This is not shocking in the least. Everybody with a functioning brain could see it coming for years. This is the legacy of Donald Trump and his complicit Republican Party.
Let’s not kid ourselves. Donald Trump is delighted by this. pic.twitter.com/Fg1NnrF5Se
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 6, 2021
Donald Trump’s legacy. pic.twitter.com/IYa7WztGmE
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 6, 2021
These delusional fucks probably think he’s there among them. Physically.
Make no mistake Mr. Pence, they were coming after you too.
The problem is, the newsies don’t recognize an attempted fascist coup when they see one here. If it were in Paraguay or Syria, they might.
— Harry Turtledove (@HNTurtledove) January 6, 2021
I don’t want to, and I don’t think law enforcement should be required to, beg these maga idiots from rioting.
They should be met with force
Set an egg-timer for how long before Donnie starts spewing this conspiracy theory.
HOUSE RECESSSED UNTIL ORDER & SAFETY CAN BE ASSURED.Rumor: ANTIFA fascists in backwards MAGA hats. Time will tell what truth is.Capitol Police Announcement: Capitol breach. Locked down! DO NOT LEAVE CHAMBER!
— Mo Brooks (@RepMoBrooks) January 6, 2021
I think back to Matt Gaetz & the other GOP traitors breaching the SCIF, and security just letting them do it. This is that, writ large, and with much more at stake.
This is what happens when justice is not served.— Greg Olear (@gregolear) January 6, 2021
The GOP built this. Took a while, but they laid every brick in this house of shit.
re: #2 b.d. (We Won!)
Make no mistake Mr. Pence, they were coming after you too.
They were openly plotting to kill him. If he had been in the building when it was breached, he would’ve been shot, and while I hate his guts, I actually wouldn’t want him to be a victim of this fucking mob. That’s too good of a death for him.
This will end in a bucket of blood, one way or another.
Merrick Garland is going to have his hands full.
Where are you @GovLarryHogan ? Or do you want @Marc_Elrich to run Annapolis? Step up against this treasonous action in DC https://t.co/PMiPWEP5EX
— Craig Hooper (@NextNavy) January 6, 2021
Terrorist enabler.
Violence is always unacceptable. Even when passions run high.
Anyone engaged in violence—especially against law enforcement—should be fully prosecuted.
God bless the Capitol Police and the honorable men & women of law enforcement who show great courage keeping all of us safe.— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) January 6, 2021
Losing the U.S. Capitol during a key electoral procedure to a modestly-sized crowd from a publicly-announced event is not a “failure.” It was a decision. They were ordered to not do what they normally would’ve done. We need a full accounting of every single official involved. https://t.co/YiuqCicEJ0
— Max Kennerly (@MaxKennerly) January 6, 2021
re: #5 Dr. Matt
Fuque yoo Mo Brooks. Those are you people you spineless coward.
re: #14 jaunte
“credible information” that some protesters inside US Capitol are armed
A WOMAN GOT SHOT AND IS LIKELY TO DIE, NO SHIT, SHERLOCK
finally…
Secret Service and Federal Protective Services are responding to the U.S. Capitol to assist U.S. Capitol Police.— Bill Ritter (@billritter7) January 6, 2021
Why do we assume that the National Guard is coming to stop the insurrection at this point after earlier declining to intervene on the “optics”.
All of this reeks.
re: #5 Dr. Matt
With all due respect (in other words, none), Rep. Brooks, two things:
1. Fuck.
2. You.
This is in the laps of the GOP and Trump. Antifa fearmongering is the thinnest of possible fig leaves you could manage.— Citizen K Dissents (@Citizen_Kryptik) January 6, 2021
Not sure what to think of this, since her résumé mostly consists of “liar”:
At President @realDonaldTrump’s direction, the National Guard is on the way along with other federal protective services.
We reiterate President Trump’s call against violence and to remain peaceful.— Kayleigh McEnany (@PressSec) January 6, 2021
re: #13 Nyet
Terrorist enabler.
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So Tailgunner Ted is only concerned about violence, is supportive of the breaching of security and occupation of a federal building by armed rioters.
Shocker.///////
re: #11 b.d. (We Won!)
Merrick Garland is going to have his hands full.
If they keep posting pictures, they’ll all be open and shut cases.
Thread. This shit has been bubbling to a boil *for years.* Fuck every GOP pol who is surprised or shocked this is happening.
It is astonishing to see right-wing activists freely roaming the Capitol that they violently stormed. This attack should not have been a surprise. Right-wing activists have been publicly threatening violence and civil war if Trump was not reelected.
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) January 6, 2021
America’s enemies are watching in awe of how easy this was…..
How is the US Capitol this soft of a target?
— Brendan Keefe (@BrendanKeefe) January 6, 2021
From last thread (don’t know how to make it pretty).
re: #216 Jay C
“Amen.
It’s a disgrace (and one of historic proportions), it’s a travesty of “security”; it’s a dangerous, unsafe and untenable situation; but it’s not a “coup”. Not even (AFAICT), an attempt at one, since - despite the shame of having the safety of our national legislature (in formal session) threatened by an armed mob of extremists, there is no likelihood of ANY change in the government outside of what has already been confirmed* by the elections, and which will be conducted according to Constitutional parameters.
*Congressional formalities notwithstanding.”
What do you think they are trying to accomplish? They aren’t just trying to be heard. They are trying to ensure Trump gets 4 more years. That’s a coup attempt. The fact that it won’t be successful doesn’t make it any less of an attempted coup.
NATO secretary general. https://t.co/016iTa1ijl
— Ankit Panda (@nktpnd) January 6, 2021
re: #19 Citizen K
Zero being the amount of respect he’s due.
re: #24 Dr. Matt
America’s enemies are watching in awe of how easy this was…..
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All you have to do is hire white people to do it.
Cops are taking selfies with the terrorists. pic.twitter.com/EjkQ83h1p2
— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) January 6, 2021
About as stark as you can make it.
re: #23 teleskiguy
Exactly. From what I’ve seen here and on other websites, the Parler lunatics have been quite explicit about what they intend to do - they make no effort whatsoever to hide their plans.
re: #27 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Foreign observers saying things about the US election that we normally say about elections in former-Eastern Bloc nations. How in the blue fuck we can ever again claim to have the moral authority to judge how other nations conduct their electoral process, I haven’t a clue.
re: #35 Eric The Fruit Bat
Can haz NATO Article 5, pls?
I don’t think they’re allowed to protect you from yourself.
New - an explosive device was found at the RNC and detonated safely. https://t.co/dbL5U41ZSo
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 6, 2021
Sergeant at Arms says they expect it to take half an hour or an hour to clear the Capitol.
They have protestors contained to one area and are just working on getting them out.— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) January 6, 2021
I turned on Fox and they’re calling it a “demonstration.”
So, GOPers are finally worried about their personal safety and spewing empty platitudes about the process?
When Congress reconvenes, the GOP should retract all of their objections and affirm Biden as next POTUS.
They wont, but they should.
Remember this?
Flashback: July 27. Trump called for protesters who damaged federal buildings to get a minimum of 10 years in prison. pic.twitter.com/3F58IR1HHf
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 6, 2021
re: #20 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Not sure what to think of this, since her résumé mostly consists of “liar”:
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Read: Trump ordered National Guard to DC to side with his supporters…
One IED found on capitol grounds. ARREST EVERYONE.
re: #14 jaunte
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I’ve got a Parler account. The fascist terrorists were openly discussing what they intended to do for at least a week.
