Trump
So WTF Happened With The National Guard And The Capitol Police?
Chuck, Nancy, Mitch, and Mark defund some police (chiefs).
January 08, 2021 12:17 PM
Finally we see some bipartisanship! Nancy and Mitch and Kevin and Chuck agree that HEADS WILL FUCKING ROLL after Wednesday's terrorist attack on Congress. And they were even unanimous on the first three heads, with Capitol Police Chief Steven A. Sund, House Sergeant at Arms Paul D. Irving, and Senate Sergeant at Arms Michael C. Stenger, who presided over this colossal disaster, first on the block.
Safe bet these guys opening the barricades for the mob will be resigning, too.
THEY LITERALLY JUST LET THEM THROUGH https://t.co/tWMuchly8w— ujungbits ONLY❍ (@ujungbits ONLY❍)1609963215.0
But after that, the picture looks murkier.
<p>We know who sent those rioters to rampage through the halls of Congress, and <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-capitol-police-officer-dead-riot_n_5ff7a13ec5b63642b6fa27ca" target="_blank">beat a responding officer to death with a fire extinguisher.</a> We all saw Trump spend 70 minutes pouring gasoline on the fire as he regaled them with lies about a stolen election and Mike Pence's fictitious ability to stop certification of the results. </p><p>"You will never take back our country with weakness," he told them. After his lawyer encouraged "trial by combat" and his idiot son shouted, "we're coming for you." </p><p>The message was unambiguous. "Together we are determined to defend and preserve government of the people, by the people and for the people," the president said, adding that, "We fight. We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore." </p><p>He promised to accompany the angry mob as it marched toward Congress, but this was a lie, of course. Trump is extraordinarily lazy.</p><p>So we know who incited this riot. But whose fault is it that Congress was virtually unguarded when the domestic terrorists came to break down the doors?</p><p>Well, that one's a bit more complicated.</p><p> The <em><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-protests-washington-guard-military/2021/01/07/c5299b56-510e-11eb-b2e8-3339e73d9da2_story.html" target="_blank">Washington Post </a></em><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/trump-protests-washington-guard-military/2021/01/07/c5299b56-510e-11eb-b2e8-3339e73d9da2_story.html"></a> reports that the DC National Guard was placed under severe restrictions in anticipation of the protest. Remember, because DC isn't a state (and we should do something about that!), the Defense Department controls its Guard troops, so Mayor Muriel Bowser can't call them up at will.</p><blockquote>In memos issued Monday and Tuesday in response to a request from the D.C. mayor, the Pentagon prohibited the District's guardsmen from receiving ammunition or riot gear, interacting with protesters unless necessary for self-defense, sharing equipment with local law enforcement, or using Guard surveillance and air assets without the defense secretary's explicit sign-off, according to officials familiar with the orders. The limits were established because the Guard hadn't been asked to assist with crowd or riot control.<br><br>The D.C. Guard was also told it would be allowed to deploy a quick-reaction force only as a measure of last resort, the officials said.</blockquote><p>That's a far cry from this summer, when the military terrorized racial justice protestors, <a href="https://www.military.com/daily-news/2020/10/13/army-probe-helicopters-buzzing-dc-protesters-now-under-pentagon-review.html" target="_blank">buzzing crowds with low-flying helicopters</a> and mass arresting people for the "crime" of being out on the street.</p><p>Why were the preparations so different this time? Well, of course, there's racism.</p><p>"They see Black Lives Matter and go 'Oh my God, we've got to be ready.' But, hey, these [Trump protestors] have their blue lives matter flags all over the place," Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo, president of the Major Cities Chiefs Association, told the <em><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/capitol-police/2021/01/07/fa3114b8-5114-11eb-83e3-322644d82356_story.html" target="_blank">Post</a></em><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/capitol-police/2021/01/07/fa3114b8-5114-11eb-83e3-322644d82356_story.html">.</a> "And that bias and that false sense of security bit them. And it bit them in a historical fashion yesterday."</p><div id="5fa49" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="30e625bcaca28a9727c935a8559bb8f8"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1347435547615252480" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">A lot of bonkers video from yesterday but I can’t get over this one
