Rep. Jason Crow: If members of Congress were somehow involved in the planning efforts of rioters, those members should be "expelled from Congress." He adds that those members should be prohibited from holding elected office and be "subject to criminal prosecution." @MSNBC
While some GOP House members complain about having to walk through metal detectors, National Guard troops spent night sleeping on marble floors of the Capitol. pic.twitter.com/7odvIkoBOQ
Only because it no longer serves him. He wants to look like the reasonable person that helped save democracy, when in truth, he aided trump the entire way. Getting off at the last stop is no hero.
Congressman Swalwell:
“We have to move at the clip of the Republican’s chaos…
Who wants to live in fear…it only enables the President to do this again….we have to remove the greatest threat to democracy…right now.”
Chuck Rosenberg:
“There is enough time…if a president is dangerous to the public then he should be impeached and removed…what the president did last week was unforgivable…heinous, disgusting.”
Congressman Clyburn:
“We are going to do the country’s business, and do it in such a way that people can be proud of their country.”
What @jamiegangel just reported @CNN is critically important: that Members, under pressure from Trump, are “scared” and “fear for their lives and their families.” Trump is intimidating Members from performing their Constitutional duties. His removal from government is urgent.
Ironic that the ones who are being threatened or feel threatened are the ones who have been treating tRump like a king. They are the ones who have defended the bullying, lying, and cheating. They are the ones who seemed to have no problem with his misuse of the military for photo ops. They are the ones who have allowed domestic terrorism to thrive by failing to call it what it is and instead explaining it away as mental illness. They are the ones who have allowed these militants easy access to automatic weapons and given them freedom to openly carry such weapons to menace and intimidate. These are the people who shrugged off plots and attempts to kidnap and assassinate government officials like they were just jokes.
So if it wasn’t something to fear when the focus was other people, why does it cause you fear such that you can’t or won’t do the job you swore to do???
Punchbowl News: Rep. Peter Meijer, a newly elected Republican from Michigan, apologized to the police for his GOP colleagues who freaked out about the metal detectors installed to protect them. "I am sorry some of my colleagues are being assholes."
This pathetic and ludicrous GOP lie about “Impeachment hurting unity”:
imo
What they should be doing is
UNITING
around the fact that grotesque
CRIMES
were publicly committed
last week
by the president of the United States.
and people died.
My God. Tell them to think of the men and women overseas and in the hallways of the Capitol Building protecting their ass. As well, the parents expected to send their children to school every day in a country that allows people to just walk in and start shooting.
— Laree D. Griffith (Laree D. Basta) (@PrivateBasta) January 13, 2021
Jim Jordan mocking the Dems for injecting impeachment into "the peaceful transfer of power" while thousands of troops are bivouacked inside the Capitol.
How is it a “peaceful transfer of power” when we had an insurrection a week ago that was encouraged and co-sponsored by the Orange Oval Office Occupant and some GOP members of Congress? How is it a peaceful transfer when more insurrections are being planned, not just in DC but at all 50 state capitols? How is it a peaceful transfer when the current occupant along with many GOP Congress People continue to lie and not acknowledge the Joe Biden/Kamala Harris won — LEGALLY and with no FRAUD — and will be sworn into office in 7 days?
NO
He didn’t call for a “peaceful protest”.
Trump got up there on camera and told his seditionists not to be weak and “to fight like hell”,
Trump is too dangerous to be in the Ovald Office for two more hours or two more MINUTES.
Congressman Hakeem Jeffries:
“Donald Trump is a living breathing impeachable offense.”
“Mob rule will not win.”
McConnell will not call the Senate back from recess for this impeachment trial… it will begin on 1/20… after we have President Biden. Read that on reporters Twitter. Will try to find it
Rep. Mickie Sherrill told a stunned Facebook live stream audience that she caught members of Congress giving tours of the Capitol to some of the MAGA thugs who would violate the seat of the federal government just one day later.https://t.co/e8LHYn59in
Billionaire, @homedepot founder & #DonaldTrump donor just said on CNBC: "I was betrayed so I will do everything I can to make @JoeBiden the best president we've ever had..because this country is facing serious issues." This as @WSJ outlines corp america pulling @gop donations
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell won't agree to bring the Senate back early, according to Republican sources. That means a Senate trial won't happen until the early days of the Biden presidency https://t.co/xDiOIUY8igpic.twitter.com/BrACJJTq3h
When can Ossoff and Warnock be sworn in? Once their elections are finalized (when?) does Schumer not become Senate leader and he can swear them in? The new senate has been sworn in except Ossoff and Warnock….
