Law and Order?
NY Magazine Reports
Dozens of Trump supporters broke through barricades at the Capitol on Wednesday, clashing with U.S. Capitol Police on the steps while lawmakers inside voted to certify Joe Biden’s election victory over Donald Trump, according to eyewitnesses. The clashes came minutes after Trump finished addressing supporters at a separate gathering near the White House.
Trump Urges Protesters to March to Capitol to Contest Election Results
The Wall Street Journal reports Trump Urges Protesters to March to Capitol to Contest Election Results
Hundreds of protesters knocked over a barricade on the west side of the Capitol and marched up the steps, some yelling “take the Capitol!” and reaching the edge of the building. Police sirens blared and officers rushed toward the crowd.
A few of the protesters climbed scaffolding outside the Capitol that had been erected for the coming inauguration of President-elect Biden. Several waved pro-Trump signs atop the scaffolding.
Tuesday’s events included appearances from conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and Roger Stone, a longtime Trump adviser whom the president recently pardoned after his conviction in the Russia probe. Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani was slated to speak to protesters Wednesday, a permit shows.
The Proud Boys also are expected Wednesday. Washington police officers arrested the group’s leader, Enrique Tarrio, on Monday on a charge related to unrest emanating from last month’s protests.
Alex Jones Yells
Promise Delivered
Recall that President Trump promised his supporters there would be a “wild” rally in Washington, DC, on January 6, the day when Congress is scheduled to meet to formally finalize the presidential election results.
It is among the few promises Trump kept in the last 4 years.
Trump Not Hearing Good Things
Pence Breaks With Trump
Please note Mike Pence rejects Trump’s call to overturn Biden election
- Vice President Mike Pence said he would refuse President Donald Trump’s demand that he try to block the confirmation of Joe Biden’s election as the next president of the United States by Congress.
- Pence’s statement breaking with Trump came minutes before the vice president was due to preside over a joint session of Congress, which is meeting to declare Biden the victor.
- The statement confirms the view of election experts: that the vice president has no power under the Constitution to refuse to accept the certification of presidential election results from individual states.
“It is my considered judgement that my oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not,” Pence said in a three-page letter addressed to “Dear Colleague.”
“Given the controversy surrounding this year’s election, some approach this year’s quadrennial tradition with great expectation, and others with dismissive disdain,” Pence wrote.
Mish
ShutterStock??? Whoa, pardner. Dismount and take a gander at REAL on the site pics! for the MSM the story is over, for those in the know, its just beginning.
Trump refused to authorize the national guard. Pence eventually did
Uh, Sechel, take a look, not at ShutterStock, but REAL pics of inside of Capitol building. V interesting.
I guess it’s not the people’s house anymore.
We have a republic, not a direct democracy. Only when it suits you, amirite?
Ossoff won.
We have rubber stamped violent, riotous, destructive, and larcenous activities by mobs as being something that we should not reject.
We should not have done that.
Seems like a coup, not surprised people are protesting. I guess that is what anyone not for a comprehensive and transparent electoral review wanted, the question being “why?”.
Another foreign idiot who believes what he is told on the internet…
“Seems like a coup.”
Who made you an expert on coups? It looks nothing like any coup I ever heard of…..it’s a riot, incited by an idiot. It will be over today. People will go to jail.
Tomorrow will be BAU.
No coup. Just a bunch of cuckoos.
Because there is nothing to investigate. Each state has investigated it, and found nothing substantial, and they then certified their results. Elections are conducted under state law, so there is nothing to review at the Federal level. Small instances of fraud, affecting a few votes, have been found and prosecuted, but this was not a close election, and the fraud is insignificant compared to the margin, and also, the fraud went in both directions. In Wisconsin, for example, the changes actually increased the margin, not decreased it.
America, comprised of 30% sub-90 IQ Trump supporters, the other 70% is “deep state” suffering from “TDS”, and the Trumpsters are going to show us who’s who by force!
It’s all laughable, took advantage of the easily foreseeable outcome by shorting VIX at around 3pm.
No surprise that Alex Jones is spreading disinformation to these mindless thugs who think they are patriots. Do they not know the same Rothchild Bank Jones has warned about at great length for over a decade is the same bank that bailed Trump out of his Taj Mahal mess?
Are we watching the GOP die?
It’s gotten to the point where it’s embarrassing to imply you’re conservative or Republican, at the same time “Socialism” is gaining traction as the non-stop over-use of the word has numbed the masses of it’s insultive intent.
If you live in a state like California, that might be true because the people in power are liberal. Texas. . . not so much.
Your statement says more about you, via availability bias, than it does about what people actually experience.
