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Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

Handsome Ralph posted:

He was wearing an Apple Watch too, so lol.

Geofence time bitches.

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Knives Amilli
Sep 26, 2014

PeterCat posted:

You're a sucker if you give money to politicians.

Yes that includes me, a hard lesson I learned over the last year.

I buy ridiculously expensive sneakers so this is consistent with my financial decisions.

Ragaman
Feb 6, 2002
Title? I dont need no stinkin' Title

TCD posted:

I like how they question the mace and miss what appears to be a handgun on his hip.

Apparently it was a taser, but regardless, would aid with subduing & taking hostages.

CommieGIR
Aug 22, 2006

The blue glow is a feature, not a bug


Pillbug

TCD posted:

I like how they question the mace and miss what appears to be a handgun on his hip.

No, they do get to the holster.

MRC48B
Apr 2, 2012

the alternative is letting political campaigns get funded exclusively by corporations and lobbyists. I'm sure the politicians will remember you, the guy who gave them nothing, when they consider the issues the nation faces.

Hot Karl Marx
Mar 16, 2009

Politburo regulations about social distancing require to downgrade your Karlmarxing to cold, and sorry about the dnc primaries, please enjoy!

Knives Amilli posted:

I buy ridiculously expensive sneakers so this is consistent with my financial decisions.

https://twitter.com/sneakersteal/status/1347558917203750919

TCD
Nov 13, 2002

Every step, a fucking adventure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXM6h9elyTY

huh yeah let's just watch the storming of the capital as a family affair. Wonder what the timestamps on some of those tweets were...

Cugel the Clever
Apr 5, 2009
I LOVE AMERICA AND CAPITALISM DESPITE BEING POOR AS FUCK. I WILL NEVER RETIRE BUT HERE'S ANOTHER 200$ FOR UKRAINE, SLAVA
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1347569870578266115?s=19

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS

CommieGIR posted:

OSINT being done on Restrain man. Two at least had zip tie restraints that made it into the chamber

https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1347011413101998080

This is an interesting thread.

https://twitter.com/jsrailton/status/1347289098697003008

CBJSprague24
Dec 5, 2010

another game at nationwide arena. everybody keeps asking me if they can fuck the cannon. buddy, they don't even let me fuck it

Dan Crenshaw looks like he should be a Sealab 2021 character.

CRUSTY MINGE
Mar 30, 2011

Peggy Hill
Foot Connoisseur

Lol. Gonna lose pension/benefits because Q melted his brain.

Pine Cone Jones
Dec 6, 2009

You throw me the acorn, I throw you the whip!
I'm honestly baffled at some of these people, I know many of the craziest ones expect to get gunned down, but the folks that are still in uniform should somehow know better. When they get found out, they are hyperfucked.

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns
After 18639263 strikes, one more and he's out.

https://twitter.com/bgittleson/status/1347577559882596352?s=19

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

CBJSprague24 posted:

Dan Crenshaw looks like he should be a Sealab 2021 character.

Please don't defame the crew of Sealab 2021.

Also

https://twitter.com/johnfetterman/status/1347577296228651017?s=21

CBJSprague24
Dec 5, 2010

another game at nationwide arena. everybody keeps asking me if they can fuck the cannon. buddy, they don't even let me fuck it

Pine Cone Jones posted:

I'm honestly baffled at some of these people, I know many of the craziest ones expect to get gunned down, but the folks that are still in uniform should somehow know better. When they get found out, they are hyperfucked.

They may get gunned down, but it might be the UCMJ who does it.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
They don’t even know better than to bedazzle themselves with more flair than a Chotchkie’s server.

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
So for active duty military what type of special charges can that look forward to, vs if they were just gravy seal or semper pie?

Knives Amilli
Sep 26, 2014

im more of sb dunks and jordans guy but ty

Ssthalar
Sep 16, 2007

Platystemon posted:

Disney will end the hall of presidents or scale it back to some historical period that does not include 45.

