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Biden our time until Inauguration Day! (Trump #121) 🙂🕊

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Roussette · 15/01/2021 16:01

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CaveMum · 18/01/2021 23:27

@LickEmbysmiling

Scrotus, what does this stand for?
It’s a play on POTUS (President of the United States) and scrotum Grin
DuncinToffee · 18/01/2021 23:32

What does it matter?

Ceremony matters. Traditions matter. Our expectations about what's normal and civil behavior in our society matters. The usually peaceful transfer of power happens once or twice a decade.

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/01/18/opinions/melania-trump-first-lady-break-with-tradition-brower/index.html?__twitter_impression=true

RedToothBrush · 18/01/2021 23:37

amp.cnn.com/cnn/2021/01/18/politics/trump-covid-travel-restrictions/index.html?__twitter_impression=true
Trump to lift Covid-19 related travel restrictions before he leaves office, White House official says

President Donald Trump is expected to lift coronavirus-related travel restrictions starting on January 26, nearly a week after he leaves office, a White House official said Monday.

The White House official said Trump is expected to lift restrictions that cover much of Europe and Brazil.

Trump is easing travel restrictions to Brasil...

... We all damn well know this will be reversed under the current circumstances amid fears of the new Brasilian variant. This is just to get the boot in and give Biden more to do in the first week of office.

RedToothBrush · 18/01/2021 23:42

Meanwhile NYC has enough vaccine left to distribute for less that three days due to supply issues and lack of stock to be sent to the City by the government...

Its almost as if theyve deliberately sent only enough to last until Trump is no longer president.

Of course that's just an unfortunate coincidence.

DuncinToffee · 18/01/2021 23:44

Patriots?

^
The FBI is investigating whether a 22-year-old woman stole a laptop or hard drive from Nancy Pelosi's office during the riots at the US Capitol, intending to sell it to Russian intelligence^
www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-55711200

RedToothBrush · 19/01/2021 00:11

The Riley Williams story is really weird.

She pops up in the ITV film - she's the woman directing people up the stairs to Pelosi's office.

Then weirdly ITV identify her. The only person they have. They go talk to her Mum who says 'Riley isnt like that' before showing her footage of her daughter. Mum then goes shes really upset by what's shes seen. She knew her daughter was going with her Dad to the rally but only to watch.

They then say that Williams has apparently disappeared and her whereabouts are unknown.

Then this story breaks about how deep in shit she seems to be. An ex says she told him she'd stolen Pelosi's laptop or hard drive and planned to sell it to a Russian friend who was going to sell it to Russian intelligence. But there's no charges for this and no evidence apart from the word of a malicious ex who has form against her.

The earlier reports on this case say that there no formal report of a laptop having been stolen, but reading around there does appear to be a report on the 7th where someone in authority does say there is a missing laptop. But its not a prominent story.

It also turns out that been using the Russian social media site Telegram.

Then theres then this video thats appeared of Riley Williams seemingly running AWAY from the Capitol building whilst people are still trying to get into it.

Its weird.

Did ITV just get lucky or suspect something particularly fishy with this woman?

JamieLeeCurtains · 19/01/2021 00:21

@LickEmbysmiling

Scrotus, what does this stand for?
It started on a long-ago thread about what Bill would be called if Hillary were elected.

My entry was Senior Consort Resident of [the] United States = SCROTUS. Or something like that. No idea if that was the origin or if it's one of those many different spontaneous origins things.

It really suits Donald though, even though he's POTUS.

DuncinToffee · 19/01/2021 00:25

Probably the latter. ITV was in the right place when she started directing people up the stairs and the green top helped.

There was a story of another missing laptop but that one was found in a safe place. I can't remember whose it was.

PerkingFaintly · 19/01/2021 00:25

I do remember the previous reports of a laptop or other electronics begin stolen.

Given the below, I wonder if the ITV crew witnessed the laptop being taken. It's also possible they know the names of a lot more of the rioters, but so far have only released this one as they were following this particular story.

Storming the Capitol: ITV News team who filmed pictures that shocked world reveal inside story of what they saw
www.itv.com/news/2021-01-12/storming-the-capitol-itv-news-team-who-filmed-pictures-that-shocked-world-reveal-inside-story-of-what-they-saw

At the time - as we were racing around the corridors with them - we were puzzled about their intentions. So we stopped them in their tracks and asked them what they were doing. Their answers - a real-time insight into a mob as it was in full stride - told me a great deal about their motives and ideology.
[...]
When they reached the office of Speaker Pelosi, we saw for ourselves the fury of the protesters. They ransacked her office and tore down the wooden nameplate and held up a splinter as a trophy.

PerkingFaintly · 19/01/2021 00:29

I agree it's, erm, interesting that it's an ex who is making these claims about her.

One of many, many stories of which I am waiting to see more.

So many of them could go... I was going to say, "either way," but at the moment, "in any direction" seems more accurate.

HoneysuckIejasmine · 19/01/2021 00:34

I'm finding the timeline confusing. She's told her mum she is going away for a while, she's at the rally, she's leaving the rally, she's disappeared, she's been arrested.... In what order?! Is she still missing? It's frustrating, I think it's just news writers quickly updating a story without changing what's been written already. So the headline says she's arrested then the article says she's missing.

AcrossthePond55 · 19/01/2021 00:36

@LickEmbysmiling

Scrotus, what does this stand for?
I coined the term 4 years ago.

It stands for So Called Ruler Of The United States.

But POTUS and scrotum works, too.

PerkingFaintly · 19/01/2021 00:37

It has a certain ring to it, Across.

So to speak.

AcrossthePond55 · 19/01/2021 00:41

@PerkingFaintly Now we have to think of what to call him after he leaves office.

I think I prefer "Prisoner 3453498". Grin

PerkingFaintly · 19/01/2021 00:52

For the next few hours I'm still enjoying that MN perennial, STBXP.

JamieLeeCurtains · 19/01/2021 00:54

Donald Effluent Trump, Republican, In the Tank, United States

DETRITUS

lionheart · 19/01/2021 01:35

Damn--not for the faint hearted:

twitter.com/i/status/1351295752845230081

lionheart · 19/01/2021 01:37

More seriously:

1776 Commission

"The White House shares its final report from the 1776 Commission, which states that criticism of the Founding Fathers' slave ownership ‘has done enormous damage’ and has had a ‘devastating effect on our civic unity and social fabric.’"

PerkingFaintly · 19/01/2021 01:48

Just more of that technique we've discussed before.

Enslaving people: meh, so what, get over it.
Mentioning that people were enslaved: OMFG how very dare you, you're all that's wrong with this country.

Furries · 19/01/2021 01:59

@DuncinToffee

She has posted a farewell message

twitter.com/FLOTUS/status/1351258353704579074?s=19

disclaimer, I haven't watched it

I mean, the words were “right”, they just didn’t fit with her! Would love to see what “tells” her facial expressions give away - she may look frozen facially, but there was definite movement in there somewhere.
crabb · 19/01/2021 02:14

As a long time lurker in Australia, I’d just like to come out from under my rock and say to @lionheart, that your prodigious supply of links amazes me. I’ve no hope of opening them all, but live in hope! Is this your day job? Anyway, thank you!

FATEdestiny · 19/01/2021 04:22

[quote AcrossthePond55]@PerkingFaintly Now we have to think of what to call him after he leaves office.

I think I prefer "Prisoner 3453498". Grin[/quote]
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