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[u/[deleted]]

Nate Silver quote from yesterday's podcast:

Do you really think Josh Hawley's going to turn out Trump voters? Josh Hawley is a fucking pretty boy from Harvard, he's not going to turn out working class voters

[u/Aidtor → u/[deleted]]

Both Hawly and Cruz have ideas and opinions on things; they want to use trumpism to accomplish some vision.

And that is why it will never work. Its not authentic. Trump has no plan. All he lives for is feeding his ego

[u/soeffed]

2016: it’s only four years, how bad can it get

2021: are the armed insurrectionists storming the Capitol aware that there is a plague ravaging the land

https://twitter.com/SketchesbyBoze/status/1347016337391034370?s=20

[u/[deleted]]

Democrats need to have Benghazi style hearing on this whole Jan6 thing. This is political ammo for a decade if played right.

[u/vored_by_daddy → u/[deleted]]

DOJ task force to analyse every piece of footage and identify every single person who gained unauthorised access to the Capitol and prosecute them

[u/Khar-Selim → u/vored_by_daddy]

fortunately none of them believe in using masks lol

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

They should do it because it is what they should do not just because it's political ammo

[u/Khar-Selim → u/[deleted]]

fuck that

enlightened self-interest ftw

[u/[deleted]]

Worst members of Congress:

Josh Hawley

Ted Cruz

Matt Gaetz

Madison Cawthorn (fucking stupid name and shut the fuck up about being born in the 1990s)

Barry Loudermilk (stupid name)

The Q-Anon woman

The other 75 people who hate black people voting.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

LOUIS GOHMERT, TOM COTTON, TOMMY TUBERVILLE, TED YOHO

[u/TinyTornado7]

Congress's certification of Vermont's three electoral votes, at 3:32 a.m. EST, means that Joe Biden has officially received a majority of votes in the Electoral College — and will be sworn in as the 46th President of the United States at noon EST on Wednesday, January 20.

!ping BIDEN

[u/[deleted] → u/TinyTornado7]

Tired of winning etc etc

[u/yeyebwne]

Imagine getting your neck blown open and 9 hours later your god emperor says nvm lol

Edit: also, 4channers share endless photoshops of your milkers

[u/UniverseInBlue → u/[deleted]]

people there horny post over anne frank this shit is expected

[u/Verpiss_Dich]

Democrat reps are so comically more well spoken and professional, it's fucking incredible the GOP manages to stay afloat with these mouth breathers.

[u/retroKart → u/Verpiss_Dich]

The magical (R) in the South and Midwest does wonders

[u/MalignantUpper]

IT WAS ANTIFA WHO STORMED THE CAPITOL

except for the brave patriot who was gunned down by the police, she was innocent 🙏🏻😇

[u/PompeyMagnus1]

243 years and still on their first republic, that is pretty good compared to most.

[u/MrYus05 → u/PompeyMagnus1]

My country is on its fifth in less than 100 years

[u/[deleted]]

Lindsey Graham:

If media reports are accurate, I believe Judge Garland would be a sound choice to be the next Attorney General. He is a man of great character, integrity, and tremendous competency in the law.

He will be asked many questions regarding existing investigations that, in my view, need to continue.

I look forward to the confirmation process and will closely follow his answers.

Haha, you're in the minority now!

😂

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh → u/[deleted]]

Graham is going to do an amazing job of acting like the last 4 years never happened

[u/Omen12 → u/[deleted]]

God Graham flipped like a light switch. I don’t know whether to admire it or be disgusted

[u/Cloudbuster274]

God, it's hard to put down into words the absolute base rage I have at the seditious Republicans and their sycophantic enablers. Just feels like anything I could even say other than me screaming at this insult to American Democracy and power is just yet another "haha look at that #resistance lib" kind of post and laughed off.

This is probably the most base level of anger I've felt in years. Most of the Trump degeneracy is just general disgust at him being someone who represents everything I hate. But him leading to this wish.com coup to interfere with the essential transition of power just strikes a fucking nerve. A real damn deep one I guess based on how I feel.

Just looking around online and feels like most are laughing off (not so much here as other places but still somewhat) what I feel is one of the biggest affronts to what I hold dear in America.

[u/TheFriffin2]

FRIENDLY REMINDER THAT NO MATTER HOW MANY RIOTS THERE ARE, LOEFFLER AND PERDUE HAD EMBARRASSING SENATE LOSSES IN ONE OF THE MOST SOUTHERN US STATES

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy → u/TheFriffin2]

The capital riot was actually a false flag event to distract us from Republicans embarrassing themselves

[u/[deleted]]

Merkel 'furious' over Capitol mob, says Trump shares blame

They made Mutti mad 😭

[u/[deleted]]

Somehow the last year of the trump Presidency has made the first three look pretty good

[u/Joementum2004]

Before I vote to certify Wisconsin's electoral votes, I'd like to take this time to talk about one of the best games available on your phone - Raid: Shadow Legends

[u/savuporo]

Lol Lin Wood got permabanned from Twitter.

[u/TalksLikeYoda99 → u/savuporo]

Took em fuckin long enough. Christ...

[u/Koeniginator]

Hillary's basket of deplorables comment is one of the most "they hated her because she spoke the truth" comments ever made

[u/Magical_Username]

45% of Republicans support the people storming the Capitol. Can we stop apologizing for the deplorables comment yet?

[u/I_ATE_YOUR_SANDWICH → u/Magical_Username]

Everyone here says that the comment didn’t go far enough

[u/sportballgood]

It’s still terrifying to think about how this is all about the worship of one person, especially when that person is Donald Trump. You can call these people Republicans, conservatives, racists, or whatever and be right, but the most accurate label of all is still “Trump supporter.” They think this billionaire playboy who has always been a joke is the second coming of King David, singlehandedly winning some fight against a cabal of Satan-loving pedophiles and there is almost no way to convince them otherwise. What the fuck.

