StrangeSox

Oh and the economy is starting to tank again because surprise you can't actually chose economy over lives/public safety and let a pandemic rage unchecked

One thing to keep in mind is that a major component of Trump's base isn't "working class." It's small business owners and white collar professionals in the suburbs. Not all of them may have college degrees, but they're the petite bourgeoisie. Look at the lawyers, business owners/execs, etc. that have already been identified as being in the Capitol on Wednesday. Look who's supported him financially this whole time. Look at this: This isn't a white working class revolt, this isn't about "the forgotten man." It's bog standard reactionary politics reacting against what they see as a loss of privileges and benefits they're entitled to and others aren't.

Oswego 308, 6th largest district in the state, proudly announced that they're abandoning the metrics recommended by health experts in the fall for their new metrics that are much more easily manipulated. They will not be doing any notification or contact tracing within the schools unless you can prove you were within 6' without masks and for more than 15 minutes with an infected person, so they can very easily manipulate these numbers. They're opening up for hybrid learning and even trying to accelerate full in-person in late January, and the superintendent announced plans to try to speed everything up. He had not even mentioned this to the teachers union before discussing this. Meanwhile we're ramping back up everywhere, the B.1.1.7 UK variant is probably well-seeded throughout the country, and hospital systems are starting to be seriously strained under the pressure. Open'r up.

Properly, equitably funded public education

Privatizing education is not good, actually

Hope this is another one of your tongue in cheek posts and not one of the insanely credulous ones

Impeachment it is, then. Call the House into session tonight and get this done.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/01/07/capitol-protests-dc-live-updates/#link-EF65NBEEYNEDZHPSTUC5H7VD34 Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) offered new details Thursday about the delayed response to assist law enforcement at the Capitol, saying the Maryland National Guard was ready to help but was “repeatedly” told they did not have the authorization needed to join the effort. Hogan received a panicked call from House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer (D-Md)., who pleaded with him to send in troops from Maryland, the governor said. [...] Hogan said Maj. Gen. Timothy Gowen, the adjutant general of the Maryland National Guard, was repeatedly rebuffed by the head of the National Guard at the federal level. Gowen “kept running it up the flagpole, and we don’t have authorization,” Hogan said. “We don’t have authorization.” Ninety minutes later, Hogan said, he received a call “out of the blue, not from the secretary of defense, not through what would be normal channels,” but from Ryan McCarthy, the secretary of the Army. McCarthy asked if the Maryland guardsmen could “come as soon as possible,” Hogan recounted. “It was like, yeah, we’re waiting, we’re ready,” Hogan said.

Dem leadership moved fast this morning, good. House and Senate leadership calling for immediate invocation of the 25th or they'll move to impeachment quickly. Need to impeach anyway to bar from future federal office, but that could be handled after the imminent danger is removed. Even Biden is out with uncharacteristically strong language. “They weren’t protesters. Don’t dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob. Insurrectionists. Domestic terrorists,” President-elect Joe Biden says. "I wish we could say we couldn’t see it coming. But that wasn’t true. We COULD see it coming."

Reminds me of this quote after a hurricane hit Tallahassee during the 2019 government shutdown https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/us/florida-government-shutdown-marianna.html “I voted for him, and he’s the one who’s doing this,” she said of Mr. Trump. “I thought he was going to do good things. He’s not hurting the people he needs to be hurting.”

It's incredible how terribly Andrew Cuomo has handled almost every aspect of this

Does DC have felony murder charges? Hit everyone who stormed the Capitol with one for each of the four deaths.

Yes, basically across the street from the Capitol building.

There were also photos of people in their tacticool gear with big bunches of ziptie handcuffs. They were planning for hostages.

Impeachment is a privileged motion. Any member of the House can bring it to the floor, and it can skip the usual committee requirements. Coincidentally, the House adjourned until the 19th. edit: well this is at least something, hopefully they get on this ASAP

It's up to the Senate to determine how long it takes. As we saw a year ago, Mitch was perfectly happy to largely rush through everything. If there is an iron-clad case for immediate removal, it could be done in a day or two. That our government doesn't really have a mechanism for removing a clearly unstable President, since the 25th is meant more for physical incapacitation, is another mark against it! M

House members call for the 25th, hoping someone else will do their job. Cabinet members resign and call for impeachment, hoping someone else will shoulder their responsibility. House adjourns until after the inauguration, giving free reign for the next two weeks. Complete failure.

Large, national police panopticon that manages to violently crack down on civil rights protests at the drop of a hat somehow missed this? The Chicago FOP president was fully justifying the actions of the insurrectionists. This is systemic and national. We saw over the summer that police forces don't feel accountable to civilian political leadership.

She is absolutely a failure along with most or maybe all of Dem leadership, but the core of the problem is the increasingly insane right wing which is a majority of the GOP these days. If this isn't aggressively handled, and of course it won't be, it'll be emboldened. We'll see the destruction of American democracy within our lifetimes.

No investigations. No hearings. No impeachment. Just pretend it all never happened and then be shocked and horrified when it happens again, but worse. Leadership.

They will do nothing. Barely any of the terrorists who stormed the capitol yesterday will face consequences. And they'll be emboldened to do it again and again, just like they were when they didn't face consequences for storming state capitols over the summer. Longer Joe Scarborough cut: Right-wing media, social media, and sitting representatives are already pushing the dual "brave, bold patriots forced to do this/ANTIFA agitators actually did it" story.