What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Tonitrus]

How to get on an FBI watchlist in one post:

Whether it is this, or those random ones that are dragged onto some cable news channel and fawned over as they pass themselves off as some kind of expert(I might concede some legit ones...rarely)...retired colonels are probably among the worst classes of human being. 

[alfred russel]

I would like to hear some Senators say they regret their vote not to convict during impeachment.

Presumably the vote to convict was based on the circumstances in front of them at that time, and not whether he later went on to do something shitty and worthy of removal at a later point.

But it kind of sounds like the House is thinking about trying a super quick impeachment (which I think would be a terrible idea).

[Tamas]

How to get on an FBI watchlist in one post:

Will the police once again be taken by surprise?

[Syt]

Pelosi press conference:

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1347258748604211200

Pelosi begins her news conference by saying, "Yesterday the President of the United States incited an armed insurrection against America."

"I join the Senate Democratic leader in calling on the vice president to remove this president by immediately invoking the 25th amendment. If the vice president and cabinet do not act, the Congress may be prepared to move forward with impeachment." -- Pelosi

"A complete tool of Putin, this president is. Putin's goal was to diminish the view of democracy in the world. That's what he has been about ... the president gave him the biggest, of all of his many gifts to Putin, the biggest yesterday" -- Pelosi

"While there are only 13 days left, any day could be a horror show for America" -- Pelosi

Pelosi says she's calling for the resignation of the chief of the Capitol Police and has been informed that will happen

"Some of the Republicans and their enabling of the president's bad behavior have said 'those were not Trumpites. They were antifa invading the Capitol, disguised as Trumpites.' So we have a problem here with the enabling that's going on with the Republicans" -- Pelosi

Pelosi on Trump: "This man is deadly. To our democracy, and to our people."

"In terms of the inauguration ... I don't trust whatever the president might have in mind, because I think he's a very dangerous man" -- Pelosi

[Syt]

This guy wore his work lanyard during his tour of the Capitol. Oops.

[The Minsky Moment]

ID based on video alone is pretty tough.

Anecdotally there have been a bunch of IDs already.  Never underestimate the ability of thousands of ordinary people with time on their hands and armies of press interns to use google to ID idiots who splash photos of their crimes all over social media.

[Razgovory]

They were fucking hunting the VP.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/politics/trump-pence-riot/index.html

(CNN)President Donald Trump and top White House officials did little to check in on Vice President Mike Pence while he and members of his family were inside the US Capitol when Trump-backed rioters stormed the halls of Congress on Wednesday, a source close to the vice president tells CNN.

Pence was joined by his wife Karen Pence, daughter Charlotte and brother, Rep. Greg Pence, R-Indiana, for the ceremonial counting of the electoral votes in Congress Wednesday. Several of the violent Trump supporters who were rampaging the US Capitol were heard screaming "where's Mike Pence," the source said, frightening the vice president and his family.
Yet, the President and his top aides barely lifted a finger to check in on Pence to make sure he and his family were unharmed, the source added.
"Was he concerned at all that an angry mob that he commanded to march on the Capitol might injure the vice president or his family?" the source asked.

e White House did not respond on the record to a CNN request for comment.
People close to the vice president now believe he is being set up as a "scapegoat" to shoulder the blame inside Trump-world after Pence refused to buckle to the President's demands to engineer a procedural coup that would keep Trump in power.

On Tuesday, Pence came under intense pressure from Trump to toss out the election results during a meeting that lasted hours in the Oval Office. The vice president's chief of staff, Marc Short, was banned by Trump from entering the West Wing, the source said, as the President repeatedly warned with "thinly veiled threats" to Pence that he would suffer major political consequences if he refused to cooperate.
"The message was pretty clear," the source said.
The events Wednesday have left some aides to the vice president feeling Pence was betrayed by Trump as well as White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and the President's personal attorney Rudy Giuliani.
"Rudy, Meadows and their teams have been trying to set up the vice president to take the fall as opposed to admitting they laid out false hope in all of this," the source said.
"Trump just can't admit defeat and wants a scapegoat," the source added.
On Thursday, Charlotte Pence Bond, the vice president's daughter who had been at the US Capitol with him, tweeted her congratulations to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.

[Caliga]

"Was he concerned at all that an angry mob that he commanded to march on the Capitol might injure the vice president or his family?" the source asked.

The answer to that question is always going to be 'no' if the person in question is not Donald J. Trump.

[grumbler]

I would like to hear some Senators say they regret their vote not to convict during impeachment.

Their shame should not be in voting not to convict (that's a matter of conscience) but in their voting to not try the impeachment case, despite having a constitutional duty to do so.

[Solmyr]

Quite a description of what was going on among the rioters.

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/capitol-trump-insurrection-explosions/

"This is not America," a woman said to a small group, her voice shaking. She was crying, hysterical. "They're shooting at us. They're supposed to shoot BLM, but they're shooting the patriots."

White Privilege Karen right there.

[Syt]

[alfred russel]

So less than a week ago I was sitting with a bunch of money on Predictit, and saw that the Senate had a 2% chance to remove trump from office (as one of the props). I figured that was 0%, so I'd collect $15 or whatever and put a max bet that wouldn't happened ($850). Now the odds are up to 14% and I'm way underwater. 

[Josquius]

Underwater?

[Admiral Yi]

Negative expected payout

[The Brain]

I didn't even know Ford Sr. was alive.