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

[Degenerate Gardner 4081]

 

 

 

[RPM 26230]

13 minutes ago, SmokeyTheBear said:

Watching MSNBC and Frank Figliuzzi brings up a great point that if any adversaries are looking to hit us, now is the time to expect it. Awesome sauce. 

I tried to explain this to my MAGA sister and all she could come up with was a video of CPDC opening the barricades. No shit, they fucked up. But think about doing the same thing for Russia or China for fucks sake!

[TexasEd 8064]

7 minutes ago, SizzleChest said:

Bill Cohen just put it differently.  With Trump still seated, a foreign adversary could pull some shit on an ally and get away.  They also could give Trump safe harbor (financially and otherwise) in exchange for not ordering a response.

yep, they would have 14 days to Fuck Around which is a lifetime in modern warfare.

Bye Ukraine

Bye Taiwan

S. Korea, sorry you got turned to glass by Kim j Illin

[burntorangebongos 10681]

1 hour ago, Bama Chick said:

These statements are coming fast and furious from co-conspirators.
 

 

Y’all don’t get to wash the blood off your hands with a fucking press release.

 

Roy did come out prior to the invasion that he was going to vote to certify the election of Biden. But I guess having to vote about impeachment is going to put him on a limb with some of his MAGA constituents. I wonder how immac will feel if he doesn't vote to impeach since he voted for him? He needs to hear from his voters about the other side of that argument.

[Cairn Horn88 8187]

6 minutes ago, Doc Reeves said:

Yeah, that will give us all a minority group to fuck with for a while instead of each other. 
unless that attack is from space, it would be bad for American 

Did you forget about our "Space Force"?

[Macanudo 12928]

35 minutes ago, Beantown Express 2.0 said:

The Capitol has been full of "rot" for decades.

Decades?  Try centuries.

[ShaggyBevo RIP 3868]

2 hours ago, Macanudo said:

The number of people who don't understand this is scary:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Last time I checked, Simon and Schuster wasn't a government agency.

They also believe freedom of speech means freedom from repercussions of said speech.

[DDD Dad 14252]

1 hour ago, UncleSonny said:

Just got this from a friend who also used to live in Tyler, anyone one know if this is real? Check the line under the picture.

I mean, I know ETX and all but to put that in a "real" newspaper is making me lose my mind. These are the same fucks who keep electing Louie Gohmert.

From their website:

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LOCAL NEWS
Correction to cutline in Friday's newspaper on page A8
John AndersonUpdated 29 min ago
The Tyler Morning Telegraph is aware of an incorrect cutline on an Associated Press photo in our print edition on Jan. 8, 2021 on page A8 where we incorrectly identified protesters as members of Antifa.

J. Anderson
John Anderson
Editor

 

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46 minutes ago, RDCanecutter said:

Gonna be hell figuring out which 4 people in Tyler read it.

Maybe they have a literate Town Cryer who reads it aloud in ye olde public square.

[BearSchlong 8077]

Wow, that's pretty fucking dumb, even for East Texas.

[Doc Reeves 6434]

6 minutes ago, Cairn Horn88 said:

Did you forget about our "Space Force"?

Exactly. It’d be their problem. 

[Degenerate Gardner 4081]

22 minutes ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

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The moon is high up on a mountain
The lunatics have taken over the asylum
Waiting on the rapture

Singing, "We're here to keep your prices down
We'll feed you to the hounds
To the daily mail, to get up, together"

You made a pig's ear, you made a mistake
Paid off security and got through the gate
You got away with it but we lie in wait, eh
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Where's the truth what's the use
I'm hanging around lost and found
And when you're here innocent
Fat chance, no plan
No regard for human life

You'll keep time, you've no right
You're fast to lose, you will lose
You jumped the queue, you're back again

President for life, love of all
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[SizzleChest 8275]

6 minutes ago, burntorangebongos said:

Roy did come out prior to the invasion that he was going to vote to certify the election of Biden. But I guess having to vote about impeachment is going to put him on a limb with some of his MAGA constituents. I wonder how immac will feel if he doesn't vote to impeach since he voted for him? He needs to hear from his voters about the other side of that argument.

Fuck him.  He has to run every two years, so maybe he should work on winning over more moderates in his district (I currently live in his district).  Anyone running in 2022 is going to have to develop a new set of calculations or they will have to FAFO.

