January 6 Farce in Congress Thread

Damn, I hate to say this and don’t respect the dude. But Mitch McConnell is on point with his debate....., at least he is standing up for our democracy.

 

Don't worry he got some shots in on democrats now lol.

 

These objections really shouldn’t be allowed because they cannot rule against how the vote was conducted in each state. They would have to show tampering with the electoral votes or along those lines.

 

That was handled with total respect by VP Gore.

 

This is soooo ****ing weird.

 

Well, yea, one that is as flexible as the strong gusty wind from last night.

 

Hopefully GOP throws out the tea partiers and Trumpers or go form another conservative party.

 

Where can I read actual updates, (not that "This is soooo ****ing weird." is not valued), without actually watching?

 

Schumer laying it down...

 

former chairman of the national republican committee...

 

WATCH LIVE: Joint Session of Congress for Counting of Electoral College Ballots (c-span.org)

Below the video, you can read the live (uncorrected) closed captioning with or without the video stream.

If you want commentary --- Updating: The Latest From Washington — And Georgia | FiveThirtyEight

 

https://www.cnn.com/specials/live-video-1

Edit: txtony's link is much better!

And Ted Cruz is a muther****er...

 

Thanks, am now enjoying the 538 live blogging.

 

That would be "watching." But thanks.

 

Spoiler

spoilered for concerns of derailing thread

That seems like an unnecessary business risk to me. If Twitter "deplatforms" Trump, he'll go to Parler 24/7, and on that momentum, Parler will IPO within the year, and likely make Trump a buttload of money.

He's going to do his crazy. Might as well let him do his crazy on your platform. Otherwise, media won't be able to not comment on his Parler "tweets" which will wildly increase downloads of the app, to watch the crazy.

 

Haha sorry! I'm no Gene Peterson, to be sure.

 

Obligatory:

 

Honestly... If/when he's booted from Twitter, things could really quiet down after 2-4 weeks.
I could be very wrong, but if he's relegated to speaking to his cult followers on Parler and whatever other "alternative" platforms...

Part of what drives the "engagement" metric for the major sites is having people troll each other and clash and insult each other. We're finding that with a platform like Parler, where you have a much narrower demographic of people engaging... it's not so juicy?

I will be very interested to see what happens if or when he's booted.

 

Spoiler: derailment continue

Not if they crave out a section 230 repeal, as Trump wanted, but only for Parler, who after all called themselves a public town square

 

While mcconnell's "both sides" examples weren't accurate...