Biden's Classy Call for an 'America United'

There is no uniting with deplorables (aka racists, secessionists, etc.). If they clean up their act and reach out to the dems in a good faith effort, yes, the dems should extend their hand. Until then, F them.

People who are, by and large, responsible for their own misfortunes but will blame anybody but themselves.

Yes, people, by and large, are responsible for their own misfortunes. However, it is important to note the role of government in causing and/or accelerating their misfortunes. The off shoring of jobs, failure to adequately fund educational institutions, failure to adequately fund infrastructure are beyond the ability of individual citizens cope with. Only the collective will of many citizens (aka government) can deal with those issues.

Governments need to prepare its citizens for major economic changes. Most individuals don't have to foresight and/or resources and/or time left to respond to those type of changes.

Sasse: QAnon Destroying the GOP from Within

Hey Ben! The GOP has been riding the crazy train from some time now. Now it's out in the open and out of control, you want the GOP to get off? Sorry, but it doesn't work like that. Ron Paul has already told you that 1/3 of the republican party would be lost if you did that.

Rand Paul: 1/3 Of GOP To Quit, If GOP Senators Convict Trump

There you have it; an admission from Rand Paul that 1/3 of republicans are racists, traitors and seditionists (IOW the scum of the earth) and unless the GOP keeps them within their midst, they will lose elections.

Trump Finally Asks for No More Violence in His Riots

A CYA moment if there ever was one. Only the most willfully gullible will fall for it.

Trump has a very bleak future. The SDNY will probably be first to get a shot at his butt because of the Stormy Daniels case. This will be where the constitutionality of the self pardon will be tested. Shortly there after, the case E. Jean Carroll defamation lawsuit will come light up. By then NY State and NYC will follow suit. While all of this is happening, docments (i.e. tax returns) requested by the House that were withheld during the Trump admin will be turned over and scrutinized with criminal referrals probably made to the DOJ. Finally, there is likely to be suits filed by congressional staffers because of Trump's involvement in inciting people to insurrection.

There are loads of lawsuits that I am sure I overlooked. Let's just say that there will be a TSUNAMI of lawsuits that Trump will have to deal with. There is no escape. Fleeing to aa country with no extradition treaty with the US will not help. He has property that can be seized and sold off in places that will comply with US law.

^ I forgot to add that all rioters going past the first barricade would be spray painted for later identification. Cops/troops not manning the barricades could round up these rioters as they attempted to flee.

The Great MAGA Hunt of 2021 has begun. With a vengeance.

This is an opportunity for law enforcement agencies throughout the US to rid themselves of the "rotten apple(s)" that spoil the barrel. Let's see if they do it.

Shooting people for temporarily disrupting a ceremonial process.

Of course that is not the first action. There needs to be a plan to escalate the lethality of response as the situation degrades. A large enough perimeter around the ceremonies with multiple rings of barriers needs to be established such that the lethality of force used to repulse the rioters increases as the interior barriers are breached. This approach will force all but the most strident of rioters to give up and run/walk/crawl away. Any rioters reaching the last barricade should be met with such a lethal force that they would not be able to leave under their own power.

Suicide?

The FBI will probably spend some time investigating him. Suicide? Maybe homicide?

Every state house should be forewarned that if their guards aren't heavily armed with instructions to use lethal force, they should be. Furthermore, every guard's online presence must be scrutinized and if there are any red flags, those guards need to be sidelined.

It wouldn't surprise me that some Capitol Police will be more heavily armed with instructions to use lethal force.

Operating under the theory that "When you come for the king, you best not miss", the Capitol Police have a 2nd chance to get it right. If something like this ever happens again, much, much more than 5 people are going to be killed.

I didn't read it that way at first, but I could see how those tweets could be read together to mean that Trump was unleashing his flying monkeys upon Biden on that day.

My sentiments exactly. That is why the first thing that came to my mind was that Pelosi should not attend the inauguration and be in a secure, secret location.

Hopefully they'll can the filibuster ASAP so we can see some real progress this time around,

Unfortunately it is being reported that Joe Mancin has publicly stated that he would not support the removal of the filibuster. Maybe after today's chaos, he can be persuaded to change his mind.

After months of inciting rage among his supporters, President Trump is now apparently concerned that things may have gone a bit too far.

