But part of his addiction is simply the act of tweeting, etc.
I haven't heard any evidence of this, and I rather doubt it.
And he can talk about himself, as someone else. As mentioned, he has a history of that.
By calling in to programs on radio stations that he knew were broadcast to hundreds of thousands or millions of people. The number of followers on the average US twitter account is 700; hundreds of millions of accounts have no followers at all. He knows nobody will be listening. You might as well suggest he'd be satisfied talking out loud to himself in an empty room.
This could go on any thread, but since stupidity is most at home on this one, I'll put it here.
In the WaPo article on the FBI investigating those who invaded the Capitol, and firms firing employees who are discovered to have been insurrectionists, there is the case of Paul Davis, a lawyer FFS for an insurance firm, who live streamed from outside, saying that he wanted to get into the Capitol. A lawyer. Live streaming. Expressing his desire to enter federal property unlawfully. Darwin in action.
I wonder...
So many people on social media post about themselves doing unwise, illegal, dangerous, and/or mind-bogglingly stupid things. Even half a thought should set off some kind of "hmmm...consequences?" alarm.
Maybe many of them think of social media and everything connected to it as something in their heads? And/or some kind of alt/mixed reality? So actual, real-world consequences do not, in their minds, apply.
Maybe many of them think of social media and everything connected to it as something in their heads? And/or some kind of alt/mixed reality? So actual, real-world consequences do not, in their minds, apply.
Thoughts?
Nail, head, direct hit. I can imagine these guys go on in this fashion among workmates and buddies, many of whom will agree and approve (after all, don't most of us select our friends on the basis of similar believes and values?), so there's widespread support and agreement and zero negative consequences while in conversation over a beer after work. There's no taking on board the fact that the Internet is an entirely different environment, where one leaves tracks and boatloads of near-permanent evidence behind.
I hear people saying, "At least it wasn't an armed militia".
And bombs don't count because . . . ?
Open question, did any of the mob have open carry weapons? I can't actually see that they did. And there were no bombs at the Capitol either.
Wait, so bombs don't count when they're at different buildings?
There were pipe bombs aimed at both the Democrat headquarters and the Republican headquarters. If that's not insurrection, I don't know what is.
Because it's not. It's terrorism. There is no evidence of guns or bombs in the mob allowed to take over the Capitol.
I find it deeply strange, bordering on disingenuous, that you would talk as if the mob taking over the Capitol and the person placing pipe bombs are 2 completely separate things with no connection to each other whatsoever.
This could go on any thread, but since stupidity is most at home on this one, I'll put it here.
In the WaPo article on the FBI investigating those who invaded the Capitol, and firms firing employees who are discovered to have been insurrectionists, there is the case of Paul Davis, a lawyer FFS for an insurance firm, who live streamed from outside, saying that he wanted to get into the Capitol. A lawyer. Live streaming. Expressing his desire to enter federal property unlawfully. Darwin in action.
I wonder...
So many people on social media post about themselves doing unwise, illegal, dangerous, and/or mind-bogglingly stupid things. Even half a thought should set off some kind of "hmmm...consequences?" alarm.
Maybe many of them think of social media and everything connected to it as something in their heads? And/or some kind of alt/mixed reality? So actual, real-world consequences do not, in their minds, apply.
Thoughts?
They don't believe they're doing something unwise, illegal, dangerous or mind-bogglingly stupid. They believe they're upholding the true Constitution, defending the nation etc etc, because that what Trump has told them over and over again.
The fact that they believe these things is itself dangerous and mind-bogglingly stupid.
Maybe many of them think of social media and everything connected to it as something in their heads? And/or some kind of alt/mixed reality? So actual, real-world consequences do not, in their minds, apply.
Thoughts?
Nail, head, direct hit. I can imagine these guys go on in this fashion among workmates and buddies, many of whom will agree and approve (after all, don't most of us select our friends on the basis of similar believes and values?), so there's widespread support and agreement and zero negative consequences while in conversation over a beer after work. There's no taking on board the fact that the Internet is an entirely different environment, where one leaves tracks and boatloads of near-permanent evidence behind.
It's a notable aspect of contemporary riots that many participants are willing to commit crimes right in front of strangers taking photos with their cell phones. You can google "Vancouver hockey riots 2011" for some breathtaking Profiles In Stupidity.
(Though I suspect in the Capitol riots, there was also the factor that some of the rioters assumed they would actually succeed in stopping the vote, and would wind up as big heroes once the rest of the nation realized they had been saved from tyranny.)
The "I just picked them up" lie is so bald-faced, I'm surprised he could say it with a straight face. Court-martial is too good for this piece of shit.
