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Donald Trump is responsible for today’s right-wing insurrection — and he needs to go away NOW!
Thousands of unmasked protesters have surrounded the Capitol Building in Washington D.C., overwhelming Capitol Police. At least hundreds have entered the building itself. Members of Congress have been issued gas masks and at least have been moved to secure locations.
This is not fiction — and this is not a drill. This is an insurrection aiming at toppling our government. “Wait until January 6,” President Trump has been saying. Well, his violent supporters did so, and here they are.
President Trump, now tweeting at people to obey the police, is not only responsible for this, but he is completely ill-equipped to handle. The President must invoke the Insurrection Act to bring in federal troops to contain and control violent demonstrators. THIS, as opposed to any other civil unrest that has happened this year, is exactly what that act is for.
Trump doesn’t have the gumption, and maybe not the will, so he must resign the presidency immediately and let Pence — who was inside the building and presumably not delusional, do it. If Pence needs to invoke the 25th amendment, do it.
We need to watch what’s happening in our cities as well today and have police and sheriffs quash any right-wing violence in support of a coup. Everyone else, including lefties who have fantasized about an insurrection, stay home, stay informed, and stay away from trouble.
UPDATE: How did the mob get into the building? Shaun King has the video showing that one solitary cop with a stick was stationed at the door to fend off a mob of hundreds, with thousands more behind them. Someone making these insane staffing decisions is complicit.
On a brighter note, this also happened today:
Yeah — unless they replace him with someone more rabid (but less competent).
Anyway, he’s still Majority Leader for now; the Election is not yet certified. The litigation hasn’t even started!
Who would be able to replace Mitch as Senate leader? Wouldn’t that be a vote of the Senate? And I suppose if it was Mitch vs Josh Hawley, Dems would vote for 2 more weeks of Mitch.
I believe that it’s just a vote of the Republican Caucus. Could be wrong.
I think Mitch would win even that. They’re all on TV right now. They look like someone’s shriveled dick coming out of the ocean.
“WE’RE GONNA DO IT TONIGHT,” Mitch just insisted.
How did they get in to the Capitol Building?
Shaun King has video of the securing on the spot: one black cop with a stick at the front door facing a teeming mob forcing him back.
I hope that this embeds. We can safely presume that whoever left this cop alone at the front door is complicit.
Here’s how Facebook responded to my publishing this story on my feed, on three groups, and in two comments on the insurrection:
Rabid right-wingers drive Congress out of the Capitol so they can’t count the electoral vote … and Facebook decides to protect the world from someone telling the story. Sounds legit.
Wow… some dick is complaining about you. Good thing I posted your piece in a dozen places including Twitter which I’m starting to learn. Oh yeah lemme go do Instagram…
Greenhut told me to play nice with one of these swine the other day. There is no longer a come together opportunity – if there ever was.
I have to say the cops sure showed restraint. That loudmouth in front needed an attitude adjustment in the form of physical rebuke. I can’t understand why the DC police weren’t there to begin with to help handle the mob.
Greenhut may not be the field marshal for this particular moment, bless his heart.
Woman shot at Capitol has died. If this
protestorinsurgent is telling the truth, she was anotherprotestorinsurgent who wouldn’t back off, and got shot in the neck by Capitol police. Another casualty of Trump.Update – the shooting
Just wait for the blanket pardon of everyone involved in the “protest”/breach — any time now, if Pence doesn’t get him out of there.
Isn’t it appropriate, though, that the Trump Presidency winds down with a *literal* breach?
Sure, he’ll do a ‘blanket pardon.’ But he won’t know all the names of the protesters for weeks. So…maybe someone can suggest a few names of folks who really ought to be out of jail…
What, don’t think the chief of staff will listen to us? Maybe so. But if the Russians could hack half the government…
Time to elevate DC to statehood.
When rioters attacked the capitals of Oregon and Michigan, the governor could call in the National Guard and put down the insurrection, or deploy police or other units. DC needs the same sort of freedom to defend itself.
As for the 25th or resignation…well, what is a ‘majority’ of the cabinet? Does that include “acting” personnel, like SecDef, AG, Sec Homeland Security?
But perhaps there’s time for another impeachment. The Senate will exonerate again, but Trump can have the ignominy of being the only president to get impeached twice.
Yes on the impeachment but it doesn’t have to be right now. It comes with the next Senate, and it’s not to remove Trump from office, but to make sure he can never run for office again.
AND to punish him, AND to humiliate him, AND to make him the first President ever to be impeached twice.
And to educate the public about what happened even during January alone, now that enough Republicans may be ready to admit to it.
Maybe it’s time to back off a little bit. At least all this social media BS.
Complicity is EVERYWHERE.
Um…. no.
And no.
*Yeah, we guess everyone with a Trumpy Bear and Blanket can all go to their room now.
“By the Time we got to Woodstock we were half a million strong…….” Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young said that! Of course those folks didn’t carry pipe bombs, tear gas and smoke grenades and other 4th of July fireworks that you normally take to Trumpster Rallys like the one at the Capitol yesterday! They also didn’t arrest over 200 people either like they did and will from yesterday’s festivities. “OK Marge….load up the buses….do we get donuts too?”
*This is new:
Trumpists intended to take members of Congress hostage, hold show trials, conduct executions….
Just more FAKE news……and it wasn’t even on FOX NEWS!
The Capitol Police Chief of course is on Tenderhooks however…….did you see the damage to the various Congressional Offices? How many injured or demised Congress folks did they think was basically “Collateral Damage”?