This video is remarkable.
T r e a s o n: The Trump crime family watched & supervised the violence on the Capitol from their own "Situation Room." These chinless wonders of grifters are so pleased, Jr filmed it in real time, encouraging the violence, all overseen by daddy crime lord emperor conman DJTrump pic.twitter.com/g1A9TeGsgx
— Samira Edi?ImpeachTrumpAgain (@edi_samira) January 7, 2021
(I’ll be back in the not-too-distant with more fundraising. I decided not to push too hard for money for Ossoff and Warnock since they were both swimming in it and after a certain point, it makes no difference. WaterGirl and I are looking at organizations around the country focused on ballot access and registration. I think we’ve found some to raise lots for this year.)
Cacti
Fatboy, Uday, and Qusay should all be charged with seditious conspiracy.
Phylllis
Not gettin’ out of the boat.
bluehill
F@#$ them. Revoke their citizenship.
Dee-Lurker
What’s the name of your act?
“The Aristocrats”
Major Major Major Major
Not getting out of the boat, lol. Mad enough about stupidity at work…
Elizabelle
Where is Jared these days? (Have not watched your video yet, but will.)
PS: thank you for all the superb fundraising you did.
Gretchen
Ivanka was there looking uncomfortable. Mark Meadows was thumbs up. He was on the call to Georgia. There should be plenty of evidence to put him away.
jnfr
Jared has been in the Middle East, doing his bit for world peace. I heard he’s on his way back now.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Mr DAW just read me a thing that says Pelosi is reconvening the House because Articles of Impeachment are circulating.
MisterForkbeard
@Major Major Major Major: Right there with you. Refusing to watch this.
Not going to be any better to watch when things calm down, though >_<
Hungry Joe
If McConnell has adjourned the Senate until Jan. 19, doesn’t that effectively make Trump’s removal through impeachment impossible? The House can still impeach him, but there’ll be no Senate to hold a trial.
Martin
@jnfr: Someone must have gotten their pardon.
Pretty sure this video is from before the crowd moved to the Capitol.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Elizabelle: at a guess: Huddling with Ivanka and whichever of Marco Rubio’s campaign advisers they’ve hired trying to figure out how to play this with an eye on her Senate run (Rick Wilson says she’s talking to, which I assume means paying, FL Republicans)
Elizabelle
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Nancy Pelosi scheduled to speak in a few minutes, per MSNBC. Like 15 or 20 from now.
debbie
And that motherfucking bitch is doing her motherfucking dance to the stupid music. ?
KenK
The Guifoyle dance was a nice touch.
Amir Khalid
It is the 21st year of the 21st century. Even Laura Branigan doesn’t listen to Laura Branigan songs anymore.
debbie
@Phylllis:
I felt it was my duty to witness this, like I witnessed yesterday’s atrocity.
Haroldo
I presume this is real. Impeachment, arrest, prison are too good for these swine.
Truly fiddling while DC burns.
trollhattan
Jesus, that video. “Kimberly, dance!”
Did I spot the cocaine bowl on a table in the back?
Dorothy A. Winsor
@KenK: I threw up in my mouth at that.
The whole video is disgusting. They have no idea what the look like to the rest of the world
L85NJGT
Cocaine is a hell of a drug.
cain
@Amir Khalid:
She’s too busy living amongst the creatures of the night.
Also, I think billy lost our number. But that’s okay, he’s not anywhere we can’t find him.
trollhattan
@Elizabelle:
Fixing the Middle East? Jared never sleeps; Jared has too much to do for that.
cope
Just for clarity, it appears this video is from before the president* invoked his freezing masses to warm themselves by storming the castle. I’m guessing they are in the “greenroom” tent waiting for trump to waddle out and do his thing. And is Laura Branigan a trumpanista or should she get in on the class action lawsuit of artists suing for unlawful use of their music?
Served
The out of control coke jaw is a nice touch
japa21
I don’t think that was during the invasion. I think this was taken before Trump spoke at the rally.
JCJ
@Amir Khalid:
Even Laura Branigan doesn’t listen to Laura Branigan songs anymore.
Excellent
Old School
This seems like it is video of the crowd at Trump’s rally yesterday and not video of that crowd attacking the Capitol building.
Minstrel Michael
If it were up to me, by the powers vested in me as yet another blog comment author, yesterdays’ events would be memed as “FORT SUMTER 2.0.”
Or, as Jim Morrison once said, the future is uncertain and the end is always near.
Mag
Isn’t this video from before Trump’s incitement speech in the so-called “green room” tent?
Amir Khalid
@debbie:
The song is Gloria by Laura Branigan.
PaulWartenberg
I hope they fcking saved that video for the trials.
Kenneth Fair
@Amir Khalid: Especially not since Branigan died in 2004 from a brain aneurysm.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Amir Khalid:
Okay I watched with the sound off cause I was promised uncomfortable Ivanka, now do I have to listen? I’m already gonna have that ear worm all damn day.
