The pushing and shoving and yelling and screaming and threats and confused gibberish began on Tuesday when former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy elbowed a fellow Republican member of Congress in the kidney in a House corridor. The Kidney-Punched-One was Tennessee Representative Tim Burchett, who was one of the eight Republicans who voted to oust McCarthy from his speakership last month. He compounded his crimes against good order and discipline in the House by voting to confirm Baby-Faced-Fetus-Defender Mike Johnson, who since taking control of the House, has spent most of his time attempting to downplay his links to the New Apostolic Reformation, a fringe-of-the-fringe right wing Christian group that according to NPR, “embraces ‘the Seven Mountains mandate’ which says Christians have a duty to God to take control of the seven pillars of society: business, education, entertainment, family, government, media and religion.”
Mike Johnson and his "covenant marriage," meaning even if he beats his wife or she beats him, one or the other cheats, they will NEVER leave the marriage seems sickeningly tame stuff compared to the rest of the bunch. How the f did someone named Markwayne who was an MMA fighter become a U. S. Senator? If I weren't so old, I would be packing my bags to leave for good. I watched the whole time we were headed here and I felt like Chicken Little. But Chicken Little was onto something. I have never been so sad in my entire long life. And Mike Johnson is the best of the horrors at this moment. Gad, forget I used the word "best" in any sense.
Almost everyone I know has never been so sad. And disspirited. And disgusted that these are our elected officials. And then there's George Santos. And the joke that is the new ethics rules for the Supreme Court.....gad
Nov 17, 2023·edited Nov 17, 2023Liked by Lucian K. Truscott IV
All of that, quadruple and that can never be enough. A country of good solid people and many deep thinkers who weren't just thinking of lining their lousy pockets and maintaining what they turned in to a hollow version of power and public service. It makes me sicker than any sick I've ever know. And George Santos, OMG. I just don't even want to know he and this whole situation with him ever existed in any even remote imagination, much less reality. What truly have we fallen to.
Antidote filled with the swinging life-force joie de vivre we all need to keep on keeping on through the miasma and malaise, c'est vrai, and clocks in at 3 minutes 11 seconds, imagine that!
I'm not packing my bags, I'm standing my ground. THOSE morons need to leave, not us, Mary. We'll get rid of them by voting. There are enough of us to make it happen. Hang in there, and try to turn the sadness into determination.
See, I just can't accept that outlook. This is a wonderful country full of so much potential. There are some pretty horrid people trying to change that and I refuse to accept that. I love America and I wouldn't leave it while it needs me and whatever I can do to protect it.
R men tend not to be gay rather enjoy sex with other men, boyz, and barnyard critters. In their minds doesn't violate their wedding vows because those vows don't explicitly call out other men, boyz, and critters.
I’ve heard it said that Jan 6th was just practice. Thump & his aides are still not in jail and pretending they didn’t do anything wrong (& those that are in jail will be liberated “when” thump & pals get back in office.)
IF thump gets into office he will certainly pardon anyone and everyone he views as a supporter. Still plenty of unindicted co-conspirators (my opinion) in Congress who were willing to facilitate his scheme and haven't been charged with anything.
I agree! Rachel Maddow did a podcast series “Ultra” where in one segment the DOJ brought a whole group of congressmen to trial. It took months, devolved into a full blown circus, the judge had a heart attack & died which meant the DOJ would have had to start over. They gave up. I’ve heard it said that Jack Smith is trying thump alone to keep the trial short & focused. I’m still hoping he’ll be able to bring others to trial later - but do we need to worry about statute of limitations?? Our justice system is definitely “imperfect”!
(Wasn't a putsch yet made the funny work. Here is what it was allowing you to go there twice with your humor, autogolpe. Won't take you long to have fun with it)
What is so discouraging is that these people described in this article are clearly so crazy that no one can reason with them. Marjorie Taylor Greene also got confused at one point, thinking Wray worked in the Department of Homeland Security. We started throwing the word "fascism" around long ago until that word, alas, doesn't have the import it once had. So SAD. Yes, these people, including Trump are clearly "fascists."
