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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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01-08-2021, 08:16 PM | #1801 |
This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
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01-08-2021, 08:19 PM | #1802 | |
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No clue, it is the last bullet point in their release. Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump Cloudflare is dumping tons of sites right now. No way tech companies all did this at the same time without some warning. |
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01-08-2021, 08:20 PM | #1803 |
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So, impeachment would not remove him from office even one day early. They do believe that they might still be to impeach and preclude him from running again. It would not likely get the number to convict.
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01-08-2021, 08:24 PM | #1804 |
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Yeah, I saw the bullet points, and I have heard other sites have mentioned the same warning, but I still don't get the day. It is a Sunday, so there won't be in legislatures in session.
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01-08-2021, 08:27 PM | #1805 |
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Maybe take over the building so Biden can’t be sworn in? Hard to understand the thought process of this brain washed cult.
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01-08-2021, 08:30 PM | #1806 | |
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So make GOPs object or make McConnell refuse to bring it to the floor.
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01-08-2021, 08:32 PM | #1807 |
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McConnell can't refuse the floor vote. They will have to have a trial.
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01-08-2021, 08:33 PM | #1808 |
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It is pretty obvious to me that the FBI contacted all of these companies and asked for information around certain posters and sites. Then these companies began purging everyone they were asked about.
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01-08-2021, 08:35 PM | #1809 |
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I just watched American Horror Story season 3 which was called The Cult.
Holy shit. Watch it.
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01-08-2021, 08:42 PM | #1810 | |
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I think it was kidnap/kill Pence and/or wteal the ballots. They were trying to stop the Constitutional process and mistakenly believed removing the VP and/or the ballots would do the trick.
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01-08-2021, 08:45 PM | #1811 | |
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Yeah, if you watch the videos you can hear them screaming what they want to do. I mean they set up a gallow across the street. Not to mention the month or so of posts on Trump sites and social media. |
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01-08-2021, 08:49 PM | #1812 |
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Would impeachment undo his pardons?
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01-08-2021, 08:50 PM | #1813 | |
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McConnell still an ass. Basically, saying that he's powerless to actually make the Senate hold a trial until Biden is sworn in. Which pretty much takes impeachment off the table, even as a threat. McConnell is willing to give up that leverage over Trump to pressure him to resign because, it seems, McConnell does not want him to resign. Even now, McConnell is protecting Trump. |
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01-08-2021, 08:53 PM | #1814 | |
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01-08-2021, 09:00 PM | #1815 |
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I wonder if conviction would remove pension benefits and secret service protection.
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01-08-2021, 09:01 PM | #1816 | |
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The other way I am seeing some people interpret this is McConnell telling Trump "Look, if they impeach you, Schumer will be in charge of the trial in the Senate, not me. So it will be pretty shitshow for you. So just resign." I guess that's a reading, too. Either way, McConnell Pontius Pilates his way out of running the trial and probably doesn't really care much one way or the other. I think I need to get offline for the night. Trump's living rent-free in my head right now, and considering that he's barred from living in Mar-A-Lago, I don't want him getting any ideas. |
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01-08-2021, 09:16 PM | #1818 |
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That made me snort. It's hard to take much delight in the collapse of ones own country, but man today has been some delicious vindication.
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01-08-2021, 09:22 PM | #1819 | |
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01-08-2021, 09:27 PM | #1820 |
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YouTube has removed Steve Bannons podcast, and Twitter banned Rush Limbaugh. Massive deplatforming of the far right.
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01-08-2021, 09:30 PM | #1821 |
This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
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Rush Limbaugh now suspended.
Watching Trump jump from account to account while Twitter chases him down and shuts them all down is hilarious. And pathetic. The tweet about Trump being unable to access Barron's twitter account because Melania made the PW Barron's middle name and birthdate was ice cold brutality.
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01-08-2021, 09:32 PM | #1822 |
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Welcome to the free market bitches. Bootstraps yourself a platform.
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01-08-2021, 09:33 PM | #1823 |
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I don't care if you agree with all these people or not, the fact that there's a systematic and very likely pre-planned silencing of a segment of people going on right now is terrifying.
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01-08-2021, 09:33 PM | #1824 |
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Let me take that back. Rush deactivated his account. It doesn't show that it was suspended.
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01-08-2021, 09:36 PM | #1825 |
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Coffee, they are trying to protect themselves from legal action. They can be found legally libel if they are knowing allowing criminal action to take place. Now that they are warned, they have to act.
