DC Unrest Megathread

[Middle-aged Europe]

Michelle Obama calls on "Silicon Valley companies" to permanently ban Donald Trump from their platforms:

https://twitter.com/MichelleObama/status/1347284257551638529

[Badger]

Regardless of what happens - anyone have a growing anxiety of inevitable violence because of how far the QAnon theories and bullsh**t have gone?

I'm sickened to say that I'm just naturally a Republican, and I want to think the party has a future outside of Trump, but that future must not involve destroying our country over his loss.

If you remain a Republican, you are complicit.

I will amend this slightly. If you do not dedicate yourself 110% 2, 4, 8 years from now towards fighting the Spectre of trumpism and all it represents out of the Republican party, yes, you are complicit.

It's neat and Dandy after yesterday to not defend Trump and throw him under the bus when he's politically irrelevant and not important to Republicans staying in power.

But unless you have one of the handful of Republicans like say Mike dewine, Mitt Romney oh, Nancy mace, Etc who have never encouraged and repeated Trump's patently unmistakably false claims about election fraud and incitements to direct Hands-On action what do you do then? Are you ready to vote against your Congressman, your Senator your Governor, your attorney general if they repeated and abetted Trump in the same falsehoods and insightful claims'?

If not, all Republicans like you mean by getting past Trump is surviving the pr disaster the next 14 days, and then voting for someone just as utterly disrespectful and willing to sacrifice democracy if it suits their ends. Do that, you got my respect. Don't, you are as noted every bit as complicit is Trump.

THAT'S what " getting the Republican Party past Trump" really means. It's not just rejecting Donald Trump himself over the next two weeks. That's easy as pie. It's fighting to reject TrumpISM over the coming years. And yes, that means if your face with the choice of voting for one of the many many Republicans who were as bad as Trump in repeating the constant false election fraud narrative and encouraging his incitements, and God forbid voting for a Democrat, unless that Republican has had a complete public epiphany that backing Trump on this was wrong wrong wrong and regret ever doing it, if you don't support that Democrat then your professed desire to "get the party past Trump". Is just so much hot air.

[Stockdale for Veep]

Hispanics down in Florida must have hated watching another radical socialist attack unfold.

[Crumpets]

State Department official Gabriel Noronha has been fired on White House orders after he tweeted that Trump should be removed from office:

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/07/politics/gabriel-noronha-fired-tweet/index.html

See, this is how you "resign in protest" if you actually have guts and integrity.

[Badger]

Imagine thinking a block party is comparable to an attempted coup.

Imagine thinking a "block party" involves "four shootings, two deaths, arson, and several alleged sexual assaults."

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/7/2/21310109/chop-chaz-cleared-violence-explained

Dude, according to bgw aah, a longtime prior poster here now on a ad, who lives there, that was only a bit above the normal crime rate for that neighborhood during any given month.

It was not a good idea, and I'm glad the SPD retook the streets because even he as a die-hard leftist said it was getting real old real fast, but let's put things in to proper context.

[Crumpets]

One thought that occurred to me today: I genuinely doubt Trump will rest in state under the Capitol rotunda when he dies now.

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Hispanics down in Florida must have hated watching another radical socialist attack unfold.

*National Socialist

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Hispanics down in Florida must have hated watching another radical socialist attack unfold.

https://mobile.twitter.com/MariVeloza/status/1346911485100916741

[Middle-aged Europe]

Trump's Twitter lock has been lifted btw, but so far he hasn't tweeted anything.

[randomusername]

https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1347313804334522372

Hawley's book cancelled.

[Crumpets]

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

[7,052,770]

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

Hard to feel sorry for them. They knew who they were going to work for.

[GeorgiaModerate]

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

#ETTD

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1347253748444389377

Perez? Send him back to Mexico

[Frodo]

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1347253748444389377

Bring it on!

[John Dule]

Imagine thinking a block party is comparable to an attempted coup.

Imagine thinking a "block party" involves "four shootings, two deaths, arson, and several alleged sexual assaults."

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/7/2/21310109/chop-chaz-cleared-violence-explained

CHAZ was evil, run by idiots, and created for nefarious and seditious purposes. That said, it doesn't rise to .000001% of the level of the atrocities committed yesterday.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

https://mobile.twitter.com/JohnBubacz/status/1346924569177722881
I don't normally post Twitter randos, but this tweet neatly encapsulates the frame by which the mob that descended on the Capitol should be seen. Republican politicians are utter cowards who were behind this till the very millisecond it became a net downside for them. Trump and Co lost control over the most radical elements of their base and now they are paying the price for it. Trump needs to be censured by Congress for his irresponsibility. Ofc the TV-driven couch potato could care less though...

[lfromnj]

The true enemy of the people:

https://twitter.com/pdmcleod/status/1346940888761688064

Remember when the destruction of private property was supposed to be a crime so heinous as to be punished by immediate death?

To be specific not exactly the destruction but rather to prevent further destruction. If said dude is actually captured by the cops/surrenders it would be insanity to execute him without a full trial etc.

[emailking]

Trump's Twitter lock has been lifted btw, but so far he hasn't tweeted anything.

Did they say that? I think he has to delete some tweets or something (which I'm confused about since Twitter already deleted them).

[brucejoel99]

https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/1347318268219039744

[Rules for me, but not for thee]

Kasparov looks like a soothsayer now.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Trump's Twitter lock has been lifted btw, but so far he hasn't tweeted anything.

Did they say that? I think he has to delete some tweets or something (which I'm confused about since Twitter already deleted them).

I saw two reports to that effect on two separate German news sites. So it's true, unless they misinterpreted Twitter's rules.

[John Dule]

Aw man, why did you have to go back to the yellow avatar? Was that determined too?

I'm with you guys in spirit, but practically speaking I can't look through a thread and find my own comments with a D-CA avatar. I don't know how red avs handle it.

[Crumpets]

https://twitter.com/brianschatz/status/1347318695232630786

[Storr]

https://twitter.com/brianschatz/status/1347318695232630786

MPDC: Do you need backup? There's a huge crowd of angry, volatile Trump supporters coming into DC on the 6th.

Capitol Police: Nah, we got this.