❤️******Day 2 - TRUMP INSURRECTION thread ******🇺🇸

[underpants]

Streaming on PBS
https://www.pbs.org/articles/2021/02/how-to-watch-pbs-newshour-coverage-of-the-second-trump-impeachment/

And CSPAN
https://www.c-span.org/impeachment/

This is an exercise in Democratic governance, please no wagering.

[mucifer]

1. So glad i have the day off today and can watch it. So glad it's on all the networks

I'm gonna get booze and popcorn.

Long day of work yesterday and lots of work tomorrow. Gotta enjoy today!



Thanks for starting the thread!!

[malaise]

2. Raskin up

Let's go! On with the truth

[Mersky]

3. "The evidence will show you that ex-pResident tRump was no innocent bystander."

The evidence will show you that he knew what was coming.

[Tommymac]

4. I love Jaime - but he seems a little off his game so far. Tired? Nerves?

Let's see if he warms up.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

7. He's as outstanding as yesterday - very effective. nt

[Spazito]

11. It will be a long day...

and, instead of making the case in two hours as it was yesterday, it will be 8 hours today and most of tomorrow. I think he is pacing himself accordingly.

[Tommymac]

15. He finished strong.

I think he is just plain exhausted.

[Squinch]

5. Woo hoo!!!!

I hope they bring up the fact that the trump organization gave 3.5 million to the organizers of the Trump Insurrection.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215083803

[Mersky]

6. Showing the video of tRump still claiming that he won by a landslide AFTER the insurrection

Not to console, not to denounce the violence, but to continue stoking the big lie that he won the election.

[Wawannabe]

8. Addressing lingering question from yesterday's vote on constitutionality

Raskin says all WRONG!

These are opinions ideologies etc etc

Not gonna have it! Legally frivolous arguments!

[Mersky]

9. He highlighted tRump's tweet from 6:01 pm, Jan. 6 -- evening after the attack on the Capitol

“These are the things and events that happen when a scared landslide election victory is so unceremoniously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever.”

[Wawannabe]

10. You can't ride with the cops

And root for the robbers!

A quote from SC Justice Scalia!

[Maru Kitteh]

12. stopping by to wave to MuseRider who is watching the

thread from somewhere 'cause she can't watch at home.


Hi there!


Love these threads Underpants. Very helpful to many of us.

[MuseRider]

62. Hi back!

You are so funny. I just came in a bit ago and just sat down to devour my lunch and this thread. We are stuck with horrible below freezing temperatures for the next week or more, like a lot of people but I have horses and goats to care for and it takes a good bit of time and I cannot put it off like I can during the summer. Rehearsal tonight so I must get it all read as quickly as I can but I had to stop because your mention made my whole body warm up, thanks. It is miserable outside but warm and informative in here.

[Maru Kitteh]

63. It's 12 outside here in NW Montana. A veritable heat wave. Stay safe in

that cold. Listen to your body.

[MuseRider]

64. LOL we are at 13 in NE Kansas.

Ahh, I love Montana. Stayed in Kalispell for a while and visited Glacier National Park and then hung around Flathead Lake then down to Lone Pine for some horseback riding, over to Livingstone for some boots and to Bozeman to catch a flight home. LOVED every second there. I have a very good friend who lives in West Yellowstone, I see your weather in photos all the time from their hikes and am happy we do not get the snow like you do but oh how lovely your state is.

It took me several years but I rarely get too cold. I heard that next week were are looking at wind chills as bad as -30+. Not looking forward to that but I got the gear. You take care up there in your beautiful state, one I lust after to see again.

[Baclava]

13. GA prosecutors to open CRIMINAL investigaton of phonecall! Oh Happy Day! Lock him up! lol

[lindysalsagal]

14. More Neguse!

[Mersky]

16. Slide: Black Police Officers Describe The Racist Attacks They Faced As They Protected The Capitol

Black Police Officers Describe The Racist Attacks They Faced As They Protected The Capitol
Two Black officers told BuzzFeed News that their chief and other upper management left them totally unprepared and were nowhere to be found on the day.

Emmanuel Felton
BuzzFeed News Reporter

The first glimpse of the deadly tragedy that was about to unfold came at 9 a.m. on the morning of the insurrection for one Black veteran of the US Capitol Police. But it didn’t come from his superiors — instead the officer had to rely on a screenshot from Instagram sent to him by a friend.

“I found out what they were planning when a friend of mine screenshot me an Instagram story from the Proud Boys saying, ‘We’re breaching the Capitol today, guys. I hope y’all ready.’” The officer, who asked to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation from his superiors, told BuzzFeed News that it was just a sign of the chaos that was to come, which saw officers regularly finding themselves unprepared and then outmanned and overpowered by the mob.

-snip-

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emmanuelfelton/black-capitol-police-racism-mob


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Presented by Raskin towards the end of his section

[mucifer]

17. I'm loving "The Big Lie" Dems are doing great with branding.

I hope tons of people are watching this.

[lindysalsagal]

21. Neguse is pitch perfect. Delivery counts. He's passionate but

Completely purposeful and clear and systematic. Easy to follow. Rhythmically and melodically masterful. The voice of reason. He's another Obama. Obama had slower hands, which I loved.

[crickets]

33. Neguse is doing a great job alternating between laying out the facts

and playing the appropriate clips to go with them. He's hanging trump with his own words. It's powerful and irrefutable.

[Mersky]

18. Outline of Neguse's presentation:

Incitement of Insurrection:
1. The Provocation
2. The Attack
3. The Harm

[Mersky]

19. The Provocation

1. The Big Lie: The election was stolen
2. Stop the Steal
3. Fight Like Hell to Stop the Steal

[kairos12]

20. Quoting Scalia.

You can't ride with the cops and support the criminals.

Yep.

