My friend John Lewis is surely smiling down on his beloved Georgia this morning, as people across the state carried forward the baton that he and so many others passed down to them. pic.twitter.com/CgVEP4Ilt8
white people always do this shit. Like clockwork. How many times do Black people have to tell you all that racists come from all walks of life. They are your fucking family that you don’t condemn and remove from your lives. They’re your fucking neighbors. They’re your colleagues. They are all over America. They are not some hillbilly no-name people. These type of white allies piss me the fuck off. Either you’re standing ten toes down with Black people or you can fuck all the way off. Bravo to Mikki for clearing this fucking fool out.
None of these people were blue collar. Stop telling this lie. They are happy to tell you about their white collar jobs from marketing directors to CEO'S. They're business owners & yes they are our political and social enemies. Cozying up to white supremacists is a bad idea https://t.co/ucfOruVpZe
I just don't understand this need to ignore reality in favor of blaming poor white people when we know they don't have the money to travel, never mind stay at the Hyatt. Most of the people identified so far have been in jobs that pay well & have PTO. They aren't poor.
I just don't understand this need to ignore reality in favor of blaming poor white people when we know they don't have the money to travel, never mind stay at the Hyatt. Most of the people identified so far have been in jobs that pay well & have PTO. They aren't poor.
Y'all the people who actually needed help in the pandemic weren't there. The blue collar cosplay relies on you not understanding the class signifiers on display. The presence of a camo print doesn't mean the person wearing it is poor. Stop telling that lie.
A lot of the people currently on FBI wanted lists were wearing $1000 in gear. They livestreamed from brand new phones & lead their lives in luxury even if they don't show it to the people they know will follow them. They're conning poor people, they aren't actually poor.
I know its easier for middle class and above white people to think "They're white but they aren't like me/my family/my friends" but they are exactly like you. They're Brad, Chad, Stacy & Tracy. And deep down you know it because you see them across the table every holiday
The rioters likely run the socioeconomic gamut. But the few identified include a CEO, the son of a NY State Supreme Court judge, a lawyer, a real estate agent, a teacher, a lieutenant sheriff, and a small business owner and former mayoral candidate. https://t.co/7Za5YwqiqW
The supportive & selfie-taking #CapitolPolice & their Chief must be held accountable, immediately. #StevenSund should be placed on leave without pay until the investigation clears him. https://t.co/1yu8I2ied9
Dominion has sent retraction demands or document preservation letters, often precursors to litigation, to more than 20 individuals and entities, including to Wood, White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and Trump’s personal attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani; and to Fox News, Newsmax, One America News and the Epoch Times, media companies that have lent Powell an enormous platform in the two months since the election.
Some of the news outlets, including Fox, have since backed off the claims or issued corrective statements.
Thomas A. Clare, an attorney representing Dominion who is well-known for litigating defamation cases, said his team filed against Powell first “because she’s been the most prolific and in many ways has been the originator of these false statements.”
“But to be clear, none of this would have been possible without other individuals and without other media outlets that have their own responsibility,” Clare said. “And we’re looking at all of them.”
Asked whether Dominion intends to sue Trump, Clare said no one has been ruled out. “We’re going to follow this wherever the evidence leads us.”
In the complaint filed Friday, Dominion chronicles more than three dozen of Powell’s public statements about the company, showing how she continued attacking it even after multiple local, state and federal officials rejected claims of widespread election fraud.
I don't really expect Senate Republicans to be motivated by anything other than narrow self-interest, but how many of them realize that they can take one vote and clear Trump from the 2024 primary field?
ALERT: Don’t take Trump’s tweet that he won’t attend the inauguration at face value. We all knew that. This is him confirming for his Capitol rioters who want to disrupt the inauguration that he won’t be sitting there. He’s green-lighting their plans. Move it to a secure location
A chilling revelation from the wise and informed Fiona Hill, Trump’s former Russia advisor. Now we know exactly why all the living former Secretaries of Defense suddenly called on the military to refrain from political involvement. They knew Trump’s attempted coup was underway. pic.twitter.com/uJIVuv2k9u
The thing about Trump, and all of this, is that it was easy to get it right. You just had to open your eyes to see. The folks who got him wrong simply did not want to.
If you go to work for and support a racist, con man traitorous grifter who plots a coup against his own country and who has in all likelihood sold state secrets to our enemies, people might think less of you. #TraitorTrumphttps://t.co/DDrtQGf3XQ
For the caliber of the job he was elected to, this type of *growing* should not have been required. What other major institution would even seriously consider some one for their chief executive position as lacking as the current WH occupant?