https://t.co/KwgdJDJE4n</div> — Joshua Potash (@Joshua Potash)<a href="https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/statuses/1347435547615252480">1610088643.0</a></blockquote></div><p>"Cops were very cool, they were like 'Hey, guys, have a good night.' Well, some of them. It's just crazy," one rioter told CNN. "It's really weird. You could see that some of them were on our side."</p><p>Indeed, it is "really weird." Also "weird" that the president of the United States <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/06/politics/pence-national-guard/index.html" target="_blank">dithered</a> about dispatching the military when Congress was under siege, forcing Mike Pence to exceed his authority and authorize acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller to deploy Guard troops. </p><p>Maryland Governor Larry Hogan immediately dispatched state troopers as he negotiated with the Defense Department to allow Maryland's National Guard to deploy.</p><p>"I was actually on the phone with [House Majority] Leader Hoyer, who was pleading with us to send the guard," Hogan <a href="https://twitter.com/RobertMackey/status/1347374738369175553?s=20" target="_blank">told</a> reporters yesterday. "He was yelling across the room to Schumer and they were back and forth saying we do have the authorization, and I'm saying, 'I'm telling you we do not have the authorization.'"</p><p>"We had multiple times, the general was — we run it up the flagpole, we're ready — 'Don't have authorization. Don't have authorization.'"</p><p>"And then I get a call an hour and a half later, out of the blue, not from the secretary of Defense, not through what would be normal channels ... 'It's Ryan McCarthy, governor, secretary of the Army. Can you come as soon as possible?'"</p><p>Which kind of gives the lie to Trump's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCxGBU3KpHI&feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">speech</a> last night after he got out of Twitter jail, declaring that "I immediately deployed the National Guard and federal law enforcement to secure and expel the intruders."</p><p><em>That did not happen.</em> </p><p>He refused to act, so Mike Pence took the law into his own hands. Whether because Trump wanted those guys with zip tie handcuffs and a noose to do what they came there for, or because of a generalized unwillingness to unleash the military on those "special people" whom "we love,"" is unclear. But something went drastically wrong, and you can bet your bottom dollar that there will be <em>many hours</em> of congressional hearings to figure out exactly what it was.</p><p>Irrespective of the president's intent and the <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/07/capitol-hill-riots-doj-456178" target="_blank">possible connivance</a> of Capitol cops, it's clear that the military was trying to stay as far away from Trump as possible during his last few days in office. Not only because of the blowback after DHS crackdowns on protestors in Seattle and DC, not to mention General Milley's participation in the infamous Trump photo op after teargassing peaceful protestors, but also because Trump has been making a lot of coup-shaped noises about sending in the military to interfere with the vote.</p><p>How many hours has Trump spent closeted with Sidney Powell, Rudy Giuliani, and this Q loon strategizing on ways to hold on to the presidency?</p><div id="0b9ac" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="440d86dfb662a43ba69b885a7f53bbdd"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1339730530661789696" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Here's Michael Flynn on Newsmax saying that Trump could order "military capabilities" to swing states and "rerun an… https://t.co/pVbFR7KBEn</div> — Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar)<a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/statuses/1339730530661789696">1608251624.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Leave aside for the moment whether it was <a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/160814/trump-protesters-attack-us-capital" target="_blank">rational to believe</a> that the fever swamp which spawned a <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/michigan-militia-terrorists-were-gonna-kidnap-gretchen-whitmer-in-a-pt-cruiser-probably" target="_blank">plot to kidnap and murder</a> Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer over COVID restrictions would limit itself to peacefully protesting what they believe is a theft of the presidency. If you really thought the MAGA crowd was just going to piss on the ellipse and go home, would you want the military, which is under Trump's command, surrounding Congress as it met to certify the election? Would it not look like an incipient coup?</p><p>Here's how Fiona Hill described it to the <em><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/after-capitol-riot-trump-officials-rush-to-keep-him-from-sparking-another-conflictat-home-or-abroad" target="_blank">Daily Beast</a></em>.