1/6 Joint session of Congress counts the electoral college votes Megathread

[quote]Will probably go into the early hours of tomorrow morning.

Where are you getting that?

R1 each state objected gets a 2 hour debate. Add COVID cleaning protocols into that and we’re looking at 3-4 hours per state objection. So far it’s confirmed there will be 3 states objected to, possibly 6. It will be a long day.

Ghouliani has already called for a trial by combat

[quote]each state objected gets a 2 hour debate

Oh, I didn't realize it was each state. But it's only up to a 2 hour debate and I'm not convinced they will take that long. But maybe.

These people need to be thrown in work camps with re-education programs when Biden takes office. Good lord.

Someone needs to file for guardianship of Giuliani.

Trump just left for the rally, an hour late

On stage now

Ugh is Chuck Todd anchoring all day?

Trump says he will never concede

Now he’s putting public pressure on Pence. Aka he’s threatening Pence.

It's like a real life Christopher Guest movie.

What a maroon.

We’re at the hillary part of his speech

Heard on Twitter...

"I need bad things to stop happening to mike pence as soon as possible if I get any hornier my wife is gonna lock me in the basement"

Hahahaha!

GOP senators are being accosted

Todd Young is weak, so that’s nothing new.

Since Loeffler has nothing to lose now, she should object to every state.

Now the Senate is marching over to the House for the joint session to begin.

Pence just issued a statement publicly breaking from Trump while Trump just demanded Pence “do the right thing or else!” in his rally speech.

Pelosi currently scolding republicans for breaking social distancing rules

Republicunts already cunting it up.

Thank you OP!!

Love the guy in the American flag mask with his nose hanging out

Pence's "Sorry, not sorry" letter to Orange

This is squalor. The entire capitol is in squalor.

No objections to Alabama

I OBJECT!

Arizona dude objects.

Glad they're putting these seditious cunts on record.

Oh lord here we go with this bullshit. The votes for Arizona's were "not regularly given". What the fuck people, come on.

Ok, so the dumb fucks are going ahead with their idiotic and seditious objection coup.

This is gonna get old after awhile. I’d imagine after Georgia they’ll try to hurry it along.

Outside the Capitol building right now are lots of Trump supporters wanting to get in

it's bad

Rafael cruz got his standing ovation.

Yay, asshole...

Ted Cruz. Seditious cunt.

The Lincoln Project should launch a media campaign against these losers and call them out by name in TV ads. They all need to be named and shamed and it should be resurrected every time one of them attempts to run for reelection.

Ted Cruz should be hung in Lafayette square on 1/20

Here's the fucking deal, Dems. We have been a fucking doormat for Repigs FOR DECADES !!!!!!!!!!!!!! FUCKING DECADES !!!!!!!!! ENOUGH!!!!! The Repigs act this way because WE LET THEM !!!!!!! We don't want to rock the boat or be unkind.

FUCKING ENOUGH!

NO MORE PLAYING NICE GUY BULLSHIT!

There is a 2 hour breakout debate for each objection? Fuck this, I have a soccer match to watch this afternoon. Idiots. Let their names live on in infamy. They are knowingly backing baseless claims. Fucking pieces of shit.

This is gonna be a long, long day

R33, if this were a BLM protest the police would be firing tear gas and baton rounds. Why not now?

The longer this goes on the more amped up those deplorables are gonna get outside. It’s gonna get really really bad tonight

Nancy had to scold republicans about masks again. Kick them out if they won't comply.

If I understood Claire McCaskill, as president Tdump has the right to address congress. He could plan his march to end up at congress and walk in and spew lies for as long as he wants. Wouldn't that make GREAT TV? Imagine the ratings. For as long as Biden is President, he'll never get such ratings.

Or, maybe he'll just have John Barron call in for him.

Is Scalise wearing a flag jock on his face?

Somebody fucking shoot Scalise again!

I can't figure out how to put it into words, but the Republican's behavior today is just a microcosm of what it's like living in a red, rural area. These people never miss a chance to act like ignorant assholes, and they are proudly ignorant. Aggressively ignorant. They're armed. The truth is whatever they say it is. They don't care about democracy. They don't care about decorum. They're racist. They are horrible.

Reporters needs to stop being obsessed with these people. They are not misunderstood salt-of-the-earth good guys being left behind. Stop going to their diners. Stop giving them pages and pages in the New York Times to pontificate. These people are goddamn treasonous trash. They are showing you exactly who and what they are. Believe them already.

Minority whip lies for Trump. Can there be anything more disgusting in politics? No.

Scalise should have died from his gun shot wounds. If only that guy aimed a little higher!

R54 lol, I thiught the same. It looks tight.

another clip

Capitol police need more than just pepper spray and mace.

What is with Republicans and their poster boards?! It's been like four years of bad middle school presentations.

Why were they allowed that close to the capitol anyway? The entire mall should have been closed today.

Trump supporters are rioting on the steps of the Capitol as the joint session is happening. Police spraying tear gas (or pepper spray, whatever.)

[quote]This is squalor. The entire capitol is in squalor.

I don't think you know what that word means.

They shoot just shoot them.

The LoC Madison Building and Cannon House Office Building are being evacuated because of the storm of Trump supporters.

R54 Dump did this. Urged his people to “March to the Capitol!” several times in his speech that ended minutes ago.

This is going to drag on and on. I'm hoping at some point a fist fight breaks out on the floor for entertainment.

R47, yep, when people lecture me about my liberal bubble (from CA, currently in MD), I scoff. As a kid, I lived in KY for about a couple of months. Thankfully, my mom got us on a bus to CA. I will never live in any red state or area, no matter the career or financial compensation. Why would I plant myself amongst trash? These people are enthusiastically ignorant.

Where are the people who called those of us worried about this shit Marys?

McTurtle...too little too late. Sounds like he's about to cry...

McTurtle speaks ...

McConnell on the House floor right now rejecting Trump’s claims of a “rigged election.”

Yikes can’t believe I’m agreeing with McConnell

I thought the mayor called in the national guard? They need to get a handle on this crowd before it gets overwhelming

THIS is what 4 years of Trump has done to our country. I hope they lock all of them up for a long time.

The POTUS is inciting violence in our capital city. Just wrapping my head around this. How can he be allowed to do this? And where is the tear gas and rubber bullets from last summer?

Mitch is a fine one to talk about damaging the Republic.

Turtle, MINORITY leader. Boy that’s fantastic.

Is he really getting emotional right now or is that just how he speaks? Poor, poor man.

He's so full of shit though.

McConnell waited until the eleventh hour to say the right words.

Unless he says I am sorry his words are meaningless as the sun sets on his inglorious career. Fucker.

Dump ran back to the WH after inciting this riot. Despite saying he would personally “march to the Capitol.”

R62 yes. We know what he really thinks.

