Watch live coverage as the House of Representatives convenes to vote on an article of impeachment against President Donald Trump for “incitement of insurrection” in urging his supporters to march on the Capitol last week.
Don’t give him a chance to come back! IMPEACH AND CONVICT!!!
GOHMERT! https://t.co/CVJ3YVt5cN pic.twitter.com/roqnVGCff1
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 13, 2021
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Cedric Richmond wearing a mask that says “Good Trouble”. I like that.
When Gohmert came on the radio, I turned it off. I’ll be back.
I fear Charles is right, so it will be up to the prosecutors to prevent Trump from making a comeback in 2024. He must be indicted, convicted and incarcerated for his crimes.
Get ready to see the Republican Party refuse to convict Donald Trump again, even after everything that’s happened.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 13, 2021
Republicans are being exactly as disgusting and hypocritical as they always are. And this time they’re defending outright sedition and insurrection. https://t.co/CVJ3YVt5cN
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 13, 2021
Longworth House Building pic.twitter.com/TNEXAJt1KO
— Scott Wong (@scottwongDC) January 13, 2021
re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Don’t give him a chance to
come backfundraise! IMPEACH AND CONVICT!!!
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re: #3 Charles Johnson
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I’m happy with the changes. No crashing. I really like the choice of choosing what Tweets to read as well.
We’re going to find out these House GOP speakers were/are in the plot up to their eyeballs.
re: #3 Charles Johnson
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I think that infringes on my 1st Amendment rights somehow!?
re: #12 jaunte
We’re going to find out these House GOP speakers were/are in the plot up to their eyeballs.
LOCK THEM UP!
NEWS —> McConnell’s office called Schumer’s people today + told them McConnell would not consent to reconvening immediately under the 2004 emergency authorities, a person familiar says. So the Senate won’t reconvene Friday, or almost certainly before Jan. 19. Trial in Biden term
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) January 13, 2021
“I don’t know why there aren’t more uprisings in this country. Maybe there will be,” GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert says while standing in the same building complex that came under attack exactly one week ago in a violent uprising that killed 5 people.
— Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D (@RVAwonk) January 13, 2021
Here’s one.
re: #11 451_Montag
I’m happy with the changes. No crashing. I really like the choice of choosing what Tweets to read as well.
agreed. I am not on Twitter by choice and not out of protest for banning Trump…
re: #13 b.d. (We Won!)
I think that infringes on my 1st Amendment rights somehow!?
Just call me Stalin. You wouldn’t be the first!
NEWS —> McConnell’s office called Schumer’s people today + told them McConnell would not consent to reconvening immediately under the 2004 emergency authorities, a person familiar says. So the Senate won’t reconvene Friday, or almost certainly before Jan. 19. Trial in Biden term
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) January 13, 2021
re: #11 451_Montag
I’m happy with the changes. No crashing. I really like the choice of choosing what Tweets to read as well.
I also like being able to click “Show embedded tweets” at the top of the page for viewing while on a laptop.
Cancel culture is out of control if you can be cancelled for something as small as beating a cop to death with a fire extinguisher.
— Tentin Quarantino (@agraybee) January 13, 2021
Jeff Van Drew wearing quite the suit here.
Rep. Jason Crow just told Hallie Jackson on MSNBC that, the days leading up to the Capitol insurrection, he witnessed Congresspeople giving group tours, including groups flashing the white power sign for photos.
— 🇺🇸Catherine 0️⃣7️⃣ DAYS! #PresBidenVPHarris 🥁 (@CMargaronis) January 13, 2021
re: #250 The Pie Overlord!
I have the same amount of siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins as any other family, it is only MY OWN OFFSPRING & their begats that are world-conquering.
A new generation is rising now that my grandson is engaged. HERE COME THE GREAT GRANDKIDS.
Still waiting for your family to move to my village so we can conquer it and start our socialistic utopia. /s
Re: Parler. Has Parler ever explained why they could throw Devin Nunes’ Cow off their platform but have no problems with users who spew racist, anti-Semitic, and insurrectionist propaganda? My SIL abandoned Twitter and migrated to Parler in November — describing it as a move Onward and Upward. I’m sure she is ranting on FB about what’s happening. My brother doesn’t do social media.
My guesses about why they did not attend the DC rally: they avoid superspreader events and, like many in my our age range, they don’t want to be standing outside for hours — we all need back support.
Charles, thanks for fixing the crashing issue for us iPhone people. I mostly use my phone these days, since I got a desktop instead of a laptop, and having LGF not work for me was a bit of a pain. I also missed a ton of conversations, and all that goes with that. So thanks for working on those little and big things that make this place work.
Not sure if this is real or not…
Due process, baby! But this tastes good… pic.twitter.com/hudjpr3Yql
— 🇺🇸Catherine 0️⃣7️⃣ DAYS! #PresBidenVPHarris 🥁 (@CMargaronis) January 13, 2021
re: #16 jaunte
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Here’s one.
It is becoming more and more obvious that the GOP’s feigned outrage about last week’s attempted coup isn’t because there was because the Capitol was attacked.
They are only sad that the insurrection wasn’t successful, and that Democratic congressmen were not systematically murdered.
And now for something completely different:
*takes bite of Pringle* yes *nods at date then waiter* we’ll have the tube
— Jon (@ArfMeasures) January 12, 2021
Republicans aren’t just acting like clowns, they’re dressing like them too. https://t.co/CVJ3YVt5cN pic.twitter.com/XGGQpDPoYo
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 13, 2021
re: #3 Charles Johnson
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Strange. I see no difference. Clicking on it recycles the tweet, then it displays exactly as it did before.
The unchecked “show embedded tweets” makes no difference on my computer.
Are these things only for cell phones? (I don’t have troubles with long displays of comments.)
re: #16 jaunte
Here’s one.
Was he quoting Pelosi, I know that has been pretty popular the past couple of days, quoting democrats like Waters and Booker for telling people to get in the faces of elected republicans and Trump admin officials, and that is almost a word for word quote from Pelosi when she was talking about migrant detention:
“I just don’t even know why there aren’t uprisings all over the country. And maybe there will be, when people realize that this is a policy that they defend,”
One of the GOP Critters is whining about hollywood actors being mean to Trump. This is what he spent his 2 minutes on.
Ken Buck: OBAMA! KATHY GRIFFIN! NO COLLUSION!
This is pathetic. https://t.co/CVJ3YVt5cN— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 13, 2021
re: #257 NO SMOCKING GUN!
My paternal grandparents had 15 children, who have all passed now. The last one, Aunt Nellie, passed away in 2019. I have tons of cousins.
My grandparents (both sides) had two children. My mother had two before my father was killed.
My maternal uncle and his wife had five children before he was killed; she had a sixth child with her second husband before she died.
One cousin has no children, the others have one to three.
My sister has no children; I have one adult son.
re: #19 Charles Johnson
I hope Schumer impressed upon McConnell that any seditious shit that Trump does after the house votes to impeach will be on McConnell’s hands (including the blood of the injured and dead). I hope Schumer and Pelosi and everyone else state that loud and often to the media
re: #6 NO SMOCKING GUN!
I fear Charles is right, so it will be up to the prosecutors to prevent Trump from making a comeback in 2024. He must be indicted, convicted and incarcerated for his crimes.
NY state AG Letitia James maybe: “I’m on that.”
re: #20 Ming5000
I also like being able to click “Show embedded tweets” at the top of the page for viewing while on a laptop.
Safari on my IPhone6 iOS 14.3 and when loading the page, unfortunately, the existing embedded tweets display, even though the box is unchecked.
Several pro-Trump rioters have been identified as off-duty cops from across the country. https://t.co/NMzdniL19k
— REVOLT TV (@revolttv) January 12, 2021
But “defund the police” is extreme.
re: #35 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
My grandparents (both sides) had two children. My mother had two before my father was killed.
My maternal uncle and his wife had five children before he was killed; she had a sixth child with her second husband before she died.
One cousin has no children, the others have one to three.
My sister has no children; I have one adult son.
