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President confirmation. Georgia. Senate. Merrick Garland. Mick can finally get Satisfaction.
Today, Wednesday January 6 2021, is a true exceptional great day.

Edit: this was written before the riots started. I would say now: truly saddest day of the last 4 years.
 
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There is always room for a "spin-off" of the big centrist party whose members can then claim to represent the new centre. But the effect is the same: the far-right or far-left will get more weight.

That's essentially what happened ten years ago, and it never ends well. As much as I dislike the two-party system, it's a necessary evil to keep the ball rolling.

I honestly blame Barack Obama and the movement that propelled him to the presidency for the type of political radicalism and divisiveness you see today. Think about the early 2000s, going back all the way to the end of WWII. No matter which party was in power, people still worked together. For that matter, listen to Joe Biden's eulogy at McCain's funeral, lamenting the fact that Rs and Ds can't be seen together any longer and recalling better days as recently as the late 90s. As he put it, congressional leaders could "fight like hell" on the Senate floor and then go have lunch together afterwards to work things out.

I once worked an event where former Speaker Newt Gingrich gave the keynote speech, and he talked about those better days prior to Obama by recalling his relationship with President Clinton. He and other leaders from both sides would scream and yell and fight for hours in the House chambers, they'd give angry interviews denouncing their opponents, but people understood it was just theater. And quietly, in the middle of the night, Newt would gather his staffers, Clinton would gather his staffers, and they'd meet in secret in the backrooms of the Capitol or White House and work out their differences in legislation. And that's the last time we truly had a balanced budget.

When Obama came around--a political neophyte with zero executive/administrative experience--and demanded we nationalize the country's healthcare system, that shit was going too far and it riled up the country. When the bluest state in the nation elected a Republican (Scott Brown) to stop Obama and he then ordered the Senate to end the filibuster so they could ram through his signature legislation, that shit further riled up the country. And then he made it acceptable to villainize his opposition. If you didn't agree with him, you were "immoral" or "evil" or "stupid." If you didn't want his new brand of socialism, it's because you were racist, or didn't care about black/brown people. You were, as he put it, "typical white people" who "cling to their guns and religion" as an excuse for hating immigrants and minorities. And that gave rise to the Tea Party Movement, the end product of which I think was Donald Trump becoming president. When you normalize or even romanticize radicalism on one side, as Obama and his enablers in the media did for eight years, you give birth to radicalism by your opponents.

Joe Biden, before he went fully senile, made a very intelligent observation on political discourse: "You can question your opponent's logic, but never his motive." Once you question motive, the conversation ends. You can only poke, prod, disparage and shit on people so long before they turn to drastic measures. You spend eight years telling working-class white people that they're dumb, racist, homophobic or just plain awful because they don't agree with you and Karl Marx and they end up electing a Donald Trump. Conversely, you spend four years praising white supremacists and treating the black community like illiterate political pawns and they go and fuck you over by electing actual communists to Congress in a solid red state.

Both parties need to wake up and expel the radicals in their ranks, but I don't honestly see that happening any time soon. I think the far-left taking over Congress, combined with a president incapable of keeping them in line and eager to placate them, is going to have major repercussions that will result in another political movement similar to what we saw in 2010 and probably more passionate (dysfunctional).

But, if it ends up with me getting another six-figure job in D.C., access to the Capitol's perks and a fancy badge to wear on my tailored suit lapels while I undo the zipper on my fancy tailored trousers to formally administer another oral interview with another college intern, fuck it. I'll play along again.
 
What kind of shit show will happen today in DC?
Time to go to bed now but will be fun to see that in the morning

Um, you should probably wake up. Its quite a show.
if this was happening anywhere else the news would be reporting it as a Failed State.
 
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Aaaaand the shit show has begun! Trumpers stormed the Capital....
Holy shit wtf is wrong with America. Dude, shit show doesn’t even start to describe what’s going on. Fucking retards.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55555074

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I honestly blame Barack Obama
That reminds me of the "fine people on both sides" in Charlottesville.
So now, it is "baddies on both sides" in Washington.
Lets stop the excuses. Trump and his enablers created this atmosphere and dog whistled this tragedy. They should take responsibility and act with consequences.
 