[quote]I can't figure out how to put it into words, but the Republican's behavior today is just a microcosm of what it's like living in a red, rural area. These people never miss a chance to act like ignorant assholes, and they are proudly ignorant. Aggressively ignorant. They're armed. The truth is whatever they say it is. They don't care about democracy. They don't care about decorum. They're racist. They are horrible.

OMG, R47. This ×1,000,000. And here in Louisiana, the educated white-collar professionals are as bad as the dirt-eating unwashed unReconstructed rednecks. It's craxymaking.

Can someone please tell all these fuckers that they’re fuckers?

Mock turtle tears.

Funny how the BLM protesters were "thugs" but these fascist MAGA loons are "patriots"

McConnell is clearly hoping to nip this in the bud right here. Doubt it’ll work

one of the capitol buildings is being evacuated?

r68, the rubber bullets have made an appearance.

Now the mob has broken into the Capitol. The barbarians are overrunning the gates.

Two r82, Madison at the Library of Congress and Cannon House.

R82, a bomb threat apparently

R83, why rubber bullets? Time for the real stuff!

r84 is insane

Barbarians at the Gate

Jesus christ what a time to be an American

The day is young, R87. If that crowd doesn't get dispersed or at least calmed down soon, this is going to turn deadly.

Capitol police will shoot people who enter the building.

Source r92?

(just curious)

OK I know this is redundant.... but Donald Trump is insane. No sane person wants what he has unleashed today.

Ugh I lived in DC for a few years. I love the city. It's so disgusting to see these degenerate fascist wannabes running loose on the streets.

Instead of pushing back, the police need to bring down the idiots and ziptie as many of them as possible and leave face down on the ground. Or else, the overwhelming number of Trump zombies are going to take the Capitol.

R84 is posting Russian propoganda. That Twitter feed is supportive of the protesters.

Looks like the QAnoners thought Trump was going to give them a signal in the speech this morning, he didn't, so some have decided to storm the Capitol Building themselves to take the country back.

R87, don’t think they use rubber bullets anymore as they bounce and end up hitting the wrong person. Most baton rounds are now plastic. Too many years living in Belfast not to know these things.

r97, unfortunately people are RTing that left and right on Twitter, not realizing where it's coming from. You can't tell from the tweet itself that it's a guy from the Blaze who supports the rioters.

It took 97 posts, but we finally have an appearance by the Russian Propaganda Troll. Thread is now complete.

Isn't it kind of surreal... all this flowery speechmaking inside and end of days outside? What a fucking day.

Schumer is so fucking uninspiring. He just doesn't have "it." Even McTurtle sounded more inspiring despite being a shithead.

The right wing nutjobs first turned on the republican't party.

Now they have turned on the police.

Now QAnon has turned on Trump.

If these were black protesters they'd be dead by now

Yes r102. I just had a split screen -- it's insane

[quote]Now QAnon has turned on Trump.

They did? What happened?

Ugh, Zodiac is speaking

Cruz. Here we go. Man, he's an UGLY motherfucker.

I don’t think republican party will survive on what is going today inside and outside. It will divide. No objection here.

Democracy and idiots believing a lie are not the same thing, you shithead.

Cruz is following closely to insanity where Trump is already.

Q's expected to get a signal from Dump when he was speaking...but they didn't so now they're mad and decided to storm the Capitol

39% is nearly half the country?

Why is there no "fattening" thread for Cruz. He's just getting more and more hideous.

I had to mute Cruz. Just can't.

Would rather see the Q folks get rubber bulleted

He looks like he smells nasty. If he thinks he'll EVER be president, he's as crazy as he looks. Yes, he is getting FATTER by the day.

For R107 (as linked by r98):

STOP WAITING FOR DONALD TRUMP TO SAVE US.

STORM DC.

WE THE PEOPLE WILL TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK

WE THE PEOPLE ARE STRONGER THAN ANY ONE PERSON.

DC and Capitol police need to start using live ammo on those fascist traitors. Enough is enough.

Cruz is a ROUGH looking 50 years old.

What is this bullshit about how it's important to legitimize claims of fraud! Can't stand Cruz, he looks more and more like some alien race from Star Trek every time I see him. I SWEAR he is actively making his ears more ferengi...

Please, Texas, be the new Georgia.

R116 You should. These are best moments. We won and now we can enjoy this carbage trying to make sense. This is hilarious and tragic.

Where are the cops and why are the cunts not being shot?!

[quote]Cruz is a ROUGH looking 50 years old.

An ugly wife and a president- assassinating father can do that to a guy.

So what's stopping Democrats from objecting to all the red states? Make them have a 2-hr debate for every state. Make this go all week.

If they want to play this game, then use it against them.

Your wife is ugly and your daddy killed JFK.

39% of Republicans believe the election was rigged because of CRUZ's own “unprecedented allegations,”

This is his first 2024 campaign speech folks.

Cruz is hated by everyone in the Senate, both Dems and Repugs.

I mean, who does that?

A lot of the videos of the riots are from MAGAs, because they are the only ones stupid enough to be in the middle of the chaos.

Thus ... I don't mind the links to their Twitter feeds

They are using tear gas, and I've seen mace in some videos as well. The one video up thread had pepper spray and rubber bullets.

People keep saying the police aren't trying to stop these protestors, but they are. It'll keep escalating, too.

More:

Who is this Kimberly Guilfoyle wannabe shouting her entire five minute speech?

Today I have fallen in love with Amy Klobuchar.

First, the look on her face on CNN when they announce that Merrick Garland would be the next AG.

Now this.

Someone needs to hand Amy a box of staplers and let her go to work.

Cruz is such a POS. Yes, election fraud is a serious matter that should be investigated. Baseless claims of election fraud propagated by a deranged POTUS and his toadies, however, should be rejected by any sane person. Cruz is a POS because he knows the difference but stands up in the Senate chamber to pontificate about the sanctity of election integrity.

And by the way, a majority of Americans believe in universal healthcare. Is Cruz going to start a committee to investigate on whether UH should be considered? What if 39% of Americans believe in purple unicorns should be senators? Will Cruz investigate?

How awful do you have to be to make Moscow Mitch look like one of the good guys?

A reporter has a livestream on FB, link is here. Looks like an officer down right now.

The terrorists have broken the barricades and are attempting to get up the steps of the Capitol. 😡😡😡😡

r126, because when they go low, we get high. We don't have to assholes to get attention. Also, everyone is exhausted. I hope Diane Feinstein lives to see the end of it.

I do hope before the night is out that we get a Cousin Vinny moment from a fed up Democrat. As in, "Everything that guy just said is bullshit". And then just sit down.

MAGAs on Twitter are claiming the rioters are not really Trump supporters but imposters

LOL

Then call in the national Guard.

OK, these pundits can stop fellating Mitch McConnell now. One moment of scruples and ethics does not erase an entire career of being completely odious.

