Thread by @MikeSacksEsq

The Grim Reaper coming now for Trump

"The voters, the courts, and the states have all spoken. They've all spoken. If we overrule them, it would damage our Republic forever."

McConnell: "The election actually was not unusually close. Just in recent history, 1976, 2000, and 2004 were all closer than this one. The electoral college margin is almost identical to what it was in 2016."

McConnell: "If this election were overturned by mere allegations from the losing side, our democracy would enter a death spiral. We'd never see the whole nation accept an election again. Every four years would be a scramble for power at any cost."

McConnell: "I believe protecting our constitutional order requires respecting the limits of our own power. It would b unfair and wrong to disenfranchise american voters and overrule the courts and the states on this extraordinarily thin basis."

McConnell: "I will not pretend such a vote would be a harmless protest gesture while relying on others to do the right thing. I will vote to respect the peoples decision and defend our system of government as we know it."

Schumer: "You all know that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are going to be sworn in as President and Vice President of the United States on January 20th."

Schumer: "But they are going to object to the counting of the vote anyway and in the process they will embarrass themselves they will embarrass their party and worst of all they will embarrass their country."

Schumer: "This insurrection was fortunately discouraged by the leadership of the majority party. But it was not quelled. It is a very sad comment on our times that merely accepting the results of an election is considered an act of political courage."

Schumer: "Sadder and more dangerous still is the fact that an element of the Republican Party believes their political viability hinges on the endorsement of an attempted coup."

Cruz: something something half the country thinks a fraud happened [N.B. because we ginned up for our own political benefit the idea that it happened] something something let's stand up for integrity of this body [N.B. even though all of my colleagues know I have none.]

Here's the Grim Reaper grim reaping

https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1346892934097072128?s=20

Lankford, an objector: "The constitutional crisis in our country right now is that millions of Americans are being told to sit down and shut up."

No, the constitutional crisis is that your ilk has been knowingly lying to those millions of Americans for your power preservation.