"For years, many of us have been saying that Blue Lives Matter wasn’t really about protecting officers and their families but about protecting the right to use White violence against those who call for Black dignity and resistance to white supremacy."
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65% of House Republicans voted to overturn election results after domestic terrorists stormed Capitol
5% of House Republicans voted to hold Trump accountable for that violent coup
Republicans who stole Supreme Court seat & confirmed another justice 8 days before election when 65 million had already voted, then tried for 2 months to overturn a free & election that culminated in violent coup, don't get to lecture Dems about unity, healing or democratic norms
Today has shown police don’t need de-escalation training, they choose who to escalate on, that’s not a training issue. Police don’t need unconscious bias training, they are conscious of their bias.
This massive backpedaling from Republicans is actually more insulting. They don’t deserve credit for shit. They have been complicit for four years, and kissed Trump’s ass at every turn. It took an insurrection that killed somebody for them to show some basic decency. Fuck. Off.
While today’s terrible display of terror and meanness shakes us, let’s remember: @ossoff, Jewish son of an immigrant & @ReverendWarnock, first Black Senator from Georgia, will join a Catholic POTUS & the first woman, Black + Indian VP in our nation’s capital. God bless America.
"White Americans are not afraid of the cops. White Americans are never afraid of the cops. Even when they are committing insurrection." --Just a few words from @JoyAnnReid moments ago on @MSNBC, in one of the most powerful statements I've ever heard on television.
Trump repeats claims about the election being stolen from him but says, "We can't play into the hands of these people...So go home. We love you. You're very special...I know how you feel, but go home & go in peace." His former chief of staff said many are "domestic terrorists."
I believe the Republican members of Congress who have incited this domestic terror attack through their attempts to overturn the election must face consequences. They have broken their sacred Oath of Office.
I will be introducing a resolution calling for their expulsion.
President-elect Biden is saying what Pres Trump is refusing to say as of now: go home.
Biden: I call on this mob to pull back and allow the work of democracy to go forward...President Trump must go on TV and call them off.
Biden says, “It’s not protest. It’s insurrection.”