This is it….
Pro-Trump Mob Swarms Capitol
Supporters of President Trump swarmed and entered the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday, prompting a lockdown and portions of the grounds to be evacuated.
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[banging on door] [yelling] “This way! This way! This way! This way!” “They broke the glass?” “Everybody stay down, get down!” [crowd noise] [shot fired] “Take that House, take it now! Take it now!” [flash bang] [crowd noise] “You ain’t gonna stop us!” [flash bang] [crowd noise]
The violence at the Capitol broke out around 2:15 p.m. on Wednesday, as the House and the Senate debated the presidential election results. Within minutes of Trump supporters breaching the Capitol complex, a mob was pounding on the doors of the House gallery, where a group of lawmakers were trapped.
“I thought we’d have to fight our way out,” said Representative Jason Crow, Democrat of Colorado and a former Army Ranger who served in Iraq.
He said he moved the others away from the barricaded door in the gallery, helping them don gas masks and telling them to take off the lapel pins assigned to all House members. He took out his only possible weapon: a pen.
Representative Patrick Fallon, Republican of Texas, wrote on Facebook: “We broke off furniture to make clubs to defend the US House of Representatives.”
Multiple lawmakers reported that the Capitol Police had instructed them to take cover on the House floor and prepare to use gas masks after tear gas was dispersed in the Capitol Rotunda.
After 15 minutes, Mr. Crow said, the Capitol Police and SWAT team members cleared a path outside the gallery, above the House floor, and hustled the lawmakers out on a rescue mission.
With the police in the lead, guns drawn, the lawmakers entered a scene of chaos and mayhem, Mr. Crow said. Some officers rushed to barricade other doors to block the mob, which swarmed the hallways just steps from where lawmakers were meeting, wearing and carrying pro-Trump paraphernalia. Other officers pinned some Trump supporters to the ground to allow the lawmakers pass.
“This is insane,” tweeted Representative Dean Phillips, Democrat of Minnesota.
YouGov Poll
45% of Republicans support storming of the Capitol.
In essence almost half of the Republican Party are traitors to the government of the United States and support a rebellion against said government.
And over half the Republican House Members did last night with their votes in support of a lie.
So a couple weeks ago when I said IF the GOP sticks with Trump in the midterms the party deserves to be considered as canceled as the Confederate flag CG took great offense.
Now almost half of Republicans support the storming of our Capitol by Confederate flag waving losers to prove my point. IF the Republican Party sticks with Trump after this that is what they deserve. No matter how much defending or clutching of pearls CG does while he waits out being able to support Republicans like Rick Scott again .
When did I ever support Rick Scott?
I think it is a little early for their to be any sort of accurate scientific poll at this point, and I would emphasize the concept of “less than half.”
Scott needs to acknowledge I am calling for a (non violent) “Civil War” for control of the Republican Party and have been for a long time.
Will anything I do or say ever be enough for Scott? Apparently not even voting for Biden was enough.
Now “it’s too early for a poll.”
Well they took a poll last night in Congress and the Republicans “showed us who they are.”
But in the end?
Democracy AGAIN carries on and a effort to subdue it fails….
America…
Even some Republicans choose NOT to let a tyrant gain more power thru a mob action…
Those who led this assault should be hunted down…
Aide Says Trump Was a ‘Monster’ During Capitol Siege
President Trump privately defended his supporters as they stormed the Capitol on Wednesday and contradicted aides by ad-libbing parts of the recorded speech in which he told rioters to go home, the Washington Post reports.
Said one official: “He didn’t want to condemn his people… He was a total monster today.”
Another said the situation was “insane” and “beyond the pale.”
Bill Barr Says Trump Betrayed His Office
Former Attorney General William Barr says President Trump’s conduct as a violent mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol was a “betrayal of his office and supporters,” the AP reports.
Barr said that “orchestrating a mob to pressure Congress is inexcusable.”
(Barr should keep his mouth shut..and Just Go away)
Should Rick Scott and the other 6 GOP Senators who voted not to accept the Electoral College results even AFTER rhe coup attempt they instigated resign?
Fine with me if they did. I would put higher emphasis on Cruz and Hawley though who actually caused the objections are used all this to fundraise.
All 7 should be defeated if they attempt to run for office again.
“Too early for a poll” means he knows too many Republicans still had boners after seeing redneck parade the Confederate flag through the Capitol yesterday.
He wants to wait till just enough of them have a pang of regret over their fetish to get what he considers accurate results.
How do you take a scientific poll coast to coast over just a few hours?
and there you go again with the virtue signaling. Why are you so thirsty to insult me today?
So now we are deflecting with questions about the timing (and perhaps methodology) of a poll because we can’t defend the results.
We had another poll last night and half the Republican Party failed. They voted to support a blatant unproven lie because they are afraid of the uneducated racist rabble that make up the base of the Republican Party.
These are the same people who believe that Obama was born in Africa or think higher education is unnecessary.
Let’s face it. The anger and stupidity of the Republican base was on full display on the Mall yesterday. It wasn’t pretty and they aren’t good people.
I wish Corey would stop making excuses for them.
Trump’s America Becomes One of Those ‘Shithole Countries’
The capital was consumed by talk of “insurrection,” a tense standoff with police guns drawn at the doors of the national legislature, a fatality, a curfew enforced by soldiers in the streets. What country are we talking about?
This one, of course, and if it had happened elsewhere it might well have merited citation from President Donald Trump himself the next time he updates his notorious almanac of “shithole countries.”
But it didn’t happen elsewhere. It happened in the world’s oldest democracy, and in that sense was powerfully illuminating of what happens when one takes Trump Era politics to its logical destination.
The evacuation of the Senate chamber when the Capitol’s security was breached was hectic, but not so much that Sen. Mitt Romney didn’t have time for commentary for his fellow Republicans who had joined Trump in challenging his loss to President-elect Joe Biden with bogus assertions of pervasive fraud: “This is what you’ve gotten guys,” Romney scolded. Later, he told The New York Times, “This is what the president caused today, this insurrection.”
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