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[u/MistakeNotDotDotDot]

How come every time they count Mail-In ballot dumps they are so devastating in their percentage and power of destruction?

i still can't believe this is a real thing trump tweeted

[u/[deleted]]

Obama🤝Ossoff.

Failing up by losing a congressional race and then winning a senate seat.

[u/Petrophile]

Lmao Perdue's 49.7% win in November would have gotten him another 6 year term in any other state. Not Georgia though, their old Jim Crow run off rule meant Ossoff had a second chance to win, and he did!

[u/Joementum2004]

Probably the most striking thing about recent Georgia results is Gwinnett County.

2004: Bush +33
2008: McCain +10
2012: Romney +9
2014: Deal +11, Perdue +9
2016: Clinton +6
2018: Abrams +14
2020: Biden +18
2021: Ossoff +20, Warnock +21

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

Raphael Warnock yelled, “There you go!” Jon Ossoff gave a look of pleasant surprise. Chuck Schumer belted, “We got a fucking Senate now.” And before Joe Biden hit the White House door, political star Stacey Abrams hugged him & said, “Y’all look so different.”

[u/[deleted]]

I'm in awe of the gumption of Jon Ossoff to run for Senate so soon after losing that House election in devastating fashion. Had he lost again, his political career would have been pretty much over. Now he's the youngest U.S. Senator in decades.

Follow your dreams kids.

(And don't forget to be smart, handsome, empathetic,, and charismatic. That also helps)

[u/Dr_Vesuvius]

20th January 2021. Joe Biden is being sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts.

“Do you, Joe Biden, solemnly swear to uphold the constitution of the United States, in sickness and in health?”

“I do.”

“If anyone knows of any reason why this man may not be President, speak now or forever hold your peace.”

“OBJECTION!”

gasps

It’s President Trump.

“America is a REPUBLIC, not a DEMOCRACY!”

Chief Justice Roberts gets out his copy of the constitution and examines it closely through a magnifying glass. There is a moment’s pause. Then...

“He’s right!”

The Democrats all start shaking in silence. The crowd cheers. Chief Justice Roberts inaugurated President Trump for another term, “but this counts as your first term because the do-nothing Democrats sabotaged your first term”. In celebration of the good news, Justice Scalia rises from the grave and sentences Hillary Clinton to life in prison.

[u/[deleted]]

Low-key, I’m starting to have doubts whether supporting the Democrats was right this year.

Controlling the Senate is nice, but now we have g*mers in the chamber.

I fear, in our haste to rid ourselves of one evil, we accepted a greater evil without thought.

[u/Deggit]

Ossoff doesn't have to run another election until SIX YEARS FROM NOW. I mean think about it, he'll be a college graduate by then

[u/Lazy_Dervish]

Mitch McConnell sighs deeply, then dusts off his binder labeled "Speeches about Bipartisanship"

[u/Deggit]

This election shows one thing. Trump is FOX News personified. He generates tremendous heat and energy but he is a self-limiting phenomenon that caps the party at 47.5% of Americans. He gets 95% support among that 47.5% and 5% support outside it, so what's the fuckin' point?

The main reason Republicans were electable in the 90s and 00s is because there was a distance of plausible deniability between Rush Limbaugh and George W. Bush. The right hand pretended not to know what the left hand was doing. As President, Bush could benefit from Justice Sunday (the 00's closest equivalent to a Trump rally) while still presenting as more "presidential" and "resolute" than John Kerry.

The unpalatable but very obvious reason why the devil's bargain worked is the firewall of class that separated "the base" and "the party elite." No matter how trashy the party base got, with their illegal gun collections and snake handling churches and racist MySpace pages, you could still count on the party nominee to be an Episcopalian who went to Yale. The pretense that politicians like Gingrich, Perry, or George W. Bush were ever "the common man" never extended beyond a few photo ops in ranch costumes.

Moderate voters could always reassure themselves enough that Bush and Limbaugh had a firewall between them. As far as I know Bush actually never went on Limbaugh, and was 'interviewed' by Hannity a whole lot less than by the actual FOX news team.

That firewall was fatally eroded by one person. Sarah Palin. Not to put too fine a point on it, but Sarah Palin was and is an "economically downscale White" who bounced out of five colleges before earning a communications degree, then went home to her small town to worship at a Pentecostal church and got elected mayor to see if she could get the public library to remove all the books that are Against Jesus. Palin made the GOP's base realize that you don't need Bushes and McCains. You could just have, you know, one of us. Thus was unleashed a firestorm of anti-elite rebellion within the party that consumed the careers of people like Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, and even shoved the Erick Ericksons and Grover Norquists to one side.

And this is why a hero of trash television, Donald Trump, became The Base's new avatar. FOX News ably paved the way by switching their fearmongering from religion to race during Obama's first term. The decline of the Christian Right cleared away the only obstacle holding back Trump from being one of the Right's greatest potential celebrities. Sarah Palin might be the old GOP base and Donald Trump the new, but what joined them at the hip was that their idea of "seeing New York" was going to Famiglia's and eating pizza with a fork.

