And Sleepy Joe Will Get The Credit: US Politics January 2021

"shovel your neighbor"

i think he's high

I'm hearing this speech like a computer reading Fall lyrics

Whoooooooo the fuckkkkkkkk cares.

These idiot assholes will grandstand about this forever while continuing to not do anything to actually serve their constituents.

"shovel somebody's neighbor" sure okay GO THE FUCK HOME.

pretty sure Ben Sasse just condemned "thooligan nuttery."

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, January 6, 2021 8:53 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

clearly an mf doom tribute rip

Ben’s Ass & Murk & Collins & yes even Romney need to be harassed for the rest of their days for sternly sighing and clucking their tongues while so much of all this could have been avoided

thanks y'all for really bringing the lols rn, i needed it

"shovel your neighbor" an underrated GBV song

Democrats calling for the 25th amendment (a few!) are trying to get out of voting by invoking magical thinking or they don’t actually want to do it so they’re calling for something they know won’t happen. Impeach him!

Yeah idg what is going on there, pardon my ignorance, but do they all get a turn at a florid speech? I thought this was just a formality/signing into law thing?

― Stoop Crone (Trayce)

no need for a pardon, this is fucking weird and not normal! :) normally, this is a formality. this year, several dozen republicans decided to support a coup, including the objection to the certification of the votes of 6 states, which just happen to be the battleground states that trump obviously lost. when they formally object in this manner, it triggers some sort of 2 hour "debate" for each state. that's what we're watching now

from way upthread—I loathe Chuck Schumer but I have no idea how his speech was worse than McConnell's, the entirety of which self-congratulations for sticking around to debate tonight.

at least Schumer called out Trump by name and place the blame squarely in his lap

rioter "Via Getty" was the one solid minute of conic relief i needed tonight

comic, even

cylindrical relief

you can't directly compare the speeches of mcconnell and schumer, imo. they are playing entirely different games

cant talk, shovelling my neighbors

when they formally object in this manner, it triggers some sort of 2 hour "debate" for each state. that's what we're watching now

it's like if you go to your Aunt's house without a plan and ask her what she feels like doing and then boom! You have to watch Steel Magnolias.

schumer scores low because, theoretically, he could be AOC

Loeffler has lol retracted her vote opposing Biden's certification

Well, that's something (but not the Senator I expected)

situation ongoing

Trump supporters fought with the police moving forward, and even managed to de-arrest one of their comrades as the police deployed mace against them. pic.twitter.com/yVyuxOA4y4

— Ford Fischer (@FordFischer) January 7, 2021

mcconnell's speech gets a curve-like boost, because he is a republican in a position of power acknowledging the truth, if even for a moment, and when you do that in the GOP it sets off a LOTR-style Sauron eye

schumer scores low because, theoretically, he could be AOC

my expectations from this guy are subterranean, I was surprised he even mentioned Trump

Elephant hardcore xp

is that gaetz in the middle?

https://i.imgur.com/TPmWcyl.png

this is going to go on all night

Fuck it I’m up

schumer scores low because, theoretically, he could be AOC

not even AOC, but even Ossoff or a number of other people. honestly, i have personal friends who can reliably deliver more effective verbal rebukes to republicans than schumer. it's the kind of message that is better delivered by a younger person

this is going to go on all night

i think we'll know after the AZ segment, so pretty soon. some are suggesting that they'll cut it off after AZ, but it's up to these GOP turdz

National security adviser Robert O'Brien, deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger and deputy chief of staff Chris Liddell are all considering resigning, sources tell me, @jaketapper and @vmsalama.

— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) January 7, 2021

pelosi's talkin now

Tom Maine sounds like a flannel-y Tom of Finland spin-off.

The White House social secretary Rickie Niceta has submitted her resignation tonight in reaction to today's protest, a source with direct knowledge tells @ABC

— John Santucci (@Santucci) January 7, 2021

Source close to Trump says more resignations are expected in the next 24 hours.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 7, 2021

happy to see these NSA resignations, even if yeah yeah it's late lol

WH deputy press Secretary Sarah Matthews has resigned

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 7, 2021

Let this be a lesson to you all. Police do not need deescalation or restraint training. They can restrain themselves against certain people. They just not going to restrain themselves against YOU.

— zellie (@zellieimani) January 6, 2021

which principals/cabinet secretaries are needed to invoke the 25th ammendment? Because that would probably be more helpful than resigning

Trump banned Pence chief of staff Marc Short from the WH today, sources tell @JenniferJJacobs, me and @josh_wingrove

Top WH advisers including O'Brien, Liddell and Pottinger are thinking about resigning after today's events, we are told

On @TheTerminal https://t.co/Gtwt6uF5Ed

— Saleha Mohsin (@SalehaMohsin) January 7, 2021

These resignations feel like way too little, way too late, but I guess they send a message.

increasingly isolated

dunno how I expected this all to end but....holy fuck

what kind of message does resigning send? That they found some extra lifeboats?

love him or hate you gotta give it up for ol donnie

kinda feel guilty for laughing at this as hard as I did

Tommy Tuberville gets sworn in and the Capitol’s defense immediately falls apart.

— Bunkie Perkins (@BunkiePerkins) January 6, 2021

So cowardly it makes me sick. They are standing atop a mountain of corpses. https://t.co/MzhdQakEkv

— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) January 7, 2021

dunno how I expected this all to end but....holy fuck

for the last several years everyone has assumed that at SOME point he has to back down, right? but..he doesn't do that. that will be unprecedented, if it ever happens. he will go down crawling and snarling

Oh okay it's more than just Loeffler, looks like I got my wish - a fair number of Republicans appear to have reversed course on the challenge

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/06/congress-electoral-college-vote-live-updates/

Too little too late of course but a bunch of Senators backed off

With officers and bomb-sniffing dogs still sweeping the Capitol on Wednesday night, Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), chair of the committee that controls the Capitol Police budget, held a news conference from his office via Zoom. He thanked those in the department who acted heroically in the face of the mob but said answers can’t come soon enough about the failures of planning that allowed the crowd to storm the Capitol, and images of some officers who appeared to allow protesters in.
“There were clearly enormous strategic and planning failures by the Capitol Police, by the Sergeant at Arms and anyone else who was a part of coordinating this effort. This is the United States Capitol building, with the United States Congress in session handling the presidential election process,” said Ryan, head of the House Appropriations Committee’s legislative branch subcommittee.
“The reinforcements that we thought — that I was told would be in place — that the National Guard was engaged, that D.C. metro police was engaged, that the SWAT teams were engaged, that we were prepared for this,” Ryan said. “There as a strategic breakdown, for sure, and you can bet your a-- we are going to get to the bottom of it.”
Ryan said he had been in frequent contact with Capitol Police and the sergeant at arms and had been assured as recently as Tuesday night that the Capitol complex was secure and that the department was coordinating with the Secret Service, D.C. police and the National Guard for any additional resources that would be needed.

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Ryan continued, “I think it’s pretty clear that there are going to be a number of people who are going to be without employment very, very soon because this is an embarrassment, both on behalf of the mob and the president and the insurrection and the attempted coup, but also the lack of professional planning and dealing with what we knew was going to occur.”

The message would be “inviting insurrectionists to physically attack an entire branch of government is a step too far even though we’d already emptied our desks”

I dunno, I need to go to bed, wiped out by this awful day

this is the part in the movie where they flee from the house fire, right?