I am running out of popcorn...

Wow, so he completely washes his hands of it, making up bs and basically completely absolving himself of any blame. What a top-notch person he is.

Even when he leaves office, will this bs stop?

msukiwi:

 

Sideface:CAPTION COMPETITION

 

"Just look at the positive! There is a huge tax write-off coming!"

 

Who's got the codes to the cheese!

Sideface:

 

CAPTION COMPETITION WINNER

 

 

Here is the original caption, which I thought was too long and boring.

 

Less is more!

 

Thank you to all contributors for their varied and insightful captions.  🙂

 

AND THE WINNER IS:  @Rikkitic:  "I feel cleaner already!"

 

He wins $10,000 MAGA gold dollars:

 

 

click me

 

Unfortunately, the small print shows this to be from the Series of 2020, which was demonetised on 01 January 2021.

 

PS   My own suggested caption: "That's the last time I go on a Trump Cruise."

 

Thank you thank you for the honour. I feel like a presidential medal winner! I would like to express my wish for world peace and my gratitude by donating the entire $10,000 to the Trump re-election campaign. May all his donations have just as much value!

p.s.: Your caption is also pretty cool. I would have voted for it.

I now predict that the rabid right republicans will soon split off from the party, forming a new neo-fascist 'patriots' party with Trump as actual or titular head. This will leave the remaining republicans greatly diminished and possibly mortally wounded. America is in for a bad time regardless of who comes out on top.

The Washington Post - Rep. Watson Coleman: I’m 75. I had cancer. I got covid-19 because my GOP colleagues dismiss facts. 

Bonnie Watson Coleman, a Democrat, represents New Jersey’s 12th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.

[She is a cancer survivor who was in lock-down with other politicians (only some of them wearing masks) for several hours during the Capitol riots.]

today

Over the past day, a lot of people have asked me how I feel. 

 

They are usually referring to my covid-19 diagnosis and my symptoms. I feel like I have a mild cold. 

 

But even more than that, I am angry.

 

I am angry that after I spent months carefully isolating myself, a single chaotic day likely got me sick. 

 

I am angry that several of our nation’s leaders were unwilling to deal with the small annoyance of a mask for a few hours. 

 

I am angry that the attack on the Capitol and my subsequent illness have the same cause: my Republican colleagues’ inability to accept facts. ...

 

freitasm:

 

I am running out of popcorn...

 

 

 

This daily show is so much better than Shortland street.

kingdragonfly:

Trump

 

• his remarks to a rally beforehand were “totally appropriate”
  
  
• the effort by Congress to impeach and convict him was “causing tremendous anger”
  
  
• “People thought what I said was totally appropriate,”
  
  
• “If you look at what other people have said, politicians at a high level about the riots during the summer, the horrible riots in Portland and Seattle and various other places, that was a real problem.”

I wouldn't expect him to say anything else. Sounds pretty restrained for him.

Pence confirms no 25th Amendment. Expected. The 20th Jan amendment will work though

Now early on it was asked why should NZers care about America , T**** and his grabbing of this or that, well we have those people below here.
Auckland radio seems rife with them.
If anything like my workplace, there are those getting regular tweets about NZ figures that are recycled Obama, Hillary, Biden tweets from America with name changes. 
This sickness has not stopped at the border.

Its beyond the Billy TK lot too.

'No regrets': Evangelicals and other faith leaders still support Trump after deadly US Capitol attack
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/01/12/evangelicals-donald-trump-capitol-riot-voter-fraud/6644005002/

""
Part of the reason is that, for the past four years, evangelical leaders have created an "echo chamber" where they blamed all of Trump's digressions and missteps on the Democratic Party or the mainstream media, said Sarah Posner, an investigative journalist and author of "Unholy: Why White Evangelicals Worship at the Altar of Donald Trump."
""

False Profits 

ezbee: Auckland radio seems rife with them.

ezbee:

'No regrets': Evangelicals and other faith leaders still support Trump after deadly US Capitol attack
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/01/12/evangelicals-donald-trump-capitol-riot-voter-fraud/6644005002/

Evangelicals "are so conditioned not to trust the media, it's going to be really hard to convince them of the truth of what happened on Wednesday," Posner said.

tdgeek:

 

Pence confirms no 25th Amendment. Expected. The 20th Jan amendment will work though

 

Don't think there is much surprise he was not going to do anything he has no spine.

The New York Times - Pentagon to Arm National Guard Troops Deploying to Capitol for Inauguration

breaking

The armed National Guard troops will be responsible for security around the Capitol building complex, officials said. 

 

About 15,000 Guard troops are expected to be deployed in the city. ...

 

The National Guard is expected to officially announce the arming of some of the troops Tuesday night or Wednesday morning. 

 

The decision is important because in the past, federal and local officials have shied away from militarizing the Capitol.

 

And in the red corner ...