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No matter what happens someones gonna loose and one side isn't gonna be happy

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I think that Trump supporters have to understand they lost and that destruction of Government buildings doesn't help there cause. There are other ways to voice your opinion.

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Donald Trump is not very mature he cannot exapt the fact that he lost and its pretty sad. He needs to grow up and accept it

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i feel like the country is divided into two sides and no matter what happens everyone always looses.

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I feel like everyone wants their way to be right way when in fact who to say whats right and wrong. What happened at the capital  was devastating. 

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I feel like everyone wants their way to be right way when in fact who to say whats right and wrong. What happened at the capital  was devastating. 

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I think Trump should just accept the loss and get back to his business.

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I think that in general both parties only see from there point of view and don't put themselves in the other parties shoes. I think it's causing the country to be divided.

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When a pro-Trump mob attacked the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, surprisingly few police stood in the way. Protests had been expected for days, but police appeared unprepared for an actual insurrection and not even prepared to keep all the doors locked. Video showed police calmly talking with attackers after they moved into the building.

This came after a year of protests and confrontations with police after police shootings and other kinds of killings across the country. Many of those protests were put down more harshly, including those in Washington, D.C. Officials often responded with tear gas, Tasers or stun grenades.

"What we see here is that certain bodies are accorded a certain kind of treatment and other bodies are not," said Eddie Glaude, the chair of Princeton University's Department of African American studies, in an interview with NPR's Morning Edition.

Glaude, who has written several books about race in the U.S., said that Wednesday's violence at the Capitol demonstrated how "America is more comfortable with protest from the right than it is from the left." Demonstrations from the left are often considered to represent "an existential threat to the country," he said, whereas right-wing protests are taken "as a kind of patriotic gesture."

Following are excerpts from the interview, edited for length and clarity.

Interview Highlights
What did you think about as you watched the video of the attack on the Capitol yesterday?
Well, you know, I thought that the nation stands on a knife's edge in general. But more particularly, I ask myself the question: Who has the right to protest in this country? And what was very clear to me is that there is a sense in which some people who happen to be white are accorded the rights of citizenship and the right to dissent and others are expected to be grateful. And that was in clear view yesterday in terms of how the police responded to a mob insurrection, in effect.
What do you mean that it was in clear view yesterday?
You saw peaceful protest in Lafayette Square. You saw peaceful protests across the country over the summer after George Floyd's murder. And what do we see in response? We saw tear gas. We saw rubber bullets. We saw the vitriol. We saw the aggression of police in responding to that peaceful protest.

... And here you have literally thousands of people rushing the people's house, walking through the Capitol. In some instances, pacing, placing pipe bombs and other things around the Capitol. A woman was shot and then they just walked out, some of them. Right? And I could hear all across the country, at least on my Twitter feed, people just in amazement. Not that they wanted the police to be violent in their response, but it gave evidence to the fact that some people are accorded the benefit of the doubt, are given certain kinds of leeway or space, and other people are not.
And there is a case to be made for the policing that was done yesterday. Not that they allowed people into the building. But once it happened, to have a nonviolent response to it, to respond slowly, to respond carefully. But I think you're telling me that in many other instances across the country, that is not how police responded at all.
We've said this before, in other instances. Dylann Roof can commit mass murder and he's arrested and he's alive. White men could wield knives and they're arrested. We see training. We see patience and they are alive.

Black men and women end up dead. If they're even in their homes, if they're in their garages, if they're playing with a pellet gun. A Black child is dead. And so what we see here is that certain bodies are accorded a certain kind of treatment and other bodies are not. ... It seems to me that America is more comfortable with protest from the right than it is from the left.
What do you mean by that?
Ever since 1960s and the protests of the '60s, the marches, the Black Power movement, there's this sense that protests from the left represent an existential threat to the country. Protests from the right often is viewed as a kind of patriotic gesture, whether it's [Ammon] Bundy and those folks defending their land or "against federal intrusion." We can hear it over and over again. It's almost as if we're more comfortable with the right and that right that tends toward the fascism, tends toward a kind of white nationalism than we are with those that we often want to associate with socialism.
Did you find this assault on the Capitol yesterday actually to be an existential threat to the country?
Absolutely. I've been arguing over and over again for the last four years that Donald Trump represented an existential threat to the republic. And what he's done, he's weaponized an insidious feature of American life, and that is that you have greed and grievance, racism and resentment, hubris and hatred animating a large portion of this country. And you had a politician who weaponized it, who leveraged it for his own ends. ... We saw Americans taking down the American flag, attempting to take down the American flag to replace it with a Trump flag. If that isn't an existential threat, I'm not sure what is.
What would you have the incoming president, Joe Biden, do about this? Suppose we get through the next 13 days, we get to another administration with a badly divided country. How would you approach this problem?
Well, the first thing I think the Biden-Harris administration must do is to execute the law. They need to prosecute these people to the fullest extent of the law. ... If no one is held accountable after this insurrectionary act, we will doom ourselves to having to deal with this again. We've been coddling this element since our birth as a nation. And it has threatened to overwhelm our democracy ever since. We finally need to uproot this if we're going to get beyond it.
Kelley Dickens and Catherine Mailhouse edited the audio version of this story. Avie Schneider produced for the Web.

