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January 6, 2021 Fallout

A woman got shot and killed smashing through a Capital window. Three other MAGAs who apparently suffered fatal heart attacks while trying to groan up the Capitol Steps.

All the Rightwing got from yesterday was a horrible optic of wacko cosplayers trashing the Capital Building. That is going to have a long-lasting impact in Middle America suburbia.

Y'know, this just may turn out to be the best-case scenario.

1. Trump is toast. Done. Finished. He stood there in front of that crowd and poured gasoline over his head, and Guiliani tossed on the cigarette. His plans for a shadow government? Gone. His hope of returning to power in 2024? Gone.

2. He took down his idiot spawn with him, too. Junior and Eric both spoke and egged on the mob. Eric I was never worried about. He's too brainless to get elected anywhere but Alabama. Junior I thought might worm his way into the Senate some day. Nope. Not now. Ivanka blew it, too. "Patriots." She won't live THAT down.

3. Sarah Palin was bleating on FoxNews yesterday about a new Patriot Party, just for wackadoodles. That would be MARVELOUS. Fox cut her off quickly. You could almost hear Lachlan's girly shrieks of alarm from the Fox exec suite. "CUT HER OOOOOOOOFFFF!"

4. There's going to be a pitched battle between the Lincoln Project mainstream GOPers and the nutjob Very Fine People and Qanon simpletons that greatly diminishes all of them. The nutjobs will turn on leadership for betraying Dear Leader. It's already happening. See Georgia for proof. A year ago would two Dems have won those seats? Nope. They would have lost by healthy margins.

5. Pence is totally toast. Four years of sucking Trump's dick down the drain! Hated by the Trumpers, a pariah toadie to everyone else. He couldn't win a school board primary now. It's the feelgood story of the day! See also Gym Jordan and Matt Gaetz. They'll hang on to their gerrymandered seats, but share an office with Louis Gohmert in the House sub-basement.

6. Now that Jack and Zuck have made the plunge and shut down Trump, they'll boot him completely soon. Once he loses that pulpit, Trump will shrink rapidly.

Big props for allowing Trump to conjure himself into existence, guys. History will be "kind" to you both.

The Very Fine People btw are already shrieking about Parler being an FBI honeypot, a ruse to database them all and then round them up! Haha.

7. The noxious Ted Cruz can also kiss his presidential aspirations buh-bye. That hurts because he wants it reeeeeeeeeeal bad.

The way Texas is changing demographically, I wouldn't count on him winning another Senate term either. He and that Hawley creep will be forever linked to this debacle. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

8. Four White House staffers immediately resigned yesterday. Rats swan-diving into the sewage-filled water. By the end of the week, it will be Trump alone in a shadow-filled White House. The only sign of life is the sound of a vacuum cleaner in the hallway. His puffy orange face is lit by the glow of his Android as he tries in vain to post to his deleted Twitter account.

The camera pans out as he hits "tweet" again and again and again.

A single tear rolls down his porcine cheek by

John Derf Backderf

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Anatomy of the Capitol Attack

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Disturbing Videos from the Capitol Domestic Terrorist Attack

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Updates on January 6th-Heather Cox Richardson

 

