Trump supporters storm the Capitol Building

[YakAttack]

@ShivaX

@strategy

After all of this insanity, knowing that there is absolutely no point to this, 138 of the GOP congress vote against democracy.

Just in case anyone doubted that the GOP would have tried to overturn this election, if they’d had the majority required. If Romney and the small handful of people with integrity still left in the GOP have any spine at all, yesterday’s events should be the last time that they call themselves Republicans.

145. 7 Senators also did it.

Is the number the combined house and senate total?

[ShivaX]

@YakAttack

Is the number the combined house and senate total?

Correct.

[YakAttack]

How many are there in total? (Including those who didn’t vote?)

And the number of Dems?

Sorry I don’t know these numbers already.

[scottagibson]

There are 535 in total, 3 less than the number of electoral votes. (The extra EVs are the District of Columbia, which has EVs but no representation in Congress)

100 in the Senate (only 99 right now because Perdue is out and Ossoff and Warnock are not yet in), of which 51 are Reps (but Loeffler is leaving) and 48 are Dems and 2 more coming (Ossoff and Warnock).

435 in the House, of which 222 are Dems and 211 are Reps and 2 seats are vacant.

None of the Dems voted to throw out any of the votes.

[kerzain]

@scottagibson

None of the Dems voted to throw out any of the votes.

The Russians must have something on every single one of these traitors to keep them all on the same page over the massive election fraud taking place.

[ShivaX]

Trump’s Insurrection

[ShivaX]

Opinion | Trump, Hawley and Cruz will each wear the scarlet ‘S’ of a seditionist

George Will isn’t happy.

The Trump-Hawley-Cruz insurrection against constitutional government will be an indelible stain on the nation.

[ShivaX]

Mike DeBonis (mikedebonis)

[ShivaX]

Old Man Greenfield has had it.

Scott Greenfield (ScottGreenfield)

[grahamiam]

@strategy

After all of this insanity, knowing that there is absolutely no point to this, 138 of the GOP congress vote against democracy.

Just in case anyone doubted that the GOP would have tried to overturn this election, if they’d had the majority required. If Romney and the small handful of people with integrity still left in the GOP have any spine at all, yesterday’s events should be the last time that they call themselves Republicans.

@138 Facists take another good thing

The pleasantries are gone

[scottagibson]

Chris Labarthe (chris_labarthe)

[grahamiam]

Wow, my rep Smucker is on there. Thought he was worse than that.

[ShivaX]

@grahamiam

Wow, my rep Smucker is on there. Thought he was worse than that.

Likewise with me and Feenstra. But it does prove he is better than Steve King. Steve wouldn’t have been on that list.

[ineffablebob]

I posted this on Facebook this morning.

If you voted for a Republican, any Republican, then you bear responsibility for the violent domestic terrorism we saw in Washington DC yesterday. Next time you go to the polls, think about which candidate supports the fundamentals of a democratic republic, by their actions not just their words.

Now, that may seem harsh, and it is. Plenty of Republican officials have been saying all the right things about condemning yesterday’s violence. So why call them, and their voters, out now? Because this is not a new problem. For 4 years (arguably longer, but we’ll leave that aside), elected Republicans and their voters have been supporting an erosion of social and political norms and values. Threatening foreign governments to force them to investigate your political rivals, misusing the executive emergency declaration power, constant racist dog-whistle statements, refusal to condemn white nationalist groups, repeated baseless claims of election fraud, blatant corruption and self-dealing, and all the other excesses of the Trump term - if you voted for someone who either outright condones these things, or refused to hold the President and his administration accountable for them, then you might as well have supported them yourself. All of this led up to the domestic terrorism we saw in the Capitol yesterday - it’s just the logical next step for the people who support the Trump corruption.

No matter how you feel about any of the actual policy issues (abortion, taxes, federal vs state power, etc), you need to find a candidate to vote for who did not support the undermining of the democratic republic. I’m not saying you have to vote for a Democrat, who most certainly have their own issues. But you can’t in good conscience vote for anyone who called themselves a Republican from 2016-2020, no matter what they may say in the future. We’ve seen how they act (or more accurately, don’t act) when called upon to defend the constitutional republic from those who would corrupt it.

Been thinking along these lines for quite a while. Nearly posted something similar around election day, but never sat down to actually do it. After yesterday’s violence, though, the time seemed overwhelmingly appropriate.

[Kolbex]

@vinraith

He’s actually got principles. It’s unfortunate that some of his other principles include “corporations are people” and “poor people aren’t people,” but at least he has some.

[Woolen_Horde]

I hope this fucking buries any realistic hopes of Ivanka or Jr.

[scottagibson]

Good for you. I couldn’t muster the level-headedness that you have here. My own FB post was, shall we say, heated.

I wrote to my member of Congress (Bill Posey) this morning asking for an explanation of his vote to disenfranchise the voters of Arizona and Pennsylvania, and I will call his office later today. I don’t expect it will do any good — he’s an execrable old white right-wing nut from a completely safely red district — but I guess I feel the obligation to at least try to communicate, as a constituent, how terrible a choice he made.

[magnet]

@triggercut

Just need Biden, a bible to swear on, and a judge to issue the oath.

The Bible isn’t necessary, John Quincy Adams used a book of law instead.

The judge isn’t necessary either, Calvin Coolidge was sworn in by a notary public (who happened to be his father).

[YakAttack]

I don’t care if Biden swears in while taking a dump. As long as he says the words.

[whispa]

This! So much this…Hawley and others though are waiting to take the reigns.