The Capitol Police have ordered evacuation of multiple House offices, and both the Senate and House have recessed, due to a potential breach of the Capitol on the Senate side. Protesters have been reported to have been using rubber bullets*. This is based on Rhonda Colvin’s reporting on the Washington Post livefeed.
Update: DC Mayor Murial Bowser just ordered a 6 PM to 6 AM curfew.
Update: Police are entering the building with assault rifles. CSPAN reporting that live fire is occurring (not confirmed). And this:
People are smashing glass in the doors to the House chamber. Police have guns drawn and aimed at the door
— Jonathan Tamari (@JonathanTamari) January 6, 2021
Police officers are holding them steps away from the Senate chamber, which is locked. Senators are inside. I see a few confederate flags. pic.twitter.com/YI7X7KmuUG
— Igor Bobic (@igorbobic) January 6, 2021
*I probably misheard this, and the video replays show none of it.
Baud
Protestors or police?
cliosfanboy
Protestors? Are using rubber [email protected]!!!
mali muso
All of these fuckers need to be locked up and tried for treason.
John S.
Fuck these traitorous scumbags. Let the police apply the same brand of justice they have called for on other protests across the country.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Nothing on MSNBC about that.
Cacti
The American right has reached its Beer Hall Putsch moment.
Ye Ladylike Sailors
To quote @fvehafric on Twitter, “It’s a good thing the protesters aren’t there on behalf of racial justice so the cops don’t overreact”.
Wapiti
@mali muso: They need to have masks duct-taped to their faces.
mali muso
The Republican party is a terrorist organization. So. fucking. angry. right. now.
Mag
These fascists will set fires and try to burn down the Capitol.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
impeach him for incitement tonight
Four Seasons Total Landscaping mistermix
@Baud:
I’m pretty sure she said protestors but who knows. I updated the post.
craigie
So this is what patriotism looks like. Who knew?
cliosfanboy
@Wapiti:
Jeffro
Yeah who could have predicted trumpov would whip the MAGAts into a frenzy and sic them on Congress?
(actually, what, a dozen or more of us predicted this?)
Have your civil war between your own moronic factions, GOP, leave the rest of the country out of it.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Seth Abramson is not a reliable person.
Al Z.
The contrast between the treatment of these MAGA scumbags and the removal of protesters in BLM plaza simply is enraging me.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
make a motion to impeach, GOP Congressman
VeniceRiley
They’re trying to take away our joy. So let’s just take joy that they’ll all be behind bars soon.
Matt McIrvin
Gee, some of these Republicans are starting to figure it out.
Baud
Congressman Boyle says he heard “explosions” from his House office, which is not the Capitol building.
RedDirtGirl
WaPo live coverage just stopped. Whelp!
germy
Phil Lewis is a brave reporter. He’s a Black guy with a camera. He’s taking a risk being so close to them.
Mary G
Mayor Bowser ordering 6 pm curfew.
ALurkSupreme
Even the very serious people can stop pretending these fuckers aren’t fascists?
Dorothy A. Winsor
Benw
@Al Z.: the system is working as designed – maintain white supremacy at all costs. It’s fucking infuriating
Sloane Ranger
Wow, just wow! I’m watching this on CNN. Others have already said this but this would never have happened had this been a BLM protest. There would have been police and National Guard 3 deep totally surrounding the Capitol and had anyone even looked at them in a way they didn’t like, there would have been tear gas and baton charges.
dmsilev
I don’t always agree with him, but he’s dead-on correct here.
Immanentize
@RedDirtGirl: The plan was to move the press to the chamber if things got dicey.
Baud
Senate being evacuated.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Senate chamber evacuate
ETA: would evacuations like this be a prelude to tear gas?
Katie Tur reporting tear gas in the Capitol building
schrodingers_cat
Who is in charge of security at the Capitol?
PJ
Every one of these fascist assclowns should be arrested today, whether in the building or as they leave it. DC police should be mobilized to arrest them after they leave the Capitol. Their vehicles (parked illegally on park grounds) should be ticketed and impounded. Bowser needs to get on top of this.
Immanentize
@Baud: Is Yeltsin expected to make a speech?
different-church-lady
Well, I guess there some rule that says white people don’t get tear gassed or pepper sprayed.
Baud
Whoever is in charge of the Capitol Police should be fired.
germy
Breaking down barriers outside, screaming at cops
Kattails
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: call your representatives.
Mary G
Roll Call reporter from inside building talking to CSPAN and refusing to give details for fear of danger to fellow reporters trapped in the mess.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Kellyanne got hold of his phone
Quinerly
Tear-gas used inside Capitol.
Sister Golden Bear
Treason in defense of fascism.
When do we send in the National Guard? Oh wait… they’re white. Never mind.
