Certainly there will be many offering that lines have been crossed
Now let me preface this by saying that I was not a Donald Trump supporter back in 2016 when he first came out as a Republican Candidate. I was far more supportive of... well.... anyone who wasn't Donald Trump. But specifically anyone here would have remembered that I was pretty much Marco Rubio, until Marco Rubio dropped out, and then I was Ted Cruz, because he was the last remaining hope to stop Trump.
It turned out that I was dead wrong about Donald Trump. He did win, and for the most part he did good things as President. He will leave some lasting legacies that include three USSC justices, some very good peace agreements in the middle east, and for all of this talk of him being a racist, he made serious inroads with bringing minority voters into the Republican fold.
The question becomes whether or not that legacy will be forever tarnished over recent events that culminated in the horrible riot that plagued our capital on the day that was supposed to highlight the counting of the electoral college votes to certify the incoming President elect, Joe Biden?
While I make no qualms about the fact that there were many statistical and logical inconsistencies with this particular election, I have never once suggested that I believed that the election would be overturned. However, believing that election contests like this can almost never be won, doesn't mean that you should not file the contest. For no other reason than to highlight and bring these allegations to the light of day.
That being said, understanding that these election contests were primarily for show should have been obvious to most everyone. But, of course, it was not obvious to the President (as we learned) and it was not obvious to many Trump supporters who were led to believe that these election challenges had a real chance to succeed. I have had this discussion with many Trump supporters who I attempted to convince (mostly unsuccessfully) that the challenges were ultimately an exercise in futility.
Now as I see it... what happened yesterday was probably a whole lot of grieving Trump supporters who were moving from the denial phase of grief, and into the anger phase. Many were there still expecting some miracle and that the President still had "something" up his sleeve. This obviously was never going to happen. Some of them lashed out.
Here is the reality. We have seen this same story written over and over and over. Something happens. The media exaggerates everything. Pearls are clutched. Eventually the entire episode blows over. People come back to their senses. We move on.
I would like to think that this will happen in this case. That if Trump holds true to his word to hold a peaceful transition, and people decide that it's more important to put the attention on the new President (Joe Biden) than on the old President (Donald Trump) - that this will blow over, like a hundred different episodes of the same sitcom.
Ultimately I think that is what most Americans want. To look forward, not backwards.
72 comments:
The mentally challenged trump has been banned by twitter and Facebook, but still has the nuclear codes!!!!!!!!!! Show your ballz Pence.....proceed with #25!!!! Elaine Chou just resigned...... a day late and a dollar short!!!!!!!!
Scott says
The media exaggerates everything.
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Not yesterday.
There was an attempt to steal an election by politicians.
Then by a mob.
Trump could cure cancer, put a man on Mars and end the heartbreak of psoriasis, and he would never be allowed to leave with dignity. he knows this and has zero fucks to give.
he's a honey badger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg
Looking forward is commendable, but not if there is no learning from our mistakes.
Big oil extends their middle finger to trump!!!!!!! bwaaaaaapaaaaaa!!!!! BTW Trump leaves the WH Soiled with the stink of his fat white ass!!!!!
Nichola Groom and Yereth Rosen
Wed, January 6, 2021, 1:07 AM EST
By Nichola Groom and Yereth Rosen
(Reuters) -The Trump administration on Wednesday found few takers at its sale of drilling leases in a pristine Arctic wildlife refuge, with an Alaska state agency emerging as the sole bidder for most of the acreage sold.
The sale, which generated around $14.4 million in high bids, marked a rejection by the oil and gas industry of one of President Donald Trump's signature efforts to expand fossil fuel and mineral development in the United States and to Alaska officials' decades-long effort to open up drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
Proceeds were a far cry from the Congressional Budget Office estimate from 2019 of $1.8 billion in bids from two ANWR lease sales over a decade. U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) officials called the sale "a success" while environmental groups labeled it an "epic failure."
It came two weeks before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, who has pledged to protect the 19.6 million-acre habitat for polar bears, caribou and migratory birds and to ban new oil and gas leasing on federal lands.
On a day when Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol building, the White House would not comment on the sale.
BLM said it received complete bids on half of the 22 tracts offered, and 50% of the acreage.
Big oil extends their middle finger to trump!!!!!!!
dumb fuck,
big oil is smart enough, and smarter than you, to NOT sign a lease guaranteed to be cancelled by the Harris - Biden regime.
you're the wile e. coyote of this blog, BWAA. every time you think you've found a nugget it turns out to be a fucking acme anvil that lands on your head.
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAPAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
This isn't about just Trump. It's really about all the deplorable that the media and the left can't stand. But it is about their final attempt to get past tbe Teflon protection that has frustrated they'll out of them for four years.
