Let’s be very clear.
The officials urging for no serious consequences after Wednesday’s attack on our country - including the impeachment, removal, expulsion, and/or indictment of officials who aided, abetted, or incited the attack - are opening the door for it to happen again.
BREAKING. Mob of Trump supporters swarm the media near the US Capitol. They yell what Trump frequently says, “the media is the enemy of the people.” They destroy equipment and chased out reporters. I’ve never seen anything like this in my 20 year career: @nbcwashington@MSNBC
It has not escaped my attention that the day social media companies decided there actually IS more they could do to police Trump’s destructive behavior was the same day they learned Democrats would chair all the congressional committees that oversee them.
I don’t think there’s enough appreciation for the fact that GOP senators/congressmen, most of the conservative commentariat/@FoxNews, and leaders of industry are all pretending like they think there might be election fraud just because the presidents feelings are hurt.
What happens next matters.
In the past, efforts to build "unity" and "consensus" in Washington have too often meant turning over the keys to giant corporations and their lobbyists.
We can't let that happen again.
Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future? I foresee decent probability of many deleted Tweets, writings, photos in the future
@AdventureFont Nice! Yeah, really not certain what's going to happen. Would love to go back to AK but things are just to up in the air. You playing or DMing any games right now?
Here's where we are:
1. Local elections officials are taking the time necessary to make sure every eligible vote is counted.
2. Trump is losing and trying to crown himself the winner.
3. Voters choose the future. We fought for fairer elections and it’s working.
I wonder if some portion of those 775k are enough to change the vote of Florida. Let's look. Hmm... Donald Trump leads by less than 300k at the time of writing this. I think there's a chance it does. Huh.
In 2016, FL voters passed Amendment 4, restoring voting rights to 1.4M people with a past felony conviction.
Gov. DeSantis then passed a poll tax requiring people to pay off court fines before casting a ballot.
That law just prevented 775K people from voting in this election.
We should just take a moment at some point tonight and reflect on just how fucking stupid it is that we know who is going to get the most votes, but we don't know who will be President