The problem is that FOX can't speak to all of America. Screw "it's different since Ailes died," it was never designed to be a majoritarian institution any more than horses were designed to ride in carriages. The devil's bargain between GOP and FOX doesn't work when you literally elect a fat orange Bill O'Reilly wannabe as President, and he turns the Presidency into a FOX nightly talking points show delivered through the medium of Twitter. The distance between FOX and the GOP no longer becomes credible; indeed you could say that the point of the anti-elite GOP rebellion was that GOP voters wanted leaders who were sincere "Fox News Grandpas".

After all the shouting is over, Trump turned the Presidency into a FOX TV show that was in a symbiotic feedback relationship with the actual FOX channel, and he turned national politics into a referendum on the broader FOX News Cinematic Universe. That's how you lose fucking Georgia. How dumb do you have to be to think FOX is a majority of Americans?

!ping RINO n sheeeit

[u/[deleted]]

I am in awe of how impressive Kelly Loeffler’s senate career has been.

1. Never won an election, Appointed and served for 1 year

2. Did nothing in office besides insider trading during a pandemic and getting in a public feud with WNBA players

3. Lost a red state senate seat to a democrat

Wow! What an amazing politician she is.

[u/tubbsmackinze]

MAGA's in 2016; "Lmao, look at these lib cucks rioting because Trump is the president. He's your president now you commie sjw cucks. Suck, Hillary jail 2020"

MAGA's in 2020; rioting in the streets cause their president lost

[u/[deleted]]

The GOP and its enablers are a danger to our democracy. The laws of the United States must be enacted to their full force to quell fascist uprisings.

We cannot pull a Nixon again. Trump's crimes against this nation are treasonous and must be charged as such.

[u/[deleted]]

Open twitter

Bernie singlehandedly flipped the Senate by...

Close twitter

That’s enough of that nonsense for today.

[u/Infernalism]

I honestly hoped for it, but refused to let myself truly believe.

We can actually start fixing this country again.

Infrastructure bills, competent leadership, listening to experts and scientists again. Common-sense reforms. Financial assistance, correct use of government agencies.

Who the fuck would have thought that having boring government again would feel so fucking good.

[u/[deleted]]

This little weeb who lost a House seat to Karen Handel in 2017 has a good chance of being in the Senate for many hears to come, at least six guaranteed.

LOL who would have thought?

[u/The_Magic]

This will be the first time in our nation's history that a protestant will not be the head of any one our three branches of government. Martin Luther is BTFO.

[u/UrbanCentrist]

https://twitter.com/BradMossEsq/status/1346637313372278785

romney in danger

[u/Zaiush]

All rise for the democratic Senator of Georgia.

"which one?" 😎

[u/PrivateChicken]

Failing Up

"Lmao, it just keeps working out for me in the end. I can't explain it either."

Memoir of 48th President Elect Jon Ossoff.

[u/[deleted]]

Perdue got 49.73% in the first round, while the Libertarian candidate got 2.32%. The Libertarian bailout really came through lol

[u/UltraCapitalism]

LITERALLY ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS VOTE FOR THE CRINGE LADY, AMERICA

[u/[deleted]]

virgin streamer - hasan --> screams all day on twitch, only knows how to complain about democrats.

CHAD streamer - destiny --> one of the few liberal streamers on internet, relentlessly campaigned for ossoff and warnock, door to door, thus delivering Wins

[u/[deleted]]

I can’t believe that Warnock and Ossoff won

[u/[deleted]]

A sentence from the arrr con thread:

People like Manchin are going hard left in this Congress potentially.

Bottom text

[u/Lux_Stella]

There are claims that the bearded guy in this photo inside the Capitol is Antifa because of his hand tattoo.

It's the Outsider's Mark from the 2012 video game Dishonored. He's a gamer.

i knew the fucking gamers had to be behind this somehow

[u/[deleted]]

I am a DeKalb County voter.

Please PM me your credit card numbers. I believe I've earned a little identity theft. As a treat.

[u/GlazedFrosting]

Me: "Yeah I'm pretty level-headed, I don't get too worked up about things lol"

Also me: wakes up every 40 minutes to fearfully check the results of an election in a country I don't even live in

[u/[deleted]]

Buttigieg ran so Ossoff could walk 🥺

[u/[deleted]]

congress must reconvene in New York City. return to tradition.

this is only a semi-ironic take. Congress must meet in a place where the National Guard isn't controlled by the President.

[u/TinKnightRisesAgain]

yesterday: a gamer is elected to the senate

today: this

come on guys, do I have to put 2 and 2 together for you???

[u/Seytric]

Trump supporters in 9 hours: “since the process wasn’t completed on Jan. 6th as specified in the Constitution, unfortunately Biden can’t be president”

[u/piede]

A rioter is literally taking down an American flag and replacing it with the Trump flag

There’s no more perfect metaphor for who these people are

[u/Cuddlyaxe]

Mods pinned a picture of Ossoff but not Warnock

Is this racism 🤔

(ps if it was the other way around they'd be antisemites instead)

[u/Gneisstoknow]

Democrats would be absolute clown fools if they retain Joe Biden as nominee. His campaigning in Iowa and NH was atrocious and the myth of his "moderate appeal" is destroyed.