'We thought he was going to get better!' GOP senator admits they should have held Trump more accountable https://t.co/ehLomg6Qgm
Democracy didn’t prevail yesterday, it was knee-capped after 4 long years of being pushed to the breaking point. It will survive only if Donald and his fellow seditionists in Congress are removed from office. Now. Otherwise they’ll try it again—and next time they’ll succeed.
Pretty sure a lesson has been learned and these thugs won’t be underestimated or discounted. If nothing else, I don’t believe the Biden/Harris staffers will leave their security to chance.
Not to be unduly alarmist, but this also means Trump won’t be anywhere in the line of fire for another mob assault he may be planning to incite. https://t.co/f2WFNL2kGC
These are the co-conspirators in the big lie: Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Alex Jones, Tucker Carlson, Rudy Guliani, and more
I read a bunch of the charge sheets and interviews today of the terrorists arrested yesterday and today. Every one of them turns into crying little babies when actually faced by consequences for their actions.
I don't know if I've seen this information anywhere, so I'll ask the question here: Who paid for and organized the "Save America" rally that Trump spoke at on Wednesday?
I believe the last president to skip his incumbent's inauguration was Andrew Johnson — incompetent, impeached, sympathetic to Confederate traitors — so this is pretty fitting. https://t.co/iiZTFf7hKP
The break adds to uncertainty about what’s in store for the remainder of Donald Trump’s term, particularly in the aftermath of the violence that engulfed Washington when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol. https://t.co/IjS0Gg0dnc
Before leaving office, President Barack Obama awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor – the Presidential Medal of Freedom – to his vice president.
To his vice president, Trump bestowed the label of coward.
The staunchly loyal Mike Pence was excoriated by Trump on Wednesday for his refusal to illegally intervene to prevent Congress from certifying the results for the presidential election that Trump lost.
Trump has also barred Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, from the White House.
“He’s blaming me for advice to VP,” Short told RealClearPolitics.
Trump’s public denunciation of his vice president is unprecedented in the history of the modern vice presidency, according to scholars. And it comes after more than four years of Pence showing extreme deference to Trump, leading critics to deride him as an obsequious enabler of a volatile president.
Trump dissolved the National Security Council’s global health/biodefense directorate + ignored its “pandemic playbook” when COVID struck.
Now Biden has tapped @BethCameron_DC, the pandemic playbook’s principal author, to return to NSC and restore the global health security work. pic.twitter.com/dVgNoZZD7R
Kudos for the pick coming in, including this note from @llborio, the former FDA acting chief scientist, who worked with Cameron when both were career civil servants. (Biden tapped both as transition advisers.) pic.twitter.com/2tMs4yL1cL
. @jack. Zuckerberg's ban on Trump until after Biden takes office meets a minimal ethical threshold and yours is not even meeting that. https://t.co/dnaFwdomX7
The Capitol was not properly handled as a crime scene. The cops let the perpetrators just walk out, then cleaning staff came in to clean up. I highly doubt any forensics professionals came in to take DNA samples before the cleaning crew came in.
PELOSI: “This morning, I spoke to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley to discuss available precautions for preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike.” pic.twitter.com/o7K5L25AkA
I've signed onto two complementary impeachment resolutions:
The 1st charges Trump for his call with the GA secretary of state to “find votes” & for abuse of power due to his role inciting the attempted coup at the Capitol.
When Josh Hawley was Missouri AG, he refused to charge the jail guards who murdered Tory Sanders, a Black man, by kneeling on his neck. @HawleyMO didn’t just get blood on his hands now—it’s been there. White supremacy allowed him to go on without consequence.
.@LindseyGrahamSC: "No impeachment." World: "He instigated a coup." LG: "Unity!" W: "You voted to convict Clinton for lying about a blow job." LG: "That was serious!" W: "Trump screwed a porn star & bribed her" LG: "Not under oath!" W: "Um..what did Russia find in your computer?"
— Kurt "Masks Save Lives" Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) January 8, 2021
Ossoff now holds the largest raw vote margin for a Democrat in a contested, regularly scheduled, statewide federal GA election since 1984. https://t.co/kq00wBbcHw
Rep. James Clyburn (D-SC) says the people who attacked the Capitol knew the location of his office where he conducts most of his business, even though that information is not publicly known, and threatened his staffers: "Something else is going on untoward here." pic.twitter.com/58MFhxUgR9
— The American Independent (@AmerIndependent) January 8, 2021
“Trump Didn’t Call In The National Guard. He Restricted Them.
