The irony of it all is that if Trump would have just stopped talking a little sooner the mob would have gotten there while the joint session was still going, or when the senators and VP were walking from the House to the Senate.
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Moonlit_Angel
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I loved the Twitter responses to Hawley's little whine fest. Especially those who pointed out that unlike Hawley, Orwell was a published author.
Go look up what the First Amendment actually means and shut the fuck up, Hawley, kthx.
Now you know one reason why they're so desperate to shift the blame to Antifa and the like.
Imagine being this stupid and brainwashed. Just imagine. It's stunning.
God, I hope so. I don't care by what means he leaves, I just want him to leave, period, as soon as humanly possible.
I love how he acts like that's supposed to be news. Like, yeah, no shit we figured you weren't going to come to Biden's inauguration, Trump, even before the events on Wednesday.
Yep. And they were dumb enough to put their faces on TV and on camera. Even if any of them do try and distance themselves in the coming years, we have evidence. And even those who weren't at the Capitol but still supported this, we'll be able to tell by whatever MAGA items they have and whatever stuff they've posted online and whatnot. The internet never truly deletes anything.
Darwinism in action.
And I fully agree that we're going to learn a LOT more about just how involved many in the GOP were with this coup, and how much help the rioters got. I hope it all comes out, I hope everyone who was involved on any and every level continues to lose their jobs, and I hope they all get arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
(But remember, people, Hillary was supposed to be the big national security risk!)
Also, maybe the Biden administration should hire somebody who has experience getting people out of cults and transitioning them back into the real world. I don't know how easily one can do that on this kind of a grand scale, but it certainly couldn't hurt.
MrsSpringsteen
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The idiot who sat at Pelosi's desk and stole her mail (federal offense I believe) was arrested.
Also-this is a good question
George Conway
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I don't know if I've seen this information anywhere, so I'll ask the question here: Who paid for and organized the "Save America" rally that Trump spoke at on Wednesday?
Also-this is a good question
George Conway
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I don't know if I've seen this information anywhere, so I'll ask the question here: Who paid for and organized the "Save America" rally that Trump spoke at on Wednesday?
MrsSpringsteen
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Twitter booted him permanently
MrsSpringsteen
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RIP covfefe?
So I guess this means we need to leave town on January 17 now.
LemonMelon
More 5G Than Man
Can't wait for Donnie's Cameo account.
Gonna have to start giving birthday shout outs to Billy Bob and Mary Lou to pay his lawyer fees.
Gonna have to start giving birthday shout outs to Billy Bob and Mary Lou to pay his lawyer fees.
Trump's out here acting like a banned interference member trying to sneak past Diemen.
LemonMelon
More 5G Than Man
Maybe Trump was STING all along.
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Hewson
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Moonlit_Angel
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About fucking time.
Just wait for the polite email Trump sends Twitter in 6 months or so, asking to be let back in, because prior to his ban he was a member “in good standing” and gosh, isn’t it just a little unfair to be permanently banned when he had not been banned for so long before?
Irvine511
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In fairness to STING, he is not a Trumper. He’s of the Cheney/W/McCain wing of the party who believes in the power of war to change hearts and minds and the righteousness of the average American soldier. There’s not a country that can’t be bombed and invaded into embracing democracy, they will greet us as liberators, etc.
That kind of Republican is gone now.
That kind of Republican is gone now.
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cancel my subscription to the resurrection...oh my god what is the song!?
got it! listening to it now. what a fucking JAM!
DaveC
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https://twitter.com/briantashman/status/1347962438558351360?s=21
The hypocrisy is so tiring.
Click on tweet for other photos
The hypocrisy is so tiring.
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Hewson
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One of my favorite Doors tunes.
https://twitter.com/alexjamesfitz/status/1348085536280485889?s=21
Pure luck we didn’t end up watching this.
I don’t agree with the inauguration moving forward.
One, it’s a damn pandemic with new strains about to plow thru the country.
