DC Unrest Megathread

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They actually deleted his tweets. wow

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The video is gone too and something else from earlier today (I forget what is was)

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The video is gone too and something else from earlier today (I forget what is was)

The other thing they deleted was the tweet where he said Pence failed to do his job.

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These are the tweets that were deleted:

Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!

a video, you can see it here:
https://twitter.com/UnfollowTrump/status/1346946986365378563

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!

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Trump should not be impeached or removed from office. That would turn him into a martyr and further radicalized his supporters.

At this point, his supporters’ needs or wishes are irrelevant.

Trump is leaving office in 2 weeks. Removing him a few days early is not worth the cost.

Worth it to ban him from running in 2024.

Sadly, a successful impeachment wouldn't bar him from running.

A removal would.

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House won't be done voting until 11:30 to midnight.

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So... the House is going to take until f**king midnight?? Why the f**k does it take so long

I think because they vote in groups because of Covid.

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DOGEBOMB

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

Can they do this after the 20th if they can't make the calendar work?

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Hawley was going to object to PA so I guess that's the one bit of uncertainty left.

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Why is Nevada even in question?

It's one of the states Trump has complained about vote dumps.

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It didn't look like it was the police in the video I saw but you can't tell what happened.

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If the 25th amendment gets enacted, can Trump still issue pardons?

No. He stays President but has no powers of the office until the cabinet or Congress restores it.

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Going into debate again....

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So Perdue is not there today? I just realized he didn’t vote on the AZ objection. Is he off crying somewhere? He’s actually making Barbie look a lot better now.

his term expired, lol

Oh. So then why didn’t they just swear Warnock in yet?

Ossoff and Warnock can't be sworn in until GA certifies the results. Perdue's term is up though.

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They'll both be sworn is when they're certified (probably at the same time).

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Is anyone else surprised that Trump hasn't commandeered the twitter account of one of his staff members?  I can imagine him sitting in the white house watching cable news, stewing that he's cut off from twitter.

Not sure why he didn't move to @POTUS but it appears he didn't. Still just retweets from his personal.

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No Senator co-signing, thank goodness.

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Is anyone else surprised that Trump hasn't commandeered the twitter account of one of his staff members?  I can imagine him sitting in the white house watching cable news, stewing that he's cut off from twitter.

Not sure why he didn't move to @POTUS but it appears he didn't. Still just retweets from his personal.

Is he able to retweet?  I thought his account was shut down for 24 hours or something?

What I mean is @POTUS is mostly just retweets from @RealDonaldTrump, and I don't see anything new or different.

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The clock can probably be run out on that. Congress doesn't have to vote for 21 days and Pence would be acting P in the meantime.

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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).

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Where would he post it? lol

But yeah, just needs to sign a letter and send it to Pompeo, if he can ever get over his pride.

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I have to say I'm pretty uncomfortable with Google / Apple play store removing Parler from their downloads (in Apple's case, threatening removal in 24 hours). I think these tech companies may be flexing their muscles too much here.

Free market. Let the rednecks learn to code and build their own platform to spout bullsh**t from. It's all feeding this conspiracy nonsense. They use out of context memes as "I'd die for this" evidence and I'm over it.

Well Parler's still available on the website. It's just harder to access from a phone.

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I have to say I'm pretty uncomfortable with Google / Apple play store removing Parler from their downloads (in Apple's case, threatening removal in 24 hours). I think these tech companies may be flexing their muscles too much here.

Free market. Let the rednecks learn to code and build their own platform to spout bullsh**t from. It's all feeding this conspiracy nonsense. They use out of context memes as "I'd die for this" evidence and I'm over it.

I'm not a huge fan of the free market, but even taking into account that bad faith argument: Google is a huge monopoly and has almost total control over their market. How the hell is anything supposed to compete with Apple or Google?

And the problem is not even that Google is a business monopoly either. It would be one thing if they had a monopoly in wheat or Christmas trees, but their monopoly allows them to control how people think and behave.

Which is strange to me. Who uses google for anything other than as a shortcut to find a Wikipedia article? Even youtube, who actually clicks on ads or video recommendations?

Like hundreds of millions of people.

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Probably the same subset of people who don't have an avatar. 🤷

Independent as I've said. Dig into my history if you want to see where I've from. I've given it away before. Check how long I've been on the site while you're at it.

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Maybe he changed the name. It would say suspended if he was.