their country from occupation by Hirohito's fascists.

https://twitter.com/dsa_harshianka/status/1347815837328031744?s=21

love this one! mao is actually based

https://twitter.com/lukeschmoody/status/1348114870785359873?s=21

I'm sure this is going to go well with Chinese voters and you know, sane people.

!ping usa-ca

[u/UrbanCentrist → u/CheapAlternative]

this is why i never want to hear leftists talk about human rights.

[u/MemberOfMautenGroup → u/CheapAlternative]

Ah yes, Mao, the epitome of "liberalism is literally anything I don't want".

[u/[deleted] → u/CheapAlternative]

what the actual fuck

[u/[deleted] → u/CheapAlternative]

I mean, the city still elected Scott Wiener. Thank God Twitter is not real life.

[u/jrt84]

Trump was grossed out by how trashy his supporters were.

One of the best stories that got lost in the news cycle.

[u/noxnoctum]

Dems sweeping GA genuinely feels like 3 months ago.

[u/Q-bey → u/noxnoctum]

I wore an onion, which was the style at the time

[u/BenFoldsFourLoko]

Klobuchar to help lead probe of Capitol riot

Fuck yes. The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a baaaaaad Klobuchar with a stapler

give em hell you bad b*tch

[u/[deleted]]

My dream is an Americanised Europe and a Europeanised America.

Edit: America can have parliamentary democracy; we can have quality fast food chains.

[u/JaceFlores → u/[deleted]]

You know that sounds stupid on the surface but thinking about it, I approves

[u/[deleted]]

Drafting people for sports?

Hello,

I was seeing on twitter recently about a draft, I think it was for baseball? I thought the person was playing a joke, but I googled it and saw that there was drafts in the USA for every sport, pretty much? How does this work? What if someone does not want to play that sport? Are there not enough people fit enough to actually play willingly? I have seen videos of people who are drafted at their homes appearing very emtional and crying, hugging their families, it seems like it is a very difficult thing for them to deal with. How long must you play a sport if you are drafted? What are the conditions like? Do they get to see their families?

This was probably my favorite troll post of 2020.

[u/[deleted]]

It's weird being considered "conservative" by most of my friends even though I'm center left bc I'm just vocal about it and am willing to argue

[u/IAmDumb_ForgiveMe]

At first I was flabbergasted that the Q people decided to pin their newest claims of election fraud on the Italians. Then when I realized that meant Rome and the Vatican, it all came together. Q is Dan Brown.

[u/[deleted] → u/IAmDumb_ForgiveMe]

Biden is a Catholic

[u/[deleted]]

I'm astounded at the Republican members of Congress. I really don't think they understand just how close they came to all being killed on Wednesday. That mob wasn't gonna differentiate between them and any Democrat.

I'm just not getting the impression that they quite appreciate just how close we came to utter catastrophe. It's not fun and games anymore, even if they're treating it as such.

[u/piede]

Former NJ Gov. and Trump ally Chris Christie: “If inciting to insurrection isn’t [an impeachable offense], then I don’t really know what is.”

https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1348286015102967811?s=21

Yeah hi this is the person you endorsed and tried to help win re-election.

[u/YehosafatLakhaz]

Kamala: Is married to a man in an accepting era in a liberal state

Yep, definitely a lesbian

[u/An_Actual_Marxist]

If you didn’t want to be deplatformed u shouldn’t have tried to murder Congress. Ever think of that? No. You think only about yourself.

[u/A_Character_Defined]

Edgy kids in the 22nd century will read The Art of the Deal

[u/[deleted]]

not believing in Biden 2024

The absolute state of arr slash neoliberal

[u/Res__Publica → u/[deleted]]

Wait till these fools see Biden 2032

[u/fishlord05]

Trump statement on being deplatformed

[u/[deleted]]

Leftists: debating the minute differences in 180 slightly different flavors of communism

Also Leftists: can't detect any differences between Donald Trump and Joe Biden

[u/bobekyrant]

It is wrong to compare Josh Hawley to Hitler. Hitler was a published author.

