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7 Jan, 11 tweets, 1 min read
Almost there. Image
Done. Ended with 138 morons who didn't understand which Constitution they swore their oath to.
Joint session about to resume.
And we're rolling. The PA objection failed and it's off to the races. Unless some idiot Senator objects to Wisconsin we should be done quickly.
They haven't certified but Biden now has enough electors to win.
House objected to Wisconsin. No Senator joined. No full objection.
(Gohmert.)
All states finished. Tellers declare Biden and Harris winners. Pence restates the vote. Pence declares Biden and Harris the winners.
Closing prayer. We survived this!!!!
There exists no other opportunity within Constitutional and legal procedures to stop Biden's inauguration.
Joint session dissolved. Done, done, and done.

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Thomas A. Fine 🇺🇸 Profile picture
9 Jan
Who remembers "Stand back and stand by" back in September? Probably most of us, and it has come up a few times in recent discussions.

But I'm curious if there's not a deeper more literal connection: is there a time where he told his supporters to no longer stand by?
So I note that in his January 6th speech there were several uses of the world "stand" that could be construed as signals, directly updating his previous "stand by" order.
This implied threat has gotten a lot of attention for the treat: " And Mike Pence, I hope you're going to STAND UP for the good of our Constitution and for the good of our country." Image
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Thomas A. Fine 🇺🇸 Profile picture
8 Jan
Correct me if I'm wrong. If Congress tries it's one 25th amendment maneuver separate from the executive branch, as the amendment allows, they'd have to pass a law, which would have to go before the President, be vetoed, then pass both houses again by 2/3rd majority.

Yes?
And then, having changed the law, would need to follow the process they just legislated.

That all seems more implausible than impeachment.
Also it'd be nice if they wrote a law that wasn't full of holes for exploitation and abuse by future corrupt members of Congress.

Just impeach.
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Thomas A. Fine 🇺🇸 Profile picture
8 Jan
People keep asking what the plan was if there was a plan.

This is just a guess... but I think they planned on taking all of Congress hostage, and create a pretext for Trump to declare martial law.

That was a legitimately feasible path to successful coup.
And they missed it by mere minutes.
Trump's emergency powers are mind-bogglingly broad. He could have shut everything down indefinitely.
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Thomas A. Fine 🇺🇸 Profile picture
8 Jan
Imagine if this was a Muslim protest that turned into a riot, which masked a highly organized and well-prepared group of terrorists who successfully infiltrated the Capital building with intent to take hostages, while insiders hindered police and national guard deployment.
All you have to do in the previous tweet is change "Muslim" to "Trumpist" and this is exactly what actually happened.

Where is the outrage?
This is in many ways worse than 9/11. Far less dead people and in some ways less dramatic. But 9/11 never put our actual functioning government in danger.

And this being done by domestic terrorists ought to be more scary, not less, than
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Thomas A. Fine 🇺🇸 Profile picture
7 Jan
Let's collect all the evidence that this was a planned and coordinated attack into one place, ok?

For starters, printed shirts with a date don't just grow out of the ground. Image
People acting in a prepared fashion, working together as a team.
D.C. wasn't the only location of an attack on a capital building, at around the same time.

thedailybeast.com/local-maga-mob…
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Thomas A. Fine 🇺🇸 Profile picture
7 Jan
At this point Mike pence should already have assessed if it's even possible for him to put together a 25th amendment removal. And he will have already contacted members of Congress to let them know what's happening either way.
Likewise if there's really going to be an impeachment then the house will have already figured out which draft they're going to use and gotten it into a informal committee ready for committee approval.
In other words the reality of what is about to happen has already been decided, and all we are seeing publicly is posturing.
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