Anecdotal, yes, but I live in a conservative state, I’m a non-Classic Liberal Libertarian in the original non-Koch bros extreme sense. As of the Tea Party disaster ten years back, I’ve been forced to take a long look at my ideals, personal freedom not corporate domain.
Question government & impose checks/balances, not overthrow democracy for a Con-man.
Those words are as worthless as the word patriot these days.
LOL… that guy sitting in Pelosi’s chair, boots on her desk….the plebs invading their sacred, privileged premises GREAT ! …..I AM enjoying this !
Unacceptable comment.
They are more like clowns than any serious revolutionary or patriot…
Notice how many cell phones were out as they were probably eager to take selfies and get likes on social media?
An explosive device is found at the R.N.C., and the D.N.C. is evacuated.
An explosive device was found at the headquarters of the Republican National Committee in Washington and the nearby headquarters of the Democratic National Committee was evacuated after the discovery of a suspicious package on Wednesday, according to three people briefed on the discoveries.
The device that was found at the R.N.C. was a pipe bomb that was successfully destroyed by a bomb squad, according to an official for the R.N.C.
The package at the D.N.C. has yet to be identified, according to a top Democrat briefed on the matter who was not authorized to speak publicly about it.
I wonder if Josh Hawley is shaking as these people have already proven more violent than the people who sang out in front of his house.
I thought these people were law and order types who respect police…
AKA: Trailer Park Trash gets their $600 socialist stimulus checks from their dear leader and drive to DC in their cousin Eddie RVs to storm the Capital in defense of this guy…
OH LORD ! Total Indignation on CNN ! The words I hear repeated every 5 seconds on CNN; shame, disgrace, treason, etc … What about the relentless bashing, attacking, harassing, baseless impeachment attempts of a democratically elected president during four long years ??? HYPOCRITES !
Fuck off and die frog.
Still stupid, I see…
And of course no harrassment of Obama. Grow up it. It is unfortunately the world we live in.
It’s not a coup….it’s simply a riot . A bunch of hyped up thugs trying to fight the police because Donald J. Trump is mad about losing the election.
This is how a coup is started. Will it be quelled while still in the riot stage? Or, will it spread nationwide? Will the police continue to suppress? Or will they switch sides? Where will the National Guard and the Army come down? At what point, if any, will Trump declare martial law? The answers to these questions will tell whether it stays a riot, or becomes a full coup.
No coup is about to happen here…not over this crap. The American people won’t buy into it.
Will. Not. Happen.
Just because it’s dumb and totally doomed to fail doesn’t mean it isn’t a coup.
The “30 minute war” may be the shortest war in history, but it still qualifies as a war.
Stupider than the Gunpowder Plot of 1605……and just about as well organized.
If you want to call it a coup, fine. It looked to me like some guys with bear spray trying to duke it out with the cops in the halls of congress.
If I ever decide to go to war you can look for more damage than that.
They should drag Trump out of the White House in handcuffs.
Coup d’etat in live!
This is all on Trump. He has been engineering it. He incited it. He is not doing anything to try to diffuse it.
There are still a few idiot Republican clowns in the congress laughing about it, but most people have got to be getting the message here. This is the legacy of a Trump presidency….pure chaos.
This guy is crazy and dangerous. Somebody needs to take some responsibility, because he is not going to stop.
Covering his butt…
Ted Cruz
@tedcruz
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Violence is always unacceptable. Even when passions run high.
Anyone engaged in violence—especially against law enforcement—should be fully prosecuted.
God bless the Capitol Police and the honorable men & women of law enforcement who show great courage keeping all of us safe.
Weren’t they supposed to be defunded b/c all of them are racists?
Aaron C. Davis
@byaaroncdavis
BREAKING: A source tells me The Defense Department has just denied a request by DC officials to deploy the National Guard to the US Capitol.
VA is sending the Natl Guard and state troopers to augment the DC response.
Remember, all persons in the Defense Department not 100% loyal to Trump were removed in the last 2 months since the election.
Five hours ago, Rep Mo Brooks (R-AL) said, “Today is the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass.” Now he’s making jokes on Twitter and blaming a violent attack on the capitol on Antifa.
U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks of Huntsville said on Twitter than tear gas has been released inside the Capitol.
“Tear gas dispersed in Capitol Rotunda,” Brooks said on Twitter. “Congressmen ordered to grab gas masks under chairs in case have to leave in haste!”
Three minutes later, Brooks tweeted, “At least #Socialist #Democrats have NOT defunded Capitol police. Evacuating chamber.”
WHY NO NATIONAL GUARD IN DC?? From a WaPo reporter on Twitter: “The D.C. National Guard is the only National Guard unit, out of all of the 54 states and territories, which reports only to the President.” That would explain things…
DC can only deal with the streets of the city. This on the feds.
