Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

Republicans in disarray!

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

“Joe Biden deserved better than he got from some folks in his own party.”

Another missed opportunity for Jamie Dimon to just shut the fuck up.

Never forget that he train is barreling down on Trump, even as he dances on the tracks.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Pelosi: “He either is stupid, or he thinks the rest of us are.” Why not both?

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

If you are in line to indict donald trump, stay in line.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

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(Strong suggestions it’s the Three Percenters / Oath Keepers, but that mustn’t be averred directly, because so many members of that cohort are also working law enforcement officials.)

Comprehensive explainer, by the BBC, of our quaint ex-colonial ways:

… The idea stems from the belief among some QAnon followers that the United States turned from a country into a corporation after the passage of the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871.

It’s an odd, unfounded theory drawn from the sovereign citizen movement, an extreme libertarian fringe that opposes federal laws, general taxation and even the US currency on the grounds that they restrict individual rights.

Believers in the QAnon offshoot maintain that every US president, act and amendment passed after 1871 is illegitimate…

Come, fellow SovCits, let us declare a return to the halcyon days when not-Whites were livestock, and women not much more privileged!

Somebody keep an eye on Rand Paul; I don’t think he’s a sovereign-citizen believer, but he’s surely aware of their propaganda and ready to take advantage of any opening they might wedge.

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  3. 3.

    Immanentize

    If only Rand Paul’s neighbor was a stronger man….

    I’m really too exhausted for this crap.

  5. 5.

    Baud

    Notice the difference between the headline and the synopsis.

    Republicans Won Blue-Collar Votes. They’re Not Offering Much in Return.

    NYT > Top Stories / by Trip Gabriel / 1h

    Party leaders want to capitalize on Donald Trump’s appeal to the white working class. But in recent weeks, they’ve offered very little to advance working people’s economic interests

    I didn’t click.

  7. 7.

    Immanentize

    On the bright side, today is HPV Awareness Day!  Hooray!

    Seems appropriate somehow.

  9. 9.

    satby

    They shouldn’t have cancelled, they should have staged enough law enforcement inside and as out of sight as possible and then had a normal session, letting any potential insurrectionists get a huge surprise if they tried anything.

  13. 13.

    debbie

    @satby:

    Maybe the chatter showed a real threat to Nancy. I can’t imagine she would have gone along with cancellation unless there was a genuine threat.

  15. 15.

    Low Key Swagger

    Really don’t like this decision. Knowing in advance means we can plan. Are they going to shut down for every threat?

  18. 18.

    SFAW

    libertarian fringe that opposes federal laws

    Isn’t that pro-anarchy, more-or-less?

  20. 20.

    SFAW

    @debbie:

    Maybe the chatter showed a real threat to Nancy. I can’t imagine she would have gone along with cancellation unless there was a genuine threat.

    Maybe Gym Jordan, Boebert, Greene, and the rest of the RWMFs should be pre-emptively “detained.” In Somalia or the Marianas Trench, perhaps. For their own safety, of course.

  21. 21.

    Nicole

    Oh my god, I’m so tired of these losers.  Bunch of over privileged bullies whose parents did a crap job raising. And now we’re stuck with their jackass behavior.

  25. 25.

    SFAW

    @Baud:

    For the House, the threat includes the GOP caucus.

    But does it really? Not that I think it was really going to happen, but I would bet those of evil intent could recognize the Speaker, as well as Hoyer, AOC, and so forth. Unless they’re planning to go full-Gilead — always a possibility, albeit unlikely (I hope) — the Rethug reps are probably relatively safe.

    ETA: Ah, I see your clarification. Consider my comment withdrawn, because I agree with you.

  30. 30.

    Ksmiami

    @Nicole: I want them obliterated- try something and just fucking droned or hit with mortar return fire. I mean we did to Bin Laden et al.

  31. 31.

    FlyingToaster

    @satby: The problem may be that the calls are coming from inside the house…

    They haven’t completed their purge investigation of Capitol Police with ties to the insurrectionist groups.  So I am not nearly as unhappy as I probably should be.

    Of course, I’d have shut every hotel and motel within 40 miles of DC, if I were the Padishah Empress.  And then kept Congress in session.

