If Pence ever tries running for president the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth questions should be why were you such a useless dildo after Trump tried to get his followers to kill you?
I guess all I can say to this is that it’s an invented answer, and it isn’t even the right question.
Half the voters will hate him because he was a sycophantic lapdog who helped Trump, and the other half will hate him because he was insufficiently sycophantic and helpful to Trump.
kerzain
4639
8 days and counting.
I wonder how blissful my life could be if I toggle off the internet and cut off contact with all people for nine straight days.
I do a have few books, 3DS games, and chores I need to get to.
It would be nice for the very first image I see after restoring my internet connection to be a picture of Trump(s) in cuffs.
I’m not sure I’m trusting your grasp of speculative statistical data.
As Scott Lufkin has noted, the guy in that picture does bear a strong resemblance to 1994, Walker Texas Ranger Chuck Norris.
Problem: Chuck Norris is now 80 years old and doesn’t look like he did 27 years ago. He was on an episode of Hawaii Five-0 last year and looked like an 80-year old man who’d been spray-painted (badly) with ginger hair dye and had a few pounds of makeup spackled onto his face to make him look…not 80. And it wasn’t convincing even then.
Also true: Chuck Norris is kind of an asshole.
Now that’ s a Chuck Norris Fact.
By the way, if you want a terrifying object lesson into just how easy it is for even very smart people to be tripped up by fakery on social media, have a look at the number of times someone has shared video or images that purport to show people in airports or on airplanes finding out that they cannot fly because they’re on a no-fly list.
Because…it is almost certain that most, if not all of those videos/images are fakes. Or more accurately, do NOT depict people finding out they cannot fly due to participation in the Capitol riot.
From CNN:
Per Politifact, you cannot get a boarding pass if you are on a no-fly list. If you see video or images of someone in a boarding area of an airport or even on a plane, that video is showing something else:
Think critically.
Triggercut’s Law of Social Media: The degree that I WANT something to be real or true is often inversely proportional to the likelihood of that something ACTUALLY being real or true.
I doubt your “under half” but I’d say that the possibility that significant numbers of law enforcement personnel might betray their duties… that carries way more political risk for conservatives than for liberals.
Can you imagine the political fallout if, across the country, mobs do actual harm, with videotape of law enforcement people aiding them? And in many areas, a pretty good route to cleaning up police departments.
I’m still kinda miffed Chuck Norris Facts overtook Vin Diesel Facts in the internet consciousness.
Also known as “confirmation bias”. Good advice for many things outside of social media, but particularly important for that specific media for sure.
More threats from the biggest piece of shit on the planet.
Menzo
4650
I really don’t think the “if you do this my followers will get more violent” defense is going to be a winning strategy. It just makes the people who say it non-ironically seem complicit.
Canuck
4651
Wait, what? WTF? How old am I?
BTW, there’s another post being shared around social media. It shows someone who seems to be carrying a fire extinguisher, apparently at the riot last Wednesday. The photo is captioned definitively that this is the individual being sought by the FBI in connection with the murder of the USCP officer.
Problem: I cannot find any original sourcing from the FBI or any other official investigative authority that this is the case.
I wouldn’t bet the farm on Ivanka showing up at the inauguration. For one thing, the source for this is the Daily Mail, which is not terribly accurate overall.
Secondly, the Daily Mail is Ivanka’s favorite vehicle for dispensing leaks about herself. These leaks are mostly about what she wants to be perceived as doing - if you believed her leaks, you’d think she’d spent the last four years working 24/7 for gay rights and maternity leave - as opposed to what she actually does, which is sit around on her ass listening to her father’s temper tantrums and maybe occasionally getting him a Coke.
What this may well turn out to be is Ivanka staking out an excuse for herself with her non-fascist society friends when she doesn’t show up at the inauguration. “I wanted to go - the Daily Mail even ran a piece about it - but Daddy wouldn’t let me!”
I wouldn’t wipe my ass with the Daily Mail, it’s that garbage.
It makes TMZ look like the NYT.
If you go to the Daily Mail web site, it is dozens of stories about the most minor celebrities doing mundane everyday things, and yet the headlines are some of the worst clickbait trash I’ve ever seen.