Lessee, as far as I know, my dad had a sister and three brothers, my mom had a sister and a half-brother.
Did not know about your adult son, I have one who is turning 15 this year…
Matt Gaetz: “Biden Crime Family.”
What about unity?
I can confirm this.
I spoke with a GOP member moments ago, asking if it is true that there are House Republicans who favor impeachment but fear for their lives/physical safety if they follow through with that vote.
Answer: “Yes.” https://t.co/5XqWVDzwdN— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) January 13, 2021
Assholes will not be deterred by sedition and death.
During impeachment debate one of my republican colleagues just ranted about Robert De Niro, Madonna, and Kathy Griffin saying mean things about trump. He did this to defend trump’s insurrection. I wish I were making that up. This is the republican party.
— Bill Pascrell, Jr. (@BillPascrell) January 13, 2021
Matt Gaetz ranting insanely about “the Biden crime family.” https://t.co/CVJ3YVt5cN pic.twitter.com/Ze9G6a01ek
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 13, 2021
Ken Buck: Sarah Sanders got thrown out of a restaurant! Clearly an insurrection is the only possible response!
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 13, 2021
If you voted for him it’s one thing.
If you still support him after he revealed himself as enabling white supremacy and inciting a violent coup to overthrow our democracy, then you deserve to be ostracized hereon in. There is no unifying with this trash.— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) January 13, 2021
Republicans really trying to reach the dudes cut off from them on Parler.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) January 13, 2021
Good, I’m not the only one who’s hearing that. https://t.co/zVAdJi2w9m
— Jonathan Capehart (@CapehartJ) January 13, 2021
re: #16 jaunte
Here’s one.
Apologists are trying to claim Rep. Gohmert is quoting Rep. Pelosi from last summer (context-free, about caged migrant children, and she wasn’t calling for an armed insurrection).
re: #45 jaunte
Saying mean… and accurate .. things about Trump is in no way the same as Trump inciting an armed insurrection and failed coup.
These GOP treasonweasels are broken. Morally bankrupt. Amoral fucknuts who play magic balance fairy between an unelected person’s 1st Amendment right to criticize Trump and Trump’s criminal acts all throughout his stint in the WH.
Republicans who claim they oppose impeachment on the grounds that it will cause more violence from Trump supporters are essentially renouncing their status as representatives of a republic where the law governs, and saying they’re fine with mob rule as long as it’s THEIR mob.
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) January 13, 2021
re: #40 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Lessee, as far as I know, my dad had a sister and three brothers, my mom had a sister and a half-brother.
Did not know about your adult son, I have one who is turning 15 this year…
My son is thirty-three.
Republicans making it very fucking clear that there isn’t going to be any “unity” with them. These people are hateful, cynical, and deeply insane.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 13, 2021
Stick the Section 3 of the 14th Amendment shiv into Gaetz and Gohmert Pyle.
Throw those motherfuckers out of the House.
re: #56 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
My son is thirty-three.
Your son is the same age as Jesus…that must make you God.
Gaetz is still desperate for approval from Dear Leader.
Incidentally, the plaque on the wall commemorates Union troops that were quartered there to defend against the last insurrection. The more things change, etc… pic.twitter.com/UCxSEOqunx
— SAL (@Salah_al_Dog) January 13, 2021
Never forget that this rat bastard traitor took bribes from Lev Parnas #KremlinKevin @GOPLeader #LockHimUpNow #GOPSeditiousTraitors #ImpeachmentDay pic.twitter.com/S6F3oHZwtT
— Tara Dublin Says #ImpeachTrumpNOW (@taradublinrocks) January 13, 2021
GOP, the party of Kumbaya… https://t.co/KWh5ItyA8u
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) January 13, 2021
re: #30 Charles Johnson
Looks like a tiny KKK rally in his chest pocket.
— Dave Grillo (@dgrill0) January 13, 2021
When did McCarthy ever criticize Fox for “fanning the flames of division?”
re: #43 Dread Pirate Ron
Those republican house members are going to have to be afraid for their lives for the rest of their lives even if they vote against impeachment. The seditionist won’t go away even if they’re given what they want now.
RASKIN goes through litany of destruction caused by “bloodthirsty” mob.
“It’s a bit much to be hearing that these people would not be trying to destroy our government and kill us if we just weren’t so mean to them.”— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) January 13, 2021
re: #66 stpaulbear
Those republican house members are going to have to be afraid for their lives for the rest of their lives even if they vote against impeachment. The seditionist won’t go away even if they’re given what they want now.
Exactly the point I was thinking of. No matter which way these guys vote, they’re fucked. There is a small part of me that actually feels sorry for them, being in such an awful position.
Kevin McCarthy says there is “absolutely no evidence” that Antifa took part in the riots at the Capitol.
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) January 13, 2021
Debunking once again that bulkshit claim by some right wingers that this was a “false flag” op. Nope. It’s all Trumpists and MAGA and goddamned Nazis and right wing domestic terrorists.
After Van Drew voted to reject the election results, he argued today that impeachment would take away the voice of all the people who support the president.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 13, 2021
Van Drew is a lunatic who thinks supporting armed insurrection is okay? This wasn’t merely supporting Trump. This was Trump inciting his followers to storm the Capitol, overthrow the government and install Trump as leader ignoring the election results.
Fuck the GOP and every last one of these treasonweasels with a rusty pitchfork sideways.
Enforced “unity” with slavers is how we got here.
re: #63 Dread Pirate Ron
GOP, the party of Kumbaya… https://t.co/KWh5ItyA8u
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) January 13, 2021
So has anyone suggested that their refusal to acknowledge that Biden legitimately won the election is a impenetrable stumbling block to any hope of unity? Anyone who voted to decertify Biden electors has no business speaking on the floor. They can rant on Twitter since they still have access to that platform.
All of this right-wing whining about Twitter produced a Deja Vu moment for me last night, and I dug out a post I wrote for another blog in 2013. Remember the TGDN (Twitter Gulag Defense Network) and the major whining that went on? Actually, I should thank them for making me take another look at LGF, once I realized it was no longer “Little Freep Greenballs.” (The TGDN “warriors” seemed to place a lot of blame for their hardships on Charles.)
Here’s a little section of that post. I should point out that, if they decide to revive this group, they’ll have to find a new leader as I haven’t seen anything about Todd Kincannon since he called for the execution of Ebola patients, threatened his wife, had his law license revoked and, oh murdered a dog while proclaiming himself the second coming of Christ.
Remember, this was written in 2013—
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In the thirty years I’ve been watching US politics has the American right never slowed or mitigated it’s position that the center and the left are both fundamentally unserious and an existential threat. At critical points where such outreach was possible—such as 9/11—they opted to leverage shared tragedies to further emphasize how anyone that questioned their ideology or methods was dangerous and/or dumb.
The kindest reading I can give of rightist discourse is that the “reasonable” conservatives simply go cognitively-dissonant rather than acknowledge that the “unreasonable” conservatives they break bread with are constantly engaged in duckspeak.
…but after repeated rounds of them “discovering” the cultural forces that provide their voting base and simply doing more doublethink, there’s no reason to think even that this time will be different, even as they insist they’re acting out of some kind of principle.
An easy optics win for someone would be to resource some cots for all those National Guard soldiers trying to catch a nap on the floor of the Capitol building.
— Lethality Jane (@LethalityJane) January 13, 2021
GOP 1945: We shouldn’t prosecute Nazis for war crimes. It’s a time for unity.
We’re focusing so much on parsing the President’s words before the attack that we’re forgetting the fact that the President also refused to send help and reportedly enjoyed the show on TV.
— Eyes on the Right (@EyesOnTheRight) January 13, 2021
re: #76 Dr. Matt
GOP 1945: We shouldn’t prosecute Nazis for war crimes. It’s a time for unity.
Somebody has to run the telephones and railroads…
Boebert needs lessons from Malkin on how to look batshit crazy. She sucks at this point.
