Anarchy in D.C.- Page 3

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 1/8/21 at 3:34pm

Kiss Kiss, Lovah! 

[yankeefan7]

Posted: 1/8/21 at 3:57pm

"WHERE MY BITCHES YANKEE FAN AND MISTER ROXY AT?"

It probably will not do any good but just for fun I thought I would report this post to the moderators. I don't know about other people but I think the term "bitches" in this context is offensive. 

[Kad]

Posted: 1/8/21 at 4:03pm

yankeefan7 said: ""WHERE MY BITCHES YANKEE FAN AND MISTER ROXY AT?"

It probably will not do any good but just for fun I thought I would report this post to the moderators. I don't know about other people but I think the term "bitches" in this context is offensive."

Thank you for this laugh.

[sabrelady]

Posted: 1/8/21 at 4:19pm

As a prowd Bitch I take offense at your taking offense.

 

PS breaking curfew is the charge they are holding the rioters on?  What colour is the sky in the world they live in?

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 1/8/21 at 4:26pm

yankeefan7 said: ""WHERE MY BITCHES YANKEE FAN AND MISTER ROXY AT?"

It probably will not do any good but just for fun I thought I would report this post to the moderators. I don't know about other people but I think the term "bitches" in this context is offensive."

Go away.

 

[yankeefan7]

Posted: 1/8/21 at 4:30pm

"Go away."

No problem, Eric.

[Highland Guy]

Posted: 1/8/21 at 4:37pm

yankeefan7 said: "Very simply, Trump should never have held the rally and just accepted loss, he made his case in the courts and was rejected every time. There is no excuse for violence for any reason and it is a shame people lost their life."

 

Do you think Trump should now be removed from office?

 

[JennH]

Posted: 1/8/21 at 6:27pm

Highland Guy said: "Back on topic.

After introducing additional candidates for his administration, Joe Biden answered questions from the press. A couple of quotes: "It's a good thing Trump is not attending the inauguration." "Trump has exceeded my worst notions about him."

I am more optimistic than ever that our nation is in good hands and heading it the right direction with Biden, Harris and the Democrats at the helm.

And, it has just been announced that proposed Articles of Impeachment for Trump will include "Incitement of insurrection".

"

We ain't out of the woods yet...we still have the 20th to worry about and Parler posts about something similar going down that day are already making the rounds. And even then, if we get though that day....think about after. These people won't go away....this is how the Nazi party started. Emboldened by the hateful man who also attempted a coup 10 years previous to his own democratically won election, they believed the lies about their countrymen, started a new political party and well...we all know what happened. I'm honestly beginning to worry all over again. Not that I believed the 20th would come and all will be well after, but we have a long road ahead, but when these people come out like cockroaches from under a rock over the past 10 years or so, you can't put them back. It seems pretty clear that 'left leaners' are the real majority, but we all know people like this have no issue creating violent waves. I'm optimistic as I can be during a time like this that, praise heavens above, we'll have a new leader who won't actively tear the nation apart. But when I mull it over in depth...does anyone else realize how quickly Wednesday could have gone totally sideways?? For my fellow Handmaids' Tale fans, this is precisely how it started and it truly terrifies me. I'll end this part with that social media is absolutely to blame here. Not wholly, but mostly. This week was exactly what Social Dilemma warned us about, and I was worried about social media in this respect before that. The fact that social media has only been around for about 20-ish years and now has the power to make or break democracies is also bone chilling. 

Next thing...as for the state rep from West VA and the crazy man in Pelosi's office, I've seen they been brought up on charges...nothing about arrest. Unless I'm wrong about how I'm interpreting this? I'm no legal eagle so feel free to correct. 

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 1/8/21 at 6:38pm

Twitter has finally banned the racist in chief. Permanently. 

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 1/8/21 at 6:47pm

crazy man in Pelosi's office, I've seen they been brought up on charges...nothing about arrest. 

Richard Barnett was taken into custody on federal charges of entering and remaining on restricted grounds, violent entry and theft of public property.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 1/8/21 at 6:55pm

Impeachment

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 1/8/21 at 7:00pm

If Trump gets impeached and removed does he still get secret service protection for life?

[Phantom of London]

Posted: 1/8/21 at 7:14pm

Not sure the impeached Trump will require secret service protection behind bars.

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 1/8/21 at 7:16pm

He will never go to prison. He's a rich, white man. That's not what happens in America.

"If Trump gets impeached and removed does he still get secret service protection for life?"

Nope.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 1/8/21 at 7:26pm

Sutton Ross said: "He will never go to prison. He's a rich, white man. That's not what happens in America.

"If Trump gets impeached and removed does he still get secret service protection for life?"

Nope."

