Expecting trouble, Washington locks down ahead of inauguration

Expecting trouble, Washington locks down ahead of inauguration

All through downtown Washington, the primary sound for several blocks was the beeping of forklifts unloading more fencing.

There were no cars or scooters and seemingly no tourists Wednesday, just the occasional jogger and multiple construction crews at work. The U.S. Capitol that proved such a soft target last week was visible only through lines of tall, black fence.

Good morning from a city fortified and garrisoned by 20,000 troops to protect it from terrorist attack by supporters of President Trump. - David Frum

 

 

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Trump Advisers Had to Talk Him Out of Going to House Floor During Impeachment, NY Times Reports
• FBI, DHS didn't produce formal threat assessments ahead of Capitol riot
• Armed DHS agents were on standby near Capitol riot, were sent too late
• Yogananda Pittman named acting US Capitol police chief after riots
• Republican who voted to impeach Trump says he's buying body armor amid fears of violence
• Brother thinks Congressman Paul Gosar committed treason in Capitol riot
• Panic buttons in Ayanna Pressley’s office had been ‘torn out’ before the Capitol riot, chief of staff says

Raise your hand if you'd like to see Andy Biggs, Mo Brooks, Paul Gosar and Lauren Boebert testify under oath in front of Congress on live television for 11 straight hours to explain how the dipsh*ts with the zip ties found out where everybody's secure locations were. - Jeff Tiedrich

 

 

Georgia GOP Governor Punishes GOP State Senators Over Election Fraud Claims
It’s payback time. The Republican rift in the state Senate came to a head Tuesday when Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan demoted three Republican senators who have backed attempts to overturn the presidential vote in Georgia over baseless allegations of irregularities.

The Confederate flag is a victim of "cancel culture" because the Union totally f*cking cancelled the Confederacy. - Middle Age Riot

 

Lest We Not Forget This Article From March 2020. Betsy DeVos Is Erik Prince's Brother.

Erik Prince, a security contractor with close ties to the Trump administration, recruited former spies to infiltrate various Democratic organizations — including a congressional campaign — multiple documents and interviews revealed.

One of the operatives recruited by Prince, a former M16 agent, ran a 2017 sting in which he copied files and recorded conversations from a Michigan office of the American Federation of Teachers, one of the country's largest teachers unions

The storming of the Capitol was obviously planned and my guess is Erik Prince was somehow involved. My fear is that he would not hesitate to use armed drones on Inauguration Day.

Republican Shenanigans

• Trump Reportedly Wants to Stiff Rudy Giuliani on Legal Fees After Failed Attempt to Overturn Election
• President Donald Trump may hire a law professor who spoke at his rally before the riot
• ven more Trump family members are reportedly moving to Florida
• Shunned: Florida Country Club Members 'Object' To Ivanka 
• Louie Gohmert GOP Rep Who Led Election Lawsuit Against Pence, Accuses Pelosi of Impeachable Comments
• James Comey 'Obviously' Thinks Trump Belongs in Jail, But Counsels Against Prosecuting Him and Even Suggests a Pardon
• Lindsey Graham Rails Against Post-Presidency Impeachment Trial: 'Why Don’t We Impeach George Washington? He Owned Slaves!'
• Matt Gaetz Sends House Chamber Into a Frenzy With a Screaming Tirade During Impeachment Debate
• House Republicans Reportedly Terrified of Crossing Trump on Impeachment: They ‘Fear For Their Lives’

I know it’s mathematically impossible but somehow Trump and Rudy are *both* going to rip each other off. - Elie Honig

 

 

Hope Hicks Resigns For The Second Time.

Hope Hicks' last day in the White House was Tuesday, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell CNN, a final departure planned before the January 6 riot at the US Capitol.

Hicks was one of President Donald Trump's most influential confidantes and a longtime loyalist but hasn't been at the White House much in recent weeks after she felt her influence waned after she pushed back on the President's baseless voter fraud claims, the sources said. She also urged him against pursuing legal challenges without competent lawyers in place.