These republicans are absolutely 100% irredeemable pieces of shit.
re: #43 Dread Pirate Ron
Then resign and get out of the way.
re: #74 Dr. Matt
ARRESTED!
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Sanford firefighter spotted among U.S. Capitol mob arrested by feds
Sanford Florida…. which is historically known as a hotbed of white supremacist and racism. That’s a legacy that goes back decades, even before Trayvon Martin was murdered. It goes back to the founding of the locality and its hostile merger with a neighboring town that was predominantly African American dispossessing those folks of their jobs and positions in one fell swoop. It got worse from there.
Republican Dan Newshouse announces he is a ‘yes’ on impeachment
— Lisa Desjardins (@LisaDNews) January 13, 2021
re: #77 The Ghost of a Flea
We’re focusing so much on parsing the President’s words before the attack that we’re forgetting the fact that the President also refused to send help and reportedly enjoyed the show on TV.
He told protestors (before they turned into a mob storming the Capitol) “I’ll be with you!”
What a bloviating coward. He knew that he was not about to go along even if he physically could make it up the Capitol steps…
re: #84 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He told protestors (before they turned into a mob storming the Capitol) “I’ll be with you!”
What a bloviating coward. He knew that he was not about to go along even if he physically could make it up the Capitol steps…
I wouldn’t necessarily say it was cowardice. I truly believe that he wanted to go, and would have if he had been given a choice. I am convinced that he was strong-armed, perhaps literally (by agents of the Secret Service), into going back to the White House instead.
re: #74 Dr. Matt
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…Williams appeared to film himself boasting as he joined hundreds of extremists who stormed the Capitol while Congress was confirming President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
“How are they going to arrest every single person?” the man filming the videos, whose appearance and attire matched a photo of Williams that surfaced a earlier last week, said in one of the clips.
They feel the same way about insurrection as they do about the pandemic.
re: #85 thedopefishlives
I wouldn’t necessarily say it was cowardice. I truly believe that he wanted to go. I am convinced that he was strong-armed, perhaps literally (by agents of the Secret Service), into going back to the White House instead.
Which he must have known. Again why did he say it? He is not that fucking stupid - he can be very refined when it comes to manipulating the masses.
SCOTUS justice rushers worried about a rush impeachment.
re: #85 thedopefishlives
I wouldn’t necessarily say it was cowardice. I truly believe that he wanted to go, and would have if he had been given a choice. I am convinced that he was strong-armed, perhaps literally (by agents of the Secret Service), into going back to the White House instead.
I think he’s a coward, both in that he wouldn’t put himself in physical harm and he wouldn’t ever put himself out there to accept blame.
Every time he does firey rhetoric he includes the perfunctory disavowal.
This smoke Democrats are showing today was required every single day of the Trump presidency. It’s why Republicans can’t quite believe this is happening.💨
— Midwin Charles, Esq. (@MidwinCharles) January 13, 2021
re: #85 thedopefishlives
I wouldn’t necessarily say it was cowardice. I truly believe that he wanted to go, and would have if he had been given a choice. I am convinced that he was strong-armed, perhaps literally (by agents of the Secret Service), into going back to the White House instead.
I recall some article that claimed he had been told by the Secret Service well before the speech that, for security reasons, he would be unable to accompany the crowd.
re: #88 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Which he must have known. Again why did he say it? He is not that fucking stupid - he can be very refined when it comes to manipulating the masses.
He did know it beforehand; this has been publicized. He said it, I think, to officially put his seal of approval on the whole goings-on and to assure them that he is with them. I think, because he is a fucking moron, he didn’t think through the ramifications of, “If I don’t go with them and this whole thing falls flat, people might be upset at me for not showing up when I said I would.”
Crow is right. Numerous House Rs have received death threats in the past week, and I know for a fact several members *want* to impeach but fear casting that vote could get them or their families murdered.
Not spinning or covering for anyone. Just stating the chilling reality. https://t.co/K523T9oP91— Tim Alberta (@TimAlberta) January 13, 2021
R hypocrite Texas now concerned about Coronavirus.
re: #91 jaunte
It can’t be kept up every single day, no matter how much we might want to. But Democrats did it a lot.
Nothing turns my stomach more thoroughly than Republicans citing Abraham Lincoln to back up their bigotry and sedition.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 13, 2021
re: #76 Dr. Matt
GOP 1945: We shouldn’t prosecute Nazis for war crimes. It’s a time for unity.
With the benefit of hindsight, would you say that the Nuremberg Trials were divisive ?
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) January 12, 2021
There is hella more evidence of incitement to insurrection than evidence of election-changing voter fraud
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) January 13, 2021
re: #97 Charles Johnson
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We should transport some electromagnets to Springfield; we could probably power the country for several years by harnessing the energy of Lincoln spinning in his grave.
Hey Rep Posey: you’re damn right we have harangued that traitor since day 1. He blood libeled Muslims, labeled Mexicans as rapists & murderers, denigrated women, & called to kill 5 innocent teens w/state sponsored murder, and he governed just like he speaks.#ExpelTheTraitors
— Indivisible Houston (@indivisibleHOU) January 13, 2021
The R’s seem to think it awful to Impeach just a few days before out-of-office. That was part of Trump’s style.
So @CoriBush denounces white supremacy on the House floor, and the Republicans literally boo.
OK, then. That is very clear.— Anand Giridharadas (@AnandWrites) January 13, 2021
99% of Republicans: What happened was un-American. But let’s not be divisive by holding the one man responsible for it all, responsible for it.
re: #92 Hecuba’s daughter
I recall some article that claimed he had been told by the Secret Service well before the speech that, for security reasons, he would be unable to accompany the crowd.
He fucking well knew that but said it anyways. That really sums him up to a T.
re: #55 jaunte
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Republicans who claim they oppose impeachment on the grounds that it will cause more violence from Trump supporters are essentially renouncing their status as representatives of a republic where the law governs, and saying they’re fine with mob rule as long as it’s THEIR mob.
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) January 13, 2021
Cori Bush spit the fire and they boo’d. Screw them.
Every Honor Code I’ve ever been subject to ends with “or tolerate those who do”.
No Republican who votes to not impeach or to acquit can be considered a person of honor.
Because, at the least, they are tolerating this kind of behavior.@GOP— Fred Harding (@OPCGhost) January 13, 2021
I get it, but some of us just spent the last 2 years taking stances that have led to repeated attempts on our lives - for demanding guaranteed healthcare, immigrant justice, etc.
Sorry if this lacks empathy, but it’s a privilege if this is their first time. They can do one vote. https://t.co/PGPObm4K2C— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) January 13, 2021
“Democrats criticized Trump. So of course MAGA fans committed murder and attempted a coup. There’s blame on both sides. Oh, and don’t forget black people who protested injustice last summer. Did we manage to get their votes thrown out? No? They voted? Well, it’s their fault too.”
— Kurt “Masks Save Lives” Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) January 13, 2021
re: #100 thedopefishlives
MLK, Jr. is another power source as his name was invoked to support the GOP’s armed insurrection to overthrow the government.
For a second there, I thought GOPer Nancy Mace was actually going to be a normal principled Republican, and then she used Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King’s words to side with terrorism and both sides everything. I was so wrong.
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) January 13, 2021
Mind you, the white supremacists considered MLK and other civil rights figures enemies of the state for daring to seek equality - let alone reparations for the generations of harm they suffered thanks to institutionalized racism, slavery, and all that comes with it.
Now, they’re invoking his name to support the overthrow of the government to keep a thoroughly corrupt and compromised treasonweasel in power.
re: #68 thedopefishlives
Exactly the point I was thinking of. No matter which way these guys vote, they’re fucked. There is a small part of me that actually feels sorry for them, being in such an awful position.
Not me. They put themselves in it.
Sowing: Hahahaha!
Reaping: I’m fuqued.
They spent two full months trying to throw out Black votes in four States but want to talk unity? What were they going to do if they won in court? Just say “I was kidding, never mind, let’s unify”?
