The President Threw Us Under The Bus:
Why was there a nearly 5 hour gap between the time a National Guard deployment was first requested, from the Capitol Bldg - and the time when Nat'l Guard troops began arriving and getting sworn in then joining the Capitol Police in securing the building and repelling all insurrectionists?
Still trying to figure out who put the kibosh on calling out the National Guard, 3 years ago - right about now.
1:49 Maj. Gen. William Walker, commander of the D.C. National Guard, receives a phone call from Steven Sund, chief of the U.S. Capitol Police. Sund communicates a request for immediate assistance. According to Walker, Sund’s voice was “cracking with emotion,” and he “indicated that there was a dire emergency on Capitol Hill and requested the immediate assistance of as many Guardsmen as I could muster.”
Immediately following the 1:49 phone call: Walker immediately calls Army leaders to tell them about Sund’s request. This call is not included in the public timeline DoD released.
2:10 Rioters breach police lines on the west or Senate side of the Capitol.
According to the AP, Sund calls Walker again and asks for at least 200 guard members “and to send more if they are available.”
The new Trump video (exclusively on Truth Social) - but able to be seen via this twitter account.
God made Trump
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You will lose all your bitches to MAGA alpha males
Hey, you can't expect to catch every female's eyeballs.
Besides, when you're MAGA, you can just stalk your victim until she gives in or calls 911.
This was the 1st thing which crossed my mind, ten years after this subject was broached.
https://www.amazon.com/Disposable-Underpads-Incontinence-Absorbent-Protective/dp/B081VRG3NK?th=1
Last wore out - and I wore them til the soles fell off - a pair of purple Converse All-Stars my senior year in HS and for the next 3 years after that. They are made for basketball floors and not gravel or asphalt parking lots. That canvass absorbs everything, so they are always dirty looking after 4 weeks of wear.
The Nike 3/4 high tops replaced Chucks in the early 80s and there's been no going back since then. Better rubber meeting the road. White leather is much easier to clean.
Just this morning I read these online articles about plasticized rocks being found 5 continents and several islands. Nearly every human on Earth at present (except for those starving people forced to eat grass and manure and bugs) has plastic molecules inside of our bodies.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a46181945/plastistone-sedimentary-rock/
Anyone here seen the Matt Damon/Alice Braga 2013 movie: Elysium?
That's how I'd solve about 80% of our Earthly health problems. Yeah, I'd die a horribly painful death from gamma burst level - radiation poisoning - but I could help 100% of the people who really needed some life saving procedures. Kill 2 birds with one stone.
Back when I was ingesting an eighth to a quarter ounce of rocked up cocaine a week, I could get by with hardly any sleep a night. 10 hours a week, if I was lucky... Hard to fall asleep when your heart is pounding 4 times faster than normal - I was about 30 years younger then, but...
Lay out another pencil thick and ruler long, line of the premium powder, and I thought I was good to go. You can almost pull that off if you're also forcing yourself to drink 64 ounces of Power Muscle Builder whey protein ice cream shakes a day. Who needs actual chewable food when you're running on Peruvian Flake. Just keep up with the drain from your nostrils that looks like dried cum on your upper lip and you too, can pull it off! Invest in Kleenex.
A co-worker who'd come in to start his day shift, cornered me as I was about to leave the building after 12 night time hours and Mike said, "Hey, man... you got cancer or fucked up prostate or something - you've melted away to almost nothing but skin and bones." I didn't think he'd seen me in 6 months...
"Nah, Mike, I'm good - this job just drains all of my energy out of me and leaves not much to worry about."
"Your fucking hair is turning white, Jeff, and I can almost count your teeth through the skin on your face."
I looked at myself in the mirror at home about40 minutes later and thought to myself...."Time for a truckload of hamburgers, you gaunt, third-world nation, motherfucking Skeletor!"
I'd seen starving Ethiopian children on 1980s tv commercials, begging for a monthly contribution - looking healthier than the emaciated dumbfuck looking back at myself in that full length mirror. Back then, I felt sleep - was over rated.