McConnell wants Trump impeached perhaps but he will leave that mess to Biden who has a shit load of other things on his plate. POS!
Because of 50/50 split, majority is determined by party in the president’s chair. Rethug until 11:59, Jan 20th or whenever Warnock & Ossoff are sworn in, whichever is later…
This is why, as I’ve written/said before, Republicans should have asserted themselves and held Trump accountable from Day One. Their silence in the face of his manifest abuses contributed to the formation of a cult that now threatens their lives. Never should have come to this.
Every founder of @ProjectLincoln and several staff members have received death threats. We don't have the protection of the Capitol Police. We fight on bc America is worth fighting for. R's who are too "afraid" to stand up for our democracy have no business serving in Congress. https://t.co/IQ4Ym9yCod
People are afraid to be around maskless gop members, in case they or their family members die.
They started this war, they can take their lumps and end the Ringleader in Chief.
McConnell could’ve sent a message to the Proud Boys, KKK et al.
He could have helped protect the United States but is on the side of sedition.
Party of Lincoln is in the trash.
Opposition leader and vocal Putin critic Alexei Navalny said he would return to Russian despite recovering from being poisoned and being threatened with jail time for a decade-old allegation.https://t.co/c2BBt8BulM
Chuck Schumer destroys Mitch McConnell's lie that the Senate can't be called back into session and demands the Senate be brought back to convict Trump, so he is not in office one day longer. pic.twitter.com/SJSIRyHXBh
What we didn’t know when Senator Schumer made these remarks is more than ample evidence of how close Trump came to achieving a successful massacre on 6 Jan.
You & #McConnell have the LEGAL AUTHORITY @SenSchumer to call the SENATE into SESSION.
We now know that the Capitol had been infiltrated by Insurrectionists PRIOR TO 6 Jan.
NEWS: Federal authorities have charged 2 police officers from the Rocky Mount Virginia Police Department, according to the dept, which says the officers have been charged with misdemeanors stemming from their presence at the Capitol attack. The officers are on leave from the dept pic.twitter.com/0vbDY3OYP0
Inbox: Rep. Ayanna Pressley's husband has tested positive for COVID-19. Pressley's husband was with her during the Capitol riot and sheltered in the same safe room with her and maskless Republicans.
The Jolt: It’s payback time. Election deniers in Georgia’s Senate are stripped of their chairmanships or demoted. With feeds from @MayaTPrabhu: #gapolhttps://t.co/27tCCzcvgT
The state legislative push to replace the statue of Confederate leader Alexander Stephens in the US Capitol with the likeness of the late civil rights hero John Lewis begins today in the Georgia statehouse. #gapolhttps://t.co/ILOaQ6qU4x
“Republicans are already asking me where to sign up,” said Democratic state Rep. Al Williams, who is sponsoring the bill to swap the statues. “I expect the numbers of supporters to be really high.” #gapolhttps://t.co/ILOaQ69jcZ
A Guard leader currently at the Capitol sent me this note saying they're tired of lawmakers talking with their soldiers while not respecting COVID precautions: pic.twitter.com/Qfw2qtrAjK
So their fear of being primaried has led them to fear of something worse.
As @ThePlumLineGS notes, GOP lawmakers are now less afraid of Trump encouraging primaries against them, but more afraid of Trump instigating literal personal violence against them and their families.https://t.co/fIvQg9WZ64
So are these insurrectionists that have been arrested being held (other than the one who was released with a monitor). I would hate to think they are being allowed bail and being released to participate in the upcoming planned attacks.
NEW: Colorado man arrested at US Capitol and accused of threatening to shoot Speaker Nancy Pelosi in the head .. came to DC with *2,500* rounds of ammunition, according to new court filing pic.twitter.com/yDkO85nH0Q
Striking: Nearly three dozen House Dems have now written to security official in the Capitol, claiming they saw "suspicious" groups touring it on Jan 5.
1. He does not tell the militias and other armed protestors not to come to DC.
2. He does not do anything to counteract The Big Lie (that the election was stolen) which remains the key mobilizing myth that's propelling the political violence. https://t.co/Yqz2m1iE8r
NEW: House Dems are calling on U.S. Capitol security officials to investigate "suspicious behavior and access given to visitors to the Capitol Complex" on day before Jan. 6 breach. Effort led by @RepSherrill, who said she thinks access may have been linked to "reconnaissance" pic.twitter.com/ZljaAngUeV
Mitch McConnell now says he won't hold an impeachment trial before inauguration. This is another instance of him announcing his desired outcome as if it were a done deal, and hoping you'll back off. He can still be pressured into holding a trial. Keep up the pressure on him.