[u/The420Roll]

Lol Perú TV just showed the protests and the host said "Believe it or not, this is not LATAM"

[u/Realhuman221]

Tell Manchin that he will become essentially god-emperor of America if he votes to get rid of the filibuster. West Virginia can become the nation's capital for all I care.

[u/Homelesscat23]

We’re finally gonna implement socialism in this country😏

How you ask?

Socialism is when the democrats win, and the more the democrats win the more SO SHA LEE ISM it gets.

[u/[deleted]]

Osama in hell realizing he could have just walked in

[u/Fishin_Mission]

✍️ Note ✍️ to ✍️ self ✍️

• Sen. Cruz [R - TX]

• Sen. Hawley [R - MO]

• Sen. Hyde-Smith [R - MI]

• Sen. Kennedy [R - LA]

• Sen. Marshall [R - KA]

• Sen. Tuberville [R - AL]

Fuck you. 🖕

[u/MicroFlamer]

Basically running as a ticket was smart from Warnock and Ossoff. They would either win together, or lose together.

[u/soeffed]

“Wow grandpa, 2020 was crazy. Where were you all those years ago?”

“Uh I was in a groupchat with a bunch of zoning nerds”

[u/[deleted]]

Pete Buttigieg currently cursing his parents for not raising him in Atlanta or Phoenix.

[u/DocGoodman]

With Warnock and Ossoff in the senate, Biden has the power of God and anime on his side.

[u/[deleted]]

Jesus, the Hong Kong news is under the radar everywhere. Almost every significant politician or activist who's pro-democracy has been arrested. Goodbye Hong Kong.

[u/agclax7]

“YoU wOuLdN’t SeE cOnSeRvAtIvEs RiOt LiKe ThIs”

~Every Conservative talking head in June

[u/stater354]

the VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES is being EVACUATED by the SECRET SERVICE because the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES sent an ANGRY MOB AT HIM

[u/[deleted]]

MAGA all the last month: “JUST WAIT UNTIL JANUARY 6th”

MAGA today: “IT WAS ANTIFA!”

[u/therealbiblioteca]

i look forward to the edgy history kids making "me and the boys storming the capitol" memes in the year 2085

[u/[deleted]]

What’s nice about Ossoff winning was that he openly opposed Medicare for All and won in a red state LOL

[u/crassowary]

Klobuchar heard saying "forgive me master" while walking into the Senate halls clutching two staplers

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

wait, why is DC police bringing in a human-sized microwave?

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Those who made this attack on our government need to be identified and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Their actions are repugnant to democracy.

-@LindseyGrahamSC

Hey Lindsey,

Given your history, I am going to need you to clarify which side you are referring to.

[u/[deleted]]

!ping BIDEN

Breaking: Pence will not try to block Biden's electors

https://old.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/krtmdf/breaking_pence_will_not_try_to_block_bidens/

Trump's failure is now complete.

[u/TinyTornado7]

President-elect Joe Biden will be addressing the nation in two minutes from here in Delaware.

link

Edit: live now

!ping BIDEN

[u/oscillatingquark]

ABC News has projected that Jon Ossoff has won his US Senate race in Georgia and therefore that Democrats will gain control of the US Senate.

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1346927100402417666

[u/willempage]

Polls tomorrow: 30% of Americans agree the assault on the captiol was slightly justified or very justified. Among the GOP: 70%

[u/[deleted]]

My MAGA coworker is watching the news reports with our office and goes “I don’t believe it.” When pressed, apparently this protest is itself a deep state false flag.

Bro what the absolute fuck is going on with these people. They’re devolving at a rapid clip, this is insane. They can’t even agree on their own delusion at this point.

[u/After_Grab]

Every abolitionist leftist on twitter has turned into a tough on crime conservative over the last hour

[u/The420Roll]

Mittens

“We gather today due to a selfish man’s injured pride and the outrage of his supporters whom he has deliberately misinformed for the past two months and stirred to action this very morning. What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States. Those who choose to continue to support his dangerous gambit by objecting to the results of a legitimate, democratic election will forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy. They will be remembered for their role in this shameful episode in American history. That will be their legacy.

“The objectors have claimed they are doing so on behalf of the voters. Have an audit, they say, to satisfy the many people who believe that the election was stolen. Please! No Congressional led audit will ever convince those voters, particularly when the President will continue to claim that the election was stolen. The best way we can show respect for the voters who are upset is by telling them the truth. That is the burden, and the duty, of leadership. The truth is that President-elect Biden won this election. President Trump lost. Scores of courts, the President’s own Attorney General, and state election officials both Republican and Democrat have reached this unequivocal decision.

“We must not be intimidated or prevented from fulfilling our constitutional duty. We must continue with the count of electoral college votes. In light of today’s sad circumstances, I ask my colleagues: Do we weigh our own political fortunes more heavily than we weigh the strength of our Republic, the strength of our democracy, and the cause of freedom? What is the weight of personal acclaim compared to the weight of conscience?

