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(In case you are not familiar with it, 6MWE stands for a Holocaust reference – Six Million Wasn’t Enough)
Objections to both Arizona and Pennsylvania electoral votes were defeated, but not without quite a showing in the House
Some first hand accounts from within the Capitol during the coup attempt:
Paul Kane from The Washington Post on the Senate side
Inside the Senate’s secure location, one senior officer ordered a set of underlings to go secure Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.), a double amputee who lost both legs while serving in the Iraq War. She was hiding in her office three floors above, fearful of letting anyone in. The senior officer gave specific instructions of what to yell: “Senator Duckworth, Senator Klobuchar said come to the door.”
Sarah Wire from The LA Times on the House of Representatives side
On the floor, Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.), a former combat Marine, was holding up his escape hood and explaining to other members how to use it. There were about 150 lawmakers down there, and Gallego was shouting to get their attention.
“Open the first package!” he yelled.
“Then open the second!”
“The hood then inflates over your head!”
Will they do it?! No, they won’t The House barely had the 2/3 on the Pennsylvania objection refusal and good luck finding anyone in the Cabinet with a spine, let alone 11 of them. However, some resignations were on the way:
WH resignations growing. They include:
-Stephanie Grisham, First Lady’s chief of staff
-Rickie Niceta, WH Social Secretary
-Sara Matthews, WH Deputy Press SecretaryOthers reportedly considering resigning:
-Robert O’Brien, National Security Adviser
-Matt Pottinger, deputy NSA— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) January 7, 2021
Trump to get his Twitter back this morning, uses Dan Scavino’s one to make his least insurrectionist take yet supposedly aimed to persuade some of the above to stay in office.
Mick Mulvaney, a real hero, is gone with these parting words:
“I called Mike Pompeo last night to let him know I was resigning from that. I can’t do it. I can’t stay,” Mulvaney said in the interview.
He added: “Those who choose to stay, and I have talked with some of them, are choosing to stay because they’re worried the President might put someone worse in.”
Also happening
Because survival is insufficientLet’s start 2021 the right way!
We’ve signed OF Robbie Grossman to a two-year contract. pic.twitter.com/pfFtcnQDHA
— Detroit Tigers (@tigers) January 6, 2021
i am surprised no one signed osuna in the chaos
Benches-clearing burn
That was an eloquent speech
Still, a bit disappointed not to see Allred in action
An old acquaintance had his moment on twitter
A bit late
Listening to John Catanzara, the president of Chicago’s Fraternal Order of Police, tells you all you need to know about how impartial the police is.
And don’t even started with some of our sheriffs.
Pennsylvania republicans refused to seat an elected Democrat because his opponent won’t concede, then one of their members immediately headed to DC to try to overthrow the federal government.
I have no patience for these Trump toady resignations. Fuck you enablers.
In my dyslexic haste I read that as “Trump today resignations” and thought, I’d be OK if he resigned today.
oh look. the editor who says pundant while trying to keep up with rick wilson.
I get Mick Mulvaney and Mark Meadows confused, but now that I’ve looked it up I’m deeply concerned about how we’ll survive these last two weeks without his special envoying to Northern Ireland.
LOL
what’s 3/4 of zero?
Amazing
This tweet took a turn I wasn’t expecting.
It was a dark day for America as our democracy came under att… and there’s deep drive to left, that one’s gone, 3-0 Reds.
on the other hand when this scrolled through my timeline i thought, if magas can pack the streets of tuscaloosa like this on a monday night…
oh wait. football jerseys.
It seems like no one is talking about the high likelihood that Trump, either directly or through a close associate (Giuliani, Flynn, Stone, Junior likely candidates), not only encouraged what happened yesterday in plain sight, but was actively involved in planning and coordinating it behind the scenes.
my wishcast is a quick impeachment resolution based on the speech yesterday morning and removal vote happens.
Since the Senate recessed to the 19th, I don’t know how that could happen much less if there are votes
Technically not recessed, right? I think they are still holding pro forma sessions. McConnell can bring them back whenever he wants.
I don’t know. Probably. A side question, when do warnock and ossoff get seated?
Probably not before the 20th? Georgia has to certify it, which I requires counting all the overseas ballots that trickle in late, even if they can’t change the outcome.
stop what you’re doing because this one is beyond.
What a deplorable bunch of cowards. “Do the right thing and fight?!”
How would an incomplete cabinet affect 25th?
LOL like she wasn’t gone the minute McConnel spoke
Been wondering that for a while. Who exactly are the “principal officers of the executive departments” when almost no Senate-confirmed people remain? Another area where we probably need new legislation to patch a constitutional hole.
i’m not sure they were smart enough to think of it as a tactic or just their dumb not knowing what buttons to push to make government happen, but yeah, not having an actual cabinet’s been an issue on the 25th.