And anyone who excused all the rioting in 2020 has no right to criticize yesterday.
Also, the rhetoric we're hearing from dems today tells me that all the unity talk was bullshit.
"Trump could cure cancer"
Yet, Biden said. "Joe Biden: If I'm elected, we're going to cure cancer"
Right , assπ€‘
I do not agree with Scott that Trump did more good than harm.
I myself at first thought he would perhaps 'grow' into the presidency by having at least enough good sense to listen to the counsel of advisers who were far more informed than he was. Instead, he surrounded himself with sycophants who only stoked his enormous ego rather than leveling frankly with him.
So much of what he did will have to be reversed, and it will be, for the sake of our people, our nation, and our world.
I still don't understand why you supported him ever. Just because you didn't like Hillary Clinton, doesn't make sense why you spent four years, supporting everything he said or did.
1: Birther theory.
2: He believed Vladimir Putin and not our dedicated intelligence agencies.
3: Charlottesville comments of good people on both sides.
4:Ignored the medical expert about how dangerous the covid-19 virus risks.
5: Supported mocking masking. Writing spreadsheets designed to support your opinions, instead of scientists who have studied decades to understand how the virus was distributed.
6: Ignord His obvious lower level intelligence
7: You dismissed the diagnosis of narcissist pathological behavior by his niece Mary Trump who is a qualified psychological expert.
But aside from that, you have begun to move forward, and I praise you for that.
Unless the deep state conspiracy has conquered your!ππππππππππππππππππππππππ
Blogger KansasDemocrat said...
"Trump could cure cancer"
he cured the flu. didn't you notice? look at the CDC flu chart.
no flu this year.
LOL.
h/t: cali
Another device was found outside the Democratic National Committee headquarters.
U.S. Capitol Police confirmed Thursday that the devices found outside of the Democratic National Committee and Republican National Committee, a few blocks from the Capitol, could have caused "great harm."
“The USCP Hazardous Materials Response Team determined that both devices were, in fact, hazardous and could cause great harm to public safety,” police said in statement.
A federal law enforcement source told ABC News that the suspected pipe bombs were active and not fake devices.
ABC News has obtained a photo of one of two suspected explosive devices discovered Wednesday.
The device in the photo appears to be wired with a timer and was found adjacent to the Republican National Committee headquarters on First Street, S.E.
After the initial device was discovered near the RNC, police searched the area near the Democratic National Committee headquarters building, a couple of blocks away, and found a second device under a bush. authorities said.
MORE: 4 dead after Capitol breached by pro-Trump mob during 'failed insurrection'
Both buildings are a short distance from the U.S. Capitol, where violent protesters broke through police lines and stormed into the complex just over an hour after the devices were discovered.
"Two suspected explosive devices were rendered safe by the FBI and our law enforcement partners," the FBI said in a statement Wednesday evening.
Bomb technicians used water cannons to blast the devices to essentially break them apart and render them harmless.
Investigators are examining the recovered pieces to look for clues about how the devices was constructed and about the sources of the components, sources said.
Forensic experts are also conducting chemical analyses on any substances found in the devices to determine if they were filled with explosive materials.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, U.S. Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police Department are assisting with the investigation.
"The investigation is ongoing," the FBI said
The bombs were real,not fake news robotics
Wow you were able to stay away an hour and a half, eh Alky?
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Good bye forever
January 7, 2021 at 11:37 AM
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Pelosi Calls for Trump’s Removal
2:12 pm
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is calling for Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump.
She said impeachment should be considered if that doesn’t happen.
Taegan Goddard:
A GOP Split Is an Opportunity for Biden
Biden Picks Raimondo for Commerce, Walsh for Labor
2:05 pm
Washington Post: “Biden intends to name Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo to be his Secretary of Commerce, choosing the former venture capitalist to helm the agency at a time when the nation’s business community is struggling to adjust to an economy reshaped by the coronavirus pandemic.
“And he has picked Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, a self-described ‘lifelong champion of working people,’ to be the next Secretary of Labor.”
This isn't about just Trump. It's really about all the deplorable that the media and the left can't stan
BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! It is all about trump and what an incompetent, mentally deficient leader he is!!!!!! I guess loser ballz thinks insurrection is a good thing........asshole BTW....no one excused the riots, only assholes like you claiming they did!!!!! Like millions of fraudulent votes without a single source!!!!!
Anonymous Caliphate4vr said...
Wow you were able to stay away an hour and a half, eh Alky?
just long enough for his cream of wheat, jello dessert, and mid-day BP check.
LOL.
climb on that walker and ride, alky!!!
I agree
The top Democrats in Congress called for President Donald Trump’s removal Thursday, a day after a mob spurred by the president overran the Capitol as lawmakers tallied President-elect Joe Biden’s presidential win.