These days, 6 to 7 hours is all I can stand before I have to drain my bladder. I haven't taken a power nap at 'the office' since 1996 when my boss caught me 'power napping' in the data center between a pair of enterprise 6509s - those switches fans would blow off some heat that kept that little area right comfortable. All my boss said to me was: "You're napping in my spot. In the future, you'll need to move over near those server racks and quit farting in MY chair." Cecil would then stretch out his 6 foot frame into a very comfy office chair ('They' do make those kind of chairs) and he'd take his 2 hour 'lunch' power nap as I'd relieve him on duty at 3am.
It's hard to stay awake between 7pm and 7am, 4 nights a week in your mid 30s. (without six or seven bumps (half a gram) of really good coke."
I also have a habit of over-sharing, by the way.
Next subject up for discussion - "How much nostril hair is too much nostril hair."
I bit my tongue in 2020 when the Dems selected Brandon. He was the 2nd to last guy I wanted to vote for. I felt Bernie or Elizabeth Warren would represent MY DESIRES better than Biden - but they'd have been swamped by Trump.
Guess what I did.
The same thing I did in 1980, 84, 88, 2000, 2004, and 2016. I swallowed a bitter pill and a few times I regretted it. I've never voted for a Republican since I came to realize what they actually stand for. And if none of you revolutionists want to do the same thing, then maybe in January 2025 - we can see the new normal for America.
Hey, it's a freshstart.
I don't wanna live in 1950s/60s East Berlin, but maybe the rest of you are yearning for some of yesteryear, like the dude above me.
A few words about voting and not voting, from Bill Clinton's former Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-i-wont-vote-for-the-lesser-of
I once worked 4 tens for four days in a row. Then I got 3 days off. Then I worked 3 days at 10 hours and got four days off.
I hated that schedule, cuz none of my family nor friends had the same schedule - I was always the odd man out. Always felt sleep deprived. Of course, this occurred in my mid 30s. When I was off, none of my friends were.
4 Tens sucks as much as 4 Twelves sucks.
Management wants to push you to the edge when you can function just well enough to save them another $70k a year salary - by hiring another person to relieve you. And all the associated costs along with that.
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Both the Democratic and Republican parties are at fault. But the blame for this Third World shit hole status falls squarely on the shoulders of “we the people“
Bullshit. Are you an agent of the GQP?
These tactics - employed ONLY by the Republican corporatists eager to build up capitalism at the expense of the middle and lower classes in America. Here's a glaring example from the early 1970s -- unfolded onto our society by a recent (as then) Supreme Court Justice (who went to lengths to disguise his true leanings during his Senate confirmation hearing).
If you can read the following and think you can come back to this thread and throw blame for the world today onto the backs of We The People - you are definitely working against we the people.
https://hartmannreport.com/p/how-the-monopolists-stole-the-us
(...From Reagan’s inauguration speech in 1981 to this day, the single and consistent message heard, read, and seen on conservative media, from magazines to talk radio to Fox, is that government is the cause of our problems, not the solution. “Big government” is consistently—more consistently than any other meme or theme—said to be the very worst thing that could happen to America or its people, and after a few decades, many Americans came to believe it. Reagan scare-mongered from a presidential podium in 1986 that “the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” )
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Listen, thanks for this brain horror to keep me awake. Could have gone without that.
But further question, how did this thread shift from a fucked up birthing story to the LA housing crisis and responses? I feel like a bunch of posts were deleted. How did you get here?
The thread is Jeebus Fucking Keriste. The initial post brought attention to the horrible birthing experience, the next post referred to a housing crisis in LA...the next post can be anything outrageous which might elicit a gasp of - OHYMYFUCKINGGAWD -or- JeebusFuckingKeriste - whichever string of adjectives you prefer to present to the rest of us - some situation, past, present or peering down the road at the inevitable fuckeduppedness about to unveil itself.
Do we need an OMG font too?