Just make a corner where it is and put the statue behind the corner.
Its there, but will never be seen, alone and in darkness where it belongs.

Platystemon
Feb 13, 2012

BREADS
https://twitter.com/benyahr/status/1347559756697923592

As Nero Danced
Sep 3, 2009

Alright, let's do this
The only thing stopping Trump from holding a presser and saying "patriots, come back with whatever equipment you think you might need because it's going to be a long two weeks till inauguration." and storming the capitol with an armed militia or tweeting a list of his political enemies for his supporters to "pay some extra special attention to" is that he doesn't want to lose his twitter account again.

shame on an IGA
Apr 8, 2005

MazelTovCocktail posted:

So for active duty military what type of special charges can that look forward to, vs if they were just gravy seal or semper pie?

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/894


quote:

(a)Any person subject to this chapter who—
(1)with intent to usurp or override lawful military authority, refuses, in concert with any other person, to obey orders or otherwise do his duty or creates any violence or disturbance is guilty of mutiny;
(2)with intent to cause the overthrow or destruction of lawful civil authority, creates, in concert with any other person, revolt, violence, or other disturbance against that authority is guilty of sedition;
(3)fails to do his utmost to prevent and suppress a mutiny or sedition being committed in his presence, or fails to take all reasonable means to inform his superior commissioned officer or commanding officer of a mutiny or sedition which he knows or has reason to believe is taking place, is guilty of a failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition.
(b)A person who is found guilty of attempted mutiny, mutiny, sedition, or failure to suppress or report a mutiny or sedition shall be punished by death or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct.

brains
May 12, 2004


really incredible how much it looks an armed group of former and possibly current mil and LEOs organized to go to the capitol with intent to take hostages while livestreaming and tweeting their faces constantly.

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

:vince:

Hell yeah. Honestly even if they wind up sitting on death row forever, I think that message needs to be sent, that this will never ever be tolerated and punished in the harshest manner possible.

TCD
Nov 13, 2002

Every step, a fucking adventure.

brains posted:

really incredible how much it looks an armed group of former and possibly current mil and LEOs organized to go to the capitol with intent to take hostages while livestreaming and tweeting their faces constantly.

E: NM - was prior to the rally speech

TCD fucked around with this message at 17:56 on Jan 8, 2021

facialimpediment
Feb 11, 2005

as the world turns

TCD posted:

Well, Jr. live streamed it from the WH too showing Ivanka, the President, Meadows, Kimberly, etc. watching it unfold.

That one's overblown:

https://twitter.com/justinjm1/status/1347586178401370112

Once the chuds made the insurrection attempt, only Donnie was giggling about it back at the White House. Everyone else had the common sense to hide.

PeterCat
Apr 8, 2020

Believe women.

MazelTovCocktail posted:

Well I'm happy to be a sucker for Big John Fetterman anyday of the week.

Dude seems alright, if he ever runs for president I'll vote for him, but I'm pretty much over expecting these guys to do anything when it actually matters.

Life's got me pretty cynical right now.

Marshal Prolapse
Jun 23, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://twitter.com/malbertnews/status/1347586286387945476?s=21

TCD
Nov 13, 2002

Every step, a fucking adventure.

facialimpediment posted:

That one's overblown:

https://twitter.com/justinjm1/status/1347586178401370112

Once the chuds made the insurrection attempt, only Donnie was giggling about it back at the White House. Everyone else had the common sense to hide.

Ah - pre-breach

PeterCat
Apr 8, 2020

Believe women.


Case in point. I'm not against Trump getting impeached again, but it makes me angry when they'll pull out all the stops for this or to override a veto and fund the army for another year, but won't take the time to have a symbolic vote on an important issue.

You see what their priorities are by looking at what they actually put effort behind.

That Works
Jul 22, 2006

Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy


https://twitter.com/sternbergh/status/1347367342074945536?s=21

maffew buildings
Apr 29, 2009

too dumb to be probated; not too dumb to be autobanned

oh yeah what he's done doesn't warrant just pulling the trigger now, let's give him another chance to do the right thing. let's let the epic twitter burns do their work first

brains
May 12, 2004


meanwhile, elsewhere in the building another officer was having his head caved in with a fire extinguisher, and a fanatic was martyring herself. a land of contrasts.