When you see those flowing crowds of all white Deplorables holding American flags, you know they are there not to celebrate Trump, but to denigrate "minorities": racial, sexual, etc. Trump was just their great white hope to banish all undesirables.

The National Guard supposedly sent 300 or so members to DC already, I don't know where they are.

[quote]We don't have to assholes

I have one asshole.

Livestream of riots:

CNN reporting that the Capitol is in lockdown. No one can get in or leave. Buildings were evacuated!

What I want to know is, what are they going to do if they get inside the Capitol? Kill all the Democrats? Kill everyone that’s not a Trumper? Kill Mike Pence? You never know with these people. For all we know, Trump has communicated to them that Pence is a traitor and he wants them to take revenge on Pence personally. He’s been saying if Pence didn’t do his bidding, he wouldn’t like him so much any more. Maybe they think that’s code for blame him for everything. Trump is literally telling them Pence can singlehandedly re-elect Trump, and Pence says he won’t. That’s treason to them.

[quote] The terrorists have broken the barricades and are attempting to get up the steps of the Capitol

What’s the crowd size?

[quote]Cruz is following closely to insanity where Trump is already.

Wouldn't stand up for his wife.

Wouldn't stand up for his father.

But he wants you to believe he's standing up for Americans.

It's tremendous, r151! Really something.

r151 see:

This is terrifying. The police seem to have lost control of the situation.

The crowd isn’t even that large? I thought the NG had been called in for a just in case. Where are they?

Okay R154, enough, the link has been posted three times now.

What are you talking about, R156? There are thousands there.

They can use the national guard so trump can take a walk, but not for this?

CNN is asking where the DC NF is right now. Lots of police apparently.

Sorry, r157. The thread is moving fast

People inside the Capitol complex told to stay away from windows and doors.

Turnabout is fair play. On Jan 20th, if Trump refuses to vacate, all of DC should descend on the White House and drag him and his administration out. A lot of MAGAs out today? How about 500K Washingtonians?

"People keep saying the police aren't trying to stop these protestors, but they are. It'll keep escalating, too."

What else do they have to do? Drive back to Kentucky and sit on the porch (disability, welfare, food stamps, child support)? The motel room/campground is already booked for tonight. They probably used their $600 (that the Democrats fought for 8 mos. to deliver to them) to travel to Warshintin.

[quote] What are you talking about, [R156]? There are thousands there.

I followed the link and only watched for less than a minute. The crowd looked to be about a couple of hundred at most from what I saw.

Is it only the Capitol police handling this? What is DCPD doing?

Trump thugs have broken one of the police lines next to the capitol building, on the east side.

Who's the designated survivor?

Andrea Mitchell: Protestors egged on by the president have taken hold of the Capitol steps. And I don't know how you get them out of there.

Pence was just hustled out of the Senate chamber.

Make these psychos Muslim and what do you think they would be called? Trump terrorists are invading our institutions.

I see like one mask for every 100 Deplorables.

[quote] What is DCPD doing?

This federal property. The Capitol Police have to request help from the National Guard and the DC MPD.

[quote]Who's the designated survivor?

Kiefer Sutherland

[quote] Q's expected to get a signal from Dump when he was speaking...but they didn't so now they're mad and decided to storm the Capitol

No they’re marching and rioting because Dump reoeatedly urged them to in his ‘speech’ today. And he’s been firing up his following on Twitter for days.

Breaking point of US created by Donald Trump. This is what he wanted. Terror. Those Trump followers have to remove from there. Democracy must win.

Look at the absolute chaos that Trump has created without any compunction. He is truly a vile and cancerous blight on this nation.

Yikes, they just put up a cross outside of the Capitol. Are they planning a crucify Pence (that would be ironic, you have to admit...)

And in the middle of all this, the Justice Dept reports that it's been hacked by Russia.

Holy shit Pence just taken out by Secret Service

A fucking failed reality TV star caused all this.

America, never change.

R175, as was posted earlier, many QAnoners were upset because Trump didn't give them a signal they had expected to get in the speech. There are some who are storming the Capitol Building because of that, saying they'll clear the swamp themselves.

America, please change.

oh, fuck, they're inside the Senate chamber

R173, then they better do it!

I swear, this is the time to hogtie a few of these losers. This is no longer a peaceful protests. If you leave them mobile, they're keep pushing until they get into the Senate and House chambers.

Good move to get Pence into a safe location, Trump threw him under the bus and these thugs are coming for him.

The Senate chamber already announced a plan to lock everyone in a few minutes ago, the protestors are outside the chamber, they're not in it. At least not yet.

THIS IS INSANE!!!

Police still holding them out of the Senate chamber for now.

But Antifa and BLM!

Pence is a bunker bitch

How were they not prepared for this FUBAR???

How could this happen?

So here is the coup we've been predicting for months..

Senate has recessed, for obvious reasons.

They should arrest Trump and take him away right now. He's egging his fans on.

Senate chamber being evacuated.

SHOOT THOSE TREASONOUS MOTHERFUCKERS!

AND ARREST DUMP!

Trump egging them on:

The cops are apparently trying to reason with the protestors.

Unbelievable.

Trump's tweet:

Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!

Come on Pence. 25th Amendment NOW.

A single police officer trying to quell dozens of rioters inside the Capitol Building

Trumps Twitter account and the White House account need to be shut down right now.

Someone on MSNBC said there are protesters inside the Capitol.

This is pathetic. America is fucking pathetic.

Trump is inciting a coup via Twitter. Why are they letting him?

Seriously.

Protestors demanding to see the Senators.

Rotunda door just breached.

ARREST EVERY FUCKING LAST ONE OF THEM FOR SEDITION

Fucking low-IQ horde. And they're just letting them trample this whole thing. Appeasing them. Disgusting.

Protestors demanding to see the Senators.

Now is the time to send Ted Cruz out behind locked down to go see his people

Where the fuck are the police? If these were people of color, they would have been shot by now.

This is utterly disgusting. This nation is disgusting. I'm sick of this shit.

Watching the video of them in Statuary Hall...at least the statues are safe, I suppose.

Senator Sherrod Brown reported they're all still in the chambers, locked in but safe for now.

Where the fuck are the police?

Why are the Capitol Police allowing these people to roam?! This is chilling.

I don't understand how this could happen, I thought we had much better security for the Capitol Building, but there's a handful of cops at best.

If they break into the Senate chambers, they're going to kill Senators. We don't have anything to stop this? When did that happen?

"terrorist" is trending on Twitter

So the police are all trump supporters? Is that what’s going on?

The Capitol police are trying to deescalate things.

Deescalation is in fashion.

God forbid they use stun guns, handcuff them, and drag them away.

It was always going to end this way

Bet all you people who said there wouldn’t be a coup are feeling mighty stupid now

They're practicing Seattle and Portland policing. Because of the "important reckoning" we're having with police use of force.

The mayor of DC can't call in the National Guard, apparently. If that's true, then who can call them in? Trump?