</p><blockquote>The president was trying to stage a coup. There was little chance of it happening, but there was enough chance that the former defense secretaries had to put out <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/10-former-defense-secretaries-military-peaceful-transfer-of-power/2021/01/03/2a23d52e-4c4d-11eb-a9f4-0e668b9772ba_story.html" target="_blank">that letter</a>, which was the final nail through that effort. They prevented the military from being involved in any coup attempt. But instead, Trump tried to incite it himself. This could have turned into a full-blown coup had he had any of those key institutions following him. Just because it failed or didn't succeed doesn't mean it wasn't real.</blockquote><p>In the event, the DC Police were the first outside agency on the scene, and they did restore order. The <em>Post</em> reports:</p><blockquote>After rioters were already inside the building, the D.C. police reinforcements, led by a D.C. police officer, Inspector Robert Glover, began to take charge inside the Capitol itself.<br><br>To start, he sent a contingent of Capitol Police and D.C. officers to retake the Capitol's famed Statuary Hall — which one officer said was "like a mosh pit" full of shoving rioters. Then he sent officers to make a floor-by-floor search, corralling rioters and escorting them out.<br><br><span></span>"If it wasn't for Inspector Glover, we would have probably lost both chambers to looting and had a complete overtaking of the building," the officer on the scene said. The officer spoke on the condition of anonymity because he is not allowed to speak to the news media.</blockquote><p>The city is now crawling with troops from all over the country and is like to remain that way through the inauguration. But we'll be hearing about this day for a long time after that. This ain't fucking Benghazi. This is Trump's coup, the inevitable result of him feeding these trolls for six dangerous years. </p><p>We survived. Democracy survived. 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2020 presidential election
Literally All Former Defense Secretaries To Trump: Don't Even F*cking Try It
Extraordinary.
January 05, 2021 10:45 AM
The Washington Post published something extraordinary Sunday afternoon, something that even in the middle of Trump's final shitshow, we shouldn't let pass without our notice. All 10 living former Defense secretaries — all of them — felt the need to sign an op-ed saying that under no circumstances should the United States military let itself get involved in "election disputes," by which they mean the current authoritarian clown president's attempts to overturn the clearly expressed will of the American people in the November election.
Who's on this list? Oh, just known libs like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, plus General James Mattis and Mark Esper, the two guys who served as Donald Trump's actual Senate-confirmed Defense secretaries. Plus Ashton Carter, William Cohen, Robert Gates, Chuck Hagel, Leon Panetta, and William Perry. Like we said, all of them Katie.
<p>Some key words:</p><blockquote>Each of us swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. We did not swear it to an individual or a party.<br><br>American elections and the peaceful transfers of power that result are hallmarks of our democracy. With <a href="https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-day-abraham-lincoln-was-elected-president" target="_blank" title="constitutioncenter.org">one singular and tragic exception</a> that <a href="https://www.britannica.com/event/American-Civil-War" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" title="www.britannica.com">cost the lives</a> of more Americans than all of our other wars combined, the United States has had an unbroken record of such transitions since 1789, including in times of partisan strife, war, epidemics and economic depression. This year should be no exception.<br><br>Our elections have occurred. Recounts and audits have been conducted. Appropriate challenges have been addressed by the courts. Governors have certified the results. And the electoral college has voted. The time for questioning the results has passed; the time for the formal counting of the electoral college votes, as prescribed in the Constitution and statute, has arrived.