Odds And Ends

   This will not be super long, I promise. There are just a few updates that I need to let you all in on. Up first, twitter has finally banned President Trump’s account permanently. Yes, you read that right. The president’s main form of communication is now gone for good. The platform released a statement that reads, “After a close review of recent tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them- specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter- we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.” Next up, the man who notoriously took a picture in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office has been arrested. And finally, more details are coming out about what was happening in the White House as the attack against US Capitol by his own supporters  was unfolding. Apparently, the president was trying to reach a specific senator to tell him to do whatever he could to stop the certification of the electoral college. The call came in at about 2:26 pm ET, mere minutes after the initial siege. First of all, he called the wrong senator so he had to pass his phone to the correct one. Second of all, the capitol is under attack, these senators are huddled in an underground, secure room and the president had no concern for the real issue at hand. Instead, he only seems to be focused on his political career which is seemingly going up in flames as the minutes pass.
    New information also has come through that the Vice President has reached out to the family of the capitol police officer who lost his life in the riots. The president-elect has also relayed his condolences in his live broadcast earlier today. The president has not reached out at all. After his death was confirmed, Speaker Pelosi order all the flags at the capitol complex to be lowered to half mast while flags at the White House remain in their places with no plans to move them.