January 8, 2021 Heather Cox Richardson Jan 9 More information continues to emerge about the events of Wednesday. They point to a broader conspiracy than it first appeared. Calls for Trump’s removal from office are growing. The Republican Party is tearing apart. Power in the nation is shifting almost by the minute. [Please note that information from the January 6 riot is changing almost hourly, and it is virtually certain that something I have written will be incorrect. I have tried to stay exactly on what we know to be facts, but those could change.] More footage from inside the attack on the Capitol is coming out and it is horrific. Blood on statues and feces spread through the building are vile; mob attacks on police officers are bone-chilling. Reuters photographer Jim Bourg, who was inside the building, told reporters he overheard three rioters in “Make America Great Again” caps plotting to find Vice President Mike Pence and hang him as a “traitor”; other insurrectionists were shouting the same. Pictures have emerged of one of the rioters in military gear carrying flex cuffs—handcuffs made of zip ties—suggesting he was planning to take prisoners. Two lawmakers have suggested the rioters knew how to find obscure offices. New scrutiny of Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally before the attack shows Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, Representative Mo Brooks (R-AL), Don Jr., and Trump himself urging the crowd to go to the Capitol and fight. Trump warned that Pence was not doing what he needed to. Trump promised to lead them to the Capitol himself. There are also questions about law enforcement. While exactly what happened remains unclear, it has emerged that the Pentagon limited the Washington D.C. National Guard to managing traffic. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser requested support before Trump’s rally, but the Department of Defense said that the National Guard could not have ammunition or riot gear, interact with protesters except in self-defense, or otherwise function in a protective capacity without the explicit permission of acting Secretary Christopher Miller, whom Trump put into office shortly after the election after firing Defense Secretary Mark Esper. When Capitol Police requested aid early Wednesday afternoon, the request was denied. Defense officials held back the National Guard for about three hours before sending it to support the Capitol Police. Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, a Republican, tried repeatedly to send his state’s National Guard, but the Pentagon would not authorize it. Virginia’s National Guard was mobilized when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the governor, Ralph Northam, herself. Defense officials said they were sensitive to the criticism they received in June when federal troops cleared Lafayette Square of peaceful protesters so Trump could walk across it. But it sounds like there might be a personal angle: Bowser was harshly critical of Trump then, and it would be like him to take revenge on her by denying help when it was imperative. Refusing to stop the attack on the Capitol might have been more nefarious, though. A White House adviser told New York Magazine’s Washington correspondent Olivia Nuzzi that Trump was watching television coverage of the siege and was enthusiastic, although he didn’t like that the rioters looked “low class.” While the insurrectionists were in the Capitol, he tweeted: “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!” Even as lawmakers were under siege, both Trump and his lawyer Rudy Giuliani were making phone calls to brand-new Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) urging him to slow down the electoral count. After Trump on Wednesday night tweeted that there would be an “orderly” transition of power, on Thursday he began again to urge on his supporters. With the details and the potential depth of this event becoming clearer over the past two days—Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife, Virginia, tweeted her support, and state lawmakers as well as Republican attorneys general were actually involved—Americans are recoiling from how bad this attempted coup was… and how much worse it could have been. The crazed rioters were terrifyingly close to our elected representatives, all gathered together on that special day, and they were actively talking about harming the vice president. By Friday night, 57% of Americans told Reuters they wanted Trump removed from office immediately. Nearly 70% of Americans disapprove of Trump’s actions before the riot. Only 12% of Americans approved of the rioters; 79% of Americans described the rioters as “criminals” or “fools.” Five percent called them “patriots.” Pelosi tonight said that she hoped the president would resign, but if not, the House of Representatives will move forward with impeachment on Monday, as well as with legislation to enable Congress to remove Trump under the 25th Amendment. The most recent draft of the impeachment resolution has just one article: “incitement of insurrection.” As a privileged resolution, it can go directly to the House without committee approval. In the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has no interest in further splitting the Republicans over another impeachment, or forcing them onto the record as either for or against it. Timing is on his side: the Senate is not in session for substantive business until January 19, so cannot act on an impeachment resolution without the approval of all senators. It can take up the resolution then, but more likely it will wait until Biden is sworn in, at which point the measure would be managed not by McConnell, but by the new House majority leader, Chuck Schumer (D-NY). A trial can indeed take place after Trump is no longer president, enabling Congress to make sure he can never again hold office. Whether or not the Senate would convict is unclear, but it’s not impossible. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), for one, is so furious she is talking of switching parties. “I want him out,” she says. Still, Trump supporters are now insisting that it would “further divide the country” to try to remove Trump now, and that we need to unify. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), who led the Senate effort to challenge Biden’s election, today tweeted that Biden was not working hard enough to “bring us together or promote healing” and that “vicious partisan rhetoric only tears our country apart.” Trump, meanwhile, has continued to agitate his followers, and today began to call for more resistance, while users on Parler, the new right-wing social media hangout, are talking of another, bigger attack on Washington. Tonight, Twitter banned Trump, stating: “we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.” As evidence, it cited both his claim that his supporters would “have a GIANT VOICE long into the future,” and his tweet that he would not be going to Biden’s inauguration on January 20. Twitter says that Trump’s followers see these two new tweets as proof that the election was invalid and that the Inauguration is a good target, since he won’t be there. The Twitter moderators say that “plans for future armed protests have already begun proliferating on and off-Twitter, including a proposed secondary attack on the US Capitol and state capitol buildings on January 17, 2021.” Twitter also took down popular QAnon accounts, including those of Trump’s former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and his former lawyer Sidney Powell, who is having quite a bad day: the company that makes election machines, Dominion Voting Systems, announced it is suing her for defamation and asking $1.3 billion in damages. After taking down 7,000 QAnon accounts in July, Twitter continued by today taking down the account of the man who hosts the posts from “Q.” While Twitter officials might well be horrified by the insurrection, the ban is also a sign of a changing government. With the election of two Democratic senators from Georgia this week, the majority goes to the Democrats, and McConnell will no longer be Majority Leader, killing bills. Social media giants know regulation of some sort is around the corner, and they are trying to look compliant fast. When Twitter banned Trump, so did Reddit, and Facebook and Instagram already had. Google Play Store removed Parler, warning it to clean up its content moderation.   Trump evidently couldn’t stand the Twitter ban, and tried at least five different accounts to get back onto the platform. He and his supporters are howling that he is being silenced by big tech, but of course he has an entire press corps he could use whenever he wished. Losing his access to Twitter simply cuts off his ability to drum up both support and money by lying to his supporters. Another platform that has dumped Trump is one of those that handled his emails. The San Francisco correspondent of the Financial Times, Dave Lee, noted that for more than 48 hours there had been no Trump emails: in the previous six days the president sent out 33. This has been a horrific week. If it has a silver lining, it is that the lines are now clear between our democracy and its enemies. The election in Georgia, which swung the Senate away from the Republicans and opens up some avenues to slow down misinformation, is a momentous victory. —- Notes: Nuzzi: Olivia Nuzzi @Olivianuzzi Donald Trump was annoyed by the violent siege on the Capitol Wednesday — which left several dead — because it looked “low class,” according to his adviser. “He doesn’t like low class things.” January 8th 2021 4,245 Retweets17,465 Likes https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-raffensperger-call-transcript-georgia-vote/2021/01/03/2768e0cc-4ddd-11eb-83e3-322644d82356_story.html https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-extremists/u-s-capitol-siege-emboldens-motley-crew-of-extremists-idUSKBN29D2ZY https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/ny-trump-capitol-riot-poopers-20210108-prlsqytyabgdhnexushotl4nam-story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-protests-washington-guard-military/2021/01/07/c5299b56-510e-11eb-b2e8-3339e73d9da2_story.html https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-protesters-are-in-the-building-inside-the-capitol-stormed-by-a-pro-trump-mob-11609984654 https://news.trust.org/item/20210108210622-t35pv https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/08/politics/house-democrats-impeachment-plans/index.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-impeachment-trump-mcconnell/2021/01/08/5f650ad0-520d-11eb-b2e8-3339e73d9da2_story.html