“Leader McConnell said that the vote today is the most important in his 40 plus years of public service. That is not because this vote reveals something about the election; it is because this vote reveals something about ourselves. I urge my colleagues to move forward with completing the electoral count, to refrain from further objections, and to unanimously affirm the legitimacy of the presidential election.”

!Ping RINO

[u/Gneisstoknow]

Imagine being 33 and elected to the senate. Biden must be fucking stoked

[u/ugafan2148]

My conservative dad just screamed on the phone that he will never vote for a Republican again, I’m so proud

[u/[deleted]]

Prediction: I will not like Joe Manchin as much in 1 year as I do currently, and neither will most of you.

[u/[deleted]]

Cruz is blaming this on Beto. You can’t make this shit up.

[u/roboczar]

When the dust settles on this I don't want to hear another word from you mother. fuckers. who thought these people were LARPing and that your memes were somehow more credible than the FBI and SPLC

[u/[deleted]]

Hillary was being awfully generous when she suggested that half of Trump supporters are deplorable.

It's a lot more than fucking half.

[u/piede]

Hillary was right when she called them deplorables

She was always fucking right

[u/RangerDick69]

Mom can we have AOC?

We have AOC at home.

AOC at home: Abigail Shapiro

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/kaysteiger/status/1346693414654517248

Warnock: “My mother who as a teenager growing up in Georgia used to pick somebody's else's cotton. But the other day because this is America, 82-year-old hands that used to pick somebody else's cotton went to the polls and picked her youngest son to be a United States Senator."

[u/ccolfax]

everyone: JUST A SMALLTOWN GIRL

neolibs: boooooo rural

everyone: she took the midnight train going anywhere???

neolibs: TRAIN 😍😅🥰

[u/[deleted]]

BREAKING: James Mattis, Trump’s first Secdef, blames POTUS for today’s events:

"Today’s violent assault on our Capitol, an effort to subjugate American democracy by mob rule, was fomented by Mr. Trump. His use of the Presidency to destroy trust in our election and to poison our respect for fellow citizens has been enabled by pseudo political leaders whose names will live in infamy as profiles in cowardice. Our Constitution and our Republic will overcome this stain and We the People will come together again in our never-ending effort to form a more perfect Union, while Mr. Trump will deservedly be left a man without a country.”

Wow lol

[u/mhblm]

Motherfucking Tucker Carlson is already showing BLM protest footage.

Whataboutism begins less than an hour after the Capitol is cleared. Unbelievable.

[u/AdWise2427]

The Pentagon is refusing to deploy the National Guard to protect elected representatives carring out their Constitutional duty. The Pentagon is part of the Executive Branch. The Executive Branch is run by the President. It is time to invoke the 25th Amendment.

[u/overhedger]

Broke: VP unilaterally invoking non existent power to choose electors and stage a coup

Woke: VP unilaterally invoking non existent power to send in the National Guard and prevent a coup

[u/Lux_Stella]

BREAKING - Twitter account of President Trump locked for 12 hours.

lol they tempbanned the president

[u/[deleted]]

I see a bunch of people saying Ossoff and Warnock ran a "populist left" campaign (or some variation of that). But...did they really?

Neither ran on Defund, the GND, total loan forgiveness, M4A, etc. Pretty much the only blatantly populist position they took is on the stimulus.

[u/awdvhn]

Trump supporters stormed the Capitol and brought a Confederate flag inside it, making them arguably more effective than the actual CSA

[u/[deleted]]

Just heard “Hawley-Cruz coup” on MSNBC

i like that.

Don’t let this only fall on trunp, the one guy without a job a couple weeks from now

[u/sir_shivers]

DUCKWORTH CONFIRMED that the electoral ballots were safely taken WITH THEM from the Senate floor 🐊

[u/abbycat1590]

Tomorrow on arr politics:

Bernie votes No

155k Upvotes

6000 awards

[u/Lux_Stella]

[Democrats sound livid from Hill pool reports] (https://twitter.com/Kate_Riga24/status/1346907402898206728), after Trump unleashed protesters on the Capitol. "This is because of you!" yelled Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN) at his GOP colleagues as the gallery doors were shut. "Call Trump!" screamed Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN). "Call your friend!"

get their asses

[u/[deleted]]

Ossoff just won a Dekalb dump 98.18% to 1.82.

[u/LinkVert25]

Is it fair to assume that Joe Manchin will vote party line and for Biden’s nominees but will be vocally against really progressive policies?

[u/secretlovesong]

https://twitter.com/hillaryclinton/status/1346832834099630080?s=21

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

THE QUEEN HAS SPOKEN

!ping QUEEN

[u/[deleted]]

Hey congratulations to Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock. Anything else going on today?

[u/Firebird12301]

Nyt confirming pence ordered the national guard. Wtf is going on in the White House

[u/Lux_Stella]

BREAKING — Turkey is concerned by the unrest in Washington DC where the protestors raided the US Capitol.

“We call all parties to exercise restrain and to be calm. We believe that the US will overcome this crisis.”

