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I watched Palm Springs yesterday. Interesting movie with Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti (the Mother from HIMYM). Also a small part with JK Simmons. Was a strange movie, especially in the beginning before you figured out what was going on. But I still enjoyed it and was really wondering how it was going to end.

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I was pleasantly surprised by it.

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I just remembered the time Dad71 posted, "Same OldBear. New computer." It made me smile :)

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Some of you may be interested in today's WaPo crossword (though I think it's technically the LA Times'), specifically 39A and 62D

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I work it everyday but haven't gotten to it yet. I'll keep a special eye out.

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https://nypost.com/2021/01/07/who-was-ashli-babbitt-woman-shot-inside-capitol-building/

This is your brain on alt right media. Completely delusional and unhinged.

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Today in the 'rona

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Jan 7, 2021Liked by Berkelium97, SGBear

WOOO I DON'T HAVE THE PLAGUE

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Guessing the rest of the clan is in the clear too?

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oh yeah I guess them too.

the test we got is apparently 94% reliable, so the 16 year old might keep on wearing a mask around the for a couple of days, but we're willing to play the odds here.

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brain tickler or spit test?

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more of a gentle nasal rub

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Congrats!!

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Yay!

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Elsewhere in college

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HE WAS NEVER EVER GOING TO COME TO CAL TO PLAY FOR SONNY FUCKING DYKES.

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Neither was Dirk.

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Utah's starting QB Jake Bentley transfers. Again.

https://twitter.com/JakeBentley19/status/1346965063320657925

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Paprika

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good for deviled eggs

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Crazy movie from the late Satoshi Kon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paprika_(2006_film)

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smoked paprika is good stuff.

i use this regularly in making paella as well as a simple seasoning for pan fried shrimp.

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i use it as a base for blackened seasoning. We acquired an air fryer recently and the wife and i have been using the hell out of it. Did some blackened fish the other day. Much yum

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Catfish, Mississippi: yum

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what else is in the blackened seasoning?

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paprika, cayenne, onion powder, garlic powder, salt, pepper, dried basil, oregano and thyme

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Do you have any bobbleheads?

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Only Cal ones now: Goff, "Aaron Rodgers", Cross Eyed Tony G, Oski from early 00s, Oski from recent season, Marshawn and Tedford. They were all on a bookshelf in my office before I moved, but have yet to be unpacked since I don't have a good place for them in the new house.

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I may have Kidd too come to think of it

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I have two Tony Gs -- the right one and the wrong one. I also have a bunch of Giants ones. They are all boxed up to send to Ohio Bear, but they are in my office so they're not going anywhere until much later this year.

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A bunch, but also a number of random ones that I just have kept in a bin as they depreciate in value. I think the boat has sailed on my Bryce Harper's first or second Nats bobblehead having much value. I also kind of regret not selling my Noah Syndergaard as Thor bobblehead at the ballpark for $20 cash (but that's because someone else got $50 right next to me). I also have not yet thrown out two of Felipe Vazquez bobbleheads, even though he's unofficially banned for life for his sexual tryst with a 13-year old. I should have possibly be more active in trading them for ones that I like, but it's too bad that I don't know where my local sports memorabilia store is located.

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Does your Syndergaard bobblehead produce a series of mediocre, long ball-marred starts before sandwiching a random, completely unpredictable 2-hit shutout in the midst? Asking for a friend..... ;-)

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Oski, The Play, and the A's Dia de los Muertos Sugar Skull.

Also have a Goff and Tony G bobblehead I'd like to give away.

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also have the campanile lego set they gave away a few years ago.

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I got that one as well. Mine were boxed up because i didn't have anywhere to put them. I just put up a couple of shelves above my computer. May have to break them out now.

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I have around a dozen Nationals ones. None did I go out of my way to get, just happened they were giving them away on the day I wanted to go to a game. None of them are displayed.

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so far, no one has the Marshawn bobblehead?

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I have the Play and the Goff bobblehead that Cal football gave away a couple of years ago, and a Justin Turner one the Dodgers sold online last year.

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A few from various Angels games over the years: Mike Scioscia, Kole Calhoun, Josh Hamilton. Rather than bobbleheads, I have several more gnomes from MLB's gnome fad during the mid-2010s (Mike Trout, Albert Pujols, Jared Weaver, Manny Machado).

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Oski. Tony Gonzalez. Jason Kidd. Pablo Sandoval. Buster.

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Have a bobble-head Beaver, a Stanford FB player they gave me on a road trip there, and an OSKI bobblehead they gave me on a road trip there.

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Had a custom pair made of me and the gf.

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not a one

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OUR CRUMBLING DEMOCRACY

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Biden introducing Garland comes out more animated than I ever remember him. Strong words about the difference in response to BLM protests and to what happened yesterday.

