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
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
The gridlock stems from trying to get large numbers of people to agree to a course of action. But when a majority reaches consensus, as it has over the view that Trump should be impeached, it can move like lightning.
Congresswoman Katherine Clark:
“This president is a danger, this president is a traitor, and this president must be removed from office.”
Trump August 2020: “We will bring rioters and looters to justice.”
Trump just before his bloody invasion and occupation: “we love you…you are special”.
—yeh the fix was all the way in.
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.
Too late. The terrorist enablers did it to themselves.
McCarthy hoping to divide us on our obvious, unavoidable, critical response to his party’s armed sedition.
Remove trump, hawley, cruz.
Joe Biden says that he gave "serious consideration" to choosing Bernie Sanders to be his Secretary of Labor, but he and Sanders agreed that control of the Senate could not be put at risk.
GOP architects are delegitimizing PE Biden before he signs on.
Hawley and Cruz are running on the big lie (Snyder). Maddow saying that this violence in trump’s name is a big win for them. Steve Schmidt: “He didn’t do it alone.”
Consider the next 12 days of watching and wondering.
Saying ah well is dooming our kids. In this moment we have no choice but to take them down.
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
We’re so lucky to have Speaker Pelosi, this is very good news.
Now let us address the U.S. president’s domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol. And allow ourselves to see the future of the United States if we don’t.
West Virginia legislator Derrick Evans has been federally charged for the role he played in the terrorist invasion of the US Capitol building on Wednesday.
I’m hoping that he is so mad with everyone and is so petrified about his legal woes and impending residency in prison that he refuses to give any more pardons out of spite.
Native American Society on the eve of British Colonization:
“The five tribes designed quite an elaborate political system.
This included a bicameral (two-house) legislature, much like the British Parliament and modern U.S. Congress. The representatives, or sachems, from the Seneca and Mohawk tribes met in one house
and those of the Oneida and Cayuga met in the other.”
(https://www.ushistory.org/us/1d.asp)
Sound familiar?
This was well before European influence.
No doubt about it this is the Friday
after treasonous POTUS incited a violent mob to commit sedition on the U.S. Capitol.Many are dead.
The entire Congressional membership could have been mowed down by AK47s.
If we do the right thing without fear, we will keep the faith.
“The journey itself is my home.”
(Basho)
Ossoff’s campaign said he didn’t call to deliver the news; instead they learned of the concession from news reports. #gapol#gasenhttps://t.co/0HohNpmwxD
Excerpt of the draft article of impeachment @MSNBC:
"Trump gravely endangered the security of the United States and its institutions of government … He thereby betrayed his trust as President, to the manifest injury of the people of the United States."
Punchbowl News on the Capitol riot: "Lots of members are worried they are at risk of contracting coronavirus because Republicans declined to wear masks. We published some of this scuttlebutt a few days ago, but now we have hard evidence that Republicans were not wearing masks."
… but don’t count on her to caucus with the Democrats.
Murkowski: "This is going to be a (Biden) administration where I'm going to be disagreeing with where they're taking us on on a lot of issues and policy, but I would like to think that we're never going to question their fidelity to the oath of office." https://t.co/0lUiUsuZIT
BREAKING on @MSNBC: Reps. Jamie Raskin, Ted Lieu, and David Cicilline plan to introduce articles of impeachment against Trump on Monday during the House pro forma session, according to two congressional officials.
Twitter has removed the accounts of Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell and other high-profile Trump supporters who promote dangerous QAnon conspiracies. https://t.co/9dA4hORYDa
Can I just take a moment to say fuck 🖕 @garyplayer & 🖕@ANNIKA59 for accepting the Presidential Medal of Freedom from a wannabe dictator one day after he incited a riot and attempted coup. Helping normalize a fascist dictator is disgusting #Golf#golfgate#Deplorableshttps://t.co/DS8UHsx67Y
Many of them are now walking back (well running back) their involvement in the Capitol invasion. Like the infamous "Karens" they think just saying "whoops, my bad!" wipes the slate clean and there should be no legal consequences for them for breaking the law. Ah, white privilege.
