Author: Chris

Trump is going to go down as the first president in history to be impeached twice.  And he managed to do it within just one term.  And to think that he has done much more impeachable acts that Congress just didn’t bother to follow up on:

House Democrats introduce article of impeachment, charging Trump with ‘incitement of an insurrection’ https://t.co/0vkuQoHBO3

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 11, 2021

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A message from Arnold:

My message to my fellow Americans and friends around the world following this week’s attack on the Capitol. pic.twitter.com/blOy35LWJ5

— Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) January 10, 2021

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I feel like Trump will be more pissed about this than being impeached twice:

KAPALUA, Hawaii (AP) — PGA of America votes to move 2022 PGA Championship event away from Trump National Golf Club after Capitol insurrection.

— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) January 11, 2021

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So it turns out that the people who stormed the Capitol were overwhelmingly Trump supporters. Who would have guessed that?

An AP review of posts and records of more than 120 people charged or otherwise connected to the Capitol riot shows that the mob was overwhelmingly made up of longtime Trump supporters, including GOP officials and donors and far-right militants. https://t.co/3c3uk7EfJ8

— The Associated Press (@AP) January 11, 2021

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Melania has put out a statement about the coup and after giving condolences to the insurrectionists, then also gives her condolence for the Capitiol officer who was killed and then immediately casts herself as the victim:

there’s so much fetid and awful in this statement from the First Lady https://t.co/kFkQhmDLz8 pic.twitter.com/ZtdruKva4O

— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 11, 2021

During the riot, Melania was busy doing a photoshoot with rugs and declined to put out a statement about what was happening. Getting the lighting right on the rugs was the priority.

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Parler (I downloaded it the other night in case Trump popped up on there and it is a terrible platform.  It is clunky, not very intuitive, and I’m not going to even discuss the content) has lost their hosting and is currently offline:

#UPDATE The conservative social network Parler has been forced offline, tracking websites show, after Amazon warned the company would lose access to its servers for its failure to properly police violent contenthttps://t.co/zVBwaOTAzA pic.twitter.com/6AVA5HPNrw

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) January 11, 2021

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I didn’t realize that Ash Gilbertson, who is the one of the greatest war photographers, was in DC on assignment during the insurrection at the Capitol

Some of his incredible work here

BTW, Ash took some of the most haunting and harrowing photos of the wars in Iraq & Afghanistan pic.twitter.com/uDmOx8caIl

— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) January 11, 2021

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Still super busy and this week really doesn’t want to end. Just a few things that have happened over the last few hours:

Good!

Voting machine firm Dominion sues pro-Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, seeking more than $1.3 billion in defamation claim https://t.co/WdSmIxMW3L

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 8, 2021

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Good!

At least the book would have had a spine https://t.co/WtlmLzr2Bb

— Josh Mankiewicz (@JoshMankiewicz) January 8, 2021

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GOOOD!!!!!!

Things moving quickly in House on impeachment. Dems eyeing an impeachment vote as soon as mid-week next week. Pelosi and leadership team discussed last night, full caucus today. Senate can run out clock even though McConnell-Trump haven’t spoken in weeks https://t.co/7fAnHFkuJW

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) January 8, 2021

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Good, we didn’t want you there anyway:

To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 8, 2021

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Not good!  Death rate passed 4,000 for the first time:

Our daily update is published. States reported 1.9M tests, 266k cases, 132,370 COVID-19 hospitalizations, and a record 4,033 deaths. The 7-day average for deaths is now over 2,750, also a record. pic.twitter.com/8wKB2d71hu

— The COVID Tracking Project (@COVID19Tracking) January 8, 2021

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Trump’s admin is certainly ending with the country in tatters.  Maybe it wasn’t a good idea to elect a game show host as president.

BREAKING: US economy lost 140,000 jobs in the final monthly report of Trump’s presidency, a clear indication that economic activity weakened due to the Covid-19 pandemic in the final weeks of 2020. https://t.co/SMGknchI7l

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 8, 2021

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Let’s end the week on a good busking performance:

I’m a bit busy today since I wasn’t very productive yesterday.  I’m going to assume that I wasn’t the only one. I’ll try to update this post as I can today.

Biden’s Presidency has now been confirmed by Congress.

