Nothing new, the security personnel on site Jan 6 included what looked like snipers, you may want to re-watch the footage. They're just no use for ordinary crowd control.

Debateable. In any event it's very low for any sitting US president.

Partisanship; two-party system in the US.

Ever new stories in the collapsing Trump world

Snapchat plans to permanently ban President Trump’s account from the social media platform once President-elect Joe Biden takes office later this month, a Snapchat spokesperson confirmed.

The acting director for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is resigning just two weeks after taking on the role, an agency official confirmed.

The Census Bureau’s director put an indefinite stop to an effort to gather data on U.S. residents' citizenship status Wednesday, interrupting Trump's plans to use the information when drawing House districts.
Trump had reportedly been pushing the Census Bureau to finalize a document that would fulfill Executive Order 13880, which would exclude undocumented residents from the count that determines how many seats each state gets in Congress for the next decade.

Trump's promised $200 drug-discount cards won't happen.

New York City will sever all public contracts (worth $17 million annually) with the Trump Organization, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday morning, charging that President Donald Trump incited a mob to attack Congress.

Koch network pledges to 'weigh heavy' lawmakers' actions in riots when determining donations.

It is claimed Trump has told staff not to pay Rudy Giuliani over irritation at being impeached again. I thought Rudy was doing it "pro bono"?

Seems my concerns were not so wide off the mark

The snipers were likely secret service or police.

In the past, the National Guard were forbidden to carry weapons in D.C,

There has been a lot of buzz in the media about whether the Senate can actually convict and block Trump after he's left office. Scholars seem split, but it does seem possible depending on which bits of the constitution you read.

Two articles I found interesting:

https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/wo...eaving-office/

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/v...d-307bb4cae87c

There's also a question of whether he'd be entitled to all the perks of being a former president, such as salary, paid staff, etc.

You can do a lot of things that would, on the first look (and on the second) look seem unconstitutional and are yet legal.

After all, nobody thought the surveillance-programs, the "enhanced interrogation" of prisoners (or rather: non-military combatants) and a whole lot of other stuff, the 3-letter agencies and their contractors do and did were legal to begin with.

The question is really: do you want to go there?

Bizarre Trump Executive order.
Trump's troubles are piling up, probably the first of many.

Embittered loser not working

26.5% still hoping for some sort of miracle in the next 6 hours

Goodbye Donni!
Now we can make America great again.

Probably hoping for this.

"Some Trump supporters think he's about to declare martial law -- and they're excited."

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/01/19/t...ory/index.html

Fat chance.

Tom

Is it painful to suffer from verbal diarrhoea?


However what did he mean "I hope it's not a long good-bye" and "we'll be back in some form"?

Fixed yer typo for ya, Tom.

Donald who?

I'm a bit worried about Marton. He posted more than 5000 times in this thread but what should he do now?

I am planning to take up knitting, Socks anybody?

I could use a new touque !