Yesterday, Donald Trump gave a half-hearted speech that was no doubt given under duress, the way a kidnap victim would give a statement. He doesn't regret what he instigated at all. Most likely he isn't in fact president anymore but rather Mike Pence is in all but name:
He didn't "concede" and refused to acknowledge Joe Biden at all. The title of the video is misleading:
He's like the little kid caught stealing cookies from a cookie jar. He's sorry he got caught, but he isn't sorry he stole.
I hope criminal charges are leveled at him and every single person involved in the storming of the Capitol building. Florence ADX and Terre Haute death row may have to have major expansions to accommodate all the terrorists involved.
Articles of impeachment have been introduced. Given the fact the Senate members as well as the House members were under threat, it should be an absolute slam dunk to remove Trump before January 20. Only one article is sufficient: that of inciting riots, terrorism, treason against the United States to the point where the Capitol itself was under threat. I can't even imagine anybody voting against it unless they want to lose in 2022.
It's a much different circumstance than the last time Trump was impeached.
Twitter finally did what it should have done months ago, and that is permanently ban Donald Trump
from its platform. As an aside, YouTube needs to do a major housecleaning of those channels that still promote lies about the election and supporting the terrorists who stormed the Capitol building.
From the link:
"After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence," Twitter said.
"In the context of horrific events this week, we made it clear on Wednesday that additional violations of the Twitter Rules would potentially result in this very course of action."
Thanks to his wife's antics, Clarence Thomas should resign from the USSC:
It’s interesting to look at who funded Trump’s pre-attack rally on Wednesday. Ginni Thomas, wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, paid for 70 buses used to transport armed rioters to the rally. (Her Facebook page was shut down today.) https://t.co/4ZMtBbBecW
Terrorist Ashli Babbitt got exactly what she deserved. Whack job who was once an Obama supporter was willing to murder elected officials.
Fuck that shit.
In case you didn't see this video before:
That YouTuber had no business even being there, yet there he was filming it. Nice way to help the FBI, doofus, and go to prison in the process.
And yes, those terrorists involved in the Beer Belly Putsch (courtesy of Democratic Underground) were intent on kidnapping and murdering public officials.
A couple of them carrying police restraints have been identified.
And late this evening, the Houston Chronicle calls for the resignation of chickenshit senator Ted Cruz, who is already despised by just about everybody on Capitol Hill. Time for him to go back to his birthplace of Calgary, Alberta. He will never be president.
For that matter, neither will Josh Hawley.
The consequences of Cruz’s cynical gamble soon became clear and so did his true motivations. In the moments when enraged hordes of Trump supporters began storming the Capitol to stop a steal that never happened, desecrating the building, causing the evacuation of Congress and injuring dozens of police officers, including one who died, a fundraising message went out to Cruz supporters:
“Ted Cruz here,” it read. “I’m leading the fight to reject electors from key states unless there is an emergency audit of the election results. Will you stand with me?”
Cruz claims the message was automated. Even if that’s true, it’s revolting.
This is a man who lied, unflinchingly, on national television, claiming on Hannity’s show days after the election that Philadelphia votes were being counted under a “shroud of darkness” in an attempted Democratic coup. As he spoke, the process was being livestreamed on YouTube.
If Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley had shown any evidence that there’s a conscience in there somewhere, underneath the ambition and the artifice and the uncommon combo of striving and laziness that he’s somehow made work for him, then we wouldn’t be where we are right now.
We wouldn’t, that is, be wondering what to say to a man who, having so disgraced his office, and our state, must either resign or be removed from the U.S. Senate.
Having led the parade to the edge of a cliff, Hawley pretends to be astonished by what happened next. And unlike those Republicans who sobered up after seeing the U.S. Capitol trashed, he continues to pretend that the election was stolen from President Donald Trump, who claimed widespread voter fraud even when he really did win, in 2016.
Meanwhile, Sen. Josh Hawley had the gall to stand before the Senate Wednesday night and feign shock, shock at what happened — hours after he had fist-pumped and cheered the rioters as they arrived on Capitol Hill. Hawley’s tardy, cover-his-ass condemnation of the violence ranks at the top of his substantial list of phony, smarmy and politically expedient declarations.
