Navalny tried telling Putin he had a week planned in the Catskills, but it didn’t go over so well.
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Yep…and with the encouragement of congresscritters. The fox(es) are definitely in the henhouse.
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Maybe they thought that because their dear leader has gone his entire life free of consequences.
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That’s what demagogues do.
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But, of the group formally accused of breaching the Capitol as of last week, the Chicago researchers found that a full 89% were unaffiliated with existing right-wing extremist groups.
This is only true if you aren’t counting MAGA as not a right-wing extremist group.
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Study concludes that most apples are not oranges.
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She can’t be serious.
Or, she’s so out of touch, she really doesn’t grasp the magnitude of the shit she wandered into.
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Yes, I think that is the case for a number of the idiots swept up in it. They were awed at the prospect of being one of Trump’s “apprentices” so to speak. He was saying all the things they’d been thinking, but had been told was “inappropriate” and his “saying the quiet part out loud” helped erased some of their inhibitions.
Somewhere else (maybe another article here), someone was saying that the first step to deprogramming is to remove the affected individual from the source of instigation. I think Trump’s removal from the public eye will put a lot of these angry morons back into their closet and they won’t continue to be a participant in these extremist actions. They are by and large followers and if the “leader” is gone, they don’t know how to act on their own.
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This is what happens when you upload fascism to the cloud.
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All through that article, I am thinking Steve Bannon and it also sounds like an honest to god Russian Psyop. The latter have a reputation for understanding and manipulating people in this way.
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I think the trip is actually key to her defense. “How can I be a radical? Would a radical go on a work retreat to Mexico with a bunch of middle-class [white] Texans? If the margarita fits, you must acquit!”
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My suspicion is that TPM cedes editorial control of article titling to its newswriters and reporters. Since they seem to fall in the same age cohort that would include undergrad students I have taught in the last ~10 years, and they exhibit some of the same phraseological oddities of that cohort, I further suspect that word choices like this are generational as much as anything.
For “trend”, I’m mentally substituting “pattern”.
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She took a field trip to the Capitol, participated in violent attempt to over throw our democracy, got caught and now wants the court to give the OK for a vacation to Mexico. What an entitled delusional idiot.
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I can’t say I wish her well with this defense. Nor can I understand a mind that seems to confuse the seditious storming of our seat of government with a company picnic that got out of hand.
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Insurrectuenza.
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There has definitely been an uptick around these parts in usages like So-and-so “drags” so-and-so and other constructions that make me feel like I’m about to have a “shaking fist at cloud” old-guy moment.
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I’m guessing you aren’t from Texas? 
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Her lawyer must be thinking it’s a new form affluenza.
Not that he/she is too far wrong in that, but I can’t see it getting much mileage.
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So they checked the wind sock?