Today marks the two-year anniversary of the U.C. Capitol riot. January 6th, 2021, Donald Trump's supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol in a failed attempt to overturn the Presidential election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. This is how the events unfolded https://t.co/qWUifX4vNg pic.twitter.com/4WAD7YAZmE
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 6, 2023
President Joe Biden on Friday will present the nation’s second highest civilian award to 12 individuals involved in defending the Capitol during the 6 Jan. insurrection, and safeguarding the will of American voters in the 2020 presidential election. https://t.co/C7XQwqL54R
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 5, 2023
Why would we want to acknowledge a historic event that desecrated the Capitol, threatened democracy & had lasting effects on the people who work within? The physical evidence of the destruction has been erased, so why not the memory as well, surely that will have no consequences https://t.co/nLC2jl2Pf2
— Grace Segers (@Grace_Segers) January 4, 2023
Elsewhere:
Asked if he’s still monitoring @GOPLeader Kevin McCarthy battle for US House speaker, Biden tells us he’s “following with great—how can I say it?” @VP Kamala Harris chimed in: "attention.” Biden echoed: "attention.” pic.twitter.com/LqG4xc3ikC
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) January 5, 2023
Here’s my rep!
Katherine Clark is very very good at this pic.twitter.com/zMM4bykgaP
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) January 5, 2023
Meet Cheryl Johnson, the clerk running the US House https://t.co/q5AiwM04WU
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) January 6, 2023
Leader Hakeem Jeffries just now: “Tip O’Neill got along with Ronald Reagan. Ted Kennedy got along with Orrin Hatch. Joe Biden got along with John McCain. Nancy Pelosi got along with John Boehner.
All we are asking is House Republicans to get along with each other.”
— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) January 5, 2023
Amid multiple failed House speaker votes, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi says "thank God" Republicans weren't in the majority on Jan. 6 — "because that was the day you had to be organized to stave off what was happening." https://t.co/oYmllyGDme pic.twitter.com/Pc2NiZ1F2I
— ABC News (@ABC) January 4, 2023
Fun fact: @SpeakerPelosi won nine consecutive leadership elections—on the first ballot. pic.twitter.com/O8lmuraRrL
— The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) January 5, 2023
NotMax
Who’da thunk after the exit of Louie Gohmert the collective iQ of House Republicans would go down?
As a footnote, irony is not dead.
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Msb
Can I ask somebody to post a link to the entire presentation ceremony? I would like to honor the people being honored by the President.
Looks like Jeffries and Clark are both good wartime consiglieri – we’re going to need them.
lowtechcyclist
@NotMax:
Quite literally LOL!
dmsilev
Another day, another 3-4 ritualistic humiliations of Kevin McCarthy.
lowtechcyclist
I’ve heard nothing but good things about Katherine Clark over the years. And that was quite some speech she gave there.
We Dems have a really good House leadership team. Jeffries, Clark, and Aguilar are all topnotch. This Congress won’t be an easy operating environment, but I have trust that they will make the most of such opportunities that are available this year.
PaulB
Courtesy of the Washington Post: “Supporters raise millions to rebrand Jan. 6 rioters as ‘patriots’”
Not a gift link, but if you turn off Javascript in your browser, you can read any WP story just fine. Some tidbits:
As you might expect, none of the people and organizations fundraising on this are being completely transparent over where the money is going.
M31
Republican Agenda:
• wake up
• step on rake
• step on own dick
• step on own dick impaled on rake
• vote to adjourn
PaulB
Already posted in the comments here, but worth another look: “Herschel Walker Staffer: Matt Schlapp ‘Groped’ My Crotch.”
Unfortunately, it’s a “he said; he said” situation so far, but there is reasonably compelling evidence that it’s true, e.g., call records, videos the staffer recorded at the time, calls to other Walker campaign officials at the time, etc.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
I can’t believe it’s been two years already. It doesn’t seem like it. I was at work and didn’t watch the attack live. I remember feeling a sense of dread later, waiting for further attacks on state capitols, etc
When it was happening, did any of you fear the worst? There were several close calls as I remember at the US Capitol. We were very lucky
lowtechcyclist
@PaulB:
Yeah, knock me over with a feather.