— aagcobb (@aagcobb) January 6, 2021
Fox News just showed a picture of a dude sitting at fucking Nancy Pelosis desk in her office.
This is just nuts.
Erdogan & leaders like Putin & Xi have waited a long time to issue statements like this.
But it is not democracy that is inciting this violence or fueling Trump’s campaign to steal the election; it is Trump’s embrace of the autocratic tactics these dictators rely on every day https://t.co/WknlomgTKv— Samantha Power (@SamanthaJPower) January 6, 2021
re: #30 jaunte
How is the US Capitol this soft of a target?
Collaboration.
I’m going to withhold judgement on whether it’s collaboration or bad decisions until our Democratic Senate, House and DoD hold hearings to get to the bottom of this.
re: #38 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
These people are terrorists. Treat them as such.
re: #41 Ace Rothstein
I turned on Fox and they’re calling it a “demonstration.”
A demonstration of the power of the right wing hate machine. This is it - this is their end game. THIS IS WHAT THEY WANTED, EVERYONE. Don’t let them forget it.
re: #32 Citizen K
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About as stark as you can make it.
We’ve seen this again and again in foreign nations when regimes fell, the cops and even soldiers choosing to stand aside while rioters stormed the gates.
Update: the Pentagon says the Justice Department is in charge. The Justice Department has said nothing.
Clearly and unsurprisingly, the administration confronted mostly peaceful protests by Black Lives Matter with a thousandfold more concerted and heavier response. https://t.co/Xdaz5WWTke— Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman) January 6, 2021
the last time the U.S. Capitol was stormed, it was by British troops in 1814,
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) January 6, 2021
re: #50 lawhawk
These people are terrorists. Treat them as such.
Yep. And they need to be officially classified as terrorists, too.
re: #36 Targetpractice
Foreign observers saying things about the US election that we normally say about elections in former-Eastern Bloc nations. How in the blue fuck we can ever again claim to have the moral authority to judge how other nations conduct their electoral process, I haven’t a clue.
And Joe Biden will be inaugurated on January 20.
Thank the deity of your choice (or none), and Stacey Abrams, that we won both Georgia seats and will be in control of the Senate in a few days. Because it means there will be hearings, and hopefully accountability, including for the traitors holding elective office.
Here it is:
A man who breached Capitol security sits at the desk of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. (Photo: Saul Loeb/Getty) pic.twitter.com/awl5vxrM9W
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) January 6, 2021
re: #49 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!
I’m going to withhold judgement on whether it’s collaboration or bad decisions until our Democratic Senate, House and DoD hold hearings to get to the bottom of this.
I’ve been skeptical of your takes for most of the afternoon, but on this we agree. I’m trying to tone down the language because, really, the facts aren’t on the table yet. We know a fairly large crowd of white people broke into the Capitol. We know the police weren’t able to offer effective resistance. We know some people got hurt. The rest is up to investigation.
re: #49 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!
I’m going to withhold judgement on whether it’s collaboration or bad decisions until our Democratic Senate, House and DoD hold hearings to get to the bottom of this.
I’m sorry, but considering how there’s never any problem amassing massive amounts of Police and Guard presence for things like BLM protests, while this, the simultaneous state house breaches going on today, and the breach of the statehouse in Michigan months ago:
This is the consequence of downplaying white male aggression and violence. When those men stormed the Michigan state Capitol, they were treated like “misguided citizens” by media and law enforcement.
— Midwin Charles, Esq. (@MidwinCharles) January 6, 2021
It honest to god feels like there’s no way this could happen without some kind of purposeful breakdown somewhere.
Pence has unfollowed Donald Trump’s personal account on Twitter.
— John Haynes ⛰ (@JohntheLib) January 6, 2021
President Biden should make a statement.
re: #61 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
I’ll bet they had a big ol’ shouting match.
How long have we been in the War on Terror and this is how easy it is to invade the Capitol? Someone deliberately made it easy.
re: #56 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!
And Joe Biden will be inaugurated on January 20.
This whole effort to ignore what is before our faces with the cold comfort that the system will work as designed doesn’t really have the effect that you’re going for. Biden will only be sworn in in 14 days because Repubs don’t have the numbers to carry their objections through in the House.
re: #51 thedopefishlives
A demonstration of the power of the right wing hate machine. This is it - this is their end game. THIS IS WHAT THEY WANTED, EVERYONE. Don’t let them forget it.
If this is the best they can do, we’ll definitely be okay.
…the original agreement stipulated that Guardsmen would not be in contact with civilians in order to avoid politicizing the military.
However, after @SecArmy got off the phone with Bowser, he worked with Miller to find a solution.— Lara Seligman (@laraseligman) January 6, 2021
Rioters taking down the American flag from the Capitol and replacing it with a Trump flag God help America pic.twitter.com/HawKrrn2tw
— walter dellinger (@walterdellinger) January 6, 2021
A coup or coup d’état ; literally “blow of state”; plural: coups d’état, pronounced like the singular form; also known simply as an overthrow, takeover, or putsch) is the removal of an existing government from power, usually through violent means. Typically, it is an illegal, unconstitutional seizure of power by a political faction, the military, or a dictator.
Right now it is an attempted coup. If it is successful (usually defined as seven days) then it is a coup.
This is not a riot. It is not riots in several states simultaneously. Christian pastors, right wing politicians, influencers on social media have all been calling for this for weeks.
Let’s not kid ourselves. Donald Trump is delighted by this. pic.twitter.com/Fg1NnrF5Se
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 6, 2021
Maryland is sending its state police to DC. Virginia is doing the same. https://t.co/GqU7bKVXlx
— Geoff Brumfiel (@gbrumfiel) January 6, 2021
re: #69 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
I do have to raise the counter-argument: Is the government out of power? They could resume business off-site elsewhere. The government is displaced, but not dethroned. They aren’t setting up shop in the House and Senate chambers and proclaiming themselves the New American Democracy or anything. They could’ve tried; that would’ve honestly been kinda scary.
OT: shitty personal news
An extended family member of my wife passed due to Covid earlier today. Now he also had advanced cancer too but still.
Dude was 33.
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) January 6, 2021
BTW, if security in DC is this piss-poor during what was supposed to be a routine and otherwise hum-drum affair, imagine what things may be like in two weeks for the inauguration.
Just how secure do we feel in the safety of the president-elect and his VP-elect while we watch the Capital Building occupied by Meal Team Six?
Please tell me Joe is no the FUCK where near DC right now.
re: #68 The Pie Overlord!
Reminding everyone that this is, indeed, a coup attempt. This is about disrupting the transition of power so Trump remains in office. Any GOPer that continues to support Trump is an insurrectionist and must be treated as such.
No quarter.
I went over to Newsmax. Chyron: Protesters storm Capitol building.
They then had a phone call with Tina. They described her as ON THE PHONE: Tina Forte/ Influencer & Trump Supporter.
Tina said Pence’s “performance” was a disgrace. She also wanted answers for the election fraud.
re: #79 lawhawk
Chuck Todd will be very surprised by all of this.
re: #68 The Pie Overlord!
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This. This is what they are. Fascists in a cult of personality. They are not patriots.