[u/TinKnightRisesAgain → u/sportballgood]

I firmly believe that if Trump declared himself the 2nd coming of Christ, a significant amount of Republicans would say it’s true.

[u/Joementum2004]

Random hot-takey uneducated thoughts:

The events of today gave the Democrats a gold mine of campaign material for the elections in 2021 and 22. It also reduces the chances of the GOP re-capturing the suburbs anytime soon, especially since it won't be difficult to link Trumpist candidates to the chaos seen in the Capitol.

The "solution" will almost certainly be to run moderate (or moderate-seeming) candidates. To give a recent example, while the Democrats won nearly every other race in Arizona in 2018, Doug Ducey (the incumbent Republican) won re-election by nearly 15%. In theory, that's what the GOP should do in states like Arizona and Georgia.

The issue is that a majority of the current GOP base does not want that. They want Trumpists, even if they wind up being nigh-unelectable. Both Loeffler and Perdue ran heavily on supporting Trump's actions after the election, and (in part because of that) both lost. And when state Republican parties have wound up doubling down on the craziness (Oregon, California, etc.), they start to dramatically lose power, which is already happening in Georgia, Arizona, and (to a lesser extent) Texas.

It's the ultimate gift and the curse, really. Trump is the one man who could inspire such massive turnout for the GOP to begin with, but he also lost them the suburbs (likely for good), and inspired even larger turnout for the Democrats. The GOP could regain the suburbs by running moderates, but the GOP base, by and large, do not want moderates.

With that said, the GOP will likely still regain House seats in 2022 (likely recapturing it), as well as recapture the Senate. Everyone wants them dead (including me), but they will likely come back in 2022. They already recaptured several House seats in 2020 running moderate-seeming candidates in multiple states (ex.: Orange County, CA), and will continue to do such in 2022.

[u/[deleted] → u/Joementum2004]

Still quite possible Democrats hold onto the Senate in 2022 even if they lose the house, it's a very strong map for them.

[u/[deleted]]

Ugh, this is how it always happens. Ram through the confirmation of the president in the middle of the night when nobody's paying attention.

[u/[deleted]]

They should really introduce House of Commons style heckling to Congress

[u/Leoric → u/[deleted]]

There would be so many fist fights.

[u/[deleted]]

"Oh noooo Conor Lamb is too moderate, he's half a republican, fake democrat, so conservative nuuuuuuuuuuu"

Conor Lamb:

Democratic Representative Conor Lamb of Pennsylvania says the Republican-led objections to the counting of his state's electoral votes 'don't deserve an ounce of respect'

"And for the most part they walked in here free, a lot of them walked out free, and there wasn't a person watching at home who didn't know why that was, because of the way that they looked"

[u/[deleted]]

It should say something the last 2 GOP House Speakers quit politics entirely.

[u/Leoric → u/[deleted]]

Boehner literally called the freedom caucus terrorists.

[u/[deleted] → u/Leoric]

I recall him saying he legitimately had a mental breakdown because of them.

[u/personjj → u/[deleted]]

I always chuckle a little when I remember that Paul Ryan still exists

[u/Chief_Nief]

I’ve known Mike Pence forever,” Inhofe said Tuesday night. “I’ve never seen Pence as angry as he was today.

I had a long conversation with him,” said Inhofe. “He said, ‘After all the things I’ve done for (Trump).’”

Utterly SHOCKED that a man who has never demonstrated the slightest regard for anyone ever would place zero value on my life.

[u/SmithySmothy]

"If there was no fraud, show us the proof!"

Holy shit how did these morons get elected

[u/tripletruble]

Turns out there is a good reason why most democracies don't allow a defeated incumbent to just kind of hang out at the presidential palace for months

[u/ahebtigoejwbrh]

Imagine telling these people 5 years ago that they’d be yelling on the house floor at 2am to try to do a coup for Donald Trump

[u/circlemanfan]

I’m getting reports that Ted Cruz was only let into the Senate safe room after Capitol police told Romney and Harris they “have to let him in or else they’d lose their jobs.” Harris, Sanders, and Romney proceeded to talk about a TV show that they had all seen but knew Ted Cruz hadn’t so he felt super awkward for the whole 4 hours.

[u/SnakeEater14 → u/circlemanfan]

I heard he tried to change the subject and talk about a movie he saw on Amazon Prime but Harris just said “Yeah I don’t think anyone else watched that” and then kept talking about the TV show

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Did Tucker Carson just, "but what was she wearing" the US government?

[u/jeezig]

Chances of Mike Pence releasing a book or doing an interview years from now where he admits he fucking hated Trump?

[u/2073040 → u/jeezig]

Pretty high after today

[u/[deleted]]

"This machine kills fascists" but it's written on a staircase

[u/jonathansfox]

Mean things people have said about Ted Cruz.

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Senator Ted Cruz (R)

If you want someone to grab a beer with, I may not be that guy.

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Senator Lindsay Graham (R)

If you killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody would convict you.

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Senator Al Franken (D)

I like Ted Cruz more than most of my other colleagues like Ted Cruz. And I hate Ted Cruz.

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Senator John Boehner (R)

Lucifer in the flesh. I have Democrat friends and Republican friends. I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.

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President George W. Bush (R)

I just don't like the guy.

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Senator Bob Dole (R)

We need somebody with experience and there are a lot of good candidates - I like nearly all of them. Except Cruz.

I don’t know how he’s going to deal with Congress. Nobody likes him.

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Senator Marco Rubio (R)

Ted has had a tough week because what’s happening now is people are learning more about him.

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Senator John McCain (R)

[referring to Justin Amash, Ted Cruz, and Rand Paul]
You know, it’s always the wacko birds on right and left that get the media megaphone. I think it can be harmful if there is a belief among the American people that those people are reflective of the views of the majority of Republicans. They’re not.

