Plea From Pence
Peaceful protest is the right of every American but this attack on our Capitol will not be tolerated and those involved will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
— Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) January 6, 2021
Guns Pulled
Mitt Romney: “This is what the president has caused today, this insurrection”
Photos from @nytimes
-Protestor hanging from Senate balcony
-Protestor breaking into Capitol office
-Police drawing guns in House chamber
-Protestors outside Senate chamber pic.twitter.com/pcbmRz3zqs— Chris Lu (@ChrisLu44) January 6, 2021
Trump Blasts Pence
Trump is wrong on the law. The states had their chance as did the Trump campaign to make its respective cases. This has nothing to do with Pence or his courage. Respect and loyalty are two-way streets, at least they are with real leaders. This is a low point in Trump’s petulance. https://t.co/V1bjTrtQei
— Dan Proft (@DanProft) January 6, 2021
Bloody Woman Taken Out on Stretcher
GRAPHIC: A bloody woman has been stretched out of the Capitol
pic.twitter.com/wWwu17vGzL— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) January 6, 2021
Security Check
https://twitter.com/petestrzok/status/1346901749781716994
Security Question of the Day
How have hundreds of billions upon hundreds of billions of dollars been spent in the name of security since 9/11, along with the deployment of drones and surveillance tech, yet a few hundred protestors can so easily breach the Capitol, just waltzing in and taking it over?
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 6, 2021
A protester hangs from a balcony in the #Senate Chamber after Trump supporters breached the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC #USCapitol #CapitolBuilding 📷: @WinMc pic.twitter.com/pzRG8DeNq1
— Getty Images News (@GettyImagesNews) January 6, 2021
One Person Shot
BREAKING: 1 person was shot this afternoon inside the U.S. Capitol building by a member of law enforcement as Trump supporters stormed the building, several law enforcement officials say – @PeteWilliamsNBC https://t.co/fDFoVdRK0C
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 6, 2021
Explosive Device Found at RNC
New – an explosive device was found at the RNC and detonated safely. https://t.co/dbL5U41ZSo
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 6, 2021
Let’s Check in on Nancy Pelosi
A supporter of President Trump sits inside Speaker Pelosi’s office. pic.twitter.com/xyhj0Lziro
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 6, 2021
National Guard
White House Press Sec. McEnany says President Trump has directed National Guard and federal protective services to be “on the way;” her tweet did not state where they were going or how they would be utilized.
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 6, 2021
Cries for a Civil War
https://twitter.com/AngryVeteran_/status/1346920565840363522
Go ahead. You will end up in prison where you belong.
Best One Word Summary “Tragic”
This is inside the US Capitol. Started covering Washington in the Nineties. I have never seen anything even close to this. This is tragic to watch. https://t.co/WsafxKhbJK
— Nick Bryant (@NickBryantNY) January 6, 2021
Please play the video. It is by BBC correspondent Nick Bryant.
Failed State
Were this a different country on a different continent, we would be talking of a failed state.
— Nick Bryant (@NickBryantNY) January 6, 2021
Just spoke to one member of Congress who is sheltering in his office with staffers and has been told to stay locked in. In 20 years covering US politics I have never seen scenes like this.
— Katty Kay (@KattyKay_) January 6, 2021
I’m sheltering in place in my office. The building next door has been evacuated. I can’t believe I have to write this.
— Rep. Haley Stevens (@RepHaleyStevens) January 6, 2021
UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson
Disgraceful scenes in U.S. Congress. The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power.
— Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) January 6, 2021
Wild Protest Promised
Trump Supporters Tear Down Fences, Breach the Capitol Building
Recall that President Trump promised his supporters there would be a “wild” rally in Washington, DC, on January 6.
It is among the few promises Trump kept in the last 4 years.https://t.co/jUNgYJuhBO
— Mike “Mish” Shedlock (@MishGEA) January 6, 2021
Fact Check
Fact check: Wild Protest Promised; Wild Protest Delivered.
Recall that President Trump promised his supporters there would be a “wild” rally in Washington, DC, on January 6. It is among the few promises Trump kept in the last 4 years.
Mish
Well the hanging idiot has a name and he’s from Idaho. Josiah Colt… He’s probably going to someone’s bitch for a few years in a federal prison. Don’t drop the soap Josiah!
I love the fact that it has come out that the protester who put his feet on Nancy Pelosi desk and then bragged about mail tampering as he stole a letter off her desk took a big government PPP loan out for his business. His name is Richard Barnett from Gravette, AR, and apparently he is a lot more dependent on the government he attacked than he probably wants to admit.