I agree, but worry we will underestimate their real chance to grab all the power they can once more. I'm still not confident we could fend them off again.
Correction: the esteemed Tim Burchett is not from Nashville but from Knoxville, across the state about 160 miles. Having lived in TN, I should have known that, although following the careers of mentally challenged Republican members of congress wasn't exactly on my list of interests while I lived there. h/t David Bullock
These guys haven't even got it together enough to expel George Devolder Santos, I guess because
they feel sorry for him, having his own five-year-old niece kidnapped by Chinese Communists and all.
But there has to be an end to this maudlin soft-hearted approach from the GOP, eventually, when it comes to George, despite his tragic family background, having his mother, father, five brothers and five sisters killed by Hurricane Katrina as they were thrown from a levee into the surging waters, and poor George unable to rescue them, despite his many Olympic records in the 10,000 meter freestyle, due to an unexpected attack by alligators and pirates.
Yes, it's a miracle George is still alive, but he's too busy dating super-models and going on secret missions for the CIA inside Russia, and advising the Senate Intelligence Committee how to negotiate an end to the Ukraine-Russia and Israel-Hamas wars
So let this latest committee decision to say mean things about him be the sign that the ties must be severed, George's constituents deserve a full-time congressional representative, not a veritable Renaissance Man for the ages too busy to serve the taxpayers of his NYC district!
"Earlier this year George Santos, the fabulist congressman facing federal fraud charges, took up the cause of exiled Chinese mogul Guo Wengui, a fellow fabulist who is also facing federal fraud charges.
Guo, along with Steve Bannon, leads a group called the New Federal State of China, which claims to be dedicated to overthrowing the Chinese Communist Party. But federal prosecutors say Guo defrauded members of that group through a series of fraudulent investment schemes.
As Mother Jones has reported, Santos has echoed claims by Guo’s supporters in the Chinese diaspora that their leader is being prosecuted by the US Justice Department due to his vocal criticism of the CCP. Santos has even ludicrously implied that his own prosecution results from his embrace of Guo. Still such claims have helped Santos raise hundreds of thousands of dollars from Guo supporters.
More recently, Santos appears to have made new bogus claims related to his ties to Guo. On Saturday, New York Times journalist Grace Ashford, who last year helped break the story of Santos’ serial fibbing, reported on her recent phone calls with Santos. In one conversation, according to Ashford, Santos suggested his niece might have been kidnapped by agents of the CCP.
“I’ll give you one story that nobody talks about,” he replied, before telling me how his 5-year-old niece disappeared from a playground in Queens, only to be located 40 minutes later on a surveillance camera with two Chinese men.
He said the incident was the subject of an active police investigation, implying heavily that it might have been in retaliation for his vocal stance against the Chinese Communist Party.
“So you think it was China?” I asked, clarifying.
“Look, I don’t want to go into like, conspiracy theory,” he said. “But you know, if the shoe fits, right?”
Guo is not explicitly mentioned there, but Santos has regularly equated his support for Guo with opposition to the CCP. Santos has little role in actual US policy toward China. His “vocal stance” against the CCP has come in House floor remarks, tweets, and even a proposed piece of legislation related to Guo.
Santos’ kidnapping story seems to be concocted. “A high-ranking police official confirmed that officers had been called and had looked into the incident, “Ashford writes. “But they found no evidence of Chinese Communist Party involvement, or of any kidnapping at all.”
“We found nothing at all to suggest it’s true,” the official told the Times. “I’d lean into, ‘he made it up.’”
I think his mother was working for the Defense Intelligence Agency to stop the 9/11 plot, so George went along with the DIA's story she was killed, as they wanted to keep her employed in other espionage operations.