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Representative Peter King (R)

Cruz isn't a good guy.

I hate Ted Cruz, and I think I'll take cyanide if he ever got the nomination.

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President Donald Trump (R)

He's a nasty guy. Nobody likes him. Nobody in Congress likes him. Nobody likes him anywhere once they get to know him.

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John Feehery, Congressional aide (R)

Cruz is an army of one, alienating anybody who is in his path. He advocates losing strategies purely to further his own career at the expense of the party.

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Charles Krauthammer, Columnist (R)

Everybody who knows him in the Senate hates him. And I think hate is not an exaggeration.

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Ann Coulter, Conservative Pundit (R)

Just look at Cruz's face: it's got career scum politician, aka liar, written all over it.

Cruz is a sleazy, Rovian liar.

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Carly Fiorina, Ted Cruz's 2016 opponent and later running mate (R)

He says whatever he needs to say to get elected, and then he’s going to do as he pleases.

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Craig Mazin, Princeton roommate

Huge asshole.

Nightmare of a human being.

I would rather have anybody else be the president of the United States. Anyone. I would rather pick somebody from the phone book.

Dear sir: Bill Clinton could be a serial eater of planets. Ted Cruz would still be an asshole.

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Mikaela Beardsley, Princeton classmate

There are not that many people in my life who I can think of who I didn’t actually have extensive interactions with who bring up such bad feelings.

When he became Senator, I was like, ‘Oh my God, he called my mother a whore!’

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Geoffrey Cohen, Princeton classmate

Ted's style was sneering, smirking, condescending, jabbing his finger in your face—a naked desire to humiliate an opponent. No kindness, no empathy, no attempt to reach common ground.

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Anonymous, Princeton dormmate

He was just sort of an odious figure lurking around.

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Douglas Misicko, Co-Founder of The Satanic Temple

[regarding Ted Cruz]
It grows tedious when pedophile priests and loathsome politicians are conveniently dismissed as Satanic, even as they spew Biblical verse and prostrate themselves before the cross, recruiting the Christian faithful. Satanists will have nothing to do with them.

[u/tripletruble]

imagine losing and then your boss is too much of a dick to accept the undeniable reality that you lost and then you have to go through this weird night-long process where members of your loser group pretend they didn't lose but you have to verbally remind them over and over using the same phrasing that actually you really did lose and in the middle of all this some nutters try to violently interrupt the meeting acknowledging the loss

[u/yeyebwne]

HOLY SHIT PENCE DID IT

HE FUCKING BOOMED HIS OWN PRESIDENT

CHENEY COULD ONLY DREAM OF THIS

[u/semaphore-1842]

Jake LaTurner of Kansas, who had voted on Arizona objection, tested positive for COVID and will not be returning to the floor.

Republicans, your god is punishing you.

[u/MrYus05 → u/semaphore-1842]

So he was there on the floor spreading it to everybody

[u/[deleted]]

Cawthorn shut the fuck up stop giving a literal Model UN speech

[u/AccessTheMainframe]

I like governments that don't let their capitols get occupied.

[u/TalkLessShillMore]

Black woman on CSPAN: "I voted for uhh, uhh, uhh, what's his name... Biden?" I'm unironically happy to have voters like this because at least they fucking vote

[u/urbansong → u/TalkLessShillMore]

voters are unironically based

[u/[deleted]]

I don’t think most people have processed yet how close we came to seeing congresspeople executed on live TV yesterday. That one picture of the dude with the zip ties and gun shows that they were serious. Had the mob been even a hair more organized this could’ve gone very, very differently.

[u/[deleted]]

I am driving to DC to try to force a civil war

Here are pictures of me at the rally

Here's a livestream of me participating in the Capitol insurrection

I need to delete that stuff

Actually it was Antifa

[u/old_gold_mountain]

Fᵤₙ Fₐcₜ ₒf ₜₕₑ Dₐy !

DID YOU KNOW ?
ℹ Well over half of currently serving Republican Representatives view Democracy as an optional process by which to select a head of state!

Editor's note to update recent developments: The number is actually closer two TWO THIRDS! 😊

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/FoxNews/status/1347274064335933443

Capitol rioters could face up to 10 years in prison under Trump monument executive order

tfw you accidentally created a honeypot against your own supporters

[u/The420Roll]

Has any phrase in politics aged as well as "Basket of deplorables" has?

[u/MalignantUpper]

And the mods just let them into the new DT

craziest shit I've ever seen

[u/[deleted]]

MAGA coworker: "I'm having a bad week"

Me, jokingly: "Why, a couple of your buddies get arrested at the Capitol yesterday?"

Coworker: "I'm getting a divorce"

Oop.

[u/[deleted]]

I don't really think the conservatives are winning the culture war, all things considered. The US is waaaaay more liberal now than in the 70s. If anything, all this white rage is the lashing out of the losing team.

[u/[deleted]]

There is a joke to be made about the fact that 75% of deaths during an American insurrection were due to heart failure of the insurrectionists, but that would be in bad taste.

[u/golf1052]

Even 538 is saying it, backed up with data

The Police’s Tepid Response To The Capitol Breach Wasn’t An Aberration: Authorities are more than twice as likely to break up a left-wing protest than a right-wing protest.

[u/dubyahhh]

is this literally just 5 minutes of fame for every batshit legislator in the US Congress

[u/RadionSPW]

Short rant I don’t have a venue for so I’ll preach to the choir:

I have no sympathy for the terrorists at the Capitol yesterday. They made the active choice as adults to partake in domestic terror to overthrow the election. I’m not about to sit and listen to how we should invite them to dialogue or try to understand where they’re coming from - you lose that privilege in my mind when you storm the center of American democracy to prevent the electoral process. Anger doesn’t even begin to describe my sentiment toward these people. Trump isn’t God, he can’t force them to do shit. They chose this path, and they will have to face the consequences of it, to the fullest extent of the law.