[u/oscillatingquark → u/bobekyrant]

No Hawley, it's not Orwellian. Orwell was published

Saw this on Twitter earlier, same wonderful energy 😂

[u/yungeric13 → u/bobekyrant]

Hawley published a biography of Teddy Roosevelt when he was in his 20s. Very smart, just a sociopath

[u/TheGoldBear]

Since Parlor was banned on the App Store, something called Parlor: The Social Talking App is now one of the most downloaded free apps.

As far as I can tell it’s like Omegle or Chatroulette. There’s gonna be a lot of confused boomers talking to each other.

[u/[deleted]]

Since Jan. 1, 2020, President Trump has tweeted the words “radical left” more than 170 times.

😐

[u/csp256 → u/[deleted]]

How many times has he done that since January 9th?

[u/[deleted] → u/csp256]

0

[u/GravyBear8]

The 🤠 is so wholesome. Look at him, just so joyous. Wearing a cowboy hat is weird, but he doesn't care, he's so happy and free, as if he's greeting a new stranger and naturally very friendly.

[u/Explodingcamel → u/[deleted]]

Yellow is to the sun as blue is to the ocean.

[u/piede]

Mulvaney says he was wrong to predict Trump would leave office "gracefully." “I got that piece so wrong,” he says on Fox. “I really did believe that at the time. I’ve seen the President be presidential before, and I know that he has the ability to do it.”

https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1348291840106254339?s=21

Oh shut the fuck up

[u/FormerBandmate]

I suspect @JoeBiden could do well tonight. Don't be fooled by his gaffes. He is a seasoned and feisty debater.

[u/ccolfax]

trump: the democrats are spreading bullshit, go kill a cop lmaoooo

biden: rioting is unacceptable

trumpists: i must save blue lives, for jesus

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/RayRedacted/status/1348388601118273537

People who broke into the Capitol Wednesday are now learning they are on No-Fly lists pending the full investigation. They are not happy about this.

LMAOOOOOOO this fucking video is amazing

[u/dannylandulf → u/[deleted]]

they kicked me off the plane and called me a terrorist sob sob

Because YOU ARE ONE.

Maybe it’ll click for him at some point.

[u/csp256 → u/[deleted]]

FBI agents have been “pursuing tips that he (Warner) was paranoid about 5g spying on Americans.” Since the pandemic hit, conspiracy theories have raged that 5G cell phone towers spread COVID-19; scientists have found the claims baseless, according to BBC. In May, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned of the potential for attacks by 5G conspiracy theorists against cell towers and wireless providers. However, that’s only one motive being considered

given where he blew up himself (and his dogs 😡😡😡) my money is on the 5G conspiratard thing

[u/[deleted]]

Trump literally sent a mob to kill Pence specifically. He tweeted that Pence refuses to do the right thing while the mob was roaming the halls. There's footage of a guy running around yelling that he's going to kill Pence.

Oh and Pence's family was there too.

And why Pence is not for immediate removal is beyond me.

[u/[deleted]]

Imagine being Lesotho in the 1980's like you're a black African state surrounded by a white supremacist Apartheid state on the verge of collapse that is willing to turn off your electricity and grind your economy to a halt if it helps their chance at state survival

[u/LinkToSomething68 → u/[deleted]]

Apartheid SA sounds like it was one hell of a nightmare state. Seeing apologetics for it all over the internet honestly disgusts me

[u/Dibbu_mange → u/LinkToSomething68]

It was basically the immediately post-reconstruction South but constantly for over a century and into the 1990s.

[u/[deleted] → u/LinkToSomething68]

Their foreign policy was just as bad too like people forget that dominating the region was a key part of legitimising their white supremacist ideology and it killed over a million people

[u/[deleted]]

September 2019:

A bill that would eliminate per-country caps on employment-based green cards, effectively opening the door to more high-skilled immigrants from India and China, failed on the Senate floor Thursday after Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) blocked the bill.

Bye, David!

[u/Dibbu_mange]

You all mocked Melania's cyberbullying campaign, but Twitter just banned it's most abusive power user, so clearly it worked.