And who knew “engaging in their First Amendment rights” included everything from trespassing to vandalism to assaulting police officers to attempting to overthrow the government?
PaulB
https://twitter.com/Volcanoes_NPS/status/1611227983947399168
Sizable bright orange lava fountain and fast moving flows visible during the first hour of the eruption from the Keanakākoʻi overlook. NPS video/Janice Wei
Sanjeevs
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/feds-say-long-haul-jan-6-investigation-rcna61728
Jay
@PaulB: Everything old is new again. Ultra from the 1940’s
sdhays
@M31: You forgot “fail to vote to adjourn, roll around in own feces” followed by “finally get a lucky break and barely manage to adjourn”.
PaulB
No, no … they were just visiting tourists, remember? It was those Antifa terrorists who did all of the violence. Or maybe it was FBI infiltrators. I’m not really clear on that.
But it definitely wasn’t those adorable, peaceful patriots who are now political prisoners. No sir, definitely not. It couldn’t be them. Why they are so saintly you can practically see the halos!
lowtechcyclist
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Because I was so confident the protection of the Capitol would look like this, I was working away and not really paying much attention to what was going on in the world. I think it was well into afternoon before I realized that anything was amiss. It was only afterwards that I realized how close things had come to disaster at several points.
PaulB
From a WP story this morning on the current train wreck in the House:
Gotta love that last line.
Ken
I wonder if they scripted that. It certainly primes every listener to fill in the blank with the word they think Biden really wanted. Amusement, disgust, pity, schadenfreude…
lowtechcyclist
@Sanjeevs: I’d rather they focus their time and energy on the people responsible for planning the various aspects of the attempt to overthrow the government, rather than trying to prosecute a couple thousand people who can be nailed on no more than trespassing charges.
Baud
@PaulB: Related to the former Veep?
Princess
Our team is really dropping the ball if we don’t make Jan. 6th a national day of commemoration, complete with bonfires and burnings in effigy. It needs to start as a popular movement.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
His brother, I believe.
ETA: yep.
Sanjeevs
@lowtechcyclist: Yeah but zero indictments after two years for planning the insurrection.
Zero indictments for the various fake elector schemes.
Zero indictments for blatant obstruction by the Secret Service (and probably others)
NotMax
@Paul B
You left out marauding drag queens.
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Chief Oshkosh
@lowtechcyclist: I agree; DOJ and everyone else with some investigative or prosecutorial responsibility should focus on the planners.
That said, I think all 3,000 of the trespassers should forever have their wages garnished. Some of the funds could go to Capitol upkeep, but most should go to the responders (LEOs, etc.) who were harmed physically or mentally (or the relatives of those who died) by the terrorist insurrectionists .
Elizabelle
@Sanjeevs: I think the operative word is “yet.”
But carry on with your “they’re doing it RONG!” blather.
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne: Thanks.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@lowtechcyclist:
Don’t forget about them exercising their First Amendment right to shit and piss all over the capitol.
Patriotically, of course!
danielx
Reminded me of 9/11; I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.
H.E.Wolf
@lowtechcyclist: The feds are following a “¿por que no los dos?” strategy. In addition to charging and convicting lower-level insurrectionists (who may flip on the planners), there are charges and convictions for mid-level seditionist conspirators; and it is increasingly likely that charges will be laid against higher-level malefactors in future.
It does take time. Although MAGATs sneer at it, due process is vital to democracy.
Meanwhile, we can appreciate this:
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-oath-keepers-and-oath-keepers-member-found-guilty-seditious-conspiracy-and-other
And look forward to this:
https://apnews.com/article/proud-boys-washington-state-government-district-of-columbia-legal-proceedings-merrick-garland-25247c2384b86c7ba3c248c897f82a57
PaulB
Fox News is apparently not entirely in lockstep in their reactions to the current kerfuffle in the House.
