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The insurrectionists’ roll call https://t.co/fyBM2PpZ1q
— Ann Telnaes (@AnnTelnaes) January 4, 2022
… As if anyone in the GOP Death Cult (much less the Trump Crime Cartel) is gonna catch a clue, at this late date…
The film included in the article linked below is just under 10 minutes long; I’m not including it here because most of us already know the history, and we don’t need to relive it over breakfast:
VIDEO: From video footage to body cameras worn by the officers under siege, there is a comprehensive record of one of the worst attacks on democracy in U.S. history. @AP compiled a short film capturing the key moments of the Jan. 6 insurrection. https://t.co/s21lP7xR7K
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 5, 2022
Competing vigils planned in D.C. as nation marks Jan. 6 anniversary https://t.co/nSf7Md2agP
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 6, 2022
important to note the pundits themselves would absolutely never be so stupid as to have the courage to get out of a chair and get blown up or go to jail themselves. they just want the dipshits to do the work for them
— kilgore trout, cryptopolice chief (@KT_So_It_Goes) January 5, 2022
fancycwabs
Really, the most apt way to commemorate the events of January 6 is for an angry mob* to storm Mar-a-Lago and pose for photographs.
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* You know, tourists.
NotMax
How to lay an egg in 15 months.
Baud
The Today show clip on Jan. 6 I saw this morning was pretty good.
NotMax
When fools keep digging.
“Does the lock-up have a vapid privilege wing?”
Brant
If we could only convincethe MAGATs to go down to Florida en masse, to “rescue” Stumpy…….
comrade scotts agenda of rage
Phucking NPR…as always. I stopped listening them years ago, we’re talking their news coverage in it’s various formats and shows. My wife still does although she’s been somewhat sensitized to their problems due to my screaming at the radio. It’s another reason I don’t listen because she gets irked at me screaming at the radio.
Yesterday afternoon after the workmen left, we had to install all the electrical, me being my wife’s electrician’s helper. She had NPR on. The first thing that hit me, the two All Things Bothersome news readers always referred to the Jan 6 insurrectionists as *rioters*. Hell, they had a Tiger Beat on the Potomac (aka Politico) reporter on who was recounting her on-the-spot reporting from last year and she was far more direct in describing the insurrectionists (w/o using that word, however) than the two fucking NPR drones.
Rioters. And NPR probably (doesn’t) wonder why I stopped giving them money during the Dubya Admin and stopped listening to them a decade ago. Totebagger Radio at it’s finest. :(
NotMax
@Brant
“Come for the oppressive heat, stay for the oppressive politics.”
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Geminid
Liz Cheney seems to have lit up media with her appearance on the Today show this morning. One interesting remark was that the January 6 Committee is looking forward to cooperation from Mike Pence and his staff. The most important task of the Committee may be to develop the connection between the violent mob and the plan by trump and his allies to hijack the electoral vote count.
Pence was to have a key role in the plan. He did not go long, and the plotters seem to have tried to improvise a plan to work around him. I think the Committee wants to know how this went down.
Baud
@Geminid: Someone said Liz Cheney was key to getting the media to take Jan. 6 seriously. I think that was right. The media just doesn’t respect Dems enough if we don’t have a GOP face joining us.
Gin & Tonic
Josie
@Geminid: Liz certainly seems to know how to use the media and how to twist the knife. I’m glad that (in this instance) she’s on our side.
Betty
@Geminid: Reading that made me wonder if her former VP Dad might have had a chat with Mike about the duty of a Vice President. Bad as he was for the country, I imagine Cheney was horrified by the insurrection. Pence seemed to have been resisting cooperation before now.
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone ???
Gin & Tonic
@Josie: While she may temporarily have similar objectives, I do not for a second believe that she is on “our side.”
Chris
@NotMax:
This is just a very telling retort to all the people who piss and moan about “economic anxiety” and tell us that these people are just very very worried that they’ve been left behind and that they don’t matter in society and maybe even fear that being white is going to become dangerous and stigmatized…
Bullshit. They’ve learned to stomp their feet and wail that nobody loves them and nobody understands that their life is so very very hard, in much the same way domestic abusers do, because they’ve learned that that’s what gets them attention and results. But just like domestic abusers, no, they don’t actually believe that they’re oppressed or endangered. They’re perfectly aware that being a white blonde middle-class Republican is a privilege not a handicap in this society. And they plan their entire life out in accordance with the belief that no matter what they do, even when it’s overthrowing a government, there will never ever ever be any consequences for people like them.
Another similar quote from that night was the woman screaming “the cops are shooting us! They’re supposed to be shooting Antifa, but they’re shooting patriots instead!” Same thing. They believe that no matter where they go and what they do, the police is their own private army which will always protect them and attack the people they don’t like. The few times when that doesn’t pan out, they’re shocked and terrified. Even when it’s something as blatant and predictable as “if you and your friends beat a cop to death and assault many others, some of them might actually shoot back.”
NotMax
@Betty
Pence turned to Dan “The Hoosier Brainiac” Quayle.
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WaterGirl
Kamala Harris speaking live on the next thread.
Betty
@NotMax: That was beforehand. Thank heavens Mike took his advice. You never know whence help will come.
Scout211
Did anyone else watch the Frontline on Tuesday night? It was an update of the original “American Insurrection” Frontline from last April (which I thought was excellent). It was a first person account from a Pro Publica investigative reporter who interviewed and investigated all the right wing groups who were involved in the insurrection. It was very well done and showed how the military, law enforcement and Tr*mp were partly responsible for not seeing the potential for violence in these groups or egging it on (Tr*mp).