Resigning from the cabinet because the president is cray cray when the constitution makes it your actual job to remove a cray cray president from power really pisses me off.
it wasn’t for cray cray, it was so Mrs. Wilson would stop trying to be lady president.
It wasn’t for cray cray, but it says what it says, and cray cray makes you unable to discharge your duties at some point.
very true. My point was, along the lines of your original comment, I doubt in the wake of FDRs death, whomever wrote the language gamed out cray cray. Like cray cray appoints cray cray and they will never vote to invoke, no matter if it were a 3/4 majority or 1/4 minority.
The hopeful thing is new amenndments won’t find as much resistance, maybe we can get a EC reform along with a 25th amendment amendment
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/9/14488980/25th-amendment-trump-pence
Nancy is on board
The Chief must be in the bunker with Trump.
Pence is probably banging on the bunker door, begging to be let in.
Those UK sportsbooks who laid odds on “Trump won’t serve out his full term” have to be suddenly sweating just a little.
He has 12 days left to try to quarter some troops in peacetime.
time *and* motive.
Here’s a new one! This is the amendment passed by Congress as part of the bill of rights and only ratified in 1992.
Is that the one a guy from texas found during a college class and decided to make getting it ratified a hobby?
Yep
Does the blue life they ended yesterday matter or…
So one police officer killed (hit in head with fire extinguisher), one woman “shot by a plainclothes cop after climbing through a broken window and trying to enter the House chamber” (not clear why that was singled out for deadly force), another woman crushed to death, a heart attack, and a stroke.
That’s a pretty impressive death toll.
from a reporter’s thread I saw, it was the entrance to the “Speakers Lobby” which in light of the invasion of her office makes me confused
From what I’ve seen the police officer death report was retracted. He’s still on life-support, but …
should probably get a picture of that cop on a billboard along the route Josh hawley takes to work
Indeed
It took 14 paragraphs before that bit of news was worth reporting? That is far more important than the risks from a stolen laptop or infiltrators planting bugs.
Another one of the most shocking / least surprising news out there
Is Pelosi’s statement that if the cabinet doesn’t act via 25th amendment she will consider reconvening the House for impeachment really any different from Lindsey Graham’s “if something else happens, all actions would be on the table”?
Just fking do it.
No better. All just fucking posturing
Sigh.
A UNC education wasted.
I want to hear more about the luted cities they sound lovely.
You should get some stollen in the luted cities. it’s delish
Can you get stollen this time of year, elcroata?
Not the edible ones. But it also means cleats
Outfielder for the Las Vegas Aviators
There is the pivot! Phew, the rest of the term is going to go smoothly. (not gonna link his statement. It was adequate)
Susan Collins was right!
something something don’t care about your feelings.
I know they have no plan. I know that whatever plan they would make is a bad one based on bad thinking, but what did they hope to accomplish with the Video? Stave off the 25th?
amazingly good question. i totally took it as something normal people do when they went too far but forgot this is not normal people.
like, who talked him into it? or did he really think it up by himself?
Stave off the 25th, impeachment, prosecution, you name it.
the funny thing is i’ve been in my basement playing records for what, 2 hours? and already it’s a brand new scandal(s) to catch up to up here.
My pioneer is biting the dust, I am going to get a new turntable. Denon 400 is where I landed. I want 78 and semi auto. this one is “semi auto” in that it picks up and stops but does not return.
A friend is leading me towards a Schiit tube preamp, which look cool and sound great, but then I need an amp too. that is going to get pricy. also new speakers would be necessary.
it’s like you never heard of earbuds.
He’ll pardon himself and make that just one more legal hurdle to surmount. Cheat, deny, litigate, repeat.
I wouldn’t mind him doing that all that much because I’d hope it would be a catalyst for amending the Constitution to get rid of the pardon power. I find that far more odious than beneficial.
The chances of him being successfully prosecuted for inciting the riot seems a lot lower than for all the more routine crimes (fraud, tax evasion, etc.) he has committed over the years.
For that matter, what did they (anyone) hope to accomplish with storming the capitol? Overturning the election…how exactly?
they didn’t even have a headline speaker.
the 17-yr-old kid who did the mission high protest was better prepared.
They thought Trump was going to stage a real coup while they were helping.
yep
https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-speech-save-america-rally-transcript-january-6
And then he slunk right back to the bunker to watch it on TV. What a piece of shit.
i just realized:
protest before speech, you’re in the breech
speech before protest, you’re drinking forest
koolaid i meant koolaid
Drinking bleach was just sitting there!
That’s not how it works. That’s not how any of this works.
”The Trump-boosting poop putzes didn’t just leave turds in their wake.”
It goes on
More first hand stories
Today’s The Daily is worth a listen.
Virginia had and told me about it.
uhhh…
cop rationalization: ~wE lEaRneD oUr lEsSoN FrOm tHe SuMmer~
mikie barb: that sounds right. and then what happened?
