US election 2020 thread

[quiet guy]

It was a coherent statement, so it can't have been his. They must have had him wired up with the threat of shocks if he didn't just read the statement as written.

 

[Raheem]

It was a coherent statement, so it can't have been his. They must have had him wired up with the threat of shocks if he didn't just read the statement as written.

Ok, Mr Q-for-an-avatar...

 

[belboid]

That makes more sense, I did wonder if I misheard, but having rewound C-4 News, the reporter did actually say Afghanistan and Syria.

according to CNN just now, it is three times the amount of troops in all three combined.

 

[spring-peeper]

according to CNN just now, it is three times the amount of troops in all three combined.

Now they are just being silly!!!!

 

[belboid]

Now they are just being silly!!!!

i'm not sure how many would fit into wales. That's when it's getting silly.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

I found it it a unyfying, peacemaking and olive branch offering speech;

how did they get him to read it all the way through?
(thinking about the skateboard/surfing video comment on another thread about all the failed attempts and how they hurt...)

 

[Raheem]

I found it it a unyfying, peacemaking and olive branch offering speech;

I hope there's some irony in this statement I am too sleepy to detect.

 

[tufty79]

I hope there's some irony in this statement I am too sleepy to detect.

I reckon it's packed with it, mate.
Sleep well!


Looks well Iron-A-ic

 

[petee]

it keeps coming

A Proud Boys Member Allegedly Threatened To Kill Senator-Elect Raphael Warnock On Parler

Eduard Florea allegedly used his Parler account to threaten the Democrat senator-elect and discuss armed caravans heading to the US Capitol.

www.buzzfeednews.com

"Eduard Florea, 40, was arrested at his home in Queens, New York, by the FBI on Tuesday night. There, authorities said they found more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition despite Florea previously having been convicted in 2013 of a firearms-related felony.

...

"Here in New York we are target rich ... Dead men can't pass shit laws ... I will fight so help me god." "

 

[JimW]

Can't see embedded tweets so sorry if we've had this but

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

This is concerning and needs some further investigation:

Rep. Ayanna Pressley's (D-Mass.) chief of staff, Sarah Groh, said in a recent interview that panic buttons she had previously used in the congresswoman's office had been taken out before the violent riot at the U.S. Capitol last week.

Groh revealed the information in a new interview with The Boston Globe published Wednesday, in which she recounted her experience the day of the riot.

Groh said that she, Pressley and her husband, Conan Harris, had arrived at Capitol Hill early that day after the House sergeant-at-arms urged lawmakers to do so to avoid large crowds as hundreds of the president's supporters had flocked to D.C. to oppose the November election results.

"I was deeply concerned. It felt like the heat was being turned up in terms of the rhetoric and Trump's aims to incite violence," she told the Globe.

It wasn't long after, however, that a pro-Trump mob overtook the U.S. Capitol as Congress was gearing up to certify votes by the Electoral College that affirmed his defeat in the presidential race.

Around that time, Groh said, she discovered the office's panic buttons had been removed while she and the other staffers were working to secure the office's entrance using available furniture and water jugs.

"Every panic button in my office had been torn out - the whole unit," Groh said, despite noting she had previously used the buttons in that same office. Groh said in the interview that she did not know why the buttons had been removed.

In a statement to The Hill later on Wednesday, a spokesperson for Pressley said "the matter has been raised with the relevant agencies and is currently under investigation." The representative said the "duress buttons" had previously been "installed throughout the Congresswoman's office suite."

Pressley's chief of staff said her office's panic buttons 'had been torn out' before Capitol riot (msn.com)

That would imply that there's a larger conspiracy and people with access to the offices removed the panic buttons sometime before the riot.

 

[andysays]

...I think after today my money is on the Senate voting to convict. I heard just one person today actually defend Trump and what he said. The rest who say they are worried about division, more violence, etc, aren't making arguments that would be relevant in the 'trial'. The senators who vote against conviction will need to come up with better arguments than that.

