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Capitol Hill and the next 2 weeks (Trump #118)

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Roussette · 07/01/2021 10:52

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DeRigueurMortis · 08/01/2021 01:16

@Jaichangecentfoisdenom

Just watched all the way through, having found the closed captions. Either he's been forced to stick to a script or, as I said before, someone at the White House got busy with the editing tools (to edit the tool). No real idea what CGI is, but that video seems fake to me. For one thing, he's never sounded so properly presidential. It's all lies, whatever.

CGI - computer generated imagery.

It's how you can get Jeff Bridges acting and looking 40 years younger for Tron2 by way of example.

It's also how you can take the face of someone and make them say what you want. Link below is a deliberately low level example:

vimeopro.com/igorfioravanti/cgi-igor-fioravanti/video/56907526

lionheart · 08/01/2021 01:20

Looks like the base does not appreciate the video.

Wackadoo · 08/01/2021 01:21

@dreamingbohemian who is blackmailing him?

littlebillie · 08/01/2021 01:24

@Jaichangecentfoisdenom

Just watched all the way through, having found the closed captions. Either he's been forced to stick to a script or, as I said before, someone at the White House got busy with the editing tools (to edit the tool). No real idea what CGI is, but that video seems fake to me. For one thing, he's never sounded so properly presidential. It's all lies, whatever.
I agree fake and the lie about the National Guard Hmm
lionheart · 08/01/2021 01:40

WSJ unhappy.

www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trumps-final-days-11610062773

mathanxiety · 08/01/2021 01:48

Important though it is in the wider scheme of things, I feel the references and debate about BLM vs. Trump supporter policing approaches are a distraction right now, and a very convenient one for the right wing fanatics.

It is more important to focus squarely on the groups who converged on DC, how they organised, who are the leaders, what their points of reference are, who is funding them, and how they can be stopped.

cbt944 · 08/01/2021 01:55

Also, why the FBI were not onto this, as it was talked about online, and boasted and gloated about, apparently, for weeks...

mathanxiety · 08/01/2021 01:58

There is a lot of sense in the WSJ article, imo.

AcrossthePond55 · 08/01/2021 02:01

Unconfirmed report that DeVos is resigning.

Per Rachel Maddow

Mutunus · 08/01/2021 02:03

A bit of happy news in an otherwise shocking 48 hours.
From The Independent; Trump's online stores taken down tinyurl.com/y4l7s7bm.

AcrossthePond55 · 08/01/2021 02:14

DeVos resignation confirmed by NBC news.

mathanxiety · 08/01/2021 02:23

www.bostonglobe.com/2021/01/07/opinion/horror-confederate-flag-us-capitol/?fbclid=IwAR2WhV87nKE9s7p9ADXLmhdNxOJOdGtM8lzKPmT1qOGdmHsCIqROr5GHQEQ

A black staffer of Sen. Elizabeth Warren's reflects on the sight of the Confederate flag in the Capitol.

user1471565182 · 08/01/2021 02:25

Ahhh 'rebuilding the greatest economy on earth'. Hes working for China.

Somebody has put the shit right up the fucking coward

Copperas · 08/01/2021 03:01

The McNinny statement is extraordinary - it reads like it is by, from and about beleaguered White House staff not Trump. There’s a full transcript on the Guardian live feed. Has anyone got a better link?

Willowkins · 08/01/2021 03:31

At first I thought he was on drugs but just realised it's not live. That must have been the 10th time he read those words - each time he strayed from the script, he was told to do it again.

TracyBeakerSoYeah · 08/01/2021 04:12

It almost looks like someone is under the podium squeezing him hard judging by the way Trump is twitching & jerking.

TheClaws · 08/01/2021 05:48

According to Ilhan Omar, impeachment will be proceeding tomorrow.

Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN 2hr

We will impeach!

Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN 2hr

Most likely tomorrow.

Jaichangecentfoisdenom · 08/01/2021 06:09

@Copperas - www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-press-secretary-kayleigh-mcenany/ - text from the White House site.

So Trump thought he would get away with it because everyone else is too stupid to understand his role in it? Or he's just completely delusional? Or will do anything at all to keep himself from prison once his term is over? The more I think about it, the more shocking it is that a President-Elect would have to be making the sort of speeches Biden is giving about an incumbent President. In any other banana republic, Trump would have been taken away and shot, or at the very least, imprisoned, by now.

Blacktothepink · 08/01/2021 06:42

If he’s trying to save his ass then surely it’s too late...what with inciting the crowd. I wonder if the FBI or some such has put the frighteners on him 🤔

Jaichangecentfoisdenom · 08/01/2021 07:08

I agree with Keith Olbermann's take on it: "He never said "PEACEFUL". He never said "BIDEN"." I have to admit, in the case of Trump, I have become a full-blown conspiracy theorist, no theory about him is too far-fetched for me.
https://twitter.com/keitholbermann/status/1347432850249768961?s=21

RedToothBrush · 08/01/2021 07:32

Have the Republicans told him they intend to agree with impeachment and this is him trying to worm out of it?

Seriously something stinks about this.

itsgettingweird · 08/01/2021 07:48

Woaaaahhhhhh I can see why people think that recording doctored.

His speech is clearer, faster, he's stood upright and not his side idea head cocked stance.
He's looking at the camera frontways rather from the side of his eyes.

And he almost has some intonation.

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