Louie,
Well, by my watch, it is 22 hours and 43 minutes until the inauguration. This makes me feel good, because Trump is leaving, but I am also filled with apprehension because of what the boogs might get up to. They've already had to removed 2 national guardsmen from the guard for militia ties, and they've arrested over 125 people from the opening act of the insurrection.
In the meantime, I keep hearing MAGA freaks scorning Biden's promise of "unity". I'm not happy about that myself. I don't want to unify with traitors and insurrectionists. I'd rather just unify with the people that are still SANE and (somewhat) NORMAL. As for the boogs and the guys walking around in confederate and/or Nazi gear, it would be more proper to reunite them with bricks.
What really gets me, though, is those on the LEFT that want to "unite," that want "compromise". We saw the compromise we got when they were in power (Merrick Garland, anyone?) even BEFORE Trump. Anyone who wants to HEAL and UNITE and COMPROMISE with these freaks is free to do so. But remember that old German joke about the guy sitting at a table with 5 Nazis. You get 6 Nazis, as far as the rest of the country is concerned.
These are times that do not call for compromise.
Or power-sharing, which is - and make no mistake about this - what the right thinks of when they hear anything like "compromise" or "healing" or "unity."
No, this are times that call for scaring the roaches back under the refrigerator.
Now, I will maintain that we owe these traitors nothing at all, but in the sake of "reaching across the aisle," I saw we give them our GRINS. And none of this half-hearted stuff, either. I meant the kind of GRIN that makes their poop want to run away without them, and causes uninvolved people to scoot to the other side of the bus.
They though this was their time. They were, as always, wrong.
This is OUR time.
Yours in the burning of the whole mess,
Hamish
It got so bad we have MAGA freaks north of the border now. Can I mail them back to you, please?
Setting the mood for 2021
Quote from: Hoopla! on January 19, 2021, 07:11:28 PM
It got so bad we have MAGA freaks north of the border now. Can I mail them back to you, please?
No tapbacks.
Dammit.
I greatly hope there's no crazy violence come inauguration.
Seems hard to imagine.
Quote from: Galerson on January 19, 2021, 08:55:05 PM
I greatly hope there's no crazy violence come inauguration.
Well, we'll see in about 19 hours.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on January 19, 2021, 09:49:55 PM
Quote from: Galerson on January 19, 2021, 08:55:05 PM
I greatly hope there's no crazy violence come inauguration.
Well, we'll see in about 19 hours.
Yep.
My stress is touching the fucking sealing. Mr. Suu is not home, so it's me, the cat, chain locks on the doors, and the 12 gauge tomorrow. I don't fucking trust anybody after the MAGAs were rolling into off-base military housing in FL before the election.
Sure, they rolled right the fuck back out when Navy Police came in, but they had to be called.
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EsJkeadUwAAjwd9?format=jpg&name=large)
DON'T YOU DARE SLANDER RADAR AND THE DEATH OF HENRY LIKE THAT. EVER.
The Anuguration is in, like, 30 minutes -- so I know I'm too late to predict anything
But I don't think the boogs are gonna be a threat today. I think the gross majority of the Stop the Steal crowd are aging boomers and deluded dupes who will hold a gun symbolically but aren't gonna take any initiative. Hell, look at the capitol riot - the majority got inside and then didn't know what the fuck to do. There was no plan.
Weirdly, the QAnon conspiracy almost seems to suppress action. QQ cultists are expecting that the real government is gonna arrest the "deep state". They don't have to do anything because the good guys are actually in power already.
looking back on the last few weeks of political drama -- it reminds me of the Sovereign Citizens movement, who think that these symbolic and ceremonial actions (like gold tassles on a flag, or stating your sovereignty) are where the power resides. As if Pence had any authority to read a name that's not written on the card he was handed. If it could happen to Steve Harvey, it could happen to America, right?
We know now no violence at the capitol. Great!
Quote from: Galerson on January 21, 2021, 05:03:21 AM
We know now no violence at the capitol. Great!
*squints*
This one seems... Off guys. Are you a government plant or did They outsource another bot farm to take jobs from real life spooks?
Quote from: Cramulus on January 20, 2021, 04:42:45 PM
The Anuguration is in, like, 30 minutes -- so I know I'm too late to predict anything
But I don't think the boogs are gonna be a threat today. I think the gross majority of the Stop the Steal crowd are aging boomers and deluded dupes who will hold a gun symbolically but aren't gonna take any initiative. Hell, look at the capitol riot - the majority got inside and then didn't know what the fuck to do. There was no plan.
Weirdly, the QAnon conspiracy almost seems to suppress action. QQ cultists are expecting that the real government is gonna arrest the "deep state". They don't have to do anything because the good guys are actually in power already.
looking back on the last few weeks of political drama -- it reminds me of the Sovereign Citizens movement, who think that these symbolic and ceremonial actions (like gold tassles on a flag, or stating your sovereignty) are where the power resides. As if Pence had any authority to read a name that's not written on the card he was handed. If it could happen to Steve Harvey, it could happen to America, right?
In retrospect it does seem like Q might have been a plan to keep dupes docile. "Trust the plan" is a very passive action to encourage over and over.