The Trump Swamp: MAGA Nation.

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Diverse stock image @JoelKrass
14 hours ago
Howard Dean's career ended because he said Yeehaw too loud.

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Trump's deputy national security advisor Matt Pottinger has resigned. trib.al/oPSycJg

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Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1
1 min ago
The AP is reporting a new statement from Bill Barr. He says Trump's conduct as the violent pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol was a "betrayal of his office and supporters" and that "orchestrating a mob to pressure Congress is inexcusable." @MSNBC

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A Facial Recognition Company Says That Viral Washington Times “Antifa” Story Is False
Matt Gaetz had cited the story in Congress as supposed evidence that Antifa was involved in the Capitol assault. But the company says it’s “outright false.”

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/cr ... imes-false

[kramerica.inc]

Graham dismisses fellow republicans with history lesson:

"Not the [example] to pick"

https://news.yahoo.com/lindsey-graham-d ... 00669.html

[holmes435]

from Alabama. This is our government...

Mo Brooks @RepMoBrooks
1h
Please, don’t be like #FakeNewsMedia, don’t rush to judgment on assault on Capitol. Wait for investigation. All may not be (and likely is not) what appears. Evidence growing that fascist ANTIFA orchestrated Capitol attack with clever mob control tactics.

It wasn't the Nazis, err, Trumpists who set fire to the Reichstag, err, the Capitol, it was those darned communists, err, antifa!

[Matnum PI]

[a fan]

from Alabama. This is our government...

Mo Brooks @RepMoBrooks
1h
Please, don’t be like #FakeNewsMedia, don’t rush to judgment on assault on Capitol. Wait for investigation. All may not be (and likely is not) what appears. Evidence growing that fascist ANTIFA orchestrated Capitol attack with clever mob control tactics.

It wasn't the Nazis, err, Trumpists who set fire to the Reichstag, err, the Capitol, it was those darned communists, err, antifa!

Told ya. Republicans will double down. They have no intention of turning in the tin foil.

All you Republicans who thought Trump would waltz in, and waltz out, and your party would be "back to normal"? If you don't feel like an idiot for thinking that yet, it's because you're not thinking it through.

Good luck with your party. The entire world is mocking you.

[Farfromgeneva]

Couldn't you just picture them making out?

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Ken Dilanian@KenDilanianNBC
1 hour ago
Congressman Tim Ryan just told reporters that as many as 60 Capitol Police officers were injured, including 15 hospitalized and one in critical condition. Many were hit in the head with lead pipes, he said.

[CU88]

from Alabama. This is our government...

Mo Brooks @RepMoBrooks
1h
Please, don’t be like #FakeNewsMedia, don’t rush to judgment on assault on Capitol. Wait for investigation. All may not be (and likely is not) what appears. Evidence growing that fascist ANTIFA orchestrated Capitol attack with clever mob control tactics.

It wasn't the Nazis, err, Trumpists who set fire to the Reichstag, err, the Capitol, it was those darned communists, err, antifa!

Told ya. Republicans will double down. They have no intention of turning in the tin foil.

All you Republicans who thought Trump would waltz in, and waltz out, and your party would be "back to normal"? If you don't feel like an idiot for thinking that yet, it's because you're not thinking it through.

Good luck with your party. The entire world is mocking you.

You are correct!

https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watc ... d-protests

At least six Republican state legislators from across the nation participated in events surrounding the attempted insurrection at the United States Capitol on Wednesday.

News reports and social media posts showed at least one of the legislators, West Virginia Del. Derrick Evans (R), was among the violent mob that broke into the Capitol building. Evans, who was only recently sworn into office, posted a video of himself entering the building.

“We’re going in,” he says in the video, in which he is wearing a helmet. He later deleted the post.

Other Republicans who participated in an earlier rally, in which President Trump incited his supporters to violence, said they had not entered the Capitol building. Several condemned the violence wrought by the pro-Trump insurgents, and falsely tried to blame other groups.

“Just a whole heck of a lot of patriots here,” Tennessee state Rep. Terri Lynn Weaver (R) told The Tennessean. “We never experienced any violence.”