Both Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called on Vice President Mike Pence and Trump’s Cabinet to remove the president from office by invoking the 25th Amendment. Both said Congress could impeach Trump if the vice president and secretaries do not act.
“What happened at the U.S. Capitol yesterday was an insurrection against the United States, incited by the president. This president should not hold office one day longer,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in a statement.
25th amendment now or #impeachment immediately
The walker has been unused for years.
I'm 100% completely recovered from the liver transplant surgery
25th amendment now or #impeachment immediately
of course you agree. you want civil war. and this is how you get civil war.
the guy is gone in two weeks for fucks sake. only a moron wants to create MORE tension and anxiety.
Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao is resigning effective Monday, becoming the highest ranking member of President Donald Trump’s administration to resign in protest after the pro-Trump insurrection at Capitol.
In a statement Thursday, Chao, who is married to Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell, said the violent attack on the Capitol “has deeply troubled me in a way that I simply cannot set aside.”
1: Birther theory.
Never believed the so called "birther theory" which actually came into play and was debunked long before Trump ran for office. Also set in motion by the Hillary Camp when they were battling in the primaries against Obama.
So that is a lie, Roger.
2: He believed Vladimir Putin and not our dedicated intelligence agencies.
Our intelligence agencies never found any evidence of collusion or coordination between the two. In fact, intelligence was never actually able to tie Putin himself with any of the "Russian interference".
So not sure your point here Roger
3: Charlottesville comments of good people on both sides.
Debunked by everyone. Almost nobody still believes that nonsense. Glad to know you are still gaslighted by it though.
Writing spreadsheets designed to support your opinions, instead of scientists who have studied decades to understand how the virus was distributed.
The spreadsheets are actually made up of real "data", Roger. I have no qualms about accepting real data over opinions. Opinions (from real scientists) differ on the effectiveness of masks.
You dismissed the diagnosis of narcissist pathological behavior by his niece Mary Trump who is a qualified psychological expert.
When someone writes in a book that a person who Donald Trump met in college took his college entrance exams for him... obviously it's not true. As were many other of the "facts" she wrote about. The reality that she actually didn't know her "uncle" is also an issue when you write about someone.
But hey, Roger... glad you believed everything she wrote.
Me, I am a skeptic and cynic. Takes more than just someone writing something for me to believe it.
‘Enough is enough’ said Lindsey Graham last night, signaling the end to his support for Trump.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, a steadfast ally of Donald Trump, late on Wednesday signaled the definitive end of his support for the outgoing president’s unfounded campaign alleging election fraud, after pro-Trump rioters stormed the US Capitol building.
"Trump and I, we've had a hell of a journey. I hate it to end this way. Oh my God, I hate it. From my point of view he's been been a consequential president. But today, first thing you'll see... all I can say, is count me out, enough is enough," Graham said.
Graham’s comment came after an hours-long siege of the Capitol by Trump supporters, who were seen scaling the walls, roaming the halls and confronting police personnel posted in the premises.
"It is over.... He's [Biden] the legitimate President to the United States... Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are lawfully elected and will become the President and the Vice President of the United States on January 20," Senator Graham said. He cited the court rulings that have dismissed claims of election fraud.
“If you are a Conservative then this is the most offensive concept in the world, that a single person can disenfranchise a 155 million people,” he told the joint session of Congress that had convened in Washington DC to count the Electoral College votes that later certified Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 US presidential elections.
“To the conservatives who believe in the Constitution, now is your chance to stand up and be counted,” said the lawmaker from South Carolina, maintaining that it will be a “uniquely bad idea to delay this election."
"You’re going to do the right thing, you’re going to do the Constitutional thing," he said.
[It took Graham FAR too long to say that, for it took Donald doing something ABSOLUTELY INEXCUSABLE to make him say it.]
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[Earler, Graham had allegedly asked Mr Raffensperger if he had the power to throw out some absentee ballots, a claim the senator dismissed as “ridiculous.”]
Fuck off pederast
Why not tell Lindsey to Fuck off?
Thread question: Is it too late for Trump?
Answer at RealClearPolitics: YES.
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Trump Hands Presidential Mantle to Biden Two Weeks Early
By Carl M. Cannon, RCP staff January 07, 2021
Biden's presidency has already begun, at least unofficially. Yesterday, Donald Trump chose to play the role of political rabble-rouser during the transition instead of constitutional officer.
Attempting to impede the pro-forma Electoral College vote certification by Congress, Trump delivered a fiery speech to thousands of his supporters, claiming yet again that the 2020 election was stolen from him and calling on Vice President Mike Pence, the ceremonial presiding officer of the Senate, to “do the right thing.”
