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WWN always cheers me up:

We will literally have to start eating flegs!

FTFY

FS! That was a silly spelling error on my part 

WWN always cheers me up:

We will literally have to start eating flags!

Some more Wagner Dredd, and Zombo! New Al Ewing in any shape or form.

If Henry Flint draws both, all the better.

*I don't mean just looking like they knew where they were going — I mean, video of them discussing which way to go, what lies beyond closed doors, where to go to find a specific person's office. They were in the building, they knew the layout, and, perhaps most alarmingly, they were sufficiently confident that no one was going to arrest or shoot them that they could stand around discussing which way to go next.

Yeah, I was initially dismissive of this - I took a tour of the Capitol building more than 20 years ago, including visiting both chambers, and I still have a reasonably clear idea of the layout, so I imagined it was all pretty common knowledge. But the actual details that have emerged since make for a much more sinister picture.

My only niggle about all this is the perennial false flag issue - it was all remarkably convenient, but just as much for the anti-Trump as the pro-Trump lobby.  It's harder to imagine a plausible scenario where this rabble could have have achieved much more than murdering a bunch of Trump's enemies (not to minimise the human cost) and slightly delaying Biden's certification before the irresistible force of US military stamped it out, than it is to imagine multiple endings where it creates a huge anti-Trump backlash, justification for cracking down on internet freedoms and a Patrician excising of no-longer useful elements of the right in the manner of the Rohm Purge.

I don't think it's going into full-on conspiracy nuttery to wonder if some of the steps along the way might not have been enabled by people with aims opposite to the active participants.

On his Podcast, the former Republican Strategist, Rick Wilson, said he would be surprised if the rioters hadn't been coordinated by people with knowledge of the Capitol. He said he had visited the building hundreds of times, and he would struggle to get to some of the parts of the Capitol building that they accessed.

When their polling is holding up so well, why would they feel the need to change at all? It doesn't help that Brits have normalised this now. Other countries are broadly back to normal, with brief periods of lockdown. Their peaks are like our best days. But Brits now think a thousand deaths a day is bad rather than insanely catastrophic and that a few dozen a day is fine, despite that being the sort of thing many countries have yet to even suffer. It's insane and ludicrous and I don't know what it'll take to wake Brits up from this.

A thousand people plus a day. My God.

Is there even any value to a single human life? How anyone in this Government can look themselves in the mirror, killing people so their cronies can profit.

To see the Tories still topping polling says it all about how far Britain has fallen.

How the Tories haven't had to resign, at this stage, depresses me so completely.

How many Cloverfield films are there??

Cloverfield, The Cloverfield Paradox and that movie with John Goodman that they hastily back ended with a Cloverfield mash-up, 10 Cloverfield Lane.

Really enjoyed 10 Cloverfield Lane, and it could easily have been an entertaining movie without the last 15 minutes.

Heh.

My bad.

But given he's a (loveable) lunatic... maybe?

After the year we have put in, and the way 2021 is already shaping up...

Teddy Spaghetti aka Vox Day aka Theodore Beale still high on copium. If THE PLAN isnt happening,you need to trust harder. 

https://archive.fo/G8SWH

Christ. Literally mentally ill.

I've had to mute a few relatives on Facebook because they believe this stuff. Strangely, every time i go down the rabbit hole of concern over vaccines, coups, multi-culturism ( wink, wink ) etc. it nearly always leads back to far right grifters and their anti-semitism, racism and hatred.

One cousin is forever calling me a sheep, whilst posting from the likes of OANN, Newsmax and fringe arseholes like Grand Torino on FB. Challenge him, and he laughs, and says I've been brainwashed by the Mainstream Media, and them Doctors and Scientists with their facts, figures and Degrees.

Ted is a complete lolcow. Or EL-O-EL cow as he pronounced it. We are talking self described 150 IQ genius,musician,game designer,columnist,martial artist,son of a tax fraud and wannabe cult leader Robert Beale...The lore is practically bottomless.