In memos issued on Jan. 4 and 5, the Pentagon prohibited the District’s guardsmen from receiving ammunition or riot gear, interacting with protesters unless necessary for self-defense, sharing equipment with local law enforcement or using Guard surveillance and air assets without the defense secretary’s explicit sign-off, according to officials familiar with the orders.
The need for higher-level approval appeared to have slowed the military response when the Capitol Police, the law enforcement force that reports to Congress and protects the House and the Senate, requested backup from 200 troops during a call with top Pentagon officials early Wednesday afternoon, according to officials familiar with the call.
Trump didn’t send in the National Guard as he claimed in his Twitter video.
He restricted what the Guard could do.”
(politicus.usa)
“After the election,
Trump gutted the civilian leadership of the Pentagon and replaced them with his own loyalists. Yesterday’s violence was one of the reasons why Trump wanted more control of the Pentagon. There will be investigations, but judging from the information that is already coming out a picture is emerging of Trump not just fanning the flames of violence but actively creating a climate where violence could take place.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2021/01/07/trump-dc-national-guard.html)
—looks like edition planned by trump and enablers.
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For those who are wondering why so much attention has been focused on the response of the Capitol Police to the Trump-inspired riots, here’s a data-driven article that provides some useful frame of reference. https://t.co/MAdlWGRd23
At his orders, Trumpers occupied the Capitol with guns and bombs.
With congressionals all present, security was kept light.
By contrast the SOTU event is heavily secure because top U.S. officials are all present.
What happened? Trump, Hawley, Cruz risked the lives of House and Senate congressionals and Capitol staff.
—Arrest them.
Wonder if the charges include theft of Pelosi’s laptop.
NEWS: Richard Barnett, who was seen sitting at a desk in Speaker Pelosi’s office, has been arrested in Arkansas and charged with entering and remaining on restricting grounds, violent entry, and theft of public property — NBC's Pete Williams reports.
Prosecutors cite Capitol siege in bid to revoke bail for Vets for Trump founder caught in Philly with Hummer filled with guns https://t.co/jLFP2rlX0f via @phillyinquirer
Retired Capitol Police Officer “Butch” T. Jones to Reid about how a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol:
“There was no reinforcement … I think if that was a Black organization, they would have never gotten to the steps.”
Jon @ossoff’s margin over Republican David Perdue — who has yet to concede — has now crept up to about 1%. That’s well outside the 0.5% margin set by state law that allows losing candidates to request recounts. #gapol#gasenpic.twitter.com/dOyK3cVTR5
Outside lawyers are being sought for consultation by WH about prospect of last minute, rapid impeachment of Trump, we are told. So far Trump’s attorneys don’t believe there’s enough time left for him to be removed from office. But conversations underway.
Glad to know there are safeguards. Wish I knew what they were.
A spokesman for the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed that a conversation with Pelosi took place about Trump accessing the nuclear codes.
Pelosi told House Dems on a conference call that she was "assured that there are safeguards in place."https://t.co/ypIQQEESGq
A search of key terms on Facebook turned up 66 Stop the Steal groups and 72 events from the last week. As Facebook bans Trump, groups he inspired have membership in the thousands.
Marshall said he has ordered an internal review after blaming staff for making "unauthorized" decisions regarding the rally this week that turned into an insurrection.https://t.co/PhkWdvoEEh
“I believe they have blood on their hands. And no one should forget that,”
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar on republicans who enabled Trump’s anti-democratic fallacies.
To all of those who have asked (😎), the media should not cover whatever ridiculous stunt Donald has planned during the Inauguration of President Biden and Vice President Harris.
Loyalty to tRump does not equate to having the support of his base.
A source sends this video of a group of Trump supporters today harassing Sen. Lindsey Graham at Reagan airport and loudly calling him a “traitor” after he publicly broke with Trump earlier this week. pic.twitter.com/XBF8K6DIUD
Congresswoman Val Demings, former police chief:
“We have five people who have lost their lives. One of them was a U.S. Capitol Police Officer.
We have a responsibility to hold the president and his enablers accountable.”
Three White House advisers tell CNN that President Donald Trump has no intention of resigning. “None,” one adviser said of the chances of a resignation. “Zero,” said another, adding: “He doesn’t think he did anything wrong.”
(Things can always change but that’s what I hear now)
Outside lawyers are being sought for consultation by WH about prospect of last minute, rapid impeachment of Trump, we are told. So far Trump’s attorneys don’t believe there’s enough time left for him to be removed from office. But conversations underway.
If the (erroneous) Office of Legal Counsel memo saying president's can't be indicted for crimes while in office had not been written, hundreds of thousands of Americans would still be alive today.