Breaking News: Congress confirmed Joe Biden’s presidential victory, defying a mob that stormed the Capitol in a display of violence egged on by President Trump. https://t.co/Cu4uDmr2ZA

— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 7, 2021

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Facebook has suspended Trump’s account indefinitely:

BREAKING: Facebook suspends Trump INDEFINITELY https://t.co/Ogp5ZiFrgD

— Dr. Lizza “kiddo” Dwoskin (@lizzadwoskin) January 7, 2021

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Rudy tried getting Trumpian Tuberville to slow down yesterday’s electoral vote counting but got the number wrong and left the message on a different Senator’s voicemail who promptly made it public:

More breaking news from inside Senate:

Rudy Giuliani calls & asks Sen. Tommy Tuberville to object to 10 states – AFTER the violence at U.S. Capitol – to slow it down.

So incompetent, left the voicemail on another Senator’s phone, who promptly made it public.#SeditionSenators pic.twitter.com/Vn1p8R3gxA

— LongTime?FirstTime??? (@LongTimeAmy) January 7, 2021

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Rats, ships, you get the idea:

“Those who choose to stay, and I have talked with some of them, are choosing to stay because they’re worried the president might put someone worse in,” Mulvaney told CNBC, explaining his resignation from his diplomatic post https://t.co/SfnJDvxEwd

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 7, 2021

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We are just about at 4,000 daily deaths due to Covid in the US now:

While Americans watched as pro-Trump extremists stormed the Capitol on Wednesday, the coronavirus continued to sweep across the country. Officials reported at least 3,963 new Covid-19 deaths, a new single-day record. https://t.co/HMfDwcTl13

— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 7, 2021

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For anybody who is hoping that Congress will do something to stop Trump’s insurrections:

The House isn’t coming back into session until after the inauguration.

The Senate has adjourned until Jan. 19.

Surreal cap to yesterday.

— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) January 7, 2021

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Lindsey’s moment of clarity he had back in 2016 before he decided (or was blackmailed) to be Trump’s full body masseuse has turned out to be quite prophetic.  Trump went into office with the GOP controlling the House and Senate and now they have lost the Presidency, House, and Senate (Senate is a bit more complex because it will be a 50/50 tie, but with a Democratic VP, Mitch McConnell finds himself as Minority Leader, which sounds so good I need to repeat it.  Minority Leader Mitch McConnell).  Ossoff has not officially won yet but it’s looking really good right now. This is a pretty big blow for the GOP who thought the path to victory was lining up behind an absolute lunatic.

And it may have been enough, except Stacey Abrams did such an amazing job at raising enthusiasm and voter turnout that enough can’t be said about how she has carried that state for the Dems since her loss to Kemp in the Governor’s race in 2018.

 

There’s a lot of praise going to Stacey Abrams right now (as it should), but let’s not forget @MsLaToshaBrown of @BlackVotersMtr and all the other black and brown women organizers who have been at this for years. This is their victory! #GASen #GeorgiaIsBlue pic.twitter.com/fa4ZlRIavV

— Zara Ahmed, DrPH? (@ZarainDC) January 6, 2021

 

 

and now Kelly Loeffler has a decision every GOP candidate must face, either concede or next week get Covid from breathing in one of Rudy Giuliani’s farts

— Matt Oswalt (@MattOswaltVA) January 6, 2021

 

Democrats once again pulling their old trick of demanding all the votes be counted.

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) January 6, 2021

And let the blame game begin:

Republicans, who enabled President Trump with their silence and compliance, are privately furious with him for blowing their Senate majority. https://t.co/pQYEU4xYCe

— Axios (@axios) January 6, 2021

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Today is the day that Congress counts the votes and makes Biden’s win official. Of course, Trump thinks that Pence is going to just light a match and burn any votes that would give Biden the win:

If Vice President @Mike_Pence comes through for us, we will win the Presidency. Many States want to decertify the mistake they made in certifying incorrect & even fraudulent numbers in a process NOT approved by their State Legislatures (which it must be). Mike can send it back!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 6, 2021

To be clear, this is not a thing. Pence has no power to just toss votes. Pence is opening up envelopes and handing them to be counted to the bipartison counters.  It’s a no win situation for Pence because Trump and the MAGAts are going to turn on him in a big way.

If Mike Pence was smart (he’s not), he’d say he got COVID and let Wednesday be Chuck Grassley’s problem.

— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) January 5, 2021

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This cake looks amazing, and ridiculous to make. But still worth posting: