We've lived through a highly traumatic experience last few days on Twitter (the assault by on Capitol Hill). We've seen frightful video and pictures, here on Twitter, and on live TV. The incident is over, democracy prevailed
I need to process this for myself
I will do some 'musings' and likely put them in threads, to process what I witnessed - you may feel the same way, you've mostly shared the same views to this attempt at a coup of the US government by a Dictator. I welcome your commentary and will do my utmost to respond
I won't waste my time (and your time) trying to find funny pictures to decorate the thuoghts. For me this is still too raw, I need to just put the words down. I am not yet sure, if they come out in a 'logical sequence' but those who know me know, I will want to be thorough
It is only AFTER I have processed the full big picture, can I start to get into the 'relevance' and possibly the humor of what just transpired - and any analysis looking forward.
With that.. gimme a bit of time, will set up my first thread for us (might take an hour or more)
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The GOP calculation on Trump, Pence and the 25th Amendment.
Trump will HATE it. But suddenly Trump is nearly silent, he can't yell about it on Twitter, FB etc... Even Parler is rapidly reducing his reach...
Pence ABSOLUTELY doesn't want to do 25A
25A Thread 2/
So Pence? HATES the very idea of 25A. Why? Because Pence wants to be Potus one day (it is actually impossible, he is utterly politically toxic) - and if he were to take Trump out, about half of Republican voters will hate his guts forever, making Pence the villain
25A Thread 3/
But Speaker Pelosi (da Boss of DC) has just set a deadline for Pence. Sunday eve or else DEMs will impeach Trump. As we know, Impeaching won't remove Trump, it goes to the Senate for the trial. So far 4 GOP Senators have said they'd convict (last time only Romney)
It seems like there is some relevant news happenin' around social media and smartphones.. I wonder if we could find an author who wrote 12 bestselling books about those topics?
Modern terrorists groups coordinate simultaneous attacks. Their 'walkie-talkie' is their cellphone, typically a smartphone. Coordination of the movement of vast groups has become possible using social media. This was seen from the Arabic Spring revolutions to Hong Kong protests
The vast glorious Second Civil War with the rebirth of the Confederacy has been a crackpot idea for the Y'all Qaeda Proud Boys Vanilla ISIS Domestic Terrorists. They had been organizing on Facebook & in particular... Parler.
Now Trump is off Facebook & Parler is being shut down
This is part 2 in a series of Threads that discuss the Trump attempted Coup of America, the deliberately directed mob riot, Domestic Terrorism violence and death at Capitol Hill on 6 Jan 2021. When an American President attacked his own Congress...
DC Coup What-If Thread 2/
Because this thread BUILDS on my first thread, you should read the first thread, first. Else some things in this second thread will not make proper sense. You will find the first thread here:
Donald Trump, American President, attempted a coup, to seize control of America like a Dictator in a Banana Republic, on 1.6.2021. He failed. I showed you what happened in the first thread. We NEED to examine the INTENT and POTENTIAL in this thread
I am doing my 'first thoughts' review & analysis of the Trump attempt of a Dictatorial Coup of America we just witnessed in DC over the past few days. This is the first in a SERIES of THREADS. This looks at 'what happened'. This sets the stage
DC Coup Analysis Thread 2/
Before Wednesday 1.6.2021 Trump had been PLANNING and organizing that event. Trump knew it was date when Congress certifies Biden's victory to become next President. Trump is dumb enough, gullible enough & delusional enough to think it could be undone
DC Coup Analysis Thread 3/
Trump KNEW he had lost the actual popular vote. He had sent Giuliani to try to overturn several State elections which failed. Trump had come to believe, that on 1.6.2021 Congress COULD overturn the popular vote, and make Trump the President.
So Pence needs to play 'hard to get'. Why? Because Pence thinks he can become POTUS. He wants to run. He thinks that being Veep gives him that chance.
He is politically savvy enough to understand, that he needs ALL Republican support, for there to be any chance
Pence Thread 3/
If Pence removes Trump via the 25th Amendment - the hard core Trump supporters will hate Pence & not support him for POTUS. As he won't appeal to the Democrats, that pretty much kills his chances at POTUS. So he is playing hard-to-get & lets Mnuchin do the work
I am doing my 'first thoughts' review & analysis of the Trump attempt of a Dictatorial Coup of America we just witnessed in DC the past few days. This is the first in a SERIES of THREADS. This looks at 'what happened'. This sets the stage
DC Coup Analysis Thread 2/
Before Wednesday 6.1.2021 Trump had been PLANNING and organizing that event. Trump knew it was date when Congress certifies Biden's victory to become next President. Trump is dumb enough, gullible enough & delusional enough to think it could be undone
DC Coup Analysis Thread 3/
Trump KNEW he had lost the actual popular vote. He had sent Giuliani to try to overturn several State elections which failed. Trump had come to believe, that on 6.1.2021 Congress COULD overturn the popular vote, and make Trump the President.