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Bill Barr condemns Trump. Oooooooooookay.

https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1347230227756441605

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Heh...I first read this as Bill Burr and was confused.

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I've been getting these two guys confused for the last year.

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Elaine Chao first cabinet member to resign.

https://twitter.com/jdawsey1/status/1347248284138614789

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No! Stay and invoke the 25th!

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I am afraid that she might be resigning just to avoid having to invoke the 25th.

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Yep.

Pelosi, and the Dems are going to have to impeach him.

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Hopefully wrong on this one.

"Democrats Declare Nation Has Given Them Clear Mandate To Squander"

https://www.theonion.com/democrats-declare-nation-has-given-them-clear-mandate-t-1846001988

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ouch

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"Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday the social media giant is banning President Trump indefinitely, marking a dramatic escalation between Silicon Valley and the White House after Trump weaponized the web to help stoke a riot at the U.S. Capitol.

“We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great,” Zuckerberg wrote. "Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete.”

WaPo

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Cool, so Zuck sends in the fire brigade after the town has been reduced to ashes.

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Zuck: we're shutting him down until the inauguration

Congress: cool, see you in two weeks

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Right!

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Too little, too late.....Mark. Regulation to social media is coming. What does QAnon say? The storm is coming? Mark should be familiar with that phrase from his network allowing it grow.

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I am a big believer in the 1st amendment but something needs to be done to hold journalist accountable for their actions, especially when promoting clear lies. Right wing media, bother fringe (newsmax and OANN) and mainstream (Fox News) are already trying to spin yesterday’s acts of insurrection by claiming antifa agitators dressed as trump supporters were responsible. They are trying to defend trump and shift the blame to democrats, antifa, etc.

This is a major problem will continue after trump leaves office. How do we fix this problem. Lawmakers are talking about regulating social media, which would help but how can they better regulate traditional news media?

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Kind of on a tangent, but you probably have a better read on the current Taiwan sentiment than me, but I hear from my mom who is rather annoyed by the significant amount of pro-Trump folks in Taiwan right now because of the perception (or at least the public statement and the sell of old American military tech) that Trump is more anti-China. How much of that is true, I wonder.

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I think there's a mix. If you look at the two main Taiwanese political parties, you've got the KMT and DPP. The KMT is closer to China, and the DPP is more Taiwanese, so people who lean DPP tend to like anti-China (or anti-CCP) messaging. So, that's one aspect.

Another aspect is attention. I imagine that a lot of people around the world are tired of hearing about the US and American politics. In contrast, a lot of people haven't heard of Taiwan, confuse it with Thailand, and/or know nothing about Taiwan. There is some measure of, "any attention is good attention!" when it comes to the world stage. I think that there are certainly people who hope for increased global attention so that it will lead to increased trade, status with the UN and WHO, &c.

And then, we've got protection/military might. There is a perception among Taiwanese people (that I know, namely my parents) that the GOP has been more supportive of Taiwan from a military perspective.

So, Trump hits at a lot of that: anti-China messaging (even if he sounds like a buffoon and his words are empty), he took a call with the Taiwanese president, and he is a Republican. On the other hand, in the most recent Taiwanese election (January 2020), the KMT candidate was like a junior Trump. He ran his mouth, seemed to have shady connections with a foreign power (in this case, China), had a lurid affair, &c. Many in the DPP found that unsavory.

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How do you feel the Taiwan/China issue of sovereignty or unification will be settled? Do you think it will be settled in our lifetime and if so, will it be peaceful?

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I feel comfortable in thinking that Taiwan can just continue to thrive in the current ambiguous state while waiting for the whole concept of nations to not matter...eventually. Then again, when I was still in Taiwan for elementary school, my class was the last one to use the national textbooks that were full of talks of reunification in the form of Taiwan (ROC) taking back China. Since I came to the US, I think Taiwan has got not just a lot of pro-independence sentiment (perfectly fine and understandable) but also anti-Chinese heritage to an extreme (maybe a parallel to how some in the US now are totally against all the founding fathers because many owned slaves), the latter of which feels counterproductive to me.

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The way CCP is tending, I can't see it happening.

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Thanks for sharing the articles. The sort-of-pro Trump piece was an interesting read. I guess some of the people who were more open to Trump for initially reasonable self-interest might eventually get brainwashed into that MAGA delusion. Some acquaintance of my mom in Taiwan was apparently posting about how Trump got cheated in the election but will still prevail a few days ago.

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Thanks for these articles.

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This is a tricky issue, and a key point as we try to address this.

As a journalist, I'm very leery of any move to limit or control the media because of the dangers that pose, and remember any such measures can be applied to the other side of the issue.