— Midwin Charles, Esq. (@MidwinCharles) January 13, 2021
Rep. Jim McGovern says that for all of the House GOP’s talk of healing, Rep. Jim Jordan declined McGovern’s invitation to recite five words:
“The election was not stolen.”— Adam Klasfeld (@KlasfeldReports) January 13, 2021
JFC…
“Trump or we burn the country” pic.twitter.com/DXtGmKSQ0E
— Christian Vanderbrouk (@UrbanAchievr) June 8, 2020
Is this Perry dude suggesting that Pelosi let this happen? And this is my favorite argument — that the president* can’t incite an attack that was pre-planned.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) January 13, 2021
This fucker is pretending Jan 6 was an antifa plot.
re: #118 jaunte
This fucker is pretending Jan 6 was an antifa plot.
They made sure that talking point was in place before the attack on the Capitol even started.
re: #109 jaunte
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Every Honor Code I’ve ever been subject to ends with “or tolerate those who do”.
No Republican who votes to not impeach or to acquit can be considered a person of honor.
Because, at the least, they are tolerating this kind of behavior.@GOP— Fred Harding (@OPCGhost) January 13, 2021
Sorry”tolerating” is not nearly strong enough
Supporting
Encouraging
Participating
Cheering
Instigating
Fomenting
Goading
Inciting
Inflaming
I’ve been saying it since the day the pu$$y tape came out
You support a pig, You are a goddamn fucking pig.
Lady G continues to kiss Trump’s ass.
“Sen. Lindsey Graham is leading the charge against President Donald Trump’s impeachment and removal in the Senate, even as the White House remains largely uninvolved,” Politico reported Wednesday.
Just waiting to find out what Shithead has on Lady G…
re: #121 🌹UOJB!
Lady G continues to kiss Trump’s ass.
“Sen. Lindsey Graham is leading the charge against President Donald Trump’s impeachment and removal in the Senate, even as the White House remains largely uninvolved,” Politico reported Wednesday.
Just waiting to find out what Shithead has on Lady G…
Graham is a remora. Trump’s just got the biggest ass.
The guys in the back are throwing white power signs. Because of course they are. https://t.co/pviNxddl6o
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 13, 2021
I shot this photo during my commute this morning next to the red Trump barn east of Greenwood. pic.twitter.com/mVqdQbEJkB
— Riley Johnson (@LJSRileyJohnson) January 13, 2021
I like this title: New metal detectors in Congress are also detecting Republican entitlement.
GOP is the party of The Big Lies. They all keep telling them.
re: #123 Charles Johnson
That photo isn’t of the US Capitol, but the state capitol from 2019. All else is valid - throwing down WP symbols and value signaling that they’re white supremacists.
R continues to lie about Trump’s Russia connections.
re: #123 Charles Johnson
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See Daniel Dale:
This viral photo is from a Colorado gun rights rally in December 2019, not from last week in Washington. (The tweeter deleted it after I messaged him; he said he’d been sent the inaccurate info by a Boebert constituent.) pic.twitter.com/c7CGTQyfap
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 13, 2021
Photo from a different event in 2019
Greg Steube just falsely claimed that Mueller said no conspiracy or collusion.
re: #114 jaunte
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Unity hell.
The wild fire isn’t even under control yet
In fact it’s totally out of control if their own words are to be believed
You want unity?
First put the fire out
Then determine who was responsible and who made it worse
Add in who wouldn’t let us fight the fire to put it out
Let them admit and take responsibility (critical!)
Prosecute fairly and administer equal justice
No pardons or leniency. And no retribution or revenge either.
Then we can start to talk about unity and reconciliation
This “pretend it never happened cause theyll get madder” bullshit is…bullshit.
Every last GOPer arguing against impeachment because of “unity” seem to want everyone to whistle past the part where Trump’s armed insurrectionists murdered a cop and sought to kill the VP and other members of Congress, including GOPers. Quite the graveyard.
— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) January 13, 2021
The Booger Eaters are doubling down.
Secret Service Warns the Boogaloos Are Coming to D.C., States
The Secret Service has issued an intelligence bulletin warning of additional armed protests in Washington before and after the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden—particularly from the Boogaloo Boys—that in some cases it expects to become violent.
The Secret Service bulletin, dated Jan. 11, is unclassified but marked not for distribution outside law-enforcement channels, and was obtained by The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast is declining to give specifics for these rallies to prevent insurrectionists from organizing through the media.
Just remember folks, the Republicans say these motherfuckers are peaceful protesters!
Spread the word:
NO UNITY WITH TRAITORS, NO HEALING FOR TERRORISTS!
Every one of these Republicans sounds so fucking arrogant.
re: #135 Eclectic Cyborg
Every one of these Republicans sounds so fucking arrogant.
The all think they’re above the law.
re: #60 Dr. Matt
Gaetz is still desperate for approval from Dear Leader.
I skipped past Gaetz. No good would have come from listening to him. Jordan was bad enough.
re: #112 lawhawk
That tweet about Rep. Mace was deleted quickly.
I’m guessing our esteemed host Mr. Johnson’s updates to the Website regarding Twitter embeds is getting a real workout on this thread.
re: #115 Dr. Matt
Still can’t bring themselves to ban Nazis I see, plus she has two accounts. Are they both locked?
re: #140 Eclectic Cyborg
Oh God. Q bot is up.
I let some time build up in the DVR, so was able to skip her.
LMAO seeing a post on relatives pages from Franky Graham Cracker STILL calling to overturn the election…
re: #117 Teukka
JFC…
Why isn’t that asshole banned? Oh right, libertarian. Can’t ban libertarians who call for the murder of people.
Why can’t Republicans figure out how to keep their fucking masks over their noses?
re: #146 BeachDem
Because wearing a mask under your nose is a big fuck you to the world.
re: #146 BeachDem
Why can’t Republicans figure out how to keep their fucking masks over their noses?
It’s intentional. They know they’re doing it wrong.
re: #147 🌹UOJB!
I’d pay to see him in prison.
“How’s your ass holding up?”
re: #123 Charles Johnson
That photo was at the Colorado state capitol, not DC.
re: #146 BeachDem
Why can’t Republicans figure out how to keep their fucking masks over their noses?
It’s awfully hard to pick out a booger if a mask covers their nose…
re: #146 BeachDem
Why can’t Republicans figure out how to keep their fucking masks over their noses?
If it’s over their nose, they can smell the bullshit coming out of their mouths.
re: #152 🌹UOJB!
It’s awfully hard to pick out a booger if a mask covers their nose…
Plus it helps not being directly in the mask to smell the shit coming out of their mouths.
The death of irony: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene wears a mask that says “censored” as she speaks into a microphone in the House Chamber on national television.
— Karen Tumulty (@ktumulty) January 13, 2021
re: #153 Punish Domestic Terrorists
If it’s over their nose, they can smell the bullshit coming out of their mouths.
I type too slow :-)
re: #150 nines09
I’d pay to see him in prison.
“How’s your ass holding up?”
No. Just no. Not appropriate.
Brits know how to smack down Assholes.
Sure do wish we would see this done on American TV!
One of the great interviews with a deluded Trump supporter by @adamboultonSKY. Just wait for the ending pic.twitter.com/e4ET7HLqMe
— Matthew Garrahan (@MattGarrahan) January 13, 2021
“I’m not saying the president exercised poor judgement”
~GOP 2021
re: #155 BeachDem
Not a new schtik.
The Republicans so sound like abusers.
“I know I knocked you around last week, but I’m really sorry now, honest. You’ve got to believe me! Let’s just make it like it never happened, okay?”
Sorry, boys. Ain’t gonna happen.— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) January 13, 2021
There’s an actual Russian republican? Who woulda thunk it.
It’s incredibly depressing that people just pretend like El Paso and Tree of Life didn’t happen when they talk about Trump inciting violence with his rhetoric.
— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) January 13, 2021
Everyone already forgot about the right wing terrorist bombing in Nashville, 2 weeks ago.
Just days ago, the RNC was sending out thoroughly dishonest fundraising appeals claiming the election was stolen from Trump.