He "just picked them up" ... and immediately turned them over to a police officer ... ??? ...
Uh huh ...
The more the details come out, the more this seems well-planned. I was troubled by the guy in the viking costume with the facepaint and other readily identifiable features. But that group just broke in, attracted a lot of attention but did not perpetrate much violence themselves, other than breaking and entering. So they get a few years in jail at worst.
Meanwhile other insurrectionists came in in plain clothes with handcuffs with clear intent to abduct people. The costume crew were a purposeful distraction, camera bait.
The plan failed as too many people in the building had their own cameras out and captured images that the public wasn't supposed to see.
Meanwhile other insurrectionists came in in plain clothes with handcuffs with clear intent to abduct people. The costume crew were a purposeful distraction, camera bait.
The plan failed as too many people in the building had their own cameras out and captured images that the public wasn't supposed to see.
Meanwhile other insurrectionists came in in plain clothes with handcuffs with clear intent to abduct people. The costume crew were a purposeful distraction, camera bait.
The plan failed as too many people in the building had their own cameras out and captured images that the public wasn't supposed to see.
So many people on social media post about themselves doing unwise, illegal, dangerous, and/or mind-bogglingly stupid things. Even half a thought should set off some kind of "hmmm...consequences?" alarm.
Maybe many of them think of social media and everything connected to it as something in their heads? And/or some kind of alt/mixed reality? So actual, real-world consequences do not, in their minds, apply.
Thoughts?
They don't believe they're doing something unwise, illegal, dangerous or mind-bogglingly stupid. They believe they're upholding the true Constitution, defending the nation etc etc, because that what Trump has told them over and over again.
The fact that they believe these things is itself dangerous and mind-bogglingly stupid.
Well, yeah, but I'm speaking more broadly than just the rioters. I'm thinking of all the people on social media who do the sorts of things I mentioned. I'm not on social media, so I'm going by what I've heard and scene in news coverage and in general discussion over many years.
(This is before getting into the topic of why so many female celebs have been going around half-dressed or nearly naked in public and online. And I don't just mean during the pandemic. Are they asking for intimacy? Their sense of reality may already have been skewed, 'cause fame. They may well be caught in the sort of irreality I described.)
You just fell for the trick. It was intentionally camp. Like magician acts, its a misdirection.
Maybe. But wasn't zip-tie guy one of the ones you thought was part of the good plan? I just don't think having his face all over the internet is indicative of good planning.
I said his plan fell apart on Capitol staffers and congressional cellphones
It was noted that much of the joint session had representatives and senators on the public galleries and not on the floor, which was a last minute change of plan.
You just fell for the trick. It was intentionally camp. Like magician acts, its a misdirection.
Maybe. But wasn't zip-tie guy one of the ones you thought was part of the good plan? I just don't think having his face all over the internet is indicative of good planning.
I said his plan fell apart on Capitol staffers and congressional cellphones
It was noted that much of the joint session had representatives and senators on the public galleries and not on the floor, which was a last minute change of plan.
But he was talking to random people who were recording him in a hotel lobby before the riot! If that was part of a plan, it was a pretty fucking stupid plan.
You just fell for the trick. It was intentionally camp. Like magician acts, its a misdirection.
This reminds me of the theory that explains every act of stupidity by Trump as playing five-dimensional chess or some such.
A better explanation I've heard before is that Trump is in the habit of metaphorically pulling a pin on a grenade and throwing it into a room he is just leaving.
I think Trump definitely intended to cause chaos at the Capitol, and I think he leaned on DoD officials to delay deployment of the National Guard, but I don't think he or anyone else had much of a worked out Plan™ beyond that. His aim was to create chaos in the hope that he might somehow be able to benefit from the result (which he has often successfully done) whatever it turned out to be. I don't think there's a more sophisticated plan than that.
You just fell for the trick. It was intentionally camp. Like magician acts, its a misdirection.
So, you're arguing that the furry viking dude was a decoy to take everyone's eyes off the real soldiers?
Maybe, but it's also possible he's just one of those guys you see at many demos, who like to have all the cameras focused on them, but don't actually do any of the work.
You just fell for the trick. It was intentionally camp. Like magician acts, its a misdirection.
This reminds me of the theory that explains every act of stupidity by Trump as playing five-dimensional chess or some such.
A better explanation I've heard before is that Trump is in the habit of metaphorically pulling a pin on a grenade and throwing it into a room he is just leaving.
