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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[bankshot1]

It seems hard to believe that on a day when almost 4,000 Americans died from covid, Trump knocked this tragic fact from the front pages, as lead story on cable news, or the subjects of millions of twitter users, by turning his fascist and psychopathic nature on American democracy and trying to strangle the life from it.

As warned so many times he is the real virus that threatens us.

[josh]

While he erased the video from his Twitter feed, he assures us he did nothing wrong and was only attending "like any other journalist."

WV lawmaker took video of himself rushing into US Capitol with pro-Trump mob

A West Virginia lawmaker was among the people -- mostly pro-Trump protesters -- who broke into the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.

Del. Derrick Evans took a video of himself and others rushing into the building after attacking Capitol police. In it, he is seen wearing a helmet and yelling, "We're in! Keep it moving, baby!"

Once inside, Evans walked around the Capitol Rotunda, which is filled with historical works of art, and yelled, "No vandalizing!"
 
He has since deleted the video from his social media.

[Hairy Lime]

News flash:  RedStainWart is busy and will not be posting on this thread until after next
Monday's (maybe will be cancelled) College Football Championship game.  JumboNut is on his
knees praying 24/7 for a BuckNut victory.  Jim does have priorities, even without any principles
or values to speak of.

FTR: Jim never supported Trump! He just liked to pretend he did.  LOL ROFL!

You were probably not around in the 2016 run up, but he pretended to oppose Trump, who he was voting for because he was more anti-Clinton. Until Trump suddenly won. At which point it was revealed that all along he had been posting from three feet up Trump's anus.

[josh]

https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/us-trade-deficit-jumps-681-billion-november-75108694

Through the first 11 months of 2020, the deficit stands at $604.8 billion, 13.9% higher than the same period in 2019. President Donald Trump has insisted that his get-tough trade policies with the rest of the world would shrink the deficit and bring back American jobs.

Year      Billions of US $   % of GDP
2018      $-638.21B      -3.10%
2017      $-575.34B      -2.95%
2016      $-518.81B      -2.77%

[josh]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/barr-says-trump-s-conduct-betrayal-presidency-n1253281

"A betrayal of his office" says Barr.

[josh]

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trump-senate-gop-s-electoral-college-vote-objections-betray-conservative-ncna1252927

Simply put, Republican objectors unintentionally but necessarily drive home the central criticism of the conservative legal movement: that the putative principles animating modern conservative constitutionalism aren't actually inexorable constitutional mandates but rather arguments of convenience to be brushed aside whenever they prove inexpedient.

Leaving aside that this objection has nothing to do with allegations of fraud or other misconduct by voters, the flaw in the argument is simple enough: Whether a state law violates a state constitution is, in all circumstances, up to the state's supreme court. And although the Pennsylvania Supreme Court hasn't expressly upheld the law at issue, when faced with a challenge to it brought by Republican Rep. Mike Kelly shortly after the November election, it refused to reach to the merits — and instead threw out the lawsuit on the ground that Kelly had waited too long to challenge the law. That decision, right or wrong, was Pennsylvania's to make. Indeed, since Congress established the Supreme Court in 1789, it has limited its jurisdiction in appeals from state courts to cases that turn on some question of federal law.

More fundamentally, as seven Republican members of the House said in a joint statement issued Sunday criticizing colleagues who are planning to object:

The text of the United States Constitution, and the Twelfth Amendment in particular, is clear. With respect to presidential elections, there is no authority for Congress to make value judgments in the abstract regarding any state’s election laws or the manner in which they have been implemented. Nor does Congress have discretion to disqualify electors based on its own finding that fraud occurred in that state’s election. Congress has one job here: to count electoral votes that have in fact been cast by any state, as designated by those authorized to do so under state law.[/size]

[OliveOil]

Goya seems the more suitable candidate, for reasons both artistic and colonic (remember that brand of beans championed by the Flatulence-in-Chief). 



Interesting that Chad Wolf, who had no difficulty turning feds loose on BLM demonstrators in Portland, was out of the country yesterday and oddly uninvolved when the Capitol was stormed.  Then after the fact deciding to look properly outraged. 

[Hamilton Samuels]

Pelosi and Schumer currently speaking to the media and putting pressure on Pence to hold Trump accountable for his seditious actions, yesterday, and asking him and the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, or the House will impeach Trump, again. They've been in touch with Pence, and Pelosi expects to hear from Pence today, as to whether or not Pence is willing to invoke the 25th Amendment.

Unprecedented.

[Hamilton Samuels]

Lock this woman up. She clearly and succinctly articulates EXACTLY what the intention was by the Trump domestic terrorists, yesterday: https://news.yahoo.com/yahoo-news-reporter-speaks-woman-162518552.html

[kidcarter8]

Pelosi and Schumer currently speaking to the media and putting pressure on Pence to hold Trump accountable for his seditious actions, yesterday, and asking him and the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, or the House will impeach Trump, again. They've been in touch with Pence, and Pelosi expects to hear from Pence today, as to whether or not Pence is willing to invoke the 25th Amendment.

Unprecedented.

Does the VP need to be willing?

[josh]

Lock this woman up. She clearly and succinctly articulates EXACTLY what the intention was by the Trump domestic terrorists, yesterday: https://news.yahoo.com/yahoo-news-reporter-speaks-woman-162518552.html

It does seem pretty cut and dry, except for the tears.

And how dare 'they" push her out and mace her when she's busy holding a revolution!

It's not like she was peacefully sitting in front of a church, blocking a photo op...

[josh]

Pelosi and Schumer currently speaking to the media and putting pressure on Pence to hold Trump accountable for his seditious actions, yesterday, and asking him and the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, or the House will impeach Trump, again. They've been in touch with Pence, and Pelosi expects to hear from Pence today, as to whether or not Pence is willing to invoke the 25th Amendment.

Unprecedented.

Does the VP need to be willing?

How ignorant are you?

How unwilling to do your own research?!

[LarryBnDC]

Pelosi and Schumer currently speaking to the media and putting pressure on Pence to hold Trump accountable for his seditious actions, yesterday, and asking him and the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, or the House will impeach Trump, again. They've been in touch with Pence, and Pelosi expects to hear from Pence today, as to whether or not Pence is willing to invoke the 25th Amendment.

Unprecedented.

Does the VP need to be willing?

You should sue your school district.

[bambu.]

ScoMo today:
"The vaccine is not a silver bullet...we will still need to wear masks and social distance."

You should continue to limit the people who visit you in your bunker to imaginary ones.

Good idea.
What my wise leader said yesterday is of course 100% correct...the vaccine is good protection, but is not absolute. I like absolute.
No absolute security at the Capitol yesterday...and look what happened.

[Hamilton Samuels]

Pelosi and Schumer currently speaking to the media and putting pressure on Pence to hold Trump accountable for his seditious actions, yesterday, and asking him and the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, or the House will impeach Trump, again. They've been in touch with Pence, and Pelosi expects to hear from Pence today, as to whether or not Pence is willing to invoke the 25th Amendment.

Unprecedented.

Does the VP need to be willing?

Section 1
In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.

Section 2
Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.

Section 3
Whenever the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that he is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, and until he transmits to them a written declaration to the contrary, such powers and duties shall be discharged by the Vice President as Acting President.

Section 4
Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.
     
Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.