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Normal transition of power. He meets with Biden, stays until 1/20, comes to inauguration, etc. | 5 | 5.56% | |
He doesn't fight the result, but resigns prior to the inauguration. | 2 | 2.22% | |
He fights the result but gives up shortly before the inauguration (let's define "shortly" as "some time after the EC meets on 12/14") | 30 | 33.33% | |
He fights the result all the way to January 20th. Has to be physically removed. | 12 | 13.33% | |
He fights the result for a short time, but gives up and resigns before the inauguration | 6 | 6.67% | |
He fights the result for a short time, but gives up an then we have a normal transition as per option 1. | 30 | 33.33% | |
Other. (You know you gotta specify this one.) | 5 | 5.56% | |
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01-07-2021, 06:37 AM | #1401 |
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I have seen people say this is the Capital Building many times, and I just want to point out that it is actually the Lincoln Memorial. Honestly, it makes it worse. This is what they will do to protect a statue, but not to protect the seat of Democracy.
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01-07-2021, 06:47 AM | #1402 |
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This is an instructive thread breaking down the outright lies of Matt Gaetz on the House floor about how facial recognition identified rioters as Antifa/BLM. The fact that the Washington Times would print this and Gaetz would knowingly lie about it with no repercussions is where the problem sits. As long as there are no consequences, this will continue and we will be powerless to stop it.
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01-07-2021, 06:59 AM | #1403 |
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The other take I am seeing is "it's is a public building, and we were allowed in as citizens of the United States. The police let us in, so it can't be a crime"
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01-07-2021, 07:12 AM | #1404 |
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Amusingish story. My wife, daughter and I went to DC 2 years ago. We got a private tour from some girl working for a rep out of Iowa, I think. Long story short, while going through security at the underground tram to get to the Capitol building, I lost my keys. I didn't realize it until we were in the Capitol. So I doubled back to the checkpoint and they weren't there. Turns out my wife had them in a jacket pocket that they must have slipped in. However, while looking for my wife and kid in the Capitol, I walked all over and into various rooms looking for them without anyone batting an eye like I didn't belong. Evidently I also walked through some secure room where cell phones aren't allowed, even though there weren't signs on the door at the time. This is a log way of saying I'm not surprised the Capitol police were shit yesterday. |
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01-07-2021, 07:27 AM | #1406 |
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01-07-2021, 07:36 AM | #1407 | |
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Of course, when protesters damaged buildings in Minneapolis and Portland - those same morons were ok with "light 'em up!" so eff them and their two-facedness. SI
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01-07-2021, 07:45 AM | #1408 |
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Someone should tell them that you can still trespass on public property. Weird how ignorance of the law is a free pass to break it when you're a conservative.
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01-07-2021, 08:25 AM | #1409 |
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Ossoff has broken the .5% lead and is comfortably at .8% and 35615 votes!
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01-07-2021, 08:26 AM | #1410 | |
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01-07-2021, 08:44 AM | #1411 |
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You can apparently say fuck on MSNBC.
Also the guy who helped ransack Pelosi's office and has been bragging about it is still not arrested.
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01-07-2021, 08:46 AM | #1412 |
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01-07-2021, 08:48 AM | #1413 |
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Joe Scarborough's not wrong at all. HE'S 100% FUCKING RIGHT!
The 25th should be invoked at a minimum but Pence has no spine, Mitch wants to maximize his power, and we're just all going to hold our breath's that Trump doesn't do something stupid for the next 2 weeks because he promised not to. And we all know how well he keeps his promises. We're all going to deserve the shit this leads to SI
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01-07-2021, 09:00 AM | #1414 |
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Marco Rubio has out-Marco Rubio'd himself:
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01-07-2021, 09:02 AM | #1415 |
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As bad as yesterday looked, it's so much worse than most of the media is connecting. There were people in the Capitol prepared to kidnap and restrain people. There were explosives planted at both the RNC and the DNC. There were multiple state capitols closed due to threats. The Governor's mansion in Washington state was stormed.
All of this was connected through the same social media networks. We have a radical para-military force of unknown size loose in the USA, and if we don't do anything about it the attacks wil continue. This isn't going away when Biden is sworn in.
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01-07-2021, 09:11 AM | #1416 |
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A newly-elected WV state delegate was live streaming on FB as he was part of the group that stormed the Capitol. Unreal.
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01-07-2021, 09:12 AM | #1417 | |
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01-07-2021, 09:15 AM | #1418 |
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01-07-2021, 09:37 AM | #1419 | |
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Funny, weren't we just calling them a "well regulated militia" the other day?
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01-07-2021, 09:39 AM | #1420 |
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01-07-2021, 09:53 AM | #1421 |
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This thread will continue to grow...
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01-07-2021, 09:56 AM | #1422 |
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I would hope they would be arrested in addition to being outed, Angeli lives here in Arizona and is often at the capitol espousing his rants.
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01-07-2021, 10:00 AM | #1423 |
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Pelosi announced that the House will adjourn until the inauguration.
I'm sure that this time Trump has learned his lesson.
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01-07-2021, 10:06 AM | #1424 |
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Facebook extended their ban on Trump "for at least two weeks".
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01-07-2021, 10:06 AM | #1425 |
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01-07-2021, 10:09 AM | #1426 | |
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01-07-2021, 10:12 AM | #1427 | |
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I'm all for sh*t canning the Capitol Police leadership (and others that may have allowed the protestors to waltz by).