— Joy WE VOTED!! WEAR A MASK!! Reid 😷) (@JoyAnnReid) January 8, 2021
January marks the 60th anniversary of desegregation at the University of Georgia, when UGA, to some resistance, enrolled its first two African American students: Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton E. Holmes on Jan. 9, 1961. https://t.co/OPYTg04IyP
“Lindsey Graham voted to impeach and remove Bill Clinton over the blow job and today he said he’s not in favor of impeaching Donald Trump over his attempted coup” pic.twitter.com/yisbT56if1
“We have COVID from a health standpoint, we have the economy, the climate change, so many issues,” Plouffe noted. “But what happened this week — and it wasn’t just this week, it is Donald Trump’s entire four years — but certainly post-election to try to undermine the Constitution, destroy our democracy, leading to the deaths of five people and the Capitol being basically torn apart and taken over.”
“This has to be something that we don’t move away from and Ted Cruz and [Josh] Hawley and the Trump family, they’re all going to want to say, ‘You know what, let’s just move on, we need to be unified.’ And to hell with that,” Plouffe said.
“These people need to burn in hell for what they’ve done to our country,” he demanded. “Sorry, I’m worried that we are going to move on and we can’t.”
Breaking. Speaker Pelosi: "It is the hope of Members that the President will immediately resign. But if he does not, I have instructed the Rules Committee to be prepared to move forward with Congressman Jamie Raskin's 25th Amendment legislation and a motion for impeachment."
America will have no authority on the world stage to comment on any nations undemocratic elections or any dictators lawlessness or inhumanity unless there are swift and legal consequences for Trump and all the other seditious Republicans.
Wow. Included in Twitter’s statement, explaining why it banned Trump: “Plans for future armed protests have already begun proliferating on and off-Twitter, including a proposed secondary attack on the US Capitol and state capitol buildings on January 17, 2021.”
This is Kevin Greeson. He died during the Capitol riots because he mistakenly tasered himself in the balls multiple times triggering a fatal heart attack. pic.twitter.com/Lc1MKjuNuz
Reddit, Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, and Tik Tok
Axios reported Friday that TikTok is also 'removing content violations and redirecting hashtags like #stormthecapitol and #patriotparty to its community guidelines.'
Twitch & Snapchat (his accts have been disabled), Shopify (online stores affiliated with him have been removed), Facebook & Instagram (Trump was banned from posting 'indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks'), & YouTube.
The permanent Twitter suspension came a few hours after Reddit announced it was taking down the massively popular subreddit r/Donaldtrump. Other social platforms that have gone after Trump accounts in the days following the attack on the Capitol:
Let me be clear: We are not on vacation. Our House Dem Caucus is meeting RIGHT NOW to discuss 25th Amendment, Impeachment, and other immediate actions to protect the country. This is an emergency and we are not waiting to act.
My administration will get right to work distributing emergency aid swiftly and equitably. Our focus will be on the small businesses on Main Street — not those that are wealthy and well-connected. pic.twitter.com/FlD8voUpcP
Parler is banned from App Store. Trump’s twitter account is suspended. Democrats are preparing his second impeachment. The house is blue, the senate is blue, the White House is blue, the motherfucking sky is blue and holy shit I think I had an orgasm while writing this tweet.
BREAKING: My office is supporting federal law enforcement efforts to investigate NCians who participated in the raid on the U.S. Capitol. If you have any information about a NCian who participated in this lawless insurrection, please email investigationtips@ncdoj.gov .
UPDATE: The FBI has now created a one-stop portal for anyone with information about Wednesday’s riots. Submit any information you have via https://t.co/JrFTyQM8g2 . Thank you. We must all defend our democracy when it is under attack.
Twitter suspended Trump in part due to employee demands. Thank you to everyone who risked your career to force accountability from an executive team that's been struggling with it for years. pic.twitter.com/LMtMAp1s26
After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.https://t.co/CBpE1I6j8Y
A lot of Republican Members of Congress saying that impeachment would divide the country also spent the last two months dividing the country by indulging the President's fantasies.
Speaker Pelosi to '60 Minutes': "Sadly, the person that's running the Executive Branch is a deranged, unhinged, dangerous president of the United States … He has done something so serious that there should be prosecution against him."
NEW: Twitter tells me that if Trump tried to circumvent this ban by using @POTUS, the platform would remove these new postings. If Trump made a new account, that account would face a permanent suspension "at first detection," according to Twitter's rules. https://t.co/e9EUdps6QK
On Joy (The Reidout) this evening, perfect description from Charlie Sykes (sp?) describing GOP (paraphrasing here): “They’re playing w/ matches & kerosene”. They’ve been doing so for far too many decades. Reconciliation time way overdue. And while at it, permanently remove their “matches & kerosene”.