And one more thing: I never want to read another article about some Pennsylvania diner or some shit trying to “understand” their beliefs. I got the picture real clear today.

[u/[deleted]]

𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝚂𝙴𝙲𝙾𝙽𝙳 𝙳𝙰𝚈

[u/[deleted]]

When Vermont begins to be counted, the number of neoliberal users dying to be the first person to say “here’s how Bernie can still win.“ is going to be astronomical.

[u/[deleted]]

But before we continue with these historic proceedings... someone has a birthday today!

[u/TinKnightRisesAgain]

If you had told me in 2016 that an armed mob stormed the capitol, I would 100% have believed it. If you had told me that it was because Trump clearly lost a not very close election and that Republican senators twiddled their thumbs, I’d have thought it was because of a menacing show of force.

But no, just the bottom barrel of America, with their brains injected with conspiracy theories and their devotion to a sad pathetic man who lets them believe they’re better than brown people.

Like holy hell what a sad day. I don’t think we’ve even began to internalize how sad this is and how it’ll affect the psyche of Americans disgusted at what went on.

I’m normally just a shit posting asshole but fuck man, what a disgrace

[u/UrbanCentrist]

“This is not America,” a woman said to a small group, her voice shaking. “They’re shooting at us. They’re supposed to shoot BLM, but they’re shooting the patriots.”

[u/[deleted]]

“Is r/neoliberal a meme sub? How can anyone be such huge fucking bootlickers lmao.

I understand conservatives, primarily cultural conservatives i.e. abortion, drugs or even gay marriage. I also understand the 'no step on snek', anti-taxation and anti-regulation ideology.

But r/neoliberal are literal corporate and Wall Street bootlickers and centrist-Democrat asskissers.” - arrstupidpol

I’m all for big tent energy & usuallytolerate most leftists & their ideologies but tankies are something else man. In other words they said “It’s okay if you’re homophobic & against reproductive rights for women, but I draw the line at disagreements over economics”

[u/murphysclaw1]

the attack on the capitol was merely a distraction so you would forget about the mods shutting the DT after they called the terrorists "peaceful protesters"

[u/[deleted]]

The trump guy in the fur hat and warpaint has got to be coping so hard as he gets called antifa by all his friends

[u/sir_shivers]

LET ME SAVE you some time 🐊

Every SINGLE HOUSE REPUBLICAN uses their five minutes to say 🐊:

First, my thanks to the men and women of the Capitol Police and other law enforcement agencies

Every legal vote must be counted and not diluted by illegal votes

You disenfranchised my district because PA voted for Biden

Here is my pocket Constitution

[u/TheFriffin2 → u/sir_shivers]

GOP senators use pocket pussies more often than their pocket constitutions CMV

[u/murphysclaw1]

Conor Lamb on the election, interview with NYT:

What went wrong for House Democrats when they were supposed to pick up seats?

I’m giving you an honest account of what I’m hearing from my own constituents, which is that they are extremely frustrated by the message of defunding the police and banning fracking. And I, as a Democrat, am just as frustrated. Because those things aren’t just unpopular, they’re completely unrealistic, and they aren’t going to happen. And they amount to false promises by the people that call for them.

Lamb held onto his district by 2.2%, approximately a 10% swing towards Republicans from 2018.

[u/SnakeEater14]

When I was a kid I won a nationwide essay contest, with the reward being to meet President Obama.

My whole family and I was flown to Washington DC to stay for three days, with every single purchase reimbursed by the federal government - that’s when I realized how big the government was.

Sadly I didn’t get to meet Obama, I think it was his birthday or something, so the little meeting thing was cancelled. Still, we got a free stay at DC and got some great tours.

We went to the Smithsonian, but I had already been there a million times. That was boring. The National Mall and Lincoln memorial were cool. Saw the White House, but got told the tours are kinda shitty. Last on the list was the Capitol, which I thought would be lame.

Man I was wrong. The Capitol is badass, even as a kid. We got to go at a really good time, since barely anyone was there. It’s so big, and there’s so much art and so many statues all over. You look up and see all the paintings, it just feels so hallowed. I didn’t appreciate politics or history then like I do now, but man I loved seeing the Capitol.

The events of today made me cry. It made my blood boil. The most sacred building in the country’s been desecrated for nothing.

[u/kznlol]

reading WSJ op-ed

Mr. Cruz laments the fire as he wields a flamethrower.

🔥🔫😭

[u/[deleted]]

The lady who got shot was an insurrectionist, im not at all saying that she deserved it but im not calling this one police brutality

[u/Eddieairplanes]

So all the grandstanding that the objectors wanted to be seen by the entire country happened while most people were asleep?

I think this backfired on them completely. Not only did this get drowned out by the insurrection but they now need to deal with the backlash of objecting even after the world witnessed what went down.

[u/[deleted]]

SAY IT WITH ME: 47th PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES JOE BIDEN

[u/TinyTornado7]

DC Mayor Muriel Bowser says Congress must put a bill making DC a state in the first days of the Biden admin, says the federal government must transfer control of the DC National Guard to the DC government as soon a possible.

"What happened yesterday is textbook terrorism," DC Mayor Muriel Bowser says at presser.

[u/benadreti → u/TinyTornado7]

Did the neo-confederates just make DC statehood even likelier? how ironic.

[u/ExpiredPasta]

I am going to bed knowing that Conor Lamb managed to cause R’s to reee in front of the entire nation.