So instead of her dying in 9/11, they sent her to the Big Easy to infiltrate the Carlos Marcello organized crime syndicate, since she speaks fluent Sicilian, Italian, Creole and Cajun dialects, and is a master of disguises. The kids were allowed to join her, but then Hurricane Katrina struck, and the rest is history.
Apparently one of the reason Mullin is so pissed at O'Brien is that the Teamster leader texted out a picture taken from the side of the stageshowing Mullin standing on a box behind his podium (he's apparently 5'8" and sensitive about it).
The cowboy evidently suffers from toxic hypermasculinity syndrome AND arrested development. And perhaps from being burdened with such a dumbass name as well.
My Dad owned a small trucking company in NJ with his brothers. He was at a meeting concerning some Union issue. Jimmy Hoffa walked in and made a belittling comment to my father . Dad jumped up ,lunged at Jimmy and had to be pulled away. True story.
There was no retaliation but no it not a good idea to go for a teamster especially the Union head.
Unsurprised. Among the many things my husband was in the early years of our marriage was a teamster working in the Bronx. I met his coworkers, no one walked into their job site with impunity.
It’s incredible, isn’t it. Listening to them is even worse than reading your pitch perfect reporting. For my money the really evil puppet masters are working quietly behind the curtain.
Burchett doesn’t represent the district where the Covenant School is. We are lucky to have Andy “ my kids have AR-15’s” Ogles. I am not pleased to announce I was forced into his district. Keep up the good work, Lucien.
The best response was Rachel Maddow, when interviewed about the cray-cray by Stephen Colbert, removed her glasses, placed hand over face, and began massaging her eyes.
Reading "Baby-Faced-Fetus-Defender Mike Johnson" echoed my own thought. This religious squirrel with lotsa money but no bank account does have a rather benign visage. As to the larger point, civility and decorum left the building when the taints came marching in. I would peg that at 2016 when the Democrats lost the election (more or less) and the voters lost their minds.
I suppose these people think that acting like a bunch of children with feelings of inadequacy is a good look politically. Perhaps it's because their hero is constantly complaining people are being mean to him.
You can't make thus stuff up. Some legislators not only behave like children they don't even know which government department witnesses at hearings belong to "Greene: I posted them on my Twitter account Wray: I don’t spend a lot of time on Twitter. Greene: I’m sure you do because the DHS organized with other offices and censored people like myself. Wray: I’m not part of the DHS."
And she didn't miss a beat, which is the true talent on display in all this. She just kept on blurting out the mouth farts. There must be a course taught in GOP Central. "What to do when you're inevitably caught being dumber than a box of rocks." It's probably part of an entire program and why musk changed to X. Twitter was too hard to spell.
Last night I dreamed that they all got Xs tattooed on their foreheads so we could see them coming. It sucks when you wake up and dreams aren't real.
Haha, made me laugh out loud :) Notice how she grills people like she's superior to them, like a bulldog disrespectful prosecuting attorney, but without any legal knowledge - any knowledge at all :),
But always with total confidence, like old Rosie who used to come to our town council meetings and even rally troops at time who were clueless as to her certification as a card carrying schizophrenia, and proud of it. Probably could have been the mayor with right drugs. Humans. Quite the comedy.
Please help me with this anomaly; given their proclivity toward violence, I find it ironic that republicans were so unwilling to face the ravenous mob out to kill on 1/6, but rather raced to huddle in the safety of the inner rooms of the Capitol building. Our founders, the tough guys and gals who founded this country, would have stood shoulder-to-shoulder at the doors with the security guards to fend off the traitorous mob. Our elected politicians need to grow some huevos--republican or Democrat. Given, these Congressmen and Congresswomen are not MMA trained, but I'm ashamed that these officials in which we place our trust, are so unwilling to defend what they stand for--us--the American people. I would not have run, and I'm just a commoner.