I wonder if little Dick who they call “Bigo” knows Trump gave Feinstein an orgasm demanding the federal government have the power to “take the guns.”
Why? link to youtube.com
Bring in Father Pfleger from Chicago to restore order. He outdid Moses by stopping 8 lanes of cars on the Dan Ryan Expressway.
When the cultural institutions of the country like the mass media, politics and universities create an atmosphere where it is perfectly okay to promulgate a distinctly anti-capitalist, anti-western society, anti-conservative, anti-white message what do you expect will happen?
It’s very easy to make the same old jokes about ‘rednecks’ and ‘trailers’ and think yourself oh so superior to those rural rubes, isn’t it? Do you think that openly mocking people, their values and concerns is actually going to win them over?
This isn’t even about Trump. Trump was and, I guess, remains a symbol (regardless of how unlikely it may seem) of the furor that has been boiling under the hood against this social development. But notice the difference in these ‘riots’ versus the leftist BLM/Antifa – these people are not torching their neighbors homes and businesses.
Great comment man !
For those that read my posts you probably realized I’m a huge fan of the FT. I love their journalism. This is how the FT saw us today.
Summary of this year’s election: “Money and the media are back in the driver’s seat – as is their rightful place.”
Who are those who want to substitute “voting” with “protesting”? And why?
It’s too bad all this happened and violence with destruction of property can not be tolerated. But, do we all think that this was just because of Trump? Trump may be a catalyst but the pot was and is already simmering. Congress just spent two years chasing a Russian ghost (costing million$) when they could have just looked in the mirror. Record deficients and debt accumualting year after year with not a worry expressed. Just maybe had they been looking at potential real threats to the US we just might have been a little more prepared for a “Pandemic”. Or whatever is coming next. Instead we get a COVID relief bill filled with payments to foreign countries all I am sure are sorely needed…😊
Is there any doubt that as a whole this body called Congress has failed the people much more than any president has yet we continue to elect these people over and over truly unbelievable.
I guess the polls showing congress approval rating at all time low are not correct either or maybe they are just to high….
I don’t like this take….because it overlooks that Trump very directly caused the events of today. He called for it…it happened. He thanked the fools who participated, and told them they were special.
Yeah we have inequality and class warfare….and maybe at some point some other catalyst might have set off protests.
But Arab Spring this ain’t.
Blame Trump…Because it’s his fault. he should be held accountable.
I doubt he will, because our leadership is weak and corrupt.
Good points. You can hold him accountable and the lap dog media will tell all we have fixed the problem got rid of Trump when in fact nothing has really changed.
The costs of the Russian hoax aren’t a crumb in the larger scheme of things. That’s such a non-starter. The real cost is not the money spent on producing a report (with not actionable evidence or material for any indictments).
The President is guilty of sedition. It was Pence and not Trump that ultimately authorized the national guard and Twitter took the unprecedented step of suspending Trump’s account for 12 hours. We’re in unprecedented times when the President of the United States tells his supporters to go to the capital and storm the building.
There’s been so much sedition the past 4 years, kind of hard to get all indignant now.
Why was the capitol not better defended? Everyone knew well in advance this event was going to happen. Why did the police take so long to get things under control? Why so few arrests?
that’s the big question of the day.
Cause the rioters were white and clean and obviously no threat.
I am perfectly fine with idiots, morons, the easily led, and ignoramuses voting.
I am perfectly fine with idiots, morons, the easily led, and ignoramuses commenting.
After all, half the population is less intelligent than average.
But when it comes to comitting acts of crime stemming from that stupidity, it’s not acceptable anymore.
Hmmm, do you think there is any video footage of the people in the building today?
Wait a week or two for Feds to show up at their trailer.
These are the PATRIOTS attacking the TORIES. The rich liars, the fake bs sellers better watch their backs. These people have NOTHING to LOSE. THEY are DANGEROUS. They $2000 or $600 doesnt begin to pay their bills – they need open schools and their jobs again.
The guillotine will be rolled out soon and all the liars will be headless.
Why???
The fake rich leadership – both R and D have forgotten the small man.
Stay home -no holidays, no fun – but me the rich guy goes dancing in Times square or vacationing in Cabos. These people see Biden fly his son to PRC or Ukraine to score millions in phony contracts – and their jobs are at risk as Biden opens the border to cheap labor that is willing to fight to work in the last open diner in New YORK.
This is just the start. If it makes you feel big say “let them eat cake” – but they will chop off Schumers head as quickly as they chop of Mitt Romneys head – mark my words .
More of this in bound…..lololol
First comment ? My guess is you’ve been here awhile and just coming back as a different name after getting booting
Yeah I put in a request today too for a different idiot.
Popular speech needs no protection. Tolerance is the virtue of enduring the odious opinions of others. One set of rules for thee, another set for me… That stinks of elitism. “All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others!” -Animal Farm
Some coup.
No organization. No objectives. No mission. No prisoners taken. One rebel with very bad judgment shot and killed.
I’d guess the government will eventually prevail in putting down this broad insurrection.
Trump caused this….on purpose. He’s a dangerous lunatic. How about we hold him responsible for once?
Socialist.
Certain politicians will need armed guards at home for a while.
Guess who picks up the bill.
Soon that will be mandatory from now on
Sadly, me thinks the war has started
Update: Lady that was shot is dead
In the peoples house we kill people
Sad. Sorry to hear that.
….the terrorists, that s what CNN calls them, behaved to well ! They should ve burnt down that mother fckr (the capitol), elitarian nest of smug pricks !
Sadly, give it some time
Felony murder for every illegal occupier of the Capitol.
If Trump isn’t criminally liable for what happened today we need to fix our fucking system so the President is not able to foment insurrection with no accountability. This is just crazy.
He sent those people there….he even thanked them and told them they were special.
If the congress had any backbone, he’d be impeached before daylight tomorrow. But they don’t. They’re a bunch of political opportunists who can look the other way at anything if it benefits their cause.
I don’t know about before daylight, but if Trump isn’t impeached before the end of the day, there is something seriously wrong in Washington. I’ll go further. Anyone who votes against it isn’t fit for public office. And in the Senate, the same thing should happen. He should be convicted swiftly and unanimously.
For killing who? Where is your defund the police spirit?
Big BLM guy, eh?
Mourning the death of lawbreakers….
Me….not sure if that was for me or not. I’m a vocal BLM critic, probably the most vocal one who posts here. Sane and vocal, I hope.
But I feel sorry for anybody stupid enough to put themselves in he position that woman who got killed put herself in… I doubt she was anything more than the wife or girlfriend of one of those barroom brawlers who bear sprayed the cops and got into the capitol…
Bunch of dumb rednecks for Trump. They’re just pawns to be sacrificed for him…..apparently Trump regards all other humans as pawns……and his 4D chess gambits involve sacrificing lots of pawns.
You play with the bull, you get the horn….
Every Trumpian fantasy I’ve read on ZH in recent years involves the police and military siding with the “patriots”. When it becomes clear how unrealistic that belief was, we’ll see how far these people are willing to go.
In the peoples house we shoot our own
Isn’t it a sign of the millennium that people show up to create a revolution with their cell phones using the camera function (probably taking selfies from the Speaker’s chair) rather than rifles…. LOL
They’ll post on their FB sites and then wonder why the Feds show up at their trailer in a couple weeks.
I would guess a majority of Americans from both sides of the political spectrum and in between are disgusted by the actions of these people today. I am predicting these people destroyed any chance of a Trump 2024 shot as I doubt many Americans will want to go through this again.
I wonder if Pence will be willing to take the reigns and pardon as I expect he’ll be asked to do? But if he gets the reigns could/would he keep them until the 20th?
Reins. Take over the reins.
If he took over the reign….then he would be the new King, instead of King Lear…..er Trump.
I don’t think anybody will take Trump on…nobody has any balls.
It really is funny how many of these free-marketeer typess are waiting for the stimulus….
Kind of makes you understand where they are cming from.
I figure some of these Trumpsters used their redistribution of wealth stimulus checks to pay to get to DC today.
By free marketeers I suspect you mean the average working people that have been paying taxes to the government? And by stimulus checks I suppose you can call it a measly refund on part of that money – which was theirs to begin with?
Now onto good news. Schumer says $2000 stimulus will be top priority. 😉
Maybe if they handed out 2k checks to the protest to go home….that might work. I bet that would break up a lot of riots?
CNN reporters seem to be quite disappointed, indignated even, that the police didn t or doesn t interfere brutally and oppressively causing a fckn bloodbath among PEACEFUL protestors they even dare to call terrorists ! Tells you something about fckn CNN bastards …again !
CNN is essentially a video version of the Natinal Enquirer. Mostly gossip and little facts. I will say the same for Fox news.
You’re part of the TDS
Nope, I don’t even like your orange clown…..all that matters though is that the elections were blatantly (yet efficiently) rigged !
Trump’s last big “temper tantrum.” Glad he’s GONE!