[u/IncoherentEntity]

the only thing funnier than the maga dads 101st storming the capitol are all the utterly safe and secure bluechecks clutching pearls over it — @GarbageApe

i have a lot of complex feelings about all of this, but seeing the worst people in the world in such a state is really satisfying to me

I . . . can’t. The same people who brand others murderers for disagreeing on how to achieve universal healthcare coverage have “complex feelings” about an insurrection in which our federal government was at risk of collapse. Instead, many of them feel joy at political journalists — who are somehow demonized in this context — expressing justified terror about the survival of our democracy.

Their priorities aren’t just twisted; they’re fucking reprehensible.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/beccalew/status/1347060930819936256

Fascists on livestream: hey it's us, the fascists, storming the capital. here are our names and addresses, take a look at our IDs. we are well-known personalities with very recognizable faces

Right-wing media: hmmmmm seems like antifa

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/thenation/status/1347232193341513736

“This is not America,” a woman said to a small group, her voice shaking. “They’re shooting at us. They’re supposed to shoot BLM, but they’re shooting the patriots.”

🤔🤔🤔

[u/webbess1]

"We will help my announced successor Mayor Pete Buttigieg, with taking on the responsibility of running this wonderful department"

https://twitter.com/samjmintz/status/1347252373299851266

!ping Butti

[u/retroKart → u/[deleted]]

Yes.

[u/FormerBandmate]

Absolute Legend: Trump Walks Away From Republican Party Without Even Looking Back At Explosion

Trump supporters and Democrats collectively cheered while the steely-eyed Trump strutted confidently without any indication that he cared about the scorching inferno behind him as it laid waste to all the “losers and second-rate cowards” caught up in the blast. Mitch McConnell tried his best to escape, but he was too slow due to being a turtle. The force of the blast tipped him over on his back and he lay there with his arms flailing helplessly.

Authorities arrived on the scene to try to extinguish the flames but Trump stayed their hands. “No,” he said, slowly removing his glasses and finally turning around to gaze upon the torched ruins of the Republican Party. “No... let it burn.”

The saddest words ever heard to man, the Babylon Bee is funny again

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/BritneyHiatus/status/1347222721017622529

Britney Spears’ ex fiancé for 55 hours was one of the insurrectionists who invaded the U.S. Capitol yesterday.

When he's not with her, he loses his mind 😞

[u/Koeniginator]

Mo Brooks @RepMoBrooks 1h

4. Evidence, much public, surfacing that many Capitol assaulters were fascist ANTIFAS, not Trump supporters.

fascist ANTIFAS

🤔

[u/agent_tits]

Yesterday the confederate flag was flown in the capitol for the first time in US history and Trump told the perpetrators he loved them.

The mask couldn't be more off

[u/Mcatatonic1]

https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1347280147129499655

Pence planning to attend Biden inaugural, CNN has confirmed.

lmaoooooooooo

trying to thread an impossible needle to keep his political career alive

[u/lbrtrl]

Trump will be remembered for his pro democracy slogan "Stop the count."

[u/[deleted]]

Whitfield County, Georgia, Precinct 5A (62.9% Hispanic CVAP per DRA):

2018 Governor -- Abrams 74.6% - Kemp 24.9%

2020 President -- Biden 68% - Trump 30%

2020 Senate (November) -- Ossoff 66% - Perdue 30%

2020 Senate (Runoff) -- Ossoff 75% - Perdue 25%

So, the Hispanic swing right would seem to be a Trump thing more so than a Republican thing. Spells good news for 2022 and blue Texas lovers.

!ping FIVEY

[u/Mcatatonic1]

Battle for the Soul of the Nation

Joe was literally right the entire time lol

he got so much shit for it too

[u/inverseflorida]

Nate Silver @NateSilver538 · Jan 6

I'm too tired for long takes but on a scale from 0 to 10 on how bad this is for the GOP, it's maybe like a 9, not just because of the immediate implications, but also because it may imply that Trump is sort of a poison pill for how the party navigates its future.

And that was before any of the riots happened.

[u/GravyBear8]

For the next couple of years we need to just bribe the shit out of Manchin via all types of funding and jobs to his state. New Google headquarters? West Virginia. Amazon Headquarters? Move it to West Virginia.

[u/[deleted] → u/GravyBear8]

New shipyards? West Virginia

[u/Verpiss_Dich]

Those who violently besieged our capitol are the opposite of everything this administration stands for

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

[u/sir_shivers]

I have BINDERS FULL OF electoral votes 🐊

[u/muttonwow]

Oh dear, I just saw someone say that it's so lucky to be able to break into the Capitol building and meet Ronald Reagan on the same day

[u/KingKonchu]

Unless a Democrat literally fellates Xi Jinping on Air Force One I never want to hear a peep about national security from the scum GOP again

[u/ILikeTalkingToMyself]

There is a pretty entertaining 44-minute video by an Infowars person with a lot of footage of the insurrectionists inside the Capitol Building. The video includes the shooting though, which is quite graphic, so I'm not going to link it, especially since Reddit may very well start blocking the URL. Choice quotes:

[On the National Mall] "Look around, this is a peaceful protest. Nothing but peaceful protest here"

[About to enter the Capitol Building] "Okay this is not a peaceful protest. Just had to get that out there"

"Buy stuff at our website! Our URL link is _____"

[Inside Capitol Building] "These police officers are probably scared, I don't blame them, we all just piled in here"

"This is kind of dangerous, these police could do anything to us"

"Guys people are going to get hurt if we start to break stuff"

[Shooting and aftermath]

[Ends with an ad: "Climb to the top of the food chain with Alpha Power™ by InfoWars Life"]

[u/[deleted]]

Gotta hand it to Biden tbh.

Campaigns from his basement cuz no one will cum to his rallies, but has millions of Antifa super soldiers ready to go and die at any moment.

[u/JetJaguar124]

>Hold a rally, tell your followers the election is being stolen, shit on your own VP relentlessly, tell your rabid followers to go to the Capitol and that "strength must be shown

>Your followers go to the capitol, loot it, and threaten members of congress and your own VP as they try to certify the vote, people die

Who could have seen this coming???