Yawn, troll at r224 is trying to blame liberals and bitching about Portland

[quote]If that's true, then who can call them in? Trump?

Surely you jest!

R226, that's seriously what's happening. They're practicing deescalation.

Please block me, fact-denying cunt.

Um, yup

The capitol police are accomplices

The capitol police are apparently the ones who are supposed to call in the Guard if they need them, and they haven't.

Which makes you wonder why they haven't, doesn't it?

I had a job interview at 2, and I just got off and turned on my TV. WTF happened?

This is bullshit. For months, police have been shooting peaceful protesters in the face with rubber bullets and cracked the skulls of old men, but they can't fucking flash-bomb a seditious mob.

Shameful and fucking embarrassing that this asshole was even within smelling distance of the White House.

Vanilla ISIS is showing us exactly why they are the biggest terrorist threat to the USA.

Senators being evacuated.

R228 = freeper, fact-denying cunt.

Why doesn't Pence 25 Trump and call in the National Guard himself?

He has burned his last bridge with Trump anyway

Won't someone please think of poor Miss Lindsey? I'm sure she's having an attack of the vapors!

Trump just tweeted his support for the Capitol police, so I'm guessing they have no intention of stopping these terrorists and never did.

[quote]Please block me, fact-denying cunt.

Why don't you go back to the Georgia Runoff threads and talk about how you wish a Repug had won one of the races again, you piece of shit? Get the fuck out of here.

R226 is Boris, everyone. Just FYI.

R241 is triggered.

The National Guard has been spotted and seem to be gearing up.

"Civil War" is now trending on Twitter.

The cosplaying, Call of Duty-expert MAGAts have to ask themselves -- do they *really* wanna go to "war" with actual soldiers? I for one would love to see it.

I guess it was Pelosi who requested the Guard. Since the fucking Capitol Kops wouldn't do it.

Any one who supports Trump will always be considered to be a traitor from this point on.

The UN needs to send in peace keepers as well

About fucking time.

Buy SPX puts everyone. Everyone's making tons now. If there's shooting people are going to make milliions.

I love it that the DC National Guardsmen are mostly black.

You want a race war, you fucking fascist Trumptards? Here's your fucking race war.

Do you suppose any of Trump's supporters have noticed he told them to march on the Capitol and then ran and hid in the White House? Do they not see what a little pussy he is? Even Hitler actually marched during his putsch.

These people have been saying they’ were going to do this for a month now. How the FUCK were they not prepared?

Holy fucking shit

Former DC Police Chief on CNN now. He said "Trump should shut the hell up!" Even called him a cancer!

Rioters being contained in part of the building

Today is the only day the Senate can contest. If they can't continue, these assholes have shot themselves in the foot, no?

They're not "protesters," they're [bold]TRUMP TERRORISTS.[/bold]

If I'm understanding correctly, the mayors of cities have to ask their governors to call in the National Guard. The DC mayor doesn't have a governor, so she has to ask the government, and she got permission to get the Guard staged, but then she couldn't have them deploy. Apparently someone in the police or government had to do it, so since Trump wouldn't obviously and the police weren't doing it, Pelosi called them in.

The rioters are in the Senate chambers right now.

Oh sorry r254, didn't realize you'd already posted.

Someone needs to fire every single fucking one of these cops.

I like Ramsey but he keeps saying who could have seen this coming or who could have anticipated this? ME, motherfucker. Millions of us saw this coming. We've been screaming this day was coming for four years and people called us hysterical Marys. Believe us now?

Matt Fuller of the Huffington Post is reporting shots fired in the Senate chamber.

Romney apparently yelled at his fellow Republicans for being the cause of all this.

They’ve been talking about doing this on public forums for weeks now. Everyone knew their plans. This was a failure of Washington DC, capitol police, DC police

Not a failure.

The cops did this on purpose.

Now shots are being fired in the chambers in the Capitol Building by Trump's terrorists.

The Mittster is right this time

Make that money, people. SPX puts for today. 3730s.

We've been an embarrassment to the rest of the world since November of 2016 -- this is just icing on the cake.

National guard has been denied

This is a government coup

It is a coup attempt.

I can’t breathe.

Defense department has denied DC's request for national guard.

as someone said earlier - the police totally let this happen intentionally.

Per CNN: "Federal and local law enforcement responding to reports of possible pipe bombs across DC"

Looks like the police shot a MAGABitch. Thoughts and prayers and yadda yadda.

The US government is behind held hostage by terrorists. As a country we don’t recover from this.

They just wheeled a woman out on a stretcher covered in blood.

The Defense Dept can override the House? Honest question.

[quote]As a country we don’t recover from this.

Fuck off. We recovered from the Civil War

[quote]They just wheeled a woman out on a stretcher covered in blood.

Please let it be Joni Ernst.

Well, they won't let the Guard or the Army in, the cops won't do their job, so they should probably try to convene wherever they're at (i.e. in the safe room) and impeach/convict Trump or invoke the 25th.

[quote]National guard has been denied This is a government coup

Who denied it, one of Dump's lackeys? Can't the military generals override this?

I hate that this is happening but how can any political figure, Fox News, Rupert Murdoch and OAN still support these people. This should be the end of Trump and his ilk. Anyone who still supports Trump after this will be toxic.

r282 I don't know, but keep in mind Trump fired all the DoD leaders and installed his lackeys last month.

The Generals can defy the order but it came from the Dept of Defense, and they'd have to have a good argument about why the DOD's order was illegal.

It doesn’t even look like there are police outside

insane

They should just burn the place down. They've already destroyed what it symbolizes.

The crazy thing about this is that Trump has lost and he won't be president no matter what the outcome of this coup is. He just won't. The country could be on fire and as long as Biden or Harris or Pelosi were still alive on Inauguration Day, they would be president, not Trump.

They’re just letting people walk around the floor of the senate. What the fuck?

In the Senate chamber, standing around, looking at things.

We're so Third World.

Pathetic.

They're trying to break in on the second floor of the Capitol Building.

CNN finally calling it a coup.

The cops need to just start shooting the protestors, they will disperse quickly.

Greatest country in the world!

F*ck this seditious twat.

F*ck this seditious twat.

[quote]I hate that this is happening but how can any political figure, Fox News, Rupert Murdoch and OAN still support these people. This should be the end of Trump and his ilk. Anyone who still supports Trump after this will be toxic

This is about white men desperately afraid of losing power; it started with electing a black president and the near-election of a female president. An extremely-diverse congress is the final straw.

Montgomery Co. (MD) cops in riot gear suiting up.

I’d imagine the objections are over now

I honestly can't tell but I think this is the Secret Service in the chambers, pointing guns at the protestors.

r300- I bet not.

There’s about a thousand people there. Maybe a hundred inside. The capitol police couldn’t handle this? Or did they want it to happen

The foreign media are marveling at this chaos. E.g., BBC News right now. People are laughing in shock (not in mockery).