When black people and their allies exercise freedom of speech, it is called violent insurrection. When white racists carry out violent insurrection, it is called free speech.
So many white people were so broken by a Black president they chose a racist gameshow host who neither understood the job nor wanted to learn it to run the country. And now he’s been impeached. Twice. https://t.co/nFIVXeI5JE
Though Republicans were united in opposing the first impeachment of Trump in 2019, 10 broke ranks Wednesday when they voted alongside Democrats to impeach the president. https://t.co/tnZott8tGppic.twitter.com/2mTp8RgbHN
NEW: The Houston Police Department says they’ve identified one of their officers, an 18 year veteran of the department, as having penetrated the Capitol last Wednesday.
Chief Art Acevedo says there is a “high probability” the officer will face federal charges.
From the day he took office, Trump called every little thing he did "historic," from his election win to the military budget to the tax cut and on and on and on.
Today, finally, he has done something historic. No president had ever been impeached twice.https://t.co/N2XR7R0cOn
Some [grim] news: National Guard units are being told to prepare for the possibility that improvised explosive devices will be used by individuals plotting to attack the Capitol in the days surrounding the Inauguration. w/@laraseligmanhttps://t.co/2jf20tJEn5
In addition to the IED threat, the Guardsmen are being briefed that protesters could be heavily armed. A “significant majority” of National Guardsmen are now carrying M-4 rifles, one of the Guardsmen said, and many have M-9 guns, following authorization from DoD.
The seditionists wanted Agolf Twitler to be installed in the throne by its valiant Praetorian guards, some traveling from distant corners of America. Instead, Livia of the Lower Chamber impeached Agolf a second time. This alone can make an insurrectionist lose his mind!
The Obama Diary 
ALL OF THIS!!
🕊🙏🏼🕯💙🕯🙏🏼🕊
We need strong voices like Congresswoman Cori Bush’s…so glad she is up there.
Saw her last night… she wasn’t having ANY of this BS! Yes, we need more of this, please:)
Great Badass Women
Maddow To Trump: “What Did You Think Was Going To Happen?”
Exactly. I don’t know why all the dems aren’t parroting this adnauseum.
They showed on cnn those guys rolled up in floors.
WOW…..INCREDIBLE….
zing
not a single rethug vote so far.
want to respond but waiting on what he does.
Congressman Swalwell:
“We have to move at the clip of the Republican’s chaos…
Who wants to live in fear…it only enables the President to do this again….we have to remove the greatest threat to democracy…right now.”
Chuck Rosenberg:
“There is enough time…if a president is dangerous to the public then he should be impeached and removed…what the president did last week was unforgivable…heinous, disgusting.”
Congressman Clyburn:
“We are going to do the country’s business, and do it in such a way that people can be proud of their country.”
Dems have 2 votes left while rethugs have 8 with zero yea so far.
Now 6 rethugs left with zero yea so far.
Pathetic.
Ironic that the ones who are being threatened or feel threatened are the ones who have been treating tRump like a king. They are the ones who have defended the bullying, lying, and cheating. They are the ones who seemed to have no problem with his misuse of the military for photo ops. They are the ones who have allowed domestic terrorism to thrive by failing to call it what it is and instead explaining it away as mental illness. They are the ones who have allowed these militants easy access to automatic weapons and given them freedom to openly carry such weapons to menace and intimidate. These are the people who shrugged off plots and attempts to kidnap and assassinate government officials like they were just jokes.
So if it wasn’t something to fear when the focus was other people, why does it cause you fear such that you can’t or won’t do the job you swore to do???
Exactly. Feed the snake, get the poison.
On fear:
McCaskill: “This is about being afraid of what will happen to democracy if we don’t act.”
This pathetic and ludicrous GOP lie about “Impeachment hurting unity”:
imo
What they should be doing is
UNITING
around the fact that grotesque
CRIMES
were publicly committed
last week
by the president of the United States.
and people died.
Somebody fling raw meat at gop Jordan
and give him a brain.
McClibtock from .CA… has his head so far up …
Mind boggling. Someone should ask why these asses approve threats to Mike Pence?
Don’t give me that “no due process” crap.
Um GOP ramming through Supreme Court justices and umpteen unqualified judges.
Don’t talk to me about “petty and vindictive”.
