Trump Versus Biden

[PickelledEggs]

Somehow, I don't see Pence doing that.  He may have called the police when Trump wouldn't, but he's still a lap dog.  Isn't it the responsibility of the vice president to enforce the 25th, I actually don't know, but I've heard this mentioned.

He's a fucking unic.

[Mike Cl]

And the beat goes on................
Capitol riot was false-flag operation by leftists, Trump backers claim, with no basis
https://www.yahoo.com/news/capitol-riot-was-falseflag-operation-by-leftists-trump-backers-claim-with-no-basis-051703320.html

One of the first to push this narrative was Rep. Mo Brooks, an Alabama Republican and part of a small group of Trump loyalists who’d pledged to challenge the Electoral College results from several states during Wednesday’s joint session of Congress in an ill-fated final attempt to undo Trump’s defeat. “Rumor: ANTIFA fascists in backwards MAGA hats,” Brooks tweeted from the locked-down Capitol where he was taking cover from the mob. “Time will tell what truth is.”

Unbelievable.......................except these days, it is simply commonplace.  Nothing is done about it. 

[Mr.Obvious]

At this rate, Biden will be one of the most successful presidents if he merely manages to not enter into a full scale civil war in the next four years.

That alone will take some goddamned willpower, patience and tactical diffusing. All in the hopes that four years of not advancing but mending will give the American nation the time it needs to heal.

He'll have more than enough work cut out for him, clearing out the wreckage Trump dumped on the road forward.

[Baruch]

'Astonishing': Clarissa Ward shocked by Turkey's press release

https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2021/01/06/world-reaction-trump-supporters-storm-capital-ward-vpx.cnn 

Clarissa is a bit short on usual commercials.

All "world leaders" are highly trained Marxists, going back decades.  Comintern.

[the_antithesis]

It'll never heal until we get rid of the scabs.

Good thing they refuse to wear a mask.

[trdsf]

Somehow, I don't see Pence doing that.  He may have called the police when Trump wouldn't, but he's still a lap dog.  Isn't it the responsibility of the vice president to enforce the 25th, I actually don't know, but I've heard this mentioned.

My reading is that it can go either way -- either the Cabinet can bring a majority of the 15 principal officers¹ (not all Cabinet or Cabinet-level officers) to the VP and advise that they believe the President no longer has the capacity to execute his office, or the VP can work with them on such a declaration.  It requires both a majority of the principal officers, and the Vice President's agreement.

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1: Specifically, the secretaries of State, Treasury, Defense, the Attorney General, and the secretaries of the Interior, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, HHS, HUD, Transportation, Energy, Education, Veterans Affairs and Homeland Security (which office is currently vacant)

[Baruch]

It'll never heal until we get rid of the scabs.

Good thing they refuse to wear a mask.

Pro labor union?  Good for you.  I thought that was extinct.

Yes, the government can %*%&$ itself up.  Good thing, it is totally incompetent.

So who will go to the Biden Senility inaugural?  (rhetorical question)

[SGOS]

And the beat goes on................
Capitol riot was false-flag operation by leftists, Trump backers claim, with no basis
https://www.yahoo.com/news/capitol-riot-was-falseflag-operation-by-leftists-trump-backers-claim-with-no-basis-051703320.html

One of the first to push this narrative was Rep. Mo Brooks, an Alabama Republican and part of a small group of Trump loyalists who’d pledged to challenge the Electoral College results from several states during Wednesday’s joint session of Congress in an ill-fated final attempt to undo Trump’s defeat. “Rumor: ANTIFA fascists in backwards MAGA hats,” Brooks tweeted from the locked-down Capitol where he was taking cover from the mob. “Time will tell what truth is.”

Unbelievable.......................except these days, it is simply commonplace.  Nothing is done about it. 

That wasn't Mo Brooks from Alabama.  It was an ANTIFA guy dressed like him that was inciting the mob. Damned Commie Leftists and their false flags.

[Baruch]

That wasn't Mo Brooks from Alabama.  It was an ANTIFA guy dressed like him that was inciting the mob. Damned Commie Leftists and their false flags.