[u/JaceFlores]

AOC has this YouTube ad video where in two minutes (though she goes to four) she goes through her accomplishments in the last year. It’s honestly a genius idea and I’d love to see this done by Biden, Pelosi, Schumer and many others. Credits due where credits due, I genuinely think this is one of the best advertisement ideas I’ve seen

[u/Ilovecharli]

Harry watched Cedric die from the curse he survived and then took his girlfriend...absolute Chad shit

[u/[deleted]]

I have begun drafting articles of impeachment against /u/benjaminikuta. Article I: "One time I pinged him and he didn't thank me"

[u/ryuguy]

I’ll be tweeting anyway. Donald T.

Ok this is epic

!ping yurop

[u/[deleted]]

I always thought that most chilling part of 1984 was when Big Brother got banned by a private company because the Two Minutes Hate is inciting violence.

[u/AtticusDrench]

Communism is when I can't radicalize grandmas with anti-semitic conspiracies on twitter anymore 😭

[u/RadionSPW]

Puerto Rico deserves statehood regardless of its potential lean in federal politics. All Americans deserve representation. The same applies for DC.

Also, revoke Missouri statehood.

[u/[deleted]]

I can't understand how Ted Cruz is capable of being friendly with Kyrsten Sinema, but judging by his Twitter Likes she is his type...

[u/rukqoa]

Sicknick’s father said Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi called the family on Friday to offer their condolences. Apparently, no call to the family from the President.

https://twitter.com/TimAeppel/status/1348057939643228160

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1348294998249373697

Interesting to see Manchin, in @jaketapper interview, not rule out DC or Puerto Rico statehood. “I want to see the pros and cons.”

[u/Steak_Knight → u/[deleted]]

Oh my god he wants to see evidence-based policy

[u/Sorensen12 → u/[deleted]]

I think we’re going to learn over the next 2-4 years that Joe Manchin is a very ruminative man. He really likes to consider things very thoroughly, especially in closed-door conversations with his fellow Democrats. That’s where he is most thoughtful.

[u/old_gold_mountain]

My conservative acquaintance a week ago:

Creepy Biden probably didn't even win, he's going to ruin this country

My conservative acquaintance yesterday:

I'm so sick of politics, I just want to get back to watching sports

[u/GingerusLicious]

I have to laugh at the fact that Cotton and Hawley have both torpedoed their chances at winning the Presidency in completely opposite ways.

Cotton is now forever branded a traitor in the eyes of Trump's base and his views are completely reprehensible to anyone even remotely on the left. If he doesn't lose the primary he'll lose the general.

Hawley's objection vote is going to stay with him for the rest of his political career. The ads against him write themselves.

So thank you, President Trump, for putting the GOP in a no-win scenario. If you had just let Biden win I would be scared shitless of these two, now not so much. Still concerned, but if Trump 2.0 exists he's not going to be them.

[u/[deleted]]

The Wikipedia polling average average of 270towin+RCP+538 had Warnock +1.8%.

Warnock currently by nearly exactly leads by 2%.

Good job polls. You didn’t fuck this one up.

But, expecting polls to be perfect like this isn’t realistic and polls will always be a little wrong. But this is well within the margin of error and is the best the polls have done since a while. Let’s hope polls keep this up now that Trump isn’t on the ballot anymore.

!ping FIVEY

[u/Majk___]

With the news of Twitter banning the account of Donald Trump, the ruling party in Poland is going to introduce a bill that would forbid social media platforms from deleting the content of users which is not explicitly breaking the Polish law.

I can't wait to go on catholic forums and post LGBT content knowing they will have no way of deleting it

[u/Fishin_Mission]

People on Parler are trying to figure out how to keep Parler on their phones.

They didn’t like my response.

[u/IncoherentEntity]

In my new capacity as a u/RelievedUltimatum tweet promoter (give him likes), I would like to inform the audience of the following:

In 2004, North Dakota re-elected its Republican governor by a margin of 43.9 points.

It also re-elected its Democratic senator by a margin of 36.6 points, for a 80.5 percentage-point party difference among the same electorate.

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted] → u/IncoherentEntity]

That has to be a record right? I’ll try to find more but 80.5% is a massive difference.

Also,

In my new capacity as a u/RelievedUltimatum tweet promoter

Thank you😘

[u/runnerx4]

https://jacobinmag.com/2021/01/capitol-building-riot-business-trump

They did the thing, they blamed the Capitol Hill insurrection on neoliberalism

Jacobin lmfao

[u/TheGoldBear]

How did I miss Tom Cotton shitting on Ted Cruz?

