One month ago today, a murderous terrorist mob sacked the Capitol at the behest of the previous president & his Congressional allies. To date, not a SINGLE politician who encouraged violence against their colleagues and a coup against 🇺🇸 has faced any serious consequences.
The insurrection leaders in the U.S. Senate, from Texas & Missouri wear their role in the coup attempt as a badge of honor. The House Minority Leader literally has to balance the views of the terrorist sympathizers against the “normals” in his conference.
It seems the Senate Minority Leader is fine with no punishments in the name of “process.” Calls for unity remain hallow as one party complains that they can’t bring guns on the House floor & literally instills fear in their colleagues targeted by the terrorists.
Sadly the fallout from January 6th is like the 2008 Wall St crash. Nobody responsible at the top will see a jail cell or even lose their job. There have been no consequences for sedition against the 🇺🇸. It’s painful, it’s shameful and it’s pathetic.
Lest we forget those that died for this treason. The attempts on the life of the VP & Speaker of the House. The countless members, staffers and journalists still traumatized by nearly being killed. Lest we forget who incited the mob.
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The ENTIRETY of the American experiment is predicated on a functioning multicultural liberal democracy. This is embarrassing to West Point, Harvard and America.
America was NEVER not multicultural. Let’s set aside slavery and immigrant labor, there from the start...there was literally multicultural WHITE society from day 1–British, Scots, French, Dutch, Spanish etc.
Under Pompeo’s theory, he is spawn from late arriving Italians. Does that qualify as a “REAL” American. But wait...after enduring Sacco and Vanzetti...the Italians assimilated into...American society...multicultural enough to accept them! lacucinaitaliana.com/trends/news/mi…
My first go at the 18 #GOP needed for impeachment. There looks to be a path if McConnell wants it. Prognosticate!
Should clarify this is for conviction which needs 2/3. That’s 66 now with Ossoff not yet seated. My guess is it comes from this list. But I’m washed up and out of the game. Just speculating.
I’d think Hoeven & Cramer are maybes. They opposed challenging the election results. 🤔
I cannot stop thinking about how close the 1-2-3 in the line of presidential succession, VP-Speaker-Pro tempore came to being physically harmed on Weds. The terrorists had operable bombs, killed an officer and ransacked difficult to access areas of the Capitol. We need answers.
Few Capitol Police fired shots when the force was totally justified—why? National Guard was slow walked as Leader Hoyer called Gov Hogan of Maryland pleading for help-why? Why was the Capitol deliberately left so vulnerable? We were such important leaders left on their own?
If NYT reports are accurate, that some Capitol Police willfully gave the terrorists directions to Leader Schumer’s office, that is appalling. If WaPo report that off duty police were flashing their badges as they stormed the Capitol and let through is accurate, that is appalling.
I wouldn’t have a problem with the antiabortion zealots if they spoke up in support of the rest of the Catholic teaching playbook—like climate change, social justice, immigrant rights, ending poverty & the throw away culture. But they mostly don’t. They’re Cafeteria Catholics.
I want one bishop to deny communion for a climate change denier or a Catholic that supports putting kids in cages, then I want the media to run that on a loop.
Whether you think Bezos is a legendary American titan or a ruthless vulture—it’s absurd that he’s appearing before Congress for the FIRST time just in 2020.
The man totally upended the U.S. economy in the last decade. Is arguably the most powerful non-elected American in the world. Yet only today it’s worth getting his two cents?
Amazon has a million employees. States begged for HQ2, gave Amazon tons of data. Amazon defacto funds the postal service. Amazon could very well create a new postal service one day. But yeah nothing to ask about...
3/21/10 Vote for final passage of the ACA. Anti ACA protestors are all around Capitol yelling obscenities, being intimidating. Ds meet in House office bldg b4 vote. After mtg, one suggests taking tunnel to Capitol for safety. John Lewis, “We’re crossing the street. Let’s go.”
Lewis leads the way, they are jeered, hissed at, cursed at etc. However, many of the rank & file Ds are no longer scared to vote for healthcare. They want to own the vote. As one told me, “That was a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of what John Lewis has gone through.”
Lewis also made an effort to make friends across the aisle. When Eric Cantor was a bogeyman for Democrats, Lewis brought him to Selma— politico.com/story/2013/02/…