One of the only moderately humorous parts of 1/6 was watching Greenwald & Tracey's 'the Libs are being hysterical about the threat of violence' narrative get destroyed in real time.
2 minutes later, a brief moment of realization that he goofed up.
"uhh ok I uhh guess it's just a little more energetic now."
And then after a brief quiet he just went righttt back to tone-policing 'the not-a-coup you hysterical libs' narrative (instead of just saying, 'I was wrong'), even as it was taking place in front of everyone's eyes. Such a good little not-a-Trumper.
Meanwhile his mentor Glenn was just doing his normal anti-anti-Dem shtick that day. His last tweet before everything went down was a good ol' whatabouting of the Dems (the real coup plotters).
And then the dam broke and the violence started and for some odd reason, even though he was doing all
English tweets that day, he just randomly started tweeting about it solely in Portuguese lol
(longtime Glem-heads will remember this as one of his favorite tics).
And then a(n convenient) hour of complete silence followed by a sputtering, 'uhh herr well how did the Deep State fail so badly? That's the real story here.'
And that was all the tweeting Glem (who'd been tweeting up a storm beforehand) would do the entire day of Jan. 6.
It's no wonder that they're both so insistent on playing down the events in/around 1/6; they realized they were wrong in real time, but like the rest of their GOP allies, just pivoted right back to owning the Libs, like it never even happened.
Now that's what I call #vindicated!
Given Nate's total silence now, I can only assume that he thinks this is all normal and acceptable (way more normal than having a well-planned cabinet meeting). Nothing authoritarian going on now!
These guys all used to react to every single utterance. Every single flub. Every anonymous background quote Politico article. And now...all of them are just completely silent.
So my one goal was to figure out how to get to this biosphere place. Of course no one could tell me where to get the bus. I went to the tourist information place & of course it was shuttered. Asked a young security guy at the building next door and he was like "she left already."
Basically I needed to find the collectivo (unofficial) bus stop and either no one knew or no one could communicate it to me.
I'm determined to figure this out. Just walking all throughout the city And what do I see: Escuela de Ingles.
So I'm like, if anyone can tell me...
So I knock on the door and this lady comes out and I'm like "hablas Ingles" and she says "a little." Well, that was a lie. She was the receptionist. But she did her best to try to explain to me in Spanish. But it wasn't landing.
If you follow Nate, you'll notice how in the rare times he comments on anything Trump does, it's done completely dispassionately; 'yes, Donald Trump seems to be covering up a report implicating himself with a notorious pedophile, but I doubt this will matter much."
Whereas with Biden, every time there was a sniff of a story or he flubbed a word, Nate was on it in minutes with something like, "Jesus Christ. Get this fucking dementia patient off stage. The Democrats will never be able to live this shame down!"
People ask, 'how could voters believe Dems have positions that they don't actually believe?' Well it's because the GOP bombarded them with lies about Dems and there's just not a great answer for such weaponized shamelessness. Truth just does not work.
The GOP (and its wealthy financial backers) have basically weaponized disinformation/lies to a completely unprecedent degree. And with the rise of technology are able to pump it out completely unchallenged (especially since social media outlets have completely given up).