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The Insurrection, Six Months Later

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… “January 6th was one of the darkest days in our nation’s history, with five people killed, 140 members of law enforcement physically harmed and countless more seriously traumatized,” she said in a statement today. “It is clear that January 6th was not simply an attack on a building, but an attack on our very democracy—an attack on the peaceful transfer of power.”

Thompson, who also chairs the U.S. House Homeland Security Committee, told CNN today that he would consider calling former President Donald Trump and Republicans who communicated with him at the time of the insurrection to testify.

“I think we need to have access to all available information. Part of what we plan to do is hire some of the best people who can help us get access to that kind of information,” the Mississippi congressman told CNN. “… If we need to get it by request or by subpoena, I’m not reluctant to do that either.”…

Part of a long thread, from a CBS reporter:

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  1. 1.

    zhena gogolia

    Sorry, I’d love to see the discussion, but time for bed. Tropical storm on the way.

  2. 2.

    Ruckus

    I never thought I’d see an attack like this in the US, but then given the last 20+ yrs, I’m not terribly surprised either.

    Republicans have been going off the deep end for a while and being supported by Murdoch’s crap, much more crap from SFB 6, the guns and shootings, the 8 yrs of SFB 5, it actually shouldn’t have been a surprise.

  3. 3.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I never really saw or heard Mollie Hemingway pre-trump, but I used to hear her referred to as one of the serious up-and-coming intellectuals in the conservative movement. The name stood out. Then I saw her and her tweets. A barking mad amalgam of Ann Coulter and Meghan McCain

  5. 5.

    NotMax

    FYI. Lindsey Graham (R-Whiplash):

    Six months after a violent mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on the day Congress certified the November election results, South Carolina’s U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham told reporters he hopes all the offenders are prosecuted.

    “I was there. It was shameful, it was despicable, and the people who did it need to go to jail,” the Seneca Republican told reporters Tuesday ahead of a meeting of the Easley Rotary Club.

    So far, at least seven South Carolinians have been arrested on charges connected to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Source

    About that Nay vote on establishing a commission to investigate the matter, Senator….

  6. 6.

    mrmoshpotato

    Well that’s an interesting take!

    It wasn’t an insurrection, just a “few-hour riot at the Capitol.”

    Good grief!

  7. 7.

    sanjeevs

    The WSJ has an account of the last days of TFG at the Whitehouse. I can’t imagine who this guy’s sources might be:

    But the vice president wasn’t practiced in confronting Mr. Trump. The only example some administration officials could remember was in 2018, when Mr. Pence’s political committee hired Corey Lewandowski, the president’s ubiquitous adviser. Mr. Trump was holding a newspaper article about the hiring and said it made him look weak, like his team was abandoning him as he was probed for his campaign’s role in Russian election meddling. He crumpled the article and threw it at his vice president. “So disloyal,” Mr. Trump said.

    Mr. Pence lost it. Mr. Kushner had asked him to hire Mr. Lewandowski, and he had discussed the plan with Mr. Trump over lunch. Mr. Pence picked up the article and threw it back at Mr. Trump. He leaned toward the president and pointed a finger a few inches from his chest. “We walked you through every detail of this,” Mr. Pence snarled. “We did this for you—as a favor. And this is how you respond? You need to get your facts straight.”

    Three years later, the moment seemed to call for another get-your-facts-straight lesson from Mr. Pence. But the vice president’s team believed he’d been clear with the president that he didn’t have the constitutional authority to overturn the vote.

  8. 8.

    West of the Rockies

    I really hope that soon incontrovertible facts come out to implicate the many QOP folks (from Trump to Bullshit Shaman), and that they begin to face meaningful consequences.

    Anyone know when the committee is set to get going?

  12. 12.

    Steeplejack

    @sanjeevs:

    It’d be nice to know what your source is, like maybe a link to the story. Something more specific than “the WSJ.”

  15. 15.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    It was a tourist visit with cops opening doors for rioters, but it was also an inside job by FBI informants and Antifa agitators, yet it was *also* the police who incited the crowd.

    So it was Floor Wax and Desert Topping at the same time.And they are moved on from Epistemic Closure, this more like the fragmentation of the Conservative mind.

  17. 17.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Ruckus: I hope you don’t mean Fuck in the fun meaning.

    So you two cool with rape as long as the target is a designated enemy, eh?  Pie on you two low lives.

  19. 19.

    Ruckus

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    I believe I’m saying exactly the opposite. At least that was the intent.

    I also don’t believe that I’ve ever called for revenge here on BJ, although I’ve been here about a decade and a half, so it’s possible but I can’t remember ever calling for revenge, not ever. I will admit to thinking about it on occasion, but call for it, no.