Stupid man plays stupid games....

Chuck Todd being an apologist on MSNBC.

Someone probably just missed a memo. Like in the Mueller investigation, he thought the FBI was going to get the tax returns and the FBI thought that HE was going to get them. OOPS.

Did I just see congress members with guns in the chamber??

You know r303...

I think that's Secret Service, R308.

Mitt was screaming at the Republicans.

Kinzinger has called it a coup

Cops are complicit. The capitol police needs to be investigated

Well over 1000 people there but yes, only hundreds in the Capitol Building.

Federal Protective Service and Secret Service are just now being deployed.

The guns in the chambers we saw were pointed by capitol police, per Bloomberg.

Trump should be impeached and removed TONIGHT

We won’t make it two more weeks

[quote]People are laughing in shock (not in mockery).

Oh, I'm pretty sure many are mocking us, too.

I am in shock. Anybody else shaking a bit?

25th Amendment NOW

These terrorists are still roaming the house floor. Wow.

I support Impeachment right after we certify the vote. Get it done by tomorrow!

China offers a different model for the world.

Oh NOW they're trying to regain control of the building.

Trump tweets "don't be violent" or some shit and then the cops start doing their jobs.

Since Pence is now on the presidential shit list, it seems now is as good a time as any to grow a fucking pair and 25th the asshole.

Certify the vote, then invoke the 25th.

They have to or else we're lost.

[quote] Trump should be impeached and removed TONIGHT

I agree but the Senate Republicans still wouldn't do it, if they were afraid of these people before they will really be afraid of them now. They are traitors and cowards.

The woman who was shot is in critical condition.

This can’t be allowed to stand. It just can’t. He has to be punished for this.

What R312 said.

Biden must refuse to ride to the capitol with Trump... in the unlikely event it happens. And if Trump dares show, they should all turn their backs on him.

[quote]I am in shock. Anybody else shaking a bit?

I live in D.C., so, yeah.

They’re replacing the US flag over the capitol with a trump flag

Will it be safe for Biden to be inaugurated on the steps of the Capital in 14 days?

Jake Tapper just raised the 25th on CNN.

Everyone on TV is saying "The president needs to call this off."

Retards. Like he's really going to do that.

Biden better have ALL the seditious fucks arrested January 20th; let them know this isn't some motherfucking game!

R330, stay safe. Fucking hell this is awful.

Couldn't the police just have locked the front doors? That place is normally like Fort Knox, but not today it seems.

[quote]Everyone on TV is saying "The president needs to call this off."

Does anyone think that would actually make any difference at this point?

Tapper is going hard on the 25th.

I do wonder why those doors weren't locked. They have security doors for a reason. They were locked and then, suddenly, they weren't.

Strong words

[quote]The woman who was shot is in critical condition.

Good -- let that cunt literally die on the Failed Businessman/Retail Magnate/Reality Show Host/President hill.

What are foreign media saying?

If Trump asks for TV time to speak to the nation, I hope they won't give it to him. Twitter should ban him right now.

R332 There’s just no way.

I hope the cunt that was shot lives for two weeks as a vegetable in unbearable pain

Biden can be inaugurated anywhere, that's the least of our worries.

Finally some actual police there. Thanks to Governor Northam

All of these repubs saying that Trump needs to claw this off are weak! Trump needs to be impeached and tried for treason, full stop. All of these fuckers are complicit - all of this terror and any blood shed are on their hands.

[quote]Couldn't the police just have locked the front doors? That place is normally like Fort Knox, but not today it seems.

They're breaking the windows. But Antifa and BLM are the "terrorist groups". Right...

Just what does CNN think that Frothy Mix has to add to the discussion of this situation?

The Capitol Police Board needs to have some good answers for this.

[quote]I hope the cunt that was shot lives for two weeks as a vegetable in unbearable pain

How do you know she wasn't a reporter or a Democrat or another innocent bystander?

I love that all these pictures of the protesters are being taken, I hope the police track everyone of these people down that they can identify.

The vote counting will commence as soon as the capitol is secure, per Hakeem Jeffries.

Rioter is sitting at Pelosi's desk, putting his feet up on it. Disgusting.

R353, the video of her after being shot shows her in MAGA gear.

Trump agreed to order the National Guard in, supposedly.

Some worthless piece of shit broke in to Pelosi's office.

It’s great they’re all anti maskers, since we have clear shots of their faces. Will make it easy to arrest them.

Cops taking selfies with the thugs.

Terrorists contained to one area, they're now just clearing them out.

DC National Guard is on the scene.

So they can happily go there way?

The terrorists even knew where Nancy's private office was to be found...

R365 her office is right off the rotunda with a big sign in front of it. It’s not hard to find.

*their way I mean

It doesn't seem like they're making arrests, R364. Unbelievable.

The capitol police let them stroll right in.

Biden has his work cut out for him

Got this from another thread: Pence has unfollowed Donald Trump on Twitter.

No arrests it seems ... fortunately the terrorists are not black.

They’re really just letting this happen.

Makes you wonder what's going to happen on inauguration day, R372.

[quote]The capitol police let them stroll right in.

And now they appear to be letting them stroll right out.

Remember when Ghoul-iani called for trial by combat?

Why is our nation the globe's freak show? The ongoing HBO drama everyone's watching? Why do we have to live like this?

Biden is speaking

Should calm us all down

The police are complicit with the racist terrorists.

Biden speaking live now, calling this an insurrection.

I suspect some capitol police will be losing their jobs very soon, Nancy and even Mitch aren't going to stand for their taking selfies with the traitor terrorists.

The RNC device was detonated by a bomb squad.

Biden correctly called this an insurrection.

R380 that vid did not appear to be showing selfie taking. But the police still have a lot of explaining to do. Meanwhile the provisions of the Constitution have successfully been dusrupted.

R383, I'm pretty sure that's exactly what it's showing.

The FBI swat team is there

Rachel Maddow is PISSED.

[quote] Rachel Maddow is PISSED.

That's what she gets for urging prayers for Trump's recovery from COVID.

I wonder if any Russian "diplomats" left bugs in some offices.

The first sentence from Roller Nazi is 14 words.

Trump’s newly released propaganda will ensure his cult terrorists continue this shit on his behalf.

[quote] The first sentence from Roller Nazi is 14 words.

I didn’t think I could hate that fucker any more than I already did. 😡😡😡😡

Yes, tRump’s statement was delivered to say “I don’t really mean any of this shit that they are forcing me to say.”

I’m scared for what happens after sundown, and when the vote is finally certified. These people have to go home eventually right?

[quote]How do you know she wasn't a reporter or a Democrat or another innocent bystander?

She was a MAGAKaren who thought she could get in the face of an armed police officer.

People should have taken these people literally. They’ve been openly planning on doing this for weeks. This was a massive failure on the part of everyone involved.

