Oh, fly on Mike Pence’s head, wherefore art thou? Couldst thou share thy wisdom? You have such an advantage over we mere mortals, you can unobtrusively go where thou wilt and listen to every conversation. What’s that you say? Donald Trump’s monotone speech read from a teleprompter was done on a green screen, so we didn’t see that Mike Pence was standing there with a gun to his head?
If you’re just tuning in, Donald Trump was allowed to post a short video on Twitter, after being banned for a whole day. I don’t know what Jack Dorsey, the owner of Twitter has decided to do, but the tweets he deleted are still deleted, and Trump has posted only this one piece and nothing more.
If you missed the opus, I include it here out of diligence.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 8, 2021
Now here’s my submission for Best Concession Speech By A Traitor
#TrumpConceded… Just not the way I wanted… pic.twitter.com/JqVNsQRsQe
— James (@JamesDemocracy) January 8, 2021
Isn’t that bottom clip a vast improvement?
Now call me cynical, but this is too little too late for me. This, below, is what was going on yesterday.
Whether #TrumpConceded or not, he and all of his seditious co-conspirators must be held accountable and face consequences! Arrest! Impeach! Expel! Convict! 25th Amendment! Use every option at your disposal! pic.twitter.com/0mH5egiXsF
— MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) January 8, 2021
It took 65 days, 63 court rejections, a 9-0 SCOTUS loss, a white supremacist insurrection on Capitol Hill that resulted in 4 deaths, 1 police officer death, 57 officers injured, 68 arrests, and at least 2 bombs—but it appears Trump has finally conceded the election#TrumpConceded
— Qasim Rashid, Esq. (@QasimRashid) January 8, 2021
My sentiments exactly. Whoopee, Trump conceded. Maybe Putin put him up to it. Maybe Putin wanted to get the heat off his buddy Ron Johnson, who knows?
No, I think the best course is to go after the seditionists. We’re getting rid of this one, but we need to clean house and get rid of Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz and the lot of them. Our journey is just beginning as well. The January 6 spectacle was a wake up call. We might not get another.
Time to start working on getting rid of lors of people.
We need to protect democracy and get the guardrails on the constitution. The one silver lining of this four years of torture is that we know where the chinks in the governmental armor are and we know what to fix. The pardon power is a no brainer.
If he isn’t impeached, the next thing would be to begin a criminal investigation into his role in the insurrection. I have read in some media reports that he was on the street leading a mob toward the Capitol, then disappeared into a vehicle and headed back to the White House. The mob thought he was still with them and kept on going. Has anyone found images or video of Trump inciting this mob?
The video where he’s saying “you have to fight like hell” is evidence of incitement. The whole building could have been thoroughly trashed. I don’t know who talked to Trump but maybe somebody could get through to him. Maybe it was Ivanka. I am clueless.
He doesn’t “listen” to Ivanka — he looks at her. Her function is purely ornamental.
In that ”speech” Trump-O also said,“The demonstrators who infiltrated the Capitol have defiled the seat of American democracy. To those that engage in the acts of violence and disruption, you do not represent our country. To those that broke the law, you will pay.”
I wonder how these yahoos who willfully obeyed their Hair Furor will take being thrown under the bus.
With a wink & a nod. Cult members don’t abandon their savior.
My man Hoarse Whisperer would beg to differ. He’s got a little thread running on Twitter showing some of the cultists feel VERY betrayed by that little concession speech.
It’s still a minority of the cult. Most of his true believers on Twitter still believe its all part of a Dem-Global elite conspiracy. The video was altered or he was forced to say the words under threat of death. The Kraken red pill cult brainwashing is not so easy to undo.
Who the eff said anything about undoing it? They’re twisting their brains into knots so they can still look like the good guys with the conspiracy stuff. And it’s really half and half, NOT a minority, going by the online traffic (and DON’T give me that “shy Trump supporter” speech; these people are obvious as their tactics). Something we should keep in mind going forward: we need to watch ourselves if we start using the same sort of thought processes.
What a shitfest. There is some joy, though, at least jarvanka are now losing friends at an alarming rate.???
The end of tRump’s speech is a very loud dogwhistle and needs to be recognized as such. He says “to all of my wonderful supporters, I know you are disappointed, but I also want you to know that our incredible journey is only just beginning.” This is not over.
For him, it is. You’ll hear the howls of that betrayal soon enough.
He sounded SO insincere.
