Trump loyalists in Congress to challenge Electoral College results in Jan. 6 joint session (Update: Insurrectionists storm Congress)(And now what?) (3 Viewers)

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    superchuck500

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    I guess it's time to start a thread for this. We know that at least 140 members of Congress have pledged to join the objection. Under federal law, if at least one member of each house (HOR and Senate) objects, each house will adjourn the joint session for their own session (limited at two hours) to take up the objection. If both houses pass a resolution objecting to the EC result, further action can take place. If both houses do not (i.e. if one or neither passes a resolution), the objection is powerless and the college result is certified.

    Clearly this is political theater as we know such a resolution will not pass the House, and there's good reason to think it wouldn't pass the Senate either (with or without the two senators from Georgia). The January 6 joint session is traditionally a ceremonial one. This one will not be.

    Many traditional pillars of Republican support have condemned the plan as futile and damaging. Certainly the Trump loyalists don't care - and many are likely doing it for fundraising purposes or to carry weight with the fraction of their constituencies that think this is a good idea.


     
    I didn't know antifa has been planning this for years. I mean, they started fake Facebook pages for these people years ago pretending to be Trump supporters and just waited and waited and waited.. they even got all of their family and friends to buy into their fake Trump love.. lol
     
    Maxp said:
    Now the conspiracy theorists are reporting issues with right wing affiliated websites. They are being censored across all platforms.
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    It really has to look to me of a law-enforcement effort, not a censorship effort. In other words, are FBI/DHS urging this action to basically extinguish insurrectionist sentiment for the time being . . . and after the inauguration, things can loosen back up.
     
    Oh really now? :rolleyes:

    "My first thought was that the Iranians had followed through on their threat to strike the Capitol, but a police officer took over the podium and explained that violent demonstrators had breached the entire perimeter of the Capitol and were inside," Collins wrote in the Bangor Daily News.
     
    This is also crazy.

    Pence was subjected to repeated phone calls from Trump, including one as late as last Wednesday morning — and to implicit threats from the president that he would attack him if he didn’t object to Biden’s victory, officials said.

    “Do the courageous thing, Mike,” Trump said in one meeting, according to a person present.

    “It will be bad for you and for the country if you don’t,” Trump said at another time, according to an official describing the meeting.
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