Two, what assurances do we have that there won’t be traitors, rioters, or people on the inside to allow something to happen ?
Hold it as a virtual event.
Pure luck we didn’t end up watching this.
I don’t agree with the inauguration moving forward.
One, it’s a damn pandemic with new strains about to plow thru the country.
Two, what assurances do we have that there won’t be traitors, rioters, or people on the inside to allow something to happen ?
Hold it as a virtual event.
Irvine511
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This is long, but well worth it. Trump is a terrorist and should be held legally accountable table for what happened this week.
https://mobile.twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1347908845281095680
https://mobile.twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1347908845281095680
dabiggestu2fan
Rock n' Roll Doggie
Lol trump is totally trying different user names on Twitter and I’m loving the fact that he keeps getting banned! I just love seeing trump lose over and over and over again! It brings so much joy! 
https://us.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-banned-from-twitter-again-024724093.html
https://us.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-banned-from-twitter-again-024724093.html
dazzledbylight
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Read much of it last night through DU, have to finish it.
It's a break down of Trump's speech at his Weds "rally".
MrsSpringsteen
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Lol trump is totally trying different user names on Twitter and I’m loving the fact that he keeps getting banned! I just love seeing trump lose over and over and over again! It brings so much joy!
https://us.yahoo.com/finance/news/trump-banned-from-twitter-again-024724093.html
Has he tried lame duck obese turtle?
WH flag not even lowered for the Capitol police officer who died. Blue lives matter.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1348336303167983617?s=21
Will wait for investigation but it really looks like it
Will wait for investigation but it really looks like it
MrsSpringsteen
Blue Crack Addict
Well isn't she special. Trump's relationship with her sure seems inappropriate.
Slate.com
By MARK JOSEPH STERN
JAN 08, 202112:17 PM
On Wednesday morning, Ginni Thomas—wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas—endorsed the rally in Washington demanding that Congress overturn the election. She then sent her “LOVE” to the demonstrators, who violently overtook the Capitol several hours later. Two days later, Thomas amended her post with the addendum: “[Note: written before violence in US Capitol].” By that point, five people involved in the insurrection, including a Capitol Police officer, had died.
Thomas, a conservative lobbyist and zealous supporter of Donald Trump, has fervently defended the president over the last four years. On her Facebook page, she frequently promotes baseless conspiracy theories about a “coup” against Trump led by Jewish philanthropist George Soros, a frequent target of anti-Semitic hate. Thomas draws many of these theories from fringe corners of the internet, including an anti-vax Facebook group that claimed Bill Gates would use the COVID vaccine to kill people. In recent months, she also amplified unsubstantiated corruption claims against Joe Biden while insisting, falsely, that the Obama administration illegally spied on Trump’s 2016 campaign, then tried to rig the election against him.
In turn, Trump has rewarded Thomas with an extraordinary amount of access to the Oval Office. Her advocacy group Groundswell got an audience with the president in early 2019. According to the New York Times, the meeting was arranged after Clarence and Ginni Thomas had dinner with the Trumps. (Clarence Thomas and Trump appear to be quite friendly: The justice took his clerks to meet with the president in the Oval Office at least once; Ginni attended as well.) At the White House, Groundswell’s members lobbied Trump against transgender service in the military, which he already prohibited in 2017. The ban took effect in 2019, around the time of Groundswell’s meeting, after the Supreme Court lifted lower court orders blocking it by a 5–4 vote. (Clarence Thomas did not recuse himself from the case; he has never recused from any case because of his wife’s lobbying activities.) The New York Times also reported that Ginni Thomas compiled lists of federal employees whom she deemed insufficiently loyal to the president. She sent her lists to Trump, urging him to fire the disloyal employees, though he seems to have largely ignored her. He has, however, stacked his administration with former Thomas clerks.