“Our country has had enough!” Trump said. “We will not take it anymore and that’s what this is all about. … We will stop the steal!” Trump then directly urged his supporters to march on the U.S. Capitol, apparently to pressure lawmakers. “We fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell you’re not going to have a country anymore.”
Taken as a whole, the speech was essentially an incitement to riot. And his supporters took him both seriously and literally.
“We’re going to walk down Pennsylvania Avenue,” Trump told them -- although he himself did nothing of the kind. In an inverse of “Profiles in Courage,” the president retreated to the warmth of the Oval Office, presumably watching television, while his supporters did as they were instructed.
In a mystifying lapse of preparedness, the U.S. Capitol Police were badly understaffed. The crowd pushed past them, and while thousands were content to stand on the building’s steps and wave flags, a vanguard of several hundred stormed the entrance, broke windows, and occupied offices, sending members of Congress and their staffs fleeing in fear. Congressional offices were debased, as was America’s international reputation. One female Trump supporter, an unarmed Air Force veteran from San Diego, was shot to death by a Capitol Police officer.
Amid the appalling chaos, Trump was content to issue tepid tweets about respecting law enforcement. Later, he released a Twitter video going a bit further (but repeating the fiction that he’d won a landslide election). By then, Joe Biden had stepped into the void. (see next post)
“At this hour, our democracy is under unprecedented assault, unlike anything we’ve seen in modern times,” the president-elect said from Wilmington, Del., while calling (in vain) for Trump to put a stop to it.
“I’m genuinely shocked and saddened that our nation, so long a beacon of hope and light for democracy, has come to such a dark moment,” Biden added.
“America is about honor, decency, respect, tolerance. That’s who we are. That’s who we’ve always been.”
One irony for Republicans was that while the lame duck president was trying to forestall Biden from assuming office, Trump’s actions Wednesday had the effect of essentially making Biden presidential two weeks early.
If one were in a nitpicking mood, it’s true that Biden was much quicker to condemn these rioters than those who led the sustained carnage of last summer in a hundred American cities during the Black Lives Matter protests. And yes, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and other Democrats pivoted instantly from being social justice defenders to a law-and-order hard-liners. The media’s turnabout was even more whiplash-inducing. The press had previously deemed it racist to even use the word “rioters” to describe arsonists, looters, and protesters who threw rocks at cops and menaced strangers. Those compunctions disappeared Wednesday, as did the ubiquitous phrase “mostly peaceful” protests -- replaced by “traitors,” “terrorists,” and “a mob” that was “violent” and “seditious.” The Trumpsters were leading an “armed insurrection,” we were told.
Remember when Sen. Tom Cotton’s New York Times op-ed advocating the use of armed federal troops to quell the violence in American cities led to the approving editor’s forced departure? Yesterday, it took less than an hour for the media to clamor for the National Guard. “Where’s the cavalry?” they beseeched on cable news.
So there was inconsistency, and plenty of hypocrisy. Yet none of that excuses what Trump and his followers did Wednesday. They disgraced themselves. They trashed the legacy of their own movement. They desecrated a symbol of American democracy, although it was heartening how the Senate ameliorated much of the damage in an extraordinary late-night session. They prompted serious discussion of invoking the 25th Amendment and replacing Trump immediately. Mostly, they made Americans who voted for Joe Biden exceedingly glad they had done so.
Amen! Amen!
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Carl M. Cannon is the Washington bureau chief for Real Clear Politics.
An NPR spokesperson said that with regard to the Capitol Building invaders, my grandmother told me, "If these people had been black, they would all be dead."
Trump Has Discussed Pardoning Himself
3:15 pm
“President Trump has suggested to aides he wants to pardon himself in the final days of his presidency, a move that would mark one of the most extraordinary and untested uses of presidential power in American history,” the New York Times reports.
“In several conversations since Election Day, Mr. Trump has told advisers that he is considering giving himself a pardon and, in other instances, asked whether he should and what the impact would be on him legally and politically… It was not clear whether he has broached the topic since he incited his supporters on Wednesday to storm the Capitol in a mob attack.
“Mr. Trump has shown signs that his level of interest in pardoning himself goes beyond idle musings. He has long maintained he has the power to pardon himself and his polling of aides’ views is typically a sign that he is preparing to follow through on his aims. He has also become increasingly convinced that his perceived enemies will use the levers of law enforcement to target him after he leaves office.”
Michael Beschloss:
“Presidents were never intended to be able to pardon themselves.“
Pelosi Calls for Trump’s Removal
2:12 pm
Speaker Nancy Pelosi is calling for Vice President Mike Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove President Trump from office.
Said Pelosi: “By inciting sedition as he did yesterday he must be removed from office. While there’s only 13 days left any day could be a horror show for America.”