Betty Cracker
@schrodingers_cat: I think CNN said the Capitol police?
different-church-lady
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Sure, like Kellyanne ain’t just as thrilled with the idea with violent action in support of her god.
Gin & Tonic
Fox/OANN :: Radio Rwanda. Discuss.
Patricia Kayden
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Sounds like this is this generations version of the Oklahoma City bombing were the country gets it rubbed in it’s smug face that the racists aren’t just a bunch of boys doing the silly talk.
different-church-lady
@Quinerly: On who? The invaders or the congress critters?
different-church-lady
@Patricia Kayden: Well yeah, prison is quite a prize, no?
jonas
Had these been BLM protesters, they would have had the shit teargassed and baton-whomped out of them by now. How the hell did Capitol Police allow them to breach the building like this? Chief should be fired, and these bozos arrested for insurrection, terrorism, and whatever else prosecutors can muster.
different-church-lady
@Gin & Tonic: What more is there to say?
Benw
I guess the congressional vote count has stopped: 12 Trump, 0 Biden.
TOTAL VICTORY
Mary G
BaffleGab
I’m a pretty peaceful guy, but I think this situation calls for a bit more than kid gloves. A mob of any stripe violently breaking into our seat of government calls for a response more military than civil…
Leto
@mali muso: absolutely right there with you, 6ft away and masked up.
catclub
@Cacti: also mag @11:
Combining the beer hall Putsch and the burning of the reichstag in one day.
Boris Rasputin (the evil twin)
@craigie: No, this is what fucking Nazis look like.
This is all on Trump’s hands.
Just One More Canuck
Trump is just Pinochet without the uniform
different-church-lady
@jonas:
Wouldn’t even had made it on to Capitol property, never mind IN the building.
Mary G
Leto
@Mary G: They’re about 2 hours late, but about fucking time.
jonas
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Someone must have gotten through to him that DC prosecutors were going to bring him up on inciting-a-riot charges if he didn’t call off the dogs.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@PJ: Luckily there are multiple videos of these treasonous rioters. Many of them will be identified.
Gravenstone
@Quinerly: I’m wondering how many of he Sedition Caucus will be inclined to continue with their charade today after the tear gas has cleared out of the hallways? Maybe give a few of them their own special dose, just because?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@different-church-lady: They are now.
Mary G
EmbraceYourInnerCrone
@jonas: They would have been shot, and probably not with rubber bullets.
different-church-lady
Trump plays with fire, everyone else gets burned.
Betty Cracker
@Gin & Tonic: Yep.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@BaffleGab: According to my FBI friend, the cavalry is assembling somewhere
NotMax
Hawley hooligans. None of this – NONE OF THIS – alters the immutable fact that Dolt 45’s term ends on January 20th.
debbie
I just heard about this shit. Where are all the tear gas canisters, rubber bullets, and stun grenades??? ?
Quinerly
@Gravenstone: Katy Tur MSNBC reporting protesters smashed glass doors and push passed Capitol police to get in the building.
Spanky
@jonas: The word is “sedition”, and it started with Trump.
AM in NC
I hope every single Democratic Senator in the locked-in chamber is calling out each and every one of their GOP “colleagues” for fostering this insurrectionist state of affairs, either through direct encouragement, or their silent complicity. And I hope the GOP senators are wetting their pants.
Lapassionara
@Betty Cracker: this is the question I had. The Capital Police are not the same as the DC police. The DC mayor had activated the National Guard, or so I heard, but I am thinking they cannot help the Capital Police. This is crazy, as the Capital Police are obviously outnumbered.
what a mess.
Cacti
Don’t let the media call this anything other than what it is.
This is a violent coup attempt by the right wing.
germy
These times are too interesting
Trump needs to pay for this.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Gravenstone: Members apparently have gas masks at their desks.
Wyatt Salamanca
Rabble rousing demagogue Trump incited this riot and that scumbag Jim Comey has the gall to say don’t investigate him.
Comey and any pundit who says don’t continue investigating Trump after January 20th is a fucking moron. Trump is a clear and present danger to this nation. He needs to be investigated and hopefully indicted and then convicted and thrown in prison for the rest of his goddamn life.
Betty Cracker
cain
@Quinerly:
Did they follow process and disarm before going through the metal detectors. These people support law and order I’m told!
Also someone on my slack was mentioning that bullets have been fired in the capitol building?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Dorothy A. Winsor: does that mean the National Guard?
@debbie: tear gas and flash bangs are being reported
debbie
@Spanky:
No, it’s treason. Even Trump.
RedDirtGirl
Trump’s little mushroom must be rock hard right now!
mrmoshpotato
@Wapiti:
Superglued. Yeah, the deadly pandemic (remember that?) raging through the country makes this so much worse.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
sigh… Slotkin both-sidesing, at this moment
Leto
@germy:
@Quinerly: click on germy’s link above to see that video.
