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January 6 Hearings Live

Andrew Feinberg on Twitter: "There are multiple photographs of pro-Trump rioters carrying law enforcement-style flex-cuffs.

Rioters went looking for @VP, @SpeakerPelosi, @SenSchumer.

It raises the question of whether there was an organized plan to take hostages." / Twitter

Luke Russert on Twitter: "I cannot stop thinking ..." / Twitter
I cannot stop thinking about how close the 1-2-3 in the line of presidential succession, VP-Speaker-Pro tempore came to being physically harmed on Weds. The terrorists had operable bombs, killed an officer and ransacked difficult to access areas of the Capitol. We need answers

Few Capitol Police fired shots when the force was totally justified—why? National Guard was slow walked as Leader Hoyer called Gov Hogan of Maryland pleading for help-why? Why was the Capitol deliberately left so vulnerable? We were such important leaders left on their own?

If NYT reports are accurate, that some Capitol Police willfully gave the terrorists directions to Leader Schumer’s office, that is appalling. If WaPo report that off duty police were flashing their badges as they stormed the Capitol and let through is accurate, that is appalling.

Too many of us are too conspiratorial these days but something is not right. VP-Speaker-Pro tempore should not have been so endangered, esp given how much was known about the intentions of the terrorists. We’re in a Constitutional crisis, thank God our line of succession lives.

One last thing I can’t shake, had capable foreign actors been embedded with the terrorists, they could have killed half of Congress, held hostages for ransom/prisoner release and stolen countless hard drives etc. We were so damn vulnerable and so lucky it wasn’t even worse.
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Sandie Geis on Twitter: "@LukeRussert They had pipe bombs, Molotov cocktails, zip tie handcuffs. The National Guard was held back. Other requested help was held back. I’ve come to the conclusion that this was not just a bunch of Trump supporters rioting. This was an actual coup attempt. Treason" / Twitter

winewhinewine on Twitter: "@SSGnebraska @LukeRussert Totally agree - this guy is not your average rioter

Tactical gear, gloves, taser/weapon, zip ties. This guy knew what he was doing and thank god he didn’t succeed (link)" / Twitter
 
Jamaal Bowman on Twitter: "Why was a fascist, white supremacist mob able to overwhelm Capitol Police?

Do ties exist between the white supremacists who launched that attack and members of the police force?

We need answers." / Twitter

Rep. Jared Huffman on Twitter: "To anyone suffering from the misunderstanding that Congress is on vacation, our House Dem Caucus is meeting RIGHT NOW to discuss 25th Amendment, Impeachment, and other immediate actions to meet this historic moment! We know this is an emergency that demands action now." / Twitter

Republican Sen. Ben Sasse: White House aides told me Trump was “delighted” as Capitol was stormed - Vox
“I don’t have any idea what was in his heart about what he wanted to happen once they were in the Capitol, but he wanted there to be chaos,” Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) said, during an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt Friday morning.

“And I’m sure you’ve also had conversations with other senior White House officials, as I have,” Sasse continued. “As this was unfolding on television, Donald Trump was walking around the White House confused about why other people on his team weren’t as excited as he was as you had rioters pushing against Capitol Police trying to get into the building.”
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Congressman Jamaal Bowman on Twitter: "I’m introducing the Congressional Oversight of Unjust Policing Act to uncover how the terrorist attack on our Capitol was able to breach the Capitol building.

This bill will establish a commission to investigate the attack, and ties between white supremacists and Capitol Police. https://t.co/nOV8OBbfzc" / Twitter
Then
Congresswoman Marie Newman on Twitter: "Sign me up. We need answers and we need them now." / Twitter
 
Keith&Co. said:
So, bopping around the 'net, watching consequences.
One woman introduced herself to the FBI as the black sheep of her family (all but disowned for attending BLM events). Then said, 'so fuck them,' and positively identified mother, brother pictured among the rioters.
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Her Twitter acct where she outed them. Apparently her mother told her she shouldn’t go to BLM protests because they are so violent.... and she included a clip of her mom getting punched in the face after trying to mess with a cop I think
 
Twitter has permabanned Trump.

Oh, and just coincidentally,

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/barronjohn1946/status/1347694753786200064?s=20[/TWEET]
 
Pelosi: House Could Move to Impeach Trump If He Doesn’t Resign ‘Immediately' - The New York Times
After a 3.5-hour call with fellow Democrats, Ms. Pelosi said she had instructed the Rules Committee to be prepared to move forward with either a motion for impeachment or legislation sponsored by Representative Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland, to establish a body under the 25th Amendment that can declare a president is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.”
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The New York Times on Twitter: "Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday that the House would move to impeach President Trump over his role in inciting the violent mob attack on the Capitol if he didn't resign "immediately," appealing to Republicans to join the push to force him from office. (links)" / Twitter

🌹Shahid Buttar for Congress on Twitter: "Impeachment must proceed *whether or not* Trump chooses to resign.

He can’t be allowed to establish a precedent supporting impunity—and impeachment is the only congressional remedy.

