Vee

Re: Chao -

No one but the cult believes that. And thanks to widespread general public outrage, particularly in directly affected Beltway media, they no longer matter.

Doesn't matter what the House minority wants. I do think the GOP Senate is ready to roll after yesterday.

My mother has moved on from tears and is now, like most of the country and media, furious over how the Capitol police treated these terrorists vs. Black Lives Matter protests.

delete AOC is very clearly coming for the Leader spot, but she's also absolutely right here. Both for his own political future and for the good of the country, Schumer should head her off as best he can here and do this. Both Cruz and Hawley (among others, tbh) need to be expelled.

Y'all were saying? "Nothing will happen?" Just because Mitch McConnell says something doesn't make it true and time to despair. He said they wouldn't finish legislation on a COVID bill until 2021 a few weeks before they did it, too. They will be back in session for this.

MSNBC pressing Colin Powell to outright say Trump should be removed.

All the talk on morning TV is why the Capitol police didn't handle this riot like the Black-led protests, and if Trump will be removed and why he should be.

Too late:

Mood on many levels:

Jared and Meadows both notably MIA. From what I've heard the inner circle inside is down to them, Trump's longtime driver and Miller, maybe one or two more. You will never see the Trumps active inside legitimate GOP political infrastructure again.

The FBI is now swooping in and taking names of many of the people identified on video today. I do not think this is over or that we're done with what will happen to Trump over this. Further, he is never going to be able to run again, and his influence in the GOP (not in his followers) ends today.

I can't take any more of this scum. He can't be allowed to hold the office for another day.

Joint session time. Collins is on CNN saying Trump is only listening to Rudy, Sidney Powell, etc. now. Also says this is what has set off talk of removal and the 25th "in earnest".