[NAVY 6739]

[Mrs Whiggins 13049]

1 hour ago, aggie08 said:

"Guys, c'mon now, look. They were as surprised as anyone that they were able to get in. They just wanted to take some pictures and maybe steal a few pens. There's no way they would have succumb to mob mentality!"

There is a term for that, if you're unaware: clown car coup. However, it is accomplished a coup is a coup. I posted something about how people picture coups as being full of tanks and stuff awhile back but the reality is that if you see the tanks it's too late. It's the little things first...

1 hour ago, 'stache said:

He didn't say that though. It'll always be his wiggle room. He incites violence indirectly. It's enough cover for senators to not remove. The old go-to: "I don't always agree with his methods, but removal is a bridge too far and a political stunt." See above just posted as I typed this, already with the "political stunt" language.

Why it was so hard to bring down the mobsters in the last century. Where's our Elliot Ness? Where's our team of hard nosed bulldogs. Get Katie Porter out there whiteboarding his ass with a timeline of events.

30 minutes ago, Beantown Express 2.0 said:

I hate to point this out but has anyone watched Fox/OAN type of news the last 24 hours?  There are a 100 million American citizens getting their "news" from these and it is not based in reality.  I switched on Hannity last night for about the first 60 seconds of his show.  If anyone can find it and post it, it's actually enlightening about the kind of falsehoods and lies they are still telling their viewers.  Half the country is being told that this was ANTIFA, or some bad guys.  They are saying Trump had nothing to do with it (yes there is video showing he incited it but they don't show their viewers that).  Hannity went on about the media got a weak man like Biden elected and good luck to the country when all the powerful dictators around the world take advantage of a weak and frail man like Biden.  Its disgusting and frightening but until you figure out a way to stop the propaganda you can not win this cold civil war.  

 Olive Garden revoked Hannity's Pasta Pass so he's on a downhill trajectory now.

But yeah, anyone I know who watches those shows has not shifted their opinion at all.

[David Dennison 18661]

47 minutes ago, 'stache said:

Did you not pay attention to the general election? Biden's performance was way short of what the polls predicted, and we were damn near close to another trump presidency from swing states. That tells me a lot of people told pollsters they'd vote for Biden then changed their minds. The only thing that happened late in the election cycle was "HUNTER BIDEN ARGGG" and "KAMALA IS A SOCIALIST LIKE VENEZUELA!!!" I think you give the electorate too much credit if you think trials for insurrection and sedition will move the needle towards democrats from this group of wishy washy low iq voters.

No electoral college, no problem. Biden wins easily.

Our Constitution is anti-democracy. It is the problem.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11810]

16 minutes ago, RPM said:

I tried to explain this to my MAGA sister and all she could come up with was a video of CPDC opening the barricades. No shit, they fucked up. But think about doing the same thing for Russia or China for fucks sake!

Lest you forget, in what seems like a lifetime ago we already let Erdogans thugs beat people with impunity on government property.

[Beau Vine 54005]

43 minutes ago, UncleSonny said:

I grew up around a fair number of smart people in Tyler and a shit load of mouth breathing idiots. 100% of the smart people went to college and never moved back. All the morons moved back or never left and will be sending their kids to Robert E. Lee Legacy High.

According to my daughter, that's what has happened to Wimberley, too.  She said that basically every kid she graduated with who didn't leave Wimberley has turned out to be a huge Trumpee.

[Pancho 44487]

 

[Huckleberry 32704]

18 minutes ago, David Dennison said:

No electoral college, no problem. Biden wins easily.

Our Constitution is anti-democracy. It is the problem.

No Electoral College would have guaranteed a Trump election "victory." A straight popular vote would have no reason not to be managed by the federal government. Exactly what about the last 4 years of the federal government makes you think they wouldn't have cheated enough to say Trump won? 

States' rights and the Electoral College that protects them are the only reason Biden will be POTUS in 12 days. 

Now maybe he never got to the Presidency but the trajectory of the GOP makes it quite clear they were headed towards this type of authoritarian coup attempt eventually. 

Edited January 8, 2021 by Huckleberry

[Beau Vine 54005]

48 minutes ago, hobbes2702 said:

Those “bad actors” were trump supporters. They are one in the same.

To be fair, I think there are two categories of "Trump supporters":

1.  TRUMPWASSENTBYGOD people

2.  QAnon people

It would not surprise me if group 2 was the more aggressive bunch in the riot.  I think that's causing some of the confusion.  