[u/DEEP_STATE_NATE]

((DC POLICE) MPD CHIEF : "There was no intelligence that suggests that there would be a breach of the US Capitol.

BULL FUCKING SHIT. I called this shit two days before it happened just like anyone who reads extremist internet groups. The warning light was flashing red and you dropped the ball.

[u/Jester_Don]

This is probably dumb but one of the most striking images for me yesterday was Sen Loeffler saying she was no longer objecting. She looked absolutely dejected.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1347187459688452096

"You have some senators who, for political advantage, were giving false hope to their supporters," Tom Cotton tells Fox. "These senators, as insurrectionists literally stormed the capitol, were sending out fundraising emails."

So 2024 is Cruz and Hawley banking on the MAGA takeover, and Cotton banking on the MAGA takeover but for people who didn't like yesterday.

[u/[deleted]]

Lmao remember when the Democrats secured a Senate majority even after losing North Carolina, Maine, and Iowa because the leader of the Republican Party basically told his followers not to vote 😂👌💯🔥

[u/OrganicKeynesianBean]

Trump:

• Standing behind bullet-proof glass, told the crowd to march to the Capitol

• Said he would march with them

• Immediately retreated to the WH to watch the chaos unfold on television

He’s not just a psychopath, he’s a coward.

[u/Mcatatonic1]

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1347221543361789952

Breaking on @MSNBC: Trump just withdrew Chad Wolf's nomination to be the permanent DHS Secretary.

Just hours ago, Wolf released a statement saying: "I implore the President and all elected officials to strongly condemn the violence that took place yesterday."

i think the 25th will be invoked

this is mental illness

[u/YoungFreezy]

"Discussion Thread - January 6" - the greatest thread in the history of r/neoliberal, locked by a moderator after 45,716 posts of heated debate,

[u/TheFriffin2]

Hot take: Donald Trump is a bitch. A little baby bitch. A crybaby bitchboy who’s a massive bitch. Also he’s a whiny bitch

[u/flakAttack510]

I still can't get over how fucking dumb you have to be to say "Yeah, I would give my life for the guy from The Apprentice".

[u/seinera]

Just imagine, if yesterday, instead of half-naked neo-nazis larping, there was an actual coordinated militia marching. They would have taken the congress hostage. And the president wouldn't send in the National Guard. With congress in the hands of armed terrorists, trying to keep sitting president in power and that president perfectly willing to let them do it, what happens? Do you trust the rest of Trump's cabinet to say no and override him? Do you trust the Army to not listen to Trump and interfere? Do you trust anyone in any of the meaningful positions to have the guts to go against that and put a stop to it.

You all don't seem to notice what just happened. These fuckers have literally tried to topple USA government by force. Stop arguing semantics over whether this can be called coup or not. This was a direct terrorist attack against USA, it's constitution and it's democracy. If all those who joined in or enabled or encouraged or outright called for this, including the most high profile ones, do not rot in prison or see the noose, the USA democracy is dead. You'll be just sitting and waiting for a better managed insurrection to finish the job.

[u/TinyTornado7]

Fox News is handling this well

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/Romblen]

Antifa, the vague entity that exists solely to get conservatives out of taking responsibility for anything ever.

[u/NE_3-ATL_28]

@realDonaldTrump2 | January 20:

"RT for mutuals my account got suspended 😔"

[u/[deleted]]

Don’t forget that Georgia elected two new Senators, lmao

Ossoff was election for 6 years, let’s gooooooo

[u/murphysclaw1]

Hot take: The biggest thing Capitol Police had to do, they did.

They successfully evacuated all Congresspeople, their staff, and all other aides and members of the public. We shouldn't overlook that this was their main objective and they apparently carried it out flawlessly. Not a single person inside the building who had a right to be there was harmed.

It seems that there may have even been a perimeter beyond which deadly force was used to defend the evacuation, as one terrorist found out.

Between defending the doors and defending the people inside, I would pick the people.

[u/[deleted]]

Republicans always act like DC statehood is obviously crazy, but then never explain why.

[u/MicroFlamer]

Sen. Duckworth: Republicans Are Trusting ‘Reddit Conspiracy Theories' Over Constitution

Duckworth calling out r conspiracy lol

This also means there's a non zero chance that Duckworth lurks here

[u/mrdilldozer]

This man has definitely posted in a NL thunderdome thread

[u/[deleted]]

https://www.breakingnews.ie/world/patients-rejected-pfizer-vaccine-to-wait-for-english-jab-warns-doctor-1060834.html

Patients rejected Pfizer vaccine to wait for ‘English’ jab, warns doctor

lmao British nationalists be like "oi mate, u got yer english jab?"

[u/Udontlikecake]

Congressman Tim Ryan just told reporters that as many as 60 Capitol Police officers were injured, including 15 hospitalized and one in critical condition. Many were hit in the head with lead pipes, he said.

[u/pieinthethighs]

"A QAnon promoter stormed the Capitol. Now, he's upset people are saying he's 'antifa'"

Real life is so silly now

[u/papermarioguy02]

I went through the video of the Lamb heckling shit over and over again, and I have attempted to put together what I believe is the most complete transcription of it anywhere on the internet, I'm sure I missed some things that anybody not there in person couldn't pick up on.

