6 January 2021; A Day worth a Thread

I vote for “The Beer Belly Putsch”.

I’ve said many times
The police are the problem

Trump’s Failed Coup. Also, the end of our Democracy.

What the fuck is wrong with you?

A rioter admitting to his crimes and giving us his name.
https://twitter.com/Sophiavista17/status/1346913320008359938

And it would seem getting a woman killed inside the Capitol while the electoral vote was being certified. You are wrong.

Wow; another post that is 100% wrong. You’re really knocking them out of the park today! Are you gonna challenge for the title? :face_with_raised_eyebrow: You shouldn’t; you’re generally a pretty good guy.

I get you, but symbols matter. Maybe they shouldn’t (in some deep sense), but they do.

I’m reminded of how Zapata and Villa led their separate troops to victory in the Mexican Revolution. Entering the deposed president’s office, Villa sat in the presidential chair, then suggested Zapata take his turn savoring power. Zapata refused, precisely because of what you alluded to — that this was the PEOPLE’s victory (to depose a corrupt and aristocracy-coddling system).

The symbology of who sits in certain chairs and what they represent still resonates, and can have real consequences on behavior and thinking and trust.

I assume that if a mob broke into your house, you’d not want any sort of police response to that. After all, it’s just a building.

I’m a Federal worker, and back in the Before Times, my computer at work would lock up if I left it alone for 15 minutes. Hell, when I access work via VDI from my exurban home now, it breaks the connection after 15 minutes if I leave it alone. I don’t work with anything related to national security, just protecting survey respondents’ privacy. So why don’t Congressional computers behave like that?

ETA: And from one of the pix, I see they have the same crappy email system we do.

And they’re just throwing a tantrum; it’s not like they’ll have any permanent effect on anything or anyone.

OK … One MAGAt with a thumb drive and halfway advanced hacking skills could cause billions in security issues.

A Politico reporter is reporting that the Senators are meeting in an undisclosed location. It sounds like the count arguments and tally are ongoing.

Twitter needs to shut down that account.

You’re correct

Looking at those goons, I bet none of them had those skills.

Clearly Nancy didn’t learn a fucking thing from Podesta. Win+L. It’s not fucking hard.

Yeah, it’s really no different from when the kids at the daycare protest for a second cookie at snack time.

/s

Now NBC is interviewing Mark Wayne Mullin (R-Oklahoma) who’s spewing bothsiderisms and blaming the riot today on just a few agitators. Sickening.