Where is the official suppression of this insurrection?
Why is anyone surprised by this? Why was there not a plan in place to contain and manage the demonstrators?
Weimar Republic
If this coup attempt surprises anyone, you know very little of what Trump really is, and you’ve not been paying attention.
The legitimate business of government is being disrupted. This is insurrection.
..insurrection or the resurrection of the cheated deplorables ?
Go fuck yourself Sprout.
“legitimate business of government” Ha! That is good stuff. Spoiler: congress is in on destroying this country.
So a Hobbesian power vacuum is preferable to you. Noted.
Senate chamber occupied by protestors. Unreal.
They should declare it to be an autonomous zone.
Your douchiness masquerades as wit.
” Thousands, police can’t stop them”
Wrong. Police won’t stop them because they’d need to kill them, and so far, death can be avoided.
No different than when they were letting Antifa throw its tantrums all summer.
Trump has catered his appeal to the police and the military. This will make an interesting conflict between their oath of office and their political beliefs. They can justify a lot, if they believe, despite the lack of any evidence, in election fraud.
Cops here in Oregon have been hammering the Trump supporters all week. To the extent that the Trump supporters have started burning their “thin blue line” flags.
I have no doubt they’ll keep doing their job, despite criticism from people who either don’t want them to do it, or think they’re not doing it enough.
Bring out the water canons.
If that’s the best way to enforce the law and restore peace, no objections here.
However, when the crowd is large, armed and angry, if as LE you can avoid deaths and arrest them after-the-fact, you’ve done a good job.
Lack of decisive action will encourage more and escalating violence. If not today, it’s just a matter of time. This is no city government we’re talking about … we’re talking about the sovereignty of the United States of America. The world is watching.
If I were China, I’d have already started the attack.
Tangent: So did the “reflation trade” morph into an “inflation trade” today?
Who could have predicted this…
National Guard locked up somewhere else….
Ah, just a bunch of old Boomers looking for Doc Brown’s Delorean to take them back to the ‘50s.
By the way, Mish, how’s the weather in Utah these days?
Calm, people. It’s like you’ve never seen a coup before. This is only one city, so far.
GUNFIRE INSIDE THE SENATE CHAMBER https://twitter.com/MEPFuller/status/1346905489561579532
You reap what you sow.
What a lovely day, you will reap just what you sow.
So very true.
This is a coup d’etat attempted by the President of the United States.
Fa scum. If you support Trump you are my enemy.
Where’s the f’ing teargas that is used on other protesters?
Teargas ? Despite CNN’s dramatic narrative this is merely a rather peaceful demonstration against election fraud….
We refer to this kind of riot as a “mostly peaceful demonstration” now in this country.
Regardless of whether the idiots participating are right-wing nutcases…..or left-wing nut cases.
Alex Jones….yeah, he’s a real patriot. Wanna buy some snake oil?
You shouldn’t be watching CNN at all that’s fabricated garbage and sadly you know it is.
Ha! Now they have moved Pence and Grassley to a “secure location”. Talk about overreaction!
Between Pence and Pelosi there is 2/3 of the line of succession for command and control of the US. Not an over reaction.
This is psycho.
So they had to shut down because of the violence.
Meanwhile gold plummets….
Gold is near all time highs.
When you lose an election…..and then you hold a big rally and incite people to violence in hopes of changing the outcome….isn’t that a crime?
Sedition is a crime right? Even if you happen to be a sitting President.
You can’t do that. We can’t let Trump get away with that kind of behavior. It just has to stop.
When you elect a Don, President
DC can take legal action against a President, I would think. Even if Feds cannot.
Buried beneath all this is the HAPPY bottom line that Trump and his enablers created a LOSING Trifecta. Losing President, the House, and now the Senate. And Thank God the later is an 8-yr term! They’ve f’d the pooch!
The political Good Vs Evil nadir in our lifetime has cost them ALL the basics. And hopefully the stench costs them lots more. That reality will resonate.
The Senate has 1/3 of its seats up for election every two years, so it can flip every two years. Not sure what your eight year reference is intended to mean… ?
Almost seems fitting that Trump ends his Presidency leading a thug march
In more uplifting news. McConnell gave the speech of his lifetime. It was masterful. Took the wind out of Ted Cruz’s speech.
Demagoguery, nothing more and hypocritical in many ways. But pleasant to the years.
After this I never want to hear about ANTIFA eve again
It was Antifa and BlM people dressed as Trump supporters who breached the Capitol
Antifa just isn’t as good at throwing a riot as these guys. They still throw riots.
I don’t want to hear about Antifa either, but no sign of them stopping rioting here.