Trump is vowing to never concede the election he lost.
Trump is promising to lay out the evidence today that he won “by a landslide.” These deadlines of providing irrefutable proof (remember The Kraken?) keep coming and going.
Trump is again putting public pressure on VP Mike Pence to attempt to override the election results certified by the states. “If Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election.”
Pence has reportedly told Trump he can’t do this (he can’t) but Trump tweeted that they agree.
I don’t know where we go, psychologically, for Trump’s die-hard supporters. He keeps saying “We will not let them silence your voices. We’re not going to let it happen.”
But Congress is going to count the electoral college votes today and Biden will be sworn in in two weeks
Trump is telling his supporters that Biden taking office would not just be fraudulent, but apocalyptic.
“Our country will be destroyed and we’re not going to stand for that.”
If you believe him, what would you be willing to do to try to stop it?
Trump’s one bit of actual power at this point is to rally his supporters against Republicans who don’t fall in line.
And boy is he leaning into that: “We have to primary the hell out of the ones that don’t fight.”
Trump calls on his supporters to demand Congress count the electoral college votes in a way that would elect him president. But he does say they need to “peacefully and patriotically” make their voices heard.
Trump with an actually pretty good lampooning of GOP Senate leadership. “‘We don’t want to give people $2,000 we want to give them $600.’ Oh great, how does that play politically?”
Trump seems to be coming around to the idea that Pence will not actually intervene to try to swing the election: “I’m going to be very disappointed in you, I’ll tell you right now. I’m not hearing good stories.”
Trump on Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp: “Vote him the hell out of office please.”
Trump’s irrefutable proof of voter fraud seems to be listing off a string of claims that have been widely debunked.
Trump seems not to be aware that Mike Pence has already declared he will not go along with the scheme to overturn the election results. “I hope Mike does what he has to do. And I hope he doesn’t listen to the RINOs and the supid people,” Trump tells the crowd.
Trump with a throwback line to “the caravans” coming back in. Remember during the 2018 midterms when we were told a caravan of central americans was going to invade America?
Trump seems to be winding down.
“If you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore,” Trump tells the crowd. “The best is yet to come.”
Meanwhile, Congress has begun counting the electoral college votes to affirm Biden as the winner of the election.
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I don't have the signal to tweet photos but the scene outside the Capitol is pretty wild. They've broken down fences to get up to the outside doors of the Capitol. To be clear, most people are standing around chanting or taking photos.
I've never seen anything like this. Protestors crawling all over the Capitol steps, massive crowds outside chanting. "This is our house, let's take it back!" A guy next to me yells.
Smoke bombs of some sort deployed on the west side of the Capitol to clear people out
Some movies I had never seen before that I liked/loved: The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974), Shazam (2019), The Swimmer (1968), Under the Silver Lake (2018), I See You (2019), Sorry To Bother You (2018), Leave No Trace (2018), The Howling (1981), Contagion (2011)...
Sleuth (1972), Shin Godzilla (2016), Blow The Man Down (2019), Sneakers (1992), Bloodsport (1988), High And Low (1963), The Barbarian Invasions (2003), Sudden Death (1995), Prospect (2018), Tokyo Drifter (1966), The Trip To Greece (2000), The Addams Family Values (1993)...
Mitch Mcconnell is giving a depressing speech on the floor of the Senate right now. Democrats cut their demands in half yesterday, but Mcconnell is giving a political speech blaming the other side for everything, not showing any signs he will move his demands as well.
Mcconnell is calling for Democrats to pass the things Republicans want, and then keep debating all the things Republicans don't want for another day. No one knows more than him that this this is not how Congress works.
For months now Congress has been deadlocked as Democrats pushed their $2.2 trillion relief bill and Republicans pushed their ~$500 billion plan. Yesterday was the biggest breakthrough since March, as D leaders agreed to support a smaller $908B framework. buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/paulmc…
I’ll be tweeting out updates from the Supreme Court Obamacare hearings, which start at 10am. Republican states and the Trump White House are suing to have the Affordable Care Act tossed out as unconstitutional.
It’s a weird case. Brief recap is red states are arguing Congress accidentally made the individual mandate penalty unconstitutional when they cut it to $0.
Congress can’t force people to buy health insurance, but the Supreme Court ruled it can tax people who don’t buy insurance
Republicans are arguing that setting the mandate at $0 makes it no longer a tax, which makes it unconstitutional.
On its own this is just an abstract question, since the mandate was repealed.
But red states then argue if the mandate is unconstitutional the whole ACA is.
I'm starting an obnoxious thread on movies I watched during social isolation. First up:
BLOW THE MAN DOWN (2019) - Fargo meets Maine, complete with sea shanties. A matriarchal small-town murder thriller and indie gem. Check it out.
SNEAKERS (1992) - Why does this movie have such a good cast? I mean it's fine. I enjoyed it enough and have a soft spot for 90s movies doing tech. But why are Robert Redford and Sidney Poitier and Dan Aykroyd and River Phoenix and Ben Kingsley and David Strathairn all in this?
COLOR OUT OF SPACE (2019) - Probably the worst way to watch this is to go in thinking/hoping you're about to see another Mandy, which is what I did. It's not Mandy. But it is an HP Lovecraft horror movie staring Nic Cage involving a new alien color that is just purple so why not?