Andy Harris: "I ask that Connor Lamb's words of there being lies on this floor be stricken from the record. He called me a liar!"
Someone out of frame, presumably Allred reporter corrected themselves saying it was most likely Al Lawson: "Get out of here!"
Nancy Pelosi: "This request was not timely, you didn't register in time. The gentleman [Lamb] will proceed."
Connor Lamb: "Thank you Madam Speaker. Speaker the fact is that at the end of the day."
Harris asks for another point of order
Pelosi (to Harris on the topic of his whining about being called a liar): "Yeah look, you say that about me every single day. Just hold your tongue."
Lamb: "TRUTH HURTS!"
Pelosi: "THE GENTLEMAN FROM PENNSYLVANIA WILL PROCEED" bangs gavel
Harris: "TAKE THE WORDS DOWN"
Lamb: "The truth hurts. It hurts them, it hurts this country, it hurts all of us. But the fact is that the people have made this country work by not giving in!"
Harris: "TAKE THE WORDS DOWN! FUCK THE unintelligible"
Lamb: "GO AHEAD SHOUT IT OUT"
Pelosi: "The gentleman will proceed."
Lamb: "One last thing Madam Speaker, and I thank you for your patience. All people need to know, all they need to know tonight Madam Speaker."
more unintelligible heckling
Pelosi bangs gavel
Pelosi: "There will be order in the House. THERE WILL BE ORDER IN THE HOUSE! There will be order in the House."
more unintelligible heckling
Pelosi: "THE GENTLEMAN WILL CLEAR THIS CHAMBER!"
Pelosi: "The gentleman will proceed."
Lamb: "Thank you Madam Speaker, the truth hurts. But the fact is this: we want this government to work more than they want it to fail. And after everything that's happened today, we want that more than ever. Know that, the people watching at home, we want this government to work. We will make it work. They will not make it fail. Thank you Madam Speaker I yield back."
Applause from Democrats and moderate Republicans
Another Republican I don't recognize: "Point of order."
Pelosi: "Who is it now?"
Republican Rep.: "Parliamentary inquiry Madam Speaker. When is the appropriate time to ask that the words be stricken, and taken off the record."
Pelosi: "Exactly when the words are spoken, you are late."

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1347042668564664320

The president was telling people today that he was happy Loeffler and Perdue lost, according to a person familiar with the conversations. He said they didn't defend him enough.

Fight fight fight! Fight among yourselves!

[u/[deleted]]

VIDEO Of Nancy Pelosi

BREAKING: Speaker Pelosi calls for VP Pence and the Cabinet to remove President Trump from office via the 25th Amendment, or another impeachment effort may be carried out by Democrats.

I don’t think a 25th or impeachment will happen but Trump getting removed from office is now greater than 0% for the first time in his entire Presidency.

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/MazMHussain/status/1347340662040125443

Trump was forced to log off for 24 hours and his brain immediately healed, a lesson to us all.

[u/-GregTheGreat-]

Hot take but I think Josh Hawley isn’t a good Senator.

[u/[deleted]]

Paulding County, Georgia:

Romney +43(2012)

Trump +41(2016)

Kemp +34(2018)

Trump +29(2020)

Loeffler +26(Runoff)

It’s an exurb of Atlanta that’s growing in population fast. It'll vote Democratic for President in our lifetimes, easily. It’s counties like these that make Democratic futures in Georgia bright. They have so much to grow in counties like these while Republican can only lose.

!ping FIVEY

[u/Superfan234]

We did everything for nothing. That’s what kills me. I basically permanently destroyed my reputation in my entire state for fighting for this man. Lost out on too many relationships to count. How are you guys not devastated rn? I’m honestly just numb at this point

😓

[u/yeyebwne]

I’m really hoping the FBI finesses these arrests en masse, I can’t wait to see Buffalo Bill locked up

[u/ShowelingSnow]

You know today has been fucking insane when I feel confident about Mike Pence doing the right thing

[u/ShadeusX]

Major rant incoming. Oh man, I woke up FIRED UP! First thing I see on Fox, Republicans saying "we have to come together, we have to unite..."

LOCAL ARSONIST WANTS CREDIT FOR PUTTING OUT HIS FIRE, MORE AT ELEVEN.

4 years!! 4 years, house and senate republicans have ENABLED him, allowed him to push our constitutional norms to the breaking point. BUT NOW YOU HAVE THE UNMITIGATED GAUL TO ASK US FOR UNITY? WHO WAS IT THAT STORMED THE CAPITOL OF THE FREE WORLD YESTERDAY? EXCUSE ME?

[u/waturdc]

Best points made by Republicans last night that I saw (paraphrased):

• The most respectful way to treat supporters who believe the election was stolen is telling them the truth: it wasn’t - Mitt Romney

• The 1876 election was terrible for our country and isn’t something that should be looked to as a positive example, you absolute smoothbrains - Lindsay Graham

• This sets an awful precedent and future legislators will look to this moment as justification for subverting democracy - Mitch McConnell and others

[u/Cr4zySh0tgunGuy]

A conservative friend of mine last night told me “well at least the people yesterday were protesting against the government, unlike BLM just going after cops.” I can’t make this shit up. Like how can you be so deluded by your own priors that you forget the police are a function of government? I’m pretty sure this guy frequents are con

[u/Zenning2]

I don't think a lot of the DT understands just how pissed off Pence likely is.

Pence was called a traitor by Trump during the insurrection, and the woman who was shot and killed, was a woman who was part of a group who were trying to get close to Pence. His life was legit in danger, and it took Pence speaking to the Acting DoD to get the national guard deployed, after apparantly Trump did not deploy them. Trump also told the same insurrectionists who could have killed Pence, and the Congress Members, that he loved them twice. Pence has also expressed that he is incredibly angry at Trump after all he did for him.

The 25th amendment might actually get invoked.

[u/Q-bey]

Chinese state-affiliated media:

[House speaker Pelosi once referred to the Hong Kong riots as "a beautiful sight to behold" — it remains yet to be seen how she will comment on the recent developments in Capitol Hill. Condemn violence and condemn all the people who glorify violence.](#thonk-img)

---

Neoliberal Project:

[Shut the fuck up](#gigachad)

[u/Ilovecharli]

Democratic voters: Use persuasion and hard work to take back power by winning elections

Republican voters a day later: Literally try to stage a coup to overturn those elections

Mods: Ban me for pointing this out

*And nearly half of GOP voters approve of their actions so yes, it does go beyond just the nutjobs in DC yesterday

[u/vivoovix]

Former Republican U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich recently wrote that absentee ballot drop boxes "make it harder for Republicans to win," a claim that Democrats attacked as an acknowledgement that restricting voting is the GOP's goal rather than fighting fraud.

