The US Capitol has been Breached [Action and Developing stories]

[wildcat09 29559]

So I guess TTom is a cop killer. Can’t say I’m surprised. He’ll do well in prison, I’m sure.

[Neonmoon 38130]

 

[TexasEd 8248]

30 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:

I was wondering the same thing.  What constitutes a quorum for 25th amendment purposes?

Vice President and majority of the cabinet.

 

[conVINCEd 21477]

Just now, TexasEd said:

Vice President and majority of the cabinet.

 

So what happens if there is no cabinet?

[TexasEd 8248]

Just now, conVINCEd said:

So what happens if there is no cabinet?

Pence, Pompeo and Meadows will not go for it.

[Surly Bevo 25658]

So what happens if there is no cabinet?

I mean yea if they all leave how is that White House Coronavirus Task Force going to keep doing the bang up job we’ve all come to expect from them?

[Grandioso 2592]

 

[thepop 4418]

 

[Michael Knight 13187]

7 hours ago, DDD Dad said:

Sometimes you just have to keep 'em separated.

I'm not gonna put words in his mouth, but at some point I figure he's just throwing up his hands trying to keep it all together here (i.e., in letting the cheeseweasels and chickensandwiches have their own snowglobe).

Except he agrees with them but pretends to be "above" politics

[Michael Knight 13187]

Yes it was a coup attempt but like every Trump venture it failed because morons were in charge

[atomheartbevo 90550]

1 hour ago, Grade of D as in David said:

It means where we go one we go all, it's a q thing

WHICH IS ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT !!!!!!!!!!!!!

That was our motto for South Austin’s mom, and those Qanon dipshits stole it from us.  

[Gatorubet 30636]

self-inflicted death by tazer to the junk is a patriotic way to go.

“Lived like a Patriot, Died like The Gimp!”

[NotActuallyALonghorn 4998]

I'm not really sure the morons should be plural. I mean, it definitely was, but I don't think that was a requirement in said failure.

[NotActuallyALonghorn 4998]

1 minute ago, atomheartbevo said:

WHICH IS ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT !!!!!!!!!!!!!

That was our motto for South Austin’s mom, and those Qanon dipshits stole it from us.  

Maybe we are q and just don't know it yet?

[atomheartbevo 90550]

2 minutes ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said:

Maybe we are q and just don't know it yet?

Well we always formed a queue when we visited South Austin’s mom......

[Grandioso 2592]

Rolling Stone has a pretty amazing photo gallery up. 

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-pictures/trump-supporters-capitol-dc-attack-1111216/010621_stop-the-steal-credit-nate-gowdy-1/

[elfenix 34658]

8 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

WHICH IS ABSOLUTE BULLSHIT !!!!!!!!!!!!!

That was our motto for South Austin’s mom, and those Qanon dipshits stole it from us.  

i thought that motto was "where we cum one we cum all"

[atomheartbevo 90550]

2 hours ago, Celery Man said:

wait holy shit

right so this is fine and great and everything - Kevin Sorbo is a maga idiot because of course and here comes Xena warrior princess all

 

cool cool. What I did NOT realize is that this is her in Parks and Rec

Let us not forget her turn in Battlestar Galactica 

 

or Rome

Edited January 8, 2021 by atomheartbevo

[fakebusiness 129]

50 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Unsourced article from Business Insider has quotes from anonymous European security officials saying that circumstantial evidence points toward a coup. (Yes, I understand how flimsy that sentence reads, but I'm putting it here since we're already speculating.)

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-attempted-coup-federal-law-enforcement-capitol-police-2021-1

 

 

Unsourced. Anonymous. Business Insider. Clickbait.

There is so much going on right now with actual sources and evidence why even post this?

[APMP 688]

Let us not forget her turn in Battlestar Galactica 

 
or Rome

That last one is her in Spartacus on Starz.

[aggie08 21734]

2 hours ago, Celery Man said:

wait holy shit

right so this is fine and great and everything - Kevin Sorbo is a maga idiot because of course and here comes Xena warrior princess all

cool cool. What I did NOT realize is that this is her in Parks and Rec

Soooo, that's a maybe on a USA Network crossover reunion?

