Somber Senate unites to reject election challenges

Oh Mitch, you incredulous old fool. There are no "take backs" with what you and your crew did. Lindsay Grahams words came back on them (and even himself) with a VENGEANCE..... there are no take backs. Those that signed the "protest"... there are NO TAKE BACKS.

Mitt was one of the very precious few GOP members that kept resisting Trump in the long run.

basically Trumps rioters have just sealed the result, Trumps gone, Biden will be president, oh and complete control of the government as a parting gift. lol

The guilty rioters should be arrested and locked up. Unfortunately, because they belong to the right, they will of course get preferential treatment. Unlike protesters in the Black Lives Matters protests who were often times mowed over by cars, arrested without any reason, kidnapped in unmarked vans, etc. It's like night and day how the police treat protesters based on the color of their skin, or their cause.

What a day. What a disgrace. It’ll get fixed, but it won’t be forgotten.

All those who took part and enabled this won’t be forgotten either. The ‘law and order’ President and his mindless moronic mob will face serious consequences for this absolute idiocy.

Romney has integrity. Graham is still a slime.

The GOP senate and GOP congress in 2016.

No, it's not NEPOTISM.

No, it's not conflict of interests.

No, it's not corruption.

No, it's not an impeachable offense.

No, it's not interference of justice.

No, it's nothing to be concerned about.

No, it's not a legitimate election.

No, Biden is not the president elect.

No, it's not sedition.

No, it's not insurrection....

The chickens have come home to roost.

Not really sure how this works. The President of the United States just literally turned an armed mob loose on the legislative branch of government in an attempt to prevent it from performing its constitutional duties. I don't think this can wait two weeks, they need to take steps to remove him from power now, the United States government can't function at all like that.

The riot in the Capitol prompted more than half of those who had signed on to the protest to instead vote “no.” Catering to Trump's supporters seemed less important than defending democracy.

Tennessee's GOP senators abandoned the effort, as did Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga, who lost her runoff election Tuesday, helping to deliver control of the Senate to Democrats. Wisconsin's GOP Sen Ron Johnson dropped out, as did James Lankford, R-Okla, a promising younger Republican who raised eyebrows when initially supporting the effort.

Trump ally Lindsey Graham, R-SC, also abandoned the president, appearing to cite his role in encouraging the mob.

“Trump and I, we had a hell of a journey. I hate it being this way,” Graham said. “From my point of view, he’s been a consequential president. But today ... all I can say is count me out. Enough is enough.”

It took a mob storming the Capitol even made more than half the Trump allies to flip from contesting the electoral count to no longer contesting the count

If you're American, you should be embarrassed right now. Nobody has stormed the US Capitol since the days when the British were enemies, burning Washington DC to the ground in the War of 1812

25th is fastest but hey, a one day impeachment followed by next day conviction/removal would work too.

The fear is a follow up pardon by temporary president Pence. But if it is timed correctly...

These idiots who stormed the Capitol actually think they can get away with anything because Trump has shown them that he can get away with so much. Trump needs to be in prison. End of story. He and his son Don Jr. have blood on their hands. Cruz and Hawley should be barred from any sort of public office along with any other member of Congress who still support Trump after these 4 years of utter ridiculousness.

RecklessToday  04:11 pm JST

These were angry citizens, not foreign soldiers. 

They were criminals, they attempted to subvert the proper democratic procedures of the United States at the behest of a senile, deranged demagogue and four of them managed to get themselves killed.

Coked up DonJr speech was an incitement to riot.

Now people are dead and the world is in shock at how low America has gone. What a dope.

If anything they solidified opposition to the election fraud claims and totally buried trump. Biden is still going to be sworn in.

I’m just afraid we’re going to see more violence. Going to need better security than we saw today because it’s clearer than ever now that there are a lot of idiots with nothing to lose who think life is reality tv.

Well Trump has cemented his legacy.

And a bunch of other people's too.

Remember when the right whined about Obama's legacy?

the world is in shock at how low America has gone.

I am in shock at seeing the reality of it. But not that it happened - it was entirely predictable. Bill Maher has been calling these specifics for a couple of years now. He clearly predicted Trump would refuse to concede, claim fraud, refuse to leave the white house, and that his peeons would get violent. Bernie Sanders described exactly what would happen a month before the election.

It was easy for them to predict, because they're dealing with simple people. Morons as it were.

Morons as it were

Didn't Rex Tillerson tell us that with a colourful prefix?

74 Million Americans enabled Trump's hissy fit at never having lived up to Obama's legacy.

The people loved Obama. The people hated Trump. Those are their legacies. Set in stone now.

“Trump and I, we had a hell of a journey. I hate it being this way,” Graham said. “From my point of view, he’s been a consequential president. But today ... all I can say is count me out. Enough is enough.”

It's not so funny when they come for you, is it?

I first learned of the 25th amendment on this site several years ago.

In the last 12 hours the whole world has come to hear of it.

For the good of the world, time for Trump to go.

Trump is not gone yet.