Amir Khalid
@Princess:
Are you thinking of an American version of Guy Fawkes Night?
BlueGuitarist
21 Rs voted against congressional gold medals for Jan 6 US Capitol defenders
3 no longer in house
5 voting for McCarthy
13 consistently against Kevin, joined by 5 newly elected, Bishop (NC), and Donalds.
PaulWartenberg
To me, January 6th is supposed to be Epiphany in Tarpon Springs FL, a high holy day for Greek Orthodox and the blessing of the boats and waters.
Damn the Republicans for ruining this day.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@PaulB:
You keep telling yourself that Carlson
Denali
I cannot help but wonder if this grandstanding by the 20 traitors in Congress is not an attempt to steal the limelight from the current trials of the Proud Boys who planned the insurrection. One of them, Dominic Pezzola, is from Rochester, NY, and their is absolutely no coverage of him is the local news. More indictments of those at the top need to happen and soon. They need to be held accountable.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@lowtechcyclist:
That’s exactly what I expected too. It was shocking to see our government so unprepared when we were told the opposite was the case for decades. Part of this can be laid at the feet of Trump
matt
Biden knew he couldn’t say ‘amusement’.
peter
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I work on DC (well, before the pandemic) and a German friend called me the evening of Jan. 6 to make sure I was all right. He was horrified by the video he was seeing on TV. He’d seen Trump’s speech and said that the only thing missing was the Nazi salute.
eclare
@PaulB: That is good! Kudos to whoever wrote that story.
artem1s
I hope there is some sort of memorial recognition today by the WH and/or Senate. FSM knows the current House GOP leadership won’t do it. I’m hoping one of Jeffries’ nominators will expound on it at length today. And the GQP nominators will proudly show America their treasonous asses too. It’s probably not a bad idea to let them show off their worser selves once in awhile to remind the normies they aren’t ‘good’ guys deep down.
Frankensteinbeck
So, did the committee find out why the security was so light on Jan 6th? Because that’s the difference between a crowd of chickenshit conservatives grumbling and then going home, and a mob who thinks they’ve been handed their fantasy with no repercussions.
jonas
@M31: Claudia Tenney (*spits*) was on my NPR station this morning claiming that the Republican dumpster fire in the House was actually a just a bustling and vibrant marketplace of ideas that shows how open minded and tolerant of debate Republicans are! It’s practically like the Constitutional Convention of 1787 all over again (seriously, she made that analogy). Not like those authoritarian-loving Democrats who all just immediately fell in line behind tyrannical cult leader Hakeem Jeffries.
Jeffries and Clark need to continue to shine a light on the dysfunction and radicalism at the heart of the Republican brand. Over and over, every day. I think it’s starting to stick if they’re sending out people like Tenney to try to push back on it. Albeit with the most laughable arguments ever, but wev. It’s Republicans. They can’t even be assed to make halfway reasonable historical analogies, much less have a coherent governing strategy.
oldgold
I think this House battle continues until the number of votes for the Speakership reaches round 18. That is the number at which Gaetz traditionally loses interest.
Betty Cracker
@PaulWartenberg: Same, plus the birthday of a very dear friend since childhood. The swimmers lucked out this year because it could be colder!
@H.E.Wolf: I wonder when Meggs, Rhodes, et al., will be sentenced. Prior to his arrest, Meggs used to live in the next county over from me. His wife’s trial starts sometime this quarter, IIRC. I take a special interest in those two since they embody the worst of my neighbors — arrogant, aggrieved, reactionary shitheads. I hope they get the sentences they deserve.
H.E.Wolf
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I watched the proceedings on C-SPAN, having expected much less opposition than what occurred.
I was equal parts appalled, and confident that the insurrectionists (high and low) would not succeed. Tl;dr: I knew who had the real grit in their characters, and it wasn’t the people on the losing side.