I think Trump definitely intended to cause chaos at the Capitol, and I think he leaned on DoD officials to delay deployment of the National Guard, but I don't think he or anyone else had much of a worked out Plan™ beyond that. His aim was to create chaos in the hope that he might somehow be able to benefit from the result (which he has often successfully done) whatever it turned out to be. I don't think there's a more sophisticated plan than that.
I think he was hoping everybody would be so shook up by whatever took place that they'd think "Hmm, the people really do seem riled up about this, maybe we should reconsider confirming the vote."
Maybe many of them think of social media and everything connected to it as something in their heads? And/or some kind of alt/mixed reality? So actual, real-world consequences do not, in their minds, apply.
Thoughts?
Nail, head, direct hit. I can imagine these guys go on in this fashion among workmates and buddies, many of whom will agree and approve (after all, don't most of us select our friends on the basis of similar believes and values?), so there's widespread support and agreement and zero negative consequences while in conversation over a beer after work. There's no taking on board the fact that the Internet is an entirely different environment, where one leaves tracks and boatloads of near-permanent evidence behind.
It's a notable aspect of contemporary riots that many participants are willing to commit crimes right in front of strangers taking photos with their cell phones. You can google "Vancouver hockey riots 2011" for some breathtaking Profiles In Stupidity.
(Though I suspect in the Capitol riots, there was also the factor that some of the rioters assumed they would actually succeed in stopping the vote, and would wind up as big heroes once the rest of the nation realized they had been saved from tyranny.)
Yes.
They believed their own rhetoric and trump’s lies. They were going to ‘stop the steal’ and win the day. They were going to be the heroes, no need to hide their identity if they were about to be the heroes who saved their country from a fate worse than communism.
I hear people saying, "At least it wasn't an armed militia".
And bombs don't count because . . . ?
Open question, did any of the mob have open carry weapons? I can't actually see that they did. And there were no bombs at the Capitol either.
Wait, so bombs don't count when they're at different buildings?
There were pipe bombs aimed at both the Democrat headquarters and the Republican headquarters. If that's not insurrection, I don't know what is.
Because it's not. It's terrorism. There is no evidence of guns or bombs in the mob allowed to take over the Capitol.
I find it deeply strange, bordering on disingenuous, that you would talk as if the mob taking over the Capitol and the person placing pipe bombs are 2 completely separate things with no connection to each other whatsoever.
I find it deeply strange that you'd not be forensic about this, but there again you are being fallacious.
You just fell for the trick. It was intentionally camp. Like magician acts, its a misdirection.
This reminds me of the theory that explains every act of stupidity by Trump as playing five-dimensional chess or some such.
A better explanation I've heard before is that Trump is in the habit of metaphorically pulling a pin on a grenade and throwing it into a room he is just leaving.
I think Trump definitely intended to cause chaos at the Capitol, and I think he leaned on DoD officials to delay deployment of the National Guard, but I don't think he or anyone else had much of a worked out Plan™ beyond that. His aim was to create chaos in the hope that he might somehow be able to benefit from the result (which he has often successfully done) whatever it turned out to be. I don't think there's a more sophisticated plan than that.
What has Trump got to do with National Guard deployment? Did he also make the USCP incompetent prior?
Persuant to the issue of how centralized the attack on the Capitol was, it would seem that these guys, at least, were uncertain about whether or not Trump supported their actions.
(Honestly, they come off like a bunch of high-school kids who got drunk and broke into the principal's office one Saturday night. Not that that will likely have any effect on the legal consequences they face.)
You just fell for the trick. It was intentionally camp. Like magician acts, its a misdirection.
This reminds me of the theory that explains every act of stupidity by Trump as playing five-dimensional chess or some such.
A better explanation I've heard before is that Trump is in the habit of metaphorically pulling a pin on a grenade and throwing it into a room he is just leaving.
I think Trump definitely intended to cause chaos at the Capitol, and I think he leaned on DoD officials to delay deployment of the National Guard, but I don't think he or anyone else had much of a worked out Plan™ beyond that. His aim was to create chaos in the hope that he might somehow be able to benefit from the result (which he has often successfully done) whatever it turned out to be. I don't think there's a more sophisticated plan than that.
What has Trump got to do with National Guard deployment? Did he also make the USCP incompetent prior?
I'm certainly no expert, but if national guard troops are deployed outwith their home state does that not require federal authorisation, usually from the president? Plus the president is head of the DC national guard.
You just fell for the trick. It was intentionally camp. Like magician acts, its a misdirection.
This reminds me of the theory that explains every act of stupidity by Trump as playing five-dimensional chess or some such.
A better explanation I've heard before is that Trump is in the habit of metaphorically pulling a pin on a grenade and throwing it into a room he is just leaving.