According to his closest aides, he's willing do anything to hold on to power. PBS reports that even supporters surrounding him in the White House are saying that he is mentally unstable now and are fearful what he'll do next and that he is dangerous.

Some cabinet members are starting to discuss the 25th Amendment.

I don't think Trump is finished yet. He'll try to declare martial law, start a war, invoke the Insurrection Act, absolutely anything to stay in power. They claim he is "drunk with power."

Many people from both sides are influenced by social media and getting information from a propaganda bubble.

Yeah, enough of the "there's good (bad) people on both sides".

It's clear today that the false equivalency is false. It always has been, but now we have undeniable proof that one side is clearly much, much worse and much, much more unhinged than the other. That same side is anti-democratic. And a bunch of Losers at that.

According to his closest aides, he's willing do anythingto hold on to power. PBS reports that even supporters surrounding him in the White House are saying that he is mentally unstable now and are fearful what he'll do next and that he is dangerous.

Twitter withdrawal symptoms. Fragile narcissists can’t stand being ignored.

He’d better get used to it.

The democrats now have the presidency, the House and the Senate.

I hope everyone who said they were going to bet money on the outcome really did. For good and bad.

The face of the swamp right there. Trump managed to rattle the corrupt system a bit, but the swamp is too established. Even blatantly open cheating is possible if the media, big tech, and legal system are tied to to the corrupt elites.

But the populist protest will not go away, just like in Europe.

If the Congress goes home after this as if nothing happened and with no consequences, then they have not done their duty.

Trump must be removed from office via 25th Amendment. Trump can object, then 2/3rds of House and Senate must vote to remove him, or

Trump must be impeached and convicted in the Senate immediately so he does not finish his term.

Some heads are going to roll because there is video of US Capitol police opening gates and directing the mob in.

There must be consequences.

The capital police were not ready. The State Police and the National Guard should have already been stationed around the Congress.

Agreed, but they were very prepared to do Trump's bidding to clear out peaceful protestors for a photo op.

The greatest domestic threat is these right wing militias and nutters, which includes Trump and his supporters. Their alternative facts...have plagued the US for more than four years.

BLM may have some thugs, all mobs do, but their protests pale in comparison. Most of the BLM members are peacefully pushing for needed reforms. They aren't packing guns or assault rifles with 30 round magazines or lying through their teeth.

Hoping for some huge changes over the next year as Biden takes advantage of a year long honeymoon with a democratic controlled congress and senate.

We may actually see some movement in human rights within the country. Health care, environment.... Things are looking hopeful again.

Trump managed to rattle the corrupt system a bit, but the swamp is too established.Even blatantly open cheating is possible if the media, big tech, and legal system are tied to to the corrupt elites.

At some point you’re going to have to face reality and realise you were tricked.

Or you could just be doing this for attention. It’s most probably that. There’s no other sensible explanation.

Humble thanks to VP Pence for having the strength of character and dignity to do his duty under such extreme stress

I hope Trump resigns so that Pence can briefly become Prez and pardon Trump, and then Pence dosn't pardon Trump. And I want it all on tape. Politics should occasionally about having fun.

I hope this disgraceful debacle leads either straight to the 25th or to emboldening the self-incriminating Pardoner-in- Chief to issuing a brazen "selfie" because then he'll find himself trapped like a rat with his rancid piece of cheese and nowhere to run or hide except Palookaville for twice-impeached Potuses.

Go ahead with the second impeachment.

Can’t let him skulk away.

That should be sombre.

Also, one of Trump's main supporters during all this filth has been BIll Hagerty, former ambassador to Japan. Let's hope Biden chooses someone who actually supports democracy and all that stuff.

I’m concerned about the defense budget. When this lunacy is over it may need some tweaking.

$934 billion, but a semi-naked guy dressed in a buffalo skin helmet can waltz into the Capitol building and pose for photos?

Romney has decency after all.

The Republican party must die now. The insanity has gone too far with too many scumbags in that party allowing the rise and destruction of Trump.

To rebuild the GOP from the ruins, the GOP need to get rid of Trump and his cult members once and for all and chose an ethical and visionary leader like Mitt Romney. Also, the GOP needs those members who truely care about the US democracy and decency by endorsing Joe Biden.

As for Ted Cruz and other GOP politicians who are opportunist scavengers and cowards, let them found their own party whose main members are right-wing extremists, thugs, and brainless militants.

Wasn’t there a commenter here who spent weeks desperately claiming that Trump had a constitutional pathway to victory and that the Congress would go to ‘one state, one vote’ and would install Trump as president? Gosh, for the life of me, I can’t remember their name.

I never was a big supporter of rioting (aka peaceful protests). It’s nice to see that after years of looting, burning cities, protests against America, threatening innocence diners, and an estimated 30 deaths the media cares about law and order again. I guess there is at least that one silver lining from the last 12 years of chaos.

Hung - the GOP, like the Democrats don't need more of the same old grifters. Mit had his crack at it and was generally not supported.

Trump is a lunatic and those that supported him will find difficult election challenges (providing they don't run against AOC types in, say, Kentucky). I hope that someone like Tim Scott senator from South Carolina steps into more leadership.