  32. 32.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @p.a.: Eh, piffle in comparison to the all important filibuster without which this country will descend into chaos.

  34. 34.

    ET

    I know these people are idiots but JFC these people are FUCKING IDIOTS.

    As a DC resident, I am somewhat familiar with the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871. It is about the government of the District of Columbia and not about Congress or the federal government.  What is sad is that the Wikipedia entry for this now how has to address the idiot conspiracy.

  35. 35.

    OzarkHillbilly

    The BBC has issued a correction and apology on its website for airing an interview with a man who claimed to be the US senator Cory Booker but was actually someone impersonating the Democratic politician from New Jersey.

    The UK’s public broadcasting service said that the interview appeared “to be a deliberate hoax” and that it had reached out with an apology to Booker and “are looking into what went wrong to make sure it doesn’t happen again”.

    The interview was aired on 26 February on the BBC’s Newshour radio program. The BBC said that the interview “has not appeared elsewhere”, and no audio clips or videos are circulating online, though one Twitter user heard the interview on New York’s WNYC public radio station and could tell something was amiss.

    “Listening to the @bbcworldservice Newshour on @wnyc and trying to figure out how they did an entire interview with someone they introduced as Senator Cory Booker, who I’m pretty sure was definitely not Senator Booker, and didn’t realize it,” wrote Twitter user Amy Eason.
    ……………………………..
    It is unclear whether Booker’s impersonator was a general troll or had a more deliberate agenda.

    A competent reporter would have asked about that.

  36. 36.

    Nicole

    @Baud: You think the introduction of participation trophies, demonstrating to kids that there is a tangible reward for putting in effort and showing up every week, rather than just awarding prizes to kids lucky enough to have been born with specific advantages valued by our society is what set off the rage of a bunch of financially comfortable, heterosexual white guys?

    Oh… wait…

  38. 38.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    @OzarkHillbilly: Wow. I assume this was just over the radio with no visuals, but still, Booker is pretty identifiable not only by his voice but also by the things he says. He’s not quite “love is love is love” but he’s in that territory, bless his heart.

  39. 39.

    Geminid

    @SFAW: The sovereign citizens are not pro-anarchy if they believe their own militias will be enforcing order. Under the direction of elected county sheriffs, who are deemed the cornerstones of this imaginary republic.

  42. 42.

    SFAW

    @Geminid:

    Libertarians, anarchists, fascists — what’s the diff, right?

    I expect they’d get their knickers in a twist if the sheriffs actually tried to hold them accountable for any wrongdoing.

  43. 43.

    Soprano2

    @Baud: Democrats need to do something about this press belief that “working class” or “blue collar” means “white”, and that there are no other blue collar workers.

  45. 45.

    Baud

    @Soprano2:

    Honestly, it’s not the Dems’ responsibility to fix other people. The Dems just need to remember who makes up the working class and which portion of them will actually consider voting for the Dem ticket.

  47. 47.

    Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony

    I’m inclined to believe that Rand Paul really is a sovereign citizen believer. On that, at least, I don’t think he is just pretending.

  48. 48.

    Soprano2

    @SFAW: I expect they’d get their knickers in a twist if the sheriffs actually tried to hold them accountable for any wrongdoing.

    The sheriff’s job is to control “those people” and keep them out, not to actually enforce the laws against white people.

  49. 49.

    Soprano2

    @Baud: No, what I’m suggesting is that whenever it’s appropriate, Democrats need to emphasize that they have the support of the blue collar/pink collar working class electorate, and talk about who is in that group. Way too many people think “factory workers” and “coal miners” when you say blue collar, and it’s gone way beyond that. Democrats need to take any opportunity to raise people’s awareness about that.

  51. 51.

    jeffreyw

    The house took the day off to try to impress on the media that they were taking the attack on 1/6 seriously.  That the insurrectionists were not a motley crew of clowns and misfits.  They are saying to the judges and the grand juries that they need to bring the hammer down.

  52. 52.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: According to the story, a number of people familiar with his voice and speech patterns picked up on it immediately.

    Stories like this make me think I could get on the radio by pretending to be the ghost of Stalin.

