Paul Revere by Cyrus Dallin, North End, Boston

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Thursday, January 7, 2021

Conservative columnist, Bret Stephens

 

Trump is too dangerous to leave in office for even another minute.






Trump worked the crowd into a frenzy with his claim that victory had been stolen from him by “explosions of bullshit.” 

 “Bullshit! Bullshit!” the mob chanted. 

Trump instructed his supporters to march to the Capitol — “and I’ll be there with you” — to “demand that Congress do the right thing” and not count the electoral votes of swing states he lost. 

“You’ll never take back our country with weakness, you have to show strength and you have to be strong,” he admonished them, with CYA instructions to make themselves heard “peacefully and patriotically.”

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Trump was never "there" with them. He was in his bunker, like the little coward that he is, that all bullies are.

Trump incited an insurrection against the United States of America, and he should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

26 comments:

jono said...

Lock him up!

Shaw Kenawe said...


jono, Trump committed sedition against the United States of America. He should be charged and put on trial for crimes against the United States.

Shaw Kenawe said...

Dana Milbank, WaPo:

"He lost the House in 2018. He lost the presidency in November. He lost the Senate on Tuesday. And on Wednesday, with nothing left to lose, he rallied a violent mob to attack the U.S. Capitol in hopes of pressuring lawmakers to toss out the election results, ignore the will of the people, and install him as president for another term.

Trump fomented a deadly insurrection against the U.S. Congress to prevent a duly-elected president from taking office. Treason is not a word to be used lightly, but that is its textbook definition."

Les Carpenter said...

Invoke the 25th!! This deranged narcissist's delusions grow more dangerous each and every day. This shit deserves absolutely zero deference toward compasion ot leniency. He ha PROVED beyond a doubt he IS a constant Clear and Present Danger. The pathological liar and conspiracy theorist should be placed in a mental ward as far away from power as possible.

Sick, Sick, Sick

Shaw Kenawe said...

RN if Trump isn't charged and made to pay for his treasonous behavior, at least we know he'll stand absolutely NO chance of every occupying the presidency again!

And he's sullied the names of those who supported his sedition.

Ray said...

Just so you folks remember,Manson didn’t stab anyone. Incitement is a real crime.

Anonymous said...

According to the Washington Post: "Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s former acting chief of staff, said Thursday he is resigning from his current post as a special envoy to Northern Ireland in the wake of the “international travesty” that took place at the Capitol on Wednesday. During an appearance on CNBC, Mulvaney said Trump is “not the same as he was eight months ago” and suggested the violence at the Capitol could have been avoided if Trump had pledged an orderly transition weeks ago."

That's the whole problem, trump is EXACTLY the same as he was eight months ago. His enablers just believed this immature bullying, lies and bellicose threats were just "trump being trump" and now four people are dead and the entire country and world is shaken.

Possumlady

Bluebullamerica said...

Sedition, mass murder, corruption, treason, money laundering, perjury, tax evasion, obstruction of justice . . . We're going to need another factory full of paper to list all of King Clorox's crimes.

Suzanne said...

I’d like to know who the real agitators were that were causing the Violence the Capitol Building last night after Trumps rally...those who truly support President Trump do not act that way, they DO NOT support or commit acts of violence.

Dave Miller said...

First thought...

President Trump has now pledged an "orderly transfer of power" to Joe Biden. A presidency that will not acknowledge that he lost and free, fair and fraud free election is not able to make that "orderly transfer of power" happen. And President trump continues to lie about winning the election.

He did not. Full stop. He lost by millions of votes. He lost in the Electoral College. He had a chance to show evidence of fraud, in courthouses across the nation, and he had none. His saying it is true, does not make it so.

His offer of a "orderly transfer of power" is nothing more than the pleading of an abusive husband telling his battered wife he loves her and asking to be allowed back into her good graces.

Dave Miller said...

Second thought...

It is not just President Trump. Republican members of Congress like Ted Cruz, Mitch McConnell and hundreds of others enabled this. They enabled the conditions that led to an insurrection. They used language that encouraged people, to wage combat on the American people and the Capitol.

All of them have the blood of those four people who died yesterday on their hands.

They too need to face the music.

Dave Miller said...

Final thought... for now.