I just want to point out that the White House seems to be mobilizing faster in response to Trump’s Twitter account being removed than they did to the violent insurrection Trump incited at the Capitol on Wednesday.
Wow. Included in Twitter’s statement, explaining why it banned Trump: “Plans for future armed protests have already begun proliferating on and off-Twitter, including a proposed secondary attack on the US Capitol and state capitol buildings on January 17, 2021.”
It’s a good thing Twitter banned Trump before he did anything crazy like, I dunno, directly threaten nuclear war with North Korea, or dog whistle cultists and white supremacists, or mishandle a pandemic killing 300,000 Americans. @Twitter stepped in just in time!
.@joyannreid: "Donald Trump has been stripped of the precious."
Twitter has permanently suspended Trump's account.
Joy says Twitter has accomplished something '3 wives,' 'and his entire White House staff have failed to do: shutting him the hell up.'#TheReidOutpic.twitter.com/I8Nb5Rax2n
No, you fucking anderson copper, fucking lindsey did not ‘honestly’ accept the election results and fucking lindsey deserves all that heckling form the crazy racist mob that he helped grow, you fucking two bit hack.
Wow. Included in Twitter’s statement, explaining why it banned Trump: “Plans for future armed protests have already begun proliferating on and off-Twitter, including a proposed secondary attack on the US Capitol and state capitol buildings on January 17, 2021.”
Sean Hannity says Trump has joined Parler. The Gateway Pundit suggests the handle is TheOfficialPotus and Newsweek says it is unclear if Thepotus45 is the handle. Both are currently unverified and private.
Since no one can download the Parler App on Google (current) and Apple (tomorrow), there will be no updates to the app. It will forever be a piece of shit.
Nine weeks of hustle & outreach. Nine weeks of believing we are in this together. Decades of strategy, grit + building. Wednesday’s terrorism seeks to distract us from what has been & what will be. So let’s take today to celebrate the orgs that brought us Tuesday’s victory: 1/
Many hands made this work – kudos to those not listed here. Together, @fairfightaction supported these orgs that yielded more than 10 million door knocks & millions of calls, texts, postcards, mail, digital contacts + RESULTS.
That’s what they are afraid of. And why we’ll win.
YES, we all want to see impeachment articles filled ASAP. Unfortunately, House Rules require unanimous consent in order to meet sooner than Monday and McCarthy is objecting. Put another way, we have to wait because Republicans continue to obstruct the pursuit of justice.
It is always striking how the GOP calls upon Dems to basically 'play by the rules' or 'be nice' that the GOP doesn't even ACKNOWLEDGE when they are in charge.
For unexplained reasons, the White House did not lower flags to half-staff today in honor of the Capitol Police officer, Brian Sicknick, who died last night from injuries he sustained while on duty responding to the pro-Trump mob. The Capitol did lower flags today.
Scoop: A top Trump official just rescinded his cheery departure letter and re-submitted a protest resignation as the political winds turn harder against the president. A little vignette on the shifting calculations in Trump land. https://t.co/zQsEYEuaDG
All it took for me to gag on that hopped up guy’s ‘show’ was two minutes. Never watched him again. Going the tweet replies, guess he is still the same old arrogant white guy. I put rachel madow too in that I know it all pundtwit category.
Woman in viral video arrested after falsely accusing black teenager
Miya Ponsetto was caught on video falsely accusing the 14-year-old boy of stealing her phone. The confrontation occurred in a New York hotel lobby in December. Ponsetto had left her phone in a ride share.
Reddit, Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Twitch, Shopfy (Online Stores Affiliated with him), Tik Tok, Parler, Google Store, Apple Store….the list keeps on growing! Whatever will they do?!?!?!? 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
This suggests that bringing impeachment directly to the floor, without any committee activity, is on the table. It would move on a very fast track. https://t.co/ZR5qrxuJC7
Now that I have punched you in the face it's time to heal and move on. Assigning blame as to which of us did the punching and which got punched would only serve to divide us- a punchee and a puncher- even further. Now that my punching hand stings a little, I call for unity.