[Mersky]

22. Placeholder for clip of this section.

[Mersky]

23. Showing multiple clips of tRump using, "fight like hell" language

over and over and over at rallies after the election

[Mike 03]

24. "No defeat... No surrender..."

Trump has ruined so many great songs for America. And he probably ruined "No Surrender" now for Bruce Springsteen too, and his fans as well.

[Hortensis]

25. Chyrons:

CNN: IMPEACHMENT MANAGERS PRESENT CASE TO CONVICT TRUMP

MSNBC: IMPEACHMENT MANAGERS PRESENT CASE TO CONVICT TRUMP

Fox: HOUSE IMPEACHMENT MANAGERS MAKE OPENING ARGUMENTS

CSPAN2 chyron: (none)

[lindysalsagal]

26. Neguse is successfully re-assigning blame from rioters to idiot klansman.

Klansman. Not the mob. Klansman, Where it belongs. I'd also like to see what was being texted directly to the mob.

[Mersky]

27. "We're not gonna let them silence your voices." - tRump, Jan 6 rally

Crowd chants back, “Fight for tRump! Fight for tRump!”

[Mersky]

28. Clip of John Kelly saying that tRump knows who he's tweeting to, speaking to

And how on Jan. 7, John Kelly was not surprised that tRump’s words lead to violence.

[lindysalsagal]

29. Loved that.

[Mersky]

34. Same here - republicans acknowledging reality, is, eh, a rarified treat

[mucifer]

32. lots of repubs and indy's respect John Kelly. Great move!

[Wawannabe]

30. Clips of an insurrectionist

Saying djt told them to come to Capitol on January 6


And now talking about djt calling out Pence as a traitor.

[lindysalsagal]

31. Clip of rioters saying 45 sent them, personally.

Brilliant.

[nolabear]

35. Thanks for the thread! I'm getting in a bit late and love the catch-up.

How MANY political events have I shared with all y'all?

[lindysalsagal]

36. Too bad there are no standing ovations in congress!

[Mersky]

37. Gets to me - Neguse saying that his proudest moment in Congress

Was going back into the chambers to certify the vote.

[Wawannabe]

40. ...

[lindysalsagal]

41. I was sobbing on my sofa watching them re-convene

Calmly and purposefully. Speaker Pelosi defiant and unfrightened. I knew we were going to return to being my america. I just sobbed, and watched until 3 am when it was finally settled.

[nolabear]

38. Joaquin Castro! This is going to be brutal.

[Mersky]

39. Yay! Castro!!!

[Wawannabe]

42. Castro just asked

His fellow Senators if they would ever tell their voters that the only way “they the Senator” could lose was if the election was rigged. ???

Boom!

[underpants]

43. It was probably a chair but it sounded like a dog barking

🐶

[Mersky]

44. Geeez, he groomed them for months - tRump was tweeting in May 2020 that the election would be rigged

And over the following months, repeatedly saying it would be a rigged, fraudulent election

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We saw this happening at the time, but is all the more awful in hindsight. We knew he was working them up, but dang.

[global1]

45. Castro Is Speaking To A Number Of Senators That....

aided and abetted Tr**p in his big lie and furthered his plan to maintain his power base.

They were accomplices.

[Wawannabe]

46. "His words, became their actions"

“His words, led to their actions.”

Castro

[Mersky]

47. Clip of tRump telling supporters that the election was fraudulent Nov. 4-6...

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[Lars39]

48. Swalwell up!

[Mersky]

49. After the election he wanted to make his followers angrier and angrier

Tweets from tRump:

Nov. 15: He only won in the eyes of the FAKE NEWS MEDIA. I concede NOTHING! We have a long way to go. This was a RIGGED ELECTION!

Nov. 17: “DEAD PEOPLE VOTED”

Nov. 28: The Wisconsin recount is not about finding mistakes in the count, it is about finding people who have voted illegally, and that case will be brought after the recount is over, on Monday or Tuesday. We have found many illegal votes. Stay tuned!

Dec. 5: Between Governor @DougDucey of Arizona and Governor @BrianKempGA of Georgia, the Democrat Party could not be happier. They fight harder against us than do the Radical Left Dems. If they were with us, we would have already won both Arizona and Georgia...

[Lars39]

50. Fifty million in Stop the Steal ads right up to Jan 5

Damning

[Mersky]

51. Dec 11 - tRump campaign releases new ads entitled

“The Evidence is Overwhelming - FRAUD!” and “STOP THE STEAL”

[nolabear]

52. LOL, "the calvary is coming." Spelling is not their strong suit.

Of course so few things are.

[Mersky]

53. Gah, he tweeted and retweeted the "calvary"

is coming crowd

[Mersky]

54. Jan. 5 tweet: ...are looking at thousands of people pouring into D.C. They won't stand for...

I hope the Democrats, and even more importantly, the weak and ineffective RINO section of the Republican Party, are looking at the thousands of people pouring into D.C. They won’t stand for a landslide election victory to be stolen.

5:12 PM - Jan 5, 2021, @realDonaldTrump

[Mersky]

57. I've seen this tweet before, but to be stepped through the timeline

Hits home just how much he was rousing his followers at the same time he was threatening lawmakers to turnover the election.

[mucifer]

55. "This was never about one speech" so much compelling evidence

[underpants]

56. From earlier- Raskins fire in a theater analogy

Link to tweet

?s=21

[Mersky]

58. Currently in the midst of a 15 min recess

[underpants]

59. Okay. Going to thread #2

[ecstatic]

60. Swalwell did great, with one minor mistake

At one point he said that trump "believed" the election had been stolen from him.

trump didn't believe that, per the many leaks coming out his chaotic White House. He knew he had lost.

He was lying the entire time for money and to save face.

[Kali]

61. next thread

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215084804