Tells us more, o author of “Liberal Fascism”.
25th Amendment now.
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) January 6, 2021
re: #81 nines09
Chuck Todd will be very surprised by all of this.
“But how will this affect Democrats plans to exercise power, won’t this throw a wrench into their attempts to undo Trump’s gains?”
re: #81 nines09
Chuck Todd will be very surprised by all of this.
I’m sure he’ll be very both sides and kind when he has Cruz and Cotton on to explain things next Sunday.
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One year ago this month the GOP had the opportunity to put a stop to Trump.
They decided not to.
And now….
re: #59 thedopefishlives
I’ve been skeptical of your takes for most of the afternoon, but on this we agree. I’m trying to tone down the language because, really, the facts aren’t on the table yet. We know a fairly large crowd of white people broke into the Capitol. We know the police weren’t able to offer effective resistance. We know some people got hurt. The rest is up to investigation.
I will add only that we know they didn’t offer effective resistance. I’m still inclined to blame stupidity. They failed to escalate when they should have, for whatever reason. (I’m inclined to think it’s because they tend to think these guys are their friends, a serious error.)
Impeach Trump tomorrow. Remove him from office on Friday. Let Pence serve out the last two weeks.
OAN just said that while it’s unfortunate what is happening at the Capitol, it’s nothing compared to the violence we saw in major cities this past summer.
re: #82 DesertDenizen
This. This is what they are. Fascists in a cult of personality. They are not patriots.
They LARP as “Patriots.” Right-wing authoritarians are not good at separating fantasy and reality. If they could, they’d realize they’re villains rather than heroes.
re: #77 Targetpractice
BTW, if security in DC is this piss-poor during what was supposed to be a routine and otherwise hum-drum affair, imagine what things may be like in two weeks for the inauguration.
Just how secure do we feel in the safety of the president-elect and his VP-elect while we watch the Capital Building occupied by Meal Team Six?
Putin is thinking - so all it takes is a couple of thousand men?
re: #86 Eclectic Cyborg
One year ago this month the GOP had the opportunity to put a stop to Trump.
They decided not to.
And now….
Susan Collins is “concerned”.
Timely
BREAKING: Jon Ossoff wins U.S. Senate runoff in Georgia, NBC News projects. pic.twitter.com/Aw7iivnOfB
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 6, 2021
re: #92 Nyet
Putin is thinking - so all it takes is a couple of thousand men?
He’s definitely licking his chops.
Now, because it was so easy for the Trump cult in today’s protest, they will be emboldened to do more during the swearing in ceremony in two weeks.
In the midst of all this commotion, the Official Count Of The Electoral Votes did not take place HURR HURR THIS MEANS TRUMP IS ARE SUPREME LEEDER FOUR LIFE!!1!!1!11!!!!1!!!!!!!
Quiet. The real President is speaking.
re: #87 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!
I will add only that we know they didn’t offer effective resistance. I’m still inclined to blame stupidity. They failed to escalate when they should have, for whatever reason. (I’m inclined to think it’s because they tend to think these guys are their friends, a serious error.)
A fair correction. That’s an accurate statement.
re: #94 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
Mazel Tov Jon Ossoff
Trump has spent two months whipping these assholes into a froth, while we’ve assured ourselves that it didn’t matter because the process would work and Biden would be president on Jan 20th.
Now there’s a staffer fighting for her life, at least 4 other persons injured including a cop, and armed stand-offs in the halls of Congress.
Imagine what we can look forward to in 2 weeks when they assholes realize that their effort failed and Trump isn’t going to be the one taking the oath.
LIVE on @MSNBC: President-elect Biden addresses the nation as Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol.https://t.co/RdYLvfum24 pic.twitter.com/bdbhiyl4Oy
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 6, 2021
re: #87 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!
Never presume malice when incompetence will suffice.
re: #54 teleskiguy
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— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) January 6, 2021
They took 239 casualties getting there and it was still considered the worst disgrace in the history of American arms.
The Putin collaborationist troops who seized the Capitol today took zero casualties. That must change.
re: #83 Nyet
The 25th amendment is useless because it relies on Trump’s cabinet to get him out of office, and they are all hand-picked swamp creatures that by now exclusively feed on Trump’s bodily secretions.
Impeachment and removal from office is the obvious response, and Congress could (and should) get it done today.
But too many Republicans in Congress are fellow travelers of violent right wing white supremacists for this obviously necessary thing to happen.
re: #60 Citizen K
I’m sorry, but considering how there’s never any problem amassing massive amounts of Police and Guard presence for things like BLM protests, while this, the simultaneous state house breaches going on today, and the breach of the statehouse in Michigan months ago:
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It honest to god feels like there’s no way this could happen without some kind of purposeful breakdown somewhere.
It’s not even 5:00 yet. The cavalry is on the way.
“Simultaneous state house breaches” weren’t simultaneous, as far as I can see. They were responses to what was happening in DC. And they haven’t happened in 47 states. If this is a coup, it’s making the beer-hall putschers look like military geniouses.
President-elect Biden calls on President Trump to go on national TV and demand an end to the “siege” on the Capitol: “The words of a president matter, no matter how good or bad that president is. At their best, those words can inspire. At their worst, they can incite.”
— Norah O’Donnell 🇺🇸 (@NorahODonnell) January 6, 2021
Biden calls on Trump to get on TV now. I wish he also called on him to step down.
re: #103 William Lewis
Never presume malice when incompetence will suffice.
At a certain point, sufficient amounts of the latter are completely indistinguishable from the former to the point there’s no tangible difference.
And again, the differences in how certain other protests were handled are hard to ignore in light of this.
Not ashamed to admit it. I have cried today. https://t.co/Nx8bvAnmXR
— Mike Dunford (@questauthority) January 6, 2021
I’m pretty close, actually. I probably will if I see more pictures.
re: #108 darthstar
Biden calls on Trump to get on TV now. I wish he also called on him to step down.
I sort of expected that when he started with the “call on him to go on TV,” but I think that this is better in that it puts Trump on the spot to do something about the riots he inspired.
Donald Trump’s legacy. pic.twitter.com/IYa7WztGmE
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 6, 2021
re: #86 Eclectic Cyborg
One year ago this month the GOP had the opportunity to put a stop to Trump.
They decided not to.
And now….
…because the modern GOP loves what is occurring right now.
re: #110 thedopefishlives
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I’m pretty close, actually. I probably will if I see more pictures.
I’ve been tearing up listening to President Biden.
re: #110 thedopefishlives
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I’m pretty close, actually. I probably will if I see more pictures.
Same. My heart is tore up right now.
re: #106 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!
It’s not even 5:00 yet. The cavalry is on the way.
“Simultaneous state house breaches” weren’t simultaneous, as far as I can see. They were responses to what was happening in DC. And they haven’t happened in 47 states. If this is a coup, it’s making the beer-hall putschers look like military geniouses.
And the Beer Hall Putsch was, in the words of William Shirer, “a comic opera affair”.
It was, of course, inspired by Mussolini’s March on Rome, which was one of the greatest bluffs in modern history - and it worked.
The world is watching. https://t.co/mIgTPWL9dz
— Rebecca Buck (@RebeccaBuck) January 6, 2021
There was better security at Nakatomi Plaza. This was allowed to happen and the fucking GOP fanned the flames. And not only at the nation’s Capitol, but also in Kansas, and I read they’re protesting at Washington state’s capitol as well.
