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

he issued a statement through scavino at 3:50am lol

i know reasonable people disagree about whether trump should be banned from twitter, but i think his absence from twitter last night legitimately did stop the situation from escalating further.

So, no consequences and the dry run worked really well for them. I am now absolutely terrified for inauguration day.

I mean, even if 25th'ing or impeaching him will procedurally take longer than 2 weeks, it is still vital to show that this is a fucking line that shouldn't have been crossed. But, no? Just, wag a few fingers and move on? Unbelievable.

― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0

once the process starts Pence is temp president

Here you go:

Statement by President Donald J. Trump on the Electoral Certification:

“Even though I totally disagree with the outcome of the election, and the facts bear me out, nevertheless there will be an orderly transition on January 20th. I have always said we would continue our...

— Dan Scavino🇺🇸🦅 (@DanScavino) January 7, 2021

...fight to ensure that only legal votes were counted. While this represents the end of the greatest first term in presidential history, it’s only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again!”

— Dan Scavino🇺🇸🦅 (@DanScavino) January 7, 2021

still a hero to some

Trump called into private breakfast of members of RNC this AM in Florida. Was put on speaker and received a loud & overwhelmingly enthusiastic reaction, per people in room. Spoke briefly to say hi & sorry to miss it. “One minute.” No discussion of yesterday. No speech tonight.

— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 7, 2021

yeah nothing about that statement leads me to believe he's going to actually behave himself for the next two weeks

Look, it doesn't matter how used to it everybody is by now, saying "the greatest first term in presidential history" about yourself isn't normal. *slaps everybody out of it*

Further Brownshirt unrest is a foregone conclusion at this point.

I don't know why everyone is reporting that shit as 'Trump agrees to orderly transition' just because he included the phrase 'orderly transition' when literally the entire rest of the statement undermines that narrative.

cool cool

A WH official says this AM that Trump still plans to award the Medal of Freedom to 3 golfers today during an 11:30a East Room ceremony.

He'll award the medal to Annika Sorenstam, Gary Player, and Babe Zaharias (posthumously), the official said.

It's not open to the press.

— Ben Gittleson (@bgittleson) January 7, 2021

this golfers need to be dragged like hell if they show up to this shit

oh sorry for repost

Presume Babe is unlikely to show at least

I'll admit I did not have Babe F-ing Zaharias on my bingo card for the latter days of the Trump Presidency.

Here you go https://t.co/mOh9UYblSg pic.twitter.com/hvuEJu86Iv

— Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) January 7, 2021

https://twitter.com/DeadKennedys/status/1347008399565680640

Waht is happening

I'm just flabbergasted that nothing else is happening. Just... let's give tacit approval of sedition and an open invitation for it to happen again. What happened to all of those (bullshit, apparently) demonstrative tweets from House members about drawing up new articles of impeachment? Primary the fuck out of every Democrat who wagged a finger yesterday but sits silent this morning.

i wonder if this will hurt Trump's chances for the Nobel Peace Prize?

Find someone who looks at you the way Ted Cruz looks at the man who insulted his wife.

I assume Ilhan Omar's tweets were not performative, but she also doesn't control the caucus.

I'll admit I did not have Babe F-ing Zaharias on my bingo card for the latter days of the Trump Presidency.

i thought her middle name was "dickerson"

*didrikson lol, joke ruined

Don’t forget Cruz’s father.

looool Gary Player...Trump's idea of the world is still a Tuesday night Johnny Carson Tonight Show slate of guests

he and his supporters just roll right into the 2024 campaign

If nothing else, can we at least stop with this one particular line of bullshit? There will not be a 2024 Trump presidential campaign. He squeaked into the White House with the tiniest margin possible in 3 states, thanks entirely to Electoral College fuckery. Four years later, he was washed away when the largest number of voters in a presidential election ever showed up in the middle of a motherfucking plague, in a nationwide gesture of revulsion. He's spent the last two months lying to himself and his death cult about the fact that he's a giant fucking loser who everyone but them fucking hates, and now the cultiest of the cult have actually staged a rampage in the capital to do — what, exactly? — and the only result is that even more people now think he and his cult are human garbage. There is no comeback coming. Video from yesterday will be used against every single Republican Senator up for reelection in 2022. Yes, there will be a Republican candidate for president in 2024, but it will not be Donald Trump. If we're lucky, he'll be dead by then, but politically, he's already dead and buried. A party interested in its own future viability will want nothing to do with him, ever. I mean, if nothing else, they already know that fundraisers he does are strictly for himself, not for anyone else, so what good is he to them now that he's out of power?

