Mega-Thread: Trump Focused Discussion

[Gelannerai]

Comey is one of the biggest reasons we even had to deal with Trump as the 45th, so screw him.

Yes, I know it's easy for his base to spin Trump as a Martyr, but Trump has crossed so many lines and made Watergate look like a joke, that just to actually withhold rule of law and so that we don't actually have competent dictators-in-the-making eventually come in and use Trump's actions as a new baseline, he 100% should be investigated and incriminated with sufficient evidence.

It's actually a lot easier to just pardon/ignore Trump but ultimately is the worse decision to make.

On a separate note, are there precautions taken so he and his family can't flee the country yet?

Yes, it happened when Trump was inaugurated, given the highest security clearance possible, and idiotically insisted that his moron kids also be given that clearance. There’s no way the CIA lets a group of people like that out of their sight, ever.

[swiftowner]

https://mobile.twitter.com/ElijahSch...819105792?s=20

BREAKING: Trump supporters have breached the Capitol building, tearing down 4 layers of security fencing and are attempting to occupy the building — fighting federal police who are overrun

This is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. Thousands, police can’t stop them

Crazy stuff.

[Edge-]

https://mobile.twitter.com/ElijahSch...819105792?s=20


Crazy stuff.

Why does everyone keep sharing this Blaze reporter claiming something that his own video doesn't show?

[Draco-Onis]

The DoJ needs to investigate, expose, and prosecute everyone involved in any illegal attempts to influence the election. We cannot, under any circumstance, let this become the way elections are handled going forward. This behavior needs to be penalized and discouraged. It's already too late to nip it in the bud and it's clear that Republicans don't have any integrity, so they need to face consequences.

Yup letting this go means the next republican president will be a dictator.

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

VP Pence has penned a letter to members of Congress:

https://twitter.com/Phil_Mattingly/s...79523774738434





Trump won't be happy when he reads that (or has it read to him).

TL - DR: "My role is to preside over the session and ensure that objections are heard. It is not to decide whether votes shall be counted or not".

[Aphelios]

Trump was right you know. The Republicans have a death wish.

[Breccia]

Trump won't be happy when he reads that

Actually I think he will.

1) Notice the careful wording, especially the second half of the second page. He's not saying "Don't do it". He's saying "I can't do it, you have to do it for me".

2) Pence signed that shit in Sharpie. If he didn't want Trump to read it, he wouldn't have signed it in Sharpie taking up half a page.

[Drutt]

I wonder if Trump will end up getting impeached for this? He basically incited it.

Moscow Mitch seems to have had enough of him, and you'd think a lot of otherwise reticent Republican Senators might take a dim view on their own safety being compromised by Trump.

[Santti]

I wonder if Trump will end up getting impeached for this? He basically incited it.

Nah. He already got impeached. And he is out the door soon anyway, so Republicans won't do shit. Plus, I think he is already in some major legal troubles after he is out.

[Adam Jensen]

Today is the final proof of what I've been saying for years.

Trump is a stochastic terrorist.

[Kallisto]

Remember these words Trump said back in the first debate.

Stand Back and Stand By.

Well, they stood back, stood by for your views Trump and they acted.

THIS IS ALL ON TRUMP.

[Breccia]

Trump orders the National Guard on his own followers.

- - - Updated - - -

Cross-posting because fuck every square inch of this shit.

Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!

-- Donald Trump

[Zan15]

remember when this was the worst thing they could say after hillary lost in 2016

[Zeth Hawkins]

Trump asks everyone to be peaceful and return home:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...28882595885058

Twitter claims this tweet may incite violence, and restricts interaction.

[Machismo]

Trump asks everyone to be peaceful and return home:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...28882595885058

Twitter claims this tweet may incite violence, and restricts interaction.

I get that you Trumpsters want to ignore reality...

But, you support a Nazi. That's something you will have to deal with.

Look at all those Nazis trying to commit terrorist acts.

[Timester]

Trump asks everyone to be peaceful and return home:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...28882595885058

Twitter claims this tweet may incite violence, and restricts interaction.

"We have an election that was stolen" on the same exact video.

Twitter did what needed to be done.

[Edge-]

Trump asks everyone to be peaceful and return home:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...28882595885058

Twitter claims this tweet may incite violence, and restricts interaction.

After telling them to storm the Capitol.

Nobody believes this, and you shouldn't either.

[Draco-Onis]

Trump asks everyone to be peaceful and return home:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...28882595885058

Twitter claims this tweet may incite violence, and restricts interaction.

Because he gave a speech telling them to storm the capital, he literally on tape incited violence.

[Magicalcrab]

Trump asks everyone to be peaceful and return home:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...28882595885058

Twitter claims this tweet may incite violence, and restricts interaction.

Maybe he should try harder to not sound like he's inciting violence next time.
"We love you."

On your bike.

[Rasulis]

The Trump administration auctioned off oil and gas rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) for the first time ever Wednesday, selling off 1.6 million acres along the coast to primarily one major buyer: the state of Alaska.

The Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority (AIDEA) won nearly every bid, a sign that oil companies were largely uninterested in developing the pristine wildlife refuge as many major banks have refused to provide financial backing and public support for the projects has diminished.

The sale raised just $14.4 million dollars, roughly $27 per acre. That figure is far below the billion dollars the 2017 bill projected the government would earn alongside a second sale. Only half the acres up for sale received bids, which were submitted by only three companies.

The sale, just two weeks before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in, shows the Trump administration's determination to kickoff oil drilling in the Arctic before leaving office. Passed as part of the 2017 tax bill, the law requires the sale by the end of 2021.

"Trump is giving away treasured land in the Arctic Refuge at rock bottom prices in today's oil/gas lease sale," Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) said on Twitter, calling the sale a human right violation for the Gwich'in tribe that considers the area sacred.

Huffman's bill to block drilling in ANWR passed the House but was never taken up in the GOP-led Senate.

The AIDEA largely serves as Alaska's economic development wing and is not itself an oil company. It will need to resell the leases to those that can drill - a move that raises a number of legal questions.

"To my knowledge this has never happened before, that a state bids on federal leases within their own state," Jenny Rowland-Shea, a senior public lands policy analyst at the Center for American Progress told The Hill.

"It's very odd because the state of Alaska will get 50 percent of the revenue from lease sales. Basically they will be paying to not make any money on those lease sales."

Biden has said he will "permanently protect" ANWR, and the late-stage nature of the sale along with numerous lawsuits could slow the process, giving the incoming administration further avenues to block drilling.

"The writing is on the wall for any of the bidders. It will be tough to get financing and the incoming Biden administration and opposition in the Senate and even new leadership in the Senate and lots of litigation ongoing over the rushed Trump environmental reviews for these projects - all that will make it difficult for companies to drill," Rowland-Shea said.

"The Trump administration railroaded this lease sale through amid a global pandemic and economic recession, and absent any real evidence that pursuing Arctic Refuge oil would provide any significant federal returns. Not surprisingly, today's sale generated significantly less federal revenue than the $1 billion promised by drilling proponents, resulting in a fire sale of some of the most valuable and ecologically significant wilderness remaining in North America," a coalition of major environmental groups like the Sierra Club and Earthjustice said in a release.

Trump's administration is full of idiots.