…when a violent mob descended on the Capitol, trying to overthrow an election Trump and other members of their party told them was rigged.
Even though Trump and other members knew it was not.
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You’re right, of course - and she has actually been eloquent in some of her statements. What gives her words gravitas is that they are based on truth, something so rare now in Republican politics that it is almost shocking.
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just an FYI
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As far as I’m concerned it’s about the only thing she has going for her - she is a Cheney. But I have to give her props for standing up for the truth and democracy. I hate giving her props but we were never going to be able to split up the GOP - it had to split itself and it seems to be doing that right now. And largely thanks to Liz.
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Unfortunately, we know how the R’s stand on the entire situation. Truth and facts don’t matter to them any longer, only the political perception and political impacts. The GOP is no longer concerned with governing in the public interest. Power, and being in power, is all that matters.
The official republican party is now a threat to the constitutional order. It will be interesting, and perhaps very important, to see if they formally split along the fascist/constitutionalist rift in their party. The Cheney episode feels like a bit of a Rubicon crossing for the right wing of the party leadership (if they are even bright enough to have figured that out).
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They were avoiding the AntiFa.
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Speaking of our old friend Aunty Fa I don’t remember hearing about any counter protestors on 01/06. I do remember hearing some activists and other leaders asking that they not show up, so for once they listened.
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And hugging and kissing the police . . .
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More than half the Republicans in Congress failed to act to protect the certification of the 2020 certified presidential election results of the states.
“ . . . the mechanics of the Electoral College allowed the defeated president to incite his followers into mounting the first attempt in U.S. history to seize the presidency by violence. Far from preventing them, the anti-majoritarian mechanisms of presidential elections were the crucial culprit in creating the “tumult and disorder” and the “heats and ferments” that so worried the authors of the Constitution.”- David Frum, 2/15/21
“Republicans are using Trump’s failed attempt to overturn the election as a guide to how you would change the system to make it possible.” – Jamelle Bouie, 3/30/21
If Trump lost the popular vote, the GQP planned to emphasize the Electoral College.
If he lost the Electoral College, they would promote spurious claims of election fraud and support challenges to the electors in Republican-controlled statehouses.
Recounts and GQP bills taking power over elections from local officials and giving it to the legislature to undermine the fair administration of elections and vote counting, are not a response to nonexistent voter fraud. They are a response to high Democratic voting turnout.
The GQP seems terrified of the potential of Democratic voters when all voters matter and count equally.
Republicans hope for scenarios where they can lose by millions of votes and still win the Electoral College.
Now we need to support and urge state legislators in states with the 75 more electoral votes needed, to enact the National Popular Vote bill to guarantee the presidency to the candidate who wins the most popular votes in the country.
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In D.C. they only come out to play after dark. Bowser ruined their chance to party with her damned 6PM curfew.
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Republicans grade on a curve of white privilege.
But even so, that is some curve there.
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They should go hug a wild grizzly bear to understand “bear hug”.
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Very friendly. Even gave them pepper to spice up their bagged lunches.
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Very difficult to be a “victim” without being somewhere you’re not supposed to be doing something you’re not supposed to do.
Zero sympathy for the poor loser believers of the big lie.
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The next time one of these insurrectionist supporting Republicans go on about the lack of democracy in China or Cuba remind them of the Edward R. Murrow quote:
“We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.”
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I thought they weren’t afraid of no curfew? Have they’ve gotten soft?
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Naw, if the Fa had shown up, AntiFa would have been playing. But Fa ran back and hid in their hotels.
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Fa So La Ti Don’t.
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