I never was a big supporter of rioting (aka peaceful protests).

There’s quite a difference between the two. If you can’t understand that after today you never will.

A terrible day but, as you said, silver linings too. Less bs on here is a big one. The most vocal are already gone. Just a few sad, confused stragglers remain.

There’s quite a difference between the two. If you can’t understand that after today you never will.

Good riots vs. bad riots resulting in death, destruction, and animosity?

Yesterday was a sad day for America. But so were all the other days when a major political party funded a foreign sourced political document to undermine a president and an FBI lawyer used that information to deceive a secret court to surveile a member of an opposing political campaign. It’s a sad day when people kneel against the American national anthem destroying social unity. It’s a sad day when major media outlets and tech companies censor speech, it’s a sad day when America’s history is corrupted in n service to a Leftist political agenda. It’s a sad day when it became normal for a Democrat candidate for president would state that it will be necessary to discriminate based on race today to make up for wrongs 400 years ago.

While we should acknowledge the sins of the past we cannot use that as an excuse for divisions by umpteen identities today. America had a chance for a short period of time in the 60’s to move forward as one nation - and it blew it. The last year of riots by the Left and yesterday’s riot on the Right shows that the country is continuing on the wrong path.

On top of the fiscal and cultural decline, the elites continued attacks on the deplorables will mot stop the decline in national unity. The Dems keep claiming they are victims on the one hand while bludgeoning their political enemies with the other.

A terrible day but, as you said, silver linings too. Less bs on here is a big one. The most vocal are already gone. Just a few sad, confused stragglers remain.

That’s the point right? To drive away dissenting opinions

Mit had his crack at it and was generally not supported.

Mitt was nominated by the GOP and played Mr Nice Guy in the 2012 election. He was attacked by Dems as a racist and a sexist anyway. Same for the now saintly John McCain. He was also called a racist. The attacks aren’t personal of course - the will to power on the Left demands that they always use race to divide.

It’s a sad day when people kneel against the American national anthem destroying social unity. 

Comparing today to football players kneeling is a fine example of what I was just talking about. No place for that here.

WolfpackToday  10:39 pm JST

The attacks aren’t personal of course - the will to power on the Left demands that they always use race to divide.

That's okay with you though, isn't it? You always seem to be making out that whatever "the Left" (boo hiss) do to seize power, "the Right" (hooray!) are justified in doing too.

Bob: No. And nobody except you has said that.

The point is to cut through the lies and bs.

Unfortunately this is false. I have been posting here for almost two decades and it has only been now that the moderators here have been suspending my account. Zurcronium wants me to stop posting (see his post list). I challenge the lies and BS from the Left.

Comparing today to football players kneeling is a fine example of what I was just talking about. No place for that here.

I listed many things not just the open anti-American, racist rhetoric, anti-law enforcement, and violent conduct of BLM. You are cherry-picking. Which is fine if that’s all you got - but I am calling you on it. Get off your high horse - you have been continuously excusing all of the violence and racialized rhetoric from BLM, Antifa, and Progressives.

The face of the swamp right there. Trump managed to rattle the corrupt system a bit, but the swamp is too established. Even blatantly open cheating is possible if the media, big tech, and legal system are tied to to the corrupt elites.

The face of the swamp here. Feels the man who incites violence against the capitol is a better choice than those who are the choice of the people.

There's your true swamp, people.

I never was a big supporter of rioting (aka peaceful protests). It’s nice to see that after years of looting, burning cities, protests against America, threatening innocence diners, and an estimated 30 deaths the media cares about law and order again.

"I was never a big supporter of rioting" he says, following with the reason he supports these riots.

This is the Republican party. Beyond salvation. Beyond American.

President Biden and Vice President Harris, and the democrats have the next four years. They can do better than what Trump did during 2020.

350,000+ have died from the pandemic. That is the priority and not what Trump does.

His social media sites suspended until after the inauguration.

"But the swamp! Who will think of the swamp?!"

Oops, forgot to quote that.

'End of greatest first term in history': Trump posts tone-deaf tweet via aide's phone (after Twitter bans him)

He's hurting for a fix.

Mitt was nominated by the GOP and played Mr Nice Guy in the 2012 election. He was attacked by Dems as a racist and a sexist anyway. Same for the now saintly John McCain. He was also called a racist. The attacks aren’t personal of course - the will to power on the Left demands that they always use race to divide.

Mr. Romney sealed his defeat with his infamous "47% who are takers" comment. It was a full frontal display of crude ignorance of the poor. Incidentally many of us have never forgotten of forgiven that comment and do not consider him to be much of a hero. He is maybe not as bad as Mr. Trump but he is still hopelessly unaware of the trials faced by the poor or people of color in the US. He sees the world through the eyes of the wealthy investor class.

Strangerland: "I was never a big supporter of rioting" he says, following with the reason he supports these riots.

How do you get that I “support” riots? Reading comprehension is important for the ability to effectively communicate. I imagine you look at my posts and the words transform before your eyes to what you want me to say as opposed to what is actually written.