.@KamalaHarris “Donald Trump uses Twitter — and this is a matter of corporate responsibility. Twitter should be held accountable and shut down that site. It is a matter of safety and corporate accountability."
The Obama Diary 
white people always do this shit. Like clockwork. How many times do Black people have to tell you all that racists come from all walks of life. They are your fucking family that you don’t condemn and remove from your lives. They’re your fucking neighbors. They’re your colleagues. They are all over America. They are not some hillbilly no-name people. These type of white allies piss me the fuck off. Either you’re standing ten toes down with Black people or you can fuck all the way off. Bravo to Mikki for clearing this fucking fool out.
This Karen is unbelievable.
Nail these bastards. White privilege should not protect them for once in this sorry country!
With you all the way on that.
They keep acting like Trump won’t torch the fucking place vastly more so than he already has.
Every second that elapses between now and noon 20 Jan 2021 he KNOWS he is going to GO TO JAIL.
Also.
NO JUSTICE NO USA
This shit must END.
Makes me wonder why the people in the midst of it don’t seem to have the same sense of urgency as we do. 🤔
Simple- they view these MAGA “people” as Patriots.
1.3 billion? Yesss.
Dominion has sent retraction demands or document preservation letters, often precursors to litigation, to more than 20 individuals and entities, including to Wood, White House Counsel Pat Cipollone and Trump’s personal attorney, Rudolph W. Giuliani; and to Fox News, Newsmax, One America News and the Epoch Times, media companies that have lent Powell an enormous platform in the two months since the election.
Some of the news outlets, including Fox, have since backed off the claims or issued corrective statements.
Thomas A. Clare, an attorney representing Dominion who is well-known for litigating defamation cases, said his team filed against Powell first “because she’s been the most prolific and in many ways has been the originator of these false statements.”
“But to be clear, none of this would have been possible without other individuals and without other media outlets that have their own responsibility,” Clare said. “And we’re looking at all of them.”
Asked whether Dominion intends to sue Trump, Clare said no one has been ruled out. “We’re going to follow this wherever the evidence leads us.”
In the complaint filed Friday, Dominion chronicles more than three dozen of Powell’s public statements about the company, showing how she continued attacking it even after multiple local, state and federal officials rejected claims of widespread election fraud.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dominion-sues-pro-trump-lawyer-sidney-powell-seeking-more-than-13-billion/2021/01/08/ebe5dbe0-5106-11eb-b96e-0e54447b23a1_story.html
cnn reports that the traitorous thug won’t be attending the inauguration. Good riddance. The traitor doesn’t deserve to be there.
And fuck you dana bash for your stupid praise of ‘change of tone’. The racist rapist thug never changes his true colors.
Good!!!
THIS IS EXACTLY MY THOUGHT TOO.
Caps are intentional.
Takes a lot to make a change. Bless the spirit of John Lewis and the hard work of all candidates and Stacey Abrams. They are all champs!
He’s sorry he got caught…
” I was in the wrong place at the wrong time”
Fucking liar.
Look … he’s sorry. He’s learned his lesson . Fuck that.
Good. Should have thought about this before you sided with treasonous Trump, and joined his seditious army.
For the caliber of the job he was elected to, this type of *growing* should not have been required. What other major institution would even seriously consider some one for their chief executive position as lacking as the current WH occupant?
What! The creeps that resigned are “WOKE”! No … they are cowards at this stage who are washing their hands of any responsibility.
The rats are jumping ship, too bad the ship isn’t in the middle of an ocean, and no life boats.
Pretty sure a lesson has been learned and these thugs won’t be underestimated or discounted. If nothing else, I don’t believe the Biden/Harris staffers will leave their security to chance.
The corrupt coward won’t do it. As usual, it’s up dems to clean up the rethugs’ crap.
LOL. Didn’t the thug use this minion thug’s ac to announce his ‘concession’? Now the minion’s ac is gone.
ETTD.
Yall’Qaeda and Vanilla Isis. Fucking cowards.
🕊🙏🏼🕯💙🕯🙏🏼🕊
isn’t that racist the idol of this racist?
amen, amen, amen.
Add Cruz to the expelled list.
yup.
How for does loyalty to tRump go? Ask Pence.
Before leaving office, President Barack Obama awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor – the Presidential Medal of Freedom – to his vice president.
To his vice president, Trump bestowed the label of coward.
The staunchly loyal Mike Pence was excoriated by Trump on Wednesday for his refusal to illegally intervene to prevent Congress from certifying the results for the presidential election that Trump lost.
Trump has also barred Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, from the White House.
“He’s blaming me for advice to VP,” Short told RealClearPolitics.
Trump’s public denunciation of his vice president is unprecedented in the history of the modern vice presidency, according to scholars. And it comes after more than four years of Pence showing extreme deference to Trump, leading critics to deride him as an obsequious enabler of a volatile president.
Exactly. The thug’s loyalty is himself, himself alone.
yup, fuck jack.
manu raju on cnn: Pelosi is pushing aggressively pushing for impeachment for committing high crimes and misdemeanor
Yesssss.
“Deplorable” was too kind for these cretins.
Sick people. They need help bad.!!!!!!!!!!!
Prison works
Their DNA is there for them to be identified.
The Capitol was not properly handled as a crime scene. The cops let the perpetrators just walk out, then cleaning staff came in to clean up. I highly doubt any forensics professionals came in to take DNA samples before the cleaning crew came in.
you elect a fucking lunatic, you get a terrorist.
fuck magat maggie.
Do they actually know that the noose was for Pence?
I think the assumption was based on them actively searching for Pence and calling for Pence’s execution.
Wonder if Trump will tell us what the Russians have on Lindsey since it seems he was the one designated to threaten Lindsey.
“Trump Didn’t Call In The National Guard. He Restricted Them.
In memos issued on Jan. 4 and 5, the Pentagon prohibited the District’s guardsmen from receiving ammunition or riot gear, interacting with protesters unless necessary for self-defense, sharing equipment with local law enforcement or using Guard surveillance and air assets without the defense secretary’s explicit sign-off, according to officials familiar with the orders.
The need for higher-level approval appeared to have slowed the military response when the Capitol Police, the law enforcement force that reports to Congress and protects the House and the Senate, requested backup from 200 troops during a call with top Pentagon officials early Wednesday afternoon, according to officials familiar with the call.
Trump didn’t send in the National Guard as he claimed in his Twitter video.
He restricted what the Guard could do.”
(politicus.usa)
“After the election,
Trump gutted the civilian leadership of the Pentagon and replaced them with his own loyalists. Yesterday’s violence was one of the reasons why Trump wanted more control of the Pentagon. There will be investigations, but judging from the information that is already coming out a picture is emerging of Trump not just fanning the flames of violence but actively creating a climate where violence could take place.”
(https://www.politicususa.com/2021/01/07/trump-dc-national-guard.html)
—looks like edition planned by trump and enablers.
Looks like SEDITION carefully planned by trump et al.
Called it!
Because all those jobless dirt poor people in WV don’t need $2000
Look at our ForeverPOTUS dropping knowledge for the people!
Rats be jumping! Bloomberg News Alert: Hope(less) Hicks out next week! 😷
At his orders, Trumpers occupied the Capitol with guns and bombs.
With congressionals all present, security was kept light.
By contrast the SOTU event is heavily secure because top U.S. officials are all present.
What happened? Trump, Hawley, Cruz risked the lives of House and Senate congressionals and Capitol staff.
—Arrest them.
https://twitter.com/geoffrbennett/status/1347610967929217024?s=21 https://twitter.com/geoffrbennett/status/1347610967929217024?s=21
Wonder if the charges include theft of Pelosi’s laptop.
Retired Capitol Police Officer “Butch” T. Jones to Reid about how a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol:
“There was no reinforcement … I think if that was a Black organization, they would have never gotten to the steps.”
Senator Cory Booker’s powerhouse speech at the Capitol….this is not all of it.
See full Booker speech and others:
(https://www.c-span.org/video/?507698-5/senate-rejects-objection-arizona-electoral-votes-93-6)
“Impeach and Remove Trump Now”
“He must be frog-marched out of our civic life in disgrace.”
(https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/01/trump-supporters-capitol-hill-insurrection-impeachment.html)
Glad to know there are safeguards. Wish I knew what they were.
“There are safe guards in place”. I believe that is the exact same thing Capital police told Rep. Maxine Waters about Jan 6 security of the capital.
I would think that Pelosi asked for details to support that general statement. At least I hope so.
So will Facebook also suspend these accounts?
Of course, he blames staff. Bulls#it!
“I believe they have blood on their hands. And no one should forget that,”
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar on republicans who enabled Trump’s anti-democratic fallacies.
Loyalty to tRump does not equate to having the support of his base.
Congresswoman Val Demings, former police chief:
“We have five people who have lost their lives. One of them was a U.S. Capitol Police Officer.
We have a responsibility to hold the president and his enablers accountable.”
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New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2021/01/08/cops-are-always-trash/
Don’t know why this song has been floating around my mind in the last few days.
Too bad. So sad.
Oh look!
And it’s PERMANENT.
Periodt