In contrast, mere resignation would leave him able to run for office again. That’s unacceptable." / Twitter

The New York Times on Twitter: "Watch: Our journalists captured the mayhem outside the Capitol on Wednesday as a mob of Trump supporters entered the building. https://t.co/Wp0W0Kk5EG" / Twitter (lots of profanity blanked out instead of bleeped out)


john stuart krill 🐳 on Twitter: "People bring a 40 foot gallows and weapons to the capitol building, tweet about wanting to kill the folks in congress who are stealing the election from trump Folks on Twitter:

“well now hold on who can say what they were hoping to do?!?!”" / Twitter

john stuart krill 🐳 on Twitter: "I guess I’m just *that* much better at inferring than these other folks

Fortunately, I am a professor and am happy to offer lessons" / Twitter
 
Orlando Sentinel on Twitter: "Pro-Trump rioters smeared poop in U.S. Capitol hallways during mob attack (links)" / Twitter
noting
Pro-Trump rioters smeared poop in U.S. Capitol hallways - Orlando Sentinel
The vile attackers, whose violent invasion of the Capitol left five people dead, apparently went No. 2 in a bathroom and then smeared their extremist excrement around the building, leaving behind brownish “foot-prints,” the source said.

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Egged on by President Trump, the throngs of far-right rioters smashed windows, fought police officers and vandalized offices of lawmakers.

Trump, seemingly oblivious to the stain his presidency is leaving on U.S. history, cheered on the insurrectionists in a since-removed Twitter video. “We love you,” he told them.
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universal’s only bimbo ✨ on Twitter: "Remember when they broke all the water bottles to help BLM to wash out tear gas in their eyes?" / Twitter
noting
Jordan Novet on Twitter: "A pro-Trump protester is tended to by a police officer while suffering the effects of chemical agents used to disperse crows after protesters stormed the grounds the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. https://t.co/9GrxS3rCTZ" / Twitter

Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib on Twitter: "🚨BREAKING 🚨: On behalf of the survivors of the worst assault on the Congress of the United States in living memory, I'm demanding answers from @VP and the Joint Chiefs of Staff on why the hell it took so long for the @NationalGuard to be mobilized. (link to pictures of a letter)" / Twitter
then
Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib on Twitter: "25+ of my House colleagues agree that these extremely concerning reports raise numerous deeply disturbing questions. They've cosigned the letter demanding answers. I hope we get thorough responses ASAP as we look to help lead the U.S. out of this crisis. (link)" / Twitter
noting
Pence took lead as Trump initially resisted sending National Guard to Capitol - CNNPolitics
Trump, who has proven over the past year to be eager to deploy the National Guard when violence breaks out, initially resisted doing so on Capitol Hill Wednesday as a mob of his supporters breached the building, per a source familiar. Pence played a key role in coordinating with the Pentagon about deploying them, and urged them to move faster than they were.

The news raises questions about who was acting as commander in chief on one of America's darkest days, which saw the country's legislature overrun for the first time since the British attacked and burned the building in August 1814.
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Joshua Holland 🔥 on Twitter: "Very important to understand that there were MAGA idiots who were in DC to get drunk at another rally and a smaller group of organized, hardcore extremists there to commit *much* more serious crimes.

"I can’t stop thinking about the zip-tie guys." (link)" / Twitter
noting
Was there a plan for hostages or killings at the Capitol? - "The men who carried zip ties as they stormed the Capitol weren’t clowning around."
t’s easy to think of the siege of the U.S. Capitol as a clown show with accidentally deadly consequences. A bunch of cosplaying self-styled patriots show up, overwhelm the incomprehensibly unprepared Capitol Police, and then throw a frat party in the rotunda.

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Those rioters, the bozos, were the ones who talked to the press, who waved gleefully to photographers, who selfied and streamed the entire afternoon, without even a thought that there might ever be consequences. They were doing it for the ’gram, and their story overwhelms the narrative because their faces and voices dominated the day.
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Then the zip ties.
Call the zip ties by their correct name: The guys were carrying flex cuffs, the plastic double restraints often used by police in mass arrest situations. They walked through the Senate chamber with a sense of purpose. They were not dressed in silly costumes but kitted out in full paramilitary regalia: helmets, armor, camo, holsters with sidearms. At least one had a semi-automatic rifle and 11 Molotov cocktails. At least one, unlike nearly every other right-wing rioter photographed that day, wore a mask that obscured his face.

These are the same guys who, when the windows of the Capitol were broken and entry secured, went in first with what I’d call military-ish precision. They moved with purpose, to the offices of major figures like Nancy Pelosi and then to the Senate floor. What was that purpose? It wasn’t to pose for photos. It was to use those flex cuffs on someone.
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Sort of like what I reviewed of Entebbe and Telemark and Abbottabad -- professionals as opposed to sports rioters or chimps or ants.
 