After these FBI arrests, just think of all the basements that moms will be able to redecorate. - Stephen Colbert

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Rock The Voter News

• Nancy Pelosi Announces Fines Up To $10 Grand For Skirting Metal Detector At Capitol: 'Tragic That This Step Is Necessary'
• President-elect Joe Biden will no longer be taking an Amtrak train to Washington for his inauguration because of security concerns
• Biden's German Shepherd To Be Celebrated With 'Indoguration' Hosted By Animal Shelter

Imagine thinking humans have a right to Twitter but not to healthcare. - Erin Beck

 

 

NYAG Sues NYPD For BLM Brutality
New York state Attorney General Letitia James is suing New York City's police department, citing widespread excessive use of force from the country’s most recognizable police force during this summer’s Black Lives Matter protests.

Articles Of Impeachment Sent Through Winding Maze Of Pneumatic Tubes On Journey To Senate. - The Onion

 

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Ivanka and Jared Kushner wouldn't let Secret Service use their bathrooms, so our taxes have been paying $3000 a month for extra toilets.

Really puts those $600 stimulus checks into perspective. - Nick Jack Pappas

 

Business/Tech News

• Hotels offer properties as vaccine administration sites to Biden team
• Miami mayor wants to lure tech companies from California
• New York Post Bans Bans Staff from Using CNN, MSNBC, Washington Post, and The New York Times as Primary Sources
• Gottlieb: Johnson & Johnson vaccine looks like promising 'third entrant'
• Ex-governor, 8 former Michigan officials charged in Flint water crisis

Parler is the gas station bathroom of social media platforms. - Sandy Jorgenson

 

 

Twitter Defends Banning Trump Because He Glorifies Violence

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey posted a statement Wednesday night defending the ban of President Donald Trump and responded to criticism the social network has received over the decision.

The president’s account was permanently suspended last week and the reason Twitter gave cited violations of their Glorification of Violence policy.

I miss peaceful transfers of power. - Molly Jong-Fast

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Odd News

• Macaulay Culkin Supports Petition to Remove Trump from Home Alone 2
• NASA Curiosity rover celebrates 3,000th day on Mars with stunning panorama of planet
• Florida man accidentally sets himself on fire attempting to burn down a house
• Taiwan man blows 783 bubbles inside of larger bubble for world record
• Cafe, croissant, worms? EU agency says worms safe to eat

Time To Deflate Photo

U.S. Route 93, Mojave Desert, Arizona. The one thing I miss by not having a car is taking a long drive.

Peace.

Republicans protest, circumvent new metal detectors inside Capitol after riot

Republicans protest, circumvent new metal detectors inside Capitol after riot

The security checkpoint outside the House chamber has created tension between some members and Capitol Police.

Does anyone else just want to scream I TOLD YOU SO? - Bryce Tache

I’m back in the Rotunda for the first time since the January 6th insurrection. It looks more beautiful than ever. - Rep. Andy Kim tweet

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Joint Chiefs Remind U.S. Forces That They Defend The Constitution
• Officer resigns as Army investigates her involvement in Washington rally that led to U.S. Capitol riot
• Cruz Office's Contact Info Written In Note Found In Indicted Pro-Trump Rioter's Truck
• Anderson Cooper Asks Why Trump Didn't Stop Assault on Capitol With Pence Trapped Inside: Did He Care If 'His Own Vice President Would Be Killed?'
• Stunning New Report Details How Trump Failed to Respond to Riot Because He Was ‘Too Busy Watching’ TV Coverage

Could the Republicans who keep making these “both sides” arguments please share video of the Black Lives Matter terror attack on our nation’s Capitol? I somehow missed that. - Andy Borowitz

 

Reconnoitering The Insurrection

Rep. Mikie Sherrill claimed she saw members of Congress leading people through the Capitol Building on January 5th, the day before the deadly insurrection by Trump supporters who had assembled hours before for a pro-Trump “Save America Rally.”

The New Jersey Democratic Congresswoman who represents the 11th district of the Garden state called the tour “reconnaissance for the next day” when insurrectionists took part in a deadly siege on the legislative branch.”

Prisoners Drawing Straws To Determine Who Must Share Cell With Ted Cruz. - Andy Borowitz

 

Republican Shenanigans

• Congressman Says House is Considering Expelling ‘Dangerous’ and ‘Depraved’ QAnon Congresswoman
• Scalise labels Capitol rioting 'domestic terrorism'
• ‘It Became Sort of Lawless’: Florida Vaccine Rollout Turns Into a Free-for-All
• Trump Reportedly Told Pence He Would Go Down in History as a 'P*ssy'
• New York City to end all contracts with the Trump Organization
• GOP support for Trump reelection bid drops 13 points: poll
• Fox’s Brit Hume Tells Tucker Carlson Trump is ‘Radioactive’ to the GOP Now: He Fed His Base ‘Utter Balderdash’ About Election Results
• Rubio invokes unity in request for Biden to call for individual $2K checks

Fun fact: these sanctimonious grandstanding f*cks are the same clowns who held thirteen Benghazi hearings. - Jeff Tiedrich

 

Mitch Ditches Trump?