Today, this: pic.twitter.com/kqIAhYpqCG— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) January 13, 2021
re: #43 Dread Pirate Ron
They’re not afraid of mean tweets or losing their next election; they’re afraid of Eric Prince and pardoned war criminals
To be very clear: Trump’s role in last week’s violence is not centered on the speech he gave that morning. It follows from months of coddling fringe actors and months of insistences that the election would be stolen and months of claims that it was. https://t.co/jyFPScOSZu
— Philip Bump (@pbump) January 13, 2021
Yes, Marjorie Taylor Greene is wearing a mask that says “CENSORED” as she speaks into a microphone on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. pic.twitter.com/i7401gseIU
— Jessie Opoien (@jessieopie) January 13, 2021
Mama Maxine lays the smack down!
Maxine Waters says out loud what every liberal is really thinking - every time: https://t.co/KLOh9Urxzm
— Antipartisan Politics (@RecovringSinner) January 13, 2021
re: #167 jaunte
It’s an entire range of behaviors, the most visible of which is the speech the day of the armed insurrection.
It has to include the steps to undermine the security at the Capitol, the refusal to send troops and FBI and security to Capitol after Capitol Police was overrun and the VP’s life was threatened.
It has to include the months of inciting his base to ignore the results of the election with nonstop lies. It has to go back to 2017 when Trump said openly he wouldn’t accept the results of any election he lost.
I haven’t noticed a single non-white person speaking for the GOP.
I love how Republicans are calling Dems “our friends from across the aisle” after aiding and abetting their attempted murders.
— Laffy (@GottaLaff) January 13, 2021
The dude at the dais now just talked about lives lost over the summer, but failed to mention that ALL of the protesters murdered this summer were killed by the same sort who stormed the Capitol.
— Anika (@faboomama) January 13, 2021
re: #117 Teukka
JFC…
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re: #169 🌹UOJB!
Mama Maxine lays the smack down!
Young liberals: Rep. Waters telling it like it is!
Also young liberals: We need an age limit on who can be a representative.
Is it now a point of pride not to wear the mask over your nose? Republicans, please advise.
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) January 13, 2021
re: #145 nines09
The Master Race.
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I am totally face-palming at the phrase in that quoted part:
You can walk backwards through a field of dicks.
I mean, seriously? What is the thought process behind that phrase? Walking backwards through a field of dicks? Why would one want to walk through said field in any direction, forwards or backwards? It’s field of dicks! I mean, dicks have feelings as well- what about consent? Did any of the dicks in this field consent to you tramping about it, and therefore possibly on them?
re: #175 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Young liberals: Rep. Waters telling it like it is!
Also young liberals: We need an age limit on who can be a representative.
OK: let’s start with “90”.
#BREAKING: @ABCNewsLive just reported that GOP members of Congress have been receiving texts & emails, this morning, threatening their lives, if they vote for impeachment,
@FBI have confirmed this.
have confirmed this.— Biden_Squadron (@BidenSquadron) January 13, 2021
re: #171 Eclectic Cyborg
I haven’t noticed a single non-white person speaking for the GOP.
Yeah, I noticed that all black voices have been in defense of our democracy as I listen to this while I work.
re: #176 jaunte
Too harsh a reply [y/n]?
This may be somewhat NSFW, but conveys the gravity of the error of not wearing the mask over your nose.
Basically, you expose your nose to pathogens, and if you’re infected, expose others to the pathogens that are in your nose. pic.twitter.com/fxvF0cYoTv— 🐄 Teo 🐄 (@Teukka72) January 13, 2021
re: #183 i(m)p(each)(again!)sos
What the fuck is wrong with Brian Mast?
Seriously. What the hell was that?
re: #171 Eclectic Cyborg
I haven’t noticed a single non-white person speaking for the GOP.
Anyone know how many non-white Republican Representatives there are in the House?
re: #179 jaunte
Someone should tell them they can start to understand how minorities feel.
re: #186 Jay C
Anyone know how many non-white Republican Representatives there are in the House?
I legitimately think it’s only one or two.
re: #186 Jay C
Anyone know how many non-white Republican Representatives there are in the House?
Burgess Owens the Kaprineck hater from Utah.
Someone should also mention to them that the way to stop it begins with removing Trump.
re: #184 Eclectic Cyborg
Seriously. What the hell was that?
Anyone who “answered” his bullshit question would have been instantly out of order and he fucking knows it.
And the answer to his bullshit question is: THEY WERE CARRYING GIANT TRUMP FLAGS YOU ENORMOUS GODDAMN CHODE.
Kind of amazing to hear Republicans acknowledge the attack on the Capitol and then just shrug their shoulders about who’s to blame.
Even more amazing to hear Republicans acknowledge that Trump played a role in the insurrection, but just not *enough* of a role.— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) January 13, 2021
Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) says the President committed impeachable offenses, but that Democrats drafted sloppy Articles of Impeachment with legal issues.
See, you made me vote no!— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) January 13, 2021
re: #21 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
It really needs to be constantly noted that the score for murdered cops is MAGA: 1, BLM: 0.
— Tentin Quarantino (@agraybee) January 13, 2021
re: #189 🌹UOJB!
Burgess Owens the Kaprineck hater from Utah.
Hmmm is he related to Saint Candace of the Nazis?
Paraphrasing Gym Shorts: Democrats supporting peaceful protests for civil rights is identical to Donald calling for violent overthrow of the government.
— El Chupacabra (@top_scientician) January 13, 2021
re: #141 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Still can’t bring themselves to ban Nazis I see, plus she has two accounts. Are they both locked?
Qbert’s profile also links to the ShootersGrill account, which twitter isn’t finding. I’m not sure, if the account got deleted or purged, or she typo’ed the name, or never had a twitter account for her restaurant.
When this country is founded on violence and chooses violence against the weakest and oppressed among us, it’s disgusting to hear GOP Death Cult members who sit on the side of the oppressor hand-wring over violence.
— Anika (@faboomama) January 13, 2021
Quick reminder: Republican Madison Cawthorn, who now says impeachment is divisive, told a pro-Trump crowd last month to “call your congressman and feel free — you can lightly threaten them. Say: ‘If you don’t support election integrity, I’m coming after you.’”
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 13, 2021
re: #191 Jay C
That many?
Out of 211?
Seems to be.
Here’s the current list of Reps with photos:
For the GOP, I counted one black guy and one Asian lady and that’s it.
re: #171 Eclectic Cyborg
I haven’t noticed a single non-white person speaking for the GOP.
The GOP is a white nationalist party. It’s also a misogynist party as just 30 members of the House are women.
Compare with Democrats who have 91 women representing them, 34 Hispanic Americans, and 57 African Americans.
Doug Lamalfa cranking the asshole factor up to 11.
I personally heard people in the crowd outside the west side of the Capitol urging others to join in storming Congress because Trump wanted them to. It was explicit. https://t.co/Lg6Qk82ios
— Dan Friedman (@dfriedman33) January 13, 2021
Ben, usually I’d joke, but I’m going to come at this honestly. There’s a big difference between zip ties being carried by paramilitary forces invading the capitol and zip ties being carried by your wife so she can tie you to a chair and make you watch her have sex with other men.
— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) January 13, 2021
“…LaMalfa has described Trump as “considerate” and “engaging.” During the impeachment trial of Donald Trump, LaMalfa voted against impeachment, believing that Trump did not do anything that would warrant impeachment, including during his phone call with the president of Ukraine.[34]
After Donald Trump lost the 2020 election and refused to concede, LaMalfa falsely claimed that “the circumstances surrounding this Presidential election point to a fraudulent outcome.”
en.wikipedia.org
re: #202 Eclectic Cyborg
Seems to be.
Here’s the current list of Reps with photos:
For the GOP, I counted one black guy and one Asian lady and that’s it.
There are two Korean American women from California who are GOP members (Young Kim and Michelle Steel), interestingly two of the first three Korean American women elected to Congress.
re: #117 Teukka
So Twitter hasn’t shut down that account even though Curtis is spewing nothing but threats? Really?
