Sarah Burris: Another word for "reinstall" is coup d'etat. There is NO reinstall clause. There's no Lowe's is coming to put your fridge together. Nothing. The former guy wants to believe he can regain power & not be help responsible or forced to testify. @SarahBurris@RawStory
Sarah Burris: The coup is happening in August. Hmmmm. I'm gonna leave town in August. @SarahBurris@RawStory
Sarah Burris: I think one of the most important things Trump can do to remind people of how awful the last four years were is to remind people of how awful the last four years were. @SarahBurris@RawStory
Sarah Burris: Convincing millions of Americans who wanted nothing to do with him that he'll be better now? Good luck with that. @SarahBurris@RawStory
Sarah Burris: Trump thought he was doing a great & wondrous thing, starting his blog, and that lasted for 29 days. @SarahBurris@RawStory
Sarah Burris: Trump is doing rallies in big venues. What will he do when only 100 people show up? It reminds me of a state fair with the contest for the prettiest pig.
I love when there's more media than supporters. @SarahBurris@RawStory
Sarah Burris: It isn't just Josh Hawley, it's every single person in the House, the openly anti-Trump Republicans who worry what Trump will tweet, even though he's off Twitter. I also love that "criming" has become a verb. @SarahBurris@RawStory
Sarah Burris: Dems are notorious for actually doing town halls, even to the detriment of their safety. @SarahBurris@RawStory
Sarah Burris: Trump met with a tech CEO who later organized "patriot caravans" to protest at the Capitol on 1/6.
Rick: Was this quid pro quo? Trump was thanking him?
Sarah: I don't think Trump does quid pro quo--he just takes, takes, takes. @SarahBurris@RawStory
Sarah Burris: I think Pence tried to have it both ways. After the election, he was saying things were fine, they'd worked things out. Then Pence was accused of kowtowing to Trump. Pence is in a no-win situation here. There's nowhere to go. @SarahBurris@RawStory
Sarah Burris: There's already talk of replacing Pence on Trump's 2024 ticket. Pence may just try to get the biggest book deal ever & make a financial deal instead. @SarahBurris@RawStory
Sarah Burris: Trump may put Ivanka on the ticket with him.
Rick: I still say it'll be DeSantis but I can see your point with Ivanka. He can retire & have her take over the empire. @SarahBurris@RawStory
Sarah Burris: Trump lost his Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, his blog, even his Snapchat.
Rick: Awwwww, now I'm going to feel bad for him. Or not. @SarahBurris@RawStory
Sarah Burris: Manchin & Sinema keep saying they support the filibuster, but they don't. If they did, we'd have an actual filibuster. There've been a grand total of 10 filibusters in history, the latest in 2016 abt gun control. GOP is threatening to have one @SarahBurris@RawStory
Rick: Bring back the talking filibuster. I want to hear Republicans millionaires say why they don't want to help out American workers with living wages, why they don't want to pass infrastructure.
Sarah Burris: Repubs want to hide from accountability. @SarahBurris@RawStory
Rick: A law student who issued a satirical paper about the Federalist Society will finally be able to graduate.
Sarah Burris: The fact that the Federalist Society even went after him is funny. @SarahBurris@RawStory
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Sarah Burris: Any time someone uses Facebook to start an insurrection, it's a good time to lose FB privileges. Trump can spend his couple of years in FB prison and think about what he did. @SarahBurris@RawStory
Rick: Trump's blog already went down.
Brett Pransky: I'd read it while eating Trump steak and drinking Trump vodka if those hadn't gone away, too. @BrettPransky
Scott Dworkin: It needs to be more than Trump--it needs to be the demon spawn, the people who encouraged Trump, Fox News... @funder@TheDemCoalition
Scott Dworkin: The House is moving forward with investigations already, with at least two about 1/6. The Speaker offered again for another vote, & she's letting the Repubs walk into their own propeller. @funder@TheDemCoalition
Scott Dworkin: The deal they reached for the commission was embarrassing & pathetic, & I don't like it at all. @funder@TheDemCoalition
Scott Dworkin: The House investigations will move forward. Jan 6th investigation won't be over till at least next year--we haven't found the pipe bomber yet. Hundreds of people are going to prison, & that's no small deal. @funder@TheDemCoalition
Brett Pransky: No one's looking to count any other races. Republicans aren't counting the races they won, only the ones they lost. @BrettPransky
Brett Pransky: What kind of people are listening to the Repubs? The Mayan calendar folks predicting the end of the world, or Lucy moving the goalposts? @BrettPransky
Scott Dworkin: A key point is that it's easier to do this during COVID. The installment part is just grift, to raise funds. There is no route for them whatsoever, no was to reinstall Trump. @funder@TheDemCoalition
David Borer: The Biden admin has been great so far. The way the Pres. weighed in on the Amazon campaign was terrific. And now, our TSA officers will have full bargaining rights. @AFGENational@daborer
David Borer: When TSA was created after 9/11, Repubs didn't want TSA to be unionized. AFGE fought for that in Congress & has fought ever year since then. We were finally able to get an election in 2011; we were allowed limited collective bargaining rights @AFGENational@daborer
David Borer: Pres. Biden has granted full bargaining rights now for TSA workers. This was a huge gain for federal workers. @AFGENational@daborer
Khalif Ali: Unless I misread the Constitution, which I doubt I have, Trump cannot be reinstated. If there's an installation of a dictator, that might be a different question. We'd all like to move on from this. @commoncausepa@CommonCause
Khalif Ali: It's the responsibility of elected leadership not to feed into the big lie. @commoncausepa@CommonCause
Khalif Ali: We already have a process in place in PA, called a risk limiting audit. We'll be focusing on the Nov. elections, if anything. @commoncausepa@CommonCause
Bob Ney: F. Lee Bailey started with the very famous case of Sam Sheppard. He also did the Patty Hearst case & OJ Simpson. F. Lee Bailey passed away today. @bobney
Bob Ney: I served in Congress with Mike Pence. He's sort of a subdued chill factor. He won't see eye-to-eye with Trump after Trump told followers to go to the Capitol & get Pence. @bobney
Bob Ney: Everyone knew Pence couldn't change things.
Rick: Trump actually believed he's going to be reinstalled in August. Is there a reinstallation clause in our Constitution, or an "oops" button?
Bob: There are people out there who actually believe this will happen. @bobney