Infantilization is a tool one group uses to marginalize and dehumanize another group.
By using "Daddy", people like this cut out the middleman and marginalize themselves. It makes their work that much easier.
This is the fatal flaw of the Trump movement. He openly said: "I alone can fix it". Naturally, this meant that millions of lazy fucks took him at his word, and ceded all responsibility for action to him.
It also led to cringe-worthy shit like "Daddy", but that's neither here nor there.
"internet poll".
As the US never signed onto the Geneva Convention, it wouldn't matter anyway.
My inclination is overwhelmingly on the latter.
Trump is to Q what Haile Selassie was to Rastafarians.
And greedy. More than anything else, profit motive explains their actions.
in the end, it was an amusing diversion, but it turned into just another avenue to separate fools from their money.
In short, it turned into just another millenarian cult, with the accompanying promises of quick solutions and rationalizations for failure. The two weeks turned into another two weeks and into another two weeks.
There is nothing good that can come from showing up at Twitter headquarters.
The best case scenario is that everything stays peaceful, the FBI and local LE uses their state-of-the-art facial recognition software, along with cellphone metadata to swiftly identify everyone there, who will then be subject to years of surveillance. The status quo is maintained.
The worst case scenario is that Antifa shows up, engages in multiple brawls with the protesters, and everyone is hauled off in vans and released with disorderly conduct or unlawful assembly raps. The status quo is maintained.
The absolute worst case scenario is the crowd tries to get cute and starts rushing the building. As it is not a public facility, private Twitter security acts upon the invaders with extreme prejudice. Local law enforcement hits the survivors with aggravated burglary charges, and everyone else with years of surveillance etc. The status quo is maintained.
If anything, it's added security for Trump's trip to the border tomorrow.
People on here were going tRuSt ThE pLaN; unfortunately, there never was a plan.
Has anything in the past four days changed the calculus?
It's over. If they don't resign, they will be immediately terminated by the Biden administration, who will probably make them do the Walk of Shame as they leave their offices. Resignations always look better than firings on resumes.
This is weak.
If Pence was going to go against certification, he would have said so prior to the sixth. Instead, all he did was couch his ultimate intent to certify in superficially reassuring yet clear language.
But the main problem is that, as a defense, no one cares. This is like saying to a Sex Crimes detective: "I was under the impression the chick wanted to fuck me!" Good luck with that rationale.
I understand. But it's ultimately her own fault, and the fault of those around her. Once you cross the barricades, and try to forcibly break into a government installation--particularly one filled with high-level dignitaries including the Vice-President--you have no expectation of safety, regardless of differing rules of engagement the protecting officers are operating under. Here's a test: try storming the Pentagon, and see what happens.
Surely there is a degree of due diligence that is expected from them, as representatives of millions of people? An expectation that they can’t just pretend to miss all the buzz about alleged election fraud, and make no effort whatsoever to investigate, nevermind try to disprove the allegations and circumstantial evidence of fraud, before voting to certify the results.
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You're describing a criminal investigation; as it is, criminal investigations are a function of the Executive Branch (specifically the Justice Department) and the man who was (until a very short time ago) in charge of the Justice Department said there was no evidence of fraud. As they can rightfully assume from Barr's words that due diligence has already been performed by the proper investigating authority--in a branch overseen by the President--then why would they feel obligated to duplicate effort.
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What has been alleged is a massive conspiracy, unprecedented in scope and depth with (as you point out) no hard evidence, just circumstantial evidence and "buzz". As there is nothing concrete to disprove, it is thus impossible to disprove. So they're faced with either a choice: devote a massive amount of time and energy to prove a negative, or cut bait and take action on a concrete result: the electoral college voted on the 14th of December and said votes were filed in accordance with existing laws.
I legitimately don't get this; I thought this was a revolution? Storming a government seat of power and/or authority is an inherently violent act; 98 civilians died during the attack on the Bastille, for instance.
Now, tnarmed or not, right or wrong, the State can and will protect itself via the use of force. If you're in a crowd trying to attack a government installation, blood will be shed. This is what a revolution is. As a successful revolutionary said:
A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.
Frankly, whining about the death of one person and complaining that the people protecting the Capitol and the those in it were not playing fair is the epitome of treating revolution as a dinner party. It's soft, it's weak, and no one is going to take the sentiment seriously and will dismiss anyone peddling it as in over their head.
Jesus, it's not like Pence's actions weren't completely preordained by everything he's said and done over the past five years.
A flat-earther believes the earth is a two-dimensional plane. Yet, they still say the sun rises over the horizon each morning. The fact that they're correct about the sun rising does not mean the earth is flat.
The problem is that the certifications have yet to be (and this is the important term) legally determined to be fraudulent. I mean, Lin Wood and Rudy say they're fraudulent, but Lin Wood and Rudy have no actual authority. Courts at all levels--state and federal--have either ruled otherwise or refused to hear the evidence altogether.
Therefore, anyone who certified could simply shrug and say: "I operated under the best knowledge I had at the time of certification; and at the time of the certification, the Electors were legally valid."
"Outed" implies their allegiances or actions were ever in doubt. "You just did the thing you always said you were going to do! We got you, fuckers!" No.
He's been factually wrong about everything else the past couple of months.
I would just like to note that I was right in how this played out.
He's been at the edge of the "Rubicon" for weeks.
Nobody is going to be hung because of this.
Yeah;, that didn't help Eric Munchel.