Edited January 8, 2021 by Beau Vine

[Willfully Horn 7918]

If the House votes to impeach, doesn’t that remove trump’s ability to pardon (all) these fools? The power is limited in cases of impeachment; article one lists inciting insurrection. Impeachment and conviction in the Senate are separate occurrences.

Asking for myself.

[honolulu horn 6157]

29 minutes ago, burntorangebongos said:

Roy did come out prior to the invasion that he was going to vote to certify the election of Biden. But I guess having to vote about impeachment is going to put him on a limb with some of his MAGA constituents. I wonder how immac will feel if he doesn't vote to impeach since he voted for him? He needs to hear from his voters about the other side of that argument.

This is a main reason for impeachment -- so that republicans have to vote one way or another. Go on record. Let voters see what they're made of. 

[JimmyJames 12271]

32 minutes ago, DDD Dad said:

From their website:

 

The Tyler newspaper ain’t exactly hiring the cream of the crop of journalists. Just some MAGA turd who works there for 10 bucks an hour did that.

[Mrs Whiggins 13049]

32 minutes ago, BearSchlong said:

Wow, that's pretty fucking dumb, even for East Texas.

Someone should send them this; cause you know what a percentage of the Tyler population thinks of Kenya:

 

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[Horndog 2218]

41 minutes ago, ShaggyBevo RIP said:

They also believe freedom of speech means freedom from repercussions of said speech.

So I guess all the idiots clambering about the free speech of magats being infringed won't mind if I put a giant "TRUMP SUCKS" sign in their front yard. 

[Brisketexan 104631]

38 minutes ago, BearSchlong said:

Wow, that's pretty fucking dumb, even for East Texas.

Dude.  You of all people should know this: never, EVER underestimate the stupidity of East Texas.

4 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

Someone should send them this; cause you know what a percentage of the Tyler population thinks of Kenya:

 

You remember those times in your life when you just utterly, inexcusably, humiliatingly fucked up?  Maybe you went home with a gal who looked like Grizzly Adams.  Maybe you wrecked your car leaving the parking lot of the dealer.  Maybe you got drunk and shit yourself in front of all your friends.  Or any of 10,000 other humiliating self owns.

Remember how you had to deal with your friends?  You just sat down, smiled, and said "lemme have it."  And they fucking ROASTED you until they were done, and you couldn't do anything but nod, because you fucking deserved it all, every last little bit of it?

That's where we are as a country now.  Zimbabwe, you wanna give us shit for being electorally incompetent?  Have at it.  Kenya, wanna get your shots in on how bassackwards we are?  Fire away.  All we can do is sit here and take it.  All of it.  Because it's all fucking true, and because we all fucking deserve it.

On Wednesday, my immediate family got calls and messages from at least half a dozen countries.....every one of them asking some variation of "what the fucking fuck is wrong with you people?"  And we had no answer.  We just sat there and took it.  Because it's all fucking true.

[Gardner Barnes 1562]

FAAFO

[Mrs Whiggins 13049]

We talked before about the Democratic Party needing to be much much more aggressive and speedy about framing the issue. They keep dragging their feet. The Atlantic talks about what the Republicans and Trump supporters put in that vacuum:

 

[Mrs Whiggins 13049]

1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

Dude.  You of all people should know this: never, EVER underestimate the stupidity of East Texas.

You remember those times in your life when you just utterly, inexcusably, humiliatingly fucked up?  Maybe you went home with a gal who looked like Grizzly Adams.  Maybe you wrecked your car leaving the parking lot of the dealer.  Maybe you got drunk and shit yourself in front of all your friends.  Or any of 10,000 other humiliating self owns.

Remember how you had to deal with your friends?  You just sat down, smiled, and said "lemme have it."  And they fucking ROASTED you until they were done, and you couldn't do anything but nod, because you fucking deserved it all, every last little bit of it?

That's where we are as a country now.  Zimbabwe, you wanna give us shit for being electorally incompetent?  Have at it.  Kenya, wanna get your shots in on how bassackwards we are?  Fire away.  All we can do is sit here and take it.  All of it.  Because it's all fucking true, and because we all fucking deserve it.