Pelosi added that impeachment may be considered by Congress if that doesn’t happen.
Fuck off pederast
Graham Doesn’t Support Removing Trump
3:30 pm
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) warned that President Trump’s legacy was undercut after rioters supportive of challenging the election results breached the Capitol on Wednesday, he added that he wasn’t supportive of “at this point” of invoking the 25th Amendment to remove the president from office, The Hill reports.
Said Graham: “If something else happens all options would be on the table.”
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What more would have to happen?If Trump shot someone of 5th avenue, would that be enough?
LOL
Another weaseling of the weasel.
Josh Hawley Was the ‘Worst Mistake I Ever Made In My Life’
3:35 pm
Former Sen. John Danforth (R-MO) sharply criticized Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) in an interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Said Danforth: “Supporting Josh and trying so hard to get him elected to the Senate was the worst mistake I ever made in my life. Yesterday was the physical culmination of the long attempt (by Hawley and others) to foment a lack of public confidence in our democratic system. It is very dangerous to America to continue pushing this idea that government doesn’t work and that voting was fraudulent.”
Josh wants to be prez. Not likely.
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Big oil extends their middle finger to trump!!!!!!!
dumb fuck,
big oil is smart enough, and smarter than you, to NOT sign a lease guaranteed to be cancelled by the Harris - Biden regime."
He earns his Moniker of "Dopie".
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/trump-and-his-mob-have-dishonored-america
The mob was domestic terrorism
πrrbJanuary 7, 2021 at 1:21 PM
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Good bye forever
January 7, 2021 at 11:37 AMπ€£
Damn Alky you never actually accomplish anything.
Alky My wife took delivery of Her High End Special Order 2021 Toyota Tundra .
When do you take delivery of your Audi A8?
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Good bye forever
January 7, 2021 at 11:37 AM
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
Mark Zuckerberg
The shocking events of the last 24 hours clearly demonstrate that President Donald Trump intends to use his remaining time in office to undermine the peaceful and lawful transition of power to his elected successor, Joe Biden.
His decision to use his platform to condone rather than condemn the actions of his supporters at the Capitol building has rightly disturbed people in the US and around the world. We removed these statements yesterday because we judged that their effect -- and likely their intent -- would be to provoke further violence.
Following the certification of the election results by Congress, the priority for the whole country must now be to ensure that the remaining 13 days and the days after inauguration pass peacefully and in accordance with established democratic norms.
Over the last several years, we have allowed President Trump to use our platform consistent with our own rules, at times removing content or labeling his posts when they violate our policies. We did this because we believe that the public has a right to the broadest possible access to political speech, even controversial speech. But the current context is now fundamentally different, involving use of our platform to incite violent insurrection against a democratically elected government.
We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great. Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete.
I came back when I saw that Scott has divorced from Donald Trump's asshole!π€£π€£π€£π₯°π₯°π₯°π₯°π₯°π₯°π₯°
Pelosi added that impeachment may be considered by Congress if that doesn’t happen.
a real stroke of genius seeing as she's shut down the house until Jan. 20.
Welcome Back Roger.
Tell us when will your addiction to Trump end?
Jan, 20th, 12 noon of 2021?
Capitol Rioters Could Face Up to 10 Years In Prison
4:17 pm
Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen vowed that pro-Trump rioters who entered the U.S. Capitol would “face the full consequences of their actions under the law,” and those consequences could include being charged under President Trump’s executive order authorizing up to 10 years in prison for “injury of federal property,” Fox News reports.
TRUMP DESERVES PRISON FAR MORE MORE THAN THEY DO.
Pence Expected to Attend Biden’s Inauguration
4:12 pm
Politico:
“Three sources close to Pence said he would likely make an appearance at the Jan. 20 event in a show of support for the peaceful transition of power.
The decision to attend, they said, became easier after President Trump publicly criticized Pence leading up to, and following, his refusal to stop the certification.”
Said one person close to Pence:
“It was a much more difficult decision days ago, but less difficult now.”
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Of course.
Pence is welcome.
Trump, STAY AWAY!
Fuck off, Pederast
The ‘Oh F*ck’ Moment Is Finally Here for Trump’s Enablers
AMERICA’S SADDAM
rrb and kputz and ballsless
The mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday was engaged in nothing less than a seditious insurrection. Everyone who participated in the violence and lawlessness acted disgracefully. Officials who set the tone for the sedition, especially President Trump, acted even more disgracefully, as they are expected to know better, indeed to lead.
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Political violence is no joke. It destroys the rule of law. Trump should have been aware of the 1998 incident, in which two Capitol Police officers were killed by a gunman, and certainly of the more recent attempt to slaughter a good portion of the House Republican caucus on a baseball field. Political lies, including Trump's lie of a rigged election, can have tragic consequences.
