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Some of this, from Arnold Schwarzenegger, is quite personal
My message to my fellow Americans and friends around the world following this week's attack on the Capitol. pic.twitter.com/blOy35LWJ5
— Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) January 10, 2021
Trump Was 'Delighted' His Supporters Stormed The Capitol, Says GOP Sen. Ben Sasse https://t.co/PAil6wt93r
— The Progressive Mind (@Libertea2012) January 9, 2021
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Yes, they showed us
From Andrew McCormick The Nation:
“This is not America,” a woman said to a small group, her voice shaking. She was crying, hysterical. “They’re shooting at us. They’re supposed to shoot BLM, but they’re shooting the patriots.”
A man, possibly her husband, comforted her: “Don’t worry, honey. We showed them today. We showed them what we’re all about.”
From Dave Dubya:
The stunning pictures for this page in history will show Trump’s mob committing open insurrection at the Capitol Building.
This Insurrection Day, Trump and the Republican radical Right brought their war on American democracy to its inevitable endgame. The brainwashed herd mentality of the Trump Cult was activated into a raging mob mentality.
The president’s invitation to insurrection went out on twitter: “Be there, will be wild! The BIG Protest Rally in Washington, D.C., will take place at 11.00 A.M. on January 6th. Locational details to follow. StopTheSteal!”
One of Trump’s loyal patriots responded, “I’m thinking it will be literal war on that day. Where we’ll storm offices and physically remove and even kill all the D.C. traitors and reclaim the country.”
And just wait- the right wing lies about it are already flowing at full flood. Don’t you know that this entire thing was orchestrated and carried out by Antifa? That is the line all over the wingnut world today, and they all instantly believe it, just like they instantly believe any of the thousands of lies they have been fed the last half century.
Within a few days, none of them will believe that the right or Donald Trump had a thing to do with this treason, and Trump still has two more weeks to give it another try.
From Wisconsin conservative James Wigderson:
Despite an objection by Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX), Wisconsin’s electoral college votes were accepted by a joint session of Congress early Thursday morning. The effort to block Wisconsin’s votes failed when no member of the U.S. Senate joined in the objection.
Wisconsin was the final state’s election President Donald Trump hoped would be successfully contested by Congress, but like all of the other battleground states Wisconsin’s votes were counted, too. The result of the count by Congress, normally just a formality, was the election of former Vice President Joe Biden as President of the United States. Biden will take office on January 20 at noon.
The certification by Congress of the Electoral College vote followed a day of rioting by supporters of Trump after he led them in a rally and encouraged them to march to the Capitol. Congress interrupted their session when Trump’s supporters overwhelmed the Capitol police and stormed the building.
Four people died in the rioting.
Republican members of Congress had expected to challenge more states’ election results, but the aftermath of the riot and invasion of the Capitol suppressed the desire by many Republicans to continue the election fight on behalf of a president that was widely seen as inciting the violence. Even Trump’s statement calling for peace was questioned when he also included claims without evidence that he understood the rioting because the presidential election was “stolen.”
From John Scalzi at Whatever:
For all but the very beginning of Donald Trump’s career as president, I’ve freely admitted that I considered him to be the worst president of my lifetime, but not the worst president of all time; that position was held by James Buchanan, who, I noted, actually broke the country. After today, however, I have to say I’ve changed my mind; Donald Trump is, without qualification, the worst president we’ve ever had.
You are free to disagree, of course, but you are wrong. James Buchanan allowed the country to fall into the Civil War because he believed (erroneously, in my opinion) the principles of the country could not stop it from happening. He was wrong, terribly wrong, but at least there was a principle behind it. Trump, it is now perfectly and unambiguously clear, would be delighted to have the country fall into a civil war, not for principle, but simply for ego.
From Hackwhackers:
By now, you’ve probably read that a low-life punk named Enrique Tarrio, the “leader” of the misogynist, racist Stormtrumper group Proud Boys was arrested yesterday by D.C. Metropolitan Police as he arrived in town from the airport. Tarrio was, by his own admission, the vandal who tore down and burned a Black Lives Matter banner that Asbury United Methodist Church, a historic black church in Washington, had displayed last month. As he was arrested, police discovered two high capacity magazines for a firearm, which he was charged with possessing.
From North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz:
For years, people have been talking about Donald Trump’s “mental state,” throwing around the term mental illness as a lazy catch-all for his erratic behavior, inexhaustible cruelty, and inexplicable recklessness. In the wake of the election, a growing choir has assembled singing the same refrain.
This has always struck me as particularly damaging, because it assumes something dangerous: that all mentally ill people are vengeful, bigoted, unrepentant sociopaths.
We are not.
As one of the 51 million Americans who battles a brain affliction, I can attest to the reality that the vast majority of us are not oblivious to the feelings of other people or unaware of the results of our actions—we are in fact, highly sensitive to them. It is precisely our illness that makes us feel the pain around us deeply, that causes us to notice the fractures and grieve the wounds of the world that many people are unaware of.