Easy words to write, rp...your heart's in the right place, but......have you ever really been in a riot? I have--it wasn't an armed mob but it was a riot (a Black Friday mistake of a shopping trip which I will never repeat!!!)...it's freak-out scary; people in a riled up mob are capable of any outrage or cruelty. If a person isn't trained and armored with the proper gear, it would be deadly. The folks in the Capitol did exactly what they should have done.
Perhaps your right as to what the Framers and Founders might have done. Am more skeptical. Not sure the mob would be impressed by the sight of 200 men in powered white wigs and funny pants and even funnier shoes. Do suspect the CCTV cameras woulda caught scores of Trumpkins running around holding up those wigs as trophies, then ordering their wimmin to decorate the gallows with them.
Mike Johnson and his "covenant marriage," meaning even if he beats his wife or she beats him, one or the other cheats, they will NEVER leave the marriage seems sickeningly tame stuff compared to the rest of the bunch. How the f did someone named Markwayne who was an MMA fighter become a U. S. Senator? If I weren't so old, I would be packing my bags to leave for good. I watched the whole time we were headed here and I felt like Chicken Little. But Chicken Little was onto something. I have never been so sad in my entire long life. And Mike Johnson is the best of the horrors at this moment. Gad, forget I used the word "best" in any sense.
Almost everyone I know has never been so sad. And disspirited. And disgusted that these are our elected officials. And then there's George Santos. And the joke that is the new ethics rules for the Supreme Court.....gad
All of that, quadruple and that can never be enough. A country of good solid people and many deep thinkers who weren't just thinking of lining their lousy pockets and maintaining what they turned in to a hollow version of power and public service. It makes me sicker than any sick I've ever know. And George Santos, OMG. I just don't even want to know he and this whole situation with him ever existed in any even remote imagination, much less reality. What truly have we fallen to.
Antidote filled with the swinging life-force joie de vivre we all need to keep on keeping on through the miasma and malaise, c'est vrai, and clocks in at 3 minutes 11 seconds, imagine that!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mLYL3Wy2JU
And what a band!
King Porter Stomp (Morton) {{ Mister Jelly Roll Morton, songwriter here}}
Bunny Berigan, Nate Kazebier, Ralph Muzzillo (tp)
Red Ballard, Jack Lacey (tb)
Benny Goodman (cl)
Toots Mondello, Hymie Scherzer (as)
Arthur Rollini, Dick Clark (ts)
Frank Froeba (p)
Georg Van Eps (g)
Harry Goodman (b)
Gene Krupa (b)
Fletcher Henderson (arr)
New York, July 1, 1935
I'm not packing my bags, I'm standing my ground. THOSE morons need to leave, not us, Mary. We'll get rid of them by voting. There are enough of us to make it happen. Hang in there, and try to turn the sadness into determination.
If you do decide to leave the US, you are entitled to vote in all elections. You maintain your citizenship and request mail-in ballots. Done.
I'm too old to leave. If I were younger, I might. I have always had tons of determination. But I also like to have a nice life.
I understand where you're coming from, I really do.
If there were a Country which might take me despite ne being 76 and not financially rich, I'd be gone.
See, I just can't accept that outlook. This is a wonderful country full of so much potential. There are some pretty horrid people trying to change that and I refuse to accept that. I love America and I wouldn't leave it while it needs me and whatever I can do to protect it.
The consenting adults phrase by Mullin seems odd to me. I generally think of that as people preparing to have sex. Mike Johnson would not approve.
It was weird wasn’t it
R men tend not to be gay rather enjoy sex with other men, boyz, and barnyard critters. In their minds doesn't violate their wedding vows because those vows don't explicitly call out other men, boyz, and critters.
They’re not raised with permission to breathe. It contorts them.
dat was a killah line
Jan 6th was their attempt at a putsch. Now we're stuck with the leftover putzes. What a pathetic spectacle.
I’ve heard it said that Jan 6th was just practice. Thump & his aides are still not in jail and pretending they didn’t do anything wrong (& those that are in jail will be liberated “when” thump & pals get back in office.)
