The 1/6 hearings

[Katheryne Helendale]

I almost feel sad for him.

Almost.

 

[WolfEyes]

Since almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades, I almost feel sorry for Pence.

 

[Essence Lumin]

Walmart won't listen to him either. "They're canceling my pillows!"

Mike Lindell Rages at Walmart Over MyPillow Pull: 'You're Canceling Us'

"You're gonna be all over the news tomorrow," the combative CEO said he told a Walmart executive after the company pulled his products.

www.newsweek.com

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

If someone had told me two years ago that Mike Pence would be the wall protecting us from Christo-Fascists, I'd have looked at them like they were out of their fucking mind.

Yet... after today it turns out that is pretty much what he did.

And seriously, while I can't stand the Republican political mindset, I do find it telling that they are the ones testifying right now; and the ones giving us warnings that this was only the beginning, on the 6th and I'm scared for my country, because too many people supposedly on the Left are playing purist politics and railing against people, that while we do not agree on anything else, agree that we want to save our democracy, and if these people win in the fall? We're done.

 

[Free]

Jan. 6 panel calls Ginni Thomas to testify

Both Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney, the select committee's chair and vice chair, agreed Thursday that it was time to bring the Supreme Court justice's wife in for questioning.

www.politico.com

 

[WolfEyes]

Walmart won't listen to him either. "They're canceling my pillows!"

Mike Lindell Rages at Walmart Over MyPillow Pull: 'You're Canceling Us'

"You're gonna be all over the news tomorrow," the combative CEO said he told a Walmart executive after the company pulled his products.

www.newsweek.com

They got "cancelled" by Walmart because WM uses a point system and the sales fell below a certain level so WM stopped carrying them in the stores.

Despite his explanation, Walmart went through with removing the products. Walmart told Newsweek in an emailed statement, "While we are no longer carrying them in stores, MyPillow products continue to be available on Walmart.com."

It's nothing personal. After all, WM is a southern corporation.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

 

[Free]

What doesn't trigger Trump these days.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

What doesn't trigger Trump these days.

He gets all the best triggers!

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

I'm not sure whether this or the coup thread works better but since this touches on the hearings....


Read through, its frightening.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

Paywalled.

 

[Noodles]

The idea of Wal-mart cancelling MyPillow is so dumb. Wal-mart is essentially a machine. No one is pushing buttons anywhwere on what to carry, its generating what will sell with some algorythm somewhere. That alorythm said "MyPillows aren't selling". Simple as that.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

Paywalled.

Weird, though I just read the whole twitter thread, so I didn't read the article itself [its from the same person so.....]

 

[WolfEyes]

The idea of Wal-mart cancelling MyPillow is so dumb. Wal-mart is essentially a machine. No one is pushing buttons anywhwere on what to carry, its generating what will sell with some algorythm somewhere. That alorythm said "MyPillows aren't selling". Simple as that.

Weird. The Walmart I worked at a couple of years ago used the point system I mentioned upthread. They told us (SO and self) all Walmarts use that system. I guess you could call that an algorithm.

 

[Noodles]

Weird. The Walmart I worked at a couple of years ago used the point system I mentioned upthread. They told us (SO and self) all Walmarts use that system. I guess you could call that an algorithm.

I mean, it basically is. Its just ranking how much something is selling and tells if it gets shelf space.

 

[Free]

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

I'll be honest, I think they have been planning to call on Pence all along - he'd be a star witness, if not the headliner, one of the later acts, as it were.
I'd be surprised if he wasn't willing to speak too, because honestly, he isn't an idiot and has to see that if he wants to save his party [not that i think its still doable] he needs to do his part.

 

[Free]

Trump aides didn't know someone was filming Trump on January 6 until the House committee got the footage: reports

Aides have said they were shocked to discover that Alex Holder, a UK documentary maker, was filming Trump on January 6.

www.businessinsider.com

Aides to Donald Trump had no idea a documentary filmmaker had recorded the former president on Jan. 6, 2021, until the House committee investigating that day subpoenaed the footage, reports said.

The New York Times reported that many top Trump advisors were surprised by news of the project, which only a small circle of close Trump aides knew about.

According to the Times it had been organised by Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and was meant to be a "legacy project" for Trump.

Some legacy. We're so, so lucky Trump's team were such blundering, egocentric shits. Imagine what they could have gotten away with if they knew how to rub 2 sticks together.

 

[Veritable Quandry]

Trump aides didn't know someone was filming Trump on January 6 until the House committee got the footage: reports

Aides have said they were shocked to discover that Alex Holder, a UK documentary maker, was filming Trump on January 6.

www.businessinsider.com

Some legacy. We're so, so lucky Trump's team were such blundering, egocentric shits. Imagine what they could have gotten away with if they knew how to rub 2 sticks together.

campaign's legal team seemed surprised

Never a good omen. Don't surprise your lawyers.

 

[Khamon]

He should erase eighteen-and-a-half minutes of useless footage just to be funneh.