I saw no insurrectionists shot in the back yesterday. I saw not a one with a knee on his or her neck for 8 minutes, choking the life out of them. I heard no cries of disgust from the right calling the insurrectionists thugs, gangsters, murderers, scum or anti American.

I saw no Capitol Police beating ppl like they did in June 2020 when it became time to clear a peaceful protest from Lafayette Square in DC.

If anyone still believes there is no difference in the way law enforcement treats people of color as opposed to how they treat white people, they are willfully not paying attention. These were insurrectionists. The Capitol Police should have rounded them all up and arrested them. For trespassing, inciting violence, murder, domestic terrorism, failure to disperse and probably a dozen other charges.

Because if this mob had been filled with people of color, those still alive today would all be in prison or hospital beds, chained to a bed rail.

Dave Miller said...

Suzanne... you forgot to take your meds this morning...

Bluebullamerica said...

I'm calling BS to Suzanne's post. Violence and destruction is what the Maga types are all about. We've got MANY examples. Also, that bloviating pile of crapmeat in the WH has been inciting this kind of behavior from his 'uneducated' followers since day one. Not that all of his backers are uneducated but anyone who'd do this kind of harm and believe all of his lies is a fool and I'd prefer to think of them as merely uneducated rather than evil and moronic. I know the radical right has already started to to claim that 'antifa' was really behind all of this. Baloney. NO sane person believes that. Try claiming the it was all George Soros just moving so fast around the Capital that it looked like a riot. Uh yup. No doubt most of you Maggots would believe it.

Anonymous said...

You obviously don’t know ALL of trump supporters. Here is the woman who was shot and killed after crawling through a smashed window to gain access to the Capitol: The woman was 35-year-old Ashli Babbitt, a California native and Air Force veteran, her former husband told The Washington Post. Before her death in the Capitol, she had used her social media to express fervent support for President Trump and echo many of the president’s conspiracy theories and false claims of mass voter fraud.

Possumlady

Anonymous said...

there was a coup attempt yesterday. it was incited by the president. the capitol was overrun by armed terrorists trying stop the government from certifying legal election. people died. WHY IS THE LEADER OF THIS SEDITION STILL AT LARGE?

Shaw Kenawe said...

A pretty incredible story. "As the violent mob incited by President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, some West Wing staffers panicked that they were possibly becoming participants in a coup to overthrow the government. “What do I do? Resign?” one nervous White House staffer asked a friend on Wednesday afternoon, shortly after news broke that a woman had been shot and killed inside the Capitol. The West Wing staffer told the friend that White House Counsel Pat Cipollone was urging White House officials not to speak to Trump or enable his coup attempt in any way, so they could reduce the chance they could be prosecuted for treason under the Sedition Act. “They’re being told to stay away from Trump,” the friend said. The White House declined to comment. Vanity Fair

Anonymous said...

My comment was directed at Suzanne's comment...


Possumlady

Shaw Kenawe said...

Suzanne You're totally wrong. But that's not surprising.

Anonymous said...

For Suzanne, here's another of those loyal trump supporters who "do not support or commit acts of violence".

Richard Barnett, who had his picture taken posed with his feet up on Nancy Pelosi's desk, according to the Washington Post:
In a Dec. 28 Facebook post on the Patton page, Barnett announced he would be attending Wednesday’s rally and urged fellow Arkansans to make sacrifices to join him there. “This is OUR COUNTRY!!!,” he wrote. “Can you give one day from the Internet or work or whatever to be active.” He added, “Get the f--- up people. Please STAND!!! If not now, when?”

In the post, Barnett expressed disappointment that past political events he had attended had attracted only a “small handful” of people. Ten days earlier, he had posted photographs of himself and a few others protesting the election result outside the Capitol building in Little Rock, Ark. Barnett posed for one picture holding a rifle.

In a separate post the same day, Barnett wrote that he “came into this world kicking and screaming, covered in someone else’s blood,” adding, “I’m not afraid to go out the same way.” The post was accompanied by a selfie of Barnett with a rifle strapped to his chest.

Possumlady

Anonymous said...