Sloane Ranger
Jim Acosta has a way with literary/popular references. After describing Trump as Covita as he returned to the WH after his bout with COVID-19, he’s just used Bonfire of the Insanities to describe this shitshow.
mrmoshpotato
@RedDirtGirl: Completely uncalled for! ?
Quinerly
Chaos in House Chambers. Turn on MSNBC.
VeniceRiley
I am completely infuriated beyond my wildest imagining.
Cacti
The Republican Party made this happen.
Don’t ever let the country forget.
Betty Cracker
@Dorothy A. Winsor: That’s going to be ugly because they’ll have to retake a space that’s been overrun.
RedDirtGirl
Not sure I want to watch any live feed. Afraid I’ll see the press person shot on live tv. One rioter just said that a woman was killed inside by police. ??♀️
Uncle Cosmo
@cliosfanboy: Nailgunned.
Spanky
@cain: Sometimes the tree if Liberty has to be watered with the blood of every fucking Nazi they can round up.
I’m 45 minutes away, and steaming. Mrs. Spanky has hidden my truck keys. She s right and I’m not altogether rational atm.
mali muso
@VeniceRiley: I’m literally shaking with rage. They need to arrest Trump tonight and lock him up for treason and sedition.
Leto
DC mayor and Pelosi have formally requested DC National Guard to come in. Hang up atm is within the DoD and getting this formalized.
Edit: this is via MSNBC right now.
Danielx
@jonas:
Fuck tear gas and batons, if these were BLM protesters the bodies would be stacked three deep already. I’m surprised they haven’t started using live rounds already.
Trump and his congressional supporters deserve whatever they get from a Biden Justice Department at this point, and it better be more than looking forward and not back etc etc.
Bostondreams
@Sister Golden Bear: National Guard in DC is controlled by the President, isn’t it?
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Betty Cracker: “Ugly” was the exact word she used.
Subsole
And the rotating tag says:
“Just a few bad apples.”
Seriously. Can we please fucking drone Rupert, Mark and Jack when this is over??? Christ.
Patricia Kayden
Leto
Also apparently insurrectionists have gun inside the building. Fuck. Rage.
Quinerly
Protester on the dias of House Chamber. Screaming “Trump won.” MSNBC reporting
germy
p.a
No journos attacked yet? That’s part of their m.o.
The Thin Black Duke
Ain’t it grand, being white?
A Ghost to Most
So, is everyone enjoying the Calvinball? The Unraveling Is Happening.
Good luck, and good job in Georgia.
Baud
DC Metro Police are on coming.
germy
@Spanky:
Cacti
Both sides did not do this.
The right wing is a fascist movement now. In the literal, not pejorative sense.
Kent
Worse than Pinochet. My wife and family lived in Chile under Pinochet. HIs regime had a greater degree of competence and less corruption than the Trump Administration. And they had a lot lower death toll.
And when Pinochet lost the referendum election he went away without fuss.
FelonyGovt
I’m worried for the safety of our folks, including Pelosi and Harris (who is still a Senator).
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: No that’s Trump, now the mob broke the law for him he’s denouncing them. Soon Trump will talk smack about how he never told them to riot.
jackmac
Arrest and prosecute these motherf**kers.
mrmoshpotato
@Benw: Total Victory Landscaping?
NotMax
Not to give any less due to Ed Murrow but all that keeps flashing on the interior marquee that best fits is Harvest of Shame.
Baud
@jackmac:
Trump will probably pardon them.
Captain C
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: “I already have enough criminal charges pending! Please don’t add more!”
Cacti
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: Sounding a lot like a man who knows that criminal charges for inciting a riot will be coming for him in 2 weeks.
dr. bloor
@Cacti:
You meant to type “Republican Party,” of course.
PJ
@Baud: Why would the Metro police be used? There aren’t that many of them, and I don’t think they’re used to this sort of work.
ETA: Never mind, I just realized you were thinking of the regular DC Police, and I was thinking of the Metro (Transit) Police.
Mallard Filmore
I am watching NBC, and just saw the front (???) of the capitol building. The center of the building has a flag in the center, way up high, with the USA flag and just below it is the black flag of anarchy.
Baud
Video of hurt woman beoing taken to ambulance.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Cacti: The story of Trump’s life, isn’t it?
Leto
Via MSNBC they just showed a woman coming out on a stretcher being worked on by paramedics. Maybe shot? Katy Tur saying OMG over and over.
raven
They are wheeling someone out on a gurney and she doesn’t look good.
Patricia Kayden
Yep.