IF thump gets into office he will certainly pardon anyone and everyone he views as a supporter. Still plenty of unindicted co-conspirators (my opinion) in Congress who were willing to facilitate his scheme and haven't been charged with anything.
I agree! Rachel Maddow did a podcast series “Ultra” where in one segment the DOJ brought a whole group of congressmen to trial. It took months, devolved into a full blown circus, the judge had a heart attack & died which meant the DOJ would have had to start over. They gave up. I’ve heard it said that Jack Smith is trying thump alone to keep the trial short & focused. I’m still hoping he’ll be able to bring others to trial later - but do we need to worry about statute of limitations?? Our justice system is definitely “imperfect”!
lol.
(Wasn't a putsch yet made the funny work. Here is what it was allowing you to go there twice with your humor, autogolpe. Won't take you long to have fun with it)
Caught me 😉
What is so discouraging is that these people described in this article are clearly so crazy that no one can reason with them. Marjorie Taylor Greene also got confused at one point, thinking Wray worked in the Department of Homeland Security. We started throwing the word "fascism" around long ago until that word, alas, doesn't have the import it once had. So SAD. Yes, these people, including Trump are clearly "fascists."
Not only can no one reason with them, their constituents vote them back into office. What’s wrong with half of Americans?
They are nazis. Remind everyone what nazis do to their own people. You'll convince a few to vote blue.
These morons and the orange traitor all seem to be about the same maturity level - toddler. 😡‼️
I agree, but worry we will underestimate their real chance to grab all the power they can once more. I'm still not confident we could fend them off again.
Your concerns are, in my opinion, not misplaced. It likely will get very ugly
Worse
Correction: the esteemed Tim Burchett is not from Nashville but from Knoxville, across the state about 160 miles. Having lived in TN, I should have known that, although following the careers of mentally challenged Republican members of congress wasn't exactly on my list of interests while I lived there. h/t David Bullock
These guys haven't even got it together enough to expel George Devolder Santos, I guess because
they feel sorry for him, having his own five-year-old niece kidnapped by Chinese Communists and all.
But there has to be an end to this maudlin soft-hearted approach from the GOP, eventually, when it comes to George, despite his tragic family background, having his mother, father, five brothers and five sisters killed by Hurricane Katrina as they were thrown from a levee into the surging waters, and poor George unable to rescue them, despite his many Olympic records in the 10,000 meter freestyle, due to an unexpected attack by alligators and pirates.
Yes, it's a miracle George is still alive, but he's too busy dating super-models and going on secret missions for the CIA inside Russia, and advising the Senate Intelligence Committee how to negotiate an end to the Ukraine-Russia and Israel-Hamas wars
So let this latest committee decision to say mean things about him be the sign that the ties must be severed, George's constituents deserve a full-time congressional representative, not a veritable Renaissance Man for the ages too busy to serve the taxpayers of his NYC district!
"Earlier this year George Santos, the fabulist congressman facing federal fraud charges, took up the cause of exiled Chinese mogul Guo Wengui, a fellow fabulist who is also facing federal fraud charges.
Guo, along with Steve Bannon, leads a group called the New Federal State of China, which claims to be dedicated to overthrowing the Chinese Communist Party. But federal prosecutors say Guo defrauded members of that group through a series of fraudulent investment schemes.
As Mother Jones has reported, Santos has echoed claims by Guo’s supporters in the Chinese diaspora that their leader is being prosecuted by the US Justice Department due to his vocal criticism of the CCP. Santos has even ludicrously implied that his own prosecution results from his embrace of Guo. Still such claims have helped Santos raise hundreds of thousands of dollars from Guo supporters.
More recently, Santos appears to have made new bogus claims related to his ties to Guo. On Saturday, New York Times journalist Grace Ashford, who last year helped break the story of Santos’ serial fibbing, reported on her recent phone calls with Santos. In one conversation, according to Ashford, Santos suggested his niece might have been kidnapped by agents of the CCP.
