StrangeSox

Yup

Do franchises do the whole upstream/recruiting thing though

I'll just say that I very strongly disagree that they aren't predatory and use it as an excuse to post a Simpsons reference https://youtu.be/uuVh36vQkSI E: agree with the technical distinction from a true pyramid scheme though

Are people really defending mlm's in this thread??

lmao What a week

It's pretty wild that we saw a failed, big, messy violent coup attempt at the Capitol, a counter-coup where the VP and JCOS along with Congressional leaders authorized state NG's to deploy to DC, and now a continued coup in this: This same week saw the release of recordings wherein the President of the United States tried to pressure the GA SoS into overturning the election there and a double-runoff that flipped the Senate chamber for the next two years. What a god-damned week. Oh and Murkowski is threatening to flip Dem, lol

Reporter Jim Acosta tweeted yesterday about a "source within the White House who is in direct communication with the insurrectionists" as things were going down. Seems like who that source was is the newsworthy part, and worth burning given the circumstances.

Meanwhile, this was going on in Oregon back in December There's a fascist movement in this country that needs to be torn out root-and-branch.

Yeah. If that lady doesn't get shot climbing through the window and instead they breach that barrier, there's two scenarios with a lot more dead people probably: Secret Service or whatever protective forces are on the other side of that door open up on the larger crowd that tries to come through that door. They continue to fall back, and ultimately we probably have stories of Congress and some of their staff getting lynched. Either way, a lot more people dead. I mentioned it above, but this is the letter that every living Secretary of Defense felt the need to sign on January 5th. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/10-former-defense-secretaries-military-peaceful-transfer-of-power/2021/01/03/2a23d52e-4c4d-11eb-a9f4-0e668b9772ba_story.html It sure seems like they caught wind of something ahead of Wednesday in order to feel the need to release this extraordinary letter. And then we saw that something play out when DOD Trump loyalists refused to allow the MD or VA National Guard into DC for 90 minutes until being (illegally) overridden by Pence and other military brass.

The higher fault lies with the leadership that seems to have very deliberately and obviously left their frontline officers underequipped, underprepared, and undersupported, and then the DOD efforts to block any outside help from coming immediately. There were plenty of individual cops on video who seemed at best indifferent to the fascist lynch mob storming the Capitol. I'm not going to fault e.g. those cops on one of the videos about 500 yards away from the steps who start getting beat and then abandoned their post because they were hung out to dry. The scary thought is what if Trump isn't a lazy piece of shit and marches down to the Capitol with them like he originally said he would? How quickly does his mob get into the building, and how many people can the flex-cuff carrying fascists grab before everyone is to safety? We were pretty close to things going much worse on Wednesday.

It sure was weird that Trump spent December firing a bunch of people at DOD and installing loyalists, and that every living former SecDef felt it necessary to come out with an open letter on January 5th warning Trump to allow a peaceful transition of power, and then on January 6th Capitol Police let a bunch of fascist insurrectionists take the Capitol with little or no resistance while DOD frustrated efforts for outside backup.

More in the linked thread. Ties into this: This is a systemic, national problem highlighted by a fascist mob being welcomed into storming the Capitol building and at least some of them appearing very prepared to take hostages or worse. more evidence and explanation of their complicity:

C O M P L I C I T This is a reporter for the National Review, a long-running establishment conservative outlet Hopefully the new Congress opens thorough investigations of what happened top to bottom

hell yeah comrade can't wait for all the socialism brought about by Joe Biden and the Most Powerful Man In The Country Now, Joe Manchin

he follows dril and slavoj zizek; he is far and away America's Most Online Senator ever

They have no authority to take away control from the Commander in Chief of the nuclear weapons or any other part of the US military. The only legal way to restrict that authority is to remove him from power. They'll get around to starting that process sometime next week.

btw the Georgia races are ending up to be not particularly close. I know that feels like it was four years ago, but it was less than 72 hours, lmao

That's why impeaching is imperative. Bar him from any federal office forever. Meanwhile Lindsay Graham is insisting that the bad precedent to set would be holding Trump accountable for this:

They liked him, they liked his policies, they liked that he hurt the people they don't like.

lol, sure thing buddy what are we up to by your calculations now, 50 billion Americans already infected? pssshh, no big deal, herd immunity here we come! follow the Swedish model!!!!

They're considering beginning the impeachment process by mid-next week should have been started and finished by mid-day yesterday

We pumped trillions into the stock market. 50 new billionaires! Bezos and Musk worth more than ever! Shame about the millions slipping into poverty and facing hunger and homelessness, though.