[Grandioso 2592]

So tired of winning.

[Grandioso 2592]

My ruling is official: Lucy Lawless does indeed...still got it. 

[Bama Chick 28596]

Of course, this was when it was Black people. Let’s see if they still have the same opinion now.

And the follow up tweet -

[vtaenz 603]

6 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

Of course, this was when it was Black people. Let’s see if they still have the same opinion now.
 

 

And the follow up tweet -

 

Edited January 8, 2021 by vtaenz

[Bama Chick 28596]

Losing your book deal and having the Lincoln Project take aim at you in the same evening.

Bad day for Fancy Ted Cruz.

[Pato del Muerto 53335]

35 minutes ago, Michael Knight said:

Yes it was a coup attempt but like every Trump venture it failed because morons were in charge

Yeah but the bigger issue is if that’s the only reason it failed. 

[Pato del Muerto 53335]

1 hour ago, Neonmoon said:

 

Rs were and still are livid that the potus and sos didn’t send help when they pleaded for it. 
Rs are silent when congress calls for help and potus ignores them from across the street. 

[TexasEd 8248]

3 minutes ago, Bama Chick said:

Losing your book deal and having the Lincoln Project take aim at you in the same evening.

Bad day for Fancy Ted Cruz.
 

I can't wait for the Cruz video

[DDD Dad 14572]

So tired of winning.

Pretty sure that’s more people than we’re at Trump’s inauguration.

[fakebusiness 129]

7 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

Do you know the difference between a police precinct and the US Capitol? 

I know both are government buildings and unarmed people shouldn't be shot at them regardless if you agree with their politics or not.

[pyrohornIII 4844]

More Ken Paxton.  He must know they have him dead to rights on the charges to be hustling this hard for a pardon.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/01/07/texas-ken-paxton-trump-supporters/

 

Ken Paxton told Trump supporters to "keep fighting." When they breached the Capitol, he falsely claimed it wasn't them.

At a low point in his rollercoaster political career, Paxton is betting on the Trump base to bring him back up the hill, lending the legitimacy of office to debunked claims that have motivated violence.

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On Wednesday morning, Ken Paxton stood in front of a roaring crowd, reminding a sea of President Donald Trump’s supporters that the president “is a fighter” and his backers must be, too.

“We’re here. We will not quit fighting,” he said, slamming Republican officials in Georgia who have stood by President-elect Joe Biden’s victory there. “We are Texans, we are Americans, and we’re not quitting.”

But by the evening — after members of the crowd he had invited to Washington, D.C., stirred up with false claims about election fraud, resorted to violence, smashing windows and scaling walls to breach the nation’s Capitol in a mob that forced members of Congress to flee and left at least one woman dead — he had claimed they were not his ilk at all.

 

“These are not Trump supporters,” he falsely claimed on Twitter and Facebook, citing incorrect reports that the pro-Trump mob that invaded the Capitol had been infiltrated by liberal antifa activists, members of a loose anti-facist movement that opposes actions seen as “authoritarian, homophobic, racist or xenophobic.”

The untenable pivot provides an insight into a remarkable day in American history: Paxton, like other Republicans in Texas and across the nation, whipped up thousands of Trump supporters into a deluded frenzy, claiming falsely that the election had been stolen from them. When that frenzy reached its violent conclusion, he blamed someone else.

In an interview early Thursday with Fox News, Paxton disavowed the violent actors and said they should be prosecuted. But he also seemed resigned to the anger that fueled Wednesday’s events.

“There is a lot of frustration in this country from people who do think the election wasn't done appropriately…. It is going to create dissension in our country,” said Paxton, a co-chair of the Lawyers for Trump coalition. “And that’s just where we’re at.”

 

 

 

 

When asked by The Texas Tribune what evidence Paxton had that antifa protesters had attacked the U.S. Capitol while posing as Trump supporters, a spokesman for Paxton said he was merely sharing a tweet from a journalist. The person whose claims he promoted was Paul Sperry, a former reporter for the right-wing website WorldNetDaily, who “has a long record of promoting anti-Muslim conspiracy theories," according to research from Georgetown University.