“I’ll give you one story that nobody talks about,” he replied, before telling me how his 5-year-old niece disappeared from a playground in Queens, only to be located 40 minutes later on a surveillance camera with two Chinese men.
He said the incident was the subject of an active police investigation, implying heavily that it might have been in retaliation for his vocal stance against the Chinese Communist Party.
“So you think it was China?” I asked, clarifying.
“Look, I don’t want to go into like, conspiracy theory,” he said. “But you know, if the shoe fits, right?”
Guo is not explicitly mentioned there, but Santos has regularly equated his support for Guo with opposition to the CCP. Santos has little role in actual US policy toward China. His “vocal stance” against the CCP has come in House floor remarks, tweets, and even a proposed piece of legislation related to Guo.
Santos’ kidnapping story seems to be concocted. “A high-ranking police official confirmed that officers had been called and had looked into the incident, “Ashford writes. “But they found no evidence of Chinese Communist Party involvement, or of any kidnapping at all.”
“We found nothing at all to suggest it’s true,” the official told the Times. “I’d lean into, ‘he made it up.’”
I thought his mother “died in the Twin Towers on 9/11” (and then she died a second time in Brazil in 2016).
I think his mother was working for the Defense Intelligence Agency to stop the 9/11 plot, so George went along with the DIA's story she was killed, as they wanted to keep her employed in other espionage operations.
So instead of her dying in 9/11, they sent her to the Big Easy to infiltrate the Carlos Marcello organized crime syndicate, since she speaks fluent Sicilian, Italian, Creole and Cajun dialects, and is a master of disguises. The kids were allowed to join her, but then Hurricane Katrina struck, and the rest is history.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty..
Walter Mitty had a spine and a few scraps of dignity. These guys can’t even rise to the level of clowns.
lmrao
😝😝😝
As l once said in a momentary moment of clarity: Believe all rumours!
🤣❤️🤣🤪😳🫣
Apparently one of the reason Mullin is so pissed at O'Brien is that the Teamster leader texted out a picture taken from the side of the stageshowing Mullin standing on a box behind his podium (he's apparently 5'8" and sensitive about it).
What is with all this tallness nonsense?? DeSantis and his high heels, Drumpf jealous of Barron, and now this idiocy!
Idiocy. Exactly.
It sounds like he has the Desatan syndrome, although 5’8” might look tall to Desatan. 🤷♂️
The cowboy evidently suffers from toxic hypermasculinity syndrome AND arrested development. And perhaps from being burdened with such a dumbass name as well.
He chose it. His parents named him Mark Wayne, but he decided to jam them together because he either think it makes him sound classy or macho.
That makes it even more dumbass than I thought. A Sooner with a name that sounds neither classy nor macho. Just real rednecky.
🤣
Shouldn’t there be a minimum iQ when running for office? I don’t demand genius, just coherence.
Also, last I heard it’s never a good idea to pick a fight with a teamster.
And a mental health exam to eliminate those who are cray-cray. Grandpa Bernie had to teach the pre-schoolers how to behave.
I loved Bernie’s finger pointing and yelling “sit down”.
The adult in the room.
My Dad owned a small trucking company in NJ with his brothers. He was at a meeting concerning some Union issue. Jimmy Hoffa walked in and made a belittling comment to my father . Dad jumped up ,lunged at Jimmy and had to be pulled away. True story.
There was no retaliation but no it not a good idea to go for a teamster especially the Union head.
Teamsters are tough, and there is strength in numbers. Which is why WE can vote out all the imbeciles in November.
Unsurprised. Among the many things my husband was in the early years of our marriage was a teamster working in the Bronx. I met his coworkers, no one walked into their job site with impunity.
It’s incredible, isn’t it. Listening to them is even worse than reading your pitch perfect reporting. For my money the really evil puppet masters are working quietly behind the curtain.