Reuters photographer:
I wonder how her lawyer thought this was gonna go.
Maybe she could have accused a random black kid of stealing her phone and then assaulted him in a way that “didn’t hurt his feelings so much,” and after all, her phone really WAS missing, so when you think about it, isn’t she the real victim here?
She considers herself to be super sweet, so this has to be really hard for her.
And the “daddy” cap …
I have $1.3B. No, I don’t
good
Feels like it was always going to end up here.
aren’t there stairs just a few feet away
only on both sides.
When you’re that blinkered a few feet to the side could be on Mars.
Enough with this bothsidesism.
Even better
What can you get for each?
Hope they weren’t let on the plane…
i hope they were.
So do I. I’m ready for a big bag of popcorn and extended Celebrity Deathmatch
if ever there was a time to come out.
FKing chin-masker.
My god. This is horrifying. We are so lucky that only one officer died, and no other staff or electeds.
Play this on a loop in front of josh hawley. All day. Everyday
If Trump wont attend the inauguration, can they get the Trump baby blimp instead?
Thoughts and prayers
And go A’s
Besides the obvious fact that Trump should be impeached because he is unfit, making GOP Senators vote on it seems like a political win at this point.
For some reason, fucking California Brownshirts annoy me more than the SEC ones. This happened in fucking LA.
If only they had listened to 2016 Lindsey warning how Trump would destroy the GOP. Instead of Jan 20 2017 through Jan 6 2020 Lindsey who abetted said destruction.
Former Oakland cop, I think, although apparently some current cops have also made supportive statements.
And he’s a boogaloo boy too, which is the part that’s really mind-boggling.
Seems pretty clear that a lot of cops are cops because they like to play with guns and aren’t particularly employable otherwise.
Well, yeah, that’s not exactly news, but how do you end up in a group that kills other cops?
Because it’s another group that likes to play with guns and they aren’t very bright.
I read this on twitter yesterday and still haven’t found confirmation, but still, maybe it’s true?
i don’t buy the part about tip o’neill.
General question. From what I gather heer at the sidelines, FBI seems to be less right-wing infested than the military and the police, right? They have like intelligence tests and stuff to get in, don’t they?
Different kind of right wing, I’d say. Fewer nazis, but more hoovers.
Yeah, I would expect the median FBI agent to vote Republican, but not to believe that Hillary Clinton was leading an international pedophile ring.
Also the FBI has endured a four year character assault at Trump’s hands.
That’s Southern politeness, right there
Canadian infiltrators! False flag!
She can switch places with Manchin
I wasn’t expecting the Democrats to win in Georgia, but had started to think about the (admittedly long-shot) possibility of Murkowski and Romney switching parties and letting the Dems have control. The majority leader pretty much totally controls what gets to come up for a vote, so if they wanted to avoid McConnellism (cabinet members and judges never being confirmed for no real reason except spite, covid relief held up for months) they could let Schumer control the agenda, but still could (and likely would) vote with the Republicans on many substantive matters.
Now that the Dems have control anyway, this is not as valuable for them, and a little more self-serving for her. I do believe that she is a little more sincere in her concerns about having a functioning government than Susan Collins is, though.
She sounds legitimately pissed, but, like, could she not have voted for witnesses at the damn impeachment trial? Obviously Trump has done a lot more “damage” since then, but that shouldn’t have been a hard vote if she had a spine.
Absolutely, Murkowski and Collins and Sasse and the rest of the no-impeachment Republicans can fuck right off.
Ossoff’s righteous skewering of this crook during the campaign seems to have left an enduring mark on his feelings.
only saying the obvious, but how fucked up is the world that an A’s blog doesn’t even mention lasorda’s death?
This is a pretty good story too.
could only see above the fold but that sounds fun.
Angels pitchers implicated: Troy Percival, Brendan Donnelly, Tyler Chatwood, Kevin Jepsen and, most recently, Cam Bedrosian, Keynan Middleton, Yusmeiro Petit, Luke Bard, Matt Andriese, Dylan Peters, Jose Suarez and Dylan Bundy. Also C.J. “Lawyerball” Wilson.
non-Angels pitchers implicated: Gerrit Cole, Justin Verlander, Max Scherzer, Felix Hernandez, Corey Kluber and Adam Wainwright.
implicated implies anyone cares
Couldn’t see anything beyond the first line – implicated in what?
foreign substance
Angels visiting clubhouse manager was preparing a special blend of rosin & pine tar and supplying it to both home and visiting pitchers for better grip & higher spin rate.
He was fired, and is now suing on the grounds that he was made a scapegoat for something that lots of players were doing, and that other teams were also supplying.
Lasorda is right there with Murkowski on the spite-o-meter for me.
it’s the negative comments i was wondering most about.
Went to the office today for the first time since probably December 7th. On my desk was a christmas present from my investigator. He is very very good at gifting. Vintage ties one year, vintage shirts another. Record cleaner. Socks that I like. Hit after hit for over 10 years.