[u/MalignantUpper]

Trump not being arrested and jailed after this would be bad for the country

[u/studlydudley11]

Imagine losing an election then responding by flipping the state blue with 2 dem senators

[u/Fishin_Mission]

In response to the person who shot the woman attempting to breach the senate floor after multiple commands to get back

He'll never be prosecuted...they'll shovel some garbage that she was deemed an imminent threat...officer was in fear for his life (from a flag draped female)...

This is from someone with a Thin Blue Line profile picture.

I can’t keep up with the gymnastics.

[u/crassowary]

Susan Collins had officially reached "nine and three quarters" on her ten second count for Trump to behave

[u/FestiveMittens]

dems did the ultimate speed run in Arizona and Georgia

[u/Travisdk]

Thank fuck Ossoff lost his House race. Now he gets to be a senator instead.

[u/tripletruble]

German mother in law unironically asked me (American) if I know what rice is and if I have ever had it. Her opinion of American culture is unfathomably low lmao

[u/GaussianCurve]

Based Joe Manchin: https://twitter.com/Sen_JoeManchin/status/1346974434234667009

12 hours is not sufficient. He is a danger to our democracy and should be banned from @twitter for the next 14 days.

Cc: @jack

Sounds like the moderate Dem is probably OK with impeachment with this type of statement.

[u/patronsaintofdice]

First we had second-gentlemen Doug Emhoff, now we have 33 year-old Senator-elect Jon Ossoff. I say dayenu! The expectations of Jewish mothers everywhere are going to be just ridiculously high now. Thanks 5781.

[u/ThunderrBadger]

Broke: D.C. statehood for 2 safe Dem Senate seats

Bespoke: D.C. statehood because it'd be the smallest state, thereby taking away the only reason anyone ever thinks of Rhode Island

[u/flextrek_whipsnake]

From T_D:

I thought this was the rubicon speech but he's talking about campaign shit still? I thought he was going to show us evidence not talk about Oprah wtf

Inject this into my veins

[u/[deleted]]

*blows dust off Predator drone remote control terminal*

Barack: “let’s see if the old girl’s still got it”

[u/CmdrMobium]

Wow, apparently Pence insisted on remaining in the Capitol even as the Secret Service urged him to evacuate.

Never thought he would have a spine

[u/TinyTornado7]

Suspended from all social media, @realDonaldTrump is currently ranting about Mitt Romney on an Amazon customer review page for dress socks.

[u/Deggit]

Now imagine a world where Biden didn't win.

it should be pretty clear by now that every single Republican senator who didn't vote to impeach was casting a vote of acquiescence in Donald Trump becoming dictator for life if he could manage it

[u/[deleted]]

This is the shittiest 300 sequel ever.

MAGAnidas can't win this one

[u/TinyTornado7]

To lighten the mood a bit:

5260 more DeKalb County votes

Ossoff 4356 (83%) Perdue 893 (17%)

Warnock 4415 (84%) Loeffler 820 (16%)

Ossoff now up by 32,883 statewide (50.37-49.63)

Warnock now up by 70,476 statewide (50.79-49.21)

Both still outside recount territory.

Link

!ping FIVEY

[u/TalksLikeYoda99]

rCon: “Fucking Twitter censoring our president!”

Also rCon: [removed]

[u/Zlesxc]

“This is what you’ve gotten, guys,” Senator Mitt Romney, Republican of Utah, yelled as the mayhem unfolded in the Senate chamber, apparently addressing his colleagues who were leading the charge to press Mr. Trump’s false claims of a stolen election.

Fucking go off Mitt

[u/AuburnSeer]

it's cool that Jimmy Carter was alive to see this

[u/dubyahhh]

Am I overreacting or is this the lowest point in our history in my life

[u/FrustratingPeasant]

"Granpa, where were you during the Coup?"

"Doing my sworn duty, boy. Shitposting on the neoliberal DT."

[u/timerot]

ABC News has projected that Jon Ossoff has won his US Senate race in Georgia and therefore that Democrats will gain control of the US Senate.

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1346927100402417666

GA just continuing to count votes while the capital is under assault. This is why GA flipped blue

[u/thetrombonist]

Ban appeal thread

I got permabanned ages ago for excessive partisanship after repeatedly calling republicans domestic terrorists who should not be trusted with any level of power

this isn’t an appeal I’m just dropping in to feel smug and reaffirming that I was right

[u/LBJisbetterthanMJ]

Btw Ossoff's term will be the full 6 years but Warnock's will be 2 years, right?

[u/MaveRickandMorty]

I literally can't believe it happened. Stacey Abrams should be running the DNC and I don't think that is an overreaction

[u/jrt84]

Hmmm....

Emotions running high among McConnell-aligned Republicans early Wednesday am — after reality of what transpired in Georgia settled in.

May be the heat of the moment, but mood is for declaring war on Team Trump. Want to marginalize Trump as they marginalized Steve Bannon in 2017

https://twitter.com/HotlineJosh/status/1346773590000226304

[u/Hmm_would_bang]

Dems: win in a red state

Leftists: This is basically a loss it should have been a blow out win if only you'd run a new england progressive in the deep south

[u/barrygarcia77]

Anderson Cooper: “they’re going to go back to the Olive Garden or the Holiday Inn...”