Yeah, just ask Epstein or Weinstein how being a rich white man kept them out of jail. Yes, it took way longer than it should have to get either of them there, but that pendulum has begun swinging.

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 1/8/21 at 7:29pm

You're beyond delusional to compare Trump's possible crimes he will be brought up on and those men's crimes. Ridiculous. 

[JennH]

Posted: 1/8/21 at 8:07pm

Updated On: 1/8/21 at 08:07 PM

[Marianne2]

Posted: 1/8/21 at 9:40pm

FindingNamo said: "WHERE MY BITCHES YANKEE FAN AND MISTER ROXY AT?



at this performance the role of MrRoxy will be played by Namo Finding.

The violent AntiFa members in elaborate disguisesare the ones who started each act of violence in order to discredit the peaceful Trump protesters. There is a mountain of evidence of Voter Fraud and another examples of non-whites voting. Sorry, kids, it's the truth.

"

This is exactly what my idiot coworker said. She doesn't care about the lies told to her because at least Trump isn't a politician. 

[sabrelady]

Posted: 1/9/21 at 12:52pm

And in case u think the Repubs larned anything per theN.Y Times

In Capital, a G.O.P. Crisis. At the R.N.C. Meeting, a Trump Celebration.

Party members at a gathering of the Republican National Committee endorsed President Trump as the man to lead the party forward, ignoring the turmoil in Washington.

AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. — In Washington, Republicans were dealing with a burgeoning crisis in their ranks, with high-profile resignations and bitter infighting over how to deal with an erratic and isolated president. But at the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting on Friday, most party members were operating in a parallel universe.

In a chandelier-adorned ballroom at the seaside Ritz-Carlton here, there was no mention of President Trump’s disruption of the coronavirus relief package or his phone call to the Georgia secretary of state demanding that he help steal the election, both of which contributed to Republicans’ losing control of the Senate.

And while the R.N.C. chair, Ronna McDaniel, condemned the attack on the Capitol, neither she nor any other speaker so much as publicly hinted at Mr. Trump’s role in inciting a mob assault on America’s seat of government.

Even as the president faces a possible second impeachment proceeding, this collective exercise in gaze aversion was not the most striking part of the meeting. More revealing was the reason for the silence from the stage: Party members, one after another, said in interviews that the president did not bear any blame for the violence at the Capitol and indicated that they wanted him to continue to play a leading role in the party.

I surely embrace President Trump,” said Michele Fiore, the committeewoman from Nevada, where Republicans have lost two Senate races and the governorship since 2016. Ms. Fiore, who was sporting a Trump-emblazoned vest, said the president was “absolutely” a positive force in the party.

The fealty to Mr. Trump was made plain on Friday when the state chairs and the committeemen and women who make up the R.N.C.’s governing board unanimously re-elected Ms. McDaniel, Mr. Trump’s handpicked chair. They also reappointed her co-chair, Tommy Hicks, who was first appointed to his post because of his friendship with the president’s eldest son.

Mr. Trump is the first president since Herbert Hoover to preside over the loss of the White House, the House and the Senate in a single term and will be the first since Andrew Johnson to boycott his successor’s inauguration. That hasn’t yet fazed the Republican rank and file.

“This room, they’re in denial, and that’s on the record,” Bill Palatucci, a committeeman from New Jersey, said during a break in the Friday session, acknowledging the “damage done to the country” and the Republican “brand” this week.

But Mr. Palatucci was a lonely voice of dissent, at least in public.

Privately, a group of Republican officials, mostly those from the pre-Trump establishment wing of the party, said that they were appalled by the president’s conduct and that Ms. McDaniel had been candid about the party’s difficulties behind closed doors.

These Republicans predicted with more hope than confidence that once Mr. Trump was out of office, the ardor for him in the conservative base would cool.

Yet for now, the flames still burn.

“I would love to see him go into states that have some House seats we can flip in ’22,” said Terry Lathan, the Alabama G.OP. chair, who said “absolutely not” when she was asked if Mr. Trump bore any blame for the attack on the Capitol.

When a committee member took an informal survey on whose closed-door speech on Thursday members had liked better, that of Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota or of Nikki R. Haley, the former United Nations ambassador, the response was clear. The party officials preferred Ms. Noem’s, because she had not criticized Mr. Trump as Ms. Haley did in her remarks, a Republican familiar with the sampling said.

Earlier in the day on Thursday, when the president briefly called into a breakfast meeting, he was greeted by applause. And when the Missouri national committeeman, Gordon Kinne, said at the breakfast that he was a supporter of the president but had been upset by his comments about the violence at the Capitol, he was met with a generally frosty response, according to another committee member in the room.