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

James Schlesinger famously tried to take Nixon's launch authority during the final days of his presidency.

quote:

In a democratic country without hereditary power, royal crowns or bejeweled thrones, the nuclear football is in some ways the only physical manifestation of our nation’s head of state.

Yet, on that August day, it had been quietly removed from Nixon’s hands—remaining behind at the White House with the incoming commander-in-chief, Gerald Ford.

Moreover, Defense Secretary James Schlesinger recalled years later that in the final days of the Nixon presidency he had issued an unprecedented set of orders: If the president gave any nuclear launch order, military commanders should check with either him or Secretary of State Henry Kissinger before executing them. Schlesinger feared that the president, who seemed depressed and was drinking heavily, might order Armageddon. Nixon himself had stoked official fears during a meeting with congressmen during which he reportedly said, “I can go in my office and pick up a telephone, and in 25 minutes, millions of people will be dead.” Senator Alan Cranston had phoned Schlesinger, warning about “the need for keeping a berserk president from plunging us into a holocaust.”

I say "tried" because it didn't get tested so we don't know what would've happened if crazy Nixon had decided to nuke Moscow in a drunken depression. So at this point, do y'all think that senior military leadership would take an order to launch right now? I'm sure a similar thing is happening in the WH right now, but where exactly is that circuit broken? Who does the president tell to launch the missiles, or open the football or whatever. I know he has unilateral authority to order a strike, but I assume it's not something he could do literally by himself. I'm not THAT worried about it but I'm not zero worried about it, which is where I should be on "will a crazed US president start a nuclear war out of spite" scale.

Lake of Methane
Oct 29, 2011

https://twitter.com/rexchapman/status/1347409343306723328

https://twitter.com/realtrumpclone/status/1347503913050763268

Defenestrategy
Oct 24, 2010

MRC48B posted:

the alternative is letting political campaigns get funded exclusively by corporations and lobbyists. I'm sure the politicians will remember you, the guy who gave them nothing, when they consider the issues the nation faces.

alternatively, since corpos can give money to anyone they want, they pols will surely remember you, who gave them a cool one hundo, when Vince McMahon, who gave them a cool couple mil in direct and indirect aid wants a law that broadens the definition of "contractors"

Knives Amilli
Sep 26, 2014

loving Starscream showed more backbone to Megatron than you to Trump you piece of poo poo

As Nero Danced
Sep 3, 2009

Alright, let's do this

He's a human slug. Spinelsss, brainless, and he just keeps getting greasier and slimier.

e: vvv


Far be if from me to not enjoy this, but aren't there stairs to that level?

Handsome Ralph
Sep 3, 2004

Oh boy, posting!
That's where I'm a Viking!



https://twitter.com/jeff_twoski/status/1347580235869515776?s=21

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Mr. Nice!
Oct 13, 2005

bone shaking.
soul baking.

zoux posted:

James Schlesinger famously tried to take Nixon's launch authority during the final days of his presidency.


I say "tried" because it didn't get tested so we don't know what would've happened if crazy Nixon had decided to nuke Moscow in a drunken depression. So at this point, do y'all think that senior military leadership would take an order to launch right now? I'm sure a similar thing is happening in the WH right now, but where exactly is that circuit broken? Who does the president tell to launch the missiles, or open the football or whatever. I know he has unilateral authority to order a strike, but I assume it's not something he could do literally by himself. I'm not THAT worried about it but I'm not zero worried about it, which is where I should be on "will a crazed US president start a nuclear war out of spite" scale.

It wasn't just Schlesinger. Alex Haig was essentially running the country and had told anyone in the cabinet that orders came from him, not Nixon. It was the closest this nation has came to an actual military coup, and if Nixon had actually tried to do anything, it would have become one.

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