Wednesday Reads: We can do it!
Posted: January 6, 2021 | Author: JJ Lopez aka Minkoff Minx | Filed under: 2020 Elections, Congress, morning reads, open thread, Senate | Tags: Georgia, Jon Ossoff, Raphael Warnock |80 Comments
With new votes joining the tally, we are on a strong path. But even while we wait for more, let’s celebrate the extraordinary organizers, volunteers, canvassers & tireless groups that haven’t stopped going since Nov. Across our state, we roared. A few miles to go…but well done!
— Stacey Abrams (@staceyabrams) January 6, 2021
As we wait for DeKalb county to reports its votes, the NYT Needle says it's basically over in both races. pic.twitter.com/OOGPXCTQ2c
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) January 6, 2021
Raphael Warnock just made history as the first Black senator to be elected in Georgia, @DecisionDeskHQ reports. https://t.co/wsgrQmqRti pic.twitter.com/Yia0ltplXb
— Vox (@voxdotcom) January 6, 2021
Before now, only ten African Americans have ever served in U.S. Senate. One fifth of them are Barack Obama and Kamala Harris.
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) January 6, 2021
GEORGIA, I LOVE YOU https://t.co/sbCe2ecJSW
— Karoli 🇺🇸 (@Karoli) January 6, 2021
https://twitter.com/reverendwarnock/status/1346690996839464961?s=21
Meanwhile:
The Trump team released a statement tonight dated with the wrong year.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 6, 2021
.@staceyabrams on CNN now: “we caution everyone who makes Brad Raffensberger out to be a hero. This is the same man who participated in voter suppression when he became Secretary of State. He’s defending the election he’s responsible for. He’s not defending the rights of voters.”
— Elliot Williams (@elliotcwilliams) January 5, 2021
I don’t know what today holds:
Stay out of DC tomorrow pic.twitter.com/yoF4zRClui
— chris evans (@notcapnamerica) January 6, 2021
Please take care and avoid the tRump assholes in the streets…
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Wow – I did not think we’d be here a month ago. I was pretty sure we’d lose both seats. This feels nice and I can attest to how hard I was petitioned to vote, so kudos to the GOTV activists in Georgia.
This is going to be a super spreader event…of enormous proportions.
Biden should nominate Anita Hill to the Supreme Court.
Yes!
Good choice!
Try to block that nomination, Mitch, you POS.
Trump hates Pence, always has. He wants to destroy any chance Pence might have in 2024. I certainly don’t want Pence to be in a position to run for POTUS either but the way Trump is doing this is just sadistic.
And, yes, I know Pence is getting what he deserves. He was my governor. I can’t stand the guy.
I know. He was my Mom’s Rep. for years. What a creepy guy he is.
Trump is pounding his fists on his desk and screaming “Lies, lies! You’re fired!” while Pence ignores him.
Ted Cruz and his minion of motherfuckers actually stood up clapping for what is basically an act of sedition. Clapping for an attempt to overturn the result of a state’s democratic votes in our Federalist system and delineated in the Constitution. Scalise just said that Arizonia did not select duly elected electors. This is a coup. These folks should be put on a boat in the middle of the ocean and abandoned there.
They’re having to evacuate the Senate building. GOPers must be so proud.
BBC shots fired
They are reporting shorts fired in house chamber
They are supposedly in Pelosi office now going through her files and computers
Janitor Marvin Shotz got fired. Misunderstanding.
Sorry , gallows humor in the face of this deplorable debacle.
Understandable.
Coup D’etat in progress.
If this were anyone other than white conservatives they would be getting the Tiannenmen Square treatment.
But since they are Trump they are coddled.
WhatTheEverlovingFuck.
Can you even imagine if this were BLM protesters?
No, it would have never gotten to this extent…
They’d have been mowed down if Black.
This is the ultimate expression of White Privilege.
And White Male privilege. Haven’t seen a whole lot of women except for a token few at the back.
I also think they’re pissed and worried now that a Black won Georgia.
Correct. White hippies, gays, feminists, antiwar protestors, and a few others groups are favored PD punching bags. Excommunicated Whites. BLM sympathyzers, (aka N****r Lovers).
How the hell are they still in the Capitol?
If BLM had telegraphed for months that they were going to do this on Jan 6, dawn would have seen a shoulder to shoulder cordon of officers ringing the entire Capitol Hill.
