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Jan. 13th, 2021 06:51 pmThe Internet makes you stupid, and sometimes that's fortunate.
A whole lot of the terrorists who attacked the Capitol building took photos and video of their actions, using cell phones, of course. As these images made their way online, people started digging and finding the attackers' identities. It wasn't hard in some cases - one of these specimens posed for a photo with his employee ID badge clearly visible. The FBI seems to be taking this seriously, thank goodness. Over a hundred arrests so far, and there are more to come.
This afternoon, the House of Representatives impeached Trump for a second time, making him the subject of half of the Presidential impeachments in the history of the nation. The Senate is recessed until at least January 19, so this isn't quite over. I don't know what's going to happen when the article of impeachment is delivered to the Senate, but I do expect that there will be a trial, and given that the makeup of the Senate is somewhat different and Mitch McConnell no longer has any use for the orange bastard, I halfway expect a conviction this time.
These next few days are going to be tense. Biden's inauguration is a week from today, and there has been noise about "demonstrations" at every state capitol between now and then. Something like 10,000 National Guard troops are going to be deployed in DC on the 20th, and the inaugural events are going to be very much subdued, partially due to COVID-19 as well as the threat of violence.
I'm more angry than scared now. I want these fuckers to suffer.
A whole lot of the terrorists who attacked the Capitol building took photos and video of their actions, using cell phones, of course. As these images made their way online, people started digging and finding the attackers' identities. It wasn't hard in some cases - one of these specimens posed for a photo with his employee ID badge clearly visible. The FBI seems to be taking this seriously, thank goodness. Over a hundred arrests so far, and there are more to come.
This afternoon, the House of Representatives impeached Trump for a second time, making him the subject of half of the Presidential impeachments in the history of the nation. The Senate is recessed until at least January 19, so this isn't quite over. I don't know what's going to happen when the article of impeachment is delivered to the Senate, but I do expect that there will be a trial, and given that the makeup of the Senate is somewhat different and Mitch McConnell no longer has any use for the orange bastard, I halfway expect a conviction this time.
These next few days are going to be tense. Biden's inauguration is a week from today, and there has been noise about "demonstrations" at every state capitol between now and then. Something like 10,000 National Guard troops are going to be deployed in DC on the 20th, and the inaugural events are going to be very much subdued, partially due to COVID-19 as well as the threat of violence.
I'm more angry than scared now. I want these fuckers to suffer.