I think Trump definitely intended to cause chaos at the Capitol, and I think he leaned on DoD officials to delay deployment of the National Guard, but I don't think he or anyone else had much of a worked out Plan™ beyond that. His aim was to create chaos in the hope that he might somehow be able to benefit from the result (which he has often successfully done) whatever it turned out to be. I don't think there's a more sophisticated plan than that.
What has Trump got to do with National Guard deployment? Did he also make the USCP incompetent prior?
I'm certainly no expert, but if national guard troops are deployed outwith their home state does that not require federal authorisation, usually from the president? Plus the president is head of the DC national guard.
Now that is legally interesting. But the USCP is not under Trump's command surely? Who did Sund report to?
'U.S. Representative Zoe Lofgren – who chairs a committee responsible for Capitol security – accused Sund of lying to her before the event, about the preparations he had made and the readiness of the National Guard.'
So he lied to his boss. That needs substantiating.
This could go on any thread, but since stupidity is most at home on this one, I'll put it here.
In the WaPo article on the FBI investigating those who invaded the Capitol, and firms firing employees who are discovered to have been insurrectionists, there is the case of Paul Davis, a lawyer FFS for an insurance firm, who live streamed from outside, saying that he wanted to get into the Capitol. A lawyer. Live streaming. Expressing his desire to enter federal property unlawfully. Darwin in action.
I wonder...
So many people on social media post about themselves doing unwise, illegal, dangerous, and/or mind-bogglingly stupid things. Even half a thought should set off some kind of "hmmm...consequences?" alarm.
Maybe many of them think of social media and everything connected to it as something in their heads? And/or some kind of alt/mixed reality? So actual, real-world consequences do not, in their minds, apply.
Thoughts?
They don't believe they're doing something unwise, illegal, dangerous or mind-bogglingly stupid. They believe they're upholding the true Constitution, defending the nation etc etc, because that what Trump has told them over and over again.
The fact that they believe these things is itself dangerous and mind-bogglingly stupid.
The fact that we know that we are like this and don't secure against it is even more mind-bogglingly stupid. Although it looks like Lund was the weakest link in the assumption of security. There must be the fullest possible inquiry and trial.
Is there an acceptance speech when you get a medal? I might go and say something like: "And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird." Rev. 18:2
or failing that, fake biblical from "Pulp Fiction", said by Samuel L. Jackson in the movie.
“The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.”
MSNBC is now saying McConnell is ready to impeach T. McConnell wants him out of the party. Now, will McConnell be ready to call the Senate back into special session or not?
Business reports are also saying the T brand is going down in flames.
Amazing that one has to be a _losing_ prick, and not just a prick, to demolish one's corporate image.
I picked up on McConnel too (sorry, in one of the other 3 threads we have going on this!). Impeaching him seems almost as effective a Republican strategy to me, as coming up with a narrative which sticks saying that an agent of BLM / Antifa shot him.
Apparently the furry "shaman" has been refusing to eat the food in the jail where he is currently detained as it wasn't organic! They have promised to source him some.
In other news, Trump's finances are heading up the creak even quicker now as the banks are refusing to do business with him.
Apparently the furry "shaman" has been refusing to eat the food in the jail where he is currently detained as it wasn't organic! They have promised to source him some.
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I wonder...
So many people on social media post about themselves doing unwise, illegal, dangerous, and/or mind-bogglingly stupid things. Even half a thought should set off some kind of "hmmm...consequences?" alarm.
Maybe many of them think of social media and everything connected to it as something in their heads? And/or some kind of alt/mixed reality? So actual, real-world consequences do not, in their minds, apply.
Thoughts?
Nail, head, direct hit. I can imagine these guys go on in this fashion among workmates and buddies, many of whom will agree and approve (after all, don't most of us select our friends on the basis of similar believes and values?), so there's widespread support and agreement and zero negative consequences while in conversation over a beer after work. There's no taking on board the fact that the Internet is an entirely different environment, where one leaves tracks and boatloads of near-permanent evidence behind.
I find it deeply strange, bordering on disingenuous, that you would talk as if the mob taking over the Capitol and the person placing pipe bombs are 2 completely separate things with no connection to each other whatsoever.
They don't believe they're doing something unwise, illegal, dangerous or mind-bogglingly stupid. They believe they're upholding the true Constitution, defending the nation etc etc, because that what Trump has told them over and over again.
The fact that they believe these things is itself dangerous and mind-bogglingly stupid.
It's a notable aspect of contemporary riots that many participants are willing to commit crimes right in front of strangers taking photos with their cell phones. You can google "Vancouver hockey riots 2011" for some breathtaking Profiles In Stupidity.