Note that House Republicans are arguing in favor of allowing terrorists to overthrow the will of the people and to commit violence against themselves.
— Jenn Budd ✊🏻 (@BuddJenn) January 13, 2021
re: #199 NO SMOCKING GUN!
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This asshole fucking rhetorical dodge ignores that the country is already highly divided, and they’re the fucking cause of it.
The Republican Party has become the equivalent of a fundamentalist cult. Listen to most of those House Republicans willing to speak, and it leaps out at you.
— Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) January 13, 2021
re: #177 Alephnaught
I am totally face-palming at the phrase in that quoted part:
I mean, seriously? What is the thought process behind that phrase? Walking backwards through a field of dicks? Why would one want to walk through said field in any direction, forwards or backwards? It’s field of dicks! I mean, dicks have feelings as well- what about consent? Did any of the dicks in this field consent to you tramping about it, and therefore possibly on them?
Walking through a field of dicks:
In December the military anticipated “election related unrest” in the DC area, warning “a large segment of the population views the results as invalid or fraudulent,” per intel report leaked to me.
It also identified QAnon as an extremist group:https://t.co/PUrI3v9eVj pic.twitter.com/1pfx4G1ag5— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) January 13, 2021
re: #207 teleskiguy
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What a dishonest shitbag. There is a difference between zip ties for your trash bags, and the zip ties used by cops/LEO for detaining people. Guess which one the assholes in the Capitol were carrying.
Their brains are infected with snakes. No character, no scruples, no decency. https://t.co/4thVbdlmSF
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) January 13, 2021
re: #186 Jay C
Anyone know how many non-white Republican Representatives there are in the House?
Well, after my admitted limited searching skills, it would appear no one has compiled such a list, though there are lists of the whole 117th Congress.
I guess you’d have to go through each representative to see what party they belong to and which ethnic group with which they identify.
Equal parts ammosexual cosplay and an actual desire to shoot someone. https://t.co/8ovaeSVmVf
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) January 13, 2021
Subvertant MAGA: “Dear Leader moved the embassy in Israel. We can’t impeach him!”
Republicans keep getting up and equating street violence, sometimes associated with protests about police shootings, with an actual attempt to overthrow the seat of United States government and murder of the vice president.
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) January 13, 2021
re: #209 aatharuv
There are two Korean American women from California who are GOP members (Young Kim and Michelle Steel), interestingly two of the first three Korean American women elected to Congress.
Also, if you count delegates from the Territories, American Samoa, and Puerto Rico both have Republican delegates who are at least arguably non-white.
re: #217 teleskiguy
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These two could never get a corporate job with their history and risk to co-workers
Rashida Tlaib: “Racist in Chief” on the House Floor.
Bravo.
I sure wish a House D could say something like this “Everything my GOP colleagues have said today in defense of Trump and the Trumpist mob that attacked last week is shit.”
Who goes last for the Gym Jordan MAGA cult? Predictions?
re: #228 Dr. Matt
Who goes last for the Gym Jordan MAGA cult? Predictions?
He’ll probably make the closing ‘arguments’ himself.
This video is unreal.
‘Senators evacuated the building! Now or never! … Bring the line forward!’
Journalist @SandiBachom embedded herself in the Capitol riot and captured what she believes was a ’rehearsed and orchestrated’ attack pic.twitter.com/Bq7rhcpoue— NowThis (@nowthisnews) January 12, 2021
re: #222 jaunte
An actual organized attempt to overthrow the gov’t—with a passive assist from the Admin in making sure it was an extremely soft target.
re: #186 Jay C
Anyone know how many non-white Republican Representatives there are in the House?
I found a list.
Minorities, veterans and retiring members
Total Black members in the House and Senate: 61
House: 58 (56 Democrats, 2 Republicans)
Newly elected: 8 (6 Democrats, 2 Republicans)
Reelected incumbents: 50 (50 Democrats, 0 Republicans)
Senate: 3 (2 Democrats, 1 Republican) (will decrease to 2 when Padilla replaces Harris)
Reelected incumbent: 1 (1 Democrat)
No election: 2 (1 Democrat, 1 Republican)
The 117th Congress will have the largest number of Black members in the history of the House and in the history of Congress. The 58 representatives are a new record for the House, while the record-high three in the Senate remains the same, at least until Harris resigns to become vice president.
Total Latino members in the House and Senate: 44
House: 39 (30 Democrats, 9 Republicans)
Newly elected House: 6 (2 Democrats, 4 Republicans)
Reelected House incumbents: 33 (28 Democrats, 5 Republicans)
Senate: 5 (3 Democrats, 2 Republicans) (will increase to 6 when Padilla replaces Harris)
Newly elected Senate: 1 (1 Democrat)
No election: 4 (2 Democrats, 2 Republicans)
The 44 Latino members of Congress will be the most ever, according to NALEO. There will also be the most ever Latino senators. Latino House membership will match the current record high. The overall record total in Congress will increase to 45 when Padilla replaces Harris.
Total LGBTQ members in the House and Senate: 11
House: 9 (9 Democrats, 0 Republican)
Newly elected: 2 (2 Democrats, 0 Republican)
Reelected incumbents: 7 (7 Democrats, 0 Republican)
Senate: 2 (2 Democrats, 0 Republican)
No election: 2 (2 Democrats)
According to LGBTQ Victory Institute, this will be the most people who identify as LGBTQ to ever serve in the House and the most to ever serve in Congress.
(more at WDJT Milwaukee)
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sCudd should be national poster child for butthurt gentry. She owns a flower shop in Midland and once ran for mayor.
FBI arrests Jenny Cudd, Eliel Rosa for rioting at Capitol
CBS7 has learned the FBI has arrested Midlanders Jenny Cudd and Eliel Rosa for rioting at the Capitol last Wednesday.
Both Cudd and Rosa are scheduled to appear before U.S. Magistrate Judge Ronald Griffin at 1:45 p.m. today.
After the riot, Cudd posted about it on her Facebook page, bragging that “we” tore down the doors to Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office.
She later backed that statement up, saying that she was referring to the group as a whole. She claimed she didn’t vandalize anything in the building.
“It was just my gang as a whole. I didn’t give the note to the teller or take the money myself at all.”
re: #229 EPR-radar
He’ll probably make the closing ‘arguments’ himself.
Scalise is a warm-up act for Gym.
re: #232 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Grumble. Left out Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders. As usual.
Fuck Scalise—they were not anarchists—they were TRUMPISTS. And you, Mr. Duke without the baggage, are an asshole of the first order.
There will be no forgiveness without repentance.
Trump’s incitement of this violent attack began immediately after he lost the election. It was relentless, purposeful and escalating. His entire course of conduct must be shown in the impeachment trial.
— Elizabeth de la Vega (@Delavegalaw) January 13, 2021
The imbecile who lied about the reasons that people hate trump, and called climate change a religion, had protected his Tweets, which is not at all normal for a Congressman, and now it looks like his account has been deleted.
Tweets by DougLaMalfaHearing Steve Scalise cite the “malice toward none” speech by Abraham Lincoln, who was murdered by a white supremacist soon after giving that speech, is just a little too rich. pic.twitter.com/v5m5bNbJeW
— Seth Cotlar (@SethCotlar) January 13, 2021
re: #235 gwangung
Grumble. Left out Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders. As usual.
3 Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in the Senate until Senator Harris becomes VP. None are Republicans.
16 Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in the House + 3 non-voting Delegates.
(2 of the voting and 1 of the non-voting House members are Republicans)
The reason “Glory to God” is trending on twitter is because the fundamentalists in this country are reflexively looking to avoid any blame for the problems their political shenanigans have caused.
re: #235 gwangung
Grumble. Left out Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders. As usual.
Also missing Native Americans.
5 in the House, out of whom 3 are Republicans. 1 will be leaving to become Secretary of the Interior (Deb Haaland), if confirmed.
re: #245 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The reason “Glory to God” is trending on twitter is because the fundamentalists in this country are reflexively looking to avoid any blame for the problems their political shenanigans have caused.