Fuck Donald Trump. He's over. If you see someone wearing a MAGA hat, hit them in the face with a hammer and don't stop until their entire head is the same color as the hat, but other than that we can forget about him.

There will not be a 2024 Trump presidential campaign.

C'mon, you can't be serious. Campaigning is the easiest way for him to milk his followers for cash after the 20th. He will absolutely start campaign rallies within months.

It's more than just Asshole. As some comedian on the internet angrily noted, as did others, those 74 million people that voted for a second term? That means they wanted *more* of the last four years, including bullshit like last night. They are forever interlinked.

some reps trying to keep up the pressure
https://twitter.com/RepKinzinger/status/1347207878801846276?s=20

It’s with a heavy heart I am calling for the sake of our Democracy that the 25th Amendment be invoked. My statement: pic.twitter.com/yVyQrYcjuD

— Adam Kinzinger (@RepKinzinger) January 7, 2021

do we have a source for the adjournment of Congress other than that one tweet? granted, I know it's a blue-check political correspondent so it's probably legit, just - can't find anything else on it right now other than people angry tweeting about that tweet.

xpost That asshole is desperately trying to cling to power in a state where the dems have a super-super-majority.

Congress can always reconvene.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/01/07/us/elections/electoral-college-biden-objectors.html

There’s 147 of them. 147 despite yesterday’s events. The stranglehold won’t be loosened just yet (I do hope you’re right, though, unperson).

I just heard some republican asshole on the BBC pull some "stop punching yourself" bullshit, claiming that what else did we expect, since the democrats elected the most radical socialist slate ever in the history the world.

zuck temp banned trump https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10112681480907401

I was still up when he released that statement last night. It was literally a matter of seconds after Biden crossed 270--they were talking about Biden reaching 271, and they interrupted themselves to cut away to news of the statement.

this guy was banned from his job

you love to see it. pic.twitter.com/EP79MdhGVz

— donky from shrek (@donky_fromshrek) January 7, 2021

insane conservatives have kept some of the markets on PredictIt ridiculously easy to make money on (if the number of shares aren't maxed out). like even after Biden had won, you could buy shares of "Biden wins" at admittedly high prices, but free money since you already knew the outcome (something like 87c or 88c)

Re: Facebook, importantly he's temp banned through the end of his term. But fuck facebook.

The Trump campaign lawyer who said there were a “non-zero number” of Republicans observing Philly vote count asks to withdraw:

“client has used the lawyer’s services to perpetrate a crime and the client insists upon taking action that the lawyer considers repugnant” pic.twitter.com/MScZPzVuM0

— Jonathan Lai 🙊 賴柏羽 (@Elaijuh) January 7, 2021

real brave stance of FB and Twitter there, kudos guys, majestic work yr doing

I mean, jfc, his statement from this morning itself implies he's running again. Just because it's unlikely to be successful and he might not even live another four years with his general health/intake, doesn't mean he's not going to run. He will absolutely run and milk it for all the cash he can. It's stupid to pretend otherwise.

I was still up when he released that statement last night. It was literally a matter of seconds after Biden crossed 270--they were talking about Biden reaching 271, and they interrupted themselves to cut away to news of the statement.

Lot of things can happen between now and 2024

one thing that maybe slightly heartening about the insurgent right is that they are terrible at doing crimes and in fact often do not even realize they are doing them, they are a protected class used to getting away with things but that only goes so far and at some point you should consider not posting your crimes online

(xposts) Quite possible. I'm inclined to agree with the CNN people on air at the time, though: he was up, watching, and couldn't stand for the attention being shifted away from him for even a few seconds.

also antagonizing the police theres no angle there youre in good with those guys xp self

Again, I don't think he's going to win. I doubt he'll even make it to the general. I'm just responding to unperson's comment that there won't even be a Trump 2024 campaign, which is just silly.

"snot guy" is real btw, here's another shot from likely the same second
http://i.imgur.com/GRP1U7S.png

did the people who breeched the capitol have weapons?