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Ever see Despicable Me? There's one scene where a Minion opens up with a machine gun, eyes big, smile wide, like full auto justifies every one of his life choices.
I imagine someone whose on the staff, who tells people, "No, not really exciting, i just make sure congressional aides can order pizza even from the dub-sub-sub-basement, standing under a shielded room. Boring stuff, really...." smiling like that as all his or her choices are validated, while they compile a list of every phone that enterred the building, and where they went.
 
Keith&Co. said:
So, bopping around the 'net, watching consequences.
One woman introduced herself to the FBI as the black sheep of her family (all but disowned for attending BLM events). Then said, 'so fuck them,' and positively identified mother, brother pictured among the rioters.
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Doing the right thing. That must have been hard, still.
 
Rush Limbaugh Calls For More Violence

Presidential Medal of Honor recipient Rush Limbaugh (just wanted to start you off with vomit in your mouth) isn't satisfied with yesterday's violence on Capitol Hill - he wants MORE! Indeed, he mocked the notion that we might be horrified by the MAGA crowd's insurrection, and tried to compare these vile seditionists to colonists Thomas Paine and Samuel Adams, saying how happy he was that THOSE dudes didn't hold back.

LIMBAUGH: There's a lot of people calling for the end of violence. There's a lot of conservatives, social media, who say that any violence or aggression at all is unacceptable, regardless of the circumstances. I'm glad Sam Adams, Thomas Paine, the actual Tea Party guys, the men at Lexington and Concord didn't feel that way.

PAGING THE FBI? PAGING THE FBI!

Twitter had its reactions, of course. I will spare you the especially mean ones that stated, in some form or another, the belief that cancer was taking entirely too long with this one — mostly because I wanted to be the one to type those words myself.
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Can the FCC revoke his broadcast license?
 
In October, the FBI and state authorities charged 13 men with plotting to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer, the Democratic governor of Michigan. Members of that plot attended protests at the Michigan Capitol in April, real planners of violence mixing easily with those for whom guns are fun protest props. The plotters discussed a summary execution—“knock on the door,” one wrote in the group chat, “and when she answers it just cap her”—but settled on a kidnapping, pulled off while police were distracted by a nearby explosion. Think of that plot, as these men surely did, as a dress rehearsal for what the zip-tie guys wanted to accomplish at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.

They went into the Capitol, as Congress was counting electoral votes, equipped to take hostages—to physically seize officials, and presumably to take lives. The prospect is terrifying. ...

But it could have been much, much worse. If the rioters had been a little quicker through the doors; if senators and representatives hadn’t just moved from their joint session into separate chambers to debate the Arizona challenge and had instead still been packed into one harder-to-evacuate room; if any number of things had happened differently, the three people next in the line of succession for the presidency might have been face to face with those zip-tie guys. And then: Who knows.
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The big mob was convenient for getting the zip-tiers in, because the zip-tiers would have had a LOT of trouble facing Capitol Police on their own.
 
There was more footage shown tonight on the Rachel Maddow Show. Upon seeing it I was very surprised there was not far more bloodshed than there was.
 
On the PBS NewsHour tonight conservative commentator David Brooks noted that the House going through with impeaching Trump, even though he wouldn't be convicted in the Senate, would at least serve to restrain him over the remainder of his term. That's actually a very rational and prudent strategy. It's not just a matter of pointless vindictiveness. Probably wouldn't even catch a lot of flack from McConnell. If Trump steps out of line ... Boom!
 
Bill Pascrell, Jr. on Twitter: "🚨 Graphic content 🚨

This was a terrorist uprising to murder people and destroy democracy. It was incited by trump and wiped into a frenzy by republicans’ lies. This violence is unsettling to watch.

But Americans need to see the fascism standing on our doorstep. (video link)" / Twitter


Scott MacFarlane on Twitter: "US Justice Dept says it has NO indication Antifa played any role in Wednesday chaos at US Capitol" / Twitter

The Matt Skidmore Show on Twitter: "@MacFarlaneNews Half of Parler: It was antifa!

Other half of Parler: Here’s my selfie from inside the Capitol" / Twitter
Some right-wingers claim that all these Trumpies are Antifa false flaggers, while others brag about their participation.

Manu Raju on Twitter: "Sen. Wyden becomes second Dem to call on Cruz and Hawley to resign. “There must be consequences for senators who would foment a violent mob for personal gain. I call on Senators Hawley and Cruz to resign and accept the responsibility which they so clearly bear.”" / Twitter

Manu Raju on Twitter: "*Third Dem. Coons, Murray and Wyden all have called on them to resign" / Twitter
Patty Murray, D-WA, Ron Wyden, D-OR, Chris Coons, D-DE.
 
Treedbear said:
On the PBS NewsHour tonight conservative commentator David Brooks noted that the House going through with impeaching Trump, even though he wouldn't be convicted in the Senate, would at least serve to restrain him over the remainder of his term. That's actually a very rational and prudent strategy. It's not just a matter of pointless vindictiveness. Probably wouldn't even catch a lot of flack from McConnell. If Trump steps out of line ... Boom!
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Many legal scholars think the president cannot issue pardons after impeachment. He better get right on that.
 
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