Throughout the 2020 campaign, Thomas remained active on Facebook, condemning Black Lives Matter, opposing COVID-19 shutdowns, and touting the “Walk Away” movement, which purports to spotlight Democrats who became Republicans under Trump. (At least two individuals featured in the “Walk Away” series, both Black, were actually models from royalty-free stock photos.) She also campaigned for Trump in person—and, according to the Intercept, spearheaded a dark-money operation to support the president. Cleta Mitchell, the Republican lawyer who participated in Trump’s shakedown of the Georgia secretary of state, led the project.
After Nov. 3, Thomas grew uncharacteristically quiet on Facebook; she did not share popular conspiracy theories about election fraud, perhaps because election challenges would inevitably come before her husband. She provided her clearest statement yet on Jan. 6, when she enthusiastically endorsed the D.C. rally designed to make Congress overturn the election result and give Trump a second term. There is no evidence that Thomas personally attended the rally, and her posts indicate that she watched the events on TV from another location.
Ginni Thomas’ activism on matters that come before her husband raises thorny ethical issues. Federal law requires justices to recuse themselves from any proceeding in which their “impartiality might reasonably be questioned.” It also compels justices to recuse if their spouse has “an interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome” of the case. In the coming months and years, Democrats will likely pressure Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from high-profile cases or to resign altogether. If Thomas steps down under Biden, progressives can restore a 5–4 divide on the Supreme Court, giving Chief Justice John Roberts control once again. Given Thomas’ staunch refusal to recuse thus far, though, there is little chance that he will take any steps to remediate his conflicts of interest, let alone retire during the presidency of a man he openly despises.
In all likelihood, Ginni Thomas will face no consequences for cheerleading a rally that sought to overturn an election, then laid siege to the Capitol in a failed insurrection. Her husband will ignore the controversy and continue to rule on cases that involve his wife’s lobbying efforts. We may never know how much influence a conspiracy theorist has on the highest court’s most conservative justice.
Slate.com
By MARK JOSEPH STERN
JAN 08, 202112:17 PM
On Wednesday morning, Ginni Thomas—wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas—endorsed the rally in Washington demanding that Congress overturn the election. She then sent her “LOVE” to the demonstrators, who violently overtook the Capitol several hours later. Two days later, Thomas amended her post with the addendum: “[Note: written before violence in US Capitol].” By that point, five people involved in the insurrection, including a Capitol Police officer, had died.
Thomas, a conservative lobbyist and zealous supporter of Donald Trump, has fervently defended the president over the last four years. On her Facebook page, she frequently promotes baseless conspiracy theories about a “coup” against Trump led by Jewish philanthropist George Soros, a frequent target of anti-Semitic hate. Thomas draws many of these theories from fringe corners of the internet, including an anti-vax Facebook group that claimed Bill Gates would use the COVID vaccine to kill people. In recent months, she also amplified unsubstantiated corruption claims against Joe Biden while insisting, falsely, that the Obama administration illegally spied on Trump’s 2016 campaign, then tried to rig the election against him.
In turn, Trump has rewarded Thomas with an extraordinary amount of access to the Oval Office. Her advocacy group Groundswell got an audience with the president in early 2019. According to the New York Times, the meeting was arranged after Clarence and Ginni Thomas had dinner with the Trumps. (Clarence Thomas and Trump appear to be quite friendly: The justice took his clerks to meet with the president in the Oval Office at least once; Ginni attended as well.) At the White House, Groundswell’s members lobbied Trump against transgender service in the military, which he already prohibited in 2017. The ban took effect in 2019, around the time of Groundswell’s meeting, after the Supreme Court lifted lower court orders blocking it by a 5–4 vote. (Clarence Thomas did not recuse himself from the case; he has never recused from any case because of his wife’s lobbying activities.) The New York Times also reported that Ginni Thomas compiled lists of federal employees whom she deemed insufficiently loyal to the president. She sent her lists to Trump, urging him to fire the disloyal employees, though he seems to have largely ignored her. He has, however, stacked his administration with former Thomas clerks.