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01-08-2021, 09:39 PM | #1826 |
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What if Tic Tok is the only platform that allowed Trump on?
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01-08-2021, 09:39 PM | #1827 | |
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No it's not. They aren't being silenced. They're free to go to other platforms. These are people that incited a violent and treasonous overthrow of the U.S. government. Twitter is right to suspend him and should have done so long ago. |
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Frankly, I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I'd be just as happy if all these actions led to the collapse/re-evaluation of these social media companies as well, so it all tastes like gravy to me today. Further, we need to be ripping band-aids off and try fundamentally new directions culturally, not carefully trying to get back to where we were next week, and that kind of drastic action will never be perfect, but we shouldn't let that be the enemy of acting right as best we can, as cliche as that sounds.
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01-08-2021, 09:46 PM | #1829 |
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Yeah Rush deactivated. I'm guessing Hannity too.
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Hannity is still up. Just checked.
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I think Rush and Hannity are deactivating their accounts in solidarity for daddy.
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I jumped the gun on Hannity. Someone said this on Twitter and I posted before checking.
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01-08-2021, 09:49 PM | #1835 |
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Heck, Rudy is still up. They would ban him before Hannity.
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I've seen other buzz for the 19th. Nothing I'd consider credible, though. I'm not a very good Nazi so I don't know where to look (ok, I have some guesses but I don't care to go there). SI
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Not having a social media platform is not the same as "being silenced". Let's not go crazy and lose all perspective here. There is no fundamental right to Twitter, Facebook, or fucking Parler
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That it's happening so quickly and so coordinated is chilling and does not bode well for the future. Nor does the Tweet about Biden trying to do a new Domestic Terrorism bill (if it's credible). We don't need Patriot Act II - we need to walk back huge swaths of Patriot Act I. On the other hand, a lot of these are people who should have been shut down years ago. They're only just now being deplatformed because the people killed indirectly by their actions became a high enough profile event. And the cynic in me says that it's because they finally got too toxic for the social media brand. Dorsey gets very little credit from me for throwing Trump off Twitter today. Twitter and Trump were great for each other just as people like Joe Scarborough and CNN made a killing on sensationalizing and/or cozying up to Trump news. So Dorsey made his money with every news station blasting about what Trump tweeted daily but now he's too toxic to keep there so he's being discarded just like so many people he used. Where was he years ago when Trump should have been banned for any number of instances? TL;DR It was something that should have been done a long time ago but it also gives me a very uneasy feeling. SI
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01-08-2021, 10:04 PM | #1840 |
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Again, I would put money on these accounts being shut down after the FBI came to the platforms asking about them.
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I totally agree that it's not a free speech issue but I think I have an even bigger issue with it than SI. The bottom line is that more and more people get their news from social media. It doesn't matter if that's a good thing, it's reality and it's not likely to change. Those platforms are there to make money, so they're going to make whatever decisions help them do that.
The market is determining more than ever what truth is and what information people will, practically speaking, have the most access to. I don't have an answer to it aside from the usual need for more civic virtue from the electorate to dig through the crap, but I have little doubt the future in this area will be far worse than what we have now. And I guarantee there will be times where the same people cheering the shutdown of certain blowhard voices at the moment will be furious when 'their' point of view gets the hammer in times when different popular winds are blowing. Political correctness on steroids is here, and it's not going away. |
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Looks like they may have found the "Zip Tie Guy" too and referred the name to the FBI
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This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
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Trump isn't silenced. He could get airtime on FOX, OANN, Newsmax, and probably others at any time he wants. He could give an official statement or press conference. He could sit down for an interview with any number of print or web outlets.
The problem is that each one of those outlets would be able to respond. The beauty of Twitter is that the President can speak and no one has to hear anything that contradicts or challenges him. He doesn't want a place to speak, he wants a place to speak without repercussions.
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Sterlingice, can you link an actual domestic terrorism bill that is being proposed by Biden? I see a bunch of fear mongering online, but I don't see anything that has actually been suggested or written by an actual official.
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To be fair, it has been terrifying since this is not the first time we have done this. Check the impact that SESTA/FOSTA had on silencing a certain segment of people. This is just an extension of that.
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Is now the time to complain about the mods around here?
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The video of the cops getting crushed by the Rioters is chilling. That was probably the place the woman was stomped to death.
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