Yet its clearly demonstrated that we have a serious problem with not only agenda driven propaganda branded as news, and even non-news entities that put the word "news" in their name in an attempt to legitimize misinformation (See "Newsmax").

We also have an intentionally ignorant element in the media that uses their platform to ferment insane behavior on various topics.

Curbing these irresponsible actors would in fact be censorship, as well as slanting the media message, the very thing they are guilty of that we are upset with because of the trouble it has caused.

Because they choose to not believe facts that they either don't understand or find inconvenient, actually educating them isn't an option.

Its the aspect of this that actually troubles me much more than what happened yesterday, which was a symptom of the real problem. The mess will be cleaned up soon enough. But circumstances that led to it happening will lead to more incidents.

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Yep, Tucker Carlson ended his show yesterday saying what happened “wasn’t our fault, it was theirs”. What the fuck is that?!?!

What happened yesterday and what Trump has attempted will happen again if these “journalists” aren’t held accountable. The problem is the barrier of entry to create something that is “news like” is so easy today with technology. Anyone can make a website and start a podcast that looks legit and the internet allows it to reach millions with ease. Alex Jones is a prime example of this.

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More important than dealing with COVID, more important than addressing income inequality, this is part of a much bigger issue that the Biden administration needs to deal with immediately (before potentially losing the Senate in 2022). The past four years have exposed some serious weaknesses in our democratic system and we need to get them strengthened immediately before another Trump-like character comes in to try to tear everything down. We were lucky that Trump and his toadies were incredibly incompetent; someone with a basic grasp on reality could have done far more damage to our democracy.

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Yes this indeed. Biden and the Dems don’t have much time but this needs to be a priority.

We were fortunate for two things:

1. Trump his toadies were largely incompetent.

2. Dems controlled the House.

Next time we won’t be so lucky.

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I think one underrated aspect to this has been that I (and others) assumed that there was no bottom for both the president & the remaining appointees, and it turns out that a few of the appointees had scruples about setting hysterical mobs loose. Trump, on the other hand, has no lower threshold.

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If the Democratic party doesn't shore up their position in both the House & Senate in 2022, things will get very messy, and they will have no one to blame but themselves.

If the pandemic hadn't happened (partially enabled by Trump admin incompetency during the run-up, but not the sole reason it got started), I'm not so sure their short term strategy coupled with incompetence would have blown up badly enough to leave us anywhere near where we are now (thinking back to how things were going generally one year ago today).

There are a lot of lessons to be learned from this one.

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I wonder how long before the guy that stole the podium gets arrested. Either they'll use facial recognition to identify him or he'll say stuff to someone and they'll rat him out. You know that he can't keep his mouth shut...

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Look, I'm not a tactical gear expert, but maybe you shouldn't wear your work badge when you break into the Capital Building.

https://twitter.com/TreWardWBAL/status/1347226070085480448

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That looks like an infant with one of those snapchat scraggly beard filters.

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wow. that's some special kind of not thinking it through.

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boy that's just dumb.

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I think we can safely conclude there are a lot of dump people involved. But being dumb doesn't disqualify them from voting or participating in herd activity. It does underscore the challenge of trying to elicit a more reasonable behavior from them; the old standbys of facts and logic aren't applicable,

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* Capitol

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Note: Via Getty is not his name https://twitter.com/jashtj/status/1347129637697056769?s=20

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hahaha

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*head desk*

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Also, that guy who was photographed in Pelosi's office stole a piece of mail off her desk. Might want to get a lawyer, dipshit.

https://twitter.com/AllMattNYT/status/1346962889115103232

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USPS should be after him now.

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There is no parole for federal crimes. I hope the gesture was worth it, Mr. Barrett.

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He's already identified.

https://twitter.com/MattRoth732/status/1346979431022264323

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That was fast. I'd also imagine everyone that had their cellphone pinged in the capitol building will be visited by the feds soon.

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I imagine a lot of people have buyers remorse from taking and posting pictures to social media of them committing crimes yesterday and are quickly scrubbing their social media or deleting it.

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Oh they're so toast.

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I'm glad you guys are optimistic that they'll face consequences

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I'm glad these idiots are dumb enough to boast about their crimes online.

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Jaylen Brown addressing the events of yesterday: “In one America, you get killed by sleeping in your car, selling cigarettes or playing in your backyard. In another America, you get to storm the Capitol, and no tear gas, no massive arrests, none of that.”

https://streamable.com/svnx3y

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He is such an impressive person on and off the court. Definitely one of Cal's finest representatives.

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Trump concedes that he will leave office, but only in the Trumpiest way possible

https://twitter.com/DanScavino/status/1347103016311259136

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Let's see if he still feels that way 13 days from now...

