Indie Rocktopus posted:

Look at Georgia. Trumpists just hand-delivered the Senate to Democrats with zero regrets or apologies.

kik2dagroin posted:

Limbaugh seems all aboard with further incitement since he won't have to live with the fallout.

BiggerBoat posted:

By Monday, we'll be re-litigating the merits of BLM.

kik2dagroin posted:

Limbaugh seems all aboard with further incitement since he won't have to live with the fallout.
https://twitter.com/GoAngelo/status/1347267821710024705

I'll probably do a transcript dump later today when I have time just so it's on the record here.

Twelve by Pies posted:

"Split" is probably the wrong word for it, even though that's kind of what's going on and what the end result of this will be.

People who are hoping this will result in Republicans not getting elected again are going to be very disappointed. But what's happening is Trump is done as a politician and a lot of the high level members have no desire to keep hitching their wagon to him, especially after yesterday. They know how destructive Trump is and they were willing to tolerate it as long as it got their rich buddies tax cuts and got them control of SCOTUS, but Trump can't give that to them anymore and they don't want any further destruction because they know it makes them look bad to more moderate Republicans/centrists.

What's probably going to happen is that there will kind of be two Republican parties, and this will really matter only in primaries. In rural areas that are strong R we'll probably start getting more unhinged lunatics running as they continue to pay lip service to Trump and his brand of politics. In weaker R areas you'll probably see more bog standard Mitt Romney types who distance themselves from Trump and run on a "return to normalcy" so that they don't turn become completely unpalatable to non Republicans.

The question is if the Senate race in GA is genuinely a sign of right wingers losing faith in the system because of Trump yelling about fraud, a "gently caress you" to Mitch, or just the result of expanding voting and making it easier. If it's the last one, Republicans will do everything they can to suppress voting again. If it's the second one, this was a one off and there's no need for the "establishment" GOP members to worry because R voters will fall in line behind any candidate with that R by their name. If it's the first one, then there's trouble for them because if GOP turnout falls, that hurts them going forward.

Some people are calling for a "MAGA party" to split off from Republicans and that might gain traction as a third party for House races in strong R districts or state legislatures, but for Senate/President that's never going to gain any ground because even the most loyal Trump supporter realizes splitting the right wing vote like that would result in Dem control of those two areas for a good while.

Twelve by Pies posted:

And then there's this unrepentantly evil rear end in a top hat, of all the people to miraculously survive for almost a year in the terminal stages of cancer it had to be this motherfucker.

BiggerBoat posted:

So we're seeing what decades of this poo poo culminates in right now at the door of the capitol building. Some of this saw this coming

Hannity, Rush, Jones, Trump...they're all culpable for whatever happens today.

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RUSH: You may not know it, but favorable inheritance tax breaks have been part of recent tax policy. They’re not gonna change. Who benefits? The wealthy and the rich. And who’s gonna make them richer? The Democrats. Middle-income people, on the other hand, are gonna get hit hard by the soon-to-come non-step-up in inherited assets. So if you’re middle income — and that’s we’ll say up to, say, a hundred, 120 grand max, you’re gonna get hit very hard. They’re going to inflate inherited assets, and they’re gonna eliminate that which is making inherited assets advantageous.

So the middle class is gonna get poorer. And who is making them poorer? The Democrats are. And then Cramer says the list could go on, but the rich, who are now the biggest contributors and the best supporters of Democrats, why, they’re gonna be protected. The rest of us get higher taxes, higher costs of living. Who is going to bring higher taxes and higher costs of living to the little guy? The Democrats. How many people do you think voted for the Democrats back in November thinking they are voting against the rich?
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So bottom line is the stock market is now in the total control of the rich, elite socialists. It is the reservoir of their wealth. Now, there are some Republicans in there whose wealth is in the stock market. They’re gonna be very quiet. They’re not gonna want to call attention to themselves. They’re not gonna want the rich elite socialists who run the stock market to kick ’em out of it.

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RUSH: You can find news stories. (Snort!) “News.” There isn’t any news. You can find, quote-unquote, “stories” in the media about the plan to impeach Trump now. I don’t know how widespread it is, but I’m telling you it’s real. There are people, a lot of maybe pundits, but you know as well as I do: It doesn’t matter where you find a leftist, they’re leftists. They’re either disguised as journalists or elected Democrats or what have you.

So pundit, journalist, commentator, pick your poison. They are suggesting that Trump be impeached, that he is such a threat, that yesterday proves what a threat Donald Trump is. We can’t wait two weeks. We can’t wait ’til the 20th. We can’t wait for Trump to be constitutionally disempowered. We can’t wait for the peaceful transfer of power that Trump has now signaled he will participate in. We need to get rid of him now.
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They’re scared to death of the guy, folks! They’re scared to death of the support for him that you exhibit. They are scared to death. They are deathly afraid that they will not succeed in forcing you to abandon Trump. Now, they’ve got a bunch of people in Washington who’ve thrown Trump overboard, but you haven’t, and they are probably calculating that they don’t think they will be able to.
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Why do they care? He’s gone in 13 days. He’s gone a week from tomorrow. Why do they care? I’ve told you. Because there ain’t gonna be Trump again. Their ain’t gonna be Trump 2024. That’s what these people are aiming for. If he’s impeached, they get subsequent legislation claiming that because he’s been impeached he cannot ever run again and they think they’ve slain Godzilla.