Tangentially: I’m keeping an eye open for postcarding opportunities in special elections in 2023. There’s more than one kind of wild rumpus! I like the GOTV kind. :)
BlueGuitarist
@Frankensteinbeck:
also, did the committee find out who told the assholes the location of the few unreinforced windows at the Capitol?
H.E.Wolf
Likewise.
And now to log off and start the day. We’ll keep the Union standing!
Omnes Omnibus
@oldgold: Okay, that one is good.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊
BlueGuitarist
@rikyrah: good morning 🌻
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
Omnes Omnibus
@H.E.Wolf: I was having a busy day at work so I was playing little attention. I kept get getting texts about it through the day, but the magnitude was what went on was not apparent until I had a chances to see video of it after the fact. Sort of like when I first heard that some had flown a plane into the Twin Towers, I assumed someone lost control and bounced a Cessna off one of them.
SiubhanDuinne
@Amir Khalid:
And the little children chant:
:-)
Geminid
@H.E.Wolf: There will be 40 state Senate seats and 100 House of Delegates seats up for election in Virginia this fall. Plenty of post card opportunities there!
This will be an interesting test of the question: was Foungkin’ Youngkin’s win a trend or a one-off. The elections will also be held on a neutral map; legislative elections since 2011 were held on a map drawn by Republicans (although, a 2018 court order resulted in 11 House districts being redrawn).
Kay
The minute they make a deal the vast majority of the Republicans in the House will immediately have huge concessions regret, because they gave away everything – way, way too much- to get it.
That’s their BEST case.
Baud
@Kay: Look on the bright side. I’m sure there will be no more demands after this.
schrodingers_cat
I was glued to Twitter as the attack was happening. It was a shock. Not as big a shock as when the Orange Error was first elected but still. It definitely was one of the horror stories of American politics that I witnessed. Here are some others:
Clinton’s impeachment.
W’s team being able to stop counting the votes in Florida
W bumbling into Iraq under false pretenses
Orange Error’s election
Jan 6th
Even after all this the MSM still runs interference for Team R and treats them as good faith participants tells you all that you need to know about their impartiality.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: I am so relieved to hear that.
Kay
@Baud:
I can barely watch it. They just dig a deeper and deeper hole. There was no Plan B at all?
Frankensteinbeck
@Kay:
Which raises a major question I haven’t heard asked: Does any deal McCarthy makes amount to more than a fart in the wind? He doesn’t decide the House rules. It’s a majority vote. That he’s willing to give away the farm doesn’t mean the ‘piss outside the tent’ caucus will pass it. There have already been statements that McCarthy’s offer of letting the TT20 jump the line for committee assignments is unacceptable.
Princess
@Amir Khalid: Yes, something like that.
The Moar You Know
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I will be wholly honest: I left work, went home, loaded both my shotguns and put one by the front door and one by the back, and they stayed there for a couple of weeks.
I have plenty of Trumpist neighbors, I had been publicly involved (personally and successfully) in keeping the local high school closed for COVID, my address is public record, and it is not a far stretch from “show up January 6, will be wild” to “I need every patriotic American to go out and take care of the voting problem you have in your neighborhood”. Literally just a one-sentence, small escalation. You’re goddamn right I feared the worst. If that orange fucker had thought opening up a hot civil war would have gotten his fat ass back in the White House he’d absolutely have done it.
Betty Cracker
On January 6, 2021, I put up an electoral vote open thread here and was watching the proceedings on TV. I remember thinking the sore loser rabble crowd was small at first, but that was just the camera angle. IIRC, my commentary at the time was super cogent — along the lines of “this is some crazy shit, man!”
Kay
@Baud:
Maybe it doesn’t matter who is speaker now since McCarthy gave all the power away. Just elect some far Right figurehead – the nutjobs will be running everything either way.
Edmund Dantes
@jonas: also it’s classic GOP to praise and love performative hollow versions of a thing. There isn’t debate and free flowing ideas going on in the house. It’s a procedural vote that the GOP insists on taking over and over again even though they know they can’t win it, hoping for some outside miracle to change it.