[quote]I’m scared for what happens after sundown,

A 6PM curfew was ordered prior to this shit.

R395 not failure, complicity.

It was a massive CONSPIRACY. FIFY

Illhan Omar is drafting articles of impeachment

They locked his earlier tweet about Pence

We could use a blizzard right about now

The police, what little are there, are just letting people stay there

A delightful thread

Miss Lindsey already changing her tune

Lindsay just said that because the protesters have been cleared out so there’s no chance of being ravaged.

Thank you Beto.

Although it's kind of like speaking truth to a slug.

[quote]so there’s no chance of being ravaged.

Well there goes his evening.

W’affisuh, ,Ah hud sheltah in place an Ah found maseff in this position with mah trowsahs just as you see ‘em. If you must cavity search, you must, of course.

I would tell Graham to eat a bag of dicks but he would enjoy it. He has been Trump's biggest enabler, the POS.

Typical Trump - egg on violence and then say be peaceful too late

This was a trial run. I have no faith in this country.

Woman, shot in the Capitol, has died.

This is going on in downtown Los Angeles; the police seem to be half-assing getting involved.

Not that it matters to him nor is it surprising but of course, Ted Cruz is beyond shaming.

How did they get inside? Why wasn’t it protected better? Lots of questions and investigations ahead.

Capitol Police needs to roll a few heads. They're supposed to be protecting the most important leaders of the USA? Fucking keystone koppers.

America r413.

Land of hope and freedom.

Trump adds more fuel to the fire:

These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!

R413, just messaged my senior citizen mom to go home. I checked her location and she's not far from DTLA. Told her to be home by sundown. Who knows what idiots will get up to as nigh falls.

There’s video of them being LET IN BY POLICE R415. It’s been linked in this thread.

OP was prescient in his thread title reference to ‘shenanigans’.

I'll tell you what's going to happen next. If those lawmakers don't get out of that Capitol building now, a plane is going to crash into it. This whole faux putsch was a distraction for allowing this to happen.

This is all TEW MUCH.

Unreal how this all unraveled. I watched Dump’s speech on C-SPAN and it seemed like a pretty small and unenthusiastic crowd. Next thing I knew a mob had breached the Capitol building and Congress was evacuated to a “secure location.” How TF was this mess allowed to happen??

Miss Cocks has stated her boundaries.

Times is saying that Pence ordered National Guard in, not Trump.

DC police report only 13 arrests have been made.

There were 13 POC involved in r427?

Paul Gosar is blaming "antifa" on twitter

Why wouldn't he?

All these terrorists who have hotel reservations in the DC area need to have their reservations canceled immediately. They should be forced to sleep on the streets in the cold.

[quote]They should be forced to sleep on the streets in the cold.

They should be forced to sleep in prison cells.

Is this real?

Did everyone see the emergency broadcast system test that was conducted just as Speaker Pelosi was speaking at 1pm? Strange, as those test are usually held at 2am.

Liz Cheney: "We just had a violent mob assault the US capitol ... No question the President formed the mob, the President incited the mob, the President addressed the mob. He lit the flame."

Facebook has removed Dump's video from this afternoon. Too little to late, to say the least.

Trump ain’t leaving office willingly

So Pence seems to be giving the orders now? Where's Dump? Hmmm.

Well, that didn't take long for 2021 to become a dumpster fire.

2022? Come on down!

More rats are jumping ship. One of the maga Repugs in Congress just announced she's dropped her objections to Biden/Harris election victory.

[quote]Trump ain’t leaving office willingly

Why even allow him back into the office?

I want to punch Lester Holt who allowed some cockroach who will still commit sedition to "both sides" this crap. Holt said nothing. Didn't push back at all.

Twitter has locked his account.

Locked for 12 hours only.

Impeachment next please.

Has Jake Angeli been arrested?

Odd how the intruders didn't trash the place, didn't even disturb papers/files on the desks in the Senate chamber nor in Nancy's private office: just sat in chairs and posed here and there and took selfies with the police. Didn't daub statues with paint or deface oil paintings... Not the usual behavior of the mob.

R446 but they did though

[quote]didn't even disturb papers/files on the desks in the Senate chamber nor in Nancy's private office

This man took Nancy's mail from her office.

[quote]Odd how the intruders didn't trash the place

They broke the glass to get into the House Chamber.

Kansas City Star:

No one other than President Donald Trump himself is more responsible for Wednesday’s coup attempt at the U.S. Capitol than one Joshua David Hawley, the 41-year-old junior senator from Missouri, who put out a fundraising appeal while the siege was underway.

No longer can it be asked, as George Will did recently of Hawley, “Has there ever been such a high ratio of ambition to accomplishment?” Hawley’s actions in the last week had such impact that he deserves an impressive share of the blame for the blood that’s been shed.

Thoughtful of him to give us nice clear photographic evidence, R448.

Jake Angeli needs a good hate fucking.

Jake is hotter with his horns.

Did I hear right that Congress is going to reconvene at 8:00 PM? They can't know yet if the building is safe. I worked in a large old building once and we had a bomb threat. We were immediately sent home and stayed home the next day since it took quite a while to search all of the old nooks and crannies.

[quote] Jake Angeli needs a good hate fucking.

Sounds like he'll soon be cage meat. Up to 20 years.

Yes r446, that was mighty white of them

Sarah Palin on Fox blaming the media and Antifa for today’s mayhem.

[quote]I love that all these pictures of the protesters are being taken, I hope the police track everyone of these people down that they can identify.

The building is FILLED with security cameras.

[quote]Rioter is sitting at Pelosi's desk, putting his feet up on it. Disgusting.

It's kind of funny it's the Speaker's ceremonial office that she doesn't use really use, except for the bathroom.

[quote]steps of the Capital

Oh, dear

I can see the Capitol dome three blocks away here from my living room, and the lights are on in the tholos beneath the Freedom statue on top. Congress is in session.

[quote]Odd how the intruders didn't trash the place, didn't even disturb papers/files on the desks in the Senate chamber nor in Nancy's private office: just sat in chairs and posed here and there and took selfies with the police. Didn't daub statues with paint or deface oil paintings... Not the usual behavior of the mob.

Odd how you didn't see the complete opposite of the bullshit you just claimed. Odd you didn't see they did destroy property as Secret Service tried to protect members. Odd that you think it's perfectly to normal to just go into the SoH office. Odd that you didn't see they took Pelosi's nameplate among other things. Odd you didn't hear they found a pipebomb left outside the RNC.

You're a fucking cunt. You think what has happened today is NOTHING? You shit.

Correction: Pipebombs at RNC, DNC and Capitol building

Last time I checked, stealing someone's mail was a federal crime.

"Tholos"

That's cool that you know that word, R459. Thanks. Now I learned it.

Anderson Cooper just now:

"These insurrectionists wore the colors of a very small man who once was considered the leader of the free world."

