DC Capitol Riot & Subsequent Fallout Thread (Jan 2021)

[Titan]

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[octothorp]

Originally Posted by flames_fan_down_under

With Trump he will always find money. I’m pretty sure Paul Manafort owns an event company, Trump has unfettered access to the hundreds of millions in his Save America PAC, and the cycle of grift will continue. Or eventually someone else will put up cash for him, plus he has a gaggle of sycophants that will do his bidding. There’s too much money to be made to let this all just fizzle out.

Hey, you know what would be a great grift? Telling your supporters you need them to pitch in for a $2 billion library. Set the pricetag so ridiculously high that you never actually need to start building it, you can just keep collecting it and promising it for literally the rest of your life.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald...a-wapo-reports

[Boreal]

Originally Posted by octothorp

Hey, you know what would be a great grift? Telling your supporters you need them to pitch in for a $2 billion library. Set the pricetag so ridiculously high that you never actually need to start building it, you can just keep collecting it and promising it for literally the rest of your life.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald...a-wapo-reports

Former Trump associates believe it will be difficult for him to raise the money in the wake of the scandal over the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. “I thought to myself, what is this alternative fantasy life you’re living? I have no clue where they think they’ll get this money raised. Anyone who gives to him will be radioactive,” an unnamed fundraiser told the Post of the plans.

This was funny!

[#-3]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

Why wait eleven months to ask?

In all seriousness, I have a hard time believing he gives the media any time before his disgraced exit. He's already said he won't attend the inauguration, he's probably going to Mar-a-lago that morning.

Yes, time is hard to track these days. I meant January 20th.
It's actually going to get harder for him to duck reporters, he wont live in a fortress anymore and will have a much small secret service detail.

But I think continue to press him, he will eventually tell the truth about his supporters often enough to piss them off.

[transplant99]

Originally Posted by #-3

Yes, time is hard to track these days. I meant January 20th.
It's actually going to get harder for him to duck reporters, he wont live in a fortress anymore and will have a much small secret service detail.

But I think continue to press him, he will eventually tell the truth about his supporters often enough to piss them off.

Have I got a surprise for you.

Spoiler!

[Cali Panthers Fan]

Originally Posted by transplant99

Have I got a surprise for you.

Spoiler!

Except for the fact that he made it a public property/club years ago, so not quite a private fortress.

Recently, he petitioned the local government/voters to turn it back into a private residence. The public overwhelmingly said "no"/#### you.

Sorry Donny, you're going to have to share your palace with the ####wits you hate.

[Nammer403]

Wrong thread

[opendoor]

Not sure if this has been posted yet, but it's an interview with the police officer who was in that video getting crushed in the door:

https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news...riot/2670711/?

Pretty funny quote:

If it wasn't my job, I would have done that for free. It was absolutely my pleasure to crush a white nationalist insurrection... we'll do it as many times as it takes.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by chemgear

https://twitter.com/user/status/1350253097818329089

https://twitter.com/user/status/1045907408474664961

[TorqueDog]

Originally Posted by Cali Panthers Fan

Except for the fact that he made it a public property/club years ago, so not quite a private fortress.

Recently, he petitioned the local government/voters to turn it back into a private residence. The public overwhelmingly said "no"/#### you.

Sorry Donny, you're going to have to share your palace with the ####wits you hate.

It gets better than that; per the agreement he signed with the municipality when he converted Mar-a-lago to a club, members — including Trump himself — are not permitted to stay at the resort for more than (IIRC) 21 days per calendar year, specifically to prevent people from living there.

Nevermind having to share, he simply cannot stay there indefinitely.

[Boreal]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

It gets better than that; per the agreement he signed with the municipality when he converted Mar-a-lago to a club, members — including Trump himself — are not permitted to stay at the resort for more than (IIRC) 21 days per calendar year, specifically to prevent people from living there.

Nevermind having to share, he simply cannot stay there indefinitely.

Maybe they’ll change their mind after he goes on a Twitter rant... oh... wait...

[TorqueDog]

What was the equivalent of Twitter before Twitter? Angry old people writing letters to the editor of the newspaper?

[Locke]

Originally Posted by TorqueDog

What was the equivalent of Twitter before Twitter? Angry old people writing letters to the editor of the newspaper?

Sky-writing?

[Flashpoint]

Crazy people coming out of the woodwork for inauguration

MaGovern approached a security checkpoint near Union Station around 8:45 a.m. in her vehicle, according to the police report. She said she was a law enforcement officer and presidential Cabinet member, and she "was displaying a round metallic object later identified as a Military Police Challenge Coin."

The report says officers asked MaGovern to put her vehicle in park three times and she complied, but fled northbound when asked for her driver's license.

"As the USCP officers questioned the Suspect, she drove off in the vehicle, and again was stopped at 50 Massachusetts Avenue," USCP said in a press release.

Early Sunday morning, a 22-year-old Virginia man carrying a firearm, three high-capacity magazines and 37 rounds of unregistered ammunition was arrested near Capitol Hill.

According to the Metropolitan Police Department, Guy Berry of Gordonsville, Va., was walking in the 200 block of Massachusetts Avenue NE with a Glock 22 "clearly visible in a holster." Officers who stopped him "concluded" that he was not allowed to carry a handgun in D.C., said the police report provided to NPR.

Amazing how many nutjobs there are out there, and how dumb they can be thinking they could pull an assassination off.

Thank heaven Twitter, FB, and Parler have shut down/been shut down for a lot of white supremacist groups. There would be a lot more of these quacks trying to run the barricades.

[Flashpoint]

Originally Posted by chemgear

https://twitter.com/user/status/1350253097818329089

For just a couple million, she can have one.

Trump and Rudy selling pardons

An associate of Rudy Giuliani told a former CIA officer a presidential pardon was “going to cost $2m”, the New York Times reported on Sunday in the latest bombshell to break across the last, chaotic days of Donald Trump’s presidency.

The report detailed widespread and in some cases lucrative lobbying involving people seeking a pardon as Trump’s time in office winds down. The 45th president, impeached twice, will leave power on Wednesday with the inauguration of Joe Biden.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Flashpoint

For just a couple million, she can have one.

Trump and Rudy selling pardons

Who do they think they are? The Catholic Church? Selling tickets to Heaven??

[Roughneck]

Originally Posted by Locke

Who do they think they are? The Catholic Church? Selling tickets to Heaven??

Churches long moved on to the subscription model

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Roughneck

Churches long moved on to the subscription model

I was thinking more along the line of selling 'Indulgences' but you get the idea.

[#-3]

Originally Posted by Locke

I was thinking more along the line of selling 'Indulgences' but you get the idea.

Take it easy Martin, we don't need to cleaver western society in half over this, do we?

(I got it).

[afc wimbledon]

Originally Posted by Locke

I was thinking more along the line of selling 'Indulgences' but you get the idea.

tithing is just the way Proddy churches get around the loss of income that not being able to sell indulgences causes.