This year, an A’s toaster. Pitch perfect. Almost like the guy pays attention or something.
It’s the anarchist cookbook, not president for like cookbook
Community property laws mean we can impeach this shitheel too, yeah?
I’ll take Stupid or Malicious? for $200
I am ready for some football! I’ve jumped fully aboard the Bills and Browns bandwagons (caution, may be dangerous). Also liking this playoff format which provides games all day long both Saturday and Sunday. Just the kind of disease-and-injury-ridden mayhem I need to distract from the disease-and-injury-ridden mayhem elsewhere.
Please don’t jinx the Bills
I’m also rooting for the Ravens Bears Rams and WFTs, Pelosi Schumer AOC and Sasse, selected federal prosecutors, and the month of February.
Please don’t jinx the month of February
3/4
Good job, FSU!
In today’s white privilege news
Awesome starting positions for the Bills
Most were unavoidable but that was just a horrible decision to try to return the last kickoff.
Yup. The first kick-off had a lucky bounce, but this was just dumb
Rash choice by Reich for Indy, coming away with zero points gives the Bills some momentum (which hopefully they won’t squander).
Yeah, this is one bad starting position I won’t bitch about
A catch
Ditto
No catch
I can’t blame him. That was their 5th drive into Buffalo territory and they don’t want to rely on shutting down the Bills offense for the whole game.
As it is, after being outplayed for most of the first half, the Bills being up at the half (which they would be now even if Indy had got the FG there) seems like a big victory.
Definitely. It was pretty close to 7-17, and having 14-10 instead, and receiving second-half kick-off looks great, all things considered.
That last drive included three reviews that all went the Bills way and a drive-prolonging penalty where it was pretty clear they weren’t going to snap.
LOL.
From footballoutsiders:
That oaktoon?
Yeah. He comments a lot in the open threads over there.
That’s fantastic.
You gotta almost feel bad for Jalil Brown. Has anyone ever had interceptions on consecutive plays only for neither one to count?
Oh how familiar is the sight of TJ Carrie’s nameplate in futile pursuit of the wideout who torched him
So much this.
FUMBLE!
Replay crew getting a lot of work today.
WOW! I was certain there would be enough to overturn
I figured another one going our way was too much to ask.
Hooray! All that work on the Hail Mary defense paid off.
Never a doubt.
(Phew.)
Josh Allen is good for about 5 completely ridiculous plays per game, and you’re always just hoping that more of them are of the positive variety.
That fumble was almost epically ruinous. Great game.
Ragsdale for Coonrod is a trade right out of Roth or Kinsella.
That Rams DB jumping the route on a screen pass for a pick-6 was great.
Also the Seahawks have a receiver damed Dissly, which seems like it should be a web 2.0 startup for insults.
The Bucs have a player named Sean Murphy-Bunting, which is weird because I don’t remember Sean Murphy bunting at all.
I had a similar thought during the first game about Mo Alie-Cox.
My 11/11 on the NYT Weekly quiz was made possible by answering this hard question correctly:
Hard to read this dispatch from Redding, in the context of everything else, including the political leanings of many rural police and sheriff outfits, and not feel like we are in for a spate of political assassinations or at least a hell of a lot of armed standoffs with the FBI over the next few years.
How long until the businesses are asked to pay for that “protection,” I wonder.
Impuesto revolucionario
And this piece on the precursors, and the way that the failure (or refusal) to police to date has emboldened and enabled.
And what federal forces exactly are going to fight these battles? We don’t have a national police force and creating one, or massively expanding the FBI ranks, is itself a scary path.
I already don’t want to visit most of red state America. And this kind of shit is going to take a lot of rural blue state areas off the list too.
The same ones that have been fighting them with not much success, I guess. Mainly FBI and ATF, with Congressional and state Republicans undermining them at every turn.
I wonder what state law enforcement can deal with these particular nuts if the locals aren’t. California doesn’t really have a major state police force that I’m aware of outside of the CHP.
This guy is one of the best, most deeply sourced reporters out there on the American Right. I take this warning very seriously.
I have no doubt. If Jan-6 could be done so easily on the center stage, with so little repercussion, just imagine all that will happen on the sidelines. Even if there were an absolute will to protect the non-trump-lawmakers, it’s just not possible, especially in the country where you can carry an assault weapon almost wherever you please. ETA was killing and destroying at will for decades, with much less weaponry, general infrastructure and support from the population.
Part of this has been intentional malfeasance from the executive branch. Not just the failure to make arrests on site, but also the failure to prevent it from happening in the first place, due to the decision over the past four years to not treat right-wing extremists as significant terrorist threats. This will be immediately reversed in 10 days, which won’t solve the underlying problems but should at least help prevent that kind of overt disaster of failing to respond to a terrorist act that was openly advertised on social media. Even when they choose to be less open, these groups will be trivial to infiltrate: “Hi, I’m a cop, can I join?”
