Well, it’s not over for America, but I think it might be for these two. Successful or not, I’m not convinced anyone from Trump’s movement would care to help the ordinary people they suckered in from facing consequences, when they can just as easily con new ones.
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“Public discussion of the commission has waned in recent weeks amid concerns that the political hurdles are too high to overcome”
It was goddamned insurrection. Get over your damn high hurdles!
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The best people.
At least he wasn’t in BLM, though.
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A “controversial sandwich” business…
???
Seriously, though, what a jerk.
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I thought we’d already established that the answer was to this was drone strikes.
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Guy Reffitt, who drove from Texas to Washington, D.C., also said in recorded conversations that he and others were carrying firearms during the siege of the Capitol.
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Update about the “traitors get shot” guy
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“But the judge ruling on bail issues in the case, Magistrate Zia Faruqui, ordered the defendant, Guy Reffitt, to remain in jail pending trial because of the danger he poses to the broader community.”
How long before the judge’s name becomes an issue? I suspect not long at all.
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Walking while chewing gum is right out - the quoted genius didn’t even know what building he was in.
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/pelosi-bipartisan-commission-january-6-capitol-attack
Those influencing factors — the months of voter fraud conspiracy spread by former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies — are a sticking point. Loathe to place blame with Trump who much of the party is still beholden to, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has already threatened to push a focus on supposed left-wing violence — the overwhelmingly peaceful Black Lives Matter protests and antifa — if Democrats insist on the wider scope.
Ultimately, the Army caved and deployed the National Guard following pressure from acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, amid the situation spiraling out of control. The Army additionally realized that District officials wouldn’t look to the Justice Department for assistance like they would’ve preferred.
The Army’s internal memo signaling resistance to deploying the military to support law enforcement in D.C. was issued months after Milley and then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper faced mounting backlash for participating in Trump’s church photo-op — which occurred amid federal law enforcement forcefully clearing out Black Lives Matter protesters near the White House by using pepper balls and flying helicopters at low altitude over protesters. The Justice Department also placed uniformed agents with no insignia from the Bureau of Prisons on the streets.
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This is maybe a little off topic here:
The ability of Democrats to get anything done right now rests on a razor’s edge. Not because Mitch McConnell will throw a hissy fit, and because something something constitution something well, what can you do, but because:
The probability that such a shift may occur during this particular Congress may well be even higher than that. At the moment, no fewer than six Democratic senators over the age of 70 represent states where a Republican governor would be free to replace them with a Republican, should a vacancy occur.
My question is how did we raise an entire generation of Democrats who are so self absorbed and disinterested in posterity that they haven’t spent the last, I don’t know, twenty of their eighty fucking years cultivating the next generation to take their place?
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Replace Breyer with at least 5 new justices. Then we’re talking. It’s the only way to defend HB1 before it even gets passed.
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They don’t have a monthly breakdown, so I can’t tell if there’s a precipitous drop off after January 8th.
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A dozen Republicans voted against Congressional Gold Medals for police who protected them on Jan. 6
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FBI releases video of 10 violent suspects from Capitol riot who remain unidentified
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