Captainant
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15 minutes ago, immamac said:
At this point I don't care what bills get passed, there needs to be a high quantity of small bills that are very focused passed in the near term or we will continue this death spiral of radicalization.
This is basically the core functional problem within our democracy right now. Thanks to the GOP's obstructionism the only way we get anything done is by attaching thousands of pages of riders onto must-pass bills.
We need actual, narrow legislation from actual legislators, not this bullshit that we've been dealing with since Obama took office.
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3 minutes ago, Lobo said:
There will be no Senate trial for the incitement/insurrection charges however. Only a trail to decide whether or not the person that did this can ever hold federal office.
Best part is that there are two historic impeachments that set the precedent that barring from future office only requires a simple majority, rather than a 2/3rds for removal from office [source]. Don't even need any seditious senators to see the light
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Just now, workswithseed said:
They haven't voted for impeachment, unless I missed something.
An impeachment is effectively an indictment. HR.24 is formal articles of impeachment that was just passed on a bipartisan vote. Next it'll go to the senate for adjudication
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1 minute ago, RPM said:
So McConnell said he won't convene the Senate until after the inauguration, but I read somewhere they added a provision a couple years ago for either of the party leaders to call for an emergency session. This would qualify, no?
the articles still need to be transmitted to the Senate by the House. So they could call the session but wouldn't have the necessary procedural (and constitutional) checklists
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Edited by Captainant
trump is now the first president to be impeached twice. And the common factor in both cases was an attempt by trump to subvert democracy and institutionalize big lies to solidify his power. First it was using the power of the presidency to menace Ukraine to create a sham investigation into Hunter Biden to denigrate his opponent Joe Biden, then it was inciting a riot to #STOPTHESTEAL and prevent the constitutionally mandated counting of electoral college votes for president Joe Biden.
Fuck trump. And anyone who still supports his seditious lies.
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20 minutes ago, Hate said:How did the 5 people die? I know about the officer that was hit with the fire extinguisher, one other officer/guard had a stroke (I think), and the lady that was shot by the SS agent. I haven’t heard of what happened to the other two people.
I'll see if I can find articles, but it was:
Capitol police officer bludgeoned to death by MAGA
Lady shot by Capitol police (turns out it was a plainclothes officer)
One man tazes himself in the balls and had a heart attack (no shit)
Someone had a stroke
One woman trampled to death while holding a "don't tread on me" flag
Edit: drt got the 5th
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4 minutes ago, bolverk said:
Seek help.
For real, immortal is derailing the thread and shit slinging.
Should I be reporting posts twice or something? Because this shit ain't a news thread.
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1 minute ago, Biff Tannen said:
Immortal's kid?
He made a thread in DT about it
https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/index.php?/topic/18441-my-daughter-sarah-passed-away-this-morning
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1 minute ago, hookemATL said:
He is not operating on a normal wavelength right now. I would just let him flail as the evidence mounts, and swing back around when his own personal life stabilizes. Thats just my opinion.
IMO, he should get a warning or a thread restriction. Dude is just threadshitting and name calling.
I get that he's in rough time due to his personal loss, but he's embarassing himself and preventing any news from actually being the topic of the thread
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1 minute ago, Js1 said:
Might we see an unexpected turn away from right to work states bc they can’t understand “you reap what you sow?”
I'm likewise anticipating an about-face on the whole "net neutrality is obamacare for the internet" thing as well. When all the ISP's refuse to host their violence inciting speech, I'm sure regulation as a title II common utility will look much more attractive
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You should also examine the stated desired outcomes of those groups:
BLM - police should stop murdering black people
Antifa - anti fascists, pretty self explanatory
MAGA - overturn a free and fair democratic election and kill the elected officials who disagree with us
Not seeing much equivocation or overlap on those things.
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9 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:
Amazon's response to the suit:
https://www.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wawd.294664/gov.uscourts.wawd.294664.10.0_1.pdf
Some quotes from Parler users:
Over the next seven weeks, AWS reported more than 100 additional representative pieces of content advocating violence to Parler’s Chief Policy Officer, including: “Fry’em up. The whole fkn crew. #pelosi #aoc #thesquad #soros #gates #chuckschumer #hrc #obama #adamschiff #blm #antifa we are coming for you and you will know it.”
“#JackDorsey … you will die a bloody death alongside Mark Suckerturd [Zuckerberg].… It has been decided and plans are being put in place. Remember the photographs inside your home while you slept? Yes, that close. You will die a sudden death!”
“We are going to fight in a civil War on Jan.20th, Form MILITIAS now and acquire targets.”
“On January 20th we need to start systematicly [sic] assassinating [sic] #liberal leaders, liberal activists, #blm leaders and supporters, members of the #nba #nfl #mlb #nhl #mainstreammedia anchors and correspondents and #antifa. I already have a news worthy event planned.” “Shoot the police that protect these shitbag senators right in the head then make the senator grovel a bit before capping they ass.”
“After the firing squads are done with the politicians the teachers are next.”
“Death to @zuckerberg @realjeffbezos @jackdorsey @pichai.”
“White people need to ignite their racial identity and rain down suffering and death like a hurricane upon zionists.”
“Put a target on these motherless trash [Antifa] they aren’t human taking one out would be like stepping on a roach no different.”
“We need to act like our forefathers did Kill [Black and Jewish people] all Leave no victims or survivors.”
“We are coming with our list we know where you live we know who you are and we are coming for you and it starts on the 6th civil war… Lol if you will think it’s a joke… Enjoy your last few days you have.”
“This bitch [Stacey Abrams] will be good target practice for our beginners.” “This cu** [United States Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao] should be… hung for betraying their country.”
“Hang this mofo [Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger] today.”
“HANG THAt N***** ASAP”
That's a very good outline of facts of the issue. Pretty stupid of the parler CEO to admit they had a backlog of over 26,000 posts that were flagged and awaiting action
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1 hour ago, burntorangebongos said:
This former Trump campaign worker gets a job but then the new company decides he is a liability and let's him go and so he whines on social media. This is very rich so when counting your calories, include this delicious tidbit:
At will employment is a real bitch right? Enjoy your free market you fucking dumbass
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13 minutes ago, elfenix said:
that slow? jesus. you basically have to be the first person lined up outside at close the night before and hope they get one in. are they even getting amd cards at this point?
Not really, there's no real way to get a 30XX card on its own right now. My brother in law just got a new gaming computer from dell (for a good deal actually) that had a 3080 in it and got it a week after he ordered it.
I think between the tariffs kicking in, the pandemic, and everyone fighting for the same fab space, there's just not gonna be that many cards available

Trump Impeachment 2: Insurrection Boogaloo
in Cloak Room
You're telling me the same dem leadership that forced clinton down our throats and enabled trump's rise by losing the house and senate are continuing to blow it?? SAY IT AINT SO! WHAT A SURPRISE!