I’m very skeptical of what effect, at least an immediate one, the change on the top will have for what will happen in your typical 20,000 souls town where half of the police force was protesting in DC this week
It won’t change what any local police forces do (or, as I said, solve the underlying problem), but it will change what the FBI and the ATF does, and that’s a big deal by itself. And I would be shocked if doing this isn’t a major priority for the new administration.
I saw it pointed out on twitter that while Garland is generally a centrist law-and-order type (as are Biden and Harris), he does have a history of prosecuting white supremacists. And for that matter, in this context being a centrist law-and-order type is not necessarily a bad thing.
I agree with all of that. My point is it won’t help in avoiding bloodshed in the next weeks/months. It doesn’t take a terrorist organization to create terror in the USA, where every right-wing lunatic completely certain that his country is being stolen from him by a communist pedophile ring has an arms arsenal right in his living room that IRA could have only dreamt of. And that he can fucking take to the place where he wants to use it without even breaking the law.
Perhaps federal servants and buildings can and will be protected. Much more doubt if state ones can. And once you go to county level, just forget it.. Morbid as it may be, if bookies offered over/under of 3 for the number of public servants killed, kidnapped or seriously injured until, say, May 1st, I’m definitely taking the over and hoping I’m as wrong as when I do my picks in fantasy football.
3 sounds wildly optimistic to me
i’m always thinking about this dude i saw in ’17. we were going camping near cal-ida and were gassing up, buying wood at a market w/ 2 pumps next to each other. there was this big ole red truck parked across both pumps, with obsessive levels of vinyl stickers on tailgate, sides, windows, one on the transparent wind thingy over the grill, pro-trump ‘merica blue lives and guns, and the classic calvin pissing on kaepernick on the rear window.
i look in the truck and there’s this worried looking woman and 2 kids but no driver. so i figure buy the wood first.
on my way in i cross paths with this buff angry looking guy heading to the truck so i very politely ask, hey, do you mind if i use one of the pumps you’re parked in front of? he says something like, i don’t give a shit what you do and, this is in the middle of a dirt parking lot, changes paths to make me get out of his way.
i buy the wood. put it in the car. guy is just sitting there staring at me. wife looked terrified. i bailed. kept checking the mirror but nothing happened.
next day we go up to downieville and immediately see the truck at the main parking lot. and him standing in the gazebo looking toward his truck, scowl, fists on waist, like angry-waiting.
we do our thing, get a drink, look at the river, come out. he’s still there IN THE EXACT SAME POSITION. like waiting for someone to be dumb enough to say something about his truck.
we went the next year and saw him again. kaep sticker still on (and he hadn’t worked in like 18 months by then).
so yeah, every time i’ve been camping in the trump era, that’s in the back of my mind. especially now that our go-to is 25 minutes down a dirt road, out of cell reception, on a un-improved spot where anything goes, even shooting (we went in june or so, and there was a big party of unmasked drunk kids shooting handguns into the trees to the tune of hair metal blasting — no idea if they were even aiming at something), and my GF’s subaru sticks out from all the big ole trucks.
hm. maybe if we get an old 4×4 that’ll be our beard.
And in 2017 that scary guy probably still feared consequences.
probably.
but i’ll fool him. found a truck that does keg stands! the bros are gonna like me so much they’ll ask me to shoot *them*.
Looking for another source (my free LAT articles are used up) led me to this long local account of an anti-mask mob at a Jan 5 Shasta County meeting, which featured well-known (former?) Berkeley gadfly libertarian nutcase Vladislav Davidzon. Last seen locally running for Auditor on a campaign of defaulting on all pension obligations.
I suppose when you’re in a death cult deliberately infecting the non-believers is just a recruitment tactic.
Sheltering House members were exposed to COVID.
I love being on FK because, among other things, I can enjoy your expertise and knowledge about democratic processes. Lately, I’m afraid, we have been slowly but irreversibly moving into the period of US history that is more aligned with my experiences than the ones you have.
Your region’s war was the first time I remember learning the term “ethnic cleansing.”
It was my hope for the US, that as there are no ethnic lines, the level of fanaticism would never be reached in which no arguments can trump the tribal association.
To be precise, I’m talking about the years leading up to the war, not the beginning of the war itself. The same angry, ignorant Shad Ledues that are rising to power here now. The police ever more overtly just siding with one tribe. Stuff like that.
What’s been worrying me the most lately is that we now have so many of these people among our elected officials. There are now several Republican members of Congress who if they weren’t in office, could easily have been among the insurgents sacking the building. And there were state legislators among the mob, one of whom just took office earlier in the week. And then you look at things like the Oregon Republican legislators who let the militia guys into the capitol in Salem, all the way down to the Shasta county supervisors.