Any acts of sedition must be put down with as much force as necessary. This nation is known for its peaceful elections and transitions. Mobs must not be allowed to disrupt the workings of the republic by storming the edifices of democracy. Those political allies of Trump who have strongly condemned this violence — Vice President Mike Pence, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, for example — should be encouraged to continue doing so. Meanwhile, it is a disgrace that Trump was so slow and so weak in denouncing the violence and used his statement to repeat his canard about the election being stolen. Joe Biden's statement condemning events at the Capitol and calling for peace was, by contrast, dignified, statesmanlike, and ringingly clear.
The very conservative News Paper
Roger, in your make believe life how is your make believe Fiance.
It is striking how little an old man of your advanced age actual has, sure you have "A room".
Where most your age has a home.
The Dark Winter Presidency is just days from beginning, no worries. The dumpster fire that America voted for will keep you warm.
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Blogger Roger Amick said...
Good bye forever
January 7, 2021 at 11:37 AM
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LOL.
so...
Cum Allah Fwee-dom said the protests will not stop and should not stop.
Trump supporters said okey dokey.
I'm not seeing a problem here.
By Christopher Flavelle
Jan. 7, 2021, 5:00 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON — Hurricanes, wildfires and other disasters across the United States caused $95 billion in damage last year, according to new data, almost double the amount in 2019 and the third-highest losses since 2010.
The new figures, reported Thursday morning by Munich Re, a company that provides insurance to other insurance companies, are the latest signal of the growing cost of climate change. They reflect a year marked by a record number of named Atlantic storms, as well as the largest wildfires ever recorded in California.
Those losses occurred during a year that was one of the warmest on record, a trend that makes extreme rainfall, wildfires, droughts and other environmental catastrophes more frequent and intense.
Donald Trump’s reelection campaign began the day he took office in 2017. It ended with police and National Guard soldiers retaking the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday evening after a day of violence and vandalism in the halls of Congress perpetrated by the president’s supporters.
The surge from law enforcement cleared the crowds from the Capitol complex and paved the way for the Senate to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in last year’s presidential election. However, even as they were pushed off Capitol Hill, some of Trump’s diehard supporters insisted the chaos is just beginning.
“It can’t stop. This can’t stop,” a man who identified himself only as Tim, and one of the final remaining protesters, said as the group was dispersed Wednesday evening.
“This has got to go on for the four years of this clown being in the Oval Office,” Tim said, referring to President-elect Biden. “He ain’t representing me. He’s not my president.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/troops-retake-us-capitol-trump-supporters-023649305.html
“He ain’t representing me. He’s not my president.”
where have I heard this before? Hmmm...
I don't remember exactly WHO said it but I do remember they were wearing a pussy hat WHEN they said it.
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is this your side hack alky? peddling subscriptions to "Nursing Home Weekly"?
ALBANY — A Trump supporter attending a rally outside the Capitol on Wednesday was stabbed multiple times and underwent emergency surgery to repair an eviscerated bowel at Albany Medical Center Hospital.
The suspect, 37-year-old Alexander S. Contompasis of Rensselaer, is accused of stabbing two people during a melee that erupted in East Capitol Park between a group that gathered to support President Donald J. Trump and a smaller group of counter-protesters who showed up, several of them allegedly armed with weapons.
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Suspect-in-Albany-Capitol-assault-allegedly-15852585.php?IPID=Times-Union-HP-CP-Spotlight
Trump Aides Discuss Resisting Unlawful or Dangerous Orders from Him
5:18 pm
Some top remaining administration officials are preparing to resist any unlawful or dangerous orders in the closing days of Trump’s presidency, Axios reports.
A declaration of nuclear war with China should be ignored.
Ignored like KD and rrb.
Hogan Says Requests to Send National Guard Were Denied
5:19 pm
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) told the Washington Post that requests to send in the Maryland National Guard to protect the U.S. Capitol against rioters were rejected for 90 minutes on Wednesday.
Hogan said the request was repeatedly rebuffed by the head of the National Guard at the federal level.
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At Trump's orders?
Trump’s Remarks Before Riot May Be Investigated
4:52 pm
“The top federal prosecutor in Washington D.C. said Thursday that President Trump was not off limits in his investigation of the events surrounding Wednesday’s riot at the U.S. Capitol, saying ‘all actors’ would be examined to determine if they broke the law,” the Washington Post reports.
Said acting U.S. Attorney Michael Sherwin: “Yes, we are looking at all actors here, not only the people that went into the building, but … were there others that maybe assisted or facilitated or played some ancillary role in this. We will look at every actor and all criminal charges.”
