Could you get busy putting more things on your Christmas list? It's surprisingly effective. And the first day of Christmas has come so early this year.

Johnson is self-isolating again. How can they tell?

Donald Trump asked top aides last week about the possibility of striking Iran’s nuclear facilities in the coming weeks, according to a New York Times report.

During a meeting at the Oval Office on Thursday, the outgoing US president asked several top aides, including the vice-president, Mike Pence, the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, and the chairman of the joint chiefs, Gen Mark Milley, “whether he had options to take action against Iran’s main nuclear site in the coming weeks”, the newspaper says.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/17/trump-considered-striking-iran-nuclear-sites-after-election-loss




What's the point of being President if you cannot nuke at least one country?

Come on now, be fair. He doesn't want to nuke them, just bomb their nukes. Which is fine.

Nuke the herd?

Nuke the herd?

Cllr Ian Lewis, who represents Wallasey, resigned as leader of Wirral Conservatives over a "breakdown in relations" with the Wirral West Conservative Association.

A councillor nominated to replace Cllr Lewis has recently sparked outrage with comments he has made about those who want to rename streets which take their names from people historically linked to the slave trade

Cllr David Burgess-Joyce, who found himself embroiled in a viscous race row last year, and more recently accused people who want slave trader street names changed of launching a "Marxist national coup", has been nominated to take over the role.


In July Cllr Burgess-Joyce, who represents Greasby, Frankby and Irby, said: "To destroy history is a very slippery slope. If we as Conservatives support this move by the Marxists, who are using racial grievances to attempt a national coup, we do not deserve to be re-elected."

He also personally attacked Labour councillor Janette Williamson, calling her "the Marxist Williamson" and accused her of making a unilateral decision to change the name of Tobin Street in Wallasey.

At the time, he was suspended from the council’s Conservative group after comments about black Labour MP David Lammy and the Ku Klux Klan.

Right wingers everywhere seem to be completely losing their fucking marbles.

Viscous race row

They seem as lucid as ever.



(via An Dave)

Catie EdmondsonCatie EdmondsonCongressional Correspondent
“We need to get back to the rule of law. That is what is being violated,” Republican Paul Gosar says on the House floor, just as lawmakers gavel out of session as protesters descend on the House chamber.

House aides are yelling at lawmakers on the floor to stay seated and calm.

2:31 PM ET
Michael S. SchmidtMichael S. SchmidtWashington Correspondent
Protesters are yelling “Traitor Pence” outside the Capitol, our colleague Adam Goldman says.

2:32 PM ET
Carl HulseCarl HulseChief Washington correspondent
I’m surprised that protesters are being allowed to wander around the second floor and take pictures. It appears that Capitol Police have made a decision not to escalate.

2:32 PM ET
Catie EdmondsonCatie EdmondsonCongressional Correspondent
“Get down under your chairs if necessary,” House staff are telling lawmakers. “Stay calm.”

2:32 PM ET
Jim RutenbergJim RutenbergWriter-at-large
Carl, can the House and Senate leadership gavel this whole exercise to a close? Or does this have to run its course no matter what?

2:32 PM ET
Carl HulseCarl HulseChief Washington correspondent
Jim, I would think it has to run its course, though there is no time limit per se to the official proceedings, so they can recess and get the chaos under control.

2:33 PM ET
Charlie SavageCharlie SavageWashington Correspondent
Presidential aspirants who tried to become MAGA heir apparent by fanning these flames — Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz — are not getting the connotations they were hoping for.

2:33 PM ET
Alan RappeportAlan RappeportEconomic Policy Reporter
Mayor Bowser has just imposed a 6 p.m. curfew in Washington.


2:34 PM ET
Maggie HabermanMaggie HabermanWhite House Correspondent
This image of Trump supporters in MAGA hats roaming the corridors of the Senate is playing over and over on television.

2:34 PM ET
Catie EdmondsonCatie EdmondsonCongressional Correspondent
Some of them are also clearly carrying Confederate flags.

Jim RutenbergJim RutenbergWriter-at-large
This protest is now technically, objectively, an attack on the democratic process, which is what Congress was trying to undertake here.

2:35 PM ET
Catie EdmondsonCatie EdmondsonCongressional Correspondent
Steve Cohen, a Tennessee Democrat in the House, yells to Republicans to “Call Trump, tell him to call off his revolutionary guard.”

2:36 PM ET
Mark LeibovichMark LeibovichChief National Correspondent
It will be interesting to see what kind of back-up there is for the Capitol Police, National Guard and Washington police. This would seem to require a great deal of additional back-up...

@MittRomney
summoned me as lawmakers and press arrived at a secure location

“This is what the president has caused today, this insurrection,” he said w fury in his voice.

A lawmaker confirms to CNN that the House floor is being evacuated.



There’s an armed standoff at the House front door, and police officers have their guns drawn at someone who is trying to reach the front door.

Protesters, who breached the Capitol building, were reportedly heard banging on the doors of the House floor moments before the floor evacuation began.

This is still 2020 isn’t it?

Biden, speaking live now, hitting the right notes. And he isn't even president yet.

Jamiroquai is having a day out at least:

I go to sleep and wake up to this.

https://twitter.com/manwithlargehat/sta ... 9389862914

We're six days in and The Fonz calls for his President to be shot and gibbeted at a petrol station. This is different level dumbfounding. pic.twitter.com/ZwyivxpYSR

— Manwith Largehat (@manwithlargehat) January 7, 2021

On the loose for months—and a cause of great anxiety to the new Italian democracy—Mussolini's body was finally "recaptured" in August, hidden in a small trunk at the Certosa di Pavia, just outside Milan.

Still trying to get my head around it all. I mean, it was pretty clear that Trump was enabling and encouraging so many extremists but I never thought they'd actually succeed in storming the Capitol. As others have pondered, it's a heck of a contrast to the police/law enforcements during the BLM protests over the summer. That makes it very fishy.

At least he finally got banned from Twitter, so we now know that fomenting a coup is where their bar is.