Weaver tweeted an image of the unruly mob at the base of the Capitol’s West Front.

Virginia state Sen. Amanda Chase (R) falsely denied that any violence had taken place. Chase, who has called for the institution of martial law in the face of a free and fair election that her party lost, accused Capitol Police officers of murder in the shooting death of a California woman inside the Capitol building in a post on Facebook.

Missouri state Rep. Justin Hill (R) skipped his own swearing in ceremony to attend the rally at the Ellipse. Hill is a former police officer; he marched with protestors to the Capitol, though he told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch he did not enter the building.

Pennsylvania state Sen. Doug Mastriano (R) organized a busload of protestors from Chambersburg, Pa., to Washington for the rally. He was later photographed outside the Capitol building, though he said in a video on Facebook he had not participated in the violent clashes.

“At no point did we enter the Capitol building, at no point did we tread upon the Capitol steps, and at no point did we tread upon police lines,” Mastriano said in comments reported by WHTM, Harrisburg’s ABC affiliate. “Obviously, we’re there together and we don’t want to get caught in any violence, so we left out of there.”

He called the violence committed by Trump supporters at Trump’s behest “repugnant, disgusting and threatening.”

Michigan state Rep. Matt Maddock (R) addressed a group of protestors at the Capitol building. His wife Meshawn, who is running to co-chair the Michigan Republican Party, told the crowd “We never stop fighting.” A prominent Michigan Republican activist, Dennis Lennox, called on Michigan Republicans to reject Meshawn Maddox’s candidacy.

State capitals have been the scenes of menacing and at times violent protests in recent months, first against restrictions put in place during the coronavirus pandemic and then following President-elect Joe Biden’s victory over President Trump. Governors and legislative leaders have been targeted and harassed, events that seemed to presage Wednesday’s violence in Washington, where a noose was erected on the Capitol complex.

The FBI broke up a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) last year. On Wednesday, a group of protestors in Salem burned Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) in effigy, and a group of rioters jumped a fence at Washington’s governor’s mansion in Olympia. Gov. Jay Inslee (D) was moved to a secure location.

None of the legislators responded immediately to requests for comment about the violent riots inspired by President Trump, or whether they had any evidence of voter fraud that has not been thoroughly debunked.

[CU88]

I’m starting to think he’s not gonna show us his tax returns.

[Brooklyn]

Couldn't you just picture them making out?

[Brooklyn]

this is where the Swamp members belong:

[dislaxxic]

'Patriot Party' Trump supporter groups grow rapidly on Facebook

It's where the Republican Party is headed today...there are obviously already many Patriot Party members sitting in the Senate listening to the Trial of Don the Con and calling it "a waste of time"...

"As Ye Sow, So Shall Ye Reap"

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[dislaxxic]

It really seems like the dimbulbs on the ReTrumplican side of the aisle in the Senate are PETRIFIED of T**** forming a Patriot Party, which would totally fracture the GOP into little shards of partisan bickering, with the more far-right wingnuts clearly ascendant.

Question is, will he go forward and form the Patriot Party one way or the other? Acquittal or no acquittal?

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[Farfromgeneva]

Suddenly you’ll hear some folks around here going “you know, this type of democracy sucks we should have a parliamentary system like those cool Europeans”.

[dislaxxic]

Trump attacks McConnell in fiery statement

The Patriot Party takes another baby step forward...?

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[youthathletics]

Trump is an opportunist. He has the democrats right where he wants them. He holds the keys to everything they want....power. All he as to do is start a 3rd party and the left wins for a very long time, he can break the back of republicans in the process. Will he do this...IMO, no, he wants to be relevant and not go down as the man tore a party to shreds.

He actually can be beneficial to both sides...they equally do not like him and they equally do not like the extremes of their own party. If they play their cards rights, he could actually become a unifying agent for each side. But first, the dust needs to settle.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.....I certainly hope he does not eff this up, too.

[njbill]

Trump attacks McConnell in fiery statement

The Patriot Party takes another baby step forward...?

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T**** doesn’t realize he is finished. Sad.