DC Unrest Megathread

[Alben Barkley]

Damn Pence’s speech had me going “AMERICA F—K YEAH!!!!”

[Alben Barkley]

The worst thing these terrorists did is make me smile when Mitch McConnell is speaking.

God damn them!

[Alben Barkley]

I don't know what's more frustrating: Hearing Pence & Mitch speak or folks actually feeling comfort them despite their culpability of today's actions.

Oh I fully acknowledge they are culpable but they still had some strong words that were refreshing to hear from Republicans of their position. It was extremely obvious they were pissed too, honestly felt like some of the most authentic things they’ve ever said.

[Alben Barkley]

This was the closest thing we’ve ever seen to a Beer Hall Putsch or Mussolini March on Rome. If Trump had actually led the mob to the Capitol it would be effectively indistinguishable.

That’s pretty terrifying.

[Alben Barkley]

I changed to a red avatar. Time to close ranks and stand as one.

YES!

[Alben Barkley]

And what happened then? Well, in DC they say that the Barbie’s small heart grew three sizes that day. And then the true meaning of Christmas came though, and the Barbie found the strength of ten Barbies plus two!

[Alben Barkley]

So does anyone still think Manchin will change parties?

LOL

[Alben Barkley]

In all seriousness, does this have any potential effect on the future direction of the GOP? Do they start backing away from Trumpism? Did a guy like Sasse’s stock rise today while Hawley’s fell?

[Alben Barkley]

I just keep thinking how the midterms and 2024 will look for the GOP after today.

Don't expect a Democratic landslide. Much of the Republican base approves of what happened today, and we saw how 2020 turned out. But I think that the Democrats, if they turnout at high rates like they did last year and for the Georgia runoffs, stand a good chance of holding their ground and overcoming the Republicans in the next two election cycles.

Basically my thoughts are in states where Republicans are reliant on suburban support like Az, GA, and TX this won't go too well for them, but in like WI and IA they rely on rural, so this'll have little impact there

I don't want to hear anyone say I'm too "condescending" toward these people ever again.

Yeah today's events make me so glad that I left the GOP, but I remind everyone that we were warned about this 4 years ago by Hillary Clinton, and too many, including myself didn't listen, but look at how accurate this is now:

"And if you have read about the ones he says he’s likely to support, he’s not kidding. In fact, if you look at his running mate, his running-mate signed a law that would have allowed businesses to discriminate against LGBT Americans. And there’s so much more than I find deplorable in his campaign: the way that he cozies up to white supremacist, makes racist attacks, calls women pigs, mocks people with disabilities — you can’t make this up. He wants to round up and deport 16 million people, calls our military a disaster. And every day he says something else which I find so personally offensive, but also dangerous.

You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?

[Laughter/applause]

The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people — now how 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks — they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.

"---Hillary Clinton, October 2016


She was mocked for this, but literally all of it came true

Another reason she deserves the Medal of Freedom. The only thing she was ever wrong about was the “basket of deplorables” comment. It was actually 100% of Trump supporters!

[Alben Barkley]

Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter have all at least temp-banned Trump.

[Alben Barkley]

Y’all remember when Trump said he would stop “American Carnage,” restore “Law and Order,” etc.?

[Alben Barkley]

SARAH PALIN thinks the GOP has gone so crazy it needs to be dissolved and replaced with a third party.

SARAH PALIN.

Let that sink in.

https://twitter.com/redistrict/status/1346982839703650308?s=21

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Lindsey Graham be like:

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https://twitter.com/jessicataylor/status/1347016657454170115?s=21

Tuberville really eager to go from failed football coach of the second-best school in Alabama straight to high treason and fascism, huh?

[Alben Barkley]

House finishes on Arizona alone by midnight, and they plan to stay until it’s finished???

Ted Cruz better think very carefully before objecting again, or else someone might put Lindsey Graham’s theory that you could shoot him on the Senate floor and be cleared of all charges to the test. If only because they’re tired and want to go home.

[Alben Barkley]

Toomey just called Trump a lying “demogague.”

Holy f—k.

[Alben Barkley]

This is honestly the harshest I’ve ever seen the GOP rebuke Trump outside of the usual suspects like Romney, Flake, etc.

Too little, too late of course. But could this mean the tide is turning for the future? Or is it impossible now for them to contain the monster they have unleashed?

[Alben Barkley]

Isn't it hilarious and sad, that looking back at the past 4 years, Scaramucci was actually one of the better appointments Trump made?

Quite possibly the absolute best.

[Alben Barkley]

DOGEBOMB

https://twitter.com/IntelDoge/status/1347024931196907523

no freaking way.  more than half of these thugs are literally voting to object to Biden's clear win.

You'd need a majority of the House to impeach and 2/3 of the Senate (66 for now) to convict. Not implausible.

Who would be the Republican senators to get to that number though?

Let's start with Romney, Murkowski, Collins.

Hell let's say McConnell, Sasse, Toomey, Capito, Thune, the Georgia Senators for the hell of it...

That still leaves like 8 senators needed.

[Alben Barkley]

I don't even know who the Democratic defector could be after Van Drew jumped ship, Peterson lost, etc. Mistake seems easily the most likely explanation.

[Alben Barkley]

Markey shooting straight and to the point. Just the truth.

Much better than whatever JKIII would be saying.

Speaking of which, where is MillennialModerate?

Is he... safe?

Is he... all right?

[Alben Barkley]

https://twitter.com/willsommer/status/1347015828324167682

Nothing of value was lost. HP.

The question is, can her family sue Jim Watkins (8chan owner and almost certainly "Q" himself) for this?

[Alben Barkley]

There's just something so incredibly ironic about QAnon people thinking they are fighting against an evil cabal of pedophiles while defending someone who is far more likely to actually be a pedophile than anyone they hate.

[Alben Barkley]

Scott Jennings on CNN is *pissed.* And he’s pretty reliably wishy-washy.

Nobody at CNN is entitled to an opinion on anything Trump supporters do--if not for them Trump would've faded from the spotlight before the primary and they've spent four years giving them a voice.

To be fair, it was very hard to see how it would be THIS bad five years ago. Trump seemed to most people like a joke who would never get elected and even if he somehow did, be no worse than any other Republican while perhaps a bit more fun to watch. Even I didn't think it would get THIS bad. So I can't totally fault the media for being drawn into the Trump circus when it was still a novelty.

I CAN and DO, however, fault them for focusing so relentlessly on the "emails" non-scandal, especially in comparison to Trump's many, MANY very real and much more disturbing scandals. Hell, possibly the optimal result in 2016 would have been Trump winning the primary but then getting destroyed in the general, which is pretty much what I expected for most of late 2015 and early 2016. And if not for the media demanding a horse race, it very well could have ended like that.