As always
Burchett doesn’t represent the district where the Covenant School is. We are lucky to have Andy “ my kids have AR-15’s” Ogles. I am not pleased to announce I was forced into his district. Keep up the good work, Lucien.
The best response was Rachel Maddow, when interviewed about the cray-cray by Stephen Colbert, removed her glasses, placed hand over face, and began massaging her eyes.
Reading "Baby-Faced-Fetus-Defender Mike Johnson" echoed my own thought. This religious squirrel with lotsa money but no bank account does have a rather benign visage. As to the larger point, civility and decorum left the building when the taints came marching in. I would peg that at 2016 when the Democrats lost the election (more or less) and the voters lost their minds.
Has anyone checked under Mikey’s mattress?
"lost their minds". You must have missed the memo. You can't lose what you never had.
I suppose these people think that acting like a bunch of children with feelings of inadequacy is a good look politically. Perhaps it's because their hero is constantly complaining people are being mean to him.
I don't understand what's going on anymore.
You can't make thus stuff up. Some legislators not only behave like children they don't even know which government department witnesses at hearings belong to "Greene: I posted them on my Twitter account Wray: I don’t spend a lot of time on Twitter. Greene: I’m sure you do because the DHS organized with other offices and censored people like myself. Wray: I’m not part of the DHS."
And she didn't miss a beat, which is the true talent on display in all this. She just kept on blurting out the mouth farts. There must be a course taught in GOP Central. "What to do when you're inevitably caught being dumber than a box of rocks." It's probably part of an entire program and why musk changed to X. Twitter was too hard to spell.
Last night I dreamed that they all got Xs tattooed on their foreheads so we could see them coming. It sucks when you wake up and dreams aren't real.
Haha, made me laugh out loud :) Notice how she grills people like she's superior to them, like a bulldog disrespectful prosecuting attorney, but without any legal knowledge - any knowledge at all :),
But always with total confidence, like old Rosie who used to come to our town council meetings and even rally troops at time who were clueless as to her certification as a card carrying schizophrenia, and proud of it. Probably could have been the mayor with right drugs. Humans. Quite the comedy.
Sooo funny, Robert. Yes, like MTG "Frequently wrong but never in doubt."
lol lol
Empty Greene is......empty of any sort of critical thinking, empty of intelligence, empty of character.
Yes, TL, empty of all those thing, but filled with venom. (Oh, but she's a good Christian don't you know)
OMG - that was the most ridiculous of all!!!
Please help me with this anomaly; given their proclivity toward violence, I find it ironic that republicans were so unwilling to face the ravenous mob out to kill on 1/6, but rather raced to huddle in the safety of the inner rooms of the Capitol building. Our founders, the tough guys and gals who founded this country, would have stood shoulder-to-shoulder at the doors with the security guards to fend off the traitorous mob. Our elected politicians need to grow some huevos--republican or Democrat. Given, these Congressmen and Congresswomen are not MMA trained, but I'm ashamed that these officials in which we place our trust, are so unwilling to defend what they stand for--us--the American people. I would not have run, and I'm just a commoner.
I think they had an election to certify. Their first order of business perhaps was to be alive to do so.
Not relevant, given the situation of national security. Minutiae.
What a pity you weren't present to explain the optimal strategy in that crisis.
However, very good point.
Easy words to write, rp...your heart's in the right place, but......have you ever really been in a riot? I have--it wasn't an armed mob but it was a riot (a Black Friday mistake of a shopping trip which I will never repeat!!!)...it's freak-out scary; people in a riled up mob are capable of any outrage or cruelty. If a person isn't trained and armored with the proper gear, it would be deadly. The folks in the Capitol did exactly what they should have done.
Perhaps your right as to what the Framers and Founders might have done. Am more skeptical. Not sure the mob would be impressed by the sight of 200 men in powered white wigs and funny pants and even funnier shoes. Do suspect the CCTV cameras woulda caught scores of Trumpkins running around holding up those wigs as trophies, then ordering their wimmin to decorate the gallows with them.