The speeches are pro forma nonsense from the GOP, and the Jeffries speeches are just normal nominating speeches (but no Dem is out there claiming this is some high minded debate).
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Eight minutes. And apparently he’s whining about reporters listening in on the call, and or members leaking to reporters.
Edmund Dantes
@Betty Cracker: never knew you were related to W (I kid I kid)
Edmund Dantes
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: also Roy has never claimed he can bring enough votes to get McCarthy across the line. Just shrink it to the dead Enders. I mean “we have a deal for slightly less humiliating beatings!”
Mike in Pasadena
First twit said “. . . Donald Trump’s supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol . . .”
Oh, you mean Republicans attacked the Capitol.
Old Man Shadow
Today’s anniversary should be a big deal. Domestic terrorists and their sympathizers led by the former president came closer to destroying the United States than Osama Bin Laden could ever dream of.
Omnes Omnibus
@Kay:
Whatever deals McCarthy made don’t really matter. They still need to be voted into place, and that won’t happen. McCarthy has no power. Official or unofficial. Implicit or explicit. None. He is an empty shell. No one who steps up to replace him will honor his deals.
frosty
School board and local elections in PA. I already know they’re already coming after mine.
Mike in NC
@Kay: Whoever runs for Speaker of the House should be required to pledge not to try to overthrow a legally elected federal government. Definitely a stretch for some members of Congress.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Typical Kevin McCarthy. No wonder they don’t want him as Speaker. It’s a disgrace that most of the caucus thinks he’s their best choice
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Mike in NC: They already pledge to support the Constitution.
Delk
Ha. Two racist fucks tried to burn down an immigration center and set themselves on fire.
Ken
@Mike in NC: Theoretically the 14th Amendment, section 2* already covers that. But as with a lot of things in the Constitution (e.g. emoluments), it appears we’re a little short of enforcement mechanisms.
* TL;DR version: “No insurrectionist may hold federal or state office.”
lowtechcyclist
@Princess:
Kinda like Guy Fawkes Day, then? Sounds good to me.
kindness
@Betty Cracker: One bonus of the convictions on felony charges is these people won’t be able to legally own or possess guns. You know that is going to hurt their tender feefees most of all.
Omnes Omnibus
@Delk: Almost literally hoisted on their own petard.
schrodingers_cat
@Princess: What are we commemorating?
Steeplejack
@Sanjeevs:
Icky note: I hope they took DNA samples from the shit smeared on the walls of the Capitol. Would love to see those (literal) shitbirds get a date with destiny.
Ken
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Jake Sherman needs to re-install his twitter app. It keeps posting the same message every morning.
Omnes Omnibus
@schrodingers_cat: Failure of the plot, I presume. Just like Guy Fawkes Day.
Old School
@Mike in NC:
That’s what the stolen election claims are all about.
lowtechcyclist
@Chief Oshkosh:
Given infinite prosecutorial resources, I’d agree. But we don’t have that. For me, it’s a question of which they choose to prioritize. People who were part of the mob, but didn’t enter the Capitol, didn’t commit any acts of assault or vandalism, and didn’t actively assist or spur on those who were – it isn’t worth the time and energy of prosecuting them if it means time taken away from prosecuting the big fish.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
While Kevin McCarthy worries about reporters
seeing the Big Boardhearing the Important Call, Democrats are on the Capitol Steps. There is one Republican out there with them, Brian Fitzpatrick (whose district I believe is Biden’s strongest 2020 among the R front-liners)Betty Cracker
New AP story:
Jesus. I think at least one of our commenters is involved in NM Dem Party politics.
mrmoshpotato
LMAO! Go deep-throat Putin’s penis, GOP!