When the reporter asks some of the members of these groups why they are planning violence or insurrection, they all seem to struggle to actually explain why they need to use violence against the government. They use catch phrases and slogans but no details about just what “take back our country” even means. That’s beyond scary.
It was hard to watch, but it was very well done and very informative.
Professor Bigfoot
@Gin & Tonic: she ain’t on our side, for sure.
But, she ain’t no phuckin’ traitor.
Geminid
@Betty: Even Dan Quayle could recognize a bad idea when he heard it.
Josie
@Gin & Tonic: Of course. That’s why I said “in this instance.” She is on “our side” in the fight to hold the insurrectionists accountable.
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Josie:
I see her as Stalin in a Fight The Nazis context.
Baud
@Professor Bigfoot:
Good day to repeat an association I often made during the Trump years.
Jan. 6 confirmed the correctness of this position.
Raoul Paste
@Chris: Well said
Josie
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: Good analogy
Kay
There’s kind of bad, sloppy reporting going on about Republicans new enthusiasm for “reforming” the electoral vote act, and people should be careful on what they’re actually proposing.
This is a WSJ article that lays out the far Right position on this, and adopting the Republican approach could further Justice Alito’s far Right ideas about the primacy of state legislatures in elections.
In other words, following McConnell and Collins and (sadly) Joe Manchin on this could make a bad situation worse by strengthening the legal case for a state legislature to ignore the will of voters and overturn an election at the state level. If Democrats back this they will be making it worse- it’s dishonest trickery that purports to make election results harder to overturn but could do the opposite.
There’s a reason they’re suddenly backing this reform. It furthers far Right legal goals. Reject it. It’s bad faith.
Chris
@comrade scotts agenda of rage:
“If Hitler invaded hell, I should at least make a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.”
Winston Churchill. Who was, himself, sort of an example – a British imperialist who was an asswipe in so many ways, but put him up against Hitler, and you’d have to be a moron not to know who to side with.
Kay
If you read anything at all on Republican’s “reforming” the electoral vote act, read it with the understanding that election results come from the states, and the far Right legal theory is based on the idea that state legislatures are the only arbiters of what results are certified and submitted.
Anything that empowers or codifies or butresses the idea that a state legislature can overturn the results of a election and choose a winner to send to DC should be opposed. You’ll be standing there with your “reformed” (useless) electoral vote act and a GOP majority state legislature in Pennsylvania will be submitting the loser of the election as the winner, and you will have just passed a federal law that supports the idea that is valid.
Kay
If Manchin and Sinema (who frankly are not that bright) want to join with Republicans to pass a shitty “reform” of the electoral vote act that is bad faith trickery and actually HARMS the pro-democratic side, let them gather together their GOP colleagues and make it a GOP bill. No other Democrats should join.
Geminid
@Kay: I read that Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire has been participating. Don’t know what that means.
HRA
Liz Cheney is American first. She is not the only one although it seems we have less in the elected ranks of them now when you have Greene, Gaetz, Gosar, etc.
Chris
@HRA:
It’s funny. I was already pointing out Republicans’ love for Putin and their resemblance to the “better Hitler than Blum!” Vichyists a full decade ago. But back then I didn’t think they’d ever actually go for full Vichyist status unless they were in, well, a Vichy like situation, where America had been conquered and subjugated – which was clearly impossible. Because I thought American nationalism/chauvinism, one of their many prejudices, wouldn’t allow them to play second fiddle to any foreign dictator unless he’d clearly won.
It was a failure of imagination that even back then I didn’t realize how much their white supremacy mattered to them, and the extent to which they’d leave behind even the most basic nationalism in its favor.
People like Liz Cheney, who are American nationalists first and white nationalists second, are indeed freaks and oddities in the modern Republican coalition.
mrmoshpotato
@Gin & Tonic: Please, oh please.
Warblewarble
Friends Across the Aisle were art thou? Could the answer be there is no such thing. Time to recognize and act accordingly.
laura
@Gin & Tonic: See the snake, pet the snake, still a snake. She ain’t our friend and above all else she’s papa dick’s daughter and she plans to be the first Republican woman president.
catclub
and 1946 British elections booted him out.
Ruckus
@Scout211:
The explanation is that they are traitors who have been told over and over that they are the real, proper and only citizens of the country, because they are white. And they believe and fully accept this bullshit. They are not humans, they are white humans, which makes them exceptional. In their minds.
IOW they are ignorant fucking racists.
January 6, 2021 was them getting their racism on. They like SFB because he is openly racist, just like his daddy. They haven’t really had anyone openly racist to follow for decades.
We all know this, many don’t want to believe it, but it is what it is. Humans are racists, because we like other animals that look like us. And because we’ve been inundated with racism in most countries of the world, based upon people that are unlike us in some way. Skin color is obvious, but so is religion, gender, language, origin, and money. Many of us see this as pure, absolute bullshit, but many do not. The world has to change because with this many humans on board, the danger is real and very bad. Much of the world is, but if it doesn’t go far enough, soon enough…
Brant
@NotMax: As far as GOP Hoosiers go, DQ might BE the brain trust.
Brant
@NotMax: As far as GOP Hoosiers go, DQ might BE the brain trust.
@Professor Bigfoot: In favor of torture? Traitor, if you ask me!
John
I got permanently banned from Twitter for calling Trump Jr a whiny little bitch. I guess a check mark gives you greater license with the language.
dnfree
@HRA: Wow, and that’s just the G’s!