Benw
Very very injured person just taken out of the capital shown on MSNBC. Fuck
dmsilev
@Baud: Do you think he cares what happens to them? They’re failing to preserve his regime after all.
Frankensteinbeck
Congress was evacuated. Does anyone know if that means they’re completely out of the building?
?BillinGlendaleCA
Chuck Todd just called them terrorists. He’s right.
Immanentize
@The Thin Black Duke: It seems to daily be proven to beat the alternatives.
Quinerly
@Leto: Mitt Romney calling it an insurection.
Roger Moore
@PJ:
Because they’re available and nearby. The most important thing right now is to get this insurrection shut down ASAP, and that means grabbing anyone handy who might help.
Leto
@Patricia Kayden: I just can’t. Just. Incoherent rage and I literally have no words for how angry I am.
raven
@Frankensteinbeck: no
Dorothy A. Winsor
@raven: She was covered in blood
Cheryl Rofer
@Frankensteinbeck: Locations will not be given, especially for those in line of succession to the Presidency.
raven
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I saw it
Immanentize
@Kent: Well, Pinochet never went away — Senator for Life and all.
Roger Moore
@Quinerly:
It is. I wonder how furrowed Susan Collins’s brows are at the moment. I guess Trump really learned his lesson, Susan.
Haroldo
@Baud:
I think there’s complicity on the part of the Capitol Police.
NotMax
Look upon your works, McConnell, and tremble.
Cheryl Rofer
Immanentize
@FelonyGovt: Harris is safe in an undisclosed location per Secret Service.
Leto
@Quinerly: stopped clock and all.
We’re a fucking third world banana republic at this point. JFC. Just…
Immanentize
@Baud: This is the one reason I support another impeachment process. It stops pardon powers.
Roger Moore
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
This is not terrorism; it’s insurrection.
debbie
@Mallard Filmore:
Did the Proud Boys follow through and dress up like Antifa like they promised? (I don’t have cable.)
Leto
@Cheryl Rofer: Avalune showed me this. Glad he has his full face exposed. Will make it easier to prosecute.
Leto
@Immanentize: it also bars him from holding Federal office again.
Cheryl Rofer
C Span is covering it.
raven
NYT has pictures of men with drawn sidearms aiming at broken windows inside the chamber.
catclub
porque no los dos?
debbie
@Cheryl Rofer:
Jesus.
Geminid
@PJ: It think “metro” meant D.C. cops, not subway police. There are lot of DC cops out already, many with riot gear, but they customarily don’t operate on the Capitol grounds. Even when the Capitol invasion is resolved, there will be street fighting tonight.
Frank Wilhoit
@Gin & Tonic: You’re about twenty-eight years late with that brilliant insight, Sherlock.
debbie
Shouldn’t the National Guard have arrived by now?
Cheryl Rofer
I haven’t listened to this yet. NM01 Rep, future Secretary of the Interior.
Immanentize
@Leto: Only if he is impeached AND that is the punishment given by the Senate (but just a majority vote, not super majority re: office holding it seems)
NotMax
@Leto
Not necessarily. Only if that stricture is appended to the conviction.
Leto
More video of the insurrectionists breaking windows to get in (via Avalune): https://twitter.com/joshuapotash/status/1346904724600188929?s=21
raven
@debbie: They were denied by DOD according to an earlier post.
Kattails
@Patricia Kayden: Jesus fucking Christ.
Frank Wilhoit
@Mary G: No, Jemele Hill, it all started because white men won the Presidency in 1860 and 1932.
Cheryl Rofer
?BillinGlendaleCA
Once they finish the vote count, the House should impeach Trump.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Cheryl Rofer: she’s remarkably calm
Jesus, where do we go from here
ETA: I never thought the leopards et cetera
Leto
@Immanentize: @NotMax: damn BJ lawyers!!! ;) (ty!)
Gravenstone
@debbie: Not coming. DoD denied the request to mobilize.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@debbie: The Defense Dept denied Pelosi’s and Bowser’s request
Cacti
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Yep. Trump will order the military to stand down.
Subsole
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
SAY WHAT?
Baud
MSNBC saying all elected officials are safe, including Pelosi.
J R in WV
Trump has fomented an insurrection against his own government, for the next 2 weeks, anyway. Pretty sure violent insurrection is still illegal? Also pretty close to treason — making war upon the United States government at this point.
Senators and Congress members fleeing for their lives, injured persons being taken from the capitol, protestors upon the Senate floor~!!~ Should be instant impeachment, 20 minutes in the House, 30 more in the Senate, go get him, boys!!
Carry him out straight to a prison cell to await trial for sedition and insurrection. Just because he wasn’t out in front of the crowd doesn’t mean he didn’t foment this violent attack on our way of government and way of life. If anyone is killed, that’s murder on the man who fomented, We already know there was a serious injury, video on the internet.