Nonsense. Trump is reveling in this outrage. And the last thing that people need to do is to have him intervene! He would only make things worse (does the name Wilson Goode ring a bell?). That is why the statement he made today was taped and not live so as to prevent him from saying somthing that would result in him being arrested for insurrection.

Georgia Fights New Trump Suit to Overturn the Election

Trump knows that this suit is going nowhere. However, he's getting ready to do something that is seriously stupid and needs to point to something as evidence as why the stupid act is warranted.

Trump is going to Grant himself a pardon as he walks out the door.

I hope he does. It will be challenged and the challenge, I strongly believe, will be upheld by the SCOTUS. As a result, Trump will be a sitting duck for federal prosecutors. My fear is that somehow he will prevail upon Pence to pardon him after he resigns. I'm getting signals that Pence wants nothing to do with pardoning Trump so all Trump is going to be left with is an unconstitutional self-pardon.

Trump/Prison 2021

Next stop on his iteniary? - Moscow

Trump Adviser Lies That Biden's Inauguration Can Be Postponed

The constitution makes provision (i.e. presidential line of succession) in the unlikely event that a president can't serve. However, that doesn't mean that Trump gets to remain as president. If such were to happen, say hello to Madam President Pelosi.

Pelosi's first act as president? Appoint Adam Schiff as acting AG who would immediately have Trump's butt arrested and thrown in jail.

The statement, "the press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally", should inform us all as to how to deal with Trumpers. All but the most ignorant of Trumpers know the facts but willfully choose to ignore them because to acknowledge them would be contrary to the agenda that they want to promote. It is those that willfully ignore the facts that must be condemned and confronted in the harshest of ways because it is they who are the anarchists and destroyers of democratic norms.

The anarchists must be held accountable if we are to return to democratic norms. Successful lawsuits will go a long way in achieving this goal. Much as the law suit against the Klan did in shrinking their influence, a sustained, relentless attack on right wing media outlets will be required to shrink their influence. We haven't heard much from Alex Jones lately have we? That is because the parents of the children slain in the Sandy Hook school shooting successfully sued his butt. What about the NRA? They are tied up in court as well. And, I expect that when Dominion Voting Systems finishes with their lawsuits, many more right wing media outlets and personalities will be financially disabled and muzzled.

It is going to take this all out, relentess legal attack on right wing media to turn things around. In the interim, dems need to enschrine into law democratic norms that we took for granted. They must, to the extent possible, change the structural impediments to majority rule i.e. admit DC and PR as states and increase the size of the HOR so that each member represents the same (or very close to the same) number of people. Finally, social media companies must be held to a higher standard for the political ads that appear on their platforms.

Trump has unfinished business. A republic he wants to destroy still stands.

The big question now is "What are the dems and never trumpers going to do about it"?

Whatever it is, it must be BIG, BOLD and quick because republicans have demonstrated their distaste for democracy if that democracy means equal rights for all. Big and bold solutions require the ability to at least control what comes to the floor in the senate. If dems don't win BOTH senate seats in GA, democracy in America will be on the ropes.

Schrdinger's Douchebag

Trump does something very similar. I think he throws trial baloons and if no one of consequence objects, he proceeds. The mistake of the republican party was not recognizing this technique and just passing it off as "he was just joking". Now the republican party has a real identity crisis with many non Trump republicans looking for a new political home.

Hawley Will Object to Electoral College Certification

It will be good to know who belongs to the Trump, anti-democracy cult.

This person has been arrested. Why is their name being withheld?

I heard about this earlier this am and that it was his lawyer who prevented the cops from questioning him. WTF? The cops get search warrants to bust into (black) people's homes because of the suspicion of drugs and the cops can't search this man's house because an attorney said no?

It is important not to talk about Trump voters as though they were one big monolith. As Biden's win in GA illustrates, some republican voters split their ticket and voted for Biden at the presidential level and republicans down ballot. Those voters were just sick and tired of Trump. I suspect most Trump voters were just voting against the democrat; not Biden persay, just against the democrat. And finally, there were the Trump voters that voted for him with all of his warts and flaws.

Trump's influence with the first group has already evaporated. His influence with the 2nd group will wane over time and even evaporate at some point. The last group will stick with him through thick and thin. The last group makes up the base of the republican party and has made up it's base since the civil rights era. They are the bigots which the party has been appealing to with its dog whistles for decades. The republican base is shrinking but until it no longer large enough to dictate who the republican nominee will be, the republican party will continue as is; a threat to democracy.