  54. 54.

    cmorenc

    @Geminid:

    @SFAW: The sovereign citizens are not pro-anarchy if they believe their own militias will be enforcing order. Under the direction of elected county sheriffs, who are deemed the cornerstones of this imaginary republic.

    I can understand the notion of extreme minimal-to-vanishing-point libertarian view of government, wrongheaded as it is – but where in Hell did the notion come from that the foundation of what legitimate government that exists is “elected county sheriffs“?

  55. 55.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Events like these give me  new understanding of  Napoleon’s “Whiff of grapeshot” policy for those who want to violently overthrow the government

  56. 56.

    Ken

    @OzarkHillbilly: Stories like this make me think I could get on the radio by pretending to be the ghost of Stalin.

    Look how well it’s worked for you here on BJ.

    I prefer the version of this prank where it’s a reporter calling a politician and pretending to be someone. When it works, they can get such startling admissions from the mark.

  57. 57.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @cmorenc: You’re missing the point – Sovereign Citizens is a confidence scam that targets tax evaders. The main point is and excuse to pay no taxes but collect all the government benefits, but you have to attend this seminar for a reasonable fee.

  58. 58.

    Ken

    @cmorenc: US Constitution, Article mumble, Section cough.

    I suspect the real answer is “because they think they can control the election for sheriff.”

  60. 60.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Ken: Borat has made himself a lot of money doing just that. WHF at Veritas has tried to, but he’s really just a 2 bit grifter.

  61. 61.

    Baud

    Eager to act, Biden and Democrats leave Republicans behind

    By LISA MASCARO and ZEKE MILLERtoday

     

    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden and Democrats in Congress are jamming their agenda forward with a sense of urgency, an unapologetically partisan approach based on the calculation that it’s better to advance the giant COVID-19 rescue package and other priorities than waste time courting Republicans who may never compromise.

  62. 62.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @OzarkHillbilly: Stories like this make me think I could get on the radio by pretending to be the ghost of Stalin.

    I bet you could by claiming to be Hugo Chavez, and you wouldn’t even need to fake an Hispanic accent.

  63. 63.

    Geminid

    @Soprano2: And in the new republic, a majority of armed citizens would be able to “recall” wayward sheriffs and elect replacements. Ownership of both a hand gun and a long gun probably would be required for the voting franchise.

  64. 64.

    Baud

    President Biden plans to host a bipartisan group of House members at the White House on Thursday as he prepares to push a major infrastructure package, his next ambitious goal following the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief legislation that is pending in the Senate.

    He should call it Infrastructure Fortnight, just for the one-upmanship.

  65. 65.

    Jinchi

    QAnon followers that the United States turned from a country into a corporation after the passage of the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1871.

    So do they consider that a good thing or a bad thing?

  66. 66.

    Shalimar

    @satby: I like the idea, but don’t think it would work with Boebert/Gosar etc. directly communicating with the enemy.   No surprise is possible .

  67. 67.

    Another Scott

    @OzarkHillbilly: A few years ago a Black guy was interviewing with the BBCTV for a job at the headquarters.  They brought him on as an expert/official from some African country and interviewed him live on the World News for several minutes.

    Because it must be him, right??!

    Sounds like they didn’t fix that problem…

    Cheers,

    Scott.

  68. 68.

    Baud

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    I bet you could by claiming to be Hugo Chavez, and you wouldn’t even need to fake an Hispanic accent

     
    If he called into a right wing broadcast and admitted to working with Dems to rig the election, no one would question his bona fides.

  69. 69.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Geminid:And in the new republic, a majority of armed citizens would be able to “recall” wayward sheriffs and elect replacements. Ownership of both a hand gun and a long gun probably would be required for the voting franchise.

    Not quite how it works, there is some magical phrase you need to recite to “reclaim your strawman” at which point you become a one man sovereign nation and since everyone else is a slave of the Rothchilds you can do as you please.

  70. 70.

    Jeffro

    @cmorenc: where in Hell did the notion come from that the foundation of what legitimate government that exists is “elected county sheriffs“?

    I think it might be related to “we have enough white folks in this county (if not the state or the country) to keep electing/keep control of the sheriff’s office, so that’s what we’re going to go with”

    ETA: or what Ken said at #58  ;)

  71. 71.