Double agents, triple agents .. have you never seen any Bond movies?  Aren't you ... slightly stirred ;-)

One person dies of gunshot (not a liberal), three people die of medical emergency ... and my triple soy latte is cold .. the world is coming to an end! ... call out the National Guard FOTFL.  Stalin laughs.

The woman who died was unarmed of course.  Another man was shot to death by police elsewhere in the protest (don't know if he was packing).

[Hydra009]

That wasn't Mo Brooks from Alabama.  It was an ANTIFA guy dressed like him that was inciting the mob. Damned Commie Leftists and their false flags.

These people will piss on your leg and tell you that another guy did it.  They're manipulative weasels who can't handle reality and think you're just as easily fooled.  They need to be put back in their place and ushered away from the corridors of power.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

There will not be a civil war. Drunks with guns vs. arclight raids.

[drunkenshoe]

These people will piss on your leg and tell you that another guy did it. ...

Naah, they would try 'oh it's apple juice' first and then ask if you want to buy some more home made. If you say no, they will tell you to pay up for the one you spilled. 

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They don't think you guys are fooled. They don't care what you think about it. They just know very well that if they make up batshit crazy stuff and keep screaming their head off, stomping their feet, it will be a story to believe and something to tell the children about that night: 'history'. They live on by making up victimhoods. Making shit up, compartmentalize the hell out of everything and then pretend it's real all their lives. They have a life time training for it. I wouldn't be surprised if they have a ceremony and t-shirts made that read on "6th of January socialist conspiracy failed, Trump strong", using dead people as an excuse to carry this further.

They are all the same. Same shit is going on here. Exactly the same shit. If millions came together and tried haaaard to make them the same in this way, we wouldn't be able to in a fucking 1000 years. They need to do this to survive...because they are all aware that there is no fucking excuse for anything they do.

Guys, in 2012 a scum has killed 20 babies and two adults. First they claimed that it was a plot by the commies to take their guns away and then developed to screaming it has never happened. And since then, the fucking net is full of sites and shit pile on what a hoax is Sandy Hook massacre. It's everywhere.

[SGOS]

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/us/politics/trump-self-pardon.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20210107&instance_id=0&nl=breaking-news&ref=cta&regi_id=129705843&segment_id=48668&user_id=33a2a6e6868fd65c48b0f219d16ed7c2

NYT

White House counsel, Pat A. Cipollone, warned Mr. Trump that he could face legal exposure for the riot given that he had urged his supporters to march to the Capitol and “fight” beforehand, according to people briefed on the discussion. The president had appeared to White House aides to be enjoying watching the scenes play out on television.

This quote is mostly a side bar to an article about Trump discussions with advisors concerning pardoning himself. While I found the question of a self pardon puzzling and interesting, I was more distracted by his enjoyment over watching his supporters riot in his behalf.  I'm for the 25th Amendment proposal, but I just don't see it happening.  It's almost too close to the end to bother.  Its purpose would be to send a message, one that certainly needs to be sent.  The pardon would definitely be related to this, but he was looking into a pardon long before yesterday, so he was either planning this all along, or he has committed some other crime that is going to surface.

As I expected, my perception of yesterday has changed.  Yesterday, I was shocked by the Capitol riot.  Today it's more about the man who wants to overturn democracy for his own selfish ends.  He won't get away with it, of course, but I don't think that should be the end of it.  It won't be for him, of course, because he doesn't plan to let it go,  but it should not be the end of it for America either. Presidents should not be allowed to get away this sedition and inciting riots against the country.  It's stranger to me today that it was yesterday.

[Unbeliever]

I believe the correct term for protests of this magnitude is "mostly peaceful".

Yeah, like "they mostly come out at night...mostly..."

[Unbeliever]

At this rate, Biden will be one of the most successful presidents if he merely manages to not enter into a full scale civil war in the next four years.

That alone will take some goddamned willpower, patience and tactical diffusing. All in the hopes that four years of not advancing but mending will give the American nation the time it needs to heal.

He'll have more than enough work cut out for him, clearing out the wreckage Trump dumped on the road forward.

Trump isn't yet finished with the massive dump he's taking on America. He's still got nearly 2 weeks to do even more damage. After all, he really has little to lose since he's likely to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law once he's out of office.