Yanno Rowan...the fucked up part of this whole thing is...by the time you've lived (as an attentive adult) through the previous 15-20-25 years of your life...and the drive to procreate is diminishing for you (or you've seeded 2 to 3 to 5 children with your partner (and she's doing all the heavy lifting) -- you begin paying more attention to which party is fucking you over the most - half of your rebel yelling life is over. You've got another 20 to 30 years left to speak truth to power.
This works if you're a pink Caucasian and never works if you're in the minority.
Let's create a powerful 3rd party!! We can suck votes away from the better of two horrible candidates and end up with Donald Trump in 2016.
Or George W Bush in 2000.
Or Richard Nixon in 1972.
Then let the Democrats clean up their fucking problems in the next 2-3 years after America has voted against more of the same.
Let's work on changing the system when we don't have to worry about a Trump or a Reagan or a Bush or a Nixon winning a national election.
Instead of bitching about how impotent the Democrats ALWAYS SEEM TO BE. Ignore congress and the role of Republicans (think Newt Gingrich) in outcomes for the benefit of Americans.
Blame it on Democrats as a whole.
Lazy fucking thinking.
Has never worked in the last 70 years.
Capitalism in California - https://www.propublica.org/article/los-angeles-orders-residential-hotels-to-stop-renting-to-tourists
Hey, Noll... how is capitalism working in the rest of the world? This is how it's swung around in California.
Fucking hubris and greed sickens most people. Except for those who are trying to squeeze every last dime from those who cannot afford to pay.
Let's vote for Republicans!!! They can fix it.
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A third party then?
She is a progressive who is tired of being hoodwinked and she's vocal about it. She's just not ready to relinquish her desires from reality.
And the reality is, Trump (and when I say Trump, I'm referring to the criminal election thieving conglomerate) can 'win' in 2024 because people aren't happy with the 'progress' Biden - ie (Democrats) have made in the 3 years since Trump had the USA at the brink of all manner of horrible outcomes by November 2020.
I get her frustration. I was there in 1996, when I started hearing and paying some attention to Bill Clinton's issues. That lying motherfucker. Bob Dole - AND the GOP almost convinced me to vote against my best interests.
Bill talked so smoothly he had me totally convinced to join his brigade. Slick Willy - he had it in spades. How else does an almost 50 year old, white headed goofball from Arkansas convince an attractive 25 year old to start and continue sucking on his cock...was he paying her off with a prime career position?
No
He was quite glib and well practiced. I was almost metaphorically sucking his cock... and I liked the shit that spilled out of his mouth.
Oh fuck, I've outed myself.
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For reference, it appears every single election I’ve been alive for has coincidentally been the most important election of our lifetime.
Hey, I got fooled listening to George HW Bush in 1989 and Obama in 2012. Both of them blew smoke up my ass and I voted for them instead of the guy who had 'some of my' best interests at heart.
Imagine voting for Mike Dukakis (a major league Democratic dipshit) and Mitt Romney - who blew his shit up with his leaked recording that made it to the internet before the election.
I should also mention that Bob Dole (Republican Senator running for President in 1996) also almost swayed me to vote for him. But since he was a republican who ALWAYS voted against the things/goals/desires of mine - I voted again for Bill.
Every election since John Fitzgerald Kennedy's 1960 election - has been the most important election AT THAT TIME.
Wake the fuck up. If you don't cast a vote for Brandon next year - you're gonna find out what real tyranny feels like.
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And pranks should be announced too, I'd say.
You strike me as an intelligent fellow, able to discern sarcasm from a known source of such, who fails to recognize it when it's basically slapping you on your cheeks.
That's a fit and trim young woman who is begging to be fucked like there is NO TOMORROW...because she's tired of her fat lump crawling on top of her after 9 beers to get his rocks off while she serves as his semen receptacle.
Like many of us, she'd rather eat pussy.
So romantic.
