I‘d say “unbelievable,” but unfortunately this is all too believable.
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Trump just got permanently banned from Twitter.
How long do you think it will be before Trump gets a Parler account?
@Gaebolga
I’d be surprised if he doesn’t have one already.
Parler has its own problems. Its app has been removed from Google Play, and there’s a good chance it will be removed from the Apple Store. Apple gave them 24 hours to improve their moderation, which I doubt will happen.
Meanwhile Rush Limbaugh has shut down his Twitter account. And right wing crank cartoonist Ben Garrison has been suspended from Twitter.
Apparently the jackass in the buffalo hat literally called the FBI to confirm his name, that he was the person standing in the speaker’s chair, and the he was most absolutely doing this on behalf of Trump. He is now in custody.
@ Dali
Well, they are proud boys, not smart boys.
Re: buffalo hat guy
IDK if there’s an English idiom equivalent to being a “louse on the lens” but it means exactly that kind of attention seeker. If anyone actually gets paid by shady oligarchs for political protesting, it’s him.
@Alan Robertshaw:
Given their penchant for wearing black and yellow or, sometimes, black and orange, and for groupthink, as well as for forming violent swarms, perhaps we should call them the “proud bees”. The implication of collectivism should be especially galling to them, the more so because it is to a significant degree true.
@Lumipuna:
To find out, look to see if he is very quickly sprung by some very generous anonymous benefactor posting his bail.
@ surplus
Heh yeah. But bees are nice, and useful; and we’ll miss them when they’ve gone.
Dunno about bees – they all look pretty WASPish to me.
@Surplus : also, like bee, the behavior of a single proud boy is rather simple and easy to predict.
Unlike bees, however, the sum of thoses individuals simple pattern don’t make something significantly more intelligent than its part.
Uh-oh. Looks like the coup attempt was a superspreader event:
https://www.dailydot.com/debug/baked-alaska-protest-covid/
Not really surprising that some of these fucksticks brought the virus knowingly to this event. Add in the indoor crowding, lack of masks, exertion, and the likelihood that beating a cop to death is an aerosolizing procedure, and it’s a good bet most of these chuckleheads are now infected, and quite possibly half the House and Senate too.
How about “wasp boys”? Most of them are, and wasps are just as collective as bees, while being much less useful to humanity.
We would also accept “dumb asses” as a term; viz. Buffalo Head calling the FBI on himself.
@GSS : I am very wary of calling wasp less useful than bees. If anything, there’s a ton of parasitic wasps that help keeping various kind of insect under control.
Bees have a better press because they are cuter and less likely to hurt humans, but something say me it’s insects as a whole who are necessary, not just bees.
Terminal Lance made a comic about the attack. It was of course against the attack.
https://terminallance.com/2021/01/10/terminal-lance-silent-but-deadly/