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From reports coming from White House staff, Trump is very close to becoming psychotic and is being managed/restrained from doing really destructive things by his staff. The military is keeping as great a distance from Trump as possible but if he gives a direct command for a bombing raid or raids on Iran (as he wanted to do in October), they will be in a real quandary.

Pelosi In Talks With Top General About Stopping Trump Military Strikes “This unhinged President could not be more dangerous,” the House Speaker told colleagues. WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday she has spoken to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff about preventing President Donald Trump from initiating military actions or a nuclear strike. Pelosi said in a statement to colleagues that she spoke with Gen. Mark Milley “to discuss available precautions for preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike.” She said, the situation of “this unhinged President could not be more dangerous.” Pelosi In Talks With Top General About Stopping Trump Military Strikes | HuffPost

Pro-Trump extremists sought to kill the vice president during DC insurrection: ‘Hang Mike Pence’ Vice President Mike Pence has been one of President Donald Trump's most unwavering loyalists and apologists, but when Trump asked Pence to find a way to overturn the Electoral College results at a joint session of Congress held on Wednesday, the vice president maintained that he didn't have the power to do so. And when far-right pro-Trump extremists filled the streets of Washington, D.C. that day, some of them were calling for Pence's execution. Chants of "Hang Mike Pence! Hang Mike Pence!" on Wednesday were heard by The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, who interviewed some of the extremists that day. Goldberg reported that they felt betrayed by Pence because he was unable to stop Congress' certification of President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory. Pro-Trump extremists sought to kill the vice president during DC insurrection: ‘Hang Mike Pence’ - Alternet.org

Punitive lawsuits like this are the only way that Fox. and its ilk will be brought to justice.

Figures. She has always been a coddled, privileged spoiled child who has been insulated from reality by money and fame.

That ought to fix whatever is wrong with the USA. And just in the nick of time, too.

Sadly, despite overwhelming evidence from multiple sources, some of the GOP continue to pretend that the forces they have supported and legitimized are somehow not responsible for the riots and attending losses of life. So long as these cretins keep this up. America will neither heal nor move forward.

If you want a metaphor for the Alt-right in the US, there it is.

Why are they waiting?

Wanna bet?

Why should they feel any different than the rest of Americans?

Because Twitter places eyeballs ahead of concern.

Trump Reportedly Wailed at Pence: ‘I Don’t Want to Be Your Friend’ Anymore Reuters/Carlos Barria Remember the part in Toy Story 2 when Woody has a nightmare about Andy telling him he doesn’t want to play with him anymore? Well, that exact fate has reportedly befallen Vice President Mike Pence. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, Pence and President Trump met on Wednesday morning, before Trump left to whip up his supporters into a violent rage that ended in them storming the Capitol building. The report states that Pence informed Trump once again that he did not have the power to toss aside Electoral College votes and—even if he did have that power—he wouldn’t even use it as it would set a terrible precedent. That frankness is said to have infuriated Trump, who reportedly told Pence, one of his most obedient enablers over the past four years: “I don’t want to be your friend... I want you to be the vice president.” That had to hurt.

Brazilian scientists announced today that they have also produced a COVID vaccine. The more the merrier.

