Cause…
and Effect!
President Trump addressed throngs of supporters at a rally in Washington, DC, on Wednesday, attributing his election loss to “explosions of b——-” and calling on Vice President Mike Pence to do “the right thing,” as Congress was preparing to certify the victory of President-elect Joe Biden.
“We will never concede,” Trump told the cheering crowd. “You don’t concede when there’s theft.
“This year, they rigged an election. They rigged it like they’ve never rigged an election before,” Trump continued, referring to what he calls “fake news media” and social media companies.
This was followed by a rightwing gang attacking the Capitol, forcing Congress to shut down until police and the National Guard regained control. Even then, Trump soft-pedaled criticism of the most violent of his supporters.
The idjit wing of the Republican Party has no comprehension of Constitutional Democracy. Neither does Trump and his closest allies. Throughout the nation, disgust and contempt for this clown show has resulted in calls for Pence and a majority of the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment to the Constitution and remove Trump from office – right now! Before he can cause even more serious damage to the rule of law.
Eideard 
“Look at the Capitol Hill rioters. Now imagine if they had been black” https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/07/capitol-hill-trump-rioters-race-power
“Capitol Rioters Planned for Weeks in Plain Sight. The Police Weren’t Ready : Insurrectionists made no effort to hide their intentions, but law enforcement protecting Congress was caught flat-footed.” https://www.propublica.org/article/capitol-rioters-planned-for-weeks-in-plain-sight-the-police-werent-ready
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“Trump got a free pass from Twitter and Facebook, and the result was a storming of the Capitol” https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/07/facebook-twitter-fueled-trumps-conspiracies-resulting-in-violence.html
“Following the takeover of the U.S. Capitol by a pro-Trump mob, Twitter and Facebook pulled the plug on President Donald Trump’s accounts, suspending him from posting based on the fear that his messages would incite even more violence than we already saw in the halls of Congress.
But Wednesday was hardly the first time Trump had violated policies on social media that would get a normal person banned. Wednesday’s events were an inevitable conclusion thanks to the conspiracy-laden chatter in the darker corners of the internet that social media companies allowed to freely spread.
Over the course of Trump’s presidency, Facebook and Twitter rewrote their policies to give the president more runway to say dangerous things under the guise that it was important for the public to know the stream-of-consciousness thoughts from world leaders. These policies were clearly designed around Trump’s online behavior and gave him the freedom to spread messages of hate, conspiracy and violence.
At best, those policies simply enabled Trump’s lies and calls for violence. At worst, they let those dangerous messages go viral and be believed by enough people who were willing to break down the doors of the Capitol.”
“Facebook, Instagram ban Trump through at least Inauguration Day : The risks of allowing Trump to remain “are simply too great,” Zuckerberg said.” https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/facebook-instagram-ban-trump-through-at-least-inauguration-day/
“In a rare move, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube yesterday all deleted a video statement and other messages from Trump as he egged on the insurrectionists who broke into the Capitol while Congress was trying to formally certify the results of the November 2020 presidential election.” See https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/twitter-appends-violence-warning-to-trump-tweets-as-mob-storms-capitol/
“Trump Whines to Advisers: Why Can’t I Tweet?!” https://www.thedailybeast.com/after-inciting-capitol-riot-trump-whines-to-advisers-why-cant-i-tweet
“…“Lots of people could’ve and did predict that this would happen,” a source at Facebook told The Daily Beast, referring to the riot at the Capitol. “The possibility of it happening again was high, because this guy [Trump] is fucking nuts.”
“US President Donald Trump has been allowed to Tweet again, after being locked out of his account for 12 hours.
Posting a more conciliatory message, he refrained from reiterating false claims of voter fraud.
Twitter said that it would ban Mr Trump “permanently” if he breached the platform’s rules again.
The move from Twitter puts clear water between it and Facebook, which suspended him “indefinitely” on Thursday.
Twitter has instead given the outgoing president a final warning.
Earlier on Thursday, the popular gaming platform Twitch also placed an indefinite ban on Mr Trump’s channel, which he has used for rally broadcasts.” (BBC) https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55569604
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump 7:46 AM · Jan 8, 2021:
“The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!” https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1347555316863553542
(Jan 8, 2021 6:34 PM ET): “President Trump permanently banned from Twitter over risk he could incite violence” https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2021/01/08/twitter-permanently-bans-president-trump/6603578002/
“Twitter said it feared Trump’s most recent tweets were being interpreted as supporting the rioters and that plans for future armed protests had already been proliferating both on and off the platform, including a proposed attack on the U.S. Capitol and state capitol buildings on Jan. 17.” https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/08/twitter-permanently-suspends-trumps-account.html
“Trump fans ditch Twitter en masse after president’s suspension” (NY Post 1/9/21) https://nypost.com/2021/01/09/trump-fans-leave-twitter-after-presidents-suspension/
“…While it’s unclear exactly how many Twitter users are logging off and moving elsewhere, there has been an exodus for alternative platforms since Trump was banned.”
Also: “Rush Limbaugh deactivates Twitter account” https://nypost.com/2021/01/08/rush-limbaugh-deactivates-twitter-account/
“Trump went ‘ballistic’ after being tossed off Twitter” https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/08/trump-reacts-to-twitter-ban-456785
“Eighty-sixed permanently from his personal account by Twitter for propelling his mob to attack and occupy the Capitol, President Donald Trump transferred his carping to the official @POTUS account early Friday evening.
His four tweets there, since deleted by Twitter, complained of being gagged by the “Democrats and Radical Left” and pledged he would explore “building out our own platform in the near future.” https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/01/09/trump-building-media-empire-456888
“GOP prepares for battle with new archvillain : Less than 24 hours after Trump’s ban from Twitter, Republicans seized on the issue for the midterm elections and beyond.” https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/10/gop-trump-twitter-ban-big-tech-456866
“In theatrical magic, misdirection is a form of deception in which the performer draws audience attention to one thing to distract it from another. Managing audience attention is the aim of all theater, and the foremost requirement of all magic acts.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misdirection_(magic)
Prosecutors in the US Attorney’s office plan to open a federal murder investigation into the death of Brian D. Sicknick, a US Capitol Police officer who died Thursday night, a law enforcement official tells CNN.
Sicknick was injured Wednesday when a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the US Capitol. He died at approximately 9:30 p.m. ET Thursday “due to injuries sustained while on-duty,” Capitol Police officials said in a statement.
The death is being investigated by the DC Metropolitan Police Department’s homicide branch, the US Capitol Police and their federal partners. https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/08/politics/capitol-police-officer-killed/index.html