Omnes Omnibus
@lowtechcyclist:
… have a pretty good First Amendment defense if prosecuted.
lowtechcyclist
@H.E.Wolf:
Yabbut trespassers on the grounds who weren’t part of any organization, who are they going to flip on? I expect that’s why the pace of prosecutions, in terms of raw numbers of people being prosecuted, is diminishing. Few of those people would help the prosecutors work their way up the ladder.
mrmoshpotato
God bless Nancy Pelosi.
karen marie
@jonas: Let me guess – her NPR host didn’t ask what the holdouts are demanding or about the concessions that McCarthy has already made. One of the demands is that the House be permitted to strip specific salaries out of the budget when they want to get rid of someone they can’t otherwise get rid of.
Steeplejack
@Kay:
I gave up on watching yesterday, except for an occasional check-in for a few minutes. It’s like Sisyphus meets Waiting for Godot. I think what broke me was MSNBC giving it the full Steve Kornacki treatment. The math is dead simple—grade-school arithmetic—and seeing him strain to fill segments with “analysis” was heartbreaking.
Ken
A high-school production of Waiting for Godot, at that.
lowtechcyclist
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I’d ask “whatever happened to ‘back the Blue'” but that was answered on this day two years ago. They back the blue when the blue’s cracking the heads of minorities and liberal protesters. They like cops who regard Proud Boys etc. as “armed friendlies.”
Steeplejack
@Delk:
Pleased to see the center’s GoFundMe has already raised $8,770 on a $5,000 goal.
oatler
Does any body know the origin of this poll on my Cozi TV schedule?
What Do You Think?Open Menu
Do you think socialism will ever overtake capitalism as the primary philosophy behind the government and economy of the United States?
Do you think socialism will ever overtake capitalism as the primary philosophy behind the government and economy of the United States?
Yes, soon
Yes, but not for a long time
It’s possible
No, it will never happen
Other / No opinion
Kent
I was teaching school that day. I remember sort of following it online but I remember thinking that it can’t really be as bad as it turned out to be. It was kind of the culmination of a whole month of endless gut wrenching dread and anger that these horrid people were allowed to drag us through that endless saga. Not just 1/6 but the endless refusal to acknowledge the election
It was really just part of a month-long slow motion attempt to steal an election. We tend to forget how vile the rest of it was too.
kalakal
@Amir Khalid: I loved Bonfire Night as a kid. We never went in much for the Guy, it was more about the fireworks, bonfire toffee, parkin*, and letting our inner pyromaniac loose.
I actually think this is a good idea, it’s a great celebration and a great way of keeping a memory alive**
* a traditional cake for Nov 5th – here’s a recipe
https://www.daringgourmet.com/yorkshire-parkin-cake/
** No one actually has it in for Guy Fawkes anymore but everyone in the country knows of the events and overwhelmingly takes a dim view of attempts to blow up parliament.
These days places like Lewes have a vote as to most despised person and use that
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-29915270
and Edenbridge had a 30ft high Liz Truss complete with lettuce
Kent
Every bit of extra resources should go towards prosecuting anyone in pubic office who participated in this insurrection in any way from Trump on down.
Baud
@oatler:
“Dammit, I just want to watch Matlock!”
WaterGirl
@Msb: I scheduled that earlier today. Post will go up at 1:45, presentation starts at 2pm.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I believe Greg Pence voted with the people who had been chanting “Hang Mike Pence!” a couple hours before the vote. I’m sure his reasons then was also “God” too.
WereBear
@PaulB: They are running their own parallel universe.
While parasitically living in the world the rest of us have actually made.
Dorothy A. Winsor
I started seeing tweets about action at the capitol and eventually concluded it was a riot. I didn’t recognize it as an insurrection for at least a day.
WaterGirl
@PaulB: Here’s the gift article referenced in comment #6.
oatler
@Baud:
No, Matlock’s on MeTV. I’m jamming to “Emergency” on Cozi, home of My Pillow ads.
Baud
@oatler:
I think you just answered your question.
The Moar You Know
@oatler: no, but it’s from some asshole organization. Because this:
is an idiot’s question. Socialism is an economic practice, not a governmental one.
You can have:
Democratic socialism (i.e. present day Scandinavian states)
Fascistic socialism (Nazi Germany)
They are/were both socialist societies.