</blockquote><p>Extraordinary that they even have to say this, but that's where we are. And really, it's the same place we were when Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, felt the need to <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/as-election-nears-pentagon-leaders-goal-of-staying-out-of-elections-is-tested/2020/10/14/cbf20c6a-0e2a-11eb-bfcf-b1893e2c51b4_story.html" target="_blank">say in October</a> that "There's no role for the U.S. military in determining the outcome of a U.S. election. Zero, there is no role there." Except that now, we also have multiple Republican members of Congress also saying they're going to jam their dicks into the peaceful transfer of power, lodging objections that, when translated from wingnut insurgent to English, simply mean they don't recognize the votes of Black people and other non-Republicans as legitimate. That's it. That's what they think the "fraud" is, that minorities and white people they view as race traitors beat their sad asses November 3.</p><p>Oh yes, and lest we forget, disgraced traitor retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, freshly pardoned, has been <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/pentagon-freaking-out-lil-bit-about-president-sh-t-tyrants-behavior-probably-no-big" target="_blank">whispering sweet nothings to Trump</a> about martial law, as some part of the Krakenhead plan to steal American democracy in a coup. </p><p>Oh yes, and also too the Proud Boys and other Trump-loving incels are <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/proud-boys-get-deplatformed-literally" target="_blank">promising blood</a> in the streets in DC (or something) tomorrow, while Congress certifies the Electoral College votes. </p><p>All of that is happening. So as extraordinary as it is that this op-ed needed to be published, we see why Dick Cheney felt the need to get these guys together. (Yep, he was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/former-defense-secretaries-rebuke-trump-election/2021/01/03/1c708f64-4de5-11eb-b2e8-3339e73d9da2_story.html" target="_blank">one of the originators</a> of the idea! Hit that link for more on how this piece came to be, and how literally all these guys were like <em>yeeeeeeah</em> <em>this unfortunately needs to be said</em>.)</p><p>The <em>Washington Post</em> op-ed continues:</p><blockquote>Efforts to involve the U.S. armed forces in resolving election disputes would take us into dangerous, unlawful and unconstitutional territory. Civilian and military officials who direct or carry out such measures would be accountable, including potentially facing criminal penalties, for the grave consequences of their actions on our republic.</blockquote><p>And then they directed it right at the goon Donald Trump installed as his latest (acting) SecDef, after Trump fired Mark Esper and <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/doing-a-coup-destroying-evidence-wtf-are-trumps-very-dumbest-minions-up-to" target="_blank">started putting</a> Devin Nunes's junior MENSA buddies into senior Pentagon positions after the election, for reasons that are still not fully clear but none of which can be good:</p><blockquote>Acting defense secretary Christopher C. Miller and his subordinates — political appointees, officers and civil servants — <strong>are each bound by oath, law and precedent to facilitate the entry into office of the incoming administration, and to do so wholeheartedly. They must also refrain from any political actions that undermine the results of the election or hinder the success of the new team.</strong></blockquote><p><em>They are just saying</em>. This is not <em>optional</em>. And Trump's goons already <em>have</em> been behaving badly, as they suddenly just <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-transitions-pentagon-briefings-resume-amid-dispute-11609372616" target="_blank">stopped briefing</a> Joe Biden's team before Christmas and only recently restarted, while still dragging their feet about it. God knows what other proverbial IEDs they've got hidden in their vests. Put nothing past them. </p><p> So that is where we are. Rest of this week gonna be a shitshow, but we're gonna make it to January 20, and then Joe Biden will be president. 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Congress
House Declines Trump Offer To Piss On Military, Votes To Override Veto Of Defense Spending Bill
Chaos monkeys.
December 29, 2020 12:08 PM
As Republicans beat their chests and howl on Fox News about Trump staying in office after January 20, they've given the clearest sign yet that they know the game is up. Yesterday 109 House Republicans voted to override the president's veto of the annual defense spending bill, openly defying him for the first time in four years.
Naturally, Trump took the setback with grace and his customary diplomacy.
....being removed and brought home from foreign lands who do NOTHING for us. A disgraceful act of cowardice and tot… https://t.co/CsscO7MIj6— Donald J. Trump (@Donald J. Trump)1609249511.0
You forgot to scream SOCIALISM, sir. But good use of racial slurs and implied threats to Mitch McConnell.
Last week, President Addlepate vetoed the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act, which funds, among other things, military pay raises and upgrades to the nation's cybersecurity.
