Essential Trump/Alt-Right Ridicule Thread

[a_chap]

I blame Ginsberg's desire to retain her position partly for the repeal of Roe v. Wade.

That.

 

[NoXion]

That's Dianne Feinstein, who's 90 - she came back to the Senate a few months ago but has seemed even more confused than she was before

Sen. Dianne Feinstein told to 'just say aye' in awkward Senate committee moment

Feinstein, 90, began delivering a speech in support of a bill during a vote Thursday, instead of the expected response of "aye" or "nay."

www.nbcnews.com

While she's voting on government legislation, her daughter has been given power of attorney over her dealings in other matters, including a dispute over her late husband's will

Fucking hell. How can you do your job as a senator when you you've been legally judged to be too incompetent to even run your own finances?

 

[steeplejack]

17 years bird for Joseph Biggs on sedition charges.

That's a wee shame.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/08/31/proud-boys-joseph-biggs-sentencing-jan6-seditious-conspiracy/?location=alert

 

[LDC]

possibly not - it was the alt right part of it that I felt relevant

How is it related to the alt-right?

 

[two sheds]

Yeh perhaps not. Just struck me as somewhat extreme gun-nut stance teaching a 4 year old about gun safety - particularly by pointing a gun at her and pulling the trigger.

 

[Ax^]

Fucking hell. How can you do your job as a senator when you you've been legally judged to be too incompetent to even run your own finances?

trump was president ffs

 

[Ax^]

Yeh perhaps not. Just struck me as somewhat extreme gun-nut stance teaching a 4 year old about gun safety - particularly by pointing a gun at her and pulling the trigger.

hmm worked for big daddy in kickass

less so in real life it would appear

 

[Nylock]

...And, therein lies the problem with the Democratic Party. They aren't willing to give over the reins to a younger generation.

Is that the main reason, or is it fear of losing the seat to a Republican that makes them keep people in post way past when they should have quit?

I blame Ginsberg's desire to retain her position partly for the repeal of Roe v. Wade. If she had relinquished her position to a younger justice when she had the chance, they wouldn't have had the votes.

Tbf, iirc Ginsberg would have had to retire during the Obama supermajority of 08-10 for there to have been no chance of McConnell's fuckery keeping the spot empty until a Republican assumed office...

 

[8ball]

possibly not - it was the alt right part of it that I felt relevant

“Gun nut” rather than “alt right”, no?

 

[two sheds]

Yes all right - I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition

 

[Ax^]

“Gun nut” rather than “alt right”, no?

reasonably interchangeable in most situations




reading into the story this women just sounds horrible rather than fun safety she was trying to scare a child with a gun and instead of checking for an empty camber she just ejected the mag

horrible women

 

[Yossarian]

17 years bird for Joseph Biggs on sedition charges.

That's a wee shame.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/08/31/proud-boys-joseph-biggs-sentencing-jan6-seditious-conspiracy/?location=alert

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Wonder which T-shirt he wore to the sentencing

 

[DaveCinzano]

Wonder which T-shirt he wore to the sentencing

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“But...but...but I was just working through some difficult feeeeeliiiiings at the time”

Biggs said in a tearful statement to the judge that he was not a leader but one of the “seduced.”
“I know that I messed up that day, but I’m not a terrorist,” Biggs said. “My curiosity got the better of me, and I’ll have to live with that for the rest of my life.” He said he had been planning for Jan. 6 to be his last outing with the Proud Boys, and that his violent statements were a way to vent his anger over being injured in combat and learning that a young family member had been abused. “I used that rhetoric … to cope and to not take violent action,” he said.

 

[Nylock]

Well, now he can spend the next 17 years working through them...

 

[bluescreen]

Very interesting WaPo article, thanks for posting.

 

[a_chap]

Yes all right - I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

 

[Ax^]

thread is getting odd

serious articles

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Is that the main reason, or is it fear of losing the seat to a Republican that makes them keep people in post way past when they should have quit?

The Democrats are pretty cowardly in that respect. It's a losing strategy on the long-term because eventually people die or become disabled. Every organization I've been a part of, with the exception of the Democratic Party, made sure to train and promote young people as they develop their skills.

Tbf, iirc Ginsberg would have had to retire during the Obama supermajority of 08-10 for there to have been no chance of McConnell's fuckery keeping the spot empty until a Republican assumed office...

There were calls for her to resign at about that time and she should have taken it. I understand the appeal of a job you've done and done well for a long time, but a time comes when you need to step aside.

 

[krtek a houby]

thread is getting odd

serious articles

Yeah, there's actual other threads for the serious stuff

 

[DaveCinzano]

Very interesting WaPo article, thanks for posting.

This multimedia one from the PB-in-a-jam trial is a nice primer:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-m.../proud-boys-trial-timeline-jan6-videos-chats/

 

[Yossarian]

 

[petee]

we don't like him here

 

[Ax^]

 

[agricola]

when they are together its less of a resemblance:

 

[Ax^]

 

[cupid_stunt]

Trump himself envisioned a social media company that, he said, would “stand up to the tyranny of big tech”.

But there have been signs recently that even Trump maybe tiring of his own social-media play. There are estimated to be about 2 million users of Truth Social – tiny compared with Facebook’s 2.9 billion, YouTube’s 2.5 billion, WhatsApp’s 2 billion, Instagram’s 2 billion, and X, formerly Twitter, which counts about 541 million users.

Trump’s Truth Social platform faces uncertain future as key test looms

Former president’s social media platform is asking shareholders in Digital World for another year to complete merger

www.theguardian.com

What a shame.

 

[Ax^]

 

[PR1Berske]

A leader of the Proud Boys is having their time in court. By which I mean they fucked up and now they're finding out.

Live thread from Guardian: Proud Boys’ ex-leader Enrique Tarrio speaks in court before January 6 sentencing – live
Twitter/XThread live from court:

 

[Yossarian]

22 years - guess he can be proud of getting the longest Capitol riot sentence

 

[Ax^]