The Turtle in the Senate is looking weary and a bit teary explaining that Trump is wrong and how trying to change the results will be damaging to the nation.
One wonders if his weariness is because he now realizes how he is between a rock and a hard place. Because knows that the Trumpers will now have him for lunch.
That really is McConnell making that speech right now in the Senate, isn’t it? And actually saying all the right stuff?
– wish to hell he’d been behaving like that for six years. But relieved to discover that he has got some limits.
I can just see him waving that appeal from the dock, as the ship sails away over the horizon.
There’s someone under the desk with a taser poised just inches from his crotch.
Turtle soup is up!!
There’s a play-by-play thread here:
Don’t give Mitch too much credit. He arrived at the right place, but not without ladling on a heavy dose of whataboutism / both sides do it first.
As I said in another thread, know your audience. McConnell isn’t preaching to the Democrats. What kind of language is most likely to sway his target audience?
Of all the punishments dreamed up in this thread, this is the one that the politicians will care about. Top CEOs are considering cutting off funding to those Republicans who backed Trump’s election challenges.
Protestors have broken into the capitol. Count suspended.
Those are not protestors, they are at best rioters and at worst fascist insurrects.
Thanks for that breaking news.
Biden calls them insurrectionists.
Sounds accurate.
They are Trumplican Terrorists
Please consult the guide for appropriate descriptors:
D’oh!
And people keep saying we shouldn’t have a ‘like’ button.
Not to mention, he could have, should have, arrived at this point two months ago, but was silent as the resistance to accepting the election results continued, even though it was totally fed by lies and conspiracy theories. To object to that only yesterday was way, way, WAY too late.