Spokesman Ian Prior said in a text message that Paxton condemns violence but encourages citizens “to ‘keep fighting’ for their rights at the ballot box, in the courts and through their First Amendment right to peacefully protest.”

There is no evidence that the rioters who breached the U.S. Capitol were members of antifa; in fact, photo evidence shows known right-wing agitators. And Trump himself acknowledged the rioters were there to support him, telling them, “we love you, you are very special.”

Paxton’s critics said his rhetoric and his leadership on the election fraud issue have contributed to real harm — as have other Texas Republicans including U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, who objected to certifying vote counts in several states.

 

“We know that Ted Cruz and Ken Paxton both know that Joe Biden won this election, yet they are deciding to score points with their violent base in a cynical attempt to garner extremist, right-wing support,” said Abhi Rahman, a spokesman for the Texas Democratic Party.

On Thursday, Grand Prairie state Rep. Chris Turner, chair of the Texas House Democratic Caucus, called for an investigation into Paxton’s role in Wednesday’s riot, leaving the door open to curbing the power of his office, restricting its budget, even censure and impeachment.

“From filing a fraudulent lawsuit that fueled unhinged conspiracy theories about a free and fair election, to egging on the crowd of insurrectionists in Washington, D.C., Paxton has played a major role in creating the national crisis that culminated with the first breach of our nation’s capital since the War of 1812,” Turner said. “Even today, Paxton has used social media to spread lies about yesterday’s acts of violence and insurrection.”

In December, Paxton’s support for Trump took the form of a widely panned, and ultimately rejected, lawsuit before the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to toss the election results in four battleground states that had handed the White House to Joe Biden. The lawsuit leaned on discredited claims of election fraud in the battleground states.

 

Paxton finds himself in a precarious political position, even before Wednesday’s disastrous events. Since October, he has been embroiled in a scandal after eight of his top aides in the attorney general’s office told authorities they believed he was breaking the law by doing a series of favors for a political donor.

Texas Republicans — many of whom stayed quiet for the past five years as Paxton battled felony securities fraud charges — came forward to express their disapproval. Some fellow conservatives, including his former top aide U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, have called for his resignation. An FBI investigation into Paxton’s conduct is reportedly moving ahead full-throttle, and in the meantime, the fresh criminal allegations are poised to impose tens of millions of dollars in costs to his constituents: Texas taxpayers.

Paxton has been in hot water before, and often escaped it only to climb higher politically, galvanizing support from the Republican party’s right flank. He alienated some with a long shot run for Texas House speaker, then got elected to the state Senate. He has characterized long-running felony securities fraud charges as a political witch hunt, much as Trump did in Washington.

Still, Paxton may have fewer defenders now than ever before.

 

At a low point in his rollercoaster political career, Paxton is betting on the Trump base to bring him back up the hill, lending the legitimacy of office to debunked claims that have motivated violence.

Paxton has long been a close Trump ally, greeting the president when Air Force One touches down in Texas, lining up with the administration in legal proceedings and vocally backing the president’s most controversial policies, including a ban on travel from several Muslim-majority countries. And he often talks about Trump in public appearances, an easy applause line for Paxton’s own political base, which includes the right flank of the Republican party.

One favorite is the story of Trump calling while Paxton was in the shower. At an event in September, Paxton described a conversation he’d had with Trump, saying, “he asked me about my legal stuff, I asked about his legal stuff.”

“We kind of bonded,” Paxton joked. “It was kind of weird.”

 

Now, his backing of the president has expanded into increasingly dangerous territory — to the point that some have publicly speculated that Paxton may be angling for a pardon.

The Supreme Court election challenge looked “like a fella begging for a pardon filed a PR stunt rather than a lawsuit — as all of its assertions have already been rejected by federal courts and Texas’ own solicitor general isn’t signing on,” U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., said last month.

Prior dismissed that as “an absurdly laughable conspiracy theory.”

In an interview Thursday morning on Fox, Paxton was asked whether he’d been in touch with Trump since the riot on Wednesday.

 

He had not spoken to the president, he said. But he hoped to before Trump leaves office.

 

[Grandioso 2592]

Lucky for Ken Molly Ivins is dead. I can't even begin to imagine how hard he would get straight up murdered by one-liners on a daily basis. 