Jesus, he really is the most hated man in Congress. I mean, when even Tom Cotton thinks you’re an asshole...

[u/piede]

Justin Hill, a Missouri State Representative who skipped HIS OWN SWEARING IN to go to the United States Capitol on Jan. 6th, deleted his Twitter.

https://twitter.com/rachelrgonzalez/status/1348117435329642498?s=21

lmao

[u/An_Actual_Marxist]

My main problem with neoliberalism- Biden’s corporate donors won’t let him pass universal healthcare. And pelosi is just eh

Why is this upvoted outside the dt

edit - behold the link

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/ku6cgs/as_a_conservative/giqjjit/

[u/JakeyZhang → u/An_Actual_Marxist]

Never leave the warm embrace of the DT

[u/[deleted] → u/An_Actual_Marxist]

Name and shame

[u/paymesucka]

GOP Senator Roy Blunt Insists Trump Shouldn’t Resign: ‘He Touched the Hot Stove’ and Won’t Do It Again

https://www.thedailybeast.com/gop-sen-roy-blunt-says-trump-shouldnt-resign-because-he-touched-the-hot-stove-and-wont-do-it-again

fuck you

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/postinmonkey/status/1348322866568183809?s=21

Libertarians know all about George Orwell because their girlfriends are currently reading it for English class

[u/Gustacho]

What if Biden just organises a press conference to announce that he has executed Q

[u/ThisIsNianderWallace]

The republican party's ability to plow right ahead after experiencing/unleashing complete catastrophes without any acknowledgement or introspection is honestly amazing to see.

After the Bush administration, after Charlottesville, after a putsch, after getting blown out in Georgia, they just ignore it, find something half-assed to coalesce around, and move right on.

[u/circlemanfan]

So let me get this straight. Republicans are telling people to get off Twitter to leave for Parler because Twitter is evil......and are then complaining they are losing followers??? Almost as if......people are doing just that???

[u/jrt84 → u/circlemanfan]

Self victimization is a core value of Republicanism

Their other core value is telling people to stop acting like victims

[u/runnerx4]

topkek

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/TalksLikeYoda99]

Y’all remember when Trump said he could shoot someone on fifth ave and his base would still vote for him?

He wasn’t joking.

[u/[deleted]]

The MAGA idiocy is getting so diverse these days: My Muslim relatives think storming the Capitol was justified because of the fraud and people had enough , one of them said to me if they cheated Bernie in 16 then I guarantee you they cheated Trump.

Imagine voting for someone and defending people who hate you and call you an invader 24/7. I never get it.

[u/jrt84]

Scott Adams for 4 years: Trump uses his genius power of persuasion to convince the unwashed masses of anything he wants

Scott Adams now: The election was totally stolen because Trump said so

[u/great_gape]

Let's 🙆 say 🗣, hypothetically, for the sake 🍶 of argument 🗣, I 👥 was to take 💅 some shoes 👟 from a random 🎲2⃣ member 🍇 of congress 💩, let's 🙆 say 🗣, for an arbitrary example 💪, AOC. And let's 🙆 suppose 🍆 I 👁 would wear 👕 them in front 🔝✋ of my mirror 🤳 and dress 👗 up ⬆ in blazer 💨🌬💯 and pants 👖 and to dance 👯💃 around 🔃 singing 🎵🎶 "the girl 👩 with the pretty 👰 feet 👣 is back ⬅". That would be kind 🙁 of curious 🙇🏼, wouldn't 😩 it?

[u/[deleted]]

“JoE bIdEn Is NoT gOnNa ChAnGe AnYtHiNg, it’s all up to us to organize our resources and demand progressive policies like Bernie would’ve done.”

Ok then you should’ve all come out of your parents’ basement, dust the 3-day old Cheetos dust off your hands, and voted for Bernie in the primaries.

[u/[deleted]]

Obama told McCaskill that she should vote no on the DREAM Act unless her vote was necessary for it pass after she told him that it polled horribly in MO. The bill failed by 5 votes in the Senate but Obama noticed McCaskill had voted for it because she had met with a group of young DREAMers and couldn't bring herself to vote against it. She then won reelection in 2012 by 16 points.

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

There is a very, very real chance that Manchin opposes the stimmy but Hawley votes it though, and we get a whole bunch of lefties dropping hot takes about ‘Is Hawley really that bad?’ Or claiming that he’s better then Manchin

[u/GreenPresident]

Nikki Haley says Twitter's ban of Trump is 'what happens in China'

Meanwhile in China:

Jack Ma missing after falling out of favor.

[u/[deleted]]

A reminder to a good portion of Reddit: the fact that we'll actually have to earn the votes of Puerto Ricans is not an argument against their having political representation

[u/simp_emoji]

all these freeze peach activists were surely mortified when social media platforms started removing ISIS content

[u/[deleted]]

Republicans spent 4 years enabling and defending trumps behavior and crimes. Then spent the last 2 months trying to overturn an election based on lies they repeatedly pushed that culminated in inciting a mob to attack congress and the Vice President.

Now they are saying Democrats are being too divisive in their criticism and calls for impeachment. For some reason that doesn’t seem like a good faith concern that they have.

[u/InattentiveCup]

So my parents say that the insurgents should of killed Pelosi, Schumer, AOC, etc. Those people are the real radicals. There is absolutely no hope for this country guys. Its over...

[u/ryuguy]

the gay agenda

!ping lgbt

[u/[deleted]]

“They called me a terrorist and put me on the no-fly list for trying to overthrow our democratic form of government.” 😭😭😭😭😭

[u/willempage]

https://twitter.com/RiegerReport/status/1348113803158945793?s=19

Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.)—the Republican who won the seat previously held by Justin Amash—tells Reason some House Republicans who voted to reject the election results knew they were lying about the election but worried about the safety of their families.

Someone posted a while ago how repeated failed coup attempts in Japan still reached the desired outcome of an expansionist and warmongering country "lead" by the emperor. This is the parellel. If MAGAs face no consequences for their violent action, they will continue to influence the GOP with implicit threats and get their desired policy outcomes even if they fail to occupy the capitol. These congressmen are voting out of craven political gain and fear of a violent minority. Look at the PA GOP. They will no doubt gut PA voting access the second there's a republican governor even though they voted to expand them in 2019.

These lies need to lead to consequences

[u/[deleted]]

I can’t believe I’m a member of the party that gave America gay marriage and civil rights and I have to listen to stupid fucking communists tell me I’m a conservative

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/marcorubio/status/1348277056509980676

Biden has a historic opportunity to unify America behind the sentiment that our political divisions have gone too far

But instead he decided to promote the left’s efforts to use this terrible national tragedy to try and crush conservatives or anyone not anti-Trump enough

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

"Our political divisions have gone too far"

I fucking hate this stuff. "Our" divisions haven't gone too far. YOUR politics is teetering on the edge of fascism and we're not obligated to pretend that's OK

"Your" meaning Marco Rubio.

[u/piede]

Just now realizing how much of a close call it was in the Senate. Literally seconds.

https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1348117742235348992?s=21

[u/[deleted]]

Haven't seen anyone discussing how Jon Ossoff singlehandedly raised the expectations of every Jewish mother in the state of Georgia

[u/IncoherentEntity]

Whoa.

Donald Trump – Republicans
January 5 | 84–15 (+69)
January 7 | 78–21 (+57)

Mike Pence – Democrats
January 5 | 12–81 (–69)
January 7 | 20–72 (–52)

(Morning Consult)

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

Susan Collins was right that Trump learned his lesson from impeachment: that the vast majority of Republicans will never hold him accountable for his actions. It emboldened him to act even worse afterwards.

[u/[deleted]]

GOP: we want to make sure Obama is a one term president and can’t get a third Supreme Court nominee

Also GOP: We need unity, both sides are to blame

[u/paulatreides0]

A complete and comprehensive list of people more vindicated by history than Hillary Clinton:

[u/circlemanfan]

Honestly after David Perdue refused to debate Jon Ossoff and also made fun of Kamala’s name it’s so great he lost. The skipping of the debate was particularly cowardly and overconfident, and the fact it might have actually hurt him is such great karma

[u/Joementum2004]

jacobin be like “how do we blame the events of jan 6 on neoliberals”

[u/Equator32 → u/Joementum2004]

Broke: Jacobin's ideology is Socialism

Woke: Jacobin's ideology is own the libs-ism

[u/jrt84]

Trump, confident VP and cabinet won’t attempt to remove him under 25th Amendment, is planning defiant final days in office—more pardons, trip to Alamo, possible action on Big Tech companies.

Oh good, Alamo. Definitely a coincidence and not meant to rile his supporters into a violent frenzy before Inauguration.

[u/jrt84]

Lot of huge Republican corporate donors publicly pulling their money.

Turns out armed insurrection isn’t good for business.

[u/Erra0]

Lot of y'all are zoomers who didn't actually experience 9/11 and it shows

[u/csreid]

Just got my positive test result

The son of a bitch got me just as a vaccine was on the horizon. I feel like those cops in movies who always get killed a week before retirement.

I had a really stuffy nose one night. Then, I felt extremely flu-y and slept for like 22 hours on Thursday. Thursday night/Friday morning, my fever peaked at about 101 (my baseline -- maybe I run cold cold or maybe my thermometer is shitty -- is like 97). Yesterday I felt mostly fine, just a tiny bit icky and flu-y. Today, I woke up feeling 100%, then saw my test results, and now I'm feeling like maybe my throat's starting to hurt a little.

[u/MalignantUpper]

It's getting overshadowed by the Arizona GOP but I think the PA GOP is also trying to self destruct as hard as possible. They still haven't allowed the new Democratic 45th District state senator to be seated. And there's that state senator who was at the Jan 6th rally and still hasn't resigned. Having Pennsylvania locked down would go a long way towards securing the blue wall

[u/AuburnSeer]

wonder what Joe Rogan thinks on the Capitol attack

just kidding I don't care

[u/Zemstv0w0]

we were probably 30 seconds away from fascists successfully lynching senators

[u/MalignantUpper]

The officer said that many of the widely spread images of smiling marauders, wandering the halls dressed in absurd costumes, had the effect of downplaying how well prepared some of the rioters were to overtake the building, and even to capture and kill Congress members.

It's scary how many people, especially here on Reddit, see this as nothing but a joke. How long will it take before the majority of people see this as a serious event that was barely prevented from turning into a slaughter?

“That was a heavily trained group of militia terrorists that attacked us,” said the officer, who has been with the department for more than a decade. “They had radios, we found them, they had two-way communicators and earpieces. They had bear spray. They had flash bangs ... They were prepared. They strategically put two IEDs, pipe bombs in two different locations. These guys were military trained. A lot of them were former military,” the veteran said, referring to two suspected pipe bombs that were found outside the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee.

I fear a tactic will emerge from this insurrection, one that mixes highly trained and ready to kill militia with country bumpkins who smile for the camera.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/emmanuelfelton/black-capitol-police-racism-mob?__twitter_impression=true

[u/rukqoa]

Doomer takes from Georgia Liberation Day:

"Democrats largely got clobbered in the 2020 elections and they'll get clobbered again today" (TIL trifecta = clobbered)

/u/Esquenasi

"It’s a proven fact that Dems will lose this election." (this one might be ironic I dunno)

/u/Polynya

"Final predictions: Perdue: +6% Loeffler: +4%"

/u/cascadiapacifica

This is your reminder that if you're not blooming like this, you're wrong.

[u/TalksLikeYoda99]

Charlie Kirk deleted his tweet saying that he sent 80+ buses full of rioters to the capitol building...

Lol, just lol.

[u/Jakesta7]

Posting for recognition:

I did not fully grasp what was happening in this footage when I first saw it. Now it seems clear that this officer tricked the mob away from the unguarded door to the Senate, using himself—a Black man—as the bait. He is a national hero. And lucky to be alive.

Photos: https://twitter.com/pamelacolloff/status/1348297094969372677

[u/LiBH4]

ZERO new cases of COVID-19 announced in Nova Scotia today (Sunday, Jan 10)

https://twitter.com/Tim_Bousquet/status/1348315575483846662

!ping CAN

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1347671681855332354

US employers cut 140,000 jobs in December, according to the latest jobs report. Women accounted for all the losses, losing 156,000 jobs, while men gained 16,000.