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When a pro-Trump mob attacked the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, surprisingly few police stood in the way. Protests had been expected for days, but police appeared unprepared for an actual insurrection and not even prepared to keep all the doors locked. Video showed police calmly talking with attackers after they moved into the building.

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I think that with the division of ideas in America, including views on covid and politics have seriously affected the United States and will be a important moment in history 

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I think that with the division of ideas in America, including views on covid and politics have seriously affected the United States and will be a important moment in history 

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I believe that the country is just way to divided and that no matter who wins or loses in a way everyone is losing

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i think trumps acting ridiculous. i dont understand why he wont just accept defeat and move on with his life. its making us look bad as a country. hes ruining his chances of ever getting re-elected

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What many suspected as to why a throng of Trumpers infiltrated the U.S. Capitol Wednesday seems to finally be confirmed straight from one of the "revolutionaries" ... who had a hippy-dippy explanation while rubbing pepper spray outta her eyes.

A woman -- Elizabeth from Knoxville, TN -- did a quick on-camera interview Wednesday amid all the chaos in D.C. ... where lawmakers were thwarted by an invasion as they tried to certify Joe Biden's victory.

BREAKING: revolution in process as Trump supporters break into the Capitol building, attacking police, breaking windows, and knocking down doors

Full anarchy at this "mostly peaceful" demonstration DC

The people have pushed through & are storming to main chambers pic.twitter.com/NW6VDDNBQw
- ELIJAH SCHAFFER (@ElijahSchaffer) January 6, 2021@ElijahSchaffer

She explains she made it about a foot or so inside the building before being pushed out ... and then getting a heavy dose of mace to the dome, which forced her to retreat.

When asked why she was trying to get in -- Liz here tearfully gives it to the cameraman straight with a no-duh response ... "We're storming the Capitol, it's a revolution!" Her guy friend carries her off afterward.

It might seem like an obvious answer, but honestly ... hearing it just confirms how insane this whole thing is, and what sort of state of mind some of these folks are in.

Of course, the Capitol was put on a full lockdown and members of Congress were evacuated as protesters breached the doors and had their run of the place for a while ... including in different chambers of Congress as well as in offices of politicians, like Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

It sounds like this woman may have OD'd on her music choices ... but something tells us she's feeling more Diplo than Beatles.

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For the 20th straight day, there were virtually no vacant intensive care beds available across much of California as hospitals scrambled to treat wave after wave of new COVID-19 patients.

"This surge has been relentless," said Dr. Ahmad Kamal, Santa Clara County's COVID-19 director, during a Wednesday press briefing. "It is straining our health care system to a breaking point."

Intensive care bed availability in the Bay Area rose fractionally on Wednesday to 7.4%, but the overall picture across the state looked grim. Capacity remained at 0% in Southern California and the San Joaquin Valley, the two hardest-hit regions.

A record 21,922 people were hospitalized with a confirmed case of COVID-19 in California as of Wednesday, according to data compiled by The Chronicle. Nearly 4,700 of those patients were in intensive care units.

There were 503 new COVID-19 deaths reported - well above the two-week daily average of just under 300 deaths a day.

The total number of confirmed cases in California grew by 43,907, pushing the state over 2.5 million confirmed infections since the start of the pandemic.

Health officials urged residents to stay home, mask up and avoid frivolous 911 calls due to the unprecedented strain on hospitals and emergency medical systems.

"The E.R. is full," said Dr. Jeffrey Chien, the director of the emergency department at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose. "Folks are waiting for beds - we're getting really creative with places to seat patients."

The dire warning came after some hospitals in Santa Clara County reported waits of up to seven hours to put patients in beds.

