Just seeing reports that mobs are swarming the Georgia Capitol and also in Kansas.
Whoa! I... I think I'm having a thought. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a thought. Now I'm having a plan. Now I'm having a wiggins.
Xander ,'First Date'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Jan 06, 2021 12:27:30 pm PST #1998 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
sj - Jan 06, 2021 12:29:06 pm PST #1999 of 30000
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Ted Cruz et al. are now tweeting from their bunkers about how shocked, shocked! they are and how violence is never acceptable and blah blah blah. Fuck them. They sowed and now we're all reaping their seditious harvest.
Echoing the fuck these fuckers! They knew what they were doing.
flea - Jan 06, 2021 12:29:32 pm PST #2000 of 30000
information libertarian
I am thinking of the reporting by Fay of various coups in Bangkok. This coup attempt is significantly lacking in patriotic theme songs (and more practically, in control of the media.)
DavidS - Jan 06, 2021 12:33:58 pm PST #2001 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
This coup attempt is significantly lacking in patriotic theme songs
They are chanting USA! USA!
I'm perfectly okay if the police start shooting this mob in the face.
Pentagon doesn't want to deploy the National Guard because of optics. Right.
meara - Jan 06, 2021 12:45:47 pm PST #2002 of 30000
How am I supposed to work right now? Jesus.
juliana - Jan 06, 2021 12:45:53 pm PST #2003 of 30000
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Pentagon doesn't want to deploy the National Guard because of optics. Right.
The optics then look like the Pentagon is in favor of this coup.
-t - Jan 06, 2021 12:51:53 pm PST #2004 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
How am I supposed to work right now? Jesus.
Right?!
The optics then look like the Pentagon is in favor of this coup.
Mmmhmm.
Steph L. - Jan 06, 2021 12:53:45 pm PST #2005 of 30000
I look more rad than Lutheranism
How am I supposed to work right now? Jesus.
Right?!
I'm a little completely derailed myself.
Dana - Jan 06, 2021 12:58:16 pm PST #2006 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I've completely given up on work.
Calli - Jan 06, 2021 1:00:27 pm PST #2007 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I understand that the DC National Guard answers directly to the President. So there's that.
Apparently the VA governor is sending the VA National Guard and some state troopers to DC. [link]