Mulvaney Now Embarrassed by Working for Trump
4:38 pm
Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney told Bloomberg Radio that President Trump’s incitement of Wednesday’s assault on the U.S. Capitol now stains his legacy, and people who worked for him aren’t sure it was worth it.
Said Mulvaney: “The level of embarrassment and shame is hard to describe.”
John Kelly Would Vote to Remove Trump
4:31 pm
Former White House chief of staff John Kelly, who previously served as the secretary of homeland security, told CNN he would vote to remove President Trump from office if he were still in the cabinet.
He added: “The cabinet should meet and have a discussion. The one thing we have going for us here … is it’s only 13 more days.”
Low Morale at the White House
5:44 pm
A White House official tells the New York Times that people in the West Wing today are “depressed” and that those without jobs already lined up are concerned that they’re unemployable.
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Gee. Why would they be unemployable? For working all this time for a despot?
I hope a lot of GOP Reps and Senators will also prove to be unemployable after future elections.
Pence Won’t Invoke 25th Amendment
5:48 pm
Vice President Mike Pence doesn’t support removing President Trump from office via the 25th Amendment despite the growing bipartisan chorus for a last-minute change at the very top of the American government, Business Insider reports.
Said a Republican close to Pence: “Not happening.”
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I am not surprised. Pence has gotten used to being treated like crap.
Fuck off pederast
This is why he will pardon himself.
Attorney Jerome Marcus, who represented the Trump campaign in a Pennsylvania post-election lawsuit, asked the federal court to let him withdraw from the case Thursday because the president had used the lawyer to “perpetrate a crime,” as Trump allies distance themselves from the president after his supporters violently stormed the U.S. Capitol building.
To perpetrate a crime is a crime.
Is there an echo lose in here? ;-)
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Publisher Cancels Josh Hawley’s Book
5:53 pm
Simon & Schuster has decided to cancel publication of Sen. Josh Hawley’s (R-MO) forthcoming book, The Tyranny of Big Tech.
From a statement: “It will always be our mission to amplify a variety of voices and viewpoints; at the same time we take seriously our larger public responsibility as citizens, and cannot support Senator Hawley after his role in what became a dangerous threat to our democracy and freedom.”
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Well, Josh will just have to find himself some other publisher. (None will probably pay as well as S & S, however.)
The top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., said Thursday that his office has brought 55 cases against members of the mob that overran the Capitol, and that he's open to adding serious felony charges against both those involved in and those who helped instigate the riot.
In 13 days, he can be indicted for a felony.
George Will Jr.
The four repulsive architects of Wednesday’s heartbreaking spectacle — mobs desecrating the Republic’s noblest building and preventing the completion of a constitutional process — must be named and forevermore shunned. They are Donald Trump, and Sens. Josh Hawley, Scott Johnson, and Ted Cruz.
Trump lit the fuse for the riot in the weeks before the election, with his successful effort to delegitimize the election in the eyes of his supporters. But Wednesday’s explosion required the help of Hawley (R-Mo.) and Cruz (R-Tex.).
Hawley announced his intention to object to the certification of some states’ electoral votes, for no better reason than that there has been an avalanche of “allegations” of election irregularities, allegations fomented by the loser of the election. By doing so, Hawley turned what should have been a perfunctory episode in our civic liturgy of post-election civility into a synthetic drama. He turned this moment into the focus of the hitherto unfocused fury that Trump had been stoking for many weeks.
And Cruz, by organizing support for Hawley among other Republican senators and senators-elect gave Hawley’s grotesque self-promotion an ersatz cloak of larger purpose. Shortly before the mob breached the Senate chamber, Cruz stood on the Senate floor. With his characteristic unctuousness, he regretted the existence of what he and kindred spirits have not only done nothing to refute but have themselves nurtured — a pandemic of suspicions that the election was “rigged.”
“I want to take a moment to speak to my Democratic colleagues,” said Cruz. “I understand your guy is winning right now.” Read those weasely words again. He was not speaking to his “colleagues.” He was speaking to the kind people who were at that instant assaulting the Capitol. He was nurturing the very delusions that soon would cause louts to be roaming the Senate chamber — the fantasy that Joe Biden has not won the election but is only winning “right now.”
The Trump-Hawley-Cruz insurrection against constitutional government will be an indelible stain on the nation. They, however, will not be so permanent. In 14 days, one of them will be removed from office by the constitutional processes he neither fathoms nor favors. It will take longer to scrub the other two from public life. Until that hygienic outcome is accomplished, from this day forward, everything they say or do or advocate should be disregarded as patent attempts to distract attention from the lurid fact of what they have become. Each will wear a scarlet “S” as a seditionist.