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This seems so out of character for him to say this. This statement... combined with the CBS report that the Cabinet was pinged whether they would invoke the 25th last night... makes me think that he was coerced because he fully believes his rhetoric, but his ego would not let him be the only live President to be permanently removed by the 25th.

https://twitter.com/edokeefe/status/1346993660718698496

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It's progress. Only after evidenced efforts to tamper with an already concluded election, and inciting a riot in an attempt to cause a coup failed. But the first time he has said he will leave. (He has had a busy week so far.)

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Jokes on us, he had his fingers and arms crossed behind his back the whole time.

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I think George Will is upset:

"The three repulsive architects of Wednesday’s heartbreaking spectacle — mobs desecrating the Republic’s noblest building and preventing the completion of a constitutional process — must be named and forevermore shunned. They are Donald Trump, and Sens. Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz.

Trump lit the fuse for the riot in the weeks before the election, with his successful effort to delegitimize the election in the eyes of his supporters. But Wednesday’s explosion required the help of Hawley (R-Mo.) and Cruz (R-Tex.).

Hawley announced his intention to object to the certification of some states’ electoral votes, for no better reason than that there has been an avalanche of “allegations” of election irregularities, allegations fomented by the loser of the election. By doing so, Hawley turned what should have been a perfunctory episode in our civic liturgy of post-election civility into a synthetic drama. He turned this moment into the focus of the hitherto unfocused fury that Trump had been stoking for many weeks.

And Cruz, by organizing support for Hawley among other Republican senators and senators-elect gave Hawley’s grotesque self-promotion an ersatz cloak of larger purpose. Shortly before the mob breached the Senate chamber, Cruz stood on the Senate floor. With his characteristic unctuousness, he regretted the existence of what he and kindred spirits have not only done nothing to refute but have themselves nurtured — a pandemic of suspicions that the election was “rigged.”

“I want to take a moment to speak to my Democratic colleagues,” said Cruz. “I understand your guy is winning right now.” Read those weasely words again. He was not speaking to his “colleagues.” He was speaking to the kind people who were at that instant assaulting the Capitol. He was nurturing the very delusions that soon would cause louts to be roaming the Senate chamber — the fantasy that Joe Biden has not won the election but is only winning “right now.”

The Trump-Hawley-Cruz insurrection against constitutional government will be an indelible stain on the nation. They, however, will not be so permanent. In 14 days, one of them will be removed from office by the constitutional processes he neither fathoms nor favors. It will take longer to scrub the other two from public life. Until that hygienic outcome is accomplished, from this day forward, everything they say or do or advocate should be disregarded as patent attempts to distract attention from the lurid fact of what they have become. Each will wear a scarlet “S” as a seditionist."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-hawley-and-cruz-will-each-wear-the-scarlet-s-of-a-seditionist/2021/01/06/65b0ad1a-506c-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html

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george will can suck it. He enabled the back drop of this kind of shit with his genteel f* the poor take for decades.

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Don’t forget right wing media. Fox News, Newsmax, OANN, and others all played s role in amplifying this message as well and giving it oxygen and an ecosystem to thrive in.

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Add to that the 140-something House members and dozen or so Senators who publicly stated their intentions to object. They also played a clear role in supporting this nonsense.

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totally agree. I genuinely believe that all of these buffoons, with very few exceptions, thought that this grandstanding pre riot was all "politics" and it would blow over and largely be forgotten in history. Yesterday shocked some of them and they immediately switched course. But for the majority, they are still playing this game. Fuck them... they all need to be called to task and shown that their actions have consequences. This isn't about conservative or liberal, this is about being UnAmerican assholes in the name of holding onto power

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They need to wear the scarlet t around their necks for the rest of their lives. A group needs to be started with the sole purpose of holding these people responsible.

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Ted Cruz needs to resign. I wonder if we can recall him in Texas?

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When is his seat next up for election?

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'24

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Josh Hawley

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Lied about being "terrorized" by Antifa at his house. (In reality it was protesters standing around and leaving messages with sidewalk chalk.)

https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article248281190.html

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I'm so surprised!

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(Stanfurd, BS History 2002)

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What kind of school issues a B*S* in History?!?

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why am I not overly surprised.

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trash, I sincerely hope he is shunned for his ridiculous grandstanding. Fuck him

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PRO

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Sources: New York Mets finalizing deal to acquire SS Francisco Lindor from Cleveland Indians

https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/30668781/sources-new-york-mets-finalizing-deal-acquire-ss-francisco-lindor-cleveland-indians

Mets going all in. I assume they're still going after Springer. Still think they'll be behind Dodgers, Padres, Braves, among others. They just have so much ground to make up.

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CAL

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Go Bears!

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Go Bears!!! Men's BBall game today!

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Cover the spread Bears!

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BOOO! THIS MAN!!!!

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