This country has had over 4 years with leader who repeatedly told his followers that the country is broken, needs to be made great again, and should be taken back from others. Yesterday was just one example of the result. His followers are not all of us - if that were true, Biden wouldn’t have been elected.
I failed to mention in my post that Heather took great pains to explain (and several times) that her views in that video were preliminary and could be 20% dead wrong.
Gurl… say that again, LOUDER, for every spineless Debbie Downer who has already thrown in the towel in defeat before the fight is even over, and who has lain down just waiting for someone to walk on them:
His followers are not all of us!
No but it emphatically is where the country is now. It literally happened. Ignoring it won’t make it go away. Saying it is not America, when it literally is just not the part you like, is wilful ignorance on his part and parroting American exceptionalism, just with a motivational poster mindset.
His administration needs to work hard to change that.
Right-wingers have absolutely no concept of infosec because they’ve never conceived of a scenario where people knowing what they’ve done would go poorly for them.
It’s like it never dawns on them that they are not all independently wealthy individuals who don’t need to rely on a job for gainful employment and who can insulate themselves from most negative consequences of their actions… until it’s too late.
Indeed she did, thanks for adding that.
Her summary last night was great, as usual, especially the writerly strategy of beginning and ending with the same sentence, which states a simple fact so appalling that its shameful horror need not be further stated.
They’re not sending their best…
Here’s another one, this one a bit higher up in the corporate world.
Disbarment next, please.
We can’t even disbar Rudy Giuliani.
Yet. It’s in process.
Can you imagine being a woman or person of color having to take some workplace complaint to that guy?
What is Human Resources coming to?!? /s
After wasting hours of the legislatures time, therein burning a pile of our tax dollars, Michigan is leading the charge on this one. We’re also going after Lin Wood and Kraken.
Yes, there are actual differences between the various groups of people who showed up to destroy democracy yesterday. It will matter, even if it doesn’t matter now, especially if we want these scum to be prosecuted. We should be especially interested in the groups there that planned to do this ahead of time, as opposed to the maga fans who got caught up in the moment. Prosecute them all, sure, but make sure the planners are especially singled out.