(Though I suspect in the Capitol riots, there was also the factor that some of the rioters assumed they would actually succeed in stopping the vote, and would wind up as big heroes once the rest of the nation realized they had been saved from tyranny.)
He "just picked them up" ... and immediately turned them over to a police officer ... ??? ...
Uh huh ...
Meanwhile other insurrectionists came in in plain clothes with handcuffs with clear intent to abduct people. The costume crew were a purposeful distraction, camera bait.
The plan failed as too many people in the building had their own cameras out and captured images that the public wasn't supposed to see.
It wasn't necessarily closely *planned* by everybody in the mob ...
Well, yeah, but I'm speaking more broadly than just the rioters. I'm thinking of all the people on social media who do the sorts of things I mentioned. I'm not on social media, so I'm going by what I've heard and scene in news coverage and in general discussion over many years.
(This is before getting into the topic of why so many female celebs have been going around half-dressed or nearly naked in public and online. And I don't just mean during the pandemic. Are they asking for intimacy? Their sense of reality may already have been skewed, 'cause fame. They may well be caught in the sort of irreality I described.)
It was noted that much of the joint session had representatives and senators on the public galleries and not on the floor, which was a last minute change of plan.
Those guys seem to be proud of what they do ...
This reminds me of the theory that explains every act of stupidity by Trump as playing five-dimensional chess or some such.
A better explanation I've heard before is that Trump is in the habit of metaphorically pulling a pin on a grenade and throwing it into a room he is just leaving.
I think Trump definitely intended to cause chaos at the Capitol, and I think he leaned on DoD officials to delay deployment of the National Guard, but I don't think he or anyone else had much of a worked out Plan™ beyond that. His aim was to create chaos in the hope that he might somehow be able to benefit from the result (which he has often successfully done) whatever it turned out to be. I don't think there's a more sophisticated plan than that.
So, you're arguing that the furry viking dude was a decoy to take everyone's eyes off the real soldiers?
Maybe, but it's also possible he's just one of those guys you see at many demos, who like to have all the cameras focused on them, but don't actually do any of the work.
I think he was hoping everybody would be so shook up by whatever took place that they'd think "Hmm, the people really do seem riled up about this, maybe we should reconsider confirming the vote."
Yes.
They believed their own rhetoric and trump’s lies. They were going to ‘stop the steal’ and win the day. They were going to be the heroes, no need to hide their identity if they were about to be the heroes who saved their country from a fate worse than communism.
I find it deeply strange that you'd not be forensic about this, but there again you are being fallacious.
What has Trump got to do with National Guard deployment? Did he also make the USCP incompetent prior?
One of the Phoenix TV stations interviewed his mother. "It takes courage to be a patriot," she said. Delusional.
It takes stupidity to be a traitor.
(Honestly, they come off like a bunch of high-school kids who got drunk and broke into the principal's office one Saturday night. Not that that will likely have any effect on the legal consequences they face.)
I'm certainly no expert, but if national guard troops are deployed outwith their home state does that not require federal authorisation, usually from the president? Plus the president is head of the DC national guard.
It takes considerable vanity to look this much of a prick.
Looks like a reject from the Village People #ProudBoys #GetHer.
Karma
https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348484125825658887
Now that is legally interesting. But the USCP is not under Trump's command surely? Who did Sund report to?
'U.S. Representative Zoe Lofgren – who chairs a committee responsible for Capitol security – accused Sund of lying to her before the event, about the preparations he had made and the readiness of the National Guard.'
So he lied to his boss. That needs substantiating.
The fact that we know that we are like this and don't secure against it is even more mind-bogglingly stupid. Although it looks like Lund was the weakest link in the assumption of security. There must be the fullest possible inquiry and trial.
Did you see the video further down, of the rioter bawling his head off at the airport because he's now on a no-fly list?
Are you using ‘girlie’ as an insult?
That’s what trump would do.
Even "pardon and presidential medal, thanks for your service to me and our country".
"And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird." Rev. 18:2
or failing that, fake biblical from "Pulp Fiction", said by Samuel L. Jackson in the movie.
“The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.”
(The end is sort of Ezekiel 25:17)
Business reports are also saying the T brand is going down in flames.
Too bad (NOT)
I picked up on McConnel too (sorry, in one of the other 3 threads we have going on this!). Impeaching him seems almost as effective a Republican strategy to me, as coming up with a narrative which sticks saying that an agent of BLM / Antifa shot him.
But who's next to ride the MAGA base?
In other news, Trump's finances are heading up the creak even quicker now as the banks are refusing to do business with him.
Peanut Butter and Bread is too good for him!