The last act of Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell may very well be to throw out the president who cost him his majority — and who endangered his life and the rest of Congress.

According to a late Tuesday night report from Axios, McConnell is now a better than even bet to convict Donald Trump in a Senate trial if the House impeaches the president on Wednesday, which it almost assuredly will.

McConnell didn’t just catch religion, nor did he find a conscience.  Mitch has been struck by a very clear idea of how complicit his own Senators and GOP house member were in Trump’s seditious conspiracy. - Zev Shalev

 

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My guess is that Trump leaves DC by Friday, bunkers in down at Mar A Lago, becomes paranoid of even Secret Service and tries to hire Erik Prince’s guys as a security force. - Noel Casler

 

Rock The Voter News

• House to impeach Trump for inciting Capitol attack 
• Security concerns mount ahead of Biden inauguration
• Biden team plans inauguration night celebrity TV special
• AOC Thought She'd Be Killed, Feared 'White Supremacist Members Of Congress' Would Turn Her Over to Trump Rioters
• House Democrats reintroduce bill to reduce lobbyist influence

It's going to be really awkward when Ivanka Trump walks into the prison cafeteria and everyone is wearing the same outfit she is. - Middle Age Riot

 

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Business/Tech News

• Airbnb cancelling reservations in Washington, DC during inauguration week
• Third bank cuts ties with Trump after Capitol riot
• Eric Trump: Business cancellations part of liberal 'cancel culture'
• Apple details plans to spend $100M to boost racial equity

Trump Doubles Down And Offers Bill Belichick 3 Presidential Medals Of Freedom. - The Onion

 

The Last Days of Pompeo
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo set off alarms among ethics experts and whistleblowers this week when he leaned into his criticism of Voice of America (VOA) during a speech broadcast live by the government-funded media outlet.

From the bottom of this Army veteran’s heart, I just want to say thank you Speaker Nancy Pelosi for defending the Constitution, our Democracy, and the American people. - David Weissman 

Speaker Pelosi thanks the National Guard for protecting our Capitol and working to ensure a peaceful transfer of power.

What an iconic image.

 

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Odd News

• There's a case of wine heading back to Earth from space
• Climate change is making baby sharks smaller
• Scientists 'program' living bacteria to store data
• Game warden uses marksmanship to rescue deer with locked antlers
•  Lizzie Borden house for sale with asking price of $2 million

Time To Deflate Photo

Calafate Glacier, Patagonia, Argentina. Calafate in Spanish means caulk.

Peace and beauty.

Congress Can Expel Members Who Supported Riot

Congress Can Expel Members Who Supported Riot

If members of the House and Senate are upset that some of their colleagues supported and encouraged the violent mob that stormed the Capitol last week, they can do something about it.

They can kick them out.

The Constitution gives Congress clear authority to punish its members and to expel them.

Perhaps Pelosi has a simpler plan, put everyone who votes "no" into the next motion to expel members for violation of their Oath of Office. Solves the whole "re-election" question too! Efficient. - Chuck McManus

 

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• FBI report warned of ‘war’ at Capitol, contradicting claims there was no indication of looming violence
• Acting DHS Chief Chad Wolf Resigns Ahead Of Inauguration
• Rep. Lauren Boebert Says Capitol Police May Have Been in on Riot, Takes Heat From GOP Colleagues for Tweeting Pelosi Movements
• Anderson Cooper: We Can’t Just Move On, We Need Accountability for 'Mayhem and Murder in the Capitol, Instigated by the President'
• Former Trump official Fiona Hill: "President's actions have put us on the brink of civil war"
• House GOP leader says Trump both sought to blame antifa for Capitol violence and admitted he's partly responsible
• Man arrested in Capitol riot proves to be a picky eater

The events of January 6, 2021 gave aid and comfort to our international enemies.

Coup Klux Klanners Plan Armed Protests At 50 State Capitals
The FBI has warned of armed protests being planned for Washington and all 50 U.S. state capitals in the run-up to President-elect Joe Biden’s Jan. 20 inauguration, a federal law enforcement source said on Monday.

