Short videos are proliferating on social media. They're purporting to show rioters from last week's assault on the US Capitol being detained at airports and kicked off airplanes (their sedition having landed them on No-Fly Lists). While you have to be careful about assuming the videos' accuracy — that they're really violent Trumpsters who are getting their just deserts — they're fun to watch.
Elsewhere, though, the walls really seem to be closing in on Trump World. Twitter dumped Benedict Donald, and now it's belatedly cleaning out QAnon and other nutcase followers of people like Ted Cruz and Sarah Huckabee Sanders, upsetting both of them greatly. (Losing followers is apparently more important than a Capitol Hill police officer losing his life.) Cumulus Media is instructing its biggest right-wing mouthpieces to 86 the "election fraud" story line, or risk being fired. And of course, there's Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
Rumor has it that Democratic leaders in the Senate are discussing freezing out Republican enablers of terrorism and sedition — i.e., Cruz and Josh Hawley — denying them committee assignments they covet, and keeping any bills they might introduce from reaching the floor. Such banishment would hobble them from doing their jobs to the point where they might as well resign. (On the other hand, that would allow them to run for President full time... but maybe they'll cancel each other out.)
Still and all, it's an excellent notion. "That [Cruz and Hawley] think they can walk away and say, 'I just exercised my right as
a Senator'... I don’t know how you can live with yourself right now
knowing that people lost their lives," said Senator Joe Manchin of (D-WVA).
For elected Republicans who foment sedition, a world in which even an uber-moderate, reach-across-the-aisle dude like Manchin has such harsh words is cold and lonely indeed. We cats PURR.
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