On Wednesday, my immediate family got calls and messages from at least half a dozen countries.....every one of them asking some variation of "what the fucking fuck is wrong with you people?"  And we had no answer.  We just sat there and took it.  Because it's all fucking true.

Definitely. I follow some journos from other countries and I ran across a bit where the author said exactly that. He said, "you don't get to say this is like X country. No, you get to own this. This is America."

[Js1 85115]

3 minutes ago, Gardner Barnes said:

FAAFO
 

[conVINCEd 21468]

4 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Dude.  You of all people should know this: never, EVER underestimate the stupidity of East Texas.

You remember those times in your life when you just utterly, inexcusably, humiliatingly fucked up?  Maybe you went home with a gal who looked like Grizzly Adams.  Maybe you wrecked your car leaving the parking lot of the dealer.  Maybe you got drunk and shit yourself in front of all your friends.  Or any of 10,000 other humiliating self owns.

Remember how you had to deal with your friends?  You just sat down, smiled, and said "lemme have it."  And they fucking ROASTED you until they were done, and you couldn't do anything but nod, because you fucking deserved it all, every last little bit of it?

That's where we are as a country now.  Zimbabwe, you wanna give us shit for being electorally incompetent?  Have at it.  Kenya, wanna get your shots in on how bassackwards we are?  Fire away.  All we can do is sit here and take it.  All of it.  Because it's all fucking true, and because we all fucking deserve it.

On Wednesday, my immediate family got calls and messages from at least half a dozen countries.....every one of them asking some variation of "what the fucking fuck is wrong with you people?"  And we had no answer.  We just sat there and took it.  Because it's all fucking true.

I was overseas shortly after the 2016 election,  our Uber driver, who was from Mali, I repeat Mali, asked us the exact same thing.  He only used one fuck though.

[Al Czervik 1228]

1 hour ago, FondrenRoad said:

Except in 12 years, our dictator will be Kid Rock instead of Trump.

Could be President Camacho first. 

[Mrs Whiggins 13049]

It was almost Trump then Pompeo but we aren't out of the woods yet.

[Brisketexan 104631]

4 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

Definitely. I follow some journos from other countries and I ran across a bit where the author said exactly that. He said, "you don't get to say this is like X country. No, you get to own this. This is America."

I like Jason Isbell -- a lot.  I respect him as a musician.  And I totally want to run away with his beautiful and talented wife Amanda Shires.  We will sit on a porch swing, and she will play her fiddle while wearing a lovely little cotton dress, and we'll sip iced tea and have a lovely old time....but I digress.  But he also said one of the most important and profound things about America I've ever read, and I admire the hell out of him for the personal reflection involved:

I am and have been sick and tired of people saying "this isn't who we are."  That's denial, and a lie.  And it's a lie designed to save us from the awful truth, and difficult task, of fixing who we are.

Not until you accept that you are a fucking drunk, or an abuser, or a nation of awful selfishness, cruelty, and lies, can you even BEGIN to fix the problem.

A drunk saying "this isn't who I am" is destined to stay a drunk forever.  And "forever" won't be that long -- he'll end up dead pretty soon.  A drunk who says "holy fuck, this is who I am.  I have to get myself right" has a fighting chance.

In order to have a fighting chance, we the people need to look at what happened on Wednesday and accept that yes...this is who we are.  This is what we've become.  It is.

Now....what are we going to do about it?

[Brisketexan 104631]

6 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:

I was overseas shortly after the 2016 election,  our Uber driver, who was from Mali, I repeat Mali, asked us the exact same thing.  He only used one fuck though.

Was sitting on a patio having drinks and enjoying a spring day with our Norwegian friends in 2017, and they finally broached the question -- what the hell is up with Donald Trump, and how did that happen?

Our answer was short, and accurate: we are not a very good country, and we have a lot of not good people.  And this is what happens to a country like that.  We're sorry.  Not all of us are like that.  But enough of us are.

[DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt 12301]

He’s going to have a complete mental breakdown. And Jack Dorsey is a marked man.

What a world.

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13547]

1 hour ago, burntorangebongos said:

Roy did come out prior to the invasion that he was going to vote to certify the election of Biden. But I guess having to vote about impeachment is going to put him on a limb with some of his MAGA constituents. I wonder how immac will feel if he doesn't vote to impeach since he voted for him? He needs to hear from his voters about the other side of that argument.

Save it to your phone. I did. 