I wonder if Laura Brannigan saw this and the Terri Nunn video and though, “Shit, I woulda done that gig”
cain
@PaulWartenberg:
It’s not really a damning video since it was not done during the incitement riots. Much as I want this family in chains, this isn’t a part of the evidence.
Haroldo
@Old School:
There seems to be smoke around what seems to be the Capitol Building on at least one of the screens. Daddy Trump is there ‘celebrating.’
Heywood J.
Forget the guillotine, let’s bring back the gibbet. Junior will no doubt OD before he ever gets to trial, but one way or the other.
cain
@trollhattan:
She’s soon gonna have to dance the Safety Dance.
Elizabelle
@JCJ: Among other reasons, because Laura Branigan RIP since 2004.
JPL
@Old School: In the comments it said it was before the violence started , but are we to presume that they turned off the feed when the violence started? Maybe they turned it off when Rudy talked about combat, or even when trump talked about going to the capitol. They set up the tent so they could watch all day.
CaseyL
Hey, I happen to like Branigan’s “Gloria”! It’s one of my favorite songs to exercise to.
Well, it was one of my faves for exercising. I don’t exercise anymore.
Yes, I know I should.
cope
@Kenneth Fair: Thanks for informing me about that, it never occurred to me that she might not still be around or I would have done a quick search.
Elizabelle
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: No. Safely in her grave for years now, alas.
Amir Khalid
@Kenneth Fair:
I did not know that. I meant her no disrespect.
Mike in NC
Remember that time when a fleet of jumbo pickup trucks flying Trump banners and Confederate flags tried to push a Biden-Harris bus off a highway in Texas? Junior gave them that idea. As rotten a bag of shit as the old man.
Haroldo
@Haroldo:
I was wrong – taken earlier that day. Infuriating as can be, though.
Leto
I don’t give a shit if that video was before or after the Reichwing Rush on on the Capitol. These fucking people are an existential crisis to our Republic. That’s the fucks in the tent, that’s every Reichwing member sitting in the Senate/House/Governorship/State and Local positions… everywhere. It’s beyond time for Sherman 2.0. We can put Gen Stacy Abrams in charge and we sure as fuck know it’ll get done.
Old School
@JPL: I doubt Trump stuck around after the rally was done.
L85NJGT
Does Don Jr. have a residence, or is he just crashing on a couch at the White House?
JCJ
@Elizabelle:
Oh dear. I did not know that. I was just amused by the comment.
patrick II
@Hungry Joe:
I believe he could call an emergency session if he wanted to — but he won’t. So, not theoretically impossible to impeach, but practically impossible, yes. Also, if Georgia certifies next week Warnock and Ossoff could be seated and change the majority leader if the Senate is in session, so even less of a chance he will call them back before the 19th.
Leto
@Old School: he was promised hamberders and fried chicken after the rally so he was out.
Hoodie
What’s particularly disgusting about this is that these assholes are yukking it up in a party tent on a day when 3500 Americans died of Covid-19. They’re the Manson Family in designer clothing.
opiejeanne
@Martin: It is. They’re backstage before the rally. Donny jr is babbling, calling them patriots and telling the camera that they should fight. He also calls Mark Meadows a real fighter. He points out his girlfriend and she reacts by swaying to the music blasting in the background, “Gloria” by Laura Branigan.
Haroldo
@Leto:
Agreed. This, weirdly, has angered me more than anything I’ve seen. The glee on their fucking, traitorous faces. The bunker. It’s maddening.
Elizabelle
@JCJ: I just remembered it because Laura Branigan was so young (52). Had not known it was a brain aneurysm.
On that topic: keep recovering, Dr. Dre.
Martin
@L85NJGT: If you do enough coke, you don’t need to worry about sleep.
Hoodie
@Mike in NC: I was listening to an interview with Mandy Patinkin the other day and he said one of his favorite phrases is “hurt people hurt people.” Not that it absolves them of anything, but you can just imagine the child abuse that was visited on the Trump children to make them into such monsters.
Princess
Don Jr slurring his treacherous words over the sound of Laura Branigan singing, “I think you’re heading for a break down…” is saving my morning.
opiejeanne
@Old School: He went straight home, after telling the crowd that he would be marching right beside them.
stories I’ve heard, he really enjoyed watching the video of the storming of the Capitol.
kindness
Thank you. Yea at the end I was giving my money to Stacy Abrams group
Not to be too disrespectful but I have no doubt Trump was pleasuring himself while he was watching video of the morons storming the Capitol.
artem1s
@Elizabelle:
CSPAN has it listed as her regular weekly presser. So may not be related to any rumors about impeachment or 25th.
