The Inauguration is the next big event, and since Biden was already scaling back due to COVID-19, it should be somewhat easier to secure. After all, LBJ took the oath of office in a plane after Kennedy was shot. Biden will need the WH barricades for a while until the MAGA cultists are stopped.

Matt Gaetz blaming ANTIFA for this is very typical, and Ingraham referred to alleged left wing violence on Faux yesterday as well, so that will be a theme. While I send my condolences to the family of the woman who died, I think she would be surprised to be labeled as ANTIFA. It would seem kind of hard to square the LW violence idea with the doofus hauling the CSA battle flag through the US Capitol. I would wonder how many arrests actually get made. Let’s remember that Kyle Rittenhouse is being martyred as well after being allowed to go home afte Kenosha.

The rest of the world has noticed, bigly, about the comparative standards of justice depending upon skin color and political affiliation. The chatter and incitement of the mob was all over the internet for weeks, which the police unions (when they feel like it) would prepare for. Will we find a smoking gun stand down order for the police from the WH? I hope so. However, the repeated and demonstrated willingness of the police unions to look the other way, not doing their job in an objective way is precisely why they’re getting heat now.

Lastly, I am pretty sure this is something that will continue (I hope I’m wrong) because DJT will continue to provoke his base. Vladimir Putin just loved this, between the chaos and the demonstrated weakness of DJT shown by Pence (of all people) doggedly continuing with the process after cleanup even though things went to almost 4 AM EST. DJT will find out he has no friends any more, not even Vlad.

So, let’s start a pool for where DJT and his spawn end up in exile: my vote is for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (but only if he can bring along enough money).

Serenity Prayer on endless replay.

I’m an analog person in a digital age, but it sure seems to me that at least some of the means by which to force accountability upon Trump’s enablers in the House and Senate are known, even if I can’t myself personally organize and sustain a movement around them. Specifically:

1. The list of members of the House who voted for each objection is known, as is the much shorter list of members of the Senate (and, in fact, the lists of those who said they would support objections — somewhat larger than those who actually voted to object, because a few didn’t have the courage of even their own misguided convictions — are also both known; I’d include these penumbral enablers in the initiative below).

2. For each of those officeholders, public databases provide disclosure of their campaign contributors (the contributors to their own campaigns; I recognize that the dark money that plays on the sidelines is a lot harder to trace).

3. Many of those contributors will be private citizens contributing small dollars, but quite a few will be larger donors, making it easier to figure out who is really funding each officeholder’s campaigns.

4. A number of the larger contributors to each campaign are likely to be correlated; businesses that wish to have influence with officeholders often “encourage” senior executives to make campaign contributions, and the contributing executives’ employers are publicly disclosed in campaign finance filings (making it easier for the businesses to point out to the candidates just how much influence they ought to have, by showing how much they’ve paid to play).

5. Therefore, most if not all of the information necessary to inflict economic discomfort upon the businesses who are supporting such enemies of democracy as Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Louie Gohmert and all the rest is knowable.

What we need is the organizing genius of a Stacey Abrams, deployed in a persistent long-term effort to use our economic power as consumers to redirect the economic influence of businesses away from supporting these enablers of autocracy, and toward free and fair elections across the board, through publicity and boycotts. Businesses hate bad press; shaming works.

Some of this is going on in the press now (Andrew Ross Sorkin has an email out this morning, talking about executives who have organized fundraisers for Trump), but the real action is at the Senate and — especially — House level; those campaigns are smaller, and the influence of outsized donors there correspondingly larger. A bright light with no off switch can do a hell of a lot to change behavior.

“On top of everything else President-Elect Biden has to deal with, he now has to think of ways to coup-proof the US government.”

I think it’s a telling commentary on the shrivelled state of Congress that it is probably up to Biden.

I was pleased that at least Tim Ryan, who chairs the House Appropriations subcommittee funding the Capitol Police is already pushing for answers on the police breakdown, but the reality is that Congress has surrendered the institutional ability to be a leader on policy. The staffing and funding isn’t there, and one of the failures of both of Pelosi’s turns as Speaker is her unwillingness to rebuild what Gingrich disassembled.Whoever replaces her this term has to make Congressional institution building a priority so that it can be an equal partner in policy.

