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Why should they feel any different than the rest of Americans?
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Because Twitter places eyeballs ahead of concern.
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Trump Reportedly Wailed at Pence: ‘I Don’t Want to Be Your Friend’ Anymore Reuters/Carlos Barria Remember the part in Toy Story 2 when Woody has a nightmare about Andy telling him he doesn’t want to play with him anymore? Well, that exact fate has reportedly befallen Vice President Mike Pence. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Pence and President Trump met on Wednesday morning, before Trump left to whip up his supporters into a violent rage that ended in them storming the Capitol building. The report states that Pence informed Trump once again that he did not have the power to toss aside Electoral College votes and—even if he did have that power—he wouldn’t even use it as it would set a terrible precedent. That frankness is said to have infuriated Trump, who reportedly told Pence, one of his most obedient enablers over the past four years: “I don’t want to be your friend... I want you to be the vice president.” That had to hurt.
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Brazilian scientists announced today that they have also produced a COVID vaccine. The more the merrier.
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Listen: Rudy Giuliani urges the wrong senator to 'slow it down' so Trump has more time to overturn the election Rudy Giuliani called a Republican senator on Wednesday during the chaos of the storming of the U.S. Capitol, hoping to slow down the final step in the affirmation of Joe Biden's Electoral College win, according to a new report in The Dispatch. But Giuliani made a mistake. He was trying to call newly elected Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, but instead, he left a message for another Republican senator — who promptly gave the recording to The Dispatch. The recording shows that the president's ally was trying to exploit the delay in the vote-counting caused by supporters of President Donald Trump mobbing the federal building, forcing Congress to halt its proceedings and go into lockdown. In the chaos, glass was shattered, the building was vandalized, police and the insurrectionists fought, barricades were broken, and by the end of the day, four people were dead, according to officials. For Trump and Giuliani, though, this presented an opportunity. "Senator Tuberville? Or I should say Coach Tuberville," Giuliani said. "This is Rudy Giuliani, the president's lawyer. I'm calling you because I want to discuss with you how they're trying to rush this hearing and how we need you, our Republican friends, to try to just slow it down so we can get these legislatures to get more information to you. And I know they're reconvening at 8 tonight, but it … the only strategy we can follow is to object to numerous states and raise issues so that we get ourselves into tomorrow—ideally until the end of tomorrow." He continued: "I know McConnell is doing everything he can to rush it, which is kind of a kick in the head because it's one thing to oppose us, it's another thing not to give us a fair opportunity to contest it. And he wants to try to get it down to only three states that we contest. But there are 10 states that we contest, not three. So if you could object to every state and, along with a congressman, get a hearing for every state, I know we would delay you a lot, but it would give us the opportunity to get the legislators who are very, very close to pulling their vote, particularly after what McConnell did today. It angered them, because they have written letters asking that you guys adjourn and send them back the questionable ones and they'll fix them up." Listen: Rudy Giuliani urges the wrong senator to 'slow it down' so Trump has more time to overturn the election - Alternet.org
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No doubt that she is acting purely in self-interest. Hope her incompetent husband is next.
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Now you know why the rioters were treated so gently. Cops generally tend to be small-c conservative anyways and much more so in the US where usually half of police forces are ex-military, some with significant war trauma.
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U.S. Capitol Police Officer Reportedly Dead After Riot. The insurrection, encouraged by Trump, left at least five people dead, including the officer. A U.S. Capitol Police officer has died following the violence in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, CNN reported, citing multiple sources. Los Angeles Times reporter Richard Winton confirmed the news. Winton said the officer was a 43-year-old from Virginia. The circumstances of the officer’s death are not yet publicly known. U.S. Capitol Police Officer Reportedly Dead After Riot | HuffPost Canada (huffingtonpost.ca)
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She recited the Trumpian gospel, took no questions and sprinted off stage as soon as she was done.
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Trump lawyer suddenly repudiates the president — says he was used to 'perpetrate a crime' In Philadelphia, one of the cities where President Donald Trump's legal team has been making baseless and debunked claims of widespread voter fraud, Trump campaign attorney Jerome Marcus has asked to withdraw from one of the campaign's Pennsylvania-related election lawsuits. Marcus made that request following the violence that occurred on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., where a violent mob of far-right Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol Building hoping to prevent the counting of President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College win. Although a joint session of Congress was delayed and members of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives feared for their safety, it resumed on Wednesday evening — and the Electoral College results were affirmed by Congress. Biden's inauguration is set for January 20. On Thursday in Philadelphia, Marcus told U.S. District Judge Paul Diamond his client "used the lawyer's services to perpetrate a crime and the client insists on taking action that the lawyer considers repugnant and with which the lawyer has a fundamental disagreement." Larson quotes Marcus as saying, "I believe that the filing of that and other cases was used by President Trump yesterday to incite people to violence. I refer specifically to his urging people to come to Washington for a 'wild' protest." Trump lawyer suddenly repudiates the president — says he was used to 'perpetrate a crime' - Alternet.org
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Pence has presidential delusions and besides that, he appears to be almost totally spineless. Trump really savaged him and Pence was finally driven to anger when Trump pretty much ordered him to commit an illegal act by not announcing Biden's election. Pence will either waffle endlessly or slow-walk the Amendment 25 process so that the time will run out, so as to not alienate the Trump voter base.
