well it would certainly send mixed messages if you don’t
Kinda inside baseball, but I actually posted the photo without the tweet (a rarity for me) because I thought the tweet was probably inaccurate.
I think separation of powers is also a factor. In theory the legislative and executive branches are adversarial and check each other, so it makes sense that Legislators would want their own security that was not under the Executive’s chain of command.
Now that I think about it, federal judges and courthouses are protected by the US Marshals. Since Trump’s been shitting on federal judges since day 1, I wonder if they wish their lives weren’t in the hands of people who ultimately take orders from Bill Barr (or whoever his asshole replacement is).
I’m worried about that too but like others have said security will I’d guess be very high so they would need a million in the cult to show up to do much in Washington.
But add in if the report of trump not leaving is true and he goes on parler telling his mob not to let them drag him out. Things could get messy depending.
Best hope is this was a Charlottesville and they are all discouraged and not a call to arms.
The guys that were in Vietnam are old as fuck now.
This is why the far right guys are going to get systematically fucked by the federal government like the Mafia was before them. The reason why it worked is because nobody thought they’d really be stupid enough to try (which itself was really dumb obviously) because the aftermath would be absolutely world changing.
Now we’re on to the ‘the aftermath is absolutely world changing’ part. This is going to be every cop show for the next decade just watch.
How about we just swear Joe in at the White House, broadcast it, and call it a day.
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Sure. They tasted the power of the mob which is a dangerous thing.
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My thoughts and military is often made up of people from the lower classes.
Apparently, though. The middle class is the one most over represented.
As for ethnic diversity the marines and coast guard over represent whites while the rest have bigger minority populations.
The US military is not Trumpy compared to the police. They are maybe slightly Trumpy, maybe just at the rate for males of that age, which is already pretty high.
Not as high as I’d like given that I made a $50 bet that he won’t make it to inauguration day a year ago.
edit: .73 that he makes it, so I’m actually in the money on this bet now. I wrote it off a long time ago. Sell now or ride it out?
edit2: obv holding for bragging rights in case he’s removed or bails.
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I’ve seen similar videos of the shooting but this one makes it really obvious that this was the final barrier before representatives were in danger. It also shows how the shooting was the only thing that actually stopped them. And I also personally think they had plenty of cops to protect the capitol had they treated these folks like BLM. They never would have gotten close.
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Narrator: all of them boarded their flights immediately after.
BTW, Raskin’s son, a 25 y/o Harvard Law grad and writer, committed suicide on NYE. Dude’s not in a mood to fuck around.
https://twitter.com/JohnGHendy/status/1347629478827192320?s=20
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American diplomats urged State Department officials to “explicitly denounce President Trump’s role” in the storming of the Capitol by a mob of his supporters on Wednesday, according to an extraordinary letter of dissent filed by employees.
The internal dissent cable — a copy of which was viewed by The New York Times and confirmed by two diplomats — reflected a peak of alarm and anger within the Foreign Service over Mr. Trump’s baseless claims of voter fraud and his role in inciting the violent breach of the Capitol.
One of the diplomats said the memo was signed by more than 100 people, most of whom were believed to be career State Department officials, and not Mr. Trump’s political appointees.
The signers said it was “essential” that Mr. Trump’s actions be denounced by the State Department and demanded that statements to the news media describe Mr. Trump’s actions as “unacceptable and incompatible” with U.S. laws and the country’s tradition of a peaceful transfer of power.
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Remember months ago when there was a mini-controversy because Trump wouldn’t commitment to a peaceful transfer of power?
And everyone of course moved on because it was too stupid to conceive.
I mean they weren’t entirely wrong. It was too stupid to conceive, but damn if he didn’t try.
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