Amateurs. The whole thing was an amateur shitshow, from the President, the Congress, the rioters and the responsible authorities. Looked like a rock concert. No one is going to be taking these people seriously. They don’t even take themselves seriously.

Except for the staff, as you say. Excellent speechwriting, good forthright action in grabbing the ballots.

NewYorker Magazine reports:

After an hours-long delay, 150 D.C. National Guard troops were sent to the U.S. Capitol to help law-enforcement efforts to remove Trump supporters who had violently seized the building in an act of insurrection. Such an order would usually be given by the president and commander-in-chief, but according to Pentagon officials who spoke with the New York Times, it was approved by Vice-President Mike Pence.

Does anyone understand Pence’s legal authority to order deployment the National Guard? “Someone’s gotta do it” seems insufficient.

Well, some are totally chill with Trump’s ongoing influence:

“Trump briefly called in to the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting Thursday morning — and received a loud and overwhelmingly enthusiastic reception when RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel put him on speakerphone, according to people in the room.
“ ‘We love you!’ some in the room yelled.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/07/congress-election-biden-capitol-live-updates/#link-KLUZRTJ26NDHLKR42JEPXUTREY

Pursuing impeachment on a very expedited basis, even though the impeachment process is very unlikely to result in removal of Trump before January 20, is now politically important, if for no other reason is that, if some really crazy shit happens in the next 2 weeks due to Trump, which it will – we just don’t know what it will be, the politicians who are perceived to have slowed things down might be held accountable. No guarantee that they will be held accountable, but creating the opportunity for them to be held accountable is important, given that Trump is capable of almost anything.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/07/zuckerburg-says-trump-will-be-blocked-from-facebook-and-instagram-455805

‘President Donald Trump’s Facebook and Instagram accounts will be locked through at least Inauguration Day, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Thursday.

‘“We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great,” Zuckerberg wrote in a statement posted to his personal page. “Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete.”’

Caputo has comments that have not aged well.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/us/politics/caputo-virus.html

Glen Greenwald has it right.
The threat has always been from within. Outside terrorist groups are going to do something big and splashy such as send jets into office towers (911), but the home grown types are much more dangerous and the U.S.A. knows it. Government agencies have written reports about it. So why was this allowed to happen?

When a man showed up at the Canadian Parliament, while it was sitting, with an AK whatever, after having murdered a solider at the cenotaph, the Sargent at Arms, security detail leader, simply stepped out into the corridor with his usual side arm and shot him to death. The Canadian Parliamentary detail isn’t big and they don’t have big guns like the Americans do, but one man stopped it all. The Americans have the most sophisticated equipment in the world. One of the best intellegnce services in the world and this happened? No fight back. I’ve watched how disabled protestors were treated at the Capitol and it wasn’t nice. Yet here all these white people just strolled in and attacked and destroyed property in the most important building in the land. How the hell did this happen? This morning the news announced terrorist/protestors had broken into the Governor’s mansion in Washington State.

Now granted I have the sound off on my t.v., but I have yet to hear some one in authority stand up and say this is wrong, we will get tapes, we will identify you, arrest you, and try you. In Vancouver when we had a nasty hockey riot a few years ago, that is what happened. Provincial and city politicians and police chief when on T.V. and announced what they would do and did it. It took awhile to identify the rioters via face book, yes, people put their pictures up there and make it easy for the police.

At some level none of this surprised me, and on another level I just want to sit down and cry because of what happened in the American capitol and I don’t live in the U.S.A. nor am I a citizen., I’m a Canadian.

there are American politicians who didn’t stop Trump and they are the enablers. They let this man do what he wanted from calling Mexicans murderers and rapists, banning Muslims, putting latinix children in cages–concentration camps, lie, lie, lie, did nothing to stop the spread of COVID and there are over 330K dead in the U.S.A.

People wonder how Nazi Germany came about, well now you know. while we were in elementary school our mother used to say it could all happen again. When Trump opened his mouth after he declared his candidacy I knew she had been right. Just never thought it would happen in the U.S.A. So far things have not progressed and those who have stood up to trump and these terrorists, are doing what is right and proper. Seth Myer’s speech last night is worth the watch.