We’ve always had cynical demagogues willing to wink and nod and ride the wave of the crazies, but we now seem to have true believers with the full rights and privileges to put their colleagues in mortal danger.
Yeah, there have certainly always been some fringy people in elected offices, particularly in state legislatures, but the extent of it now dwarfs anything in my memory. And with the way the primaries are set up it seems inevitable there will be a steady pipeline of conspiracy theorists ready to feed the big lies and rally support from their people.
Offensive pass interference has been discontinued in 2021, right?
Sports Illustrated for Nerds
This threat to democracy has me thinking, Signing Michael brantley and marcus semien would really be perfect.
I trust Forst can cobble together a bullpen. Team dynamite excepted, that has been a constant.
I was hoping Buffalo could play Pittsburgh next, but they are already in a 14-0 hole to the Cleveland Covids.
Go Browns! Have to root for them after 17 empty years. Also gotta take the over on how many bad things happen to Big Ben.
An almost perfect, dream first half for the Browns. The first Steelers snap was Stooge-like in its slapstick beauty. Browns fans will spend all of halftime picturing the many horrible ways they can still lose.
Anytime the Stillers get spanked is a good time. If you’ve ever flown into the airport there in Pittsburgh, you know exactly why.
KC/Cleveland and GB/Rams look like big mismatches.
Buffalo/Baltimore and NO/TB seem like they could be good.
All six games this weekend were good, or at least close enough to hold interest. Traditionally week 2 is blowout city, but we’ll see, I could see both Cleveland and LA hanging around.
I’m going to regret giving nevermoor my retina scan, huh?
When I first heard about the conservative alternative to twitter I assumed is was Parlour. How many of the MAGA people using it do you think knew they were on a site named with a French word?
Trump even lost Belichick.
He’ll always have Rex Ryan and Jack Del Rio.
Rex was all-in as soon as he heard there was treason afoot.
Also I enjoyed the highlight yesterday of the last Cleveland Browns playoff victory, in which Belichick led them to victory over the Bill Parcells-coached Patriots.
Too sick a burn not to post here
Speechless
I mean, Trump had already learned his lesson, so what else could it be?
thought… singular?
and what about the prayers?
The thing about being sleeping over at Lisa’s because she was worried about finding parking at her place is weird. She drives herself to work? And she parks on the street?
Well that’s not good, and probably shouldn’t be buried in paragraph 21.
Kinda weird that five days after a terrorist attack we’ve heard basically nothing from the DOJ, DHS, or FBI.
Professional courtesy.
Hendriks->Chisox
The Bobby Bonilla option.
That is a good deal for him. I wish him well, until the ALDS/ALCS
You think we’re still a playoff team?
The world series champs are usually in the playoffs, yeah?
Who the FK carves “Trump” on the back of a manatee?
Antifa?
The NFL should go ahead and grant Tuscaloosa franchise status. They could relegate the Jets to college to keep the number of teams right (and the Jets might even be relevant again).
These people are so dumb
They also infected a 75 yo cancer survivor, Rep. Coleman from NJ. And Scalise and MTG and others just smirked. Criminal.
I wonder if Coleman et al hadn’t gotten all their vaccinations let alone completed them like certain nurse upgrades have.
Coleman had the first shot not the second.
Speaking of murderous criminals. I am convinced that the deplatformings are 100% about interrupting the insurrectionists planning right now. Zuck and Dorsey didn’t suddenly think Trump went too far.
Agreed. But I don’t think it happens if the repubs keep the senate. this shit could have happened at any time.
are we tailgating or…
N.Y.P.D. Concludes Anti-Harassment Official Wrote Racist Online Rants
When you get too numb to even laugh about such fine irony
So, the fourteenth?
That’s my softball uniform number, in tribute to Mark Ellis, so I endorse this idea.
I saw Lawrence Tribe tweet that he had concluded the 14th Amendment approach was a “murky and dangerous mirage” which could backfire, but he hasn’t articulated why.
I have $220,000,000. No, I don’t.
I don’t pretend to understand digital currency except in conceptual terms. What happens to this wealth? Who benefits from it’s disuse?
Nobody, except that perhaps the scarcity makes the usable bitcoin more valuable. I’m literally the guy in the article except on a smaller scale. I “invested” 40 bucks in bitcoin in 2012 that’s now worth ~$5K. I created an uber secure password so my bitcoin was unhackable. Then I forgot the password. Oops.
https://dqydj.com/bitcoin-return-calculator/
and
https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/z3hl9r
Uhg
I don’t think that it will affect scarcity – they are not lost, just inaccessible.
I didn’t explain it well when I said scarcity. The people who tended to invest in bitcoin at the beginning continue to want to invest in it. When they lose their password or get hacked, they tend to throw more money into bitcoin to make up for the loss. Hence, by losing some, they actually inflate the price of the rest.
Maybe nevermoor has your password.
Seriously though, that sucks.