How does a country survive when a large chunk of the population refuse to tell the truth, and keep lying after lies led morons to kill several people and destroy their own lives by attacking the Capital.
Truth has to start to matter again.
re: #245 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
The reason “Glory to God” is trending on twitter is because the fundamentalists in this country are reflexively looking to avoid any blame for the problems their political shenanigans have caused.
Those Christians are still praying that Trump proclaims himself to be God Emperor For Life.
re: #246 aatharuv
Also missing Native Americans.
Be careful or buffalo horns guy will be elected to Congress with his Native American cultural appropriation.
re: #242 Punish Domestic Terrorists
The imbecile who lied about the reasons that people hate trump, and called climate change a religion, had protected his Tweets, which is not at all normal for a Congressman, and now it looks like his account has been deleted.
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And this asshole deleted his account after exposing his idiocy.
Rep. Barry Moore, who deleted his Twitter after saying “we have more arrests for stealing a podium on Jan. 6th than we do for stealing an election on November 3rd!,” begins his first speech by saying he asked his staff this morning how many times a president has been impeached.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 13, 2021
re: #250 Punish Domestic Terrorists
Be careful or buffalo horns guy will be elected to Congress with his Native American cultural appropriation.
Google “Buffalo porn” in 5 years….
“The retired Army colonel has disseminated clearly false allegations of voter fraud and promoted conspiracy theorists, like lawyer Sidney Powell and QAnon supporting cartoonist Ben Garrison…”
— Trip Gabriel (@tripgabriel) January 13, 2021
NEW: Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.) says he will vote to impeach Trump
— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) January 13, 2021
Steny Hoyer bringing it pretty good here.
re: #254 Dread Pirate Ron
People that never ran into a bad cop now have the chance to see a bad retired Army Colonel.
Right. There. And in office in Pennsylvania.
re: #252 nines09
Google “Buffalo porn” in 5 years….
Bonkin’ the Tatanka
Dances with Vulvas
A Man Called Horse (for good reason)
re: #260 nines09
Our spineless/complicit President of the State Senate, Jake Corman, has no intention of ousting Mastriano.
Hope it was scrubs like never before. pic.twitter.com/d2zf7bSYbs
— olivia⁷🌹🦋♡black lives matter♡ (@LIVtheVIRGO) January 13, 2021
The HPD says the officer has been relieved of duty and has been given a 48 hour notice of a disciplinary hearing.
NBC affiliate @KPRC2 says the officer has resigned.
Their story here: https://t.co/9bKYobUjJ5— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) January 13, 2021
lol pic.twitter.com/FZcmNwv23a
— Evan Hill (@evanchill) January 12, 2021
Amazon filed an 80-page report documenting the use of Parler by people planning the Capitol attack. I only wonder if Parler’s lawsuit can be considered frivolous enough to warrant them paying Amazon’s legal fees. Probably not.
Fox News is reporting that Donald Trump is about to pivot and start acting presidential.
I am currently amazed—Tom Rice, my mostly worthless rep is supposedly a yes. That will be the first time I can remember that he’ll have voted out of step the rest of our gross Republican reps since his very first vote in Congress (when he voted for the first Sandy relief bill, but switched to no for the final one.)
Rep. Tom Rice (R-S.C.) and Anthony Gonzalez (R-Ohio) are both currently yes on impeachment. They would be the 8th and 9th Republicans that we know of, if they don’t change their votes.
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) January 13, 2021
Only four Republicans voting in favor so far.
re: #267 Dr. Matt
Fox News is reporting that Donald Trump is about to pivot and start acting presidential.
So he’s going to resign then?///
re: #265 Dread Pirate Ron
Sources tell KPRC the officer is Tam Dinh Pham. A KPRC 2 source says he was relieved of duty this morning.
Acevedo said the Asian-American officer has 18 years of service with the department and no previous disciplinary issues. The chief said he traveled alone to Washington.
Oh Jesus, not another Vietnamese Trumper
re: #263 cat-tikvah
Our spineless/complicit President of the State Senate, Jake Corman, has no intention of ousting Mastriano.
Yes. I know. Fred Keller is a low life Corbett ass sucking lamprey, and he’s one of my “representatives.”
Back when he was a stooge for Corbett, I happened to be sitting in my former barbers shop, and everyone was just tingling because a Corbett flunky was there.
I called him out on the lack of taxing the frackers.
Got heated. Noticed most of the waiting customers were not with me.
“Well if we tax them they’ll go elsewhere.”
Like where Biff? Every state but ours taxes them for the public good.
We had an “impact fee” to the counties they fracked from, but no tax dollars for the counties surrounding the fields, who had illegal dumping, water and well issues, and destruction of land and wildlife.
And Corbett made large through 2nd and 3rd party “donations”.
We should be unified in our determination to punish those responsible for this atrocity.
It’s a bipartisan impeachment. Eat it, Trump. The only reason more Republicans aren’t voting for impeachment is because of fear of Trump’s terrorists.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb1) January 13, 2021
Had a great conversation w/Charles Johnson—@Green_Footballs on the #StartMeUp #podcast. Topics: Will GOP Senate convict Donald? Where is the country is headed when Biden takes over? Will any of the Trump crime family do time? We covered a lot of ground.https://t.co/rAIV9VgGEP pic.twitter.com/2jd5REhxA0
— Kimberley Johnson (@AuthorKimberley) January 13, 2021
A year from now, all but maybe 50 or 60 of the worst Republicans will claim they were right here voting for impeachment today.
This is from the criminal complaint against Klete Keller. He was difficult to miss in the crowd at the Capitol thanks to his height (6-6) and U.S. Olympic team jacket. pic.twitter.com/jh9tRQBoYE
— Nathan Fenno (@nathanfenno) January 13, 2021
Dumbass got identified thanks to a USA Olympics patch. How it started/how it’s going is getting a real workout these days.
re: #267 Dr. Matt
Fox News is reporting that Donald Trump is about to pivot and start acting presidential.
By releasing his letter calling for peace, today Donald Trump truly became President.///
re: #7 Charles Johnson
Modern Republicans want death camps for their political opposition as well as for those pesky minorities. They want to kidnap and hang fellow Congress members and guide terrorist gang members to their offices in order to do it.
Asking them to Impeach and convict a fellow Nazi is a little too much to ask of them.
re: #97 Charles Johnson
republicans citing MLK.
NEWS: Federal authorities have charged 2 police officers from the Rocky Mount Virginia Police Department, according to the dept, which says the officers have been charged with misdemeanors stemming from their presence at the Capitol attack. The officers are on leave from the dept pic.twitter.com/0vbDY3OYP0
— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) January 13, 2021
re: #100 thedopefishlives
We should transport some electromagnets to Springfield; we could probably power the country for several years by harnessing the energy of Lincoln spinning in his grave.
Use the ones that are there from the now defunct (infamously) monorail that got built.
re: #276 i(m)p(each)(again!)sos
A year from now, all but maybe 50 or 60 of the worst Republicans will claim they were right here voting for impeachment today.
Depends on if we have the fortitude to resolutely pursue the evidence and bring to justice, not just the foot soldiers, but the commanders of the insurrection, including Trump and any congressional accomplices. If Trump skates, he can continue to lead his fascist movement.
re: #280 steve_davis
republicans citing MLK.
“…a future when people will be judged not by the color of their caps but by the contents of their magazine clips!”
CNN: Trump is fearful he has ruined his brand.
Boo fucking hoo, asswipe.
OT: On Inauguration Day, my kids will be going back to school, as the governor’s policies and the subsiding of the post-Thanksgiving-Christmas plague wave have brought the new case rate down far enough to permit schools to reopen. Oh boy.
re: #287 Eclectic Cyborg
CNN: Trump is fearful he has ruined his brand.
Boo fucking hoo, asswipe.