They report to Congress. I'd like to know who they report to in Congress and get those sh*t canned too. Quote:
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01-07-2021, 10:15 AM | #1428 | |
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Executive Team | United States Capitol Police GOOGLE IT
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01-07-2021, 10:16 AM | #1429 |
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The United States Capitol Police (USCP) is overseen by the Capitol Police Board and has Congressional oversight by appropriations and authorizing committees from the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. This oversight affords the Department the support and opportunity to continually ensure that the USCP meets the safety and security needs of the Congress, the staff, and the many visitors who come to the United States Capitol each day. Capitol Police Board Michael C. Stenger, United States Senate Sergeant at Arms Paul D. Irving, U.S. House of Representatives Sergeant at Arms (Chairman) J. Brett Blanton, Architect of the Capitol Steven A. Sund, Chief of Police (Ex-Officio Member) Congressional Committees Appropriations Committees House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Legislative Branch Chairman: Tim Ryan (Ohio) Ranking Member: Jaime Herrera Beutler (Washington) Senate Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Legislative Branch Chairman: Cindy Hyde-Smith (Mississippi) Ranking Member: Christopher Murphy (Connecticut) Authorizing Committees Committee on House Administration Chairman: Zoe Lofgren (California) Ranking Member: Rodney Davis (Illinois) Senate Committee on Rules and Administration Chairman: Roy Blunt (Missouri) Ranking Member: Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota)
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01-07-2021, 10:24 AM | #1430 |
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The Capitol Police is compromised and should be disbanded ASAP. The Secret Service can be expanded to handle those duties.
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A reddit thread tracking the flags flown yesterday. It's an interesting mix. Footage of today's events at the US Capitol showed many flags. I put some of them together, pretty weird mix. Details in the comments. : vexillology |
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01-07-2021, 10:47 AM | #1433 | |
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01-07-2021, 10:47 AM | #1434 |
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01-07-2021, 10:48 AM | #1435 |
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Oooh, Schumer has got some game.
This may get interesting. |
01-07-2021, 10:50 AM | #1436 | |
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This should be ringing alarm bells throughout the Pentagon.
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01-07-2021, 10:54 AM | #1437 |
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01-07-2021, 11:10 AM | #1438 |
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01-07-2021, 11:15 AM | #1439 |
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I don't think this would be a surprise to anyone. I'd say it's likely this was an incompetent attempt at a coup.
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01-07-2021, 11:23 AM | #1440 |
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Parts of the Capitol police were 100% complicit in this. At the very least they were derelict in their duty to do whatever it takes, including laying down their lives, to protect the heads of state inside. There were likely some heros who saved a lot of lives, including members of the house who have military background. I heard an interview with one this AM who said he was telling all members to remove their pins so they couldn't be identified as house members. Scary stuff.
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01-07-2021, 11:28 AM | #1441 | |
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I agree - I’m struggling with what the endgame was. It seemed the plan was to exhort his MAGADs to storm the Capitol, but there was no thought/plan for what might happen afterwards, so it appears they did a bit of minor ransacking, milled about a bit and then filed out. If the plan was to delay the endorsements because by law it had to be the 6th, it was always going to be resumed when safe. Did he really think GOP Senators and Congressmen would support that course of action, and that was the plan, together they would declare victory and a new term? So yeah, I think it was an incompetent and incomplete planned coup - essentially the plan was ‘Storm the Capitol and we’ll wing it from there’
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01-07-2021, 11:44 AM | #1442 | |
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No coup attempt. Trump wanted to show the power he had to rile supporters/people up to show'um. And he did that. |
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01-07-2021, 11:52 AM | #1443 |
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There is dumb.
And there is "wearing your work badge with easily identifiable company logo while you are illegally storming the United States Capitol" dumb.
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01-07-2021, 12:05 PM | #1444 | |
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This had been organized on Parler and other places for weeks. Someone on another board I read mentioned "taking back the country" and encouraged people to jump onto "alternative social media" if they wanted to join or support the cause. This stuff is monitored by various federal agencies yet they were caught off guard by what happened yesterday? I don't know if Trump was aiming for a coup directly (I doubt it), but the group organizing this was and people somewhere in the chain looked the other way. |
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So (like you) don't believe Trump was going for a coup. Re: coup attempt by the other (e.g. not Trump himself). They may call it as such, but doubtful IMO. There would be weapons, lots of shooting and a lot more deaths. So if we want to call it a weak-coup-attempt-by-intimidation-and-vandalization, okay but I don't think it comes close to a coup. |
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01-07-2021, 12:14 PM | #1446 |
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Yeah, there was the pic of the guy holding a crap load of ziptie style handcuffs in the chamber
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01-07-2021, 12:15 PM | #1447 |
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People wearing homemade shirts that said "MAGA Civil War"
But sure, they're just a bunch of knuckleheads that just need their hair tousled and released back into society
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If we can’t call it a coup, can we call it a Putsch?
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01-07-2021, 12:16 PM | #1449 |
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I don't know, I feel like we really gotta get DEEP into the meaning of "coup" before we can really figure out what to call it
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Also, while we're playing the hits, who can say what their intent really was? I mean, you can't know their thoughts unless they specifically tell you what they're doing.
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