    SFAW

    @Nicole:

    Last I heard, his trophies were in the mail… oh… wait…

    Until now, I had completely missed the idea the Shitgibbon installed DeJoy just so Baud’s trophies would get “lost” in the mail.

    Schemes within schemes within schemes …

    Thanks for bringing this to our attention!

  76. 76.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Baud: If he called into a right wing broadcast and admitted to working with Dems to rig the election, no one would question his bona fides.

    Exactly!

    And bonus points for

    • claiming to be on the International Space Station.
    • Doing in the thickest Southern Drawl Ozark can manage,
    • Claiming Soros gave him the cure for cancer.

    Back in the day the Creationists started their own Wiki because Wikipeada was a hive of libertard villainy, so it was real game so see who could get the most outrageous edit passed the Creationist Wiki moderators; Stalin invented the dog, that kind of stuff. It sure seems like the Right Wing media is going there,

  77. 77.

    SFAW

    @Baud:

    Eager to act, Biden and Democrats leave Republicans behind

    “Eager to prevent President Biden and Democrats from doing anything to help non-wealthy America, Republicans leave America behind”

    ETA: And the ” Republicans who MAY never compromise” should be “WILL never compromise”

  79. 79.

    BruceFromOhio

    @satby: ​ While this certainly has emotional appeal, I put it in the context of “Bin Laden determined to strike in US” – if you knew a terrorist attack was possible at a certain place and time, you’d do well to plan not to be there at that place and time.

    Because that’s what these two-bit ratfuck soulless criminals are: terrorists.
     

    In another light, “Marjorie Q. Greene’s Day Off” probably isn’t what anyone really had on the calendar for today.

  81. 81.

    Geminid

    @Geminid: My own Virginia county board of supervisors showed glimmerings of the sovereign citizen’s movement last January, when it joined a wave of other rural counties and declared itself a “Second Amendment Sanctuary County.” It was pretty much a symbolic move, with no kinds of enabling ordinances passed. I take it as kind of a joke, at least so long as Virginia’s State Police function under a Democratic Governor. The county mounties just aren’t going to try to stand up to the state guys and gals. At least not the ones I see munching breakfast biscuits at the local store.

    I think this movement carries more weight out West, though.

  82. 82.

    WaterGirl

    @BruceFromOhio: I have a visceral reaction to seeing photos of QAnon Marge, maybe even stronger than to I have T****.

    Her stupid masks with their embroidered bullshit lies make me want to punch her, and I have never hit anyone.

  86. 86.

    CarolDuhart2

    Those who are objecting to the no-session day forget that there are others more vulnerable who work there.  People who ride share or ride the bus on their way to work. If Congress people are there, they have to be there too.  And they can’t just rideshare or even take off too.

    I doubt there will be an organized group without Trump to organize it or egg them on.  However, there’s always people who are absolutely convinced, like random end of the worlders, that Trump will be inaugurated, that there will be arrests, that JFK Jr will descend from the sky and make all things right.  When its clear that nothing is really going to happen, then nobody wants to face the bitter, delusional rage of these people, and these are people who are likely to take it out on anyone who works at the Capitol. Especially if they don’t really know who’s a Congressperson, and who’s simply a worker.  People waiting on the bus/subway are particularly vulnerable here, especially if they work late and have to go home alone.

  88. 88.

    p.a.

    Psaki or Biden himself should just come out and say “We’re not playing the game the Republicans got away with in ’09-’12.”
    MitchMccalvinball.

  92. 92.

    jeffreyw

    @WaterGirl: It’s an elaboration on a comment I made yesterday:

    Serious people talking loudly out in the open about this very serious threat means that Dems will have to treat it very seriously, indeed. And republicans will tremble in fear that there may be a just god.

  93. 93.

    viliageidiocy

    @CarolDuhart2: Thank you for pointing out that there others who work on Capitol Hill who aren’t elected. There are a huge number of support staff, also in harms way. In addition, folks forget that DC is a working city, where the majority do things other than politics. Really.