[Bama Chick 28596]

The replies ..... whew.

[Loch Ness Monster 3533]

Good job Ted. This is on you.

[InkaUtexas 26803]

Cruz is such a slimy ass reptile looking dick fuck. 

[USMCHorn 1369]

Ted knows he's fucked.

[Grandioso 2592]

Everyone saw what Pop said about Cruz and Hawley, right?

This is how Dem politicians need to be speaking: Just straight fucking uncut truth. Drop the flowery "fabric of our democracy" language and speak in blunt, effective sentences. 

[C-Man 27686]

7 minutes ago, Grandioso said:

Everyone saw what Pop said about Cruz and Hawley, right?

This is how Dem politicians need to be speaking: Just straight fucking uncut truth. Drop the flowery "fabric of our democracy" language and speak in blunt, effective sentences. 

I fucking love Coach Pop.

[staboner 5067]

4 hours ago, Js1 said:

 

our government has megadonors. that's great!

[Michael Knight 13187]

19 minutes ago, Grandioso said:

Everyone saw what Pop said about Cruz and Hawley, right?

This is how Dem politicians need to be speaking: Just straight fucking uncut truth. Drop the flowery "fabric of our democracy" language and speak in blunt, effective sentences. 

Pop for President or at least nations dad

Edited January 8, 2021 by Michael Knight

[4Pete 156]

44 minutes ago, InkaUtexas said:

Cruz is such a slimy ass reptile looking dick fuck. 

This is the most accurate description of that dickhead I have ever seen in print.

[Hookah Horns 3089]

39 minutes ago, Grandioso said:

Everyone saw what Pop said about Cruz and Hawley, right?

This is how Dem politicians need to be speaking: Just straight fucking uncut truth. Drop the flowery "fabric of our democracy" language and speak in blunt, effective sentences. 

Those drove me crazy during the debates on the objections. I would have fucking eviscerated those clowns in well under 5 minutes. 

[Hookah Horns 3089]

I have one slight exception to what Pop said. I would say anyone capable of being as craven as Cruz and Hawley is in fact deeply flawed. 

[Willfully Horn 8204]

8 hours ago, bolverk said:

Thread is worth a read to see where the sympathies lie for (probably) the majority of cops in this country. Constant is okay, I guess, even if he is a dirty Sooner.

 

I’m behind on this thread, and while this has most likely been said, this bears repeating. Someone needs to tell this police officer that he , in fact, downplays terrorism:

The unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property in order to coerce or intimidate a government or the civilian population in furtherance of political or social objectives.

Edited January 8, 2021 by Willfully Horn
Tequila

[staboner 5067]

49 minutes ago, Grandioso said:

Everyone saw what Pop said about Cruz and Hawley, right?

This is how Dem politicians need to be speaking: Just straight fucking uncut truth. Drop the flowery "fabric of our democracy" language and speak in blunt, effective sentences. 

exactly what we have all been saying for 4 fucking years. WTF are they waiting for. you can be more to the point and blunt without sounding like a dickhead, or using foul language. I don't fucking get it. say something worth a shit fuckheads

[4Pete 156]

4 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Say what you will, but that’s a great fucking song. 

 

As God as my  witness, those fascist motherfuckers will not sully the reputation or legacy of "Gloria."  Not on my watch.

[4Pete 156]

6 hours ago, wildcat09 said:

Lol I fucking told y’all these are all dipshit small business tyrants.

I was convinced that this was satire, just an act created by @blaireerskine, but this bitch is really out here living the West Texas stereotype IRL.  

[SydneyCarton 49330]

6 hours ago, Celery Man said:

wait holy shit

right so this is fine and great and everything - Kevin Sorbo is a maga idiot because of course and here comes Xena warrior princess all

cool cool. What I did NOT realize is that this is her in Parks and Rec

Yeah dude. Lucy Lawless has barely fucking aged. She was in her mid or late 40s and was getting naked all the time in the Spartacus serious that used to be on Starz. Much respect. 

[DigglerontheHoof 21516]

8 hours ago, Sawbonz said:

Well don’t cross him off then

CNN says dead, again, so....maybe cross him off.  Fluid situation.