There isn’t another way to qualify how easily a bunch of white terrorists took over what should be one of the most secure locations in the country. It simply wouldn’t happen.
Eject that motherfucker today. Pence needs to grow a pair and put this shit down, handle this like a fucking adult instead of a beaten gutless lapdog.
re: #112 Charles Johnson
Nice evidence photo for the trial. Sedition, conspiracy, some sort of manslaughter charge, and that’s just getting started on the potential charges.
re: #84 Citizen K
“But how will this affect Democrats plans to exercise power, won’t this throw a wrench into their attempts to undo Trump’s gains?”
He’s been on the air all afternoon. You have the opportunity to tell us what he did say instead of making things up.
Biden apologizing at the end for keeping people waiting. I forgot what it was like to have a respectful President.
re: #115 Eclectic Cyborg
Same. My heart is tore up right now.
I’m just… why. God damn it, why? For a fat orange sack of shit who doesn’t care about you and would, in fact, murder you with his own two hands if it meant he got to live or be in power for another five minutes? You’re willing to sacrifice our national reputation and endanger the lives of hundreds - even thousands - of civil servants, whether they be good or bad, to support him? WHY?
I am fucking pissed. There better be so many arrests the jails around DC are full. It’s happening at state capitals all over the country. I’m furious. Done. I will NEVER make nice with these fucking assholes. Ever.
Good Biden speech but everyone should stop calling for Trump to speak; the next time he speaks will be too soon.
— Ross Douthat (@DouthatNYT) January 6, 2021
re: #73 thedopefishlives
I do have to raise the counter-argument: Is the government out of power? They could resume business off-site elsewhere. The government is displaced, but not dethroned. They aren’t setting up shop in the House and Senate chambers and proclaiming themselves the New American Democracy or anything. They could’ve tried; that would’ve honestly been kinda scary.
Are they in control of their spaces, particularly the Capitol, the flagstaff which now flies Trump’s flag and not America’s, or Nancy Pelosi’s office?
They’ve only been there a couple hours.
They are also raiding state capitols.
For the moment it is a coup attempt.
re: #110 thedopefishlives
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I’m pretty close, actually. I probably will if I see more pictures.
Watery eyes here, but fists are clenched.
If the person who was shot dies from her injuries, every one of these treasonweasels can and should be charged with felony murder. They are collaborators, coconspirators, and accessories to the crimes. Every last one of them deserves to spend life in prison.
re: #121 Eclectic Cyborg
As Biden was walking away, someone yelled a question (I’m assuming), and Biden turned around a snapped “ENOUGH!” Did any of y’all catch that?
We need to shorten Presidential transition time to a few days. It’s been done once but the time is still geared to the days when Congressman and candidates traveled by horseback or riverboat.
Biden called it sedition. Expel the members who made this happen.
re: #105 EPR-radar
The 25th amendment is useless because it relies on Trump’s cabinet to get him out of office, and they are all hand-picked swamp creatures that by now exclusively feed on Trump’s bodily secretions.
Impeachment and removal from office is the obvious response, and Congress could (and should) get it done today.
But too many Republicans in Congress are fellow travelers of violent right wing white supremacists for this obviously necessary thing to happen.
If it is known to them that they too will be held complicit in a coup attempt and will serve a Minimum of 20 years in prison they will go along with Pence in invoking the 25th. This fact should be made plain to them by Biden on TV. No more pussy shit.
re: #125 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Are they in control of their spaces, particularly the Capitol, the flagstaff which now flies Trump’s flag and not America’s, or Nancy Pelosi’s office?
They’ve only been there a couple hours.
They are also raiding state capitols.
For the moment it is a coup attempt.
That it is unlikely to succeed and does not resemble others attempted in foreign locales does not make it any less of a coup. Coups across history have started as “riots” which escalated until those in power either fled or were removed by force.
re: #19 Citizen K
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If they are ANTIFA he won’t have a problem with the cops gunning them down then, right?
re: #129 Ace Rothstein
As Biden was walking away, someone yelled a question (I’m assuming), and Biden turned around a snapped “ENOUGH!” Did any of y’all catch that?
Probably that Fox guy asking a question about Hunter Biden.
re: #126 Semper Fi
Watery eyes here, but fists are clenched.
I’m not even close to tears, I am just fucking pissed. Everything I learned and believed about this country is everything these fucking traitors stand against. I’m for wholesale wipe out of all of them at this point. If this was our founding fathers they would have already put this down as a rebellion.
re: #127 lawhawk
If the person who was shot dies from her injuries, every one of these treasonweasels can and should be charged with felony murder. They are collaborators, coconspirators, and accessories to the crimes. Every last one of them deserves to spend life in prison.
I’m considering taking measures to apply international pressure on the US to bring all responsible to justice, or face the music…
re: #119 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Nice evidence photo for the trial. Sedition, conspiracy, some sort of manslaughter charge, and that’s just getting started on the potential charges.
This is not a coup, this is a suicidal bit of street theatre. No one, not even the staffers, is just going to walk out of that building and go for a beer. It’s likely it will be handled by the new DoJ more succinctly than Malheur.
We will be better for this stupid clownshow.
After 9/11, we always talked about taking a punch and then turning around and dealing one back. The Republicans, in particular, have always prided themselves on their “patriotic response” of starting two wars specifically over this outrage. Now they’re about to be on the receiving end of what America can do when you fuck around with her. I hope we can hit back hard this time. I hope our newly elected government will let us.
re: #120 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!
He’s been on the air all afternoon. You have the opportunity to tell us what he did say instead of making things up.
It was a mocking sarcastic quote, I would have figured that’d been clear enough, especially considering how bad Todd’s reputation deservedly is around here.
Naming Timothy McVeigh’s prosecutor as attorney general on the day that right-wing extremists storm the U.S. Capitol really is a bit on the nose.
— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) January 6, 2021
re: #12 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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Literally a couple of a minutes apart:
At my direction, the @MDSP is sending in troopers to assist the Metropolitan Police Department and the United States Capitol Police. I have instructed the Adjutant General of the @MDNG to call up a rapid response force to support law enforcement and restore order.
— Governor Larry Hogan (@GovLarryHogan) January 6, 2021
Hogan’s no fool and is supported in MD by many democratic voters, no way would he not have responded.
re: #124 b.d. (We Won!)
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I agree with Ross, for once. Having Trump on TV would be stupid. This is the guy who can’t bear to criticize anyone who shows devotion. No way he wouldn’t turn it into yet another airing of grievances.
Including you.
— Hal Perry (@halperry) January 6, 2021
re: #95 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)
He’s definitely licking his chops.
If you don’t have any escape plans. That’s what this band is also going to find out.
Note that the Congress literally cannot do business until they finish the counting. That’s the law.
what the actual fuck
Right now on the West side of the US Capitol.
(📸 Getty Images) pic.twitter.com/1FxSN5Ugc7— Austin Kellerman (@AustinKellerman) January 6, 2021
Kevin McCarthy saying we all share blame because of social media. Fuck that asshole.
re: #130 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
We need to shorten Presidential transition time to a few days. It’s been done once but the time is still geared to the days when Congressman and candidates traveled by horseback or riverboat.
To be fair, the current length of transition is mandated by the Constitution, not something that Congress can easily change because modern transportation and correspondence makes such lengths of time seem prolonged. Plus it helps give the new administration (in theory) time enough to get set up so they can hit the ground running, rather than spending the first weeks setting up shop and getting all the furniture moved in.
re: #112 Charles Johnson
Nice photo. Bet you get out with that too.
Trump apparently is going to make a recorded statement on Twitter soon.
re: #129 Ace Rothstein
As Biden was walking away, someone yelled a question (I’m assuming), and Biden turned around a snapped “ENOUGH!” Did any of y’all catch that?
Probably a question about Hunter, because who the fuck cares about an armed invasion of the Capitol when BUT HIS LAPTOP?!?!?!
Too late.
— Hal Perry (@halperry) January 6, 2021
re: #103 William Lewis
Never presume malice when incompetence will suffice.
Never presume incompetence when malice has been the goal for sixty years.
I would not want to be on camera smiling as I was walking away from the capitol right now.
re: #137 Teukka
I’m considering taking measures to apply international pressure on the US to bring all responsible to justice, or face the music…
Do it. Please. No Republican terrorist or collaborator should be able to set foot outside the country without being arrested.
re: #96 Semper Fi
Now, because it was so easy for the Trump cult in today’s protest, they will be emboldened to do more during the swearing in ceremony in two weeks.
Because the police et. al. are now forewarned, “protesters” won’t get the chance to do anything.
CNN: Pro-Trump mob storms US Capitol as armed standoff takes place outside House chamber
How’s this for chutzpah?:
Donald Trump Jr., the President’s son, said that his supporters who mobbed the Capitol were “wrong and not who we are.”
“Be peaceful and use your 1st Amendment rights, but don’t start acting like the other side. We have a country to save and this doesn’t help anyone,” he tweeted.
Get fucked, Fredo…your daddy still doesn’t love you past what you’ve been able to loot from the Treasury for him.
re: #135 b.d. (We Won!)
Probably that Fox
guyputz asking a question about Hunter Biden.
In his video asking his supporters to go home, Trump REPEATS THE LIE THAT THE ELECTION WAS STOLEN FROM HIM.
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) January 6, 2021
Am I a little hurt that my fans didn’t storm the Television Academy offices when I lost the Emmy to @mulaney in 2018? Maybe, I dunno. pic.twitter.com/PfGqbtgSrV
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) January 6, 2021
re: #160 TedStriker
But, it IS who you are. We have the receipts. The ENTIRE planet now has the receipts.
re: #7 nines09
The GOP built this. Took a while, but they laid every brick in this house of shit.
We didn’t know at all
We didn’t see a thing
You can’t hold us to blame
What could we do
It was a terrible shame
But we can’t bear the blame
Oh no, not us, we didn’t know…
re: #162 jaunte
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That “sorry, not sorry” shit of Trump’s needs to be fucking dealt with.
Welcome to Bundy Stand-off Part 3:
A source close to the White House who is in touch with some of the rioters at the Capitol said it’s the goal of those involved to stay inside the Capitol through the night.
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 6, 2021
re: #130 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
We need to shorten Presidential transition time to a few days. It’s been done once but the time is still geared to the days when Congressman and candidates traveled by horseback or riverboat.
Here, as in other countries, the transition period is literally the next day once the vote is certified (which is also the very day after the elections). New PM takes over pretty much instantly.
re: #127 lawhawk
If the person who was shot dies from her injuries, every one of these treasonweasels can and should be charged with felony murder. They are collaborators, coconspirators, and accessories to the crimes. Every last one of them deserves to spend life in prison.
And if she does not, every one of them can be charged with felony attempted murder.
Trump will obviously pardon all of these people if he’s allowed to stay in office.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) January 6, 2021
this is sick stuff https://t.co/nwnoeyPIjU
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 6, 2021
They’re very special. Fuck this maniac.
re: #174 Backwoods_Sleuth
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“Due to risk of violence.”
Feel proud of yourself, Jack?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2021
He’s still inciting the mob.
re: #169 Targetpractice
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Stupid fuckers. They are so missing their flights home. They will be arrested and they will be prosecuted.
re: #133 Targetpractice
Not always - coups in Turkey (and they have a good deal of experience in that department) usually started when some Colonel decided he’d had enough of the government of the time and the next thing you know, tanks are rolling up to the Parliament building in Ankara and the PM is out on his ass (IIRC, one of those PMs was pretty much summarily executed too).
Fox beating that: BLM WAS WORSE THAN THIS! drum pretty hard atm.
This is what happens when you let people form bubbles. THIS is the end result of depriving yourself of any contradictory information, only allowing yourself to hear and read what you already believe. Any contradicting information inspires fear, and with enough fear comes anger, and… well, Star Wars fans know how that ends: Emo Hayden Christensen.
Why would they go home when their response would be rational if Trump’s claims were actually true. Trump could stop this by admitting that he lied. Well, a whole person could, anyway.
re: #110 thedopefishlives
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I’m pretty close, actually. I probably will if I see more pictures.
I, on the other hand, am just pissed off. Every police department in the country — and certainly the Capitol Police — should have seen something like this coming and been prepared to nip it in the bud.
(Rachel is now on MSNBC saying she doesn’t much care what DT or Cruz say now about what they incited. She wants the police to clean this the hell out and the rioters to experience the full force of the law. I agree.)
re: #133 Targetpractice
That it is unlikely to succeed and does not resemble others attempted in foreign locales does not make it any less of a coup. Coups across history have started as “riots” which escalated until those in power either fled or were removed by force.
In Tunisia the coup started when the police beat a food cart proprietor because he did not have a proper permit. Then protests, then riots, then the long time dictator was fleeing the country.
re: #177 Charles Johnson
The Twitter tag on that tweet is INSANE.
I mean consider we are living in a world where a statement from the President of the United States can get flagged like that.
DT should be wrapped up in a straight jacket and hauled away
re: #157 Shiplord Kirel: Fan of USPS, Goodyear, and Oreo
Do it. Please. No Republican terrorist or collaborator should be able to set foot outside the country without being arrested.
Would be nice to see Trump try to go to Scotland like they talked about and see him arrested and handed over to the Hague for trial.
re: #187 PhillyPretzel
DT should be wrapped up in a straight jacket and hauled away
I can think of better things.
re: #170 Dr Lizardo
Here, as in other countries, the transition period is literally the next day once the vote is certified (which is also the very day after the elections). New PM takes over pretty much instantly.
Yes, but the opposition in a parliamentary system has a shadow cabinet ready to go; the incoming US President doesn’t. There’s a need for a transition period, but not this long anymore. The US Constitution is just too hard to amend.
Holy shit. Trump’s account is in lockdown
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2021
YOU DID THIS. There’s already been blood spilled & it’s your fault for not standing up to Trump when you could have. What was so important that you sold out your country to protect yourself? This is on you & the #GOPSeditiousTraitors who stood & applauded for sedition today 🖕🏻 https://t.co/04rPL7qsTM
— Tara Dublin is Ready For #BidenCalm (@taradublinrocks) January 6, 2021
Donnie’s tweeted locked:
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2021
I reported from Ferguson. The difference in the aggression level of the police there against unarmed protesters vs what we’re seeing against white people attempting a coup in the capital is effing astounding.
— jelani cobb (@jelani9) January 6, 2021
re: #177 Charles Johnson
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He’s still inciting the mob.
The man who calls football players who take a knee “sons of bitches” is calling people who’ve done property damage and caused critical injuries “very special people.”
It’s Charlottesville Part 2: Electric Boogaloo.
re: #155 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
Never presume incompetence when malice has been the goal for sixty years.
On the part of the protesters? Sure. On the part of the police who very possibly didn’t think they’d actually do “that”?
re: #191 darthstar
Trump’s still inciting his base to act. He’s the coup leader. He’s the lead insurrectionist.
re: #195 Teukka
This tweet right here should result in a permanent ban hammer.
re: #191 darthstar
Holy shit. Trump’s account is in lockdown
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I did something I should have done long ago and reported Trump’s personal account, right before it just got locked.
Coincidence?
///sorta
re: #186 Eclectic Cyborg
The Twitter tag on that tweet is INSANE.
I mean consider we are living in a world where a statement from the President of the United States can get flagged like that.
Or someone owning a company where that sort of thing is against the terms of service, and if you or I did it we’d be banned so fast they’d hear the slap across the continent.
But you know, $$$
Too late.
Far too late.
You helped shape this into reality over time.
And make no mistake - you will never escape it.
History books of the future will remember you for your part in this.
You. Own. This.— Arch (@Arch_LGF) January 6, 2021
the police opened the fucking gates. pic.twitter.com/HyDURXfoaB
— katie (@cevansavenger) January 6, 2021
It doesn’t border on sedition, it is sedition.
Do not go easy on these people as President Obama did re Bush, Cheney, the banksters, etc. Otherwise they will be back and they will be worse.
Our nation’s survival depends on swift action.— Hal Perry (@halperry) January 6, 2021
Has there been any words from Pence or Pelosi?
Multiple explosive devices found in DC amid Capitol chaos https://t.co/KpREKYwOX1 pic.twitter.com/sCmumeAAi3
— New York Post (@nypost) January 6, 2021
re: #140 Citizen K
It was a mocking sarcastic quote, I would have figured that’d been clear enough, especially considering how bad Todd’s reputation deservedly is around here.
I know what it was. I’m tired of this shit. There’s plenty to attack him for without making stuff up.
Laura Ingraham is on Fox News trying to pin some of the blame for violence at the Capitol on antifa pic.twitter.com/ilFjDtdu5J
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 6, 2021
re: #190 ericblair
Yes, but the opposition in a parliamentary system has a shadow cabinet ready to go; the incoming US President doesn’t. There’s a need for a transition period, but not this long anymore. The US Constitution is just too hard to amend.
Yeah, good point about a shadow cabinet. Maybe two weeks should be sufficient in the case of the US.
MORE, from Raskin: “Everyone is absolutely determined to continue with the normal proceedings of the U.S. Congress. … The American constitutional democracy will prevail. We have no choice.”
— Caitlynn Peetz (@CaitlynnPeetz14) January 6, 2021
re: #207 PhillyPretzel
Has there been any words from Pence or Pelosi?
Madam Speaker has not yet said anything.
re: #211 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, good point about a shadow cabinet. Maybe two weeks should be sufficient in the case of the US.
IIRC, Biden already had most of his team ready to go within that timeframe, except for the Cabinet picks.
In regard to the ongoing situation in Washington, D.C., we are working proactively to protect the health of the public conversation occurring on the service and will take action on any content that violates the Twitter Rules.
— Twitter Safety (@TwitterSafety) January 6, 2021
Fuck off with this weak sauce shit, Jack. Nobody’s buying this “we’re really concerned” act anymore.
re: #137 Teukka
I’m considering taking measures to apply international pressure on the US to bring all responsible to justice, or face the music…
What sort of measures could you take?
Per CNN
A White House adviser said some aides around President Donald Trump are becoming furious that the President won’t do more to stop the insurrection at the Capitol. The adviser said aides have been all but begging Trump to come out and make a statement to begin to calm the situation.
“He doesn’t want to” to do more than what he is doing right now, the adviser said.
“If we could throw him to the angry mob, we’d throw him to the angry mob now,” the adviser said.
Thing is, they CAN.
re: #58 Eclectic Cyborg
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Nice to see he is treating the US flag with respect. What a patriot.
re: #216 thedopefishlives
Madam Speaker has not yet said anything.
There’s this:
.@SenSchumer and I are calling on President Trump to demand that all protestors leave the U.S. Capitol and Capitol grounds immediately. pic.twitter.com/z6D8qb6bpe
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) January 6, 2021
“We love you. You’re very special.”
—Trump to insurrectionists just now— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) January 6, 2021
re: #208 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
There ya go. That’s terrorism, by pretty much any definition.
Time to treat Y’all Qaeda like the terrorists they are.
National Guard coming to help from Maryland and Virginia. DC needs statehood and their own National Guard.
re: #164 darthstar
He’s still encouraging them…fucker.
“You were right, but go home.” Someone punch his fat, stupid face.
Took some effort on my part to keep this response so civil.
You’ve been stoking division for years.
You’ve been spreading hatred for ages.
You’ve been using malicious rhetoric time and again.
You’ve shown contempt for half of the country whenever it suited your purposes.
You. Own. This.— Arch (@Arch_LGF) January 6, 2021
re: #223 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #119 FFL (GOP Delenda Est)
Nice evidence photo for the trial. Sedition, conspiracy, some sort of manslaughter charge, and that’s just getting started on the potential charges.
Looting.
Capitol Police have had enough. They’re herding people off the risers and someone who ran immediately got two escorts…so he’s not going home.
re: #211 Dr Lizardo
Yeah, good point about a shadow cabinet. Maybe two weeks should be sufficient in the case of the US.
Probably longer, honestly. In a parlimentary system you have (mostly) non-partisan career civil servants fairly high up the chain of command in departments. There are 1,200 positions in the federal government that require Senate approval and approximately another 2,800 that don’t require advice and consent. That’s a lot of people to get into position.
I think we can bring the debate over stupidity vs complicity to a close:
We told y’all the call was coming from inside the house https://t.co/d4dJqqOmiY
— Studs Twerkel. (@thewayoftheid) January 6, 2021
— Jenn Budd ✊🏻 (@BuddJenn) January 6, 2021
A new useless warning, but they’re still not shutting him down. pic.twitter.com/oy2jcG9FJz
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 6, 2021
It can’t be liked, replied to, or retweeted, but no problem embedding it.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 6, 2021
FBI SWAT team in Capitol complex pic.twitter.com/SCLDTlQ0g0
— Leigh Ann Caldwell (@LACaldwellDC) January 6, 2021
re: #222 thecommodore
There’s this:
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Ah, there we go. I probably missed that in the rapidly-moving situation.
re: #170 Dr Lizardo
Here, as in other countries, the transition period is literally the next day once the vote is certified (which is also the very day after the elections). New PM takes over pretty much instantly.
I want to ask someone who’s done it whether this is feasible. Other countries have civil service at much higher levels than we do, and the new people need to learn a lot, plus make a few thousand appointments to all those jobs.
re: #225 Semper Fi
National Guard coming to help from Maryland and Virginia. DC needs statehood and their own National Guard.