This may be worse long term than the Trump Plague!!! More damage to our way of life.
PJ
@Geminid: Yeah, I figured it out. DC Police don’t have jurisdiction on Capitol or Park grounds but I think some exceptions might be made today.
Kent
He was arrested and indicted and was living under house arrest when he died in 2006 while the court cases and arguments about immunity were still being fought out
A clear and compelling case can be made that Trump is worse than Pinochet.
waratah
My sister in Australia just messaged me that she woke up to see what was happening in the capital and she said they were not even wearing masks!
The B****s.
raven
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: That’s what my teacher, Mr Hollister said when word came down about JFK.
Cheryl Rofer
Leopards, faces…
Steeplejack
I’m watching MSNBC, and the coverage is the usual breaking-news muddle. But what is happening is stunning.
I’m almost afraid to ask: how is Fox News covering this?
Leto
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I really don’t understand what I spent 22 years of my life protecting/defending. It sure as fuck wasn’t this. JFC.
Per MSNBC, per other reporting, the woman taken out on the stretcher was shot.
Immanentize
Today was not a good day to throw out my heroin and works.
Spanky
MD and VA have riot police. I would think the three jurisdictions have an agreement. Otherwise, the citizenry may take matters into their own hands.
different-church-lady
NPR reporting someone shot in the building. No details. Fun, huh?
Baud
@Spanky:
The last thing is what I’m concerned about if they don’t get things under control soon.
dmsilev
@Cheryl Rofer: Fuck him. Hell, throw him to the mob that he helped incite.
debbie
@raven:
Thanks. Did it look like the Capitol police let them in or were they overwhelmed?
Leto
@Cheryl Rofer: apparently Fox is saying this insurrection is a great thing for protestors and they’re all super proud of it; burn that fucking building down.
Frank Wilhoit
@Steeplejack: As the true birth of the nation.
Benw
MSNBC hosts gobsmacked that “this was so easy” and “where are the national guard”, and not ONE of them can utter the words “white supremacy”
Cacti
@Cheryl Rofer: Dems need to make sure that whatever happened today gets tied around the neck of every living Republican politician for the rest of their miserable lives.
Leto
@Steeplejack: apparently they’re celebrating this. Appalling doesn’t even fucking cover this.
Baud
Guy on MSNBC says joint operations underway to retake the Capitol inside.
Cheryl Rofer
Mary G
@Leto:
Rob
Pretty f-ing terrifying from just over the border in Takoma Park/Silver Spring Maryland. We don’t have a tv so we are following it on Twitter.
raven
@debbie: There is video of proud boys breaking windows with a shield and then climbing in the window.
https://twitter.com/joshuapotash/status/1346904724600188929?s=21
debbie
@Cheryl Rofer:
How convenient.
Leto
@different-church-lady: MSNBC showed her being wheeled out via stretcher. Talking heads were caught off guard by the video. I recognized the look on her face.
Edit: @Mary G: links to it
Villago Delenda Est
These people are terrorists and insurrectionists. Go Whiskey Rebellion on them.
raven
@Mary G: She appeared to be bleeding from the mouth.
Spanky
@Baud: Sunset is coming.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
more from the Leopard Eating Faces Party
Checked Hawley. He’s not tweeting
eponymous
They need to quit calling them “protesters”. They are terrorists.
Gravenstone
@Cheryl Rofer: As I suggested upthread, wonder how many of the Sedition Caucus will be interested in continuing their charade today after getting a load of what their Frankenstein’s monster is capable of?
raven
@Leto: yup
Villago Delenda Est
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Nazi beeyotch should STFU.
Mary G
@Steeplejack: I clicked on it for one second, and Dana Perino was saying that the protesters were promised the election would be overturned today, and they don’t understand why that’s not happening, so their passion overcame them. I wanted to go to the airport, get on a plane, break into their studio, and slap her upside the head. But I couldn’t, so I tweeted at her in all caps.
Wyatt Salamanca
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Kevin McCarthy is a spineless, gutless, bed wetting enabler of Trump. He can go fuck himself.
sdhays
@Spanky: I know that Dump’s trip to the church across from the White House caused Arlington, VA to rescind their agreement. But I expect that Mayor Bowser is calling everyone she needs to.
raven
@Gravenstone: It’s their team.
Rob
@Cheryl Rofer: Thanks for this tweet. I am actually relieved to hear this. I just wonder if Mayor Bowser can appeal to the Virginia and Maryland governors for their National Guard units?
Leto
@raven: she was. She also had the distant look that’s not a good sign.
@Villago Delenda Est: yup. It’s beyond time.
Mary G
Also. Ari Fleisher says this is happening because of the Women’s March and the Resistance, so Democrats started it.