<p>In a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/presidential-veto-message-house-representatives-h-r-6395/" target="_blank">statement</a> which was only marginally more coherent than the above tweet, Trump called the bill "a 'gift' to China and Russia" and castigated his own party, which overwhelmingly supported the law, because "[y]our failure to terminate the very dangerous national security risk of Section 230 will make our intelligence virtually impossible to conduct without everyone knowing what we are doing at every step." </p><p>He's angry that Congress wants him to quit blowing up our entire national defense strategy on a whim, and he's bigly mad that bases named for Confederate traitors might be rechristened, thanks to Elizabeth Warren's amendment to the NDAA <em>which passed the Republican Senate,</em> because <em>culture war today, culture war tomorrow, culture war forever</em>. But most of all, he's pissed at Google, Twitter, and Facebook for being mean to him, i.e., calling him out for lying his ass off and belatedly refusing to allow their sites to be used to spread political disinformation, and he's hellbent on kneecapping the companies. Section 230 makes it so tech companies (and recipe hubs) aren't liable for user-generated content posted on their platforms. And yet the Cruzes and Hawleys and Grahams want to turn it on its head so it's illegal to ban, say, Proud Boys (or just garden variety lies) from one's platform, because doing so isn't "politically neutral." That's Trump's "vital national security."</p><p>But Republicans were not about to be dragged over the "defund the troops" cliff with that nutbag.</p><p>"It's the exact same bill. Not a comma has changed," ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee Mac Thornberry urged his Republican compatriots yesterday. And many of them agreed, passing the legislation 322-to-87, well past the two-thirds margin needed to override the president's veto. </p><p>So now this turd falls into Mitch McConnell's holiday punchbowl, next to the <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/house-dems-pass-those-2000-stimmy-checks-trump-wanted-your-turn-mitch" target="_blank">$2,000 COVID relief bill </a>turd Trump dropped last week, forcing Ol' Yertle to drag his members back to DC over the holiday to raise a glass of E. coli to the fearless leader. </p><p>Is this what Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue wanted to be doing the week before their Senate runoff elections in Georgia? It is not! They're already in a tough fight and now, instead of campaigning, they're stuck in Washington having to decide between the troops and President Arty McDeals. Also, the extra $2,000 COVID payouts they've derided as foul socialism, which Poppy Loonytunes has decided at the eleventh hour are essential.</p><p>Lie down with dogs, etc.</p><p>"The President's reckless veto would have denied our servicemembers hazard duty pay; our families paid family leave, child care, housing improvements and health protections; and our veterans their benefits," Speaker Nancy Pelosi <a href="https://www.speaker.gov/newsroom/122820-0" target="_blank">said</a> after the vote, calling on the president to "end his eleventh-hour campaign of chaos, and stop using his final moments in office to obstruct bipartisan and bicameral action to protect our military and defend our security." Crazy Nancy tweet incoming in 3 ...2 ...</p><p>The Senate is back in session today to debate the COVID bill and the NDAA override. The vote will take place tonight or tomorrow and will likely deliver the first override of Trump's presidency. Unless Mitch McConnell, who just won another six-year term and faces no challenge to his leadership, blinks in the face of threats to "Negotiate a better Bill, or get better leaders, NOW!"</p><p>Yeah, probably not.</p><p>[<a href="https://rollcall.com/2020/12/28/house-votes-to-override-trump-veto-of-defense-bill/" target="_blank">Roll Call</a> / <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/28/defense-veto-override-trump-451696" target="_blank">Politico</a>]<br></p><p><strong>Follow Liz Dye on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/5DollarFeminist" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE!</a></strong><br></p><p><strong>Please click here to support your Wonkette. And if you're ordering your quarantine goods on Amazon, <a href="https://amzn.to/2wbH77j" target="_blank">this is the link to do it.</a></strong></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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Trump Defunds The Troops Because You Were Mean To Him Online
Hope you're proud of yourselves!
December 24, 2020 02:12 PM
Yesterday President Bone Spurs made good on his threat to veto the National Defense Authorization Act, AKA the NDAA, AKA the $740 billion defense spending bill that sailed through Congress on a 335-78 vote in the House and an 84-13 margin in the Senate. Demanding yet another act of obeisance, Trump insists that Republicans hold a gun to the military's head and threaten to shoot if Nancy Pelosi won't allow the president to break the internet. Because when you make a deal with the devil, the devil always gets his due.
My Administration recognizes the importance of the Act to our national security. Unfortunately, the Act fails to include critical national security measures, includes provisions that fail to respect our veterans and our military's history, and contradicts efforts by my Administration to put America first in our national security and foreign policy actions. It is a "gift" to China and Russia.
Which underpants gnome is he quoting when he says "gift"? Would that be Rasher, Dander or Blister?