DC has an NG, but it lacks a governor to act as CinC/boss of the Adjutant General. It gets complicated.
re: #237 FormerDirtDart 🍕🐀 No Capt’n😷Trips
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They need to sweep from the basement levels up and from the exits to trap any seditious fuckers on the upper floors.
Why am I depressed enough to assume that Trump will issue a blanket pardon to all of the rioters…
re: #232 Targetpractice
I think we can bring the debate over stupidity vs complicity to a close:
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Maybe #DeFundThePolice has some justification…..
re: #230 darthstar
Capitol Police have had enough. They’re herding people off the risers and someone who ran immediately got two escorts…so he’s not going home.
Capitol Police only now starting to think their paychecks may now be on the line since this coup is flailing.
May the Capitol Police be merciless to my asshole relatives.
More receipts
when the looting starts, the shooting
*checks notes*
hmm, looks like the looting just…continues? pic.twitter.com/lyLxlf4Hva— connectpoliticditto. (@cpoliticditto) January 6, 2021
re: #187 PhillyPretzel
DT should be wrapped up in a straight jacket and hauled away
Strait. (Sorry.)
re: #227 (((Archangel1)))
Took some effort on my part to keep this response so civil.
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Look in the mirror, Ted. You did all of that.
Now stick your dick in your asshole, ASSHOLE!— Hal Perry (@halperry) January 6, 2021
House and Senate are determined to finish this tonight. No more grandstanding for Cruz and Hawley.
Like, ten seconds of levity in case anybody needs it pic.twitter.com/LDl0i2Uhwg
— The Mountain Goats (@mountain_goats) January 6, 2021
re: #241 Decatur Deb
DC has an NG, but it lacks a governor to act as CinC/boss of the Adjutant General. It gets complicated.
The DC Guard is under control of the President.
The president of the United States is the commander-in-chief for the District of Columbia National Guard. Command is exercised through the Secretary of Defense and the commanding general, Joint Force Headquarters (JFHQ), District of Columbia National Guard.
And that’s why the DOD refused to send them.
by the way, in case anyone is curious, National Review readers are lighting up Trump and Republicanism in the comments threads. That could be a strong sign that Trumpism is burning itself out because it costs 60 bucks to troll the comment sections over there, so this may be authentic folks who are fed up with this radical populist know-nothingism.
Smoke grenades are being deployed on the Senate side of the US Capitol, as Capitol police work to clear the building of rioters. Windows on the west side of the Senate have been broken. Hundreds of officers are amassing on the first floor of the building. https://t.co/Thf4iIvoO6
— CNN (@CNN) January 6, 2021
re: #247 Dr. Matt
More receipts
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That fucker gets to enjoy his moment of fame followed by a good long jail sentence. Even Mike fucking Pence said they will be prosecuted.
re: #249 thecommodore
So Ted Cruz gets to say what’s false and reckless about sedition? Fuck, when I want his lying ass opinion, I’ll ask him.
He can’t repaint this shit because it’s unflattering. He owns it. They all own it.
It’s starting to get dark in DC, and this is when the Proud Boys get violent
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 6, 2021
re: #240 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!
I want to ask someone who’s done it whether this is feasible. Other countries have civil service at much higher levels than we do, and the new people need to learn a lot, plus make a few thousand appointments to all those jobs.
That’s a fair point. Civil service here in Czech Republic is pretty much a lifetime position, regardless of whichever party or coalition is running the country.
I am drawing up Articles of Impeachment.
Donald J. Trump should be impeached by the House of Representatives & removed from office by the United States Senate.
We can’t allow him to remain in office, it’s a matter of preserving our Republic and we need to fulfill our oath.— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) January 6, 2021
Don’t google him
lol— 𝙒𝘽 𝙔𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜 🍕🐀😷 (@FormerDirtDart) January 6, 2021
re: #248 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!
It is okay. This is very unusual.
House and Senate are determined to finish this tonight. No more grandstanding for Cruz and Hawley.
Link?
CNN is mostly calling it what it is—if they could just muzzle Van Jones with his “righteous indignation” and stuff Rick Santorum (why the fuck he’s even there is a mystery) in a basement, the rest of them are doing well.
Disrespectful Respectfully
Protesting Protesting pic.twitter.com/E51qTm1Qhe— Top Shotta P (@vitaminDiddy) January 6, 2021
re: #259 lawhawk
I agree with Rep Omar. She is correct.
And by this time tomorrow, it will be MAGAt gospel that everybody who participated in the riot was “Antifa” because no law-abiding “patriot” would dare do such a thing.
re: #257 Charles Johnson
So arrest them in the dark or there are scopes that can see at night. Doesn’t have to be a problem. If all it takes is darkness to thwart law and order in this country, we’re sunk.
🚨🚨BREAKING: Jon @ossoff clears the .5% threshold for a Senate recount in Georgia. There will be no recount in Georgia.
Democrats take control of the U.S. Senate. pic.twitter.com/jnWoSyy29E— Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) January 6, 2021
The most important news today, really.
re: #220 DesertDenizen
Per CNN
A White House adviser said some aides around President Donald Trump are becoming furious that the President won’t do more to stop the insurrection at the Capitol. The adviser said aides have been all but begging Trump to come out and make a statement to begin to calm the situation.
“He doesn’t want to” to do more than what he is doing right now, the adviser said.
“If we could throw him to the angry mob, we’d throw him to the angry mob now,” the adviser said.Thing is, they CAN.
That mob would protect him, not harm him.
re: #259 lawhawk
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While I agree with the sentiment, I just don’t see enough time to do (or enough GOPers, even now) to make it more than what happened last time, a symbolic gesture.
Though, it would be something for the history books: Trump, the only POTUS to get impeached twice…
re: #268 ericblair
Wonderful. McConnell is now the minority.
re: #265 PhillyPretzel
I agree with Rep Omar. She is correct.
And who knows? Maybe this was too much even for Mitch McConnell. He might well even be thinking, “What’s the harm in sending Trump packing a few days early? And if we vote to convict and remove him from office, he can never take office again.”
re: #269 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!
That mob would protect him, not harm him.
He’d be on their shoulders waving.
re: #269 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!
That mob would protect him, not harm him.
Not if they love him too much.
re: #270 TedStriker
While I agree with the sentiment, I just don’t see enough time to do (or enough GOPers, even now) to make it more than what happened last time, a symbolic gesture.
Though, it would be something for the history books: Trump, the only POTUS to get impeached twice…
House could move to impeach on assent.
The Senate Trial gets dicey, but holding it in a chamber where the stink of tear gas lingers would be fitting.
re: #230 darthstar
Capitol Police have had enough. They’re herding people off the risers and someone who ran immediately got two escorts…so he’s not going home.
Am I a bad person for hoping some if them have lumps of their own after this? Serves them right for misjudging the situation (if not actually abetting it).
re: #273 Dr Lizardo
And who knows? Maybe this was too much even for Mitch McConnell. He might well even be thinking, “What’s the harm in sending Trump packing a few days early? And if we vote to convict and remove him from office, he can never take office again.”
Only if they also ban him from taking office. We’ve been through this before. I hope the will is there this time.
DOGNAPPER BUSTED: “We haven’t seen anything like this before. A @DoorDash driver makes a delivery and takes off with an 8 week old puppy, that was a Christmas gift for kids.” Warren Police Detective who recovered stolen puppy speaks out. @wxyzdetroit #6PM pic.twitter.com/A4Gl2qr1CB
— Simon Shaykhet WXYZ (@simonshaykhet) January 5, 2021
re: #271 PhillyPretzel
Wonderful. McConnell is now the minority.