Gosh, where’s the love?? White people just showing all the BLM and Antifa pussies they can riot proper, too.

This shit is fucking hilarious. Makes me want to get my drink on, rip off my mask and go kick shit. Someone needs to represent yellow folks at the next riot.
 
That's essentially what happened ten years ago, and it never ends well. As much as I dislike the two-party system, it's a necessary evil to keep the ball rolling.

I honestly blame Barack Obama and the movement that propelled him to the presidency for the type of political radicalism and divisiveness you see today. Think about the early 2000s, going back all the way to the end of WWII. No matter which party was in power, people still worked together. For that matter, listen to Joe Biden's eulogy at McCain's funeral, lamenting the fact that Rs and Ds can't be seen together any longer and recalling better days as recently as the late 90s. As he put it, congressional leaders could "fight like hell" on the Senate floor and then go have lunch together afterwards to work things out.

I once worked an event where former Speaker Newt Gingrich gave the keynote speech, and he talked about those better days prior to Obama by recalling his relationship with President Clinton. He and other leaders from both sides would scream and yell and fight for hours in the House chambers, they'd give angry interviews denouncing their opponents, but people understood it was just theater. And quietly, in the middle of the night, Newt would gather his staffers, Clinton would gather his staffers, and they'd meet in secret in the backrooms of the Capitol or White House and work out their differences in legislation. And that's the last time we truly had a balanced budget.

When Obama came around--a political neophyte with zero executive/administrative experience--and demanded we nationalize the country's healthcare system, that shit was going too far and it riled up the country. When the bluest state in the nation elected a Republican (Scott Brown) to stop Obama and he then ordered the Senate to end the filibuster so they could ram through his signature legislation, that shit further riled up the country. And then he made it acceptable to villainize his opposition. If you didn't agree with him, you were "immoral" or "evil" or "stupid." If you didn't want his new brand of socialism, it's because you were racist, or didn't care about black/brown people. You were, as he put it, "typical white people" who "cling to their guns and religion" as an excuse for hating immigrants and minorities. And that gave rise to the Tea Party Movement, the end product of which I think was Donald Trump becoming president. When you normalize or even romanticize radicalism on one side, as Obama and his enablers in the media did for eight years, you give birth to radicalism by your opponents.

Joe Biden, before he went fully senile, made a very intelligent observation on political discourse: "You can question your opponent's logic, but never his motive." Once you question motive, the conversation ends. You can only poke, prod, disparage and shit on people so long before they turn to drastic measures. You spend eight years telling working-class white people that they're dumb, racist, homophobic or just plain awful because they don't agree with you and Karl Marx and they end up electing a Donald Trump. Conversely, you spend four years praising white supremacists and treating the black community like illiterate political pawns and they go and fuck you over by electing actual communists to Congress in a solid red state.

Both parties need to wake up and expel the radicals in their ranks, but I don't honestly see that happening any time soon. I think the far-left taking over Congress, combined with a president incapable of keeping them in line and eager to placate them, is going to have major repercussions that will result in another political movement similar to what we saw in 2010 and probably more passionate (dysfunctional).

But, if it ends up with me getting another six-figure job in D.C., access to the Capitol's perks and a fancy badge to wear on my tailored suit lapels while I undo the zipper on my fancy tailored trousers to formally administer another oral interview with another college intern, fuck it. I'll play along again.

Gosh, where’s the love?? White people just showing all the BLM and Antifa pussies they can riot proper, too.

This shit is fucking hilarious. Makes me want to get my drink on, rip off my mask and go kick shit. Someone needs to represent yellow folks at the next riot.

So... can you truely say now you guys are the party of “Law and Order”? :confused:
 
Never thought I would ever say this but I found Mitch Mc Connels speech (before all the mess happened) very good
 
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Never thought I would ever say this but I found Mitch Mc Connels speech (before all the mess happened) very good
He only said that because the Senate is now Blue. I can imagine what his speech would have been if they kept the Senate Red. Didn't he say that no matter what was on the floor in the Senate he would vote against if it was brought up by Blue? C'mon, he's a pos like all of them. He just wants to keep his seat....
 