Kent
I read somewhere that while they need a 2/3 majority to convict, they only need a simple majority vote to prohibit him from ever holding office again.
Although at this point, letting the fucker run again in 2024 and further destroy the GOP might actually benefit the Dems.
NotMax
@Immanentize
Amazon.
:)
cain
@Patricia Kayden:
Trump synchophants are not allowing any help. They want this coup to happen. Plus Trump is probably not allowing any help.
mrmoshpotato
@Cheryl Rofer:
Yup. Now we just need scum like Gingrich and Limbaugh to denounce this fascist, armed insurrection, and the Universe will go, “Fuck it, I’m done!”
Mary G
catatonia
This kind of thing hasn’t happened since 1812. And, Christ, at least that was a foreign power.
(former?) Sergeant of Arms on MSNBC now: “This is a frigging failure.” Goddamn right.
ballerat
@Betty Cracker: Exactly. And that will give the terrorists incentive to break into the chamber and take hostages. Or carry out executions before they are subdued.
There are other conspirators and insurrectionists besides Trump and the Republican Sedition Caucus on the inside that are aiding and abetting them. Someone responsible for Capitol security decided to not prepare for the credible threat that we all knew was coming.
raven
@Leto: That’s what I thought.
sdhays
@eponymous: YES!!!
Semi-related, I read an article about the bombing in Nashville and they mention that the guy blew up a city block and disabled critical communications infrastructure, and blew himself up in the process – but don’t call him a suicide bomber! That would be wrong!
Leto
@Mary G: the Marianas Trench is missing a floor ornament.
dc
DC needs to be a state ASAP. The mayor can’t call out the DC National Guard and per Robert Farley (tweet above), DOD does not want to give permission for the DC National Guard to go in because they would then be under the orders of the waste of DNA in the White House.
taumaturgo
Can you imagine if people of color would have pulled this stunt? We would be seeing bodies’ bags carried out of the House and Senate. In this case, is just entitled white supremacist having some innocent fun. The police are standing back.
Cheryl Rofer
@Gravenstone: I tweeted that very question. Their culpability remains, in any case.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Kent: They would need the 2/3’s to convict before the vote for prohibition on future office.
p.a
Rethug McCarthy on Fox telling people to stand down, MoscowM talked on floor that Biden’s election is legit and that conspiracy theories are b.s. Fuckers. Fuckers. Fuckers. Reaping what they have sowed. Wish we could imoeach them all.
taumaturgo
Domestic terrorists would be more fitting.
raven
@Leto: Do you think they didn’t wand people going into his rally? I haven’t seen any pics of anyone strapped.
Archon
I recognize there have been some dark times in our history but has the American project ever looked less secure then it does today?
sdhays
@Mary G: I was at the Women’s March, and I clearly missed the point where we invaded the US Capitol and turned Congress out on their asses.
Feathers
From DC area, know Metro Transit Police officers. They are fully involved in all hands on deck operations and have operational exercises with the other departments, so they will most certainly be called in.
Another interesting note on the Metro Transit Police. Because Metro is in MD, DC, and Virginia, they are full police officers in every jurisdiction. They have to go through, graduate and pass the exams for all three police academies – DC, MD, and VA. This is part of the reason why local jurisdictions like to have them along. They can take part in pursuits, etc. across jurisdictional lines and turn into a local officer as they do so.
ETA: Also, because there aren’t many of them and they cover a wide area, they know they have to act without backup on the way. So they tend to be more aggressive and have more experience operating alone. Headbusters, if you will.
Ken
Am I the only one who heard the unspoken “at me!” ?
raven
@Archon: Tin soldiers and Nixon calling. . .
cain
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
That son of a bitch – he’s been encouraging this wholet hing as some kind of perfomative act with no consequences other than extracting money from the rubes. Now he can look upon his works – FUCK THAT ASSHOLE.
different-church-lady
@Leto: Was it a distant look that said, “Wow, I really didn’t think this through, did I?”
germy
sdhays
@taumaturgo: Domestic suicide bomber because he committed suicide by triggering a bomb and there’s no indication that he was accidentally caught in the explosion, unless I’ve missed that development.
raven
@different-church-lady: No it was “I am dead”.
randy khan
@PJ:
I bet they can be deputized by the Capitol Police.
LongHairedWeirdo
You know, I knew that Trump and the Republicans would make a hash of things, and I kept wondering *what would tip the balance?* Corruption, obstruction, and *WAY* too many, too deep, ties between his people and Russians, nope. Actual abuse of his office, made plain, a clear demonstration that he does *not* see that the laws are faithfully executed, and complete obstruction, nope. Over 300,000 dead, just to support Trump’s psychopathic campaign strategy, nope.