  20. 20.

    Ruckus

    Also on this note, I’m going to take a short break from BJ.

    We are seemingly all pretty heated up, what with an insurrection, and a complete, utterly moronic dolt as our ex president making life so much fun. I need to think of better things, for my own health.

  21. 21.

    Chetan Murthy

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    cool with rape as long as the target is a designated enemy, eh?

    Nah.  “Fuck” is meant in the general sense of “may bad things happen to them, unendingly and unendurably”.  Though, yeah, whatever it takes to get Murdoch out of the picture, I’m good with it.

    Yeah, I know: nihilist.  I’m brown, and I know what awaits my kind if they win.  All I can say is: I’d rather they get blown up now, than a lot of innocents get blown up later.

    We *can* convert their children.  But the Deplorables?  They’re irredeemable.

  22. 22.

    Nutmeg again

    Just dropped in to brag: Leah Mills is FAMily. Unspecified for privacy reasons, but not so distant. (I claim no credit whatsoever for her raising or her talent, however!)  Yes, she is a fantastic photojournalist, and yet another reason to say: The kids are alright.

  23. 23.

    VeniceRiley

    My Chery Ropher approved comment is that I wish the guilty prison … and ingrown toenails.

  27. 27.

    smike

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: …fragmentation of the Conservative mind.

    They’ve got no place left to go. In the proverbial corner, they are. I watch in awe as they ‘own the libs’, even if means dying because they refuse to have a free vaccination. Amazeballs.

  35. 35.

    Edmund Dantes

    Here’s a question. If they do eventually get around to sending out those subpoenas, what exactly is their plan for when they are ignored?

    Leave it up to the DOJ? What happens if DOJ decides to half ass enforcing them to protect presidential prerogative? Write some sternly worded letters?

  37. 37.

    James E Powell

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Those days are gone forever. Over a long time ago, oh yeah.

    Different Republicans, different press/media, different federal courts. All three will do whatever they have to do to prevent Trump’s testimony.

  38. 38.

    Winston

    Well, a late night open thread. On my beloveds birthday. Just want to say, my dear, the birthdays keep going on, even in heaven. So I send you this song 

  41. 41.

    No name

    @Ruckus: You need to take care of yourself.  I do hope you return since your comments always make my (mental, emotional) health better.  Be safe.

  42. 42.

    BellyCat

     

    @Ruckus:

    Echoing other’s appreciation for your perspective. Breaks are needed if mental health is imperiled. Step away if needed, but do hurry back!

  49. 49.

    Chris Johnson

    My take on Cheryl’s recent observations is: damn straight, correct, and I have maybe an additional take on WHY to avoid getting riled up and bitey.

    I am still very much of the opinion that this is what WWIII is: meddling on an unprecedented scale to get the enemy nation to self-destruct. As such, insurrection and civil war is absolutely necessary: can’t go bombing folks, certainly can’t invade when your country is weaker than Texas, but with enough effort you can make them destroy each other as long as they don’t wise up.

    It is very easy to see this activity when it’s manifesting on the other side as insurrectionists and QAnons, but it’s much more difficult to see it when it’s happening in the circles we trust. Yet the way this sort of warfare works, the messages MUST go to both sides. It’s not like Putin wants the Republicans to WIN or anything. He wants us all to die, or failing that, spend all our energy either fighting each other or going mad.

    I’m a progressive and have been good and extreme in the past, and currently am fond of folks like Vaush, and one reason is: Vaush lately is extremely, fiercely critical of ‘leftists’ like Jimmy Dore who are basically carrying water for Putin, plus being awful in other ways. I don’t trust anybody who’s talking about unredeemable, evil monsters on the other side who can never be reformed. This point of view was DONE TO US by extreme, patient effort of media manipulation and shitloads of moles and trolls everywhere feeding every community its own formulation of poison.

    Cheryl Rofer’s position on this is the only effective one. These people all over the political map are sick, when they’re not gettin’ paid to work for Putin’s purposes. There’s continued effort made to keep them sick, and it’s always through painting the enemy as (a) domestic and (b) irredeemably evil and must be destroyed.

    It’s the new warfare. Don’t help Putin by heightening the panic and despair.

  51. 51.

    Brantl

    But the vice president’s team believed he’d been clear with the president that he didn’t have the constitutional authority to overturn the vote.

    This is hard to do, when speaking with someone who doesn’t have the attention span for a single, 2-syllable word.

  52. 52.

    Chris T.

    As to who killed Ashi Babbitt, that’s easy: Ashli Babbitt killed Ashli Babbitt. She committed suicide-by-cop.

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