Thread by @gauravsabnis

Burn this image in your brain. We will keep seeing this for the rest of our lives.

https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1346906369232920576

This is the party that justifies cops killing people selling loose cigarettes and passing dodgy $20 bills. The seat of the US govt is being attacked by white nationalists and I don't see any cops around. This is the Republican Party attacking the US government.

"Protesters have now taken over the floor of the Senate"

Is american media speak for "White supremacist terrorists have taken over the floor of the Senate".

Terrorists chilling on the Senate floor taking selfies etc.

This is starting to remind me a little bit of Pakistani terrorists strolling around the Taj Hotel in 2008.

Video from a friend in Arlington VA across from the Potomac of a Virginia state troopers cavalcade driving on I-66E and then they took the Pentagon exit.

Also another parallel that came to mind.

https://twitter.com/kaaashif/status/1346914819803381766?s=19

This is basically their point. They could never invade DC during the civil war and now Virginia is reliably blue and Georgia flipped. The 2 big Civil War locations in the South. It's the Confederacy Rump.

https://twitter.com/igorbobic/status/1346902299466203145?s=19

Lots of history being made today.

With Virginia reliably blue, at least this is an option for the good guys. Imagine if it were run by a @tedcruz type.

https://twitter.com/GovernorVA/status/1346916716614451207?s=19

If you think the #SeditionCaucus is rethinking raising the objections for the other states because of this shameful display, you underestimate how little @tedcruz @HawleyMO etc care about the country. They'll drag this out as much as they can. Pointlessly. Causing violence.

Law enforcement getting control back. I hope each and every one of these terrorists is being IDed and will be prosecuted.

It's early january so it's about to get dark in DC. It is literally going to be a long night.
Also how interesting that a source close to the White House has such details from the terrorists.

https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1346927966144655362?s=19

Remember that even fictional Capitol lockdowns in The West Wing or Veep were not this ridiculous.

Large scale tear gassing has just started after the terrorists kept banging flash grenades on the inauguration stage. Large scale tear gassing at the US Capitol. After hours of being invaded.

Wow, latest in what I often think of as Indianization of USA by Trump. There is a communication blackout at Capitol hill. No messaging no social media nothing. India style. The seat of the most powerful government in the world is in communications blackout cos of its president.

Has there ever been an instance of so many thousand people committing easily provable federal crime at the same time? Civil War maybe. But since? Trespassing on the Capitol is a federal crime. I'm guessing Trump will issue a blanket pardon for them all.

Merrick Garland is not getting any sleep for years, is he?

The woman who was shot at the Capitol today has died, reports NBC News. The #SeditionCaucus now literally has blood on their hands.

It is now 6 PM and Washington DC is under curfew. The capital city of the United States is under curfew because the losing candidate in a 306-232 election refuses to accept defeat. Imagine if this had been a close election. This is what all your wokephobia gets us.

House Sergeant at Arms says the Capitol Building is secure (that I'm even tweeting this in USA is so bizarre). So the counting should resume soon. What will the #SeditionCaucus do now, @tedcruz @HawleyMO?

Both houses of Congress will reconvene in an hour or so.

Fox News is indistinguishable from CNN and MSNBC right now in their horror at what is happening. But don't forget their complicity in this. They're just the last rats deserting a sinking tub.

I watched that Trump speech. He told the people to march to the Capitol and said he would join them too. Open and shut.

Loeffler not objecting pretty much ensures that there will be no further objections from any senators tonight. She's as extreme and Trumpy as they get.

Turns out the real Blue Wall is the blue states thankfully surrounding our nation's capital. Never let them convince you that flyover country is real America. We are. Here. Tho dragged down by these damn confederates. Try moving the Capitol to St Louis.

https://twitter.com/JenGriffinFNC/status/1347030932151300101?s=19

These fuckers have kept me up this late so of course I had to record and post the moment Biden officially clinched the Presidency. Vermont put him over the top. 😁😁