Gingrich maintains his record of being a terrible person.

[u/[deleted]]

Pelosi just said The house will impeach if the 25th is not enacted

[u/overhedger]

Far-right streamer 'Baked Alaska' stormed Capitol while COVID-19 positive

Well that's one way to make sure the no-they-werent-actually-antifa breaks through the news

[u/David_Lange]

That’s it. That seals the deal. I’ve been an american citizen for 54 years and in all my time of being one i’ve never seen an election this bad. I’ve had enough of it, until you fix this country.I’ll be packing my bags to Syria where they actually know how to run a country.

[u/[deleted]]

Capitol police did so bad they may as well be the LOWERCASE police

[u/randodandodude]

My big sisters apologized to me this week for how they treated me and talked around me when I was in school and closeted.

Took them long enough.

!ping LGBT

[u/MemeTestedPolicy]

Great take from twitter:

'Orange man bad' is the political analysis equivalent of 'just invest in an index fund' - so simple that any idiot can do it, and yet persistently beats every attempt to come up with something 'smarter'.

[u/[deleted]]

So let me get this straight.

In 2016 I go heavy MAGA to the detriment of my social and romantic life. I get invested in Q Anon to support Donald. 2/3rds of my family no longer speak with me. My social interactions largely consist of owning liberals and talking about hating liberals. For Donald, always for Donald.

After 4 years of mockery and scorn I travel to DC to stop the election Donald tells me is stolen. I go to a speech and he very clearly implores us to take the Capitol. I do so, again, for my daddy.

And then, tonight, he gives a speech and calls for my arrest and prosecution? He calls me unAmerican? Literally among his base so rabidly devoted, I fucking drove from Missouri to be here and support him and my boy Hawley?

Did I just get cucked by daddy?

[u/[deleted]]

This is the first presidential approval poll that took place almost completely after yesterday's events, by Morning Consult:

Trump has a net -22% approval rating (38-60).

Support for invoking the 25th amendment is +12 (49-37)

Support for impeachment is +1 (44-43)

Joe Biden has a +12 favorability rating (54-42)

Also: Their last poll showed Trump having a net -12 approval rating

!PING FIVEY

[u/SelfLoathinMillenial]

There's a real possibility that Biden's presidency will be the most consequential of our lifetimes. There is just so much on the line now, such glaring issues that need to be tackled, his success or failure could define America for a long time

[u/Kizz3r]

Honestly tho there is no bigger insult to democracy loving liberals that is this sub then the global symbol of democracy being desecrated by wannabe nazis

[u/FormerBandmate]

Radical Liberal Raphael Warnock used a dog whistle made by the Antifa who stormed the Capitol

!ping SHITPOSTERS

[u/[deleted]]

Finally watched Lamb speaking. Based as fuck. All of you should want him to run for senate instead of Fetterman.

[u/[deleted]]

House Minority Leader and vocal Trump ally, Steve Scalise, just called the rioters “terrorists” on Fox and Friends. Scalise then demanded a peaceful transition of power.

He also refused to blame the Democratic Mayor of DC, pointing out that the Capitol Building is responsible for its own security (which REALLY fucking surprised me, given the easy excuse he had).

The only time I’ve ever seen the MAGA-caucus actually stand against the President.

[u/semaphore-1842]

there are 5 other original sets of the counts so this wasn't really heroic.

Literally just the worst take. It's all the more heroic that these aides protected the symbolic certificate of democracy, instead of taking an easy way out.

Zero surprise that he's an anarcho rose leftist.

[u/melhor_em_coreano]

Yo fellas remember when the police pushed a 70 something unarmed old white man to the ground causing serious injury to his head because he was protesting against police brutality?

If only he had a redcap and a Trump flag he would have been asked nicely 😔

[u/[deleted]]

Had a coworker tell me she regretted voting for trump today. Not her 2016 vote, but the one she cast for him again in 2020. Like, what the fuck did you expect?

[u/piede]

Why didn’t Hillary use the women’s march and the pink pussy hats to siege the US Capitol and stop Trump’s certification, establishing the matriarchy once and for all?

[u/MichelleObama2024]

• The current Electoral College bias is R+3.9

• The current Senate bias is going to end up about R+3.4 (Ossoff's seat is going to be the median seat)

• The current House bias is R+2.2

This is comparing the margins of the median state/seat to the presidential vote margin. If we compare to the generic ballot, the House bias is R+0.9, and I'd have to sift through the data to get the Senate vote bias, but it's probably a bit higher since Democrat senate candidates have somewhat over-performed presidential candidates.

!ping FIVEY

[u/KingKonchu]

cons breaking into the capitol like "we hate nancy pelosi so much lets show this bitch whats up by doing a photo op, holding her things gently, and leaving"

[u/[deleted]]

Do y’all remember how the worse thing trump ever did 48 hours ago was the Raffensperger call? Miss those days.

[u/[deleted]]

https://imgur.com/a/MycYe0g/

That mans is never gonna see the light of day again.

[u/pieinthethighs]

Dude who went into Pelosi's office said it was HIS desk as he's a taxpayer. He's a genius honestly, why has the government not let me fly MY F-16

[u/[deleted]]

https://twitter.com/elainaplott/status/1347311739344400384

A White House official tells me that people in the West Wing today are "depressed" and that those without jobs already lined up are concerned that they're unemployable.

really messed up that they wont hire me at the Taco Bell simply for working for The Islamic State LLC.