Still time for:
Bubbles burst and some “event” gets the blame but we all know bubbles burst anyway.
Exactly the same for this. Election of Trump was a symptom.
These riots are blamed on Trump but sooner or later would have had some other trigger/reason anyway.
If TPTB don’t learn and respond this is just the foothills to mountains of conflict. One bubble after another, each bigger than the last.
Sound familiar?
DOW +438.
The scumbag republican psyche consists of “rule or ruin” mentality. It was pointed out by Lincoln on February 27, 1860 and nothing seems to have changed in 161 years.
“Your purpose, then, plainly stated, is that you will destroy the Government, unless you be allowed to construe and enforce the Constitution as you please, on all points in dispute between you and us. You will rule or ruin in all events.”
How many people get a cheap thrill out of seeing politicians scared?
Would have been nice to see at least one of them tarred and feathered.
It was funny to see what a pussy Josh Hawley is as protesters sang on the sidewalk in front of his house.
Best thing that could happen in America. This is one of the few tributes that came out of the Trump presidency. Now maybe congress will see what could happen when Americans grab their pitch forks and get angry with the bs that goes on in congress.
When you hear these congressmen and women talk, it makes you wonder what country they live in. Not that I necessarily agree with the crowd thats taking over the capitol now.
Cudmeister, I concur, great post
Me too, if you’ll pardon the use of the expression in this case.
About time politicians know fear. Fear that stalks the lives of millions of other ordinary citizens of every persuasion & ethnicity every day.
Change might just happen if they know fear often enough.
I remember the bank bailouts…..80% of the people did not want it yet congress still went forward and saved all the bank CEO salaries, pensions, and bonuses. I think one of the few things they were hit with was no stock buybacks?
The buybacks were temporary. They’re right back at it.
No kidding. It was a slap on the wrist…right. LOL
Well, that’s because they were only using money. The same money the rest of America gets paid with, the same money Americans try to save for their future well being. Congress obviously doesn’t care about what happens to money. We can always print more.
Actually, the letters, emails, and telexes were running better than 99 to 1
Like the letters were from the general public in favor of the bank bailouts? More likely from Hank Paulsons friends, I would say. The powers to be had whipped this into a fear frenzy, that’s for sure. Most of the public didn’t have a clue.
The same circumstance exists in various western countries, in one form or another.
There are anarchists and race warriorthat will participate in any riot to further their end of the destruction of the rule of law.
It’s what they do.
The want to bring on the destruction by whatever means they can.
Or maybe it’s just a bunch of pissed of people getting tired of our ‘servants’ and all these bs lockdowns among dozens of other things. People have had it. You’re not going to have a peacful nation split 50/50 with one side trying to tell the other side what to do and how to live.
You really don’t understand democracy, do you?
And have you looked up the word “pandemic”?
It’s hard to imagine you even know what a keyboard is, but here is your comment, surprising everyone.
It’s good that they were able to teach you that–exceeding expectations.
The word pandemic has been changed 2× last year and a century of epidemiology and public health has been tosssed.
The United States is a Republic, not a Democracy.
This is reminding me of Belarus…
But I think it will be quashed more quickly.
I’m partial to the pic of the guy with his boots on Pelosi’s desk.
That will be a classic.
I like the one where a few of them are huddled and hiding, rocking, and sucking on there face masks
Nazi recruitment propaganda. Bra-fucking-vo.
What are the odds Pelosi replaces the chair? I would put them at 99%.
AP: Ossoff wins Georgia, handing Democrats control of Senate
Isn’t it ironic that Trump probably killed the GOP Senate majority with the demand of a Bernie Sanders styled $2000 redistribution of wealth check!
land of the free, home of the brave
Treason – and where are the police to arrest these terrorist. where is the tear gas, and why was security so lax. A lot to account for.
The terrorists were white and clean. They were escorted up the steps and given refreshing beverages along the way. If they had been black, they would have all been mowed down with machine guns, and the cops would have gotten away with it as they always do.
Wake up call for congress. It looks like they should be listening to their constituents more.
Romney blaming Trump. LOL Did he miss all the Antifa and BLM riots? These millionaire and billionaire politicians are out of touch with main street but it is main street that wants to be heard.
I bet you anything there is some Antifa participating in this. What happens when all the groups team up?
IMHO….This is just this demographics turn to get angry. Probably would have happened with or without Trump.
Storming the gates.
Morons. I mean really. Don’t they have anything better to do than act like utter fools in public.
Love that pic too……of the congress critters locked and loaded…they’re morons too. Absolute stupidity on a grand scale.