Trump supporters storm the Capitol Building

ShivaX · 2021-01-09T21:00:46.643Z

Slate Magazine – 9 Jan 21

D.C. Residents Put Up With Overbearing Security for 20 Years. It Did Nothing.

What was the point of Fortress D.C.?

Alan_Dunkin · 2021-01-09T21:15:12.137Z

Because Fortress White House is very different from Fortress Capitol Building.

— Alan

ShivaX · 2021-01-09T21:15:52.974Z

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Ted Lieu (tedlieu)

We will hold responsible everyone involved with the attempted coup, including the attorney to @POTUS, Rudy Giuliani. Letter from Rep @MondaireJones and me to New York State Bar requesting they investigate @RudyGiulianli to disbar him. twitter.com/wolfblitzer/st… https://t.co/ZnJBVhBDYE

Wolf Blitzer @wolfblitzer

Before the pro-Trump mob stormed Capitol Hill, Rudy Giuliani said there should be “trial by combat” in opposing @JoeBiden’s win: “If we’re wrong, we will be made fools of. But if we’re right, a lot of them will go to jail.” Well, look at how many rioters are now heading to jail.

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Timex · 2021-01-09T21:16:45.405Z

vinraith:

Well, that’s just incredibly bad. It could be in the hands of anyone from a dipshit troll to a foreign intelligence agency, so that’s super fun.

It’s bad, but it’s not like that laptop would have had classified material on it.

Scotch_Lufkin · 2021-01-09T21:17:03.751Z

Honestly this took a lot longer than I’d have thought, someone asking the NY Bar Association to look into him. In Better Caul Saul getting someone disbarred was way easier! :)

Alan_Dunkin · 2021-01-09T21:19:21.368Z

Timex:

vinraith:

Well, that’s just incredibly bad. It could be in the hands of anyone from a dipshit troll to a foreign intelligence agency, so that’s super fun.

It’s bad, but it’s not like that laptop would have had classified material on it.

Why wouldn’t it? The Speaker of the House is second in line of succession to the President.

— Alan

ShivaX · 2021-01-09T21:20:08.341Z

Scotch_Lufkin:

Honestly this took a lot longer than I’d have thought, someone asking the NY Bar Association to look into him. In Better Caul Saul getting someone disbarred was way easier! :)

Yeah, in the real world lawyers never get disbarred for anything is what I’ve come to realize.

Other lawyers give them shit and make fun of them and they go on to do the same crap for decades.
Lin Wood was so well known in the legal community as being a grifter and full of shit that I saw zero support from him from anyone across all party lines or ideologies. He is out there right this second fomenting insurrection and still can practice law after lying to the court multiple time in the last 2 months.

Ginger_Yellow · 2021-01-09T21:22:37.993Z

Menzo:

Plans for “future armed protests” are spreading on Twitter and elsewhere, the company warned, “including a proposed secondary attack on the US Capitol and state capitol buildings on January 17, 2021”.

You’d think “the company” might want to do something about that.

ShivaX · 2021-01-09T21:23:17.867Z

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Joe Vargas (AngryJoeShow)

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MikeOberly · 2021-01-09T21:24:03.102Z

Has Dominion announced a lawsuit against Wood yet? That alone would ruin him.

vinraith · 2021-01-09T21:25:27.929Z

Timex:

It’s bad, but it’s not like that laptop would have had classified material on it.

Like @Alan_Dunkin it’s not obvious to me why that would be true, am I missing something?

Nesrie · 2021-01-09T21:30:03.888Z

MikeOberly · 2021-01-09T21:31:12.457Z

You don’t say.

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Gabe Fleisher (WakeUp2Politics)

NEW — Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA): “I do think the president committed impeachable offenses.” thehill.com/homenews/senat…

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triggercut · 2021-01-09T21:33:00.615Z

Well, now we know why the US Attorney in Georgia stepped down suddenly last week:

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Kyle Griffin (kylegriffin1)

Breaking WSJ: White House officials pushed Atlanta's top federal prosecutor to resign before Georgia's Senate runoffs because Trump was upset he wasn't doing enough to investigate Trump's elections fraud allegations, people familiar with the matter said. wsj.com/articles/white…

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scottagibson · 2021-01-09T21:33:05.762Z

So, that’s Murkowski, Sasse, Toomey, probably Romney. Who else? Anyone keeping track?

triggercut · 2021-01-09T21:34:02.829Z

scottagibson:

So, that’s Murkowski, Sasse, Toomey, probably Romney. Who else? Anyone keeping track?

Nate Silver was crowd-sourcing a list yesterday. I think as he put it, you need 18.

The first 6 are there.
The next 6 are iffy.
Then it’s…hmm.

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Nate Silver (NateSilver538)

The first 6 or so are easy, and then there’s another 6 that are plausible... and then it gets hard. I’m assuming McConnell would have to be at least tacitly on board for removal to have a shot so one question is which votes he could whip/deliver.

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scottagibson · 2021-01-09T21:35:27.282Z

Republicans are kind of missing a good bet here. Trump is gone anyway, so they have a chance to get the street cred of being the party of integrity, the only party ever to vote to convict a President from their own party. Especially if they don’t even have to do it until after he’s out of office!

triggercut · 2021-01-09T21:39:42.554Z

scottagibson:

Republicans are kind of missing a good bet here. Trump is gone anyway, so they have a chance to get the street cred of being the party of integrity, the only party ever to vote to convict a President from their own party. Especially if they don’t even have to do it until after he’s out of office!

I think that’s kind of the answer that folks like Sasse (positioning himself in the center lane) and Cotton (positioning himself in the obstreperous right lane) have arrived at.

Papageno · 2021-01-09T21:40:46.308Z

Even publications like that don’t seem to have copy editors any longer. It’s a freaking shame. God forbid they pay a person to read the damn thing before publishing it. Just run it through a spell check and call it good is the order of the day.

ShivaX · 2021-01-09T21:42:04.373Z

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Corey “The Buttercream Dream” Forrester (CoreyRForrester)

Hey Proud Boys and MAGA “Patriots”... what the fuck is it that this country hasn’t given you? https://t.co/AC53tAW2gs

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