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Gosh, where’s the love?? White people just showing all the BLM and Antifa pussies they can riot proper, too.

This shit is fucking hilarious. Makes me want to get my drink on, rip off my mask and go kick shit. Someone needs to represent yellow folks at the next riot.
Are you back huffing the glue bag again?
 
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So... can you truely say now you guys are the party of “Law and Order”? :confused:

Oh no no no, this shit isn't on us. This is Trump and his people, not the GOP. Even CNN isn't trying to frame us for today. I never thought I'd hear the words "lack of leadership" coming from Fox commentators. There's a very influential group of Republican power-brokers pressuring Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove his boss. I hear even Twitter shut down Trump's account.

You gotta hand it to Trump, he certainly knows how to go out with a bang.
 
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Are you back huffing the glue bag again?

I never cared for glue. Causes headaches. Preferred whip-its or helium. I used to pay other kids in school to huff wite-out until they get white shit on their nostrils and then turn them into the teacher so they got sent to counseling sessions. I'm hilarious.
 
I never cared for glue. Causes headaches. Preferred whip-its or helium. I used to pay other kids in school to huff wite-out until they get white shit on their nostrils and then turn them into the teacher so they got sent to counseling sessions. I'm hilarious.
And a snitch to boot. You must have been loved by all :p
 
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Oh no no no, this shit isn't on us. This is Trump and his people, not the GOP. Even CNN isn't trying to frame us for today. I never thought I'd hear the words "lack of leadership" coming from Fox commentators. There's a very influential group of Republican power-brokers pressuring Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment and remove his boss. I hear even Twitter shut down Trump's account.

You gotta hand it to Trump, he certainly knows how to go out with a bang.

yeah, the « we were innocent, just following orders » argument... saw that in my history books too. Different country, different period...
 
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You gotta hand it to Trump, he certainly knows how to go out with a bang.
There's only one kind of bang I want to hear that Trump went out with.......:p
 
On a more serious note, I don't think this is going to end up being a political issue of R vs D or left vs right. It certainly isn't being tried by the mainstream networks, YET. Those people that stormed the Capitol today weren't political types. They weren't informed Americans. They weren't Republicans or Democrats. They were straight up trailer trash and do you know how to prove it? Look at what they did to the building.

The only thing that really pained me watching the footage today was seeing the damage these assholes were inflicting on the Capitol. Smashing windows, defacing monuments, scaling the walls like it's a fucking playground. I can guarantee you one thing, that not a single true political type or staffer, regardless of party, would ever do something like that. Whether you're a Republican or Democrat, people like me/us treat that place as sacred ground.

All these years later, I still remember the first time I walked into the Capitol building. I was a brand new Hill staffer and had just found my way to the Sergeant At Arms' office to make my credentials--incidentally, it was Mike Pence who showed me how to get there. When you walk into the building for the first time, you're seriously overcome by this feeling of absolute reverence. Any former staffer can tell you that. It's a fucking amazing building, in terms of history but also sheer complexity. I spent almost two hours just wandering around aimlessly through the different restricted areas (you're allowed to once you have staffer credentials), never forgetting that the most powerful country on earth is run within those hallways. I walked from one side the other, past all the leadership offices upstairs, visiting both the House and Senate chambers (I was kicked out of the Senate chambers for interrupting some sort of vote) then through the basement and for a ride on the secret "members only" metro train. I could've rubbed one out if I wasn't so mesmerized by the smell of power.

Only pure, unadulterated horseshit trash could enter that building by force and then vandalize it. That ain't us, that's Trump's people.
 
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You mean that sweet Georgia prison lovin'?
That would be a good one too. But who "wants" to see him in a red dress and heels.....well, now that I think of it and run it through my imagination.....
 
Frenchies support Democracy in America !
(Last words of Macron’s speech are in English, with his hilariously bad accent but still better than mine)
 
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How do you think storming the Capitol Building would not result in possibly getting shot & killed??
 
How do you think storming the Capitol Building would not result in possibly getting shot & killed??
Just one also. Are people really that stupid? (I guess so)
 
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