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He came at you with a butterknife and you came at him with a grenade. Just sayin
She has about a dozen and a half good points I cannot refute. But the Democrats aren't the GQP or the Republicans who have supposedly 'quit' their former party. Vote however you wish. Use 2024 as a protest vote on your chosen candidate.
I wanted another old guy in 2020 as vice president and Elizabeth Warren as Prez. But, another THING got in the way of what I really wanted, so I had to settle for Biden.
I don't think many of you were alive the last time America had a decent Democratic President. But he was a hamstrung outsider who inherited the shambles of the Nixon/Ford regime.
Perhaps if Hillary had been elected in 2016, we'd be talking now about AOC or any handful of younger, more progressive individuals who would like a run at the top seats of power.
But...
Another THING got in the way of that personal desire.
So, I chose the lesser of 2 evils - by a large margin and cast a vote for Brandon. I shall again grit my teeth and vote sensibly instead of passionately, next November.
Trump's going to get swamped, even with all the gerrymandering and rat fucking tricks we're going to be exposed to.
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Really confused why your calling this lady Antifa.
Apparently, a sarcasm font would come in handy around these here parts. That entire post was sarcasm, Rowan.
https://hartmannreport.com/p/why-the-reagan-revolution-scheme
Under Joe Biden's leadership, the end of the Reagan Revolution is plainly in sight, if we can all just come together... There are more of us, then there are of them. MAGA won't cooperate, they wish bloodshed as their first alternative solution when people reject what they claim they want.
The GOP worked hard in the seventies and eighties to create this polarization... The italics are my comments --wmm
As we stand on the edge of the end of the Reagan Revolution, an end signaled by one particular phrase in President Biden‘s speech in early March (which I’ll get to in a minute), its really important that Americans understand the backstory.
Reagan and his conservative buddies intentionally gutted the American middle class, but they did so not just out of greed but also with what they thought was a good and noble justification. (You'll have to read the article to learn what the GOP of the 50s and 80s thought was so noble).
Reagan told us that the nine most frightening words in the English language were, “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, billionaires associated with the Republicans built a massive infrastructure of think tanks and media outlets to promote and amplify this message.
It so completely swept America that by the 1990s even President Bill Clinton was saying things like, “The era of big government is over,” and “This is the end of welfare as we know it.” Limbaugh, Hannity and other right-wing radio talkers were getting millions a year in subsidies from groups like the Heritage Foundation. Fox News today carries on the tradition.
Which brings us to President Joe Biden’s speech.
Probably the most important thing he said in that speech was almost completely ignored by the mainstream American press. It certainly didn’t make a single headline, anywhere.
Yet President Biden said something that Presidents Clinton and Obama were absolutely unwilling to say, so deeply ingrained was the Reagan orthodoxy about the dangers of “big government” during their presidencies.
President Biden said, “We need to remember the government isn’t some foreign force in a distant capital. No, it’s us. All of us. We, the people.“
This was an all-out declaration of war on the underlying premise of the Reagan Revolution. And a full-throated embrace of the first three words of the Constitution, “We, the people.”
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This morning.
Missionary w/ Mik.
Who was on top?
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I can see the 14th Amendment being viable in this case if Trump had actually been convicted of a crime for instigating the January 6 Insurrection. While l am sure he did instigate it, l believe our justice system works best when a person is actually convicted of the crime before punishment can be executed.
He has yet to be convicted of any crime. Though l hope he will.
Colorado courts are just opening a can of worms that can backfire. Just as the party in control of the US Congress will be trying to impeach every sitting president from the opposition party from here on. Irresponsible precedent has been set.
Buz... The tit-for-tat repercussion syndrome you're speaking of - has already occurred. Bill Clinton was besieged for almost his entire 2 terms/8 years of being US President. I know you were probably in junior high school then and thus had the attention span of a dog in heat, but...
America was held back by Republicans consistently during Clintons 2nd term - especially.
You're begging me to make a post which spells out exactly how the Reagan Revolution doomed America to this current point in history. Dani is consistently comparing Democrats to Republicans as if it's even a rational thinking-persons end result.