Americans have had enough of Trumpism and the two-faced, lying, populist politicians who embraced it. Hawley’s presidential aspirations have been flushed down the toilet because of his role in instigating Wednesday’s assault on democracy. He should do Missourians and the rest of the country a big favor and resign now.
It doesn't matter if Lori Klausutis's widower desperately wants Twitter to take down the despicable lies that have been swirling around her death since 2001, when she died hitting her head in a fall thanks to an undiagnosed heart issue. It doesn't matter what former congressman and now talking head Joe Scarborough wants. It is only about what the malignant narcissist Donald Trump wants. In Trump's twisted imagination, Scarborough has displayed total disloyalty to him, and therefore it is payback time.
Those rumors about Lori and Scarborough came about because some idiots on the political left of the spectrum thought the right and the media were covering the "mystery" up all the while the media were making big political hay out of the tragic disappearance and ultimate murder of intern Chandra Levy. Because of Levy's reported affair with Congressman Gary Condit, supposedly he was somehow involved in her disappearance and murder. It was all debunked, all bullshit, but Condit paid the ultimate political price for it and went into obscurity. Scarborough had to endure the same innuendo, the same lies, but in his case, he voluntarily decided to retire from Congress. He also didn't have any kind of inappropriate relationship with Lori Klausutis. Her husband and the rest of her family took her untimely death very hard, and it got worse because of the lies. Those lies even made it to Wikipedia, which elicited a response from Scarborough himself requesting either the removal or drastic changes to the entry.
Trump, however, doesn't give a shit. Neither apparently does Twitter. People have been kicked off the platform for stating such horrible things as men can't become women and vice versa, but somebody like Donald Trump is allowed to continue to post delusional screeds and outright lies. That is because he is hugely popular on the site, probably bringing in tons of money in revenue and making Twitter bigshot Jack Dorsey even richer.
The social media giant has a series of rules regulating content on the platform, including policies barring the promotion of violence and "targeted harassment".
The outlined "enforcement options" include requiring the removal of tweets and the permanent suspension of offending accounts.
Last week, Mr Scarborough's wife and co-anchor Mika Brzezinksi furiously rebuked Mr Trump for his tweets on the matter, calling the president "sick". She also asked Twitter to remove the incendiary tweets.
In a first on Tuesday, Twitter added a "get the facts" tab to another of Mr Trump's tweets about absentee ballots that are sent to voters through the mail.
Trump says he has seen Timothy Klausutis's letter, but he still doesn't give a shit. It's anything to drum up his dwindling supporters' ire:
President Donald Trump told reporters on Tuesday that while he had seen the letter Lori Klausutis' widower wrote to Twitter calling for the removal of Trump's baseless conspiracy theories about her accidental death, he was going to keep talking about it anyway.
"I'm sure that, ultimately, they want to get to the bottom of it and it's a very serious situation," he argued while taking questions at an unrelated Rose Garden event.
Who cares about Lori's family, right? Not when there is some mileage to come out of it politically.
No longer can people sit back and not saying anything when Trumps Sr. and Jr. have so many Twitter followers who devour every lie imaginable.
Conspiracy theories have long been evidence of Trump’s twisted psychology. He has always traveled quite easily from the real world to the twilight zone, depending on which reality suits his needs at the moment. And when someone holds him accountable—when someone calls him out for his incompetence and ethical wrongdoing—conspiracy theories often become his weapon of choice. At such moments, conspiracy theories are fine, but conspiracy theories with the added element of cruelty are even better. Which brings us back to the heartbreaking letter from Timothy Klausutis.
Donald Trump doesn’t merely want to criticize his opponents; he takes a depraved delight in inflicting pain on others, even if there’s collateral damage in the process, as is the case with the Klausutis family. There’s something quite sick about it all.
Straight from the malignant narcissist's mouth:
Edited to add: Craig Pittman of the Washington Post a few days ago had a long and very good article about the Klausutis smear.
Now, nearly 20 years later, Klausutis’s death has captured the attention of the country’s most prominent purveyor of conspiracy theories — the president of the United States — who has without evidence speculated that she might have been murdered and that the case should be reopened.
The reason for President Trump’s fixation: At the time of her death, Klausutis was working for a Republican congressman from Pensacola named Joe Scarborough — the same Scarborough who today, as host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” is a fierce critic of Trump and has in recent weeks decried the president’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic as a failure.
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