Pence talking. Ready for the minimizing.

Pence speaking now, session is back on

They’ve reconvened. Pence speaking now (on C-SPAN 2.)

Wtf @ his heavy breathing

A majority of mainstream Americans who pay attention are disgusted, right?

[quote]I love that all these pictures of the protesters are being taken, I hope the police track everyone of these people down that they can identify.

A couple of US Attorneys have already said they will prosecute any terrorist from their state who went there to do this.

Pence saying all the right things but it rings hollow after his four-year defense of a madman.

Pence is pissed. He’s so done with Trump

McConnell: “We will not be intimidated by thugs.”

R459

That was a strong statement from Pence. You can tell how angry he is

R470 There are surveillance cameras all over the Capitol and DC. Every one of these idiots will be hunted down and arrested.

[quote]Pence is pissed. He’s so done with Trump

He's a shit, but for someone who never displays emotion, he displayed about as much emotion as I've ever seen. He is very angry. That hard breathing was anger...when normally, it's a nice rentboy.

Does Mitch have Hawley and Cruz tied up in the basement?

Pence was loyal for four years and in an instant Trump flipped on that and made him enemy #1 to the deplorables. His life was seriously in danger today. I’d be pissed too.

[quote] There are surveillance cameras all over the Capitol and DC. Every one of these idiots will be hunted down and arrested.

Why hunt them down? They should have been arrested at the locus in quo.

What are the people in your life saying about this? Are they angry and disgusted, like most of us?

They are back on with the peoples business. Let's do this now and get it over with.

[quote]Sarah Palin on Fox blaming the media and Antifa for today’s mayhem.

Whores gotta whore.

We're just amazed there weren't more arrests and more damage to property.

“A day that will live in infamy.”

Did Chuck Schumer just call Pence "Mr President" ?!

R486, he's the president of the Senate when he's there.

MARY! I know but it’s making emotional seeing them all right back in there and keeping on. I still have hope for America

[quote] Did Chuck Schumer just call Pence "Mr President" ?!

The Vice President is the President of the Senate.

[quote] Did Chuck Schumer just call Pence "Mr President" ?!

The Vice President is the President of the Senate.

r486, he is president of the Senate. So he called him Mr. President.

Ooh Schumer just dropped the “THUG” bomb. Twice. This after McConnell dropped it too.

[quote] Under the Constitution, the vice president serves as the president of the Senate and presides over the Senate's daily proceedings. In the absence of the vice president, the Senate's president pro tempore (and others designated by him) presides.

How many people were arrested?

Anyone who sits in the chair presiding over the senate is referred to as Mr or Madame President

I loved that they stayed there and are actually moving on with this.

Only 12 or 13 people were arrested.

[quote]Pence was loyal for four years and in an instant Trump flipped on that and made him enemy #1 to the deplorables. His life was seriously in danger today. I’d be pissed too.

Let me tell you something: I'm just a NYer, I don't work in politics (although I know a congressperson), but every fucking NYer could have told you that Donald J. Trump has never -not to his wives, his children, his business partners or his "friends"- EVER returned the loyalty he was given. If he had a stack of napkins and saw that idiot who died for him, bleeding on the ground, he wouldn't spare even square to stop the bleeding

I saw somewhere that 13 were arrested, R494.

R488 Especially since it’s getting past bedtime for a lot of them. Grassley, Feinstein and all the other octogenarians.

R495 it's Madam President.

Oh dear.

R460 you are funny.

[quote]Whores gotta whore.

DUMB whores gotta whore.

Lankford is so hot.

Joanie Ernst is looking very concerned.

It can happen here

Trump’s supporters storm the Capitol to block the transfer of power

The mayhem is unlike any in living memory

Jan 6th 2021

INSTEAD OF THE dull, pro-forma ritual that normally marks the joint session of Congress that certifies a presidential victory, Washington today experienced what was at best a riot, at worst an insurrection. Soon after the joint session began, hundreds of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol building, chanting “Stop the steal”, tearing down fencing, overwhelming the police and forcing their way in. Police evacuated staffers from Hill office buildings. Both chambers of Congress adjourned (they were debating an objection made by Paul Gosar, a far-right congressman from Arizona, to his own state’s certified results—an objection that won him a round of applause from his caucus). The secret service whisked Vice-President Mike Pence away. Police even reportedly began evacuating private homes near the Capitol.

Some trouble had been expected, but of the procedural kind. Usually, the vice-president opens sealed state certifications of victory in alphabetical order, hands them to “tellers”—usually members of the two chambers’ administration committees—to read, and then announces the results. It lasted 23 minutes in 2013, and 41 in 2017. This time, around two-thirds of the House Republican caucus, along with at least 11 senators, had already announced their plans to object to some states’ results. Every objection adjourns the joint session for up to two hours’ debate. The end was not in doubt—majorities of the House and Senate have already said they would recognise Joe Biden’s victory, and the objections were thoroughly groundless. But many Republicans were prepared to show fealty to a roundly defeated president to stretch out the process well into the evening. What ultimately happened was much worse.

It did not come out of the blue. Late last year, in one of his innumerable evidence-free tweets alleging electoral malfeasance, Mr Trump trailed a “Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!” For days leading up to the 6th, Trump supporters discussed plans for the rally: how to sneak guns into Washington, DC; whether to storm the Capitol, burn it down or assault journalists; how Washington’s mayor needed to be “exterminated” and how they needed to “build the gallows outside Congress, be mentally prepared to pull ‘em out and string them up.”

Shortly before noon—an hour before the joint session was due to begin—Mr Trump told his massed supporters, “We will never concede.” He said that Mr Pence had to “send it back to the states to recertify, and then we become president.” Mr Pence has no such power, as he himself recognised in a letter sent to lawmakers shortly before the joint session. Mr Trump then told his supporters to “walk down...to the Capitol...you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong.”

They followed his instructions, leading to scenes inside the Capitol unlike any in living memory. A mob stormed the Senate floor, seated themselves at the dais and broke into congressional offices. One was photographed reclining in the chair of Nancy Pelosi, the House speaker, with a foot on her desk. Police used tear gas, and drew their guns on the House floor to keep the mob out. A woman was shot and killed inside the building, but the circumstances were unclear. Staffers and elected officials who could not leave the Capitol were told to shelter in place and stay away from doors and windows. The National Guard from surrounding states were being summoned to help restore order.

...

Lankford's rose-gold hair! La Senatrice must be seething with envy.

Only 13 arrests. This was an inside job.

...

By late afternoon, with the members of Congress evacuated, the joint session still had not resumed. A pipe bomb was found and neutralised at the Republican National Committee’s headquarters; a suspicious package was found at the Democrats’ headquarters. Muriel Bowser, Washington’s mayor, declared a curfew from 6pm to 6am. Mr Biden called the mob’s actions “an assault on the rule of law” that “borders on sedition”. Eventually Mr Trump released a video message telling his supporters to go home, but repeated the lie that the election was stolen from him and added: “We love you. You’re very special.” One can easily imagine America’s State Department—at least in the pre-Trump era—witnessing such events in another country and calling them an attempted coup.