It does seem to be a common story. I read one a couple years ago where the author had written his password down on a slip of paper, that some family member had later thrown out. And I think that was another one where it was worth millions of dollars.
And then there’s all the money that was lost/stolen/whatever on exchanges like mtgox and quadriga.
part of the business model, yeah?
This is the story I was thinking of but it was less money than I remembered, and he did eventually recover his passwords.
So frustrating. I don’t think I could handle the stress even if it was only $40 like V17
I get stressed when i cant remember my password to the insurance site to change my Dr, so yeah I’d be kicking stuff.
Man, this is crazy.
I don’t totally understand why it has to work this way. If your coin lives on a physical hard drive (not connected to the internet), then why the need for the crazy encryption on it? In case the government seizes it or something? And setting aside the problem of losing the password, what if the hard drive just plain fails? There’s no redundancy?
10 years ago or so i put hundreds of CDs in itunes and sold the discs. at some point, maybe in some version update itunes cleaned up my library.
lost all my mc 900-ft jesus, to start with.
That is the worst experience. I had that with Yahoo music and just happened again with Google Plus music. But at least this time I had kept it all on a separate hard drive. The early 2000’s Fresno local scene will survive a bit longer!
Speaking of losing the data, I have a lot of my data in the cloud, but also on a local NAS with RAID. To minimize the risk of an encryption attack, I have another external hard drive that I connect once a month and copy the NAS to. However, it’s a tedious process with the solution I have. Do you know any where this could be automated to the point that I only need to attach the USB drive to NAS and like click a button? The one that really works that way. I thought I was going to be able to do this with mine, but never could (WD My Cloud PR4100)
rsync script?
They’re not so stupid to start the war with Iran in last 8 days, are they?
they are stupid enough
I am absolutely used to weapons. I come from a country where they were fired at every decent wedding, and I mean AK-47s, not some pistols. But even we were not that bat-shit-crazy to allow people to enter government buildings with them.
it’s maddening
An announcement just hit that members of congress will have to pass through metal detectors to get on the House floor, probably because at least one of our new Qongresspeople has expressed an intention to pack heat at work. So, yeah. There’s a lot of bat-shit crazy to deal with here.
Along with the reminder that firearms are only allowed in their offices.
I’m honestly worried that there’s a Dan White among the current crop of Rs. But good to know that it can only happen in the office building.
Most recently Lauren Boebert, who in addition to packing heat made a point of tweeting out Nancy Pelosi’s location in real time during the attack on the Capitol.
She has to be prosecuted, yeah?
Can’t wait to find out why.
they didn’t have magnets in 1776, duh.
Reasonable expectation of privacy during the revolution
He’s a Juggalo
Holy shit.
It takes a 2/3 vote to expel someone from congress. Even if they make Trump their sacrificial lamb, the rest of these treasonous fkers will get off, won’t they?
Getting 12 jurors should be easier.
Even better than Bojan Bogdanovic / Bogdan Bogdanovic combo
well that aged poorly.
Hey ec, in case your hoops schedule doesn’t auto-update to reflect COVID changes, note that the Heels host the Orange tonight, in a game of mid-pack ACC also-rans which isn’t nationally televised.
Yeah, I know. I don’t get to see it. I have DAZN and they carry both UNC and NC State at Florida State this week, but no Syracuse games yet. They already had at least 4 Duke games this season, two of which were very enjoyable losses. Made me think, I’d subscribe to a channel that only had Duke and Patriots losses 24/7.
??? ACC Network is national; I get it on Youtube TV. If you have Comcast or something else in the Bay Area that doesn’t have ACC Network in the local lineup but has the other ESPN channels you might still be able to access it at ESPN.com–>Watch.
I have Comcast, weirdly I get SEC and Pac12, but no ACC. I’ll try via Watch ESPN at 6 but that hasn’t worked previously.
Success, thanks! Carolina’s mistake prone freshmen meets Boeheim’s weird zone, I’m not bullish.
Congrats!
Pleasantly surprised, Carolina is all over the map this year.
To get our minds off the impending apocalypse, I have played exactly four moves as each white and black, following all the rules. I ended up with this:
Can you guess the moves?
Four moves each starting with white and alternating? So far I don’t see how it’s possible.
I am also stumped.
Aha! 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. Ne5 d5 3. Nc6 Nfd7 4. Nxb8 Nxb8
Exactly. Nice one, right?
Good puzzle.
Correct
Nf3 D5
Ne5 Nf6
Nc6 Nd7
NxN NxN
RTFT.
erased because i can’t figure out spoiler tag.
Just click edit on my message below and copy it
i don’t have edit powers. it’s fine.
<span class=”spoiler”>
</span>
now the only unsolved puzzle is why the knight doesn’t take the queen (after the pawn allows it to live).
I can do it in 7 moves each.