I confess: getting armed rioters to attack the certification of votes in the joint session was *far* outside of my imagination. But I wonder: how long will they try to prop up Trump, or play the their usual game: violence is only ever the fault of the person who does it, and no Republican deserves any responsibility for incitement; even calling someone a “baby killer” isn’t incitement, which *should* be just a random example, but isn’t.
Kent
Just plain “terrorists”. No need for the “domestic” modifier which makes it sound like they are housewives or something.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@jonas:
Ivanka or Kushner has grabbed his phone, more likely.
burnspbesq
Raffensperger also had to be evacuated from his office. Armed militia surrounding the Georgia Capitol.
Booger
@Ken: That’s some awesome use of the passive voice there, TBH.
mrmoshpotato
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Every single one of these Rethuglican shitbags needs to tell their fascist followers to stop this in person.
Mitch, go tell this trash how wrong all this is! Where’s Susan Collins’ concern?
burnspbesq
The ROE need to be “weapons free, deadly force authorized.”
Leto
@raven: he tormented this. he’s doing exactly what a mob boss would do in, “oh, I didn’t explicitly say to go storm the capital.” Mother. Fucker. And we have, what 14 more days of this fucking shit? Just fucking rage. Rage. I want them all gone from every position. If you’re a republican, that needs to be an instant disqualifier for literally everything in life. JFC
The Thin Black Duke
It’s not what’s happening now that’s scaring the fuck out of me. It’s wondering what’s going to happen after this is over. What happens next is going to dictate the fate of this country.
Roger Moore
@Archon:
1862.
Leto
Per CNN, the woman who was shot is in critical condition.
Miss Bianca
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Fuck you, Kevin. You and the entire GOP
OWN
THIS
SHIT.
JFC, I never thought it would come to this. I am honestly more shocked than I should be right now.
catclub
round about 1862
ETA; curse your quick fingers Roger Moore!
NotMax
@raven
Also MacArthur, ignoring explicit orders, ordering his troops to open fire on the Bonus Army Hooverville protestors, among other examples.
Leto
@The Thin Black Duke: agreed. I’ve voiced that for a while now. I don’t know where we go from here. I don’t know.
taumaturgo
Homegrown, 100% USA, gender neutral.
Archon
@catclub:
You could also talk me into 1864 before Atlanta fell and it looked like Lincoln might lose.
That’s pretty much it though
Kattails
@dmsilev: McCarthy was the one who said, of the Hillary Clinton investigative shit show, “We knew we wouldn’t find anything, but we sure drove her poll numbers down”. Bastard.
raven
@Leto: I guess I expected it.
raven
@NotMax: It’s in my dissertation.
Leto
Per MSNBC, Gov Northam (Virginia Gov) is sending National Guard, and a few other military units, to help. He’s been in contact/coordination with Mayor Bowser/Pelosi/Schumer.
Captain C
@Wyatt Salamanca: The end result of giggling about Trump’s Russian paymasters and then hushing it up, among other things.
Kelly
Wow, I’m off line for an hour and this blows up. I did not but feel I could have expected this. A similar mob busted windows and broke into the Oregon Capitol Building recently. The way these asssholes get around it may be some of the same guys. They’ve been working their way up to this. Men with rifles in the Michigan legislative gallery a while back. Rifles at political rallies for years now.
leeleeFL
@LongHairedWeirdo: I have said several times I thought tRump would burn the place down on his way out, many told me I was over worried. Turns out, being married to an abusive, narcissistic SOB gave me insight into where his head was.
He is probably a little scared now, but he’ll manage to recover. They always do.
Impeach, remove, imprison and possibly do more to EVERY SINGLE SHITHEAD that supported this BASTARD!
I am angry, disgusted and more importantly, frightened! My country is in serious trouble.
Many SOMEBODIES need to pay for this!
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
With all due respect, Congressman(spit), go fuck yourself. You can hang along with Fat Franco.
raven
They need to water cannon these fuckers.
taumaturgo
5…4…3…2…1…. “It was Antifa that infiltrated our peaceful seditious act.”
Leto
@Miss Bianca: they’ve been building up to this since the 1950s. Hate and rage for all of them.
Leto
@raven: water cannons and break out the ADS (Active Denial System) which is the microwave crowd control device. Want to make people move? There you go.
mrmoshpotato
@Mary G:
In an attempted coup, I always look for the opinion of one of George War Criminal Bush’s press secretaries.
Dana, sit down, shut up, and go fuck yourself.
raven
@Leto: You see the ARVN flags in the crowd?
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Fuck you too, Marsha.
Kathleen
NPR is calling them “protesters”.
raven
Tammy Duckworth “We will start back up again”. Fuckers don’t scare her.
Immanentize
@NotMax: I love their 24 hour delivery service.