What an utter arsehole. Quickly perused a few articles, and saw he had a spat with another awful human being, Ethan Van Sciver.

If CNN are right, and there is worse evidence regarding the coup, and even worse footage from inside the Capitol Building still to be made public

What I've seen already — 'protestors' moving through the building with very clear knowledge of the layout,* coupled with reports of far-right Republican members of congress leading multiple tours of people who've been tentatively identified as 'protestors' through the building the day before plus at least one Democrat reporting that the 'panic buttons' had been physically removed from their office... it's hard not to conclude that some groups in that crowd were a lot more organised than just an angry mob.

*I don't mean just looking like they knew where they were going — I mean, video of them discussing which way to go, what lies beyond closed doors, where to go to find a specific person's office. They were in the building, they knew the layout, and, perhaps most alarmingly, they were sufficiently confident that no one was going to arrest or shoot them that they could stand around discussing which way to go next.

Frightening.

If it actually comes to pass, and we see members of Congress arrested over this, perhaps then the Republican Party might start doing the right thing. Won't hold my breath, though.

Bisley ABC warriors pages go for 5 fugue sums.

You think he'd pump out some regardless of what Tharg pays.

That's a hell of a typo! Bisley takes payment in the form of sung-through arithmetic?

Immediately imagined Simon Bisley wandering naked around a New Mexico supermarket, mumbling about Tharg.

Isn't one of the points of 'this' impeachment that they can now stop him from running again? I can see that as being a very desirable thing for both sides of the house.

There were reportedly a significant number of Republicans who wanted to vote for impeachment, but didn't for fear of their lives and those of their families. That's only likely to get worse between now and any vote on conviction... I don't think there's a chance in hell Trump will get convicted, because he's so thoroughly intimidated so many Republican politicians.

Also, they have no spines.

That a week removed from an attempted Coup, they are trying to quickly gloss over it and downplay it, tells you all you need to know about the Republican party. They made a pact with an utter Devil, and are paying a price. If CNN are right, and there is worse evidence regarding the coup, and even worse footage from inside the Capitol Building still to be made public, those who vote against convicting Trump are literally pissing their good name and standing for a man who has only offered threat and intimidation to them.

Teddy Spaghetti aka Vox Day aka Theodore Beale still high on copium. If THE PLAN isnt happening,you need to trust harder. 

https://archive.fo/G8SWH

Christ. Literally mentally ill.

I've had to mute a few relatives on Facebook because they believe this stuff. Strangely, every time i go down the rabbit hole of concern over vaccines, coups, multi-culturism ( wink, wink ) etc. it nearly always leads back to far right grifters and their anti-semitism, racism and hatred.

One cousin is forever calling me a sheep, whilst posting from the likes of OANN, Newsmax and fringe arseholes like Grand Torino on FB. Challenge him, and he laughs, and says I've been brainwashed by the Mainstream Media, and them Doctors and Scientists with their facts, figures and Degrees.

Reading this morning that he is refusing to pay Rudy Giuliani's Legal Fees. 

Truly, the worst people.

Spotify has got me listening to music again. But what's the best way to get more "new" stuff out of it? My musical taste stopped evolving about twenty years ago. And only "new" artists I've come to over the last decade are Public Service Broadcasting and Paolo Nutini.

Good call on PSB!

In my experience the best way to get new unknown stuff of Spotify is to compile a playlist for a workout, a friend or some other reason where you might want to specifically dictate the tracks and then Spotify will 'helpfully' start adding tracks to it of it's own violition that it thinks you might like, leading to utter confusion and frustration.

If you're able to access it wherever you're listening, I'd actually suggest Youtube as a great tool for new music. The stuff it's algorithms suggest on the right hand side can lead you down all sorts of rabbit holes of new bands, obscure stuff and things you might otherwise have never heard of.

Yes, I love the similar music suggestions on Spotify, and I love creating Playlists for everything from walking, running etc. Great way to discover new and old songs I've missed out on.