Jan 7th, 2021 6:29 am |
By Ophelia Benson
The rats are running.
So far seven officials associated with Trump and his inner circle have said they are quitting, including members of Melania Trump’s team, after the deadly violence that surrounded the Congressional vote to certify Joe Biden’s presidential election victory in November.
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In further fallout that underlined the fracturing of the Trump administration’s inner circles, Marc Short, Pence’s chief of staff, indicated to journalists he had been banned from the White House by Trump after the president “blamed” him for advice he gave to Pence on Trump’s demands he overturn the election result.
He was shocked, shocked, to discover that Trump blames people for things.
In stark language that underlined the toxic and swirling sense of
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Jan 6th, 2021 4:58 pm |
By Ophelia Benson
Now they’re getting serious.
The social media giant added, “Future violations of the Twitter Rules, including our Civic Integrity or Violent Threats policies, will result in permanent suspension of the @realDonaldTrump account.”
Do it either way.
Queen Melania’s chief of staff has quit.
[Stepahnie] Grisham was one of the longest-serving Trump administration officials, having begun her tenure working for then-candidate Donald Trump in 2015 as a press wrangler on the campaign trail. Grisham entered the White House as deputy press secretary
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Jan 6th, 2021 4:31 pm |
By Ophelia Benson
Republicans were saying it would all be fine, just ignore Trump’s tantrums, he doesn’t mean anything by them.
Those assurances were ridiculed at the time, and that ridicule was entirely vindicated Wednesday. As Congress began to accept the results of the electoral college, Trump supporters stormed the capitol, forcing both chambers to shut down as they were considering the first challenge to the results, from Arizona. Rioters clashed with police and forced their way into buildings and even the floor of Congress. There was broken glass. There was an armed standoff at the door of the House Chamber.
There was a woman shot and killed.
To be clear, this was something Trump and his allies flirted with repeatedly
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Jan 6th, 2021 3:30 pm |
By Ophelia Benson
There’s more:
Twitter has now, belatedly, taken it down.
I’ll just keep updating this for awhile.
Guardian Live:
Ivanka Trump was fiercely criticized after she described the rioters who stormed the US Capitol as “American patriots.”
The president’s daughter said in the now-deleted tweet, “American patriots – any security breach or disrespect to our law enforcement is unacceptable.”
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Jan 6th, 2021 3:23 pm |
By Ophelia Benson
He heaps praise on the insurrectionists, he says “We love you, you’re special,” he repeats all the lies about the election. HE NEEDS TO BE REMOVED FROM OFFICE.… Read the rest
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Jan 6th, 2021 12:10 pm |
By Ophelia Benson
This is horrific. I’m dead serious that Trump needs to be locked up in some fashion right now. He needs at the very least to be locked away from being able to incite anything, phone taken away, no visitors, doors locked, end of story. No access to the nukes.
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Jan 6th, 2021 11:48 am |
By Ophelia Benson
He’s actually done it.
The U.S. Capitol locked down Wednesday with lawmakers inside as violent clashes broke out between supporters of President Donald Trump and police.
An announcement was played inside the Capitol as lawmakers were meeting and expected to vote to affirm Joe Biden’s victory. Due to an “external security threat,” no one could enter or exit the Capitol complex, the recording said.
Both chambers abruptly went into recess.
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Protesters tore down metal barricades at the bottom of the Capitol’s steps and were met by officers in riot gear. Some tried to push past the officers who held shields and officers could be seen firing pepper spray into the crowd to keep them back. Some in the
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Jan 6th, 2021 11:06 am |
By Ophelia Benson
Invaluable Aaron Rupar records the attempted coup minute by minute.
He needs to be locked up. Now, this minute. He’s a threat to us all. He shouldn’t be free to go outside and do this. He NEEDS to be locked up.… Read the rest
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Jan 6th, 2021 10:39 am |
By Ophelia Benson
Pence is disappointing The Loser. Sad!
Mike Pence has released a letter announcing that he will not attempt to block the congressional certification of Joe Biden’s victory today.
Citing his constitutional obligations, Pence writes that the vice-president does not have the “unilateral authority to decide which electoral votes should be counted”.
“Our Founders were deeply skeptical of concentrations of power and created a Republic based on separation of powers and checks and balances,” Pence said.
It would be nice if Pence had made that point before the last two weeks of Trump’s reign of terror.
Donald Trump has repeatedly pressured Pence to try to block Congress from finalizing Biden’s victory, even though there is no precedent for doing so.
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Jan 6th, 2021 10:16 am |
By Ophelia Benson
Philosophy in action.
I’m not a philosopher, so I get to think it does have some bearing. I get to think that and I do think that: I think that the fact that people like Oseroff are doing things like checking to see whether specific individuals have signed an open letter bullying an individual woman colleague is in fact one reason to be very … Read the rest
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Jan 6th, 2021 8:57 am |
By Ophelia Benson
The state of this.
Just look at that. Now they’re hunting around to check on WHAT COMMONISST FAGGOT TRAITOR TERF has failed to sign. They’re drawing up A List of People Who Need To Have Signed Because We Suspect Them and then checking the list name by name – have YOU signed the letter Condemning The Witch? And have you, and you, and you?
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Jan 6th, 2021 8:42 am |
By Ophelia Benson
It’s knife-edge, but for now…Warnock won and Ossoff is claiming the win.
Democrat Jon Ossoff — who as of 9 a.m. ET Wednesday leads Republican David Perdue by about 16,000 votes in the Georgia runoff that could give Democrats control of the U.S. Senate — claimed victory Wednesday. The Associated Press, which NPR relies on for its results, has not yet called the contest.
Perdue hasn’t conceded.
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Jan 5th, 2021 3:14 pm |
By Ophelia Benson
A man redefining feminism for us, in such a way that it includes him and doesn’t include feminist women.
https://twitter.com/graceelavery/status/1346301124932997121
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Jan 5th, 2021 11:48 am |
By Ophelia Benson
Always the same slogans where an argument should be, always the childish catastrophizing. It’s not cute when Trump does it, why would it be cute when trans activists do it?
I would love to know exactly how kylo knows she/he suffers violence “as a direct result of Stock’s arguments.” How would someone know that? I suppose the violence-source could shout Stock’s … Read the rest
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Jan 5th, 2021 11:18 am |
By Ophelia Benson
The Seattle National Weather Service people get great photos, on account of how their building is a few yards away from Lake Washington (which is the eastern boundary of Seattle).
https://twitter.com/NWSSeattle/status/1346490475931258880
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