Attempted Coup in the United States: Tracking Investigations and Fallout

He will lose his extra dessert privileges in the Senate cafeteria.

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Oh no, he’d call in his shock troops again!

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Honestly if it meant that you couldn’t eat in the Senate cafeteria or use the Senate gym they would freak the :duck: out about out. Which is to say I think the other thing the Dems should do is actually create consequences, even if it means starting small.

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Didn’t Cory Bush introduce a measure to remove Cruz, Hawley, and the other traitors?

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That would be infinitely more meaningful. Expulsion is a different procedure than censure though.

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I saw where Ted is going to the inauguration. I mean WTF? Just cross his name off of the list already.

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On a good day there is crappy intel sharing up and down The Mall but damn this was obscene.

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Wouldn’t they also be disallowed from serving on any committees?

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I hope so?

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that’s the conspiracy though. (the real one i mean.) during black lives matter protests the trump administration was releasing reports into the local police stream that warned of radical left wing violence, even if that wasn’t based on anything. they learned that if you control that stream, you can shape the police response

so they did the same thing here. by not sharing, they helped suppress the response.

i would hazard that those sorts of cases are usually built through informants and plea deals. it seems super early to expect they have evidence yet.

oto, arizona prosecutors say they do have proof in their charges against q shamwow. and both the feds and the state agencies are calling it insurrection, so hopefully there will be some pretty weighty charges coming

my uncle and his family believe that the most important thing bunkerboy did was to move the embassy to jerusalem. this fulfills a prophecy in revelations :roll_eyes: and that plus our oil wars and the pandemic are signs of the end times.

i believe they think trump is god’s chosen messenger, but they don’t say that particular out loud.

to me it seems a bit self important to believe, oh sure all those other end times came and went but this time it’s happening because we say so. anyway, that’d be my guess what your wife’s friend is talking about

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From the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) politics blog: ‘[censure is] basically the House saying “what you did is very bad”, so even describing it as a slap on the wrist feels a bit strong.’

source:

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When my children started asking about God, I started with the Greek myths. Then Norse, then whatever took their fancy. I’ve always tried to get the idea into their heads that there have not only been a lot of End Times, but also a lot of gods. The more stories they learn, the stranger it might seem calling one of them “right”.

“But remember kids, whether someone believes a story is true or fiction is not the important part. The important part is how they treat people, and how we treat them.”

I’ll know in a decade or two whether that helped or not.

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I wouldn’t wish that on anyone, but hopefully it’ll be a wake up call to see what members of the Squad and others have been enduring for years on a daily basis.

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Yep, she did.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-resolution/25/text

I want to see that image now! So good. “Breaking democracy is messy, clean up the spills with…”

Shit. Coup, part 2: slow and steady.

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More on the force like this one, please!

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I know, right?

Best followup in that thread:

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Good one! I’ve been telling Mr. linkey about the differences, having been part of some big protests at the Capitol on the side of truth and justice, back in the day. The differences are so stark. Not just in terms of police reaction, but the overall infrastructure and foresight and caring for the well-being of your fellow demonstrators. It really is the difference between living the values most Christians profess to believe, and not. Too bad they (so many of the self-professed x-tians) can’t see that.

We’ve been discussing as we see more videos. Here’s a map linked to videos uploaded from parler on the day:

38.890003315715376,-77.01067856566362

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