How about protect and defend against all enemies foreign and DOMESTIC.
Did Gohmert just call for more uprisings??
Amen!!
Congressman Schiff:
“ENOUGH. ENOUGH”
How is it a “peaceful transfer of power” when we had an insurrection a week ago that was encouraged and co-sponsored by the Orange Oval Office Occupant and some GOP members of Congress? How is it a peaceful transfer when more insurrections are being planned, not just in DC but at all 50 state capitols? How is it a peaceful transfer when the current occupant along with many GOP Congress People continue to lie and not acknowledge the Joe Biden/Kamala Harris won — LEGALLY and with no FRAUD — and will be sworn into office in 7 days?
NO
He didn’t call for a “peaceful protest”.
Trump got up there on camera and told his seditionists not to be weak and “to fight like hell”,
Trump is too dangerous to be in the Ovald Office for two more hours or two more MINUTES.
Congressman Hakeem Jeffries:
“Donald Trump is a living breathing impeachable offense.”
“Mob rule will not win.”
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McConnell will not call the Senate back from recess for this impeachment trial… it will begin on 1/20… after we have President Biden. Read that on reporters Twitter. Will try to find it
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/534053-mcconnell-wont-agree-to-reconvene-senate-early-for-impeachment-trial
We’re overdue for a MassacreMitch investigation.
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Excellent
Some of these gop conspirators probably just made speeches in Congress.
—brings back memories Nunes and Jordan at the impeachment trial.
🤣😭😂
🐘💩🤡
When can Ossoff and Warnock be sworn in? Once their elections are finalized (when?) does Schumer not become Senate leader and he can swear them in? The new senate has been sworn in except Ossoff and Warnock….
McConnell wants Trump impeached perhaps but he will leave that mess to Biden who has a shit load of other things on his plate. POS!
GA must 1st certified their elections.
It’s looking more like, 22 of Jan.
Counties must certify by the 15th. SoS can certify between then and the 22nd. Hope he doesn’t wait until the 22nd.
Because of 50/50 split, majority is determined by party in the president’s chair. Rethug until 11:59, Jan 20th or whenever Warnock & Ossoff are sworn in, whichever is later…
He’s a POS
https://twitter.com/ShelbyRatifyERA/status/1349444317115506690?s=20
People are afraid to be around maskless gop members, in case they or their family members die.
They started this war, they can take their lumps and end the Ringleader in Chief.
McConnell could’ve sent a message to the Proud Boys, KKK et al.
He could have helped protect the United States but is on the side of sedition.
Party of Lincoln is in the trash.
I would say MAGA 2…. one officer committed suicide. I’m guessing because of what he did or didn’t do, regarding this insurrection.
Republicans…afraid. This man (Navalny)- not afraid.
🤣🤣🤣 Jim Jordan Speechless!!!!! My admiration of Cori Bush just went up another notch.
What we didn’t know when Senator Schumer made these remarks is more than ample evidence of how close Trump came to achieving a successful massacre on 6 Jan.
Misdemeanors!!!! That’s it? They are inside the Capital!!
Good! Who asked her to come anyway? Or… is she afraid of violence that might come her way?
They just don’t care!!!
So their fear of being primaried has led them to fear of something worse.
So are these insurrectionists that have been arrested being held (other than the one who was released with a monitor). I would hate to think they are being allowed bail and being released to participate in the upcoming planned attacks.
This made me cry
{{{{df}}}}
I agree that his pardoning power should be suspended upon impeachment. In fact, ALL his “powers” and as POTUS should be suspended.
Lindsey forgot his makeup. I don’t like that face.
Hang it
TOTD.
As a matter of fact, he is getting off easy. He actually could have been impeached several times.
IKR??? But then again, where would things have been if the GOP had just done their job?
Tom Winter
NEW: The Houston Police Department says they’ve identified one of their officers, an 18 year veteran of the department, as having penetrated the Capitol last Wednesday.
Chief Art Acevedo says there is a “high probability” the officer will face federal charges.
Be Best, asshole! Justice will continue to find you.
Elect a thug, expect an impeachment.
The seditionists wanted Agolf Twitler to be installed in the throne by its valiant Praetorian guards, some traveling from distant corners of America. Instead, Livia of the Lower Chamber impeached Agolf a second time. This alone can make an insurrectionist lose his mind!
New post.
https://obamadiary.wordpress.com/2021/01/13/just-saying/
So much Wining (not) that I said Enough, already‼
One “presidency”
Two impeachments
Countless crimes
Loser’s “legacy”