    A neighbor of mine works for a rep, left the building on the 6th about 30′ before it was breached by the mob, most of her co-workers stayed. Took her a bottle of wine that night and chatted, in masks, for a bit. She was shaken up and still had to work into the wee hours because Congress re-convened to finish the certification. Luckily, she could do it at a distance by cable tv. Recently got a thank-you note from her, but a bottle of wine and a chat was the least we could do. None of us go to work to die, no matter what the job, nor what we believe.

  94. 94.

    Subsole

     

     

    @SFAW: Yes. But with the added spice of completely unregulated hypercapitalism!!

    So, basically the absolute worst parts of lawlessness, socialism and feudalism.

     

    It’s hard to be dumber than a tankie. These folks manage it.

  96. 96.

    BruceFromOhio

    @WaterGirl: I am right there with you. However, (he said to himself in the mirror) we all do well to keep in mind that this is what people like Greene want, and is why they do what they do. She would LOVE nothing better than to have someone like you or me deck her right in the kisser. Not only could she whip out a whole deck of victim cards, she’d fundraise herself right into re-election. It’s a nice, closed-loop con with plenty of marks ready to buy in.

    Instead, let’s work to give her the same career arc as Trey Gowdy. That would be so much more satisfying, amirite?

  97. 97.

    Subsole

    @FlyingToaster: This.

    What all this tells me is the capitol police are not reliable at this point.

    Weren’t there like 30 some officers mixed up in the 1/6 Invasion?

  98. 98.

    PaulB

    @Baud: “Notice the difference between the headline and the synopsis.”

    I would argue it’s even worse, as the headline should have said, “Republicans won *white* blue collar voter.”

  103. 103.

    H.E.Wolf

    @Immanentize:If only Rand Paul’s neighbor was a stronger man….I’m really too exhausted for this crap.

    Nah, we don’t need that guy, when we have tens of thousands of women of color (and folks of other genders and colors) doing the heavy lifting of protecting and expanding democracy.

    That white dude got disproportionate press coverage, compared to people doing the real, lasting work.

    Allow me to recommend the book that got me through 2017. My Soul is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered.

    It’s a book of interviews with people involved in the US Civil Rights movement of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. I found it helpful, in the dark days of 2017, to be reminded that we who want justice must be prepared for the long haul.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Soul_Is_Rested

    It’s available in multiple formats. My copy was borrowed from the local library in the pre-pandemic era.​

    [Edited to be more inclusive in my phrasing]​​​​

  104. 104.

    Mike in NC

    The legislature in South Carolina is worried about not having enough lethal injections on hand to kill people on Death Row, so they have passed a bill to bring back firing squads and the electric chair. Not a fucking joke in 2021!

  105. 105.

    Subsole

    @SFAW: The Sovereign Republic of Joe would be SO outta the Free Citizens Independent Community after the first ‘got-drunk-and-shot-up-the-homeschool-with-my-LEGALLY PERMITTED-minigun’ ticket…

  107. 107.

    Subsole

    @Soprano2: I would recommend therapy at this point.

    Real strong “Who cares if I don’t work construction. It doesn’t make me a nerd. I do work. Real work. With my hands. God why don’t they love me,” energy coming off that field…

    I mean, folks. You’re nerds.

    The hardhats haven’t liked or trusted you since the GOP tied you to hippies as part of their grand Vietnam Scapegoating. You ain’t changing that. Might as well work with the folks who ACTUALLY have your back.

    Y’know. The ones you’ve been shitting on all my life.

     

    Like…it’s like people in occupied countries aping the occupiers’ customs to get ahead.

  110. 110.

    SFAW

    @Geminid:

    Stalin was from Georgia, anyway. So his ghost most likely is Subaru Diane.

    Little-known “fact”:
    SD’s nym/nom/name originally was Siubhan Vissarionovna Djuinnegashvili?

    ETA: And, by the way, your comment was outstanding.

  113. 113.

    Subsole

    @Geminid: “While I hears your concerns and is understanding of your needs, I would like to remind all of ‘yall that MY vote is belt-fed, and yalls’ is semi-auto.

    The motion is hereby tabled.”

  114. 114.

