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Mitch called the trumpist as "Unhinged"! 😀
sounds like they are going certify tonight....
man (left) wearing a sweatshirt saying, “Camp Auschwitz”:
Not that surprising. The Proud Boys like to wear little shirts and badges saying "6MWE" which means "six million [jews] wasn't enough"
even fox have thrown Trump overboard….
Yeah, Andrew Neill delivered an incredibly sincere rebuke on behalf of Der Angriff or whatever our Legatum funded Public Information Channel will be known as.
Can anyone honestly say they would be totally amazed of Trump were to call on Russia to send military aid to stop the steal?
It would be amazing but these are amazing times!😁
Wow!
Spent t the evening drinking red wine and ordering winter shoes online.
Just wow.
thats 2024 down his gold plate toilet...
BBC also reporting that Cabinet are actively discussing the 25th.
Facebook have blocked him for a day too.
Is he/it active on Parler?
Well, looks like the Rep Senator for Missouri is still pushing the conspiracy... Incredible stuff.
As it only needs 8 members of the cabinet along with Pence to enact the 25th i doubt trump will be president tomorrow. Wonder what odds I’d get?
They are supposed to be debating Arizona but are talking about other states. I think that's maybe a sign that they expect this to be the only debated objection and they won't raise others. Hopefully.
I can't imagine many of them are keen to sit there all night after today's events!
Romney spitting facts:
"We gather due to a selfish man’s injured pride"
"No congressional audit is ever going to convince these voters."
"The truth is that President-elect Biden won the election. President Trump lost."
Romney giving a damning warning to those republicans who stand behind the president and he only received applause from democrats, this is like watching an entire series of “house of cards in one sitting.
Wonder what odds I’d get?
Pretty long, based on Jim Acosta's report just now. Cabinet unlikely to get behind it to the degree required, and not enough time to go through senate and congress.
I think both houses have to back it by 2/3rds too?
Which isn't going to happen as (apparently) only the Dems clapped Romney's speech.
I’m picturing a heavily sedated trump hiding under his desk whilst chewing off his own thumbs due to Twitter withdrawal, meanwhile Kayleigh Mcennany is giving a press briefing to an empty room populated with hastily drawn caricatures of the White House press mounted onto mop handles.
Everything’s fine.....there is no fire.......
Safe bet he'll bugger off to Florida tomorrow to play golf? Scotland isn't looking good.😁
By both definitions he is a creature of habit.
Mitt Romney giving stink eye to Josh Hawley who one was one of six to back the Arizona objection
https://twitter.com/ianbremmer/status/1347006246696710149?s=21
Some sweatshop in eastern Europe wondering why the sudden demand for flags.
https://twitter.com/eoinburgin/status/1346946053082378245
https://twitter.com/Michael46898990/status/1346960521308864513
This?
I wonder if the republicans that have been fanning these flames will show some contrition now
(likewise plenty of RW politicians & commentators in the UK ought to reflect on their praise of him, even Johnson)
Pretty clear that the sane(r) leaders of the GOP have finally understood how close Trump has taken America to the edge and are scrambling to be seen to be doing the right thing now.
Not sure there's time or the right numbers in the right places to invoke 25th, but I'd love to be in on a conversation between Pence and Trump.
Trump lost the army a couple of years ago, senior generals have been very clear and votes from the military supported that.
The so called "most powerful man in the world" has made himself head of a failed state. Wow.
Lessons for us all there.
Hmm Handmaids tale playing out.
Blessed be the fruitloop.
I've seen the full video of the *protestor being shot. Some regular police / security guards were standing in front of a set of doors being confronted by the mob. The mob were loud and obnoxious. The mob started smashing the glass panes of the doors. The protestor was a bit behind the men smashing the glass, you could recognise her clearly.
The police spoke into their radios and a short time after, a heavily armed swat type team arrived up a set of stairs slightly behind the mob. They barged in, and evacuated the regular police down the stairs. They weren't prevented from doing this by the mob. As they were going down the stairs away from the mob, you can hear a gunshot and the protestor falls to the ground. The swat team comes back up the stairs and start applying first aid along with a member of the mob - i think the same one who was smashing windows a few minutes previously. The swat team looked to me, pretty panicked.
I don't think the video of the incicdent looked great for the swat team.
* wasnt sure what to call her, I don't use 'protestor' as an attempt to legitimise, endorse of condone any of the dreadful behaviour on display yesterday. 'Rioter' felt even more loaded.
The footage of Capitol police just moving aside to let protestors through the barricades is pretty damning, I'd assume they'd been overwhelmed and had to retreat for their safety and to form an inner perimeter but nope they calmly allowed them through. I wonder if their union will protect them - surely members of Congress will demand resignations and firings given their own safety was jeopardised?
I watched most of it unfold on CNN (flipping back to the BBC when CNN's coverage got a bit OTT), fair play to their reporters, they must have balls of steel to stand amongst the crowd calling them rioters etc.
I don’t think the video of the incicdent looked great for the swat team.
I watched it too. Hundreds of potentially armed 'rioters' using force to enter a small space filled with heavily armed officers charged with protecting hundreds of congressmen/women and senators makes this kind of thing highly likely. I'm only surprised at their restraint and control overall, TBH.
did notice on some of the footage they were chanting "Kill 'em" "Kill 'em" "Kill 'em" "Kill 'em"
The Wisconsin objection is not supported by a senator. It stands for Biden.
so that's it
Easy to say police and expect someone who is well paid, trained and resourced, sad to say that is most definitely not always the case. I'd be interested to see the barrier video with more context.
As for Romney, Pence and such, let's not forget they were the ones that allowed Trump to get where he was, this could have been nipped in the bud long ago but for their inaction and others like them.
From the BBC feed
The FBI has put out an appeal seeking help in "identifying individuals who are actively instigating violence in Washington DC"
Surely the orange balloon is top of the list no?
Congress has confirmed Biden now anyway 🙂
I’m only surprised at their restraint and control overall, TBH.
I'm not, there were no black faces present!
Prayers are over, joint session concluded. It’s done...
Cheerio Donald...
Thinking about this overnight.....it was was too easy for the protestors to get access; especially when compared to the forceful response seen to blm many times. They could so easily have done more to prevent what happened.
Unless...... the worst thing about the Trump presidency is his legacy. Leaving behind a huge chunk of the public that think the election was rigged and massively disenfranchised. I'm not talking about the nut jobs; I'm talking about 'normal' republican Americans. The sort of person no right think European would have as a friend but could just about tolerate as a neighbour you didn't have to speak to too often. What better way to cut the head off the snake (or lift the curtain on the wizard of Oz - take your metaphor of choice) than let his loony tunes supporters reek havoc after he has clearly and in high fidelity HD incited them to do. There was never going to be a coup, they were just a bunch of sad losers doing a bit of superficial damage and taking selfies. What they might have done is given a shock treatment to the sizable number of saveable morons that they have been suckered in by a dangerous sociopath way more effective than any number of preaching angry media commentators and ex presidents could ever do. Maybe this was made deliberately easy to achieve as it was was needed as the only way to finish him forever.
Oh god, they do a stupid little prayer after the certification.