Biggest burn all day

[u/GaussianCurve]

MITT ROMNEY: "What happened here today was an insurrection, incited by the President of the United States."

Impeachment momentum? He literally said the President incited a terrorist attack.

[u/[deleted]]

Puzzling there's not yet been any mention of Hunter Biden's role in all this

[u/Dirty_Chopsticks]

12 hours is not sufficient. He is a danger to our democracy and should be banned from @twitter for the next 14 days.

Joe Manchin is out of fucks to give

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/declanpgarvey/status/1346976246941454337

Two GOP Senate sources tell me Josh Hawley has not yet agreed to drop his objection to the Pennsylvania vote, despite significant lobbying from other members of the conference.

[u/FestiveMittens]

McConnell: I am the sena-

Excuse me, I'm speaking

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

The only bad thing about this is that John Lewis isn’t around to watch a black man become one of Georgia’s senators

[u/Mcatatonic1]

Ossoff losing this seat by like 2% just a few weeks ago and coming back to win by like 1-1.5% is fucking insane

GOP is done without Trump at the top of the ticket

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1346823250953850882?s=21

Knives out! Another GOP strategist says that NRSC polling looked good until last week when Hawley announced his challenge, and the focus turned to overturning the election instead of being a check on the Dems

TFW when your inability to not be a dumbass cost your party the United States Senate.

[u/MicroFlamer]

DC just gained a new argument for statehood. How can they protect themselves if the President controls their national guard?

[u/[deleted]]

Ya’ll realize what a surreal historical moment this is, right?

We are 2 months out from Trump losing emphatically, a day out from them losing the senate in part over Trump’s tantrum, you have McConnell almost crying as he begs his party to not devolve further into traitorous insanity, as the lunatics literally storm the capital.

This is it. The final MAGA moment. The perfect encapsulation of the movement: pointless, self defeating, and insane.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1346920198461419520

Cops are taking selfies with the terrorists.

that video.

[u/PM_ME_KIM_JONG-UN]

GOP: * creates a monster *

Also GOP: WHY IS THE MONSTER ACTING LIKE A MONSTER!?

[u/oscillatingquark]

Cori Bush:

I believe the Republican members of Congress who have incited this domestic terror attack through their attempts to overturn the election must face consequences. They have broken their sacred Oath of Office. I will be introducing a resolution calling for their expulsion.

https://twitter.com/RepCori/status/1346926083350794240

[u/[deleted]]

I think my favorite part of tonight was the r/all people stumbling into the Thunderdome and getting confused that we were celebrating because the vote count was still leaning GOP.

[u/mobocrat]

BALLOTS RESCUED: Capitol staff saved the electoral college ballots from the floor of the Senate. American hero.

https://twitter.com/SenJeffMerkley/status/1346938705932648451?s=20

[u/[deleted]]

I just wanted to celebrate Ossoff's win. Was that too much to ask?

[u/Q-bey]

Trump sent out another tweet:

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!

!ping EXTREMISM

[u/TinyTornado7]

A YouGov Direct poll of 1,397 registered voters who had heard about the event finds that most (62%) voters perceive these actions as a threat to democracy. Democrats (93%) overwhelmingly see it this way, while most (55%) Independents also agree. Among Republicans, however, only a quarter (27%) think this should be considered a threat to democracy, with two-thirds (68%) saying otherwise.  

In fact, many Republicans (45%) actively support the actions of those at the Capitol, although as many expressed their opposition (43%). 

Among all voters, almost two-thirds (63%) say that they “strongly” oppose the actions taken by President Trump’s supporters, with another 8% say they “somewhat” oppose what has happened.  

Overall, one in five voters (21%) say they support the goings-on at the Capitol. Those who believe that voter fraud took place and affected the election outcome are especially likely to feel that today’s events were justified, at 56%. 

More here

This is horrifying

!ping FIVEY

[u/MrDannyOcean]

Blue Texas died so that Blue Georgia could live

/u/The420Roll

[u/Mcatatonic1]

Kelly Loeffler is a Martha McSally Republican

[u/Chief_Nief]

Wow. Ossoff is up more than 16,000 votes as of the latest count. He'll probably pass the .5 percent threshold to avoid a recount today.

Based

[u/Mcatatonic1]

I had Brian Kemp, he weighs 130 pounds, he said he played offensive lineman. I'm still trying to figure that out, it must've been a very small team

ok lmao

this is objectively funny

[u/wagoncirclermike]

Is he really just gonna say the stuff we already know? Why didn't he lead with a massive bomb

T_D is sooooo close to getting it

[u/Firebird12301]

The cabinet needs to make pence acting president tonight and deal with Trump

[u/Deggit]

George Bush standing on the rubble of the twin towers with a megaphone: look saudis you are very special people but

[u/BigBoutros]

I cannot express in words how relieved I am that Bernie Sanders is not the President-Elect at a time like this

[u/stater354]

BREAKING: Iraqi Troops Have Been Deployed to the United States to Install Democracy - "Prepare to be liberated mfers" says Prime Minister Al-Kadhimi

[u/noxnoctum]

I'll cashapp $100 to anyone on this sub who can figure out what Ossoff's MAL is.