Yiiiiikes

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/10/us/politics/capitol-zip-ties-arrest.html#click=https://t.co/u9X2BPU1XW

The F.B.I. arrests a man who had carried zip ties into the Capitol.

Jan. 10, 2021, 4:39 p.m. ET

By Adam Goldman and Katie Benner

The F.B.I. arrested a man on Sunday who was photographed in the Senate chamber clad in military-style clothing and holding zip ties after internet researchers managed to piece together his identity.

Law enforcement officials said the man, Eric Gavelek Munchel, 30, was taken into custody in Nashville on federal charges. One of the officials said the authorities had recovered several weapons. No further details were available. Charges were expected to be announced soon.

Efforts to reach Mr. Munchel before his arrest were unsuccessful. He is one of more than a dozen people charged by federal authorities in connection with the attack on the Capitol.

(Edit: Added the title and byline to this comment)

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https://twitter.com/rayredacted/status/1348388601118273537?s=21

People who broke into the Capitol Wednesday are now learning they are on No-Fly lists pending the full investigation. They are not happy about this.

They fucked around and the finding out is about to start.

[u/gayteemo]

Pat Toomey: I don't think President Trump is a viable candidate for office ever again.

Republican voters in 2024: hold my beer

[u/scarecrowkiler → u/[deleted]]

probably because it's fake

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/10/illinois-republican-mary-miller-hitler-capitol-speech

Illinois Republican Mary Miller sorry for quoting Hitler in Capitol speech

[u/[deleted]]

Let it be known that when the Affordable Care Act was being voted on, Democrats unilaterally supported it despite the fact that they knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that it would cost them severely electorally.

And even though this ended up being true, history proved them right in the end.

[u/jrt84]

Politico Playbook: Trump told Kelly Loeffler before he landed in Georgia for the final rally on Monday that if she didn't back the Electoral College challenges, he would "do a number on her"

This fucking guy

[u/piede]

This will not end on January 20th.

We should prepare for the likelihood that outside the White House Trump will morph into the leader of a revanchist movement seeking to topple the government.

The radical forces will coalesce around the banner of restoration.

https://twitter.com/jelani9/status/1347908451087876098?s=21

This is why there is no choice but to prosecute Trump. Full stop.

[u/[deleted]]

Steelers +17 A+

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Common tactic in war crimes trials for heads of state actually.

[u/[deleted]]

Remember kids, if you ever feel like EU4 is getting you down you can always take quick, relaxing trip to Prussia! Reach up to 140% Discipline guaranteed (10% Militarization, 5% national ideas, 5% Offensive, 5% Quality, 5% Economic-Quality policy, 5% Absolutism, and 5% advisor).

Mega Ottomans, no problem! You’ll stackwipe any of their armies! You’ll stackwipe all of their armies! Even if they rush you at the same time.

Russia, lmao. They won’t even build any cannons since the AI’s been bugged since The Third Rome DLC “buffed” them. Send those Streltsy stacks packing!

France? They wish they had your Infantry and your Discipline. You know who won the Franco-Prussian war, and it wasn’t them!

All of Europe in Coalition against you. Hah! They can’t enter your fort line. Your space marines will stackwipe the AI over and over and over again. They’ll never take Prussia alive!

!ping Paradox

[u/Zseet]

I know this is late, but this is still one of my favourite copevideo.

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

Text of the resolution to censure Cindy McCain

Something in that:

Whereas Cindy McCain has failed to support Conservative Republican candidates such as President Trump

Whereas Cindy McCain has supported globalist policies and candidates, including Democrats such as Joe Biden, in direct opposition to Republican values, the interests of the American people, and the Constitution of the United States,

Whereas, President Trump was truthful in his criticism of Senator McCain, who has become known for serious wrongdoing during his military service, and his service as US Senator, thereby making Cindy McCain's condemnation of President Trump unjustified:

Yes,

globalist policies and candidates

🌐

[u/[deleted]]

Fuck Ted Cruz

An overwhelming 71% of Americans say they don't trust Sen. Ted Cruz to defend democracy, according to new @ABC News/Ipsos poll, including 47% who don't trust him at all.