The loyalty to Mr. Trump results in part from the turnover on the committee during his term. The president’s top political lieutenants intervened to install loyalists in state and local G.O.P. conventions ahead of 2020. The goal was to prevent any party rule changes that could have made it easier to mount a primary challenge against Mr. Trump, but the end result was to leave the committee heavy with Trump devotees.

The changes also accelerated a trend that pre-dated Mr. Trump’s rise: the evolution of the committee from a body filled with canny political professionals and power brokers in their states to one dominated by dogmatic partisans well-marinated in Fox News and Facebook memes.

Perhaps more significant, the president has fostered a new wave of activism on the right — and many longstanding G.O.P. leaders fear alienating these newcomers to party politics.

“We can’t exist without the people he brought to the party — he’s changed the direction of the party,” said Paul Reynolds, the Republican committeeman from Alabama. “We’re a different party because of the people that came with him, and they make us a better party.”

Reta Hamilton, a committeewoman from Arkansas, said Mr. Trump should play “a leading part” in the G.O.P. in the future for just that reason — “to bring his voters,” she said.

Ms. Hamilton and other R.N.C. members also sought to rationalize questions about the damage to the Capitol and the images of Trump banners and Confederate flags littering the building.

“What was your reaction to Black Lives Matter looting and robbing and killing people?” she shot back brazenly before walking away.

Steve Scheffler, a committeeman from Iowa, was equally quick to invoke last summer’s at times destructive protests over racial justice and the news media’s coverage of them.

“Why doesn’t the press condemn the violence that happened in Portland and Seattle?” said Mr. Scheffler. “It’s a double standard.”

Asked if he felt there was an equivalence between the left-wing protests of 2020 and the violent attempt to subvert the election this week, he said: “Two wrongs don’t make a right. It’s all bad.”

In her remarks to the committee, Ms. McDaniel, the niece of Senator Mitt Romney, thanked Mr. Trump for his faith in her and never directly acknowledged that Mr. Trump had been defeated, only referring to her frustration at “losing critical elections.”

As for the president’s own denial about his loss, she did not rebut the conspiracy theories he has pushed, and that the party’s base has echoed.

Addressing the Republican “grass roots,” she vowed to work with state legislatures to “make sure what we saw in this election never happens again.”

Ms. McDaniel went on to criticize the effort by House Democrats to withdraw gender-specific words like “wife” and “husband” from the rule book governing the chamber.

The standing ovation she received was a reminder that disdain for the left’s perceived excesses is the most animating, and unifying, force on the right. This brand of oppositional politics could help paper over Republicans’ challenges when they run as the out-of-power party next year.

Indeed, much of Ms. McDaniel’s speech was Republican red meat. There were warnings against socialism, attacks on the four liberal congresswomen known as “the squad” and boasting about the diverse class of lawmakers who helped the party gain House seats in November despite Mr. Trump’s broad unpopularity. “Candidates matter,” she said, alluding to new lawmakers.

David Bossie, one of Mr. Trump’s advisers and the Maryland committeeman, insisted that the party’s losses had been on the margins.

“You don’t have to throw out everybody when there’s nothing fundamentally wrong,” Mr. Bossie said.

A handful of committee members, however, believe more reflection is desperately needed, particularly after this week. “We’re whistling past the graveyard,” said Henry Barbour, the Mississippi committeeman, who called Mr. Trump’s conduct before the riot “totally unacceptable.”

Few of his counterparts, though, would criticize the president.

Asked if Mr. Trump was still the effective leader of the G.O.P., the Wyoming Republican chair, Frank Eathorne, said, “The way Wyoming sees it, yes.”

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It ain't over.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 1/9/21 at 4:45pm

Good.Trump just lost them two Senate seats in GEORGIA. Let them keep losing.

[Islander_fan]

Posted: 1/10/21 at 2:37am

I think that it’s also worth noting, Trump has had lawyers research in whether or not he can give himself a presidential pardon. He knows that once he goes back to civilian life, people will be coming after him. If that doesn’t scream guilty  i don’t know what does. 

[JennH]

Posted: 1/11/21 at 9:48am

Ok legit question I haven't found any info about yet....is the inaugural committee at all considering having the inauguration at an undisclosed place in privacy? I'm dead serious...this isn't going to end and I've been saying I won't sleep soundly until noon on the 20th. Heck even after that, these people are absolutely like roaches that won't be quashed easily. 

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 1/11/21 at 10:24am

I haven't heard anything.

I know it was going to be limited due to Covid but I think they are still planning for it be on the Capitol stairs.

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 1/11/21 at 12:06pm

Correct. With 13,000 police, security and national guard folks all lined up. They didn't win last week and they sure as hell aren't winning next.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 1/11/21 at 12:16pm

Can anyone clarify for me:  Can someone BE pardoned if they haven't been convicted yet?