The senators don't need to come up with any arguments at all, they can (and many of them will) simply vote for or against conviction based on crude political calculation.

For all the understandable glee with which many are anticipating the ignominious end of Trump, let's not make the mistake of thinking that this is all some sort of objective legal process which will be decided simply by facts and legal arguments.

Whether or not Trump is convicted will depend, ultimately, on whether a sufficient number of senators decide it's in their political interests for him to be convicted, nothing more than that.

 

[fucthest8]

I've been too busy with personal stuff and work to really keep up, so can someone give me some solid reasons as to why the impeachment process was even bothered with if the following are (still) true (a) he won't be removed before his term is up and (b) it doesn't prevent him running again

Sure, principles* etc, but it doesn't seem like it's actually going to achieve anything even if he is found guilty

*LOL

 

[kabbes]

ignore me

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

A sixth

17 of 50

 

[kabbes]

17 of 50

I misread the original too fast, thought it was referring to the proportion of senators rather than republicans

 

[a_chap]

This is concerning and needs some further investigation:

Around that time, Groh said, she discovered the office's panic buttons had been removed while she and the other staffers were working to secure the office's entrance using available furniture and water jugs.

Pressley's chief of staff said her office's panic buttons 'had been torn out' before Capitol riot (msn.com)

That would imply that there's a larger conspiracy and people with access to the offices removed the panic buttons sometime before the riot.

What's even more alarming is that they were trying to secure the entrance using, er... water jugs.

 

[Sprocket.]

What's even more alarming is that they were trying to secure the entrance using, er... water jugs.
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Maybe balanced on handle as an alarm mechanism? We used to do it at a previous employer when working nights and potential intruders on site.

 

[fucthest8]

What's even more alarming is that they were trying to secure the entrance using, er... water jugs.


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Obvs

 

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Obvs

The way things are progressing it might be better with a thunder flash in it!

 

[strung out]

I've been too busy with personal stuff and work to really keep up, so can someone give me some solid reasons as to why the impeachment process was even bothered with if the following are (still) true (a) he won't be removed before his term is up and (b) it doesn't prevent him running again

Sure, principles* etc, but it doesn't seem like it's actually going to achieve anything even if he is found guilty

*LOL

They can hold an additional vote after conviction which bars him from holding office again. That only needs a simple majority to pass.

 

[moochedit]

I've been too busy with personal stuff and work to really keep up, so can someone give me some solid reasons as to why the impeachment process was even bothered with if the following are (still) true (a) he won't be removed before his term is up and (b) it doesn't prevent him running again

Sure, principles* etc, but it doesn't seem like it's actually going to achieve anything even if he is found guilty

*LOL

It won't remove him before his term ends but it would prevent him running again in 2024 as once he is convicted they can then vote on barring him.

If they fail to do it and he runs in 2024 and is elected he could only do 1 more 4 year term though as 2 terms is the max allowed.

 

[bimble]

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[tendril]

It was a coherent statement, so it can't have been his. They must have had him wired up with the threat of shocks if he didn't just read the statement as written.

it was also recorded, not live, so I wonder how many takes it took to get it?

 

[bimble]

IT'S LOOKING BAD FOR THE DEMS.

that’s the spirit !

 

[Sprocket.]

it was also recorded, not live, so I wonder how many takes it took to get it?

Fake Trump?

 

[bimble]

Various regional Republican Party social media accounts promoted a flyer that said 6th jan was ‘Occupy the Capitol’ day.
The maga design skills never disappoint.

Several GOP organizations posted a flyer on Facebook calling for “Operation Occupy the Capitol” with the hashtag “1776Rebel”

www.mediamatters.org

 

[Zapp Brannigan]

that’s the spirit !
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Tom Hanks? I can't keep up with this Q shit...

 

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Tom Hanks? I can't keep up with this Q shit...

He caught Covid in Australia, obviously anti-American!

 

[tendril]