The mob storming the halls of Congress represents the logical end of Trumpism. He rose to power claiming that he alone could set right what ails America. He repeatedly declined to accept as legitimate any election he did not win. He displayed contempt for political norms and the rule of law, fantasised about arresting and harming his political opponents, and consistently put his own interests ahead of America’s. He holds a sizeable minority of the electorate in personal thrall; it should surprise nobody that some responded violently.

The attempts by both the mob and Mr Trump’s congressional allies to overturn the result of November’s election will fail, but it has still shaken American politics and the country’s place in the world. The pride Americans have rightly felt at the resilience of their institutions, including the peaceful transfer of presidential power, is diminished. The question now is whether the jarring spectacle makes breaking up with Mr Trump easier for Republicans. It certainly should. When he entered office four years ago, Republicans controlled the White House and both chambers of Congress; when he leaves, Democrats will hold all three. The last time that happened was 1892.

R504 I like her leopard-print mask. Very chic.

How can any asshole try to fight to keep Trump in power after today and also claim they are against what happened today?

I do find it ironic seeing these senators thanking the same policemen that allowed the Trumpists to storm the Capitol.

R510 We’ll see what Cruz, Hawley et al do now.

Cruz and Hawley will double down on their treason, wait and see.

The reason given for the lack of more arrests is that it takes a considerable amount of resources to arrest people and they didn’t want to divert law enforcement from trying to regain order in a chaotic situation.

Maybe. I’m dubious.

R514 that is plausible but why did the police let the thugs into the Capitol in the first place?

What is going on? Is everyone going to give a speech to condemn the insurrection? Get back to voting!

Fuck Cruz. Let him dig his own grave a little deeper

R516 they’re still in the two hours of debate over Arizona. They have to complete that. They’re running out the clock

My god

Hopefully no senators join

Expel this fucker!

Kelly Loeffler is up now & she is NO LONGER OBJECTING 😲

Loser Loeffler says:

Loeffler came to her senses.

Defeated GA Senator Loeffler is saying she will no longer object..

I'm sorry, who? I couldn't hear you over the sound of some Nazi cunt from Georgia LOSING.

She didn't come to her senses -She lost, so she gains nothing by continuing to lick Trump's ass.

Loeffler got applause at the end of her remarks.

Why is Loeffler even there, this is a new congress, she was appointed to the previous congress, this is a new congress with the new senators, she was defeated.

Loeffler sounded super deflated. Her speech was short & while she still said she had issues with some voting procedures, it was not worth arguing tonight.

Smelly Kelly’s term technically ends in 2022. He remains in the senate until Warnock is sworn in

Langford and Loeffler withdrew their objections, and Blackburn looked like she wanted to crawl into a hole and die when Lee was speaking (she was to his left).

I wanna spend the night with Ben Sasse

Sasse is pretty good. He also said "kicking Hitler's ass" just now.

[quote] Why is Loeffler even there, this is a new congress, she was appointed to the previous congress, this is a new congress with the new senators, she was defeated.

I thought her term came to an end on Sunday.

R534, watch the Kardashians or turn on Bravo.

What the fuck with dr. Ladies bits?

The 117th United States Congress came to an end on Jan 3rd so why is Loeffler there? Can someone please explain sans le snark?

R537 she was an appointed senator. The term she was appointed to ends in 2022. Her election last night was a special election. She will be the senator until Warnock is sworn in, and he takes over the remainder of the term. He will have to run again in 2022.

Acosta CNN… deputy White House press secretary has resigned.

Do people think Josh Hawley will still object?

Thanks R538.

Hawsshole speaking.

Jesus Christ, these Senate Speeches are pretty damn awesome. Duckworth made me cry. Bennet made me pump my fist. Rand Fucking Paul put things bluntly: Overturning the will of the voters is not Constitutional.

By the way Booker: Edmund Pettus bridge isn’t in Georgia 😬

Hawley doubling down. What an asshole

Did that Hawley bastard just say "irregardless"?

Oh, dear!

[quote] Hawley doubling down. What an asshole

Unsurprising. He’s a fucking jackass. Heinous.

Told you so!

He will be the most hated man in the senate. I’m sure all of them just want to go home.

Hopefully he’ll only object to PA.

Hawley’s an illiterate punk. Someone needs to off him.

LMAO R545

My ears perked up when I heard that. Fucking idiot.

[quote] Did that Hawley bastard just say "irregardless"?

I’m glad Kelly Fondue backed off Georgia.

As awful as today was, nothing gives me greater pleasure than Twitter blocking Trump.

Think of him raging around the White House without his Twitter.

So Hawley will probably object to PA but that should be it, right? The house will object to more but doesn’t seem like any senator will join

Is it just this and then they go to the letter C? I hope Feinstein has some extra Depends.

From Merriam-Webster about the use of the word “irregardless”:

[quote] [bold] Remember that a definition is not an endorsement of a word’s use. [/bold]

“Irregardless” is NOT a word nor is “impactful” and I don’t give a fuck what NPR says. Anyone who uses either of those words is immediately branded an illiterate moron.

Also from Merriam-Webster:

Is irregardless slang? We label irregardless as “nonstandard” rather than “slang.” When a word is nonstandard it means it is “not conforming in pronunciation, grammatical construction, idiom, or word choice to the usage generally characteristic of educated native speakers of a language.” Irregardless is a long way from winning general acceptance as a standard English word. For that reason, it is best to use regardless instead.

I can’t wait for Senator Susan Collins to speak I think she’ll really shake things up.

La Sénatrice..... may be drunk.

Who's this fat queen on my TV?

He’s hammered.

Is she on something or what?

Miss Lindsey queening out on the floor now

Ecstasy

She’s been drinking

Miss Lindsey is disgusting. She’s already trying to get back in Biden’s good graces

Can you blame him?

Girl is about to start taking it off any minute!

The Senatrix is so damn folksy

It seems the Senatrice has had a bit of "The Recipe":

Meth

How did Cruz vote?

Mrs. Feinstein?

Feinstein: Twenty on the foreign girl to hootchie cootchie!

r574, it sounded like he said "aye".

Fuck him.

I think we just saw Miss Lindsay workshopping his own musical.

I think we just saw Miss Lindsay workshopping his own musical.

Part 2

The terrorists were after the Elector votes. They were going to destroy them. There was a carefully orchestrated plot, disguised as impromptu Deplorable chaos.

Trace it all the way back to the Oval Office.

If they did find and destroy the votes - couldn't they just reprint new ones?

[quote]If they did find and destroy the votes - couldn't they just reprint new ones?

Duh. You are aware that every state has records of their electoral votes, are you not?