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RUSH: Well, the president-elect just made my point on this double standard business. He’s out there making a speech, and he said that black rioters would have been treated much differently than the Trump rioters yesterday. I swear, folks, this disconnect… You know what? It isn’t a disconnect. They’re just saying this. They know drat well what they are doing.

Some of them do. They know drat well that they’re engaging here in just distortions of the truth and reality. What is this? African, black rioters would have been treated much differently than the rioters yesterday? You know what this is? This is an offshoot of the news narrative that started yesterday, “How the hell did they get so close? It was an attack on the Capitol Hill Police!

“It was an attack on the white Capitol Hill Police! Who the hell…? What were they thinking? How did they let these Trump supporters get so drat close?” You know, I, for one, am not convinced that these protesters yesterday were Trumpists. I think there’s plenty of Antifa people in there. I think there’s all kinds of Black Lives Matter people in there. That’s what they do.

They infiltrate. They impose themselves. Wherever there’s a riot, they show up. Sometimes they start one. How about Ferguson, Missouri? How about Baltimore, Maryland? I mean, they’ve got rent-a-mobs, and they show up everywhere, and part of the modus operandi is to see to it that people other than them get blamed for it. But here’s Biden:

African-American rioters would have been treated much differently yesterday. So the promulgation of this supposed double standard is underway, and it’s all about rewriting the truth of what happened yesterday. In fact, the real effort may be to prevent the truth of what happened yesterday from taking hold and taking root, ’cause the truth of the matter is, what happened yesterday is not what Republicans do.

Now, it is true that Trump supporters have showed up in Washington at random times to engage in protest movements and rallies, but they’ve not destroyed anything in the process. They’ve not burned anything down. That’s not who we are, if I may use the personal pronoun. It’s just not who we are. Everybody knows this is how the left operates.

They’re the ones that start fires and conduct riots and engage in civil unrest. They’re the ones that participated in 150-days plus in a row riots in Portland, nearly that many in Seattle, and yet all of that is now being laid off on Trump supporters.

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Twelve by Pies posted:

Right, but like I said, the question is if this was a one time "gently caress you" to Mitch for not giving them the stimulus checks and they fall in line after this, or if Trump really has depressed turnout.

I feel like it's kind of wishful thinking to assume that this weakens the Republicans by any significant measure. Two years under the "radical communist leftist" Biden regime may make them feel empowered to vote in large numbers again, especially if Trump tries to keep them under his sway and endorses midterm candidates. Then again it might not. If Trump really has turned off a statistically significant portion of right wingers from voting hey that's great, but I'm a bit more hesitant to proclaim that. State legislatures are going to make huge pushes to make voting harder and more restricted, and that could give Republicans the edge to regain control of the House/Senate even if Trump takes away R voters.

BigglesSWE posted:

Hahahahah holy poo poo is this real?

BigglesSWE posted:

Hahahahah holy poo poo is this real?

pop fly to McGillicutty posted:

How the gently caress can I get Rush Limbaugh cancelled before he dies?

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Vichan posted:

Like a Ben Garrison cartoon but not made by a shitstain, I love it.

Despera posted:

Some women was on Limbaugh today going "THE DEMOCRATS WILL NEVER SEVER MY LINK WITH TRUMP" and I couldn't stop laughing.

Despera posted:

Some women was on Limbaugh today going "THE DEMOCRATS WILL NEVER SEVER MY LINK WITH TRUMP" and I couldn't stop laughing.

Taerkar posted:

Well they were genocidal xenophobes who enjoyed having subservient races and yes men.

USA Today posted:

Radio host Rush Limbaugh's Twitter account has been deactivated.

Twitter confirmed to USA TODAY that the account wasn't suspended but "deactivated by the owner."

The social media platform permanently banned President Donald Trump Friday, citing the risk that he would incite further violence. He had 88.6 million followers.

Twitter, which had locked Trump out of his account Wednesday for inflammatory posts after a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol, lifted the suspension the following day after he removed the offending tweets. Twitter warned it would suspend Trump permanently if he continued to violate its rules.

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Trump allies and conservatives have cried censorship over Trump's ban. Twitter also permanently suspended the @TeamTrump account for ban evasion, the company said late Friday.

Late Friday, President Trump tweeted from the @POTUS Twitter account, accusing Twitter of silencing him and his supporters. All four tweets were then deleted.