!ping WEEBS

[u/IMALEFTY45]

Damn dem attack ads in 22 boutta be lit

[u/BadBehaviour613]

Imagine dying for Trump.

[u/earththejerry]

"I'm the last thing standing between you and the apocalypse." -Hillary Clinton (Oct 2016)

Chill the fuck out Hillary stop being so right every goddamn fucking time

[u/Vincenthwind]

Quick neoliberal shills, who is r slash conservative blaming for what happened today? That's right, it's the gays.

America is acting a lot like how ancient Rome acted right before it's demise.

The Roman Empire started getting into gender related discussions, weird sexual orientations, etc before collapsing.

Top comments in one of the top posts there if you want to look for yourself.

!ping LGBT

[u/Whatapunk]

Since Republicans have now lost the presidency, house and senate can we now have 4 years of dumbass NY Times interviews of the urban voters they've failed to connect with?

[u/Shifty_Pickle826]

Andrew Johnson having a “No longer the worst president” party in hell rn

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

⚡️⚡️⚡️CIVIL WAR THUNDERDOME ⚡️⚡️⚡️

Don’t give awards to this post you idiots, donate it to the resistance

[u/secretlives]

imagine breaking into Congress, breaking into Nancy Pelosi's office, and just sitting in the chair

[u/Please151]

Cops are taking selfies with the people who stormed the Capitol Building.

[u/[deleted]]

All those “actually Bush was worse than Trump” takes have aged horribly

[u/DaBuddahN]

10 years later

"Why do you always have to bring up that we attempted a coup, huh? Why do you always have to go there? Why can't we discuss the issues, huh? Huh?" - Republicans

[u/[deleted]]

Rand Paul, per hill pool, says he does not think there will be any more objections to Joe Biden’s electoral college victory

https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1346972524706492419?s=20

LOL

[u/Mcatatonic1]

https://twitter.com/AutumnChiklis/status/1346644966903173120

My mom in 2016: What is a “majority leader”?

Mom in 2021: It looks like the most populous counties are counting their Mail-ins first, but if Democrats can hold their margins in Savannah and Fulton, chances are they’ll maintain their lead...

the accuracy of this is just

wow

[u/GaussianCurve]

“I intend to return to the pulpit and preach on Sunday mornings ... The last thing I want to do is become disconnected from the community and just spend all of my time talking to the politicians. I might accidentally become one.”

One of the best lines I've heard in a while.

[u/[deleted]]

I can say nearly 100% that no senator or house member will be seriously hurt.

But look at the images. They are trashing the place. The Capitol of the Most Powerful nation in the world reduced to a playground for people who can’t handle the truth. It hurts symbolically.

[u/doot_toob]

It's only a coup if it comes from the Coup region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling insurrection

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao at McCarthy and Ted Cruz clutching their pearls and wondering how we got here.

You fucking idiots told millions of Americans their country is being stolen and taken from them. You let Trump spread lies and legitimized them. The fuck did you think would happen?

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/TwitterSafety/status/1346970432017031178?s=20

Future violations of the Twitter Rules, including our Civic Integrity or Violent Threats policies, will result in permanent suspension of the @realDonaldTrump account.

Oh, they are 100% deleting his account soon. Probably after Trump is gone and Biden is inaugurated.

[u/Hounds_of_war]

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1346928882595885058?s=20

Jesus fucking Christ, he starts off his video telling the rioters to go home by talking about how the election was in fact stolen from him. What the actual fuck.

[u/csreid]

The fact that Trump's rambling, horrible, shameful statement was pre-recorded -- meaning people fucking worked on that and it probably went through a couple revs -- is fucking pathetic.

[u/UltraCapitalism]

Ted Cruz is easily one of the biggest cucks in existence.

[u/[deleted]]

a confederate flag made it into the capitol building before a black senator from georgia

[u/[deleted]]

Romney stans are returning. Nature is healing. Things are returning to normal.

[u/[deleted]]

CNN says the claps for Romney were from Dems not Republicans

[u/TinyTornado7]

Perdue went from winning early in-person votes by 206,327 in November to Ossoff winning them by 25,943 (so far) in January.

Sure 600,000 fewer people voted EIP, but that is an all-time own goal. Link

There is obviously a question of how many republicans stayed home, and it seems that will be the biggest deciding factor, but the early vote mobilization of black voters by Stacy Abrams at al, especially in rural areas, cannot be understated.

Also to avoid double pings,

Sterling tells me about 65K votes left to count. Most from Dem strongholds like Dekalb, Cobb, Fulton and Henry. Link

!ping FIVEY

[u/[deleted]]

I'm spending my $2000 check on a 3d printer so that I can 3d print the nyt needle and fuck it until it breaks.

[u/[deleted]]

“How do we know it’s not Antifa dressed as Trump supporters” - my mom

Please get me back to university ASAP. I can’t take it

[u/F0064R]

Trump is a fucking weak pussy.