Kay
Joe Miller, an Ohio state (D) rep, sent me a book – Democrats 101 A Primer for Us by J.M. Purvis. It’s a short book and I may read it. I don’t recall meeting Miller but apparently I did.
H.E.Wolf
Thank you for the reminder! I’m fired up and ready to go.
FYI to fellow postcarders: stamp prices will go up on Jan. 22. I plan to buy a few pages of stamps beforehand, at the lower price, to give a salute of sorts to Mr. DeJoy.
UncleEbeneezer
@lowtechcyclist: I really don’t care that much about DOJ prosecuting misdemeanor trespassing charges (that likely have strong 1A defenses) only so they can maybe get tiny sentences/fines and then everyone can use that to complain about Garland, again. I get the sentiment of the Charge Everyone desire but it is really naive and unrealistic for how large conspiracy cases are actually won in the real world.
H.E.Wolf
@lowtechcyclist:
I place my faith in karma biting those little ‘uns in the butt.
H.E.Wolf
@SiubhanDuinne:
The perfect commemorative verse!
Steeplejack
@kalakal:
I was a proper British schoolboy for three years in the late ’50s and still have memories of Guy Fawkes Night. It was all about the firecrackers (“bangers,” I guess).
Ruviana
@Delk: And the Center was in, wait for it, Bakersfield!🤣
geg6
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
I will never forget that day, much like I will never forget 9/11, the Challenger explosion, the start of the Iraq War, the resignation of Nixon and the assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK.
I was at work and checked out BJ to see what was happening that day and could not believe it. I then pulled up MSNBC and pretty much sat at my desk in shock the rest of the day. Horrible day. Just horrible.
kalakal
@Steeplejack: bangers they are :-)
kalakal
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I was at work so I was only getting information in flashes at first. It took a while before we realised what was happening, then it was a case of disbelief, horror and shock as it sank in.
There are events I’ll never forget, Neil Armstrong stepping on to the moon, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and 9/11. Jan 6th is another
Ajabu
All I can say about January 6 is that my first thought that day was how did these crazy motherfuckers even know it was my son’s birthday and why do they get so upset about a random black man turning 35? Needless to say, it sure puts a different spin on celebrating his birthday subsequently…
Kent
My middle daughter was born on the same day and hour that Bush started the Iraq War on March 20, 2003. I remember watching the first US tanks cross the border that morning on CNN in my wife’s hospital room in Juneau Alaska minutes before she was brought into the ER for her scheduled C-section.
For the next 15 or so years I could mark exactly how long we had been waging war in Iraq by simply looking at my daughter and gauging how old she was.
PaulB
First defection: Dan Bishop has just voted for McCarthy.
PaulB
Second defection: Josh Brecheen.
Paul in KY
@PaulB: Wow! That’s basaltic rock and it looks like a water wave moving!
Bill Arnold
@matt:
Nancy Pelosi has been visibly amused in photos in the last few days.
RevRick
Ya know, I believe that the only way McCarthy ends up as Speaker is if he plays the game “Chicken,” with the twisted twenty. The game in 50s movies where two guys drives their cars at top speed towards each other, and the one who swerves last wins.
In this case, McCarthy arranges for twenty of his supporters to not cast a vote during the initial roll call, and they just hang back to see if any of the twisted twenty breaks, and for each one who does, a McCarthy supporter casts a vote. The threat of the crash is handing the Speakership over to Jeffries, an outcome I would relish.
WereBear
@Steeplejack: Thought occurred to me as well. It’s in the tool kit…
Paul in KY
@oldgold: I know Mr. King would like it to last until number 19.
Paul in KY
@Omnes Omnibus: I took off to watch a soccer match & until it was put on another TV at the establishment, did not realize the scope.
Paul in KY
@The Moar You Know: Good planning. You had sound reasons for that.
Paul in KY
@karen marie: Wouldn’t that basically be a Bill of Attainder? Those are specifically banned, I think.
WaterGirl
@artem1s: Are you aware of this event?