Jan. 6 Committee Subpoenas Republican State Lawmakers, Trump Campaign Officials | Talking Points Memo

[lizzymom]

Some have duct tape in their safety kits as well, IIRC.

[zandru]

The New Mexico Republicans also sent a fake slate. This, in a state where Biden won by over 20%, the Secretary of State is a Dem, the governor is a Dem, and the legislature is Dem-dominated in both houses. Oh, and the Congressional delegation was pure Dem, until 2021 when Herrell slipped in for District 2. Having a trump win wasn’t even plausible.

[zandru]

@lizzymom

Some have duct tape in their safety kits

Don’t we all?

[slbinva]

@zenicetus

it’s impossible to open a cabin door at cruise altitude due to the pressurization of the cabin.

Thank heaven for that! I should have figured the designers might have thought of that safety precaution.

[runfastandwin]

An unenforced subpoena is not really a subpoena. It’s just a request by the impotent Committee to please please please come talk to us. I award them no points.

[slbinva]

@occamscoin

All flights carry restraints, probably zip-ties.

Yeah, zip-ties are probably a lot easier. I think a straitjacket would make a better statement, though!

[lizzymom]

@zandru

@lizzymom

Some have duct tape in their safety kits

Don’t we all?

Yep. Handyman’s secret weapon.

[occamscoin]

@zandru

The New Mexico Republicans also sent a fake slate.

Seven states (technically, the GOP in seven states, not the states themselves) sent in alternafraud slates: AZ, GA, MI, NM, NV, PA, WI. In PA and NM, they inserted weaselword contingency language that likely lets them off the legal hook. That is the only difference in the text of the seven states’ alternafraud submissions, aside from the necessary (names of states, names of signatories, etc.).

[occamscoin]

@lizzymom

Some have duct tape in their safety kits as well

A little duct tape in the right spot and the problem of a disruptive passenger is solved, in a minute or less.

[occamscoin]

@slbinva

I think a straitjacket would make a better statement, though!

They’d use an iron maiden, but the passengers seated in the last row keep sneaking into it.

[randome]

Criminal conspiracy, election fraud, high crimes against America, treason, theft, fraud…after a while, you’re talking serious charges.

[lizzymom]

Yep.

Airline passenger duct-taped to his seat after allegedly assaulting flight...

[slbinva]

@occamscoin

They’d use an iron maiden, but the passengers seated in the last row keep sneaking into it.

I had a last row seat on a trans-Atlantic flight once. Yeah, I think the iron maiden might have been preferable!

[brainpicnic]

Tick tock, tick tock…

[Anarchy_Bunker]

[billymac]

Ward and Finchem engage in some legit political discourse and suddenly: subpoenas! America in chains!

[brian512]

@zenicetus

That would be fun. Spoilsport alert though – it’s impossible to open a cabin door at cruise altitude due to the pressurization of the cabin. The doors all open inward first, even if the final movement is outwards. At 36,000 ft. there is something like 1,100 pounds of cabin air pressure on every square foot of the door. Even at lower altitudes it’s impossible until you get closer to the ground.

You beat me to it, so I’ll just add that the idiot’s grasp of physics and airplane design is very probably a lot like his understanding of immunology.

[brian512]

@lizzymom

Some have duct tape in their safety maintenance kits as well, IIRC.

All kinds of uses for duct tape.

[coimmigrant]

@hahagoodman

Michael Brandon Demarre

Let’s Go Brandon!

[pshah]

You beat me to it, so I’ll just add that the idiot’s grasp of physics and airplane design is very probably a lot like his understanding of immunology.

You grease the door with a little ivermectin, and bingo!