    Subsole

    @SFAW: He’s like if the Baron Harkonnen were just as devious, but also the most stumbledicked incompetent in the galaxy, who nevertheless SOMEHOW managed to fail his way onto the throne.

     

     

    I might actually pay to watch that movie…

  119. 119.

    rikyrah

    ????

    It has come to my attention that noted anti-vaccine zealot Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is releasing a film tomorrow targeting the Black community with some appalling misinformation.It is not just filled with falsehoods. Despite claiming to be anti-racist, it is racist as hell pic.twitter.com/J2FNRwJu7m— Dr. Angela Rasmussen (@angie_rasmussen) March 3, 2021

  120. 120.

    Another Scott

    Speaking of Gym Jordan, …

    SCOOP: Jim Jordan failed to report nearly $3 million in campaign raising and spending over the last two years. The FEC wants to know why. It could be tied to a new backdoor payment scheme for GOP digital fundraising. Me @thedailybeast https://t.co/Ch7q41w0zq

    — Roger Sollenberger (@SollenbergerRC) March 3, 2021

    What’s that? The grift is strong? This was totally predictable? Yes, yes it is and yes it was.

    (via CharlesPPierce)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  121. 121.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @H.E.Wolf: Nah, we don’t need that guy, when we have tens of thousands of women of color (and folks of other genders and colors) doing the heavy lifting of protecting and expanding democracy.

    And let us note how the current pants wetting the Right engaged in started with the Floyd protests that the widespread support for it. That scared the shit out of those assholes and this stuff like the 6th Coup attempt, voter suppression and so on, is their desperate attempt to stop that.

  122. 122.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Subsole: Unibomber needs his social security check to pay for his gold futures. #stopthegovermentfromsocializingmedicare.

  123. 123.

    Geminid

    @rikyrah: It makes me sad to think of the good Bobby Kennedy might have done with a longer life. He almost certainly would have raised a happier son. Not that the son’s bitterness excuses his destructive zealotry in this area.

  124. 124.

    rikyrah

    This is why we need a functioning DOJ NOW ??

    “Since DeSantis started using the state’s vaccine initiative to steer special pop-up vaccinations to select communities, his political committee has raised $2.7 million in the month of February alone, more than any other month since he first ran for governor in 2018” https://t.co/HhHP4myeFq— Dafna Linzer (@DafnaLinzer) March 4, 2021

  125. 125.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: I bet you could by claiming to be Hugo Chavez, and you wouldn’t even need to fake an Hispanic accent.

     ​At least, no accent more credible than, say, By Name Hoe Say He Mayonnaise….​

  126. 126.

    LongHairedWeirdo

    You know, if some crazy liberals thought that Republicans were part of a global cabal of pedophilic vampires trying to wrest control of the world from its citizens, even a Democratic candidate for assistant dog catcher in a US territory without federal voting rights would be hounded to disavow it.

    And it’s a big, and extremely important, news story if Republicans aren’t willing to disavow Qanon, even now.

  127. 127.

    Bill Arnold

    @BruceFromOhio:

    Because that’s what these two-bit ratfuck soulless criminals are: terrorists.

    Causing a U.S.House of Representatives session cancellation puts the people chattering credibly about a potential attack on the Capital in a bad place legally. Sort of like young people who call in a school bomb threat so that they can delay a test or take the afternoon off or whatever, except with more serious consequences. Betcha their OPSEC sucks (and the COMSEC clearly sucks).

  128. 128.

    J R in WV

    @Geminid: ​
     

    Ownership of both a hand gun and a long gun probably would be required for the voting franchise.

    Hola~!~

    I’m IN!!!!

    . ;~)

  129. 129.

    NotMax

    @Jinchi

    Seems no addressed this. There are at the moment 3 vacancies.

    Luke Leflow (R-LA) died of COVID before being sworn in. Special election scheduled for March 20.
    Cedric Richmond (D-LA) resigned to accept a position in Biden White House. Special election scheduled for March 20.
    Ron Wright (R-TX) died of COVID. Special election scheduled for May 1.
    .
    Two incipient vacancies:
    Deb Haaland (D-NM) upon Senate approval as Secretary of Interior.
    Marcia Fudge (D-OH) upon sneate approval as Secretary of HUD.
    .

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