Listen: Rudy Giuliani urges the wrong senator to 'slow it down' so Trump has more time to overturn the election Rudy Giuliani called a Republican senator on Wednesday during the chaos of the storming of the U.S. Capitol, hoping to slow down the final step in the affirmation of Joe Biden's Electoral College win, according to a new report in The Dispatch. But Giuliani made a mistake. He was trying to call newly elected Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, but instead, he left a message for another Republican senator — who promptly gave the recording to The Dispatch. The recording shows that the president's ally was trying to exploit the delay in the vote-counting caused by supporters of President Donald Trump mobbing the federal building, forcing Congress to halt its proceedings and go into lockdown. In the chaos, glass was shattered, the building was vandalized, police and the insurrectionists fought, barricades were broken, and by the end of the day, four people were dead, according to officials. For Trump and Giuliani, though, this presented an opportunity. "Senator Tuberville? Or I should say Coach Tuberville," Giuliani said. "This is Rudy Giuliani, the president's lawyer. I'm calling you because I want to discuss with you how they're trying to rush this hearing and how we need you, our Republican friends, to try to just slow it down so we can get these legislatures to get more information to you. And I know they're reconvening at 8 tonight, but it … the only strategy we can follow is to object to numerous states and raise issues so that we get ourselves into tomorrow—ideally until the end of tomorrow." He continued: "I know McConnell is doing everything he can to rush it, which is kind of a kick in the head because it's one thing to oppose us, it's another thing not to give us a fair opportunity to contest it. And he wants to try to get it down to only three states that we contest. But there are 10 states that we contest, not three. So if you could object to every state and, along with a congressman, get a hearing for every state, I know we would delay you a lot, but it would give us the opportunity to get the legislators who are very, very close to pulling their vote, particularly after what McConnell did today. It angered them, because they have written letters asking that you guys adjourn and send them back the questionable ones and they'll fix them up." Listen: Rudy Giuliani urges the wrong senator to 'slow it down' so Trump has more time to overturn the election - Alternet.org

No doubt that she is acting purely in self-interest. Hope her incompetent husband is next.

Now you know why the rioters were treated so gently. Cops generally tend to be small-c conservative anyways and much more so in the US where usually half of police forces are ex-military, some with significant war trauma.

U.S. Capitol Police Officer Reportedly Dead After Riot. The insurrection, encouraged by Trump, left at least five people dead, including the officer. A U.S. Capitol Police officer has died following the violence in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, CNN reported, citing multiple sources. Los Angeles Times reporter Richard Winton confirmed the news. Winton said the officer was a 43-year-old from Virginia. The circumstances of the officer’s death are not yet publicly known. U.S. Capitol Police Officer Reportedly Dead After Riot | HuffPost Canada (huffingtonpost.ca)

She recited the Trumpian gospel, took no questions and sprinted off stage as soon as she was done.

Trump lawyer suddenly repudiates the president — says he was used to 'perpetrate a crime' In Philadelphia, one of the cities where President Donald Trump's legal team has been making baseless and debunked claims of widespread voter fraud, Trump campaign attorney Jerome Marcus has asked to withdraw from one of the campaign's Pennsylvania-related election lawsuits. Marcus made that request following the violence that occurred on Wednesday in Washington, D.C., where a violent mob of far-right Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol Building hoping to prevent the counting of President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College win. Although a joint session of Congress was delayed and members of the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives feared for their safety, it resumed on Wednesday evening — and the Electoral College results were affirmed by Congress. Biden's inauguration is set for January 20. On Thursday in Philadelphia, Marcus told U.S. District Judge Paul Diamond his client "used the lawyer's services to perpetrate a crime and the client insists on taking action that the lawyer considers repugnant and with which the lawyer has a fundamental disagreement." Larson quotes Marcus as saying, "I believe that the filing of that and other cases was used by President Trump yesterday to incite people to violence. I refer specifically to his urging people to come to Washington for a 'wild' protest." Trump lawyer suddenly repudiates the president — says he was used to 'perpetrate a crime' - Alternet.org

Pence has presidential delusions and besides that, he appears to be almost totally spineless. Trump really savaged him and Pence was finally driven to anger when Trump pretty much ordered him to commit an illegal act by not announcing Biden's election. Pence will either waffle endlessly or slow-walk the Amendment 25 process so that the time will run out, so as to not alienate the Trump voter base.

They will have a lot of company.

Trump to Flee D.C. After Inciting Riot on U.S. Capitol REUTERS Less than 48 hours after he incited a riot on the U.S. Capitol, President Donald Trump plans to flee Washington, D.C. for the weekend, Business Insider first reported on Thursday. A White House official confirmed that the president would travel to the Camp David retreat in Maryland, not his preferred Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, on Friday. The decision to leave the White House comes after a growing exodus of top staff from the administration and calls for impeachment and invoking of the 25th Amendment from both Democrats and some Republicans in Congress.