‘We Must Protect The Pure Aryan Bloodline,’ Says Child After 9 Minutes Of Unsupervised Facebook Access. - The Onion

Yep, It Was An Inside Job.
A U.S. Capitol police officer says he and others expected to work an extra shift but were sent home early last Wednesday, barely hours before thousands descended on Congress, broke in, and hunted for the Vice President and Speaker of the House in an insurrection incited by President Donald Trump and his closest allies.

D.C. Police Preemptively Deploy 3 Officers For Inauguration Day, - The Onion

 

Republican Shenanigans

• Trump’s approval rating plummets after Capitol riot
• Trump heads to Alamo, Texas, to showcase border wall
• Patriots Coach Bill Belichick Says He’s Not Accepting Presidential Medal of Freedom from Trump
• Harvard Institute of Politics removes GOP Rep. Elise Stefanik from its Senior Advisory Committee, citing her unfounded claims of voter fraud in the November election
• Ted Cruz's communications director resigns over his role in inciting pro-Trump mob
• Lawyers for MAGA Fan Who Stole Pelosi's Lectern Claim Client Is Actually 'Pro-Law Enforcement,' Was Looting Capitol to 'Witness History'
• Ginni Thomas’ Facebook Page Disappears After Media Reports on Her Support for Pro-Trump Rally that Turned into Attack on U.S. Capitol
• Republican Megadonor Sheldon Adelson Dead at 87

If anyone has an inside story of Trump getting a BJ from a WH Staffer, PLEASE come forward now.

Apparently, inciting insurrection isn't enough for Republicans. - Trophy Mom tweet

 

Disbar Them First, Then Tar & Feather Them!
A coalition of thousands of law students and lawyers have called for Sens. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to be disbarred for leading an objection to President-elect Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory, saying the senators contributed to inciting Wednesday’s deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol.

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Remember when Boomers told us we had to untag every Facebook photo of ourselves having a beer at a party in college because we’d never get a job and then they Facebook lived themselves storming the Capitol? - Lucy Huber tweet

Rock The Voter News

• Second Dem Rep Announces Positive Covid Test After Being Forced to Take Cover With Republicans Who Refused Masks
• Biden's inauguration day: What will look different, who will attend, and what will go virtual
• Anna Wintour defends controversial Vogue cover of Kamala Harris

After being stuck on Hillary's emails for five years they want to just "move on," five days after a failed coup attempt. - Bill Maxwell

 

Deranged Trump Orders Eric and Don, Jr., to Hand Out Flyers with His Tweets on Them. - Andy Borowitz

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This was last night in Alabama celebrating their National Championship win. 👇

Business/Tech News

• Deutsche, Signature Banks Pull Away From Trump
• No Marriott money for Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley and all Republicans who voted against certifying Joe Biden
• Twitter Announces Sweeping Ban of 70,000 QAnon Accounts, Further Crackdown on Election Conspiracies and Calls for Violence
• Facebook Escalates Crackdown on Trump Election Fraud Conspiracies After Capitol Assault, Will Now Take Down All 'Stop the Steal' Content
• PGA votes to move 2022 championship from Trump golf course

Friends. I'm having a problem with the fact Hallmark and Bill Belichick are exercising more firm national political leadership than any freaking GOP official.- Amanda Carpenter 

 

MAGATS Are Animal Abusers, Too! Sickos!

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is investigating the harassment of a manatee discovered with the word "Trump" etched into its back, officials said Monday.

Hailey Warrington found the manatee swimming on Sunday in the Blue Hole headwaters in North Florida. The defacement "is just disturbing. One hundred percent disturbing," she said.

Speaker Pelosi said her staffers hid under a table in her office for more than two hours. 

Two hours. Those bastards.

 

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Odd News

• Juno spacecraft discovers FM radio signal coming from Jupiter moon
• Scientists warn the world's insects are undergoing "death by a thousand cuts"
• Rolls-Royce and UK Space Agency launch study into nuclear-powered space exploration
• Gardener's 1,911-pound pumpkin sets southern hemisphere record
• Woman swims 280 feet under ice for Guinness World Record

Time To Deflate Photo

The Wave is a sandstone rock formation located in Arizona, United States, near its northern border with Utah. The formation is situated on the slopes of the Coyote Buttes in the Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness of the Colorado Plateau. Thank you, Mother Nature.

Peace.