A US Election Thread Where We Will Be Nice to One Another (but not to seditionists)

I agree, Pence is just a toady but McConnell is purposely harming people.

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Pence did let a bunch of people in Indiana get HIV because he blocked a needle exchange program. Because that’s what Jesus would do. Plenty of evil to go around.

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Stay on topic y’all :joy:

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First black senator from Georgia!

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I have to say… until this year I did not have more than a vague awareness of just how many steps are needed to elect a President. Like, I knew about the electoral college and electoral votes, obviously. But I somehow glossed over the fact that the electors had to meet and actually vote in the same way that the residents of that state did, or that Congress then met in January to formally accept the election.

I’m sure this all happened with Bush/Gore but I admit I wasn’t terribly politically/news-aware then. I guess I didn’t realize just how many places this whole thing, in theory, could break down if someone is corrupt.

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This is one of my favorite things about twitter… check the date of the first tweet.

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Protesters storming the Capitol? I wish I had TV instead of radio. This is scary.

If the protesters were not white they would be getting gunned down right now.

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They’ve breached the Capital building and the Secret Service has had to move Pence to a safe place.

This is an insurrection.

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Yep.
And they say there is no white privilege.

Can we all stop pretending that Trump isn’t attempting a coup?

This is absolute insanity.

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NYTimes has shut off their live feed video of D.C.

Their live chat just included this tweet.
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America is over. We’ve become a backwaters republic we like to pretend to be better than.

Lawmakers are preparing to put gas masks on. WTF?

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To all my dear friends in the US. Please take care… Thinking of you all…

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What the fuck what the fuck what the fuck

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The hell is this shit? You know when they said the world was supposed to end in 2012? I think they transposed that 1 and 2.

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On the positive side maybe now Trump can be charged with/convicted of inciting treason…

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real embarrassing fucking day to be an american.

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CAN HE? PLEASE GOD

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I literally can’t decide between watching heavily because…this is an attempted coup/terrorism.

Or looking away because…holy shit.

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I really didn’t think they’d get in…

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