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They will have a lot of company.
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Trump to Flee D.C. After Inciting Riot on U.S. Capitol REUTERS Less than 48 hours after he incited a riot on the U.S. Capitol, President Donald Trump plans to flee Washington, D.C. for the weekend, Business Insider first reported on Thursday. A White House official confirmed that the president would travel to the Camp David retreat in Maryland, not his preferred Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, on Friday. The decision to leave the White House comes after a growing exodus of top staff from the administration and calls for impeachment and invoking of the 25th Amendment from both Democrats and some Republicans in Congress.
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Pence is as big a coward as Trump, but has a better developed sense of self-preservation.
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'It's time to get violent': Far-right extremists are promising more violence after the U.S. Capitol invasion When both branches of Congress met during a joint session on Wednesday to certify President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory, many journalists, law enforcement officials and national security experts feared that violence would occur in the streets of Washington, D.C. But it came as a major shock when a violent mob of pro-Trump extremists stormed the U.S. Capitol, a disturbing series of events recounted by reporters Andrew Egger and Audrey Fahlberg in an article published by The Dispatch the following day. "The people most determined to start a riot at the Capitol were the ones who were there first," Egger and Fahlberg explain. "As Trump's speech dragged on, first a trickle, then a stream of rally-goers peeled off and started to march down the Mall. But by the time the first of them arrived, the mayhem was already underway. Protesters who had forgone the speech had pushed through a series of police barriers onto the lawn and had even scaled a tall scaffold near the steps of the Capitol itself." The journalists go on to note that the "tension" in Washington, D.C. on January 6 "ratcheted higher still once news trickled out that Vice President Mike Pence, in defiance of Trump's repeated requests and threats, had announced he did not have the power to unilaterally throw out electoral votes." One angry Trump supporter, in response said, "Pence sold us out" — and two young women began chanting, "Hang Mike Pence! Hang Mike Pence!" Egger and Fahlberg note some of the things that extremists had to say about the storming of the Capitol Building. Ron Russell, a Trump supporter from Ohio, told The Dispatch, "I see justice being done. This is our house, our house. We're taking it back. May not be today, but we will take this house back, guaranteed." Robert Unterzuber, a friend of Russell, predicted that future attacks on the Capitol Building will be even more violent — telling The Dispatch, "We're coming to the Capitol, and we're going to tear her down if necessary and drag them people out of there." 'It's time to get violent': Far-right extremists are promising more violence after the U.S. Capitol invasion - Alternet.org
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Many of the Secret Service overtly support Trump despite their conditions of employment demand that they be apolitical. Bill Barr, the disgrace of an Attorney General, has now turned on Trump.
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Not sure how many caught this, but December 10th in an Edmonton Mall parking lot, a 41 year old nutjob attacked two Muslim women sitting in their car, severely beating them. We have at least our share of racists and fascists.
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No question that the police did not handle this well at all, to the point of fraternizing with the rioters (terrorists, really), and heads ought to roll because of it. None of this exonerates or mollifies Trump's role. He began to create this years ago, inflamed it over the past weeks and it all came to a head with his and Giuliani's speeches yesterday. In any other democracy, this sham would have ended long ago and the leader who dared to do this would have been unceremoniously removed.
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As the evidence of Trump's incompetence, indifference and complicity rises, it will be harder and harder for the GOP and Democrats to resist removing him from office and prosecute him. I do not think they have the cojones to do it.
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I believe it was. She had been deliberately deluded by those who used her to provide for their own power and profit. She was an expendable pawn to them- nothing more. She died for an illusion.
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Former FBI assistant director fears the US is entering a period of 'permanent insurrection' Some of the most sobering commentary on the January 6 invasion of the Capitol Building has come from former FBI Assistant Director Frank Figliuzzi, now a national security analyst for MSNBC. During an MSNBC appearance following the attack, Figliuzzi expressed fears that the violence that rocked Washington, D.C. on January 6 is a preview of things to come. Figliuzzi warned that "extremists" in the U.S. have been "radicalized" and that the storming of the Capitol Building was a result of that radicalization. The former FBI assistant director told MSNBC's Brian Williams, "Look, this wasn't a surprise for anyone. If you were monitoring social media traffic of known extremist groups, violent groups and individuals, you knew this was coming. So, this was not so much an intelligence failure as a security failure. I don't know any professional member of law enforcement who would consider today successful…. This was a failure of police work today." Former FBI assistant director fears the US is entering a period of 'permanent insurrection' - Alternet.org
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The news came from CNN, and it was apparently wrong. Nevertheless, it was a stupid, needless death.
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There will be a few show trials of the pawns and a lot of pontificating and hand-wringing but nothing will change. The Sandy Hook massacre has shown us that. The vermin will retreat underground, their sympathetic politicians will repeat coded messages of support and the business of politics will return to what was before.
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A Greek philosopher said " A nation destroyed from without can rise again. A nation destroyed from within can not."