[conVINCEd 21468]

1 minute ago, Brisketexan said:

Was sitting on a patio having drinks and enjoying a spring day with our Norwegian friends in 2017, and they finally broached the question -- what the hell is up with Donald Trump, and how did that happen?

Our answer was short, and accurate: we are not a very good country, and we have a lot of not good people.  And this is what happens to a country like that.  We're sorry.  Not all of us are like that.  But enough of us are.

We had him for most of a day and became friends.  Uber was his side hustle when he wasn’t a foreign correspondent for BBC.  He did iUber because he liked talking to various people from all over the world.  My response started with something like “well, you see, the white olds were scared...”

 

[Francisco 2.0 32343]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/08/politics/mike-lee-tommy-tuberville-trump-misdialed-capitol-riot/index.html

 

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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump and his attorney Rudy Giuliani both mistakenly made calls to Republican Sen. Mike Lee as deadly riots were unfolding at the US Capitol earlier this week, a spokesman for the senator confirmed to CNN -- calls that were intended for another GOP senator the White House was frantically trying to convince to delay the counting of Electoral College votes. 

Lee's spokesman said the calls from Trump and his attorney were intended for Sen. Tommy Tuberville, a newly elected Republican from Alabama.

 

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The effort by the White House to get Tuberville to delay certification of the votes provides insight into the President's thinking and priorities as a mob of his supporters lay siege to the iconic building. As the President worked to convince Tuberville to delay the process, he and other top White House officials did little to check in on Vice President Mike Pence while he and members of his family were inside the breached Capitol, a source close to the vice president told CNN.

Trump first called the personal cell phone of Lee, a Utah Republican, shortly after 2 p.m. ET. At that time the senators had been evacuated from the Senate floor and were in a temporary holding room, as a pro-Trump mob began breaching the Capitol.

 

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Lee picked up the phone and Trump identified himself, and it became clear he was looking for Tuberville and had been given the wrong number. Lee, keeping the President on hold, went to find his colleague and handed Tuberville his phone, telling him the President was on the line and had been trying to reach him

Tuberville spoke with Trump for less than 10 minutes, with the President trying to convince him to make additional objections to the Electoral College vote in a futile effort to block Congress' certification of President-elect Joe Biden's win, according to a source familiar with the call. The call was cut off because senators were asked to move to a secure location. 

CNN has reached out to Tuberville's office for comment.

 

Spoiler

The second call to Lee came in at 7 p.m. ET from Giuliani. Lee did not answer the call so it went to voicemail. Lee's office confirmed to CNN that the voicemail was intended for Tuberville and the message left from Giuliani was very similar to one that another unnamed GOP senator received. The transcript of that call was published by the conservative outlet The Dispatch as well as the news blog emptywheel.

"Sen. Tuberville? Or I should say Coach Tuberville. This is Rudy Giuliani, the President's lawyer," he said according to to the transcript. 

"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," Giuliani said, referring to unfounded claims of voter fraud in the presidential election. 

"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." 

Tuberville was unaware that Giuliani had tried to reach him until it was publicly reported, according to the source. 

Tuberville was likely seen by Trump and Giuliani as someone who could help further their cause on Wednesday, as he was among a group of six GOP senators who voted to sustain an objection raised against Arizona's electoral votes, which failed 93-6. 

CNN reported on Wednesday that even after Congress was reconvening that night following the riot, Trump was still urging senators to push ahead with the protest on the certification of Biden as President, according to a source familiar with the discussions.

 

Edited January 9, 2021 by Francisco 2.0

[Doc Reeves 6434]

52 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

If the House votes to impeach, doesn’t that remove trump’s ability to pardon (all) these fools? The power is limited in cases of impeachment; article one lists inciting insurrection. Impeachment and conviction in the Senate are separate occurrences.

Asking for myself.

i believe they must formally be removed for him to lose any powers

[Laga4 1270]

1 hour ago, BearSchlong said:

Wow, that's pretty fucking dumb, even for East Texas.

No it's not.

[NameAlreadyInUse 5106]

8 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Was sitting on a patio having drinks and enjoying a spring day with our Norwegian friends in 2017, and they finally broached the question -- what the hell is up with Donald Trump, and how did that happen?

Our answer was short, and accurate: we are not a very good country, and we have a lot of not good people.  And this is what happens to a country like that.  We're sorry.  Not all of us are like that.  But enough of us are.