2021: HE DIDNT LOSE AND WE ARE GOING TO THROW A TANTRUM TO PROVE IT
— Shelby – playing too many games at once (@shelbelbyyy) January 8, 2021
2021: He didn’t lose. You stole our election. We’re gonna kidnap and kill yer gubmint. Where’s Pence? We’re gonna string him up for not obeying our King. While we’re at it, we’re gonna shit on the floor in your Capitol building and take selfies. Yeehaw!
Good Afternoon, TOD’ers. Thanks Nerdy!!!
Congresswoman Katherine Clark:
“This president is a danger, this president is a traitor, and this president must be removed from office.”
Trump August 2020: “We will bring rioters and looters to justice.”
Trump just before his bloody invasion and occupation: “we love you…you are special”.
—yeh the fix was all the way in.
What do we expect to happen
if we don’t do the right thing and get Wily Coyote out asap?
Everyone needs to read this thread. Please share
Too late. The terrorist enablers did it to themselves.
McCarthy hoping to divide us on our obvious, unavoidable, critical response to his party’s armed sedition.
Remove trump, hawley, cruz.
Add to the remove list McCarthy, Scalise, Nunez, Gatz, any one complicit and enabled Trump.
FINALLY!!!
OHHH LAWD…i hope this is comedy
Nope. I heard him say it earlier today.
That was for show. Smart Joe. Throw a little bone to the Berniacs. Now they can STFU.
Oooo, say that again! Talk dirty to me! 😁
GOP architects are delegitimizing PE Biden before he signs on.
Hawley and Cruz are running on the big lie (Snyder). Maddow saying that this violence in trump’s name is a big win for them. Steve Schmidt: “He didn’t do it alone.”
Consider the next 12 days of watching and wondering.
Saying ah well is dooming our kids. In this moment we have no choice but to take them down.
Easy- peezy! Deb probably already has that on her task list.
We’re so lucky to have Speaker Pelosi, this is very good news.
Now let us address the U.S. president’s domestic terrorist attack on the Capitol. And allow ourselves to see the future of the United States if we don’t.
Hope he is not pardoned by PP.
I’m hoping that he is so mad with everyone and is so petrified about his legal woes and impending residency in prison that he refuses to give any more pardons out of spite.
https://twitter.com/ashleyn1cole/status/1347580862855049217
Native American Society on the eve of British Colonization:
“The five tribes designed quite an elaborate political system.
This included a bicameral (two-house) legislature, much like the British Parliament and modern U.S. Congress. The representatives, or sachems, from the Seneca and Mohawk tribes met in one house
and those of the Oneida and Cayuga met in the other.”
(https://www.ushistory.org/us/1d.asp)
Sound familiar?
This was well before European influence.
No doubt about it this is the Friday
after treasonous POTUS incited a violent mob to commit sedition on the U.S. Capitol.Many are dead.
The entire Congressional membership could have been mowed down by AK47s.
If we do the right thing without fear, we will keep the faith.
“The journey itself is my home.”
(Basho)
What happens if Trump resigns before he is impeached?
He won’t. But he’s still going to either way.
Fucking POS
… but don’t count on her to caucus with the Democrats.
They all had the opportunity to remove PP.
Pride goeth before a ….
Yesss
Truth.
Not a good day for trumpturds.
Ironic lock her up rebounding on these thugs.
They are trumpturds. No wonder.
Congrats GA. You did a great job amidst s crisis.
Yer welcome, World! ☺️
Insert thumbs up gif.
Me likey 2021 ‘pushy’ dems.
It’s amazing how ballsy one gets when you realize your coworkers tried to have you kidnapped by a mob.
OMG!!! 😆😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
There’s always one….start working on him.
Ugh!
I agree about MSM always talking about the political impact. People like me don’t care.
JUST DO THE RIGHT THING!!!
“We have COVID from a health standpoint, we have the economy, the climate change, so many issues,” Plouffe noted. “But what happened this week — and it wasn’t just this week, it is Donald Trump’s entire four years — but certainly post-election to try to undermine the Constitution, destroy our democracy, leading to the deaths of five people and the Capitol being basically torn apart and taken over.”
“This has to be something that we don’t move away from and Ted Cruz and [Josh] Hawley and the Trump family, they’re all going to want to say, ‘You know what, let’s just move on, we need to be unified.’ And to hell with that,” Plouffe said.