In 13 days, he can be indicted for a felony.
ok alky, i know you're a world-renowned Sec. 320 attorney and all, but when you get a minute pour over this transcript of Trump's speech and tell me where he instigated a riot:
https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-speech-save-america-rally-transcript-january-6
and yes, the transcript is COMPLETE.
the fact is, he didn't.
unless of course Trump's 1st Amendment rights are the price we all have to pay to soothe your TDS.
The Dark Winter Presidency going all in on Hate, division and assπ€‘ing.
"President-elect Joe Biden said the treatment of the rioters at the Capitol insurrection on Wednesday and of Black Lives Matter protesters last year revealed a blatant double standard in how law enforcement responded to the two groups.
"Not only did we see the failure to protect one of the three branches of our government, we also saw a clear failure to carryout equal justice," Biden said in Wilmington on Thursday. "
Biden went on to recall receiving a text from his granddaughter showing an image of scores of armed officers on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the Black Lives Matter protests over the summer.
"She said 'Pop, this isn't fair'," Biden said. "No one can tell me that if that had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they wouldn't have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol."
Wall Street Journal Says Trump Must Resign
7:40 pm
A Wall Street Journal editorial called on President Trump to resign:
“We know an act of grace by Mr. Trump isn’t likely. In any case this week has probably finished him as a serious political figure.
"He has cost Republicans the House, the White House, and now the Senate.
"Worse, he has betrayed his loyal supporters by lying to them about the election and the ability of Congress and Mr. Pence to overturn it.
"He has refused to accept the basic bargain of democracy, which is to accept the result, win or lose.
“It is best for everyone, himself included, if he goes away quietly.”
Trump Prepares Pardon List for Aides and Family
7:34 pm
“President Trump has prepared a sweeping list of individuals he’s hoping to pardon in the final days of his administration that includes senior White House officials, family members, prominent rappers — and possibly himself,” Bloomberg reports.
“Trump is hoping to announce the pardons on Jan. 19 — his final full day in office — and his ideas are currently being vetted by senior advisers and the White House counsel’s office.
“The biggest question facing his legal team may be whether the president has the authority to pardon himself.”
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For fomenting insurrection?
Trump Finally Admits He’s Leaving Office
7:20 pm
President Trump released a video suggesting he would “bring to justice” those who stormed the U.S. Capitol yesterday. He falsely claimed that he immediately called in the National Guard to evict the mob.
Trump said he is now focused on a “seamless transition” to a new administration on January 20. He did not mention Joe Biden’s name.
He ended his message telling his supporters that “our journey is just beginning.”
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No, ending.
Capitol Police Officer Dies After Riots
7:17 pm
A U.S. Capitol Police officer has died from events stemming from Wednesday’s riot at the Capitol, CNN reports.
“The biggest question facing his legal team may be whether the president has the authority to pardon himself.”
IF HE TRIES, THAT will be a nice added note to the whole sordid story of his presidency.
Fuck off, Pederast
Pompeo and Mnuchin Discussed 25th Amendment
8:54 pm
“Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin held informal conversations within their own agencies about the contours of the 25th Amendment, the invocation of which would begin a process to remove Trump from office,” CNBC reports.
“The arguments against pursuing action were manifold. First, the legal process itself was estimated to take more than a week, negating any immediate effect it would have.
“Second, it was unclear whether the three secretaries serving in ‘acting’ roles without Senate confirmation would be able to cast a vote. Third, they had concerns that forcing Trump from office could further stoke tensions among his base and make him a hero of the far right, doing more bad in the long-term than good in the short-term.”
Said one former Trump official: “The general plan now is to let the clock run out.”
Bring the Insurrectionists to Justice
8:39 pm
Peggy Noonan: “The president should be removed for reasons of justice—he urged a crowd to march on Congress, and, when it turned violent, had to be dragged into telling them, equivocally, to go home—and prudence.”
“As for prudence, Mr. Trump is a sick, bad man and therefore, as president, a dangerous one. He has grown casually bloody-minded, nattering on about force and denouncing even his own vice president as a coward for not supporting unconstitutional measures. No one seems to be certain how Mr. Trump spends his days. He doesn’t bother to do his job. The White House is in meltdown. The only thing that captures his interest is the fact that he lost, which fills him with thoughts of vengeance.”
Betsy DeVos Resigns In Protest
9:00 pm
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos submitted her resignation to President Trump on Thursday night saying the riot at the Capitol was her breaking point, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Said DeVos: “There is no mistaking the impact your rhetoric had on the situation, and it is the inflection point for me.”
WOW.
In 13 days, he can be indicted for a felony.
Hey donnie....in 13 days you will discover paybacks are really a BITCH!!!!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
SAID TO DEVOS.......A DAY LATE AND A BUCK SHORT.......BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
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