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Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:26 pm**

Nova Bromelia wrote:
Kowani wrote:Of course

Wow, if that is not a glitch, it is history in the making. Fingers crossed to point of hurting for the latter!

It was a disgruntled staffer.

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:26 pm**

Cannot think of a name wrote:
Heloin wrote:19:49 is 7:49 EST. It's currently 3:19 EST. Not saying anything is up but the time is in the future.

Who would plan something like that to happen at :49 past the hour or think that the time would need to be that percisely recorded?

Ronald Reagan's astrologer... but nowadays probably not.

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:26 pm**

Celritannia wrote:
Valrifell wrote:
Now if only they were socialist

I mean, they are already Red

And they are somewhat nationalist.

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:27 pm**

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NY) tests positive for COVID, blames republicans who refused masks when they were sheltering in the Capitol

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:27 pm**

Nakena wrote:
Celritannia wrote:
I mean, they are already Red

And they are somewhat nationalist.

Haha, they are half way there

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:28 pm**

Nakena wrote:It's so amazing. Looks like the GOP will soon be no more the party of big business.

The trump fanbase has decided they are post-democracy.

That isn't a good thing.

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:29 pm**

Olbermann - 2 minutes on expulsion

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:30 pm**

Cuba goes back on the blacklist

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:32 pm**

An Alan Smithee Nation wrote:Call me cynical but I think Google and Facebook stopping all political donations is more about possible anti-trust action against them than storming the Capitol, otherwise why stop donations to the Democrats too?

It's a secondary way to look at it in the long run but not the short.

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:36 pm**

An Alan Smithee Nation wrote:Call me cynical but I think Google and Facebook stopping all political donations is more about possible anti-trust action against them than storming the Capitol, otherwise why stop donations to the Democrats too?

Overall I think it might actually be a good thing, at least for the health of US politics.

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:36 pm**

San Lumen wrote:It was a disgruntled staffer.

Ah, a pleonasm

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:37 pm**

Blue Cross and Blue Shield stop donating to the 147 republicans who objected to the vote, JPMorgan and 3M place theirs on temporary hold

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:39 pm**

An Alan Smithee Nation wrote:Call me cynical but I think Google and Facebook stopping all political donations is more about possible anti-trust action against them than storming the Capitol, otherwise why stop donations to the Democrats too?

would be nice if we got corporations out of politics completely but that's a pipe dream

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:40 pm**

NY State Bar association moves to remove Rudy Giuliani
(This does not mean he loses his license)

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:41 pm**

Wink Wonk We Like Stonks wrote:
An Alan Smithee Nation wrote:Call me cynical but I think Google and Facebook stopping all political donations is more about possible anti-trust action against them than storming the Capitol, otherwise why stop donations to the Democrats too?

would be nice if we got corporations out of politics completely but that's a pipe dream

Since my labor union and political party are probably the only way a single individual like me could possibly hope to influence anything at all, I'm going with a hard no.

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:41 pm**

Kowani wrote:Alright, we got confirmation: ’twas a “disgruntled staffer”

well that's disappointing. should've known better then to think Pence grew a spine.

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:41 pm**

Kowani wrote:Blue Cross and Blue Shield stop donating to the 147 republicans who objected to the vote, JPMorgan and 3M place theirs on temporary hold

It will be interesting to see how long this last, and when they silently will go back to bribe...I mean donate...them again.

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:41 pm**

The absolute state of the US, ca 2021:

Department of Defense says they will review troops deployed to Biden inauguration to ensure they don’t have sympathies to domestic terrorists — meaning the US govt is now trying to prevent a military coup.

https://twitter.com/hugolowell/status/1 ... 7886521346

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:42 pm**

Nattily Dressed Anarchists on Bicycles wrote:
Wink Wonk We Like Stonks wrote:would be nice if we got corporations out of politics completely but that's a pipe dream

Since my labor union and political party are probably the only way a single individual like me could possibly hope to influence anything at all, I'm going with a hard no.

no to it being a pipe dream or no to it being nice? yes i am illeterate

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:43 pm**

MasterCard pulls out

Followed by Dow Chemical

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:44 pm**

Kowani wrote:
Absolon-7 wrote:the fuck? got a link for that?

Of course

They've got the technical difficulty screen up now lol

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:45 pm**

Vilhelumea wrote:
Kowani wrote:Blue Cross and Blue Shield stop donating to the 147 republicans who objected to the vote, JPMorgan and 3M place theirs on temporary hold

It will be interesting to see how long this last, and when they silently will go back to bribe...I mean donate...them again.

Remember, it's not corruption when you call it lobbying

Nakena wrote:It's so amazing. Looks like the GOP will soon be no more the party of big business.

Watch the Dems go further right as the Republican party dies, then have a new center-right party form

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:47 pm**

AT&T follows the crowd, cuts off the GOP members who wanted to overturn the election

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:47 pm**

Wink Wonk We Like Stonks wrote:
Nattily Dressed Anarchists on Bicycles wrote:
Since my labor union and political party are probably the only way a single individual like me could possibly hope to influence anything at all, I'm going with a hard no.

no to it being a pipe dream or no to it being nice? yes i am illeterate

No to the mass disenfranchisement that "[getting] corporations out of politics" would mean.

Even if it is only a pipe dream. There's enough of that going around as is.

Posted: **Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:48 pm**

Nakena wrote:The absolute state of the US, ca 2021:

Department of Defense says they will review troops deployed to Biden inauguration to ensure they don’t have sympathies to domestic terrorists — meaning the US govt is now trying to prevent a military coup.

https://twitter.com/hugolowell/status/1 ... 7886521346

While im glad they are doing this the problem is it might not always be easy to detect.

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