“These people need to burn in hell for what they’ve done to our country,” he demanded. “Sorry, I’m worried that we are going to move on and we can’t.”
Watched Gayle King this morning trying to interview yet another entitled twit. Bless Gayle! I ran out of niceness in minute 2.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/miya-ponsetto-gayle-king-video-black-teen-phone_n_5ff881d9c5b691806c4892e4
Should suspend other accounts too…Don Jr for instance.
“SINISTER PLOT”
“US Capitol rioters spotted with ZIP TIES
in shock pics suggesting ‘plan to take hostages’
(https://www.the-sun.com/news/2105380/us-capitol-rioters-zip-ties-plan-take-hostages/)
= Organized attackers (possibly ex-miltary) led the mob and were ready to take hostages.
A friend referred this to me just now….says there are other articles.
I mean, how do you… (smh)
Reddit, Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, and Tik Tok
Apparently he and his klan will be operating from Parler and Rumble
I mean, hey! 😆
LOL. I had one reading it.
😆😂🤣
Go on Twitter gal, have yr TGIF org. 😂💃
Git it where ya can git, baby! 😆
Git ‘em!
Feels great to wake up to the news the corrupt seditious treasonous traitorous thug of a racist rapist is kicked out of the twitter permanently.
wish the rethugs had the backbones of these low level employees.
LOL.
when it rains, it pours kicks in the rwers’ collective nads.
fucking fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinally.
only last two months? try last two decades at the very minimum.
Do it, Nancy.
How is the ‘tone’ now, dana fuckng bash?
On Joy (The Reidout) this evening, perfect description from Charlie Sykes (sp?) describing GOP (paraphrasing here): “They’re playing w/ matches & kerosene”. They’ve been doing so for far too many decades. Reconciliation time way overdue. And while at it, permanently remove their “matches & kerosene”.
because fuckin twitter has been giving the traitorous coup plotter free ad time worth billions of dollars?
live by tweet, die by twitter.
Just sayin’
LOL! 😆😆😆😆
No, you fucking anderson copper, fucking lindsey did not ‘honestly’ accept the election results and fucking lindsey deserves all that heckling form the crazy racist mob that he helped grow, you fucking two bit hack.
Ummm…
play stupid games, win deadly prizes
Yup
Well Damn!
Was any action taken at all for the utter failure of capitol police?
Heroes, one and all!
Exactly. These last minute ‘actions’ from the tech ‘giants’ is similar to this thug regime’s rats scurrying away.
Of course
Why are the dems still ‘playing by the rules’ while the rethugs keep breaking them 24×7? It’s fucking politics, throw some gut punches, ffs. Pathetic.
You’re not alone.
Ladies and gentlemen…
Twitler thought he was slick!
the entire treason caucus should be kicked out.
that poor kid. curse his parents for exposing him to that virus.
See how you get nice things when you’re not an asshole.
you get fired, you get fired, everyone gets fired.
(Oprah voice) “You get nothing”; “You get nada”; you eff off! 😷
trumpian thug’s world is full of duplicitous turncoats? quelle surprise.
WTF! Promise: I’ll always side-eye coolaid.
All it took for me to gag on that hopped up guy’s ‘show’ was two minutes. Never watched him again. Going the tweet replies, guess he is still the same old arrogant white guy. I put rachel madow too in that I know it all pundtwit category.
vanill isis.
Woman in viral video arrested after falsely accusing black teenager
Miya Ponsetto was caught on video falsely accusing the 14-year-old boy of stealing her phone. The confrontation occurred in a New York hotel lobby in December. Ponsetto had left her phone in a ride share.
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-55596520
Again, not a great day for magats.
Reddit, Snapchat, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Twitch, Shopfy (Online Stores Affiliated with him), Tik Tok, Parler, Google Store, Apple Store….the list keeps on growing! Whatever will they do?!?!?!? 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
That’s what I want to know too! Some of the kowtowing was fear of being bullied in a tweet; right?
maga is going great.
Exactly why the dems need to show some balls now. Yes, pun was intended.
The way it is.
Count on it …
Tee-hee!
Right?
Exactly. Fuck cnn john whasshisname the election board strutting peacock asking if impeachment is a political theater.
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2021/01/08/true-patriotism/