Meanwhile, my son is staying at a friend’s in Boston tonight. I told him not to hit the streets….
mrmoshpotato
@Mary G: Ari Fleisher can go fuck himself as well.
The Thin Black Duke
@Kathleen: This is why I don’t send them money.
Kent
GOP Congressional leadership needs to fucking rein in all the crazies when they reconvene and gavel in the Electoral College results without objection. Get it done in 15 minutes then adjourn. That is the only possible response if they are at all serious.
burnspbesq
Sen. Duckworth just said on MSNBC that National Guard is being deployed. That’s inconsistent with what we’ve been hearing from other sources.
raven
@burnspbesq: Virginia not DC.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Tried calling the local and state Republican party offices. They’re not picking up the phone.
Somebody needs to tell Miss Pittypat G – “Winter is Coming”.
Gravenstone
@raven: Pretty sure at least some of them have come to the belated realization that these fools aren’t really discriminating between Red team and Blue. They seem to want to burn it all down just now. And that seems to scare some of the more self aware one. If only they’d managed that realization before the mobs were mobilized.
Cacti
Donald Trump is a mortal danger to the safety of this country, and its continued existence as a free Republic.
Congress should affirm Electoral Vote by unanimous consent.
dc
@burnspbesq: Up thread, MSNBC is reporting that the Virginia National Guard is coming (with agreement between Virginia Governor and DC mayor).
Captain C
@Kathleen: Yeah, I’d go with “rioters,” myself.
ballerat
@schrodingers_cat: I think you’re thinking what I’m thinking.
raven
@Gravenstone: It’s too soon to tell.
Kent
CNN just reported that Trump has called out the Guard.
Kathleen
@The Thin Black Duke: Only reason I tuned in is because I’m out and about. They’re disgusting.
mrmoshpotato
@Leto:
I see you used the singular there… ?
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Kathleen:
Good ole fucking Totebagger Radio. When a godawful hack like Chuck Effing Todd, he who competes regularly with other godawful media hacks for a Top 10 tumbrel number, can say “terrorist”, well, that’s just Reason #12,387 to never give NPR a dime of money nor listen to them.
Tazj
@ALurkSupreme: So many conservative lawyers and pundits kept calling Liberals hysterical about Trump, kept saying we didn’t know the definition of sedition.Trump’s rhetoric had to to incite violence. I don’t know how they can defend him and his violent followers now.
MisterForkbeard
@Cheryl Rofer: Fuck that guy. He’s been pushing this and egging it on for decades now.
MisterForkbeard
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: “We are a nation of laws! You’re keeping me from disrupting them with your disrupting that I’ve been encouraging!”
Fuck these R congressmen, every one.
Mallard Filmore
@debbie: I have only over-the-air TV. Trying to catch up all the Balloon Juice comments, so only glance at the TV. The camera positions can only show BIG crowds with little definition.
No clue what Proud Boys are doing.
Subsole
@Tazj: Sheeeeeeeeiiiiiit.
Not their fault, bro.
They just work here. Y’know?
Another Scott
@Feathers:
I suspect you’re right. I suspect the response is going to end up being comparable to the all-hands-on-deck response during the Navy Yard massacre (with notable exceptions).
There have to be consequences for those who made this happen and their enablers…
Grr…
Cheers,
Scott.
Kathleen
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: When I tuned back in they were talking about information silos and how we didn’t know how other people were “thinking”. Click.
Subsole
Hey, am I crazy or are some of these people carrying South Vietnam flags? Yellow with red stripes?
Bluegirlfromwyo
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Marsha wanted a Christian nation. Now she’s reaped what she’s sown, just like it says in the Bible.
Mallard Filmore
@different-church-lady: Not having seen the video, my guess is more like from DOA by Bloodrock. “The girl I knew has such a distant stare.”
Soprano2
Someone at work just told me these were BLM protesters!!!!!!! Are you fucking kidding me? I got into an almost-shouting match with a couple of them. They keep saying “We can’t riot but liberal can, huh?”. They don’t see any difference at all.
BaffleGab
Announcement that Trump will address the nation sometime in the next minute. No telling what he’s going to say
Edit: Just what you’d expect.
RandomMonster
WTF WAS THAT VIDEO STATEMENT FROM TRUMP?! “The election was stolen from us. Go home in peace.”
HRA
I twice started to leave a message and twice I deleted it. I have been trying to show friends and family how dangerous it was to vote for Trump almost daily. I am so disgusted. Trump needs to be charged for this danger he set up.
PS Ossoff won.
J R in WV
@Mallard Filmore:
I suspect you are seeing a POW-MIA flag from the Viet-Nam era.
ballerat
@The Thin Black Duke: Apparently they are not arresting these terrorists.
So we’re beginning to see what next is going to look like, I’m afraid.