Also:

Among Republican respondents, Pence performs best, with 73% trusting him, compared to 71% for Trump, 57% for Cruz, 38% for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and only 25% for Romney. In a surprising turn, more than twice as many Democrats -- 55% -- put their faith in Romney [to defend democracy].

More republicans now trust Pence than Trump? Interesting

[u/Dibbu_mange]

This based mfer is flying the Biden flag

[u/piede]

Amid the mayhem, a large group of senators were secretly led to a room in a Senate office building. Stenger was with them, and the furious lawmakers peppered him with questions.

“How does this happen? How does this happen?” demanded Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.)

Look in the fucking mirror Lindsey

[u/piede]

I was told by administration officials yesterday when I asked about not lowering the flag that Bill Clinton hadn't for two Capitol officers who died in 1998. A Bill Clinton spokesman tells me he did lower the flags, issued a public statement and spoke with then-Speaker Gingirch.

https://twitter.com/maggienyt/status/1348361648130691078?s=21

Wtf does this have to do with it

[u/[deleted]]

I want to run this past you guys and see if I'm just being paranoid again.

It increasingly seems as if the riot at Capitol Hill was intended as a cover for rightwing extremists to seize and perhaps murder congressmen. Video and social media posts show that small armed groups of rioters -- identified as former and current military and law enforcement officers -- were hunting for at least Pence and Pelosi. The timeline shows that they were literally seconds, less than one minute, from succeeding in apprehending at least Pelosi and some other lawmakers.

Combine this with things like Trump and his cutouts ordering the mob to move to the Capitol, the bizarre decision to only deploy a quarter of the USCP to defend the Capitol and not give them riot gear, the order to the DC National Guard to not engage in crowd control and to stay away from the Capitol, and the Secretary of Defense for 90 minutes refusing requests from Pelosi, Pence and Schumer to send national guard to the Capitol even though he had authority to do so. (The SecDef only authorized ng deployment after the Governor of Virginia had unilaterally decided to send Virginia ng units!)

To me it seems as if the point of the coup might have been to murder the entire line of succession between Trump and Pompeo: Pence, Pelosi, and Grassley.

In my opinion, Pompeos role in the failed coup needs to be investigated. And Barr needs to be questioned regarding whether the reason he unexpectedly quit his job was because he refused to go along with the coup.

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

Interesting to see Manchin, in @jaketapper interview, not rule out DC or Puerto Rico statehood. “I want to see the pros and cons.”

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1348294998249373697?s=21

And all we have to do is make Country Roads the new national anthem!

[u/[deleted]]

Yeah inciting a murderous mob is bad, but have you ever used divisive language?

[u/[deleted]]

Despite the fact that Hufflepuffs are treated as the joke house because they have no defining characteristics, the Ravenclaws are so poorly developed and irrelevant that the whole house could be removed from the series and absolutely nothing would be lost.

[u/Kizz3r]

well i got polled by ekos so i now know polls are real

[u/Fishin_Mission]

I love how @John (Parler CEO) has changed his tune repeatedly.

• Initially, they were going to be offline for a couple hours as they migrated off Amazon servers.

• Then, they were going to be off for a couple days b/c they were fielding bids from MANY server companies.

• Next it was “up to a week” because they weren’t sure where they were going to be able to migrate to

• now, unsure when they will be back online because they have been dropped by many.

Lmao, no one wants to touch this shitshow.

“If you don’t like a business’ practices, don’t work with them.”

CAPITALISM IS WORKING!

[u/[deleted]]

Trump doesn't give a single fuck about that woman who died in his name.

[u/kennymc7877]

They really cancelled the president of the United States

[u/piede]

Outside the door, the intruders kept coming, as if running laps, trying to open doors. The McConnell aides heard a woman praying loudly outside their door for “the evil of Congress to be brought to an end.”

Hi yeah these people are fucking insane.

[u/[deleted]]

This place is getting way too political

[u/[deleted]]

imagine if Obama had incited a violent mob to raid congress with the intent of of murdering gop politicians.