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Smoove_B wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:11 pm CNN has a photo gallery of today's events if you want to be amazed, horrified, and filled with dread.

hepcat wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:45 pm Taking a little break from getting my ass handed to me in Anachrony by the solo AI. What were the tweets that Trumpie sent that got him temp banned? I don't see them now as they've obviously been removed.

Twitter made the tweets unavailable. The company said if Trump removes them, the account will remain locked for 12 hours, and he doesn’t, it will “remain locked.”

One of the tweets called Vice President Mike Pence a coward for not helping Trump illegally reverse his election loss; another praised the Capitol rioters; and a third was a video message in which Trump falsely claimed that the presidential election was fraudulent before telling rioters to go home.

Twitter had followed Facebook’s lead in removing a similar video. “This is an emergency situation and we are taking appropriate emergency measures, including removing President Trump’s video,” tweeted Guy Rosen, Facebook’s Vice President of integrity. “We removed it because on balance we believe it contributes to rather than diminishes the risk of ongoing violence.”

But the president’s Twitter account was not deleted, a step Twitter takes in some cases, and some on the social media service were asking why.

The issue is not new — Twitter has a policy against tweets that incite violence that it does not apply to all users — but it flared again during the extraordinary events Wednesday after Trump addressed a rally on the National Mall aimed at protesting the presidential election results shortly before Congress convened to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.

Twitter specifically exempts the leaders of countries from its anti-violence policy. Company leaders have argued that the World Leaders Policy allows people to see what important political figures say, and that censoring them would take away from political discourse.

Jaymann wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:37 pm
I think it would be a bit problematic to issue a pardon to: All those people who stormed the Capitol.

hepcat wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:45 pm What were the tweets that Trumpie sent that got him temp banned?

hepcat wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:45 pm Taking a little break from getting my ass handed to me in Anachrony by the solo AI. What were the tweets that Trumpie sent that got him temp banned? I don't see them now as they've obviously been removed.

Little Raven wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:49 pm https://twitter.com/jmartNYT/status/1346980934701240321

Smoove_B wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:52 pm If there isn't immediate and unanimous certification of the votes after what happened today, the dissenters need to be pilloried.

According to a since-deleted video posted to his Facebook page, newly elected Republican Del. Derrick Evans participated in the mob that forcefully made their way into the U.S. Capitol.

Unagi wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 7:47 pmAlso (but not withstanding) I don’t think they were really defending a line there. The camera man and dude in sweatpants are already beyond ‘the line’ when we see the police give up their post.

Little Raven wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:48 pm

hepcat wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:45 pm What were the tweets that Trumpie sent that got him temp banned?

There have been so many today. I'm honestly not sure what pushed them over the edge.

malchior wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 9:01 pm I need to invest in a bat signal to summon Rand Paul's neighbor

https://twitter.com/TheViewFromLL2/stat ... 9048501249

Little Raven wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 9:14 pm https://twitter.com/alanhe/status/1346979069682970624

hepcat wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 9:19 pm

malchior wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 9:01 pm I need to invest in a bat signal to summon Rand Paul's neighbor

https://twitter.com/TheViewFromLL2/stat ... 9048501249

That piece of garbage has been touting an election “theft” for weeks. He sees what it’s done and now realizes his place in history books will be right below the guy who faked his son’s loss to a weather balloon.

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S refusal to accept his election defeat and his relentless incitement of his supporters led Wednesday to the unthinkable: an assault on the U.S. Capitol by a violent mob that overwhelmed police and drove Congress from its chambers as it was debating the counting of electoral votes. Responsibility for this act of sedition lies squarely with the president, who has shown that his continued tenure in office poses a grave threat to U.S. democracy. He should be removed.

Mr. Trump encouraged the mob to gather on Wednesday, as Congress was set convene, and to “be wild.” After repeating a panoply of absurd conspiracy theories about the election, he urged the crowd to march on the Capitol. “We’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you,” he said. “You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.” The president did not follow the mob, but instead passively watched it on television as its members tore down fences around the Capitol and overwhelmed police guarding the building. House members and senators were forced to flee. Shots were fired and at least one person was struck and killed.

Rather than immediately denouncing the violence and calling on his supporters to stand down, Mr. Trump issued two mild tweets in which he called on them to “remain” or “stay” peaceful. Following appeals from senior Republicans, he finally released a video in which he asked people to go home, but doubled down on the lies fueling the vigilantes. “We love you. You’re very special,” he told his seditious posse. Later, he excused the riot, tweeting that “these are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away.”

Smoove_B wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 6:55 pm https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/stat ... 1639946245

ALERT: Person shot at US Capitol today has died, per law enforcement source

I saw the video on Twitter. She was dead when she hit the ground. Died wearing a Trump flag like a cape.

Smoove_B wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 6:50 pm So many layers to what happened today.

https://twitter.com/SenJeffMerkley/stat ... 5932648451

Electoral college ballots rescued from the Senate floor. If our capable floor staff hadn’t grabbed them, they would have been burned by the mob.

Smoove_B wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 6:55 pm https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/stat ... 1639946245

ALERT: Person shot at US Capitol today has died, per law enforcement source

I saw the video on Twitter. She was dead when she hit the ground. Died wearing a Trump flag like a cape.

Alefroth wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 9:41 pm

Smoove_B wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 6:55 pm https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/stat ... 1639946245

ALERT: Person shot at US Capitol today has died, per law enforcement source

I saw the video on Twitter. She was dead when she hit the ground. Died wearing a Trump flag like a cape.

I hope they can identify who the gun belonged to, and I'd like to see her family sue the Capitol Police.