Throughout the 2020 campaign, Thomas remained active on Facebook, condemning Black Lives Matter, opposing COVID-19 shutdowns, and touting the “Walk Away” movement, which purports to spotlight Democrats who became Republicans under Trump. (At least two individuals featured in the “Walk Away” series, both Black, were actually models from royalty-free stock photos.) She also campaigned for Trump in person—and, according to the Intercept, spearheaded a dark-money operation to support the president. Cleta Mitchell, the Republican lawyer who participated in Trump’s shakedown of the Georgia secretary of state, led the project.
After Nov. 3, Thomas grew uncharacteristically quiet on Facebook; she did not share popular conspiracy theories about election fraud, perhaps because election challenges would inevitably come before her husband. She provided her clearest statement yet on Jan. 6, when she enthusiastically endorsed the D.C. rally designed to make Congress overturn the election result and give Trump a second term. There is no evidence that Thomas personally attended the rally, and her posts indicate that she watched the events on TV from another location.
Ginni Thomas’ activism on matters that come before her husband raises thorny ethical issues. Federal law requires justices to recuse themselves from any proceeding in which their “impartiality might reasonably be questioned.” It also compels justices to recuse if their spouse has “an interest that could be substantially affected by the outcome” of the case. In the coming months and years, Democrats will likely pressure Clarence Thomas to recuse himself from high-profile cases or to resign altogether. If Thomas steps down under Biden, progressives can restore a 5–4 divide on the Supreme Court, giving Chief Justice John Roberts control once again. Given Thomas’ staunch refusal to recuse thus far, though, there is little chance that he will take any steps to remediate his conflicts of interest, let alone retire during the presidency of a man he openly despises.
In all likelihood, Ginni Thomas will face no consequences for cheerleading a rally that sought to overturn an election, then laid siege to the Capitol in a failed insurrection. Her husband will ignore the controversy and continue to rule on cases that involve his wife’s lobbying efforts. We may never know how much influence a conspiracy theorist has on the highest court’s most conservative justice.
LuckyNumber7
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I really hate the way this is portrayed.
Men lost jobs too, they just gained more than they lost. Don’t stratify nets.
MrsSpringsteen
Blue Crack Addict
Another loss of life?
Fox5 DC
WASHINGTON - A 15-year veteran of the U.S. Capitol Police has taken his life after responding to Wednesday's deadly riot in the halls of Congress.
Howard Liebengood was 51 years old.
It's the second life lost in four days for Capitol Police following the death of Officer Brian Sicknick, who suffered injuries during the Capitol riot.
Four other people, including an unarmed Trump supporter, died after Wednesday's storming of the Capitol during a congressional hearing certifying Joe Biden's election victory.
Sources say Liebengood was off-duty when he died Saturday.
"Every Capitol Police Officer puts the security of others before their own safety and Officer Liebengood was an example of the selfless service that is the hallmark of USCP," Capitol Police Union Chairman Gus Papathanasiou said in a statement. "This is a tragic day."
Liebengood joined the force in 2005 and was assigned to the Senate division.
He is the son of former Senate Sergeant-At-Arms Howard S. Liebengood.
Fox5 DC
WASHINGTON - A 15-year veteran of the U.S. Capitol Police has taken his life after responding to Wednesday's deadly riot in the halls of Congress.
Howard Liebengood was 51 years old.
It's the second life lost in four days for Capitol Police following the death of Officer Brian Sicknick, who suffered injuries during the Capitol riot.
Four other people, including an unarmed Trump supporter, died after Wednesday's storming of the Capitol during a congressional hearing certifying Joe Biden's election victory.
Sources say Liebengood was off-duty when he died Saturday.
"Every Capitol Police Officer puts the security of others before their own safety and Officer Liebengood was an example of the selfless service that is the hallmark of USCP," Capitol Police Union Chairman Gus Papathanasiou said in a statement. "This is a tragic day."
Liebengood joined the force in 2005 and was assigned to the Senate division.
He is the son of former Senate Sergeant-At-Arms Howard S. Liebengood.
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