From the Mother Ship where they all support Trump and his insurrectionists. Where all the people on the Mother Ship support the overthrow of the government of the United States of America. Traitors. Every last one of them:

ACUCHUCK says:
January 7, 2021 at 8:54 am

If there is one thing Trump is really good at, it’s having all those loosers, like Lindsay Graham, Mulvahney and even Pence show their true colors. First hint of trouble and they run for their comfort zones. Don’t fight for what is right, don’t put your neck out there, just run and hide.

I still want to know what Trump did that was so terrible as to have all these loosers jump ship, and attack him from every corner.

It is truly breathtaking how one honest American can be beat-up so badly for loving this country. As for fair elections, we just had the fairest one, so remember how they will look in the future Even with all the lying and cheating in this one this one was the best we we will ever see, It’s just gonna get worse from now on, because we were not allowed to do anything to stop the Steal!!

I am really disgusted. At 69 yrs old I only have 15-20 years left on this earth, heaven help the younger generations.

Anonymous said...

To evoke the 25th would mean that the Vice-President and the Cabinet would have to agree to remove the president. Since all those people are Trump cultists, would they agree to remove Trump? I doubt it.

Anonymous said...

Here's the Captain of the Mother Ship and why we ended up with the Orange Turd as president. She loves the Orange Turd and believes he's a savior like Christ. People like her and the Chuck nut kept Trump in power. Never forget!

geeez2014 says:
January 7, 2021 at 9:51 am

CHUCK, what has Pence done, or Mulvaney? Pence knew he couldn’t go against the constitution and too many constitutional scholars back him up. I’d LOVE to see evidence of otherwise..
I was sad that hadn’t been checked out though, becauSE Trump got SO many people there on that promise….

I am TOTALLY with you on how so many can hate a man who did SO SO MUCH for this country in only FOUR YEARS, even with the hideous negativity the Left swirled around him.

They blame HIM for not wanting to accept the election when Hillary told Biden NEVER TO CONCEDE and they spent FOUR LONG EXPENSIVE YEARS lying about Trump so they could GET HIM OUT. They impeached him and will try agaiN, probably even moreso now ..

Yesterday was a fiasco, CHuck, in my opinion…I like that it helped Trump feel good to have SO many supporting him….but it didn’t work for the country’s good, that’s for sure.

I have hoped and prayed SO SO SO SO HARD that at least ONE proof of fraud would hold some water with people who mattered and could change the outcome; never happened.
I feel almost like all those throngs in DC yesterday who were promised something BIG…and nothing.

Durham Report? WHERE IS IT?
Lin WOod information on fraud? WHERE?
Sidney Powell’s GREAT INFORMATION WHICH WILL SHOW THE WORLD? fizzled
People ENCOURAGING crowds to storm our bastille? Not a great idea.

I’m disappointed now, Chuck…I hope and PRAY SO HARD Mr. Trump has not destroyed an otherwise ASTONISHINGLY good legacy…………..
The patriots like Hawley, Cruz, Crenshaw, Cotton, etc etc etc all need to start working NOW to CHANGE THE VOTING LAWS…get the STATES to change theirs….I’m hoping for uniformity and I’m hoping we NEVER have every house sent ballots EVER AGAIN.
TRUMP saw this coming, he warned, and nobody listened and now HE has to suffer those consequences.

Trump was the ONLY ONE ON THIS PLANET who could revive the American economy again once COVID’s gone…anybody think BIDEN or KAMALA can or even WANT TO? Of course not.

I’m very VERY scared of that…at a time people will be working now permanently from home and office buildings will be ‘see-throughs”, at a time when restaurants will need loans to reopen, etc?

We’re facing the hardest time ever and Trump is gone. VERY VERY BAD STUFF> ANd now, since yesterday particularly, he’ll be ignored even when he’s on the sidelines…i’m so sad about that.

Les Carpenter said...

You are absolutely right Plssumlady! tRump is exactly the same as he was 8 months ago, 5 years ago, 10 years ago... he is what he's ALWAYS been. A piece of ormange sh^t.

Les Carpenter said...

And in that group of insurrectionists that DC police should have rounded up and arrested, right in the center of that group, should have been the Inciter in Cheif, treasonous donald j. trump. America's first seditous insurectionist presnit.

Les Carpenter said...

The delusions of the trumper cultists borders on complete derangement. Their absolute fealty to a lying, cheating, corrupt con man is beyond the pale. These are dangerous people.