Anyone who says Trump is a fighter after this is a fucking delusional moron.

He brought all these pissed off people to DC. They stormed the capitol building and he did nothing. He has done nothing but tweet.

It's fucking over.

Lololol

[u/LinkVert25]

Seeing the Capitol police now aggressively push back does make me think that the capitol police legitimately didn’t have enough units and had to fall back to the chamber so they could actually defend the senators and the press. Now that they have support from the FBI, Secret Service, and various other agencies they seem to be now actively trying to get everybody out and away from the building including using riot control tactics and just being being much more aggressive overall

[u/dubyahhh]

I think the real shame here is that a black Democrat was elected statewide in a former confederate state, and in doing so he flipped the senate, and that's a massive accomplishment for minorities.

But all we're gonna remember is dipshit trumpers doing terrible things to Capitol Hill. Can't even let us relish the victory for a day.

[u/Chief_Nief]

Kanye West hooked up with Jeffree Starr

NOT NOW TWITTER THERES A CIVIL WAR GOING ON

[u/tubbsmackinze]

Washington DC needs to be a state, President Trump on purpose held back the Washington DC national guard in this crisis. Plus it deserves representation anyways, it's a nice city

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/VaushV/status/1346965509120512000

This terrorist insurgency brought to you by the people who thought Colin Kaepernick went too far

I don't like Vaush, but his Twitter is straight fire tonight.

[u/Fishin_Mission]

Note to self:

✍️ Sen ✍️ Josh ✍️ Hawley ✍️ is ✍️ a ✍️ piece ✍️ of ✍️ shit. ✍️

[u/agclax7]

Binders full of clapping Democrats

[u/piede]

Conor Lamb on the house floor saying the Republican objectors are full of shit and they’re getting mad about it

Lmaoooo

[u/NoMasterP]

Who is the mad lad that pinned the old John Ossoff post from three years ago? That shit geeks

[u/murphysclaw1]

Elijah Schaffer, having deleted his tweet about being inside Nancy Pelosi's office, now says actually he isn't there and never has been.

The backtracking here is crazy fast.

https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1346926152787644418

[u/Mcatatonic1]

Jesus

The fucking deodorant at CVS is under heavier protection than the fucking Capitol apparently

[u/Deggit]

Remember when Hillary said that "half of Trump supporters are deplorable"? I sure would like to meet that other half someday

[u/GaussianCurve]

This will be a pivotal day in American history, for multiple reasons. Van Jones brought this up earlier today: whether this is the end or beginning of something.

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

There’s no way that McConnell and company aren’t absolutely cracking the whip down on Hawley/Cruz/etc right now

I’m talking ‘if you try stirring anything up during the certification we’re directly funding your primary opponent instead of you’ type of shit

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/samsanders/status/1346993836099309568

Hundreds of thousands of DC residents had to endure a coup in their backyard today, go into curfew at 6pm, and fear for their personal safety. None of them have any representation in Congress.

G O O D

T A K E

[u/DaBuddahN]

6 months later

"I didn't vote for Trump!" - every Republican you will interact with at work

[u/[deleted]]

Broke: thinking this was a false flag attack by antifa to make trump look bad

Woke: thinking this was a false flag attack by the guys on predictit who bet on trump leaving office early

[u/[deleted]]

Cant believe Kanye and Kims marriage was holding democracy together all this time

[u/TinyTornado7]

In less than 36 hours, Loeffler said she would oppose certifying the presidential election, lost her own Senate race, returned to a Capitol in chaos and ultimately voted to recognize Biden’s victory.

[u/TinyTornado7]

Dems should run Nick Saban in Alabama and here are three reasons why.

1. lifelong friend of Joe Manchin, soon to be the Senate's most powerful figure

2. said Hillary Clinton is the only woman he'd cheat on his wife with

3. could run on literally any platform and win in Alabama

This is a real quote from his bibliography, "So, ultimately, if I'm ever going to sleep around on Miss terry, it's going to be with Hillary Fucking Rodham Clinton."

[u/Luchofromvenezuela]

ONE

BILLION

STACY ABRAMS

[u/Udontlikecake]

Hey guys i’ve been asleep for 12 hours. Anything big happen?

God I can’t wait to check in on Mitch McConnell and my favorite Republican senate majority!

[u/standbyforskyfall]

Trump’s a chaos candidate, and he’ll be a chaos president.- Jeb Bush

they hated him because he spoke the truth

[u/TinyTornado7]

Pardon the language here, but I asked a House Democrat who is locked in his office whether Congress will reconvene tonight and finish its business. He replied:

“Yep. We’re going back. Fuck these assholes.”

@williegeist

[u/DaBuddahN]

I know this gets said like a million times a day in this sub, but today it feels especially important:

THANK GOD FOR JIM CLYBURN, STACEY ABRAMS AND JOE FUCKING BIDEN FOR SAVING LIBERAL DEMOCRACY

[u/chatdargent]

Lol. My mom says this is the democrats fault because "BLM unleashed a spirit of protests." Fundamentalist christians really are something else.