Had to have that conversation with my Malaysian in-laws. We were sitting on their porch for chinese new year and they brought it up.  Now this is Malaysia, where they tend to pick the leader of the opposition and accuse him of homosexuailty and throw him in jail so the ruling party can maintain power.  Also, the day after this conversation, Trump instituted the no travel from muslim countries ban.  Malaysia is a muslim country.  That was F U N fun!

[Doc Reeves 6434]

fuck, now I’m hooked. I’m gonna watch this guys whole trip thru the justice system.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7v4a8/jake-angeli-qanon-shaman-regrets-nothing

 

 

 

Jake Angeli, QAnon Shaman, Regrets Nothing

“No, I’m not worried at all,” said Angeli about being arrested in an interview with VICE News.

A bare-chested man adorned with face paint, a fur coat, and a viking-horned headdress was lording over one of the highest chambers of American political power. The images made clear that Wednesday afternoon’s coup attempt was more than an inept try at a government takeover—it was, self-consciously, a spectacle.

The man dubbed the “QAnon Shaman” is 32-year old Arizona native Jake Angeli, a now-infamous American icon and the face of the would-be QAnon coup who is wanted by law enforcement.

“No, I’m not worried at all,” said Angeli in an interview with VICE News about the prospect of being arrested. He said he had personally reached out to the FBI. “I contacted the FBI,” he said. “The investigator just wanted to know what the scoop was.”

Angeli, who is on his way back home to Arizona, said he has a meeting with agents in the works.

On Wednesday, when a mob of thousands stormed Capitol Hill—among them neo-Nazis, conspiracists and all manner of far-right extremists—Angeli was right in the thick of the invaders who illegally and violently entered Congress, sending senators and congresspeople into hiding. The day's violence would claim the lives of at least five people, including a woman who was shot by police entering Congress and a police officer who was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher.

But despite the bloodshed and widespread national shame over this week’s violence in Washington D.C., Angeli regrets nothing.

“I’m quite proud of my participation,” he said. “I’d like to think I was an observer of history being made right in front of me.”

On Thursday night President Trump, who directed his followers’ attempt to prevent Congress from validating the election win of President-elect Joe Biden, finally conceded.

“A new administration will be inaugurated on January 20," said the president in a televised address.

As for Angeli he plans on being in the nation’s capital for President-elect Biden’s inauguration on January 20, which has already been earmarked by far-right extremists as a date of protest.

“I would certainly like to be there,” he said. “I’m making plans to go but everything is in the making.”

[Brisketexan 104631]

3 minutes ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/08/politics/mike-lee-tommy-tuberville-trump-misdialed-capitol-riot/index.html

 

 

 

 

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The second call to Lee came in at 7 p.m. ET from Giuliani. Lee did not answer the call so it went to voicemail. Lee's office confirmed to CNN that the voicemail was intended for Tuberville and the message left from Giuliani was very similar to one that another unnamed GOP senator received. The transcript of that call was published by the conservative outlet The Dispatch as well as the news blog emptywheel.

"Sen. Tuberville? Or I should say Coach Tuberville. This is Rudy Giuliani, the President's lawyer," he said according to to the transcript. 

"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," Giuliani said, referring to unfounded claims of voter fraud in the presidential election. 

"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." 

Tuberville was unaware that Giuliani had tried to reach him until it was publicly reported, according to the source. 

Tuberville was likely seen by Trump and Giuliani as someone who could help further their cause on Wednesday, as he was among a group of six GOP senators who voted to sustain an objection raised against Arizona's electoral votes, which failed 93-6. 

CNN reported on Wednesday that even after Congress was reconvening that night following the riot, Trump was still urging senators to push ahead with the protest on the certification of Biden as President, according to a source familiar with the discussions.

 

See, what you have to understand is, he's a completely evil fucking sociopath.  It's not really hard.

[bolverk 29405]

31 minutes ago, Gardner Barnes said:

FAAFO
 

 

[bolverk 29405]

doop

Edited January 9, 2021 by bolverk

[Michael Knight 12898]

So Trump called Tubberville DURING the fucking riot when they were sheltering in place to tell him to delay the vote and add more states. Except the moron called the wrong senator who had to pass his phone to Tommy.

 

 

https://www.businessinsider.com/tommy-tuberville-wrong-number-trump-2021-1

Edited January 9, 2021 by Michael Knight