I’ve seen this evening a clip of Schumer saying Pence’s staff kept them on hold for twenty minutes, before finally coming back on and saying the VP wasn’t available to talk to them. My guess is that “Mother” gave Pence his balls back for an hour and he got up in Trump’s face. Basically saying the whole “I’ll resign on the morning of the inauguration (after signing a boatload of pardons and executive orders) and you pardon me before you head to the Capitol and the whole thing gets announced after Biden is sworn in deal is off! Unless…
You make a new statement that I’ve had written out for you, and at least act like you mean it and you read it word for word with NO ad libs or flashing gestures to the cray folks out there. Pretend you’re divorced again and trying to charm trophy wife #4 to set the right tone – just make it semi-convincing and don’t go tweeting out any takebacks. Otherwise, I’ve got the votes in my pocket to invoke the 25th and your ass will be out of power faster than your head can spin. My career is over one way or the other, but do what I say and I’ll at least keep you out of federal prison.
Maybe I’m nuts to think Pence would talk to Trump that way, but if “Mother” ordered him to (and she just might) Pence might just do it, or have done it. The rats are jumping from the Cabinet ship but Pence only needs eight of them who either don’t need a pardon from Trump or figure they can cut a deal with prosecutors using their agreeing to kneecap him as leverage. A lot of them are relatively new and in Acting capacities and stepping up might be a way for them to be able to quietly return to the private sector after the dust settles. I suspect since it’s widely reported that talk of the 25th has been going on since yesterday Pence had a pretty good idea last night who he can call on if he wants to. And watching people abandon him has to have Trump spooked. If Pat Cippilone came out of hiding to tell him he was in deep kimchee over inciting yesterday’s riot, perhaps ole Pat also advised Trump that there was enough blood in the water that a Biden AG might let federal prosecutors loose to challenge the legality of a self-pardon and his odds with SCOTUS, even with one where he named three of the Justices wasn’t good. A pointed reminder that they rejected his election claims would be a helpful twist of the knife.
Ok, so it things have gone down that way, that Trump agrees to behave for a last minute resignation and pardon is an illegal quid pro quo but it worked with Ford and Nixon and would work again.
No, it isn’t, Denis. Indeed, channeling the past is exactly how Trump wound up in his current predicament, step by step. One of my great disappointments over the last four years has been watching the elders on my side fight the last war and lean on their personal prejudices rather than make like Stacey Abrams and do a true assessment of the situation. In that respect, we have proven no less delusional or better than Trump.
CNN has got a more likely culprit pegged for the concession speech: what’s left of Trump’s senior staff. As the report goes, they gave him a choice: he gives the speech or they resign en masse. On a day when Chao and DeVos have left the building, he would know that was no idle threat.
I also personally believe that he got what he wanted with the riot and assault on the capitol. I think he enjoyed every minute of it and now he is satisfied.
NO…it worked like a junkie’s high. A few hours of ecstacy followed by more hours of pain and people walking away from him in disgust. Narcs never think beyond the immediate moment and thus are NEVER satisfied the way you’re talking. All those people fleeing his side or threatening to killed his buzz like a hit of methadone.
I’m more of the opinion that he believed that the House would cave in when they saw the Magats approaching and they would appoint him president ‘by acclamation’
Unfortunately – wrong move scenario – he’s not Anthony Quinn and the House isn’t the College of Cardinals
Agolf Twitler’s only changed his tune because he has no place to live after the WH. Florida doesn’t want him and has banned him from living at Mar-a-Lago. No foreign country wants him; Putin has ‘no use for him anymore and will eventually sic his FSB on him to keep him from talking. NY or Georgia will arrest him as soon as he sets foot again in those states. A megaflood of criminal charge/civil cases await him for which he has no Presidential Immunity. He is in desperate straits and is attempting to buy time to stay in the WH as President as long as possible. His heart, liver, brain kidneys, and digestive systems are deteriorating. He owes millions more than he owns in assets. Even his base is ready to abandon him for the next GOP-White Supremacist politician who embraces the OAN-Fox-NRA-Newsmax-Parler Trumpian Patriot Party base’s ultra right-wing ultra-nationalist tribal symbols, hates and fears.
He will continue to attempt to tear down democracy by attempting to incite civil unrest, chaos, civil war to declare Martial Law or start a war with Iran. Anything to delay, deflect, stall or stop the inevitable transfer of power which ends his position. This is where he is at his most dangerous although most of those serving him at the highest levels of power have abandoned him and will no longer follow his commands.
Expect more of his most lawless brainwashed cult followers to launch terrorist attacks in the days to come. They will attempt to makes them appear as if they are lone wolf attacks but they will not be.
The permit for the Jan 20 White Supremacist March at the capitol during the Inauguration Trump secured should be revoked immediately. The Biden/Harris inauguration should take place at a secret undisclosed location with maximum security and no invited public.
If he’s really worried about finding a place to live, the Justice Dept and Prison Services can find somewhere safe , snug, and very secure.
That wasn’t a concession speech. It was a hostage video.