Zwabu posted:

Does anyone know if Fox and the rest are sticking with "it was Antifa!!" in light of all the righties being out and proud on their social media about heading to the Capitol to smash windows and get some mob justice?

Zwabu posted:

Does anyone know if Fox and the rest are sticking with "it was Antifa!!" in light of all the righties being out and proud on their social media about heading to the Capitol to smash windows and get some mob justice?

that duck posted:

Fox has memory-holed everything that happened on Wednesday. The only story they're talking about now is "Big Tech Censoring Conservatives."

FlamingLiberal posted:

It will never not make me angry that he's still a free man with all of the heinous poo poo he's done

that duck posted:

Fox has memory-holed everything that happened on Wednesday. The only story they're talking about now is "Big Tech Censoring Conservatives."

GutBomb posted:

There are seven articles on the Fox News homepage alone right now with “Capitol Riot” or “Capitol Rioter” in the headline. Fox News isn’t a good source for news but I’ve been very curious about how they would report on this and they are actually reporting this story as what it is. They aren’t calling it a protest or sweeping it under the rug.

GutBomb posted:

There are seven articles on the Fox News homepage alone right now with “Capitol Riot” or “Capitol Rioter” in the headline. Fox News isn’t a good source for news but I’ve been very curious about how they would report on this and they are actually reporting this story as what it is. They aren’t calling it a protest or sweeping it under the rug.

Despera posted:

Seems like some smart leftist could bait him into illegal poo poo

Testekill posted:

Considering he broke into the office of a senator and placed a recording device and faced minimal consequences, he'd still get away with it.

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We target people who don’t agree with us, and we try to persuade them. We try to convince people by trying to reach their hearts and minds. We attempt to persuade. We attempt to enter the arena of ideas and focus on people who disagree with us and either tell them they’re wrong about us and who we are, that they’re being lied to about it, or we try to explain what it is we really believe. The left doesn’t give a rat’s rear end about any of that.

Their objective is to make it impossible for people to support us because we’re a bunch of racists, sexists, bigots, homophobes. We’re anti-civil rights, we’re anti-social justice, we’re anti-justice, we’re racists, we’re pigs, we’re white supremacists. They don’t care what’s true or not. They just want to poison the water. We on the other hand really do attempt to change their minds, those who disagree with us. And it’s a very challenging thing to try to do. I’ve been doing it for 30 years.

Now, in the process, you know, I will be honest if I think some liberal Democrat here or there’s a reprobate, I’ll say so. But our focus is not lying about their character or their politics.

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When the Democrats win the White House it’s time to nominate Supreme Court justices, what do we do? We vote for them by 98 to 97%. We give the Democrats what they want on the theory that they won the election, they should get their judges. We don’t set up satellite power offices and try to run operations to undermine the newly elected Democrat administration. It’s not who we are.

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Did I “dismiss calls to end the violence”? Did I make fun of people who were calling for an end to violence? Did I tell them to shut up? Did I make fun of ’em, mock ’em, and say, “Oh, listen to these cowards”? Did I do any of that? So, where does this come from? Where does this “Limbaugh dismisses calls to end violence” come from? I may not have joined the chorus and actually said, “Ladies and gentlemen, we must condemn violence,” ’cause I’m not a conventional wisdom guy.

I do not go with the flow. If everybody else is saying it, I don’t — and if everybody else is thinking it, I don’t think it. But it doesn’t mean that I’m saying the opposite. So here’s how this story begins: “Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh took a dismissive tone to those calling for an end to violence after the ugly scenes of a mob insurrection at the Capitol, comparing the rioters to the colonists who sparked the American Revolution,” and then they quote me.

“‘We’re supposed to be horrified by the protesters,’ Limbaugh said, ‘There’s a lot of people out there calling for the end of violence. A lot of conservatives on social media who say that any violence or aggression at all is unacceptable, regardless of the circumstances.'” Well, yep, I did say that, and that’s pretty broad sweeping, isn’t it? Lots of conservatives on social media who say that any violence or aggression at all is unacceptable, regardless of the circumstances.

And I added, “I’m glad Sam Adams and Thomas Paine and the actual Tea Party guys, the men at Lexington and Concord didn’t feel that way.” So that becomes “Limbaugh dismissing calls to end violence.” Nope. All it means is that I refused the join the gigantic cog of conventional wisdom and thinking and speaking.

“Limbaugh said Wednesday’s unrest was a result of months of American citizens being ‘fed up’ with left-leaning political activism in the country. ‘Yesterday, hundreds of thousands of people — Americans who have gotten tired of being ignored and lied about and smeared as racists by these very Democrats in the media and the popular culture,’ Limbaugh said. ‘Americans who have gotten fed up with having elections stolen from them by the Democrats, including the White House. Now they think two more Senate seats have been stolen, and they thought they were going to be stolen even before the election.’ Other conservative voices were highly critical of the mob, unlike Limbaugh.”