<p>Republicans are constantly whining about conservatives being censored on social media, but after Twitter started labelling his garbage tweets as lies, Trump got serious about finding ways to fuck the big tech companies. Then someone on the Derp Squad told him that repealing <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230" target="_blank">Section 230</a> of the Communications Decency Act would make it illegal to be mean to him online, and now he's orange balls to the wall on it.</p><p>Here's a <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20200531/23325444617/hello-youve-been-referred-here-because-youre-wrong-about-section-230-communications-decency-act.shtml" target="_blank">great splainer</a> on why this makes no goddamn sense, but TL,DR, making platforms liable for user-generated content won't stop them moderating — it will stop them allowing users to post content <em>at all</em>. And even if repeal would actually stop Twitter from "censoring" conservatives, this has exactly nothing to do with defense spending, despite Trump's bizarre insistence that "Your failure to terminate the very dangerous national security risk of Section 230 will make our intelligence virtually impossible to conduct without everyone knowing what we are doing at every step."</p><p>What does that even mean???</p><p>The president is also bigly mad about rechristening bases named for Confederate traitors.</p><blockquote>Additionally, the Act includes language that would require the renaming of certain military installations. Over the course of United States history, these locations have taken on significance to the American story and those who have helped write it that far transcends their namesakes. My Administration respects the legacy of the millions of American servicemen and women who have served with honor at these military bases, and who, from these locations, have fought, bled, and died for their country. From these facilities, we have won two World Wars. I have been clear in my opposition to politically motivated attempts like this to wash away history and to dishonor the immense progress our country has fought for in realizing our founding principles.</blockquote><p>BLAHBLAHBLAH.</p><p>And he's complaining about language which would stop him from yanking all our troops out of Germany and Syria on a whim, "provisions of the Act [which] directly contradict my Administration's foreign policy." As if anyone will give a shit about his administration's policy, foreign or otherwise, in 2021.</p><p>So now the GOP has to decide whether to fund the troops or kiss the ring, as Trump demands yet another public demonstration of loyalty on his way out the door. Actually, he wants three such official displays of loyalty, since he's daring them to override a promised veto of the <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/trump-blows-up-the-stimmy-maybe" target="_blank">COVID relief bill</a> <em>and</em> he wants them to <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/trump-celebrates-christmas-by-threatening-to-destroy-republican-party" target="_blank">object to certifying Biden's win in the Electoral College</a> on January 6. The volcano god will have its sacrifices!</p><p>The House is already scheduled to come back on Monday to vote on an override of the NDAA veto. If they manage to get two-thirds of the members onboard, the Senate will come back on Tuesday for its own vote. But while there are probably enough votes in the Senate to get it done, with Mitch McConnell and Senate Armed Services Chair Jim Inhofe onboard to buck the president, rounding up enough House Republicans to act rational is a dicier proposition. </p><p>Exactly no one believes the extortion attempt to repeal Section 230 is going to work, and in normal times, no Gipper would <em>ever</em><span></span> vote to "defund the troops." But we are so far in the upside down that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, the dickless wonder, is saying he won't vote to override. Which probably means that most of the Republican caucus has made the calculation that crossing Trump is more dangerous than waiting for Joe Biden to be sworn in and passing the thing next month. </p><p>Whores, all of them. And speaking of whores ...</p><div id="16d8f" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="b570aa8bc403ce0c32233c36f753405d"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1341849256706138113" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Congress should vote to Repeal Section 230 as requested by President @realDonaldTrump.
I will not vote to overrid… https://t.co/YtS8NfQPbi</div> — Lindsey Graham (@Lindsey Graham)<a href="https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC/statuses/1341849256706138113">1608756767.0</a></blockquote></div><p>That train is never, never late. </p><p>[<a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/23/trump-ndaa-veto-defense-bill-450286" target="_blank">Politico</a> / <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-23/trump-vetoes-key-defense-bill-calling-it-gift-to-china?sref=VxZxfD2Y?sref=VxZxfD2Y" target="_blank">Bloomberg</a> / <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/presidential-veto-message-house-representatives-h-r-6395/" target="_blank">White House Press Office</a>]<br></p><p><strong>Follow Liz Dye on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/5DollarFeminist" target="_blank">RIGHT HERE!</a></strong><br></p><p><strong>Please click here to support your Wonkette. And if you're ordering your quarantine goods on Amazon, <a href="https://amzn.to/2wbH77j" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">this is the link to do it.</a></strong></p><p><strong><a href="https://amzn.to/2wbH77j" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"></a></strong></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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