He will be - but I’m not sure how quickly Georgia certifies results and transmits them to the Senate so that Ossoff and Warnock can be sworn in. Might still be a few days or even weeks.
re: #272 Semper Fi
What about just a really wiry hostile one?
re: #273 Dr Lizardo
And who knows? Maybe this was too much even for Mitch McConnell. He might well even be thinking, “What’s the harm in sending Trump packing a few days early? And if we vote to convict and remove him from office, he can never take office again.”
No harm in that because Mitch is already politically dead.
re: #270 TedStriker
While I agree with the sentiment, I just don’t see enough time to do (or enough GOPers, even now) to make it more than what happened last time, a symbolic gesture.
Though, it would be something for the history books: Trump, the only POTUS to get impeached twice…
If there were 67 votes to remove, they could expedite the fuck out of the proceedings. But, sadly, even now, I doubt there are even 60 votes to remove.
re: #273 Dr Lizardo
And who knows? Maybe this was too much even for Mitch McConnell. He might well even be thinking, “What’s the harm in sending Trump packing a few days early? And if we vote to convict and remove him from office, he can never take office again.”
That also clears the field for the other fascists who want to run in 2024.
um the guy in the photo on the right is one of America’s most famous nazis https://t.co/G81R1Lsgsj
— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) January 6, 2021
As far as I can tell no militia actually attempted to enter the capital building in Georgia that was misreporting and secondhand from someone else. I’ve talked to the militia groups that are actually here, and it’s all news to them.
Actually reporting from Georgia. pic.twitter.com/CXdLAwgySA— Zach D Roberts (@zdroberts) January 6, 2021
Looks like the GA insurrection rumor was bullshit. Don’t know about Kansas.
re: #84 Citizen K
“But how will this affect Democrats plans to exercise power, won’t this throw a wrench into their attempts to undo Trump’s gains?”
See also: Politico on any given day.
Fuck you. You incited this insurrection. https://t.co/p54nLof0Gk
— Joe Walsh (@WalshFreedom) January 6, 2021
re: #266 Targetpractice
And by this time tomorrow, it will be MAGAt gospel that everybody who participated in the riot was “Antifa” because no law-abiding “patriot” would dare do such a thing.
You don’t have to wait until tomorrow:
I would venture to say this was planned by antifa agitators dressed as Trump supporters to give bad optics & put all blame on Trump. As in other similar situations, people follow along nonviolently not realizing they are being duped by these agitators.
— cwardsea (@cthetropics) January 6, 2021
re: #252 Anymouse 🌹🏡😷
The DC Guard is under control of the President.
And that’s why the DOD refused to send them.
Until they did.
Go to hell. You are a traitor https://t.co/ibvGdESB4p
— Howard Dean (@GovHowardDean) January 6, 2021
re: #282 Nyet
No harm in that because Mitch is already politically dead.
2022 is going to be… interesting… Arizona and Georgia back on the ballot (Kelly and Warnock), but the GOP has to defend Wisconsin (Ron Johnson), vacant seats in Pennsylvania and North Carolina, and Rubio getting primaried* by Ivanka in Florida. And then there’s Ohio and Iowa which have a chance of being purpleish.
*again, assuming the Trumps don’t decide to form their own party because the establishment Republicans weren’t sufficiently booklicky.
re: #294 PrairieQueen
No, he got what he wanted. https://t.co/AuUjerXJJb https://t.co/ggdp8nuKyp
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) January 6, 2021
re: #259 lawhawk
Ilhan Omar
@IlhanMN
I am drawing up Articles of Impeachment.Donald J. Trump should be impeached by the House of Representatives & removed from office by the United States Senate.
We can’t allow him to remain in office, it’s a matter of preserving our Republic and we need to fulfill our oath.
1:38 PM * Jan 6, 2021
Plus it might make him unable to pardon anyone until the impeachment is resolved.
re: #170 Dr Lizardo
New PM takes over pretty much instantly.
We’re not a parliamentary style of the government - we’re AMERICANS (FUCK YAEH), and we march to our own beat.
re: #295 prairiefire
It has to be the 25th amendment.
Which requires Trump’s cabinet to weigh in… so, yeah, no, not going to happen.
From downstairs:
re: #267 PrairieQueen
So arrest them in the dark or there are scopes that can see at night. Doesn’t have to be a problem. If all it takes is darkness to thwart law and order in this country, we’re sunk.
And I don’t get why the NGers being sent in won’t be used to augment Capital Police to route these fuckers out of the Capitol and arrest them, other than optics; they’re not federalized, thus they are not under Title 10 (federal military and federalized NG) and are not subject to Posse Comitatus.
re: #266 Targetpractice
And by this time tomorrow, it will be MAGAt gospel that everybody who participated in the riot was “Antifa” because no law-abiding “patriot” would dare do such a thing.
Who the fuck cares what they think?
re: #270 TedStriker
While I agree with the sentiment, I just don’t see enough time to do (or enough GOPers, even now) to make it more than what happened last time, a symbolic gesture.
Though, it would be something for the history books: Trump, the only POTUS to get impeached twice…
Just needs a majority of the House to impeach him. Wouldn’t be time for the trial.
So today was the attempted coup on Congress.
The only remaining item on my last-days Trump Krazy list is armed Oathkeepers occupying the White House grounds daring authorities to try and remove Trump.
re: #303 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!
Just needs a majority of the House to impeach him. Wouldn’t be time for the trial.
There would be if the Republicans in the Senate want to establish that insurrection is not OK. Trump is going to destroy what’s left of the party no matter what they do, so they’d be wise to just stomp him.
re: #277 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!
Am I a bad person for hoping some if them have lumps of their own after this? Serves them right for misjudging the situation (if not actually abetting it).
No. And I hope they beat the shit out of my ignorant relatives.
re: #232 Targetpractice
I think we can bring the debate over stupidity vs complicity to a close:
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I think every capitol police officer should be suspended, without pay, until it can be determined if they had anything to do with aiding these terrorists. If it seems like they did their jobs they get their job back with pay from time of suspension. If you had anything to do with aiding these terrorists, you get prosecuted.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) has called on Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment, which details procedures for removing the president from office by members of his cabinet and the vice president.https://t.co/FRaZuaoRSD
— HuffPost (@HuffPost) January 6, 2021
re: #269 A hollow voice says,1st round on points. Onward!
That mob would protect him, not harm him.
They are his last desperate chance to avoid prison.
re: #188 William Lewis
Would be nice to see Trump try to go to Scotland like they talked about and see him arrested and handed over to the Hague for trial.
what would be especially nice would be seeing every airport refuse to allow him to land, and for his plane to run out of gas while futilely circling over the North Sea.
I just wrote Wyden and DeFazio to demand they do something to hold Trump responsible for inciting and refusing to call for an end to these seditious acts. The same with Tailgunner Ted and his sedition-loving pals in the House and Senate. I want as many of these treasonous assholes as possible to be held to account for their despicable acts against our nation. The Party of Lincoln has turned on the nation and is attempting a coup. Stop them, now.
I also mentioned that if this attack was by armed black people that there would be piles of their bodies all over D.C.
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