The idiot destroyed his own brand because he forgot he was running a con and bought into his own bullshit. Now he will be financially ruined, even if he avoids criminal liability.
re: #288 thedopefishlives
OT: On Inauguration Day, my kids will be going back to school, as the governor’s policies and the subsiding of the post-Thanksgiving-Christmas plague wave have brought the new case rate down far enough to permit schools to reopen. Oh boy.
Mine aren’t going to go back until we are all vaccinated, or community spread has ended. My wife was told she is “essential” putting her into category 1C, so she is supposed to get vaccinated late February/early March.
re: #287 Eclectic Cyborg
CNN: Trump is fearful he has ruined his brand.
Boo fucking hoo, asswipe.
He shouldn’t have had a brand in the first place. He had an established history of racism, bankruptcies, and colossal business failures.
re: #214 A Cranky One
Walking through a field of dicks:
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Well, I certainly would not want to walk through that field, much less backwards,
re: #272 nines09
“They’ll go elsewhere!”
To Ohio and drill in from there?
Really.
I’m waiting to see what Brian Fitzpatrick does.
The rest of the PA GOP in Congress is useless at best, malignant otherwise.
The Sedition Caucus all drilled down on their vote last week.
inquirer.com
re: #287 Eclectic Cyborg
CNN: Trump is fearful he has ruined his brand.
Knew that was going to happen when he won the election. He’s always thrived by creating a myth about himself. He’s the greatest bullshitter in American history. I knew that as soon as people started looking more closely at him they’d see the termites under the fake marble.
OT, kind of. In the movie “Muriel’s Wedding” one of the bridesmaid’s boyfriends is a handsome beachbum guy who it turns out is a sexual preditor and rapist. When a young Japanese female tourist is raped, he is charged with the crime. His girlfriend says, “he couldn’t be the rapist, he hates the Japanese!” Her reaction is the logic of a lot of white Americans toward racism: “he’s not a racist, he just hates all ______.”
re: #267 Dr. Matt
Fox News is reporting that Donald Trump is about to pivot and start acting presidential.
Yeah, but like the president of what country?
IMPEACHED TWICE
May that stain linger against his name for all eternity.
re: #295 Barefoot Grin
OT, kind of. In the movie “Muriel’s Wedding” one of the bridesmaid’s boyfriends is a handsome beachbum guy who it turns out is a sexual preditor and rapist. When a young Japanese female tourist is raped, he is charged with the crime. His girlfriend says, “he couldn’t be the rapist, he hates the Japanese!” Her reaction is the logic of a lot of Americans toward racism: “he’s not a racist, he just hates all ______.”
I love that movie. Just watched it for about the 10th time a few weeks ago.
YES votes just passed 218. 10 GOP members in YES so far.
re: #295 Barefoot Grin
OT, kind of. In the movie “Muriel’s Wedding” one of the bridesmaid’s boyfriends is a handsome beachbum guy who it turns out is a sexual preditor and rapist. When a young Japanese female tourist is raped, he is charged with the crime. His girlfriend says, “he couldn’t be the rapist, he hates the Japanese!” Her reaction is the logic of a lot of Americans toward racism: “he’s not a racist, he just hates all ______.”
Similar logic with Black members, Latino or Jewish members holding office or in power positions despite the repeated cancerous racist language and policies typical amongst Republican elected officials and their supporters. Denial, grifting, and career opportunism are very real things that often supersede common decency or future consequences.
re: #290 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Mine aren’t going to go back until we are all vaccinated, or community spread has ended. My wife was told she is “essential” putting her into category 1C, so she is supposed to get vaccinated late February/early March.
How the heck did I line up a vaccine for January 25? I’m not essential to anyone, except my wife (she said so), but I don’t think that qualifies.
Rep Seth Molton (D-MA) says there are more troops in Washington protecting the Capitol than there are in Afghanistan
Pretty sobering— Cathy (@CathyNotToday) January 13, 2021
re: #294 John Vreeland
[Trump]’s the greatest bullshitter in American history.
“We’re going to march on the Capitol and I’ll be with you!”
I hope those words are carved into his monument.
re: #303 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
How the heck did I line up a vaccine for January 25? I’m not essential to anyone, except my wife (she said so), but I don’t think that qualifies.
Are you in a high risk category?
re: #304 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“We’re going to march on the Capitol and I’ll be with you!”
I hope those words are carved into his monument.
Right under the “FLUSH” handle.
Impeached once, shame on you.
Impeached twice, fuck you.— God (@TheTweetOfGod) January 13, 2021
OOOF. @MikeDrucker for the forever win pic.twitter.com/OYu3kZSY95
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) January 13, 2021
re: #295 Barefoot Grin
OT, kind of. In the movie “Muriel’s Wedding” one of the bridesmaid’s boyfriends is a handsome beachbum guy who it turns out is a sexual preditor and rapist. When a young Japanese female tourist is raped, he is charged with the crime. His girlfriend says, “he couldn’t be the rapist, he hates the Japanese!” Her reaction is the logic of a lot of white Americans toward racism: “he’s not a racist, he just hates all ______.”
That’s where people think rape is about sex and not power.
re: #305 NO SMOCKING GUN!
Are you in a high risk category?
Yes, asbestos exposure, multiple pneumonias, and prior tuberculosis (now latent). The other categories they list (age, diabetes, obesity, &c do not apply).
re: #289 NO SMOCKING GUN!
The idiot destroyed his own brand because he forgot he was running a con and bought into his own bullshit. Now he will be financially ruined, even if he avoids criminal liability.
He brought the doom on himself by winning the presidency and thereby exposing himself to eventual real investigation of his taxes. He had to continue fighting to shield himself from the wrath of James and New York tax authorities. Let’s never forget that Al Capone did not serve a day for the dozens of murders he ordered — but rather for tax evasion.
If he self-pardons, federal tax authorities should swoop down on him and the Garland justice department should arrest him anyway and not accept self pardon as legitimate. SCOTUS needs to decide exactly the limitations of this power.
Why? She’s going to show concern, a furrowed brow, and then equivocate that Trump will have learned his lesson again.
She and the rest of the GOP are treasonweasel enablers who got us here b/c they refused to act responsibly at any point during past 4 years.— lawhawk #maskingforafriend (@lawhawk) January 13, 2021
All of these GOPers who claim and feign concern over Trump’s actions… history has its eyes on you.
I don’t expect any of them to act to put nation above party. If they do, I’ll be surprised. After all, these are the same treasonweasel enablers who refused to remove Trump for extortion and crimes in the Ukraine matter and Collins said that the impeachment alone was sufficient to chasten Trump.
These are the enablers of the most corrupt and criminal admin in history, and even when their own lives were risked by Trump, they stand by and cover for him. Stockholm Syndrome? Genuine fear of the Trumpist/GOP base that they’ve radicalized for 40+ years thanks to Fox and right wing talk radio and online shitposters and the misinformation tsunami that propaganda they’ve done?
re: #293 cat-tikvah
I’m a bit south of the Marcellus Shale fields. They hit that hard and hot and heavy. Had lots of PU trucks with OK, TX, and Louisiana plates. Drilled. Capped. Moved on.
The well heads are capped just waiting for the time to open and sell.
You can google earth it, and find the yards of pipe and gravel and the well heads themselves.
This is what they look like from above. Dirt road to nowhere. Cleared area. Well head.
You can count dozens close by. Look at them all.
re: #271 electrotek
Oh Jesus, not another Vietnamese Trumper
One of my friends (former) is and Indian American who came to America as a small child. Raging Trumper.
He joined the police force and made national news recently when he pulled his gun and threatened a prone and handcuffed suspect. He held the gun to the back of the guys head and said he would splatter his brains all over the sidewalk if he didn’t identify himself.
He was fired and now faces felony assault charges.
re: #314 Axolotl
One of my friends (former) is and Indian American who came to America as a small child. Raging Trumper.
He joined the police force and made national news recently when he pulled his gun and threatened a prone and handcuffed suspect. He held the gun to the back of the guys head and said he would splatter his brains all over the sidewalk if he didn’t identify himself.
He was fired and now faces felony assault charges.
One of the dumbest people you went to high school with?
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