Karma

 Pictured here is The late Kevin Greeson, 55, of Athens, Alabama, who is among the five who perished at the Capitol on January 6. The photo is taken from his Parler post captioned “I hope those motherfuckers come to my hood.” I am uncertain who the referenced motherfuckers are. Mr Greeson was listed as having died due to a “medical emergency.” For reasons which will become obvious, no reputable news source would likely confirm the details that have emerged about his cause of death regardless of their truth, but I suspect that you will accept them as true, as I have, because of the comfort that they bring you. 

Naturally, we do not rejoice in the suffering and death of a fellow human being because that would be heartless and cruel. I am not saying there is always an exception that proves the rule, but if there is, some might think this is it. 

Mr. Greeson was part of the mob that entered the Capitol building during the electoral college vote count on Wednesday, January 6. He did not bring any of the guns pictured here with him into the building but he was carrying his taser gun. Although according to his family he did not go to Washington to take part in any rioting but to be a witness to history, he apparently got caught up in the moment. Seeing a painting of longtime House Speaker Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill, Mr. Greeson sought to steal the painting in the midst of the chaos. Placing his taser between his thighs in order to reach with both arms to remove the painting from the wall, he tensed his leg muscles in a manner which caused the weapon, by this time quite unfortunately aimed at his nutsack, to accidentally discharge. The muscle contractions prompted by his tasing himself in the scrotum caused the weapon to remain between his legs and to repeatedly discharge at point blank range in the direction of his manpouch, ultimately causing him to go into cardiac arrest, fall limply to the marble floor of the hallowed halls of Congress, and ultimately to expire 

To summarize, or dare I say “in a nutshell,” Mr Greeson died as a result of a heart attack caused by his tasing himself repeatedly in the balls while attempting to steal a painting of Tip O’Neill during his participation in a riotous insurrection designed to disrupt the counting of electoral college votes in the presidential election. 

Kids, Grandpa will not be coming home today. He went to our nation’s capital, and I know you’re disappointed he didn’t bring you back that souvenir painting of Tip O’Neill that he’d always promised you, but he’s part of history now, god bless him. 

It’s always a comfort to know that someone died for his beliefs. Kevin believed the election was tainted. He believed that therefore he should get a free painting of the late house speaker Tip O’Neill for his living room. He believed that it was a good idea to hold his loaded taser between his legs. 

It is not easy to identify a silver lining to the tragic images we can not avoid conjuring in our heads, of Kevin’s privileged middle-aged balls under continuous assault by self-inflicted high-voltage electrical charges while his convulsing body refuses to release its patriotic death grip on the portrait of the Honorable Democratic gentleman from the great state of Massachusetts.  Who among us, regardless of party or political ideology, gender identity or ethnic origin, can hold that image in our minds without tearing up just a little? But perhaps we can find solace in the fact that Kevin’s tragic passing has brought us together in shared sadness. And perhaps we can immortalize him by naming the entire insurrection in his honor, The Taser Putz Tip O’Neill Coronary Rebellion. 

Rest In Peace.

#tiponeillpainting #tiponeill #capitolriot #insurrection2021 #insurrection #taser #Taserballs  From rob hill on facebook

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The Time of Change

The die is cast for the Republican Party. It will be destroyed on January 6th in much the same way the Whig party was destroyed by the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854. The act unraveled the Missouri compromise and allowed for the westward expansion of slavery.

The party could not survive its factionalism. There could be no more accommodation, compromise and partnership between pro-slavery and anti-slavery Whigs. A new political party was born, the Republican Party. That party will divide into irreconcilable factions on January 6th.

The 6th will commence a political civil war inside the GOP. The autocratic side will roll over the pro-democracy remnant of the GOP like the Wehrmacht did the Belgian Army in 1940. The ‘22 GOP primary season will be a blood letting. The 6th will be a loyalty test. The purge

will follow. Does anybody doubt the outcome of the

@IvankaTrump

vs.

@marcorubio

primary in Florida? Anyone willing to make a bet on

@robportman

? It turns out JFK was right. The problem of trying to ride the tiger is the likelihood of winding up inside the tiger. The poisonous

·

Fruit from four years of collaboration and complicity with Trumps insanity, illiberalism and incompetence are ready for harvest. It will kill the GOP because it’s Pro Democracy faction and Autocratic factions can no more exist together then could the Whig Party hold together

The abolitionist with the Slave master. It won’t happen over night but the destination is clear. The Conservative party in America is dead. It may continue to bear the name “Republican” but it will be no such thing. Fascism has indeed come to America and as was once predicted

It is wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross. This movement must be defeated. It cannot be appeased, accommodated or negotiated with. It must be recognized for what it is and we must all recognize the new age of American politics it has wrought. It has reset the debate

Entirely. There are only two sides in American politics now. There is the American side and the Autocratic side. May God help us all if we falter, flag or fail in defense of American democracy.