Nf3 Na6
Nc3 Nf5
Nb1 Na4
Nc3 Nxf3
Nb1 Ng1
Rxg1 d6
Rh1 d5
But yours is way more elegant.
Reminder (mostly to myself) how to mark text as spoiler
solved. what was the spoiler code again?
I was always at a certain unease with families who name all their kids with names starting with a “K”. Although, I have to say I was totally wrong about Kyle Korver and I’m glad I was.
Not sure if I believe this, but it sure would contradict my prediction that the GOP will be afraid to renounce Trumpers because they need them to hang on to whatever national power they have left. Mitch may well figure that so much damage has already been done that they might as well get the intra-party war out of the way now that they’re mostly out of power anyway, and get on with pretending the last few years didn’t happen as quickly as possible.
most but the most rabid republicans will forget. We are the furthest we could be from a presidential election. The mid terms are general favorable to the out of power party, and this could help some of the moderate senators next round. I think there is 20 R’s up
This is quite a statement, especially given the source.
“Much more will become clear…” is I think an important factor with both her and McConnell. The GOPers crying no impeachment will look even worse for example if it comes out that Roger Stone was a direct conduit from Trump to Proud Boys via Parler.
I’m wondering if the house and senate leadership (which includes Cheney) didn’t get briefed today on some really bad stuff that hasn’t been made public yet. Apparently the House Democrats got a terrifying briefing from the police about other plots last night, and the acting US Attorney seemed to be sounding the alarm today that the investigation is going to be expanding massively.
Reading between US attorney lines I expect they’re ready soon to make a bunch of attempted murder/ADW charges against individuals, and charging details of attacks on cops will be ugly. Then forensically connecting them into seditious conspiracy charges based on the LMFAO open source Parler will be a next easy step. And all that could just be this week!
I think this is mostly McConnell being crafty again. He’s “pleased” by impeachment because he perceives the effort might hurt the Democrats, and if it works it frees his traditional conservative wing of the GOP from consequences of interparty Trump fights. I’ll be impressed if Mitch takes meaningful steps to make it possible, like calling Senate back into session.
I alway assume he’ll do the wrong thing, but things are moving very quickly all of a sudden. No time like the present to finish off Trump and show all of the wobbling corporate donors that it is safe to keep giving.
I share your fear that this will somehow be bad for the dems, but last impeachment wasn’t bad in november, it was a wash really.
I think this may be his “I met you half way” thing to talk about in polite company
Did I miss this in any of your links? My god, again.
I saw it on twitter earlier, not sure if anyone posted it here.
My question (per FSU’s comment above) is which of these people could you actually hope to convict on a conspiracy charge?
These three (Brooks and whoever the others were) who helped organize the “rally”?
Boebert and whoever took them on the “recon”?
Gohmert?
Cruz & Hawley?
I’m really asking, because I don’t know, but at some point the connection between the rabble-rousing and the actual riot must become ambiguous or distant enough to create reasonable doubt.
Expel these shits from Congress.
Then convict them for high treason and execute them.
Gosar, Brooks, Biggs
Gosar was wearing his mask incorrectly on the house floor while giving his speech.
Jailers have no time for that. He is not going to like the kind of “quarantine” they have in custody.
That’s the problem with conspiracy charges. It takes a very tight case. Which is why tagging most of the people with trespass (or whatever they care calling it) is gonna be the end with the vast majority. If this holds up, they may be about 5-6 people in deep shit, but most everyone else will be ok.
Large cases are really really hard to deal with. Some people start snitching, some the Prosecutors stop caring about and settle, its a really really long process
Just supporting the planning of the event is probably not enough, absent advance knowledge and assistance to the actively criminal activities. Probably the same with the incitement at the opening rally by Brooks and Trump and others. Recon for the invasion OTOH does seem chargeable, if there’s evidence for the intention.
Helping conspirators learn how to disable the panic buttons in Ayanna Pressley’s office ahead of time would presumably qualify.
Have I said good god yet?
Cool cool cool
Condors in Oakland? Condors in Oakland!
So we finally find out what it takes to get house Republicans to believe in COVID.
That’s rich.
Even by the high bar of disingenuous hypocritical bullshit the GOP have set for themselves, the argument that we shouldn’t impeach because it’s too divisive is still impressive.
It is literally the argument in favor of terrorism. We have been terrorized and thus must avoid further angering the terrorists.
and the R argument right now. you can’t ask us impeach because the terrorism to terrorize us… it worked.
I’m giving a talk at the American Astronomical Society annual meeting today but our session was very badly organized, and the entire zoom attendance of 11 people includes 4 speakers, 2 moderators, and 3 tech support.
Should we crash it?
You’d have to register … $500 for non-members.
but you have to do it because they need content for their website
We’ve lost a moderator and a tech support.
At least Fisher is too cheap to do this.
If goes without saying, but FK the Giants.
He voted for Kanye
America’s Coup. LOL