Gimme a fucking break. Republicans are always trying to fuck everyone over and into the ground. So they can be the king of the hill and everyone else can take a knee and kiss their royal asses.
PS, Trump was landslided at the polls in 2020 by 10 million voters in the popular and by the same margin he defeated Hillary Clinton in the electoral. Then he lead an insurrection designed by fucking morons, enabled by morons and powered by morons. Fuck this guy with a red hot poker.
Some would say that the assasinations of JFK, MLK, RFK were examples of domestic terrorism.
The Hinckley shooting of Reagan was carried out by a single, chemically-deranged gunman (fueled by Valium) whose parents were long time friends of Reagan's vice president - George HW Bush (so I don't count that as terrorism - just another example of the Secret Service selectively allowing themselves to be used & misdirected. Hinckley should have never come within 300 yards of Reagan that day).
Some say that the Janet Reno directed destruction of the Waco compound of David Koresh was state sponsored terrorism, just as was the Ruby Ridge fiasco.
The Unabomber was another single, long running act of terrorism which stretched across a decade - definitely domestic in nature (and not state sponsored).
There is little doubt that the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995 was an act of domestic terrorism, although questions linger still as to which individuals escaped capture, while others insist it was pulled off by a pair of miscreants.
Millions of people feel that 9/11/2001 was also terrorism (but many are divided whether there was a domestic flavor sprinkled amongst the chaos of that Tuesday - as well as a foreign planned and executed day of terror) - while the first attack on the WTC in 1993 was not domestic in nature. (Building WTC7 which housed the records of various US agencies like the FBI, ATF, IRS and CIA, magically disintegrated several hours after the last twin tower collapsed).
January 6, 2021 was simply the latest act of domestic terrorism which captivated the attentions of millions of Americans who were going about their activities that afternoon - when the speakers/Trump surrogates - at the elipse urged thousands of MAGA to march to the capitol and FIGHT (trial by combat - Rudy Guiliani). There is zero doubt as to who instigated and caused the attempted coup de'tat that day, and it wasn't BLM, Antifa or any liberal flavored organizations.
https://www.csis.org/analysis/pushed-extremes-domestic-terrorism-amid-polarization-and-protest CSIS is a bi-partisan non-profit policy research organization and think tank. The below is a long read but goes deep in-depth.
The IssueThere has been a significant rise in the number of domestic terrorist attacks and plots at demonstrations in the United States, according to new CSIS data. The result is escalating violence in U.S. cities between extremists from opposing sides, a major break from historical trends. In 2021, over half of all domestic terrorist incidents occurred in the context of metropolitan demonstrations. In addition, the most frequent targets of attacks were government, military, and law enforcement agencies, who are increasingly at the center of domestic terrorism by extremists of all ideologies.
Let the republican-centric goon squad go to work. We should encourage them. They didn't have to face anyone except an overwhelmed Capitol Police squad. Hell, they didn't even have to deal with BLM or Antifa and their trial run at overthrowing the government fizzled out like a wet Trump ketchup fart.
This is still Biden's America and he's controlling the National Guard, the FBI the Secret Service and the ATF.
The goons are gonna do their goonery, under Biden or Trump - which would you rather deal with?
Full blown Nazism with brown shirts replacing all those government agencies from January 2025 onward? Or, over the next few years with no Trump as dictator calling the shots?
Rowan - that particular, miserable, old fool can probably still log onto Lush as a guest to read the havoc he thinks he's injected into this overwhelmingly, liberally tilted website. And he's just as impotent to respond here with his typed words - as he is in real life with grooming and gathering up his harem of submissive females.
It's helpful for younger people to actually know how the dominoes have fallen for the last 60 years and who has been throwing the switches in the background to control domestic and global events.
If the SCOTUS does not rebuke the Colorado ruling - look for the other 49 states to immediately file their own cases which replicate the Colorado Manuever.
2024 could really be entertaining in America.