Like this?
also from the WaPo updates:
“Top Pentagon officials, in answering a request by D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) to deploy National Guardsmen in the nation’s capital in advance of Wednesday’s protests, emphasized that the Guard wouldn’t carry firearms, use armored vehicles or helicopters, or receive backup from units in other states — a far more muted presence than in June after the Minneapolis police killing of George Floyd.”
Helluva difference.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/01/06/dc-protests-trump-rally-live-updates/
WaPo banner: “Entire D.C. National Guard will be activated as chaos unfolds inside U.S. Captiol”
Yes, they have a typo.
If this is the same woman, there are reports she was shot in the chest and is critical.
The “gazing vacantly” is a very bad sign.
William LeGate 🇺🇸 (@williamlegate) Tweeted:
This was the capitol’s security when there were black protestors on the streets https://t.co/WpYT2Lz0md
I thought the security beforehand was light and easily overwhelmed. Those fuckers who are wrecking the capitol should be locked up! Not enough cops to repel that crowd.
Oops didn’t see this MsMass – I posted the same image.
No problem, you’ve figured out how to get the image! I thank you.
(snicker) Sounds like something my governor would write.
Have they even made one single arrest? Where are the tanks they roll out for when black people sit on their front porch?
Apparently white terrorists are allowed to disperse.
Just saw a report they made a whopping 15 arrests so far. Every person in the Capitol building should have been arrested on the spot. They’re not arresting any of the curfew breakers either.
I heard them say the Capitol police were concerned with giving them a photo op like a Tienaman Square moment. I guess that’s more concerning when it’s a bunch of white people invited into the compound by the Seditionist in chief.
The woman who was shot and killed was a black woman. The entire thing is on video and I watched it on Twitter. She must have been a Congressional staffer. She was bleeding from the neck.
I was afraid it was a staffer and not one of the mob. I hope they identify the shooter and arrest him. He’ll probably get the Kyle Rittenhouse treatment though.
It could have been a cop. They were all around. I can’t find the video right now.
Wondering who this is.
Shot when she jumped in through windows broken by the mob.
On CNN, Jim Acosta said he talked to a WH staff member who said Trump is literally “out of his mind.” Some business groups are trying to get Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment and get Trump out immediately.
Yeah, that’s a good move, a little late, but a good move.
Should have done this a long time ago, or at least deleted his violence-inciting tweets.
Pence may do it. At this point, he owes Trump no loyalty.
Anybody listening to the Senate? Boy ,the Repugs are walking it back, blaming Trump if they blame anybody, no regret over what their party did. So hesitant in their outrage.
The Dems are doing pretty damn good, Schumer was forceful.
Now to just get Trump out tomorrow!
Finally the MSM (WaPo banner) uses the right words: “President incites crowd to acts of insurrection, violence”
I went back through her tweets and it sounds in context that she’s saying “just go ahead and expel these two jerks right now.”
In other words, not that they already have been expelled which is what I was hoping she meant. Ah well. Can’t have everything.
But maybe we’ll wake up tomorrow to the news that the Cheeto-topped Dogpile has been put in a poopy bag and removed from the White House. /*dreams beautiful dream*/
Yeah, I thought at first they were expelled, like the ones expelled for denying the valid electoral votes for Lincoln back in the 1800s. No such luck.
Storm the Capitol in insurrection — and walk away. Meanwhile, reporters are being arrested.
Morning Joke just said they “Opened the fucking doors…”
True.
What the hell??? The damage inside is horrifying. Just watched a report there are even cigarette butts lying around. Did they destroy any valuable art works? What about those “packages” they found? They literally could have blown the place up.
So essentially, law enforcement can’t be trusted to protect America against Dump’s goons?
What about all the backpacks? Every one could have been a bomb.
What about all the backpacks? Every one could have been a bomb.
Yep. Later on pipe bombs were found.
The Repugs wanted to hold Hills and Obama criminally liable for not preventing the Benghazi riot on their watch. So what about this? Who should we lock up? The ones who solicited rioters on the internet? The ones who gave them marching orders down the block from the riot? I am not being hyperbolic. I want to see prosecutions.
And Benghazi was in a foreign country. This is America. Throw the book at them and lock them up.
He’s banned from Faceborg, Twitter and Instagram indefinitely. Too little too late IMO.
He’s going to make the next two weeks even more of a living hell than the past four years.