Before Thanksgiving, the county was averaging about five cases per 100,000 people. Now, it's 50 per 100,000, according to Dr. Kamal, the county's COVID-19 director.

"This is 10 times worse than we've had before," he said. "As awful as it is, it can get worse."

Hospital outbreak

The news briefing came as a report emerged that nearly 10% of the emergency room staff at a Gilroy hospital have tested positive for the coronavirus, the second outbreak to hit South Bay hospitals in recent weeks.

Eight out of around 80 emergency department staff at St. Louise Regional Hospital contracted the coronavirus in the past week, Joy Alexiou, public information officer for the Santa Clara Valley Health and Hospital System, said Wednesday.

Infected staff members are quarantining and none required hospitalization.

Santa Clara County Counsel James Williams said he expects the state will extend the regional stay-at-home order for the Bay Area, which is set to expire on Friday.

The order was already extended in the Southern California and San Joaquin Valley regions.

"We have every indication it will be extended here in the Bay Area as well because the hospital situation has not improved since it was issued," Williams said.

Terrible milestone

The picture in the Southern California region was even more dire, with public health data showing that more than 1,000 residents in Los Angeles County have died of COVID-19 over the past week.

"L.A. County reached the terrible milestone of more than 11,000 deaths due to COVID-19," Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Director Dr. Barbara Ferrer said in a statement Wednesday. "As a community, we must commit to stopping the spread of COVID-19 in its tracks so that we can save as many lives as possible."

Los Angeles County health officials have directed ambulance crews not to transport patients with little chance of survival to hospitals and to conserve the use of oxygen.

California has assigned more than 1,420 additional medical personnel around the state in an effort to lessen the strain on hospitals facing surging new cases and hospitalizations.

The program is being managed by the state's Office of Emergency Services and includes members of the National Guard, emergency responders and over 800 contractors.

Vaccine delays

The staggering number of new cases, hospitalizations and deaths come as vaccines continue to trickle out. Less than one-third of the available vaccine doses have been administered in California so far, according to state data.

As of Tuesday, 459,564 doses out of the 1,762,900 allocated to California had been administered, covering roughly 1.5% of the state's entire population of adults.

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said at a press briefing Wednesday that states should not let priority recommendations get in the way of distributing vaccines. He said states like California should open up vaccinations to older adults and vulnerable groups.

"By all means, you want to be opening up to people 70 and over, or 65 and over," Azar said.

Pharmacy chains CVS and Walgreens said Wednesday that they expect to complete the first round of vaccinations at skilled nursing facilities by Jan. 25.

In a statement, CVS Health CEO Larry J. Merlo said the company is in discussions with several states to make a limited number of doses available in the coming weeks at its CVS Pharmacy locations in advance of the broader rollout.

Variant spreads

Concern continued to grow around a highly contagious variant of the coronavirus that has been discovered in California.

Twenty-four new cases of a mutated SARS-CoV-2 strain, known as "B117" and first identified in the United Kingdom in December, were discovered in San Diego County on Tuesday.

Out of the 24 newly confirmed patients, four are children under 10. The infected are believed to have no travel history and to have come from 19 different households, county officials said.

"The fact that these cases have been identified in multiple parts of the region shows that this strain of the virus could be rapidly spreading," said Wilma Wooten, San Diego County's public health officer.

Gov. Gavin Newsom canceled his daily COVID-19 update Wednesday in response to the events transpiring at the U.S. Capitol, where protesters overran the building during congressional presidential confirmation proceedings.

Earlier in the day, Newsom called for $600 stimulus payments to low-income Californians. With less than a month to go before California property owners could resume evicting tenants who have not paid their rent, he also said that he would support extending the state's partial eviction moratorium.

Aidin Vaziri is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: avaziri@sfchronicle.com

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NBC News projects Warnock wins Georgia Senate race

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NBC News has projected that Democrat Raphael Warnock wins the Georgia Senate race over Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler.

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After a day of riots at the Capitol, Congress counted the Electoral College votes and confirmed the win for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.

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We need to figure out what went wrong, says fmr. U.S. Capitol Police chief

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Terrance Gainer, former U.S. Capitol Police chief, joins Shepard Smith to discuss why there wasn't enough security and police to control the mob that infiltrated the Capitol today.

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Die-hard Trump supporters are planning to protest Jan. 6, seeking to pressure congressional Republicans into reversing Joe Biden's electoral victory.

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