Leto
@Haroldo: the fact that the fucking Sedition Caucus won’t do a fucking thing, even as their own fucking lives are in danger, is just… cherry on top. And after the Herculean efforts of Stacy Abrams, and all of those groups, to flip GA, that the fucking Sedition Caucus there is going to basically change the rules to make it harder to vote absentina because “we won’t let this happen again”… I just don’t see a way forward that doesn’t include a full blown civil war and I don’t say that lightly, and I sure as fuck don’t want that because it’ll be beyond any horror most of us have seen, but I just don’t see a peaceful way forward.
I try to keep a positive perspective because POC/marginalized people have been at this since 1609 and they keep moving forward. I try to keep ahold of that.
Aleta
Looting: The party of looters elected and protected a family of looters that begat an invasion of armed looters. One stole a framed photo of the Dalai Lama from a wall in the Capital building.
Spanky
@Aleta:
“Hey! Look! A picture of Phil Silvers!”
opiejeanne
@Aleta: Stealing a photo of the Dalai Lama. Despicable. Deplorable isn’t a strong enough word.
The tribute poster of John Lewis in Steny Hoyer’s office was also taken.
debbie
@Amir Khalid:
Apologies. Not my genre. (She does sound a lot like my memory of Donna Summer.)
Haroldo
@Leto:
Civil war is the cul-de-sac I keep finding myself in lately. Scary and saddening.
Nicole
@CaseyL: I like “Gloria,” too. I made the mistake of attempting it at karaoke one New Year’s Eve. I discovered it was higher than my drunk brain had initially thought. Oh, Laura Branigan, you made it sound so easy.
The Moar You Know
I’m just amazed that nobody in the media has even hinted at the white, flaky, probably Peruvian elephant in the room that Don Junior and his rented skank seem to enjoy a little too much and too often.
PST
I was in danger of spontaneously combusting when I saw that video. For safety sake it should be watch in the shower.
Nicole
@Hoodie:
For sure. I have a lot of rage about the fact that powerful people never face consequences for the things they do, but I find focusing on how miserable they must be, every day of their lives, due to their shitty parents who didn’t like them, offers me some sense of karmic justice. These are desperately unhappy people and they will be until they draw their final breaths. And I can simultaneously feel terrible for the opportunity wasted when they were young for them to be decent human beings, and take pleasure in knowing they’re miserable due to their own demons.
It’s why Hillary Clinton recovered with less bitterness from 2016 than a lot us (thinking of myself) did. That’s a woman whose parents loved her and she knows they loved her. I think growing up secure in their parents’ affection is the best armor kids can get for facing the real world. It won’t fix everything, but it certainly beats growing up afraid that the people who brought you into the world don’t like you.
Ruckus
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Actually I believe that they think they look grand to the rest of the world. Money and power are major drugs, and these addicts are surrounded with at least the concept of both. That they throw both that money and power around are part of the proof that they are actually quite stupid. Compare to say, Dick Cheney. At least as evil, quite possibly far more, he was more powerful, as destructive, but not high as a kite in a 20 mph wind as the devil’s children are. And they are because they know no better. Of course the end result is the same, it’s just that shit wasn’t flying randomly in every direction with Cheney. The chaos was controlled, but the political concepts of both are the same.
mrmoshpotato
I look forward to Jr crying in a prison cell.
Ruckus
@The Moar You Know:
Seems more regular than actually breathing to me, as someone who once had neighbors who
seeminglyhad a lot of contact with Peruvian substances.Of course I could take your comment as being a bit tongue in cheek.
J R in WV
If the video is from before the violent capitol takeover, then it is admissible evidence of incitement to riot prior to the actual riots. So valuable evidence no matter when it was recorded.
I think all the minions should be indicted and arrested right now, we can wait for Donald Sr until later on Jan 20th. He can be all alone without his family members and junior assistants until then. Might make reality sink in to the slimy basturd.
Gravenstone
@Amir Khalid: Well, her being dead and all kind of precludes that…
opiejeanne
@J R in WV: There is video of the incitement during the rally by Giuliani and Trump.
Avalie
As far as fundraising goes, I’d like to suggest VoteRiders. I’ve volunteered with them and they do a lot of good work around voter ID and voter registration.
retiredeng
Trump is a coward and a sadistic prick. The diversion had the very best TV ratings ’cause who didn’t watch? My sister in law called to ask if we were watching the spectacle. I don’t watch TV except for The Late Show, etc. Last night Colbert was livid! I got all I could stand with clips on there.
DocNC
That video shows the Trump version of NFL Red Zone.
Super Dave
Jesus… these really are the mole people.
RR Mikey
@Martin: It is – in fact it looks like before he gave his speech. I hate him; I hate all of them, but this has been mis-reported in other places as the command center during the assault on the Capitol. That’s an assumption, not fact. Something Fox News and the “news” sources further down the ladder do all the time. Take it for what it is and leave it there.
To be Frank
@Dee-Lurker: We’ve updated that joke. it’s now “The Evangelicals”
mazareth
Mostly a lurker. Uncloaking to say that Wisconsin needs help!