And Let's not forget about the other Deplorables

[KaraBulut]

^ A lot of them were disturbed predatory men who were playing out some other form of predatory fantasy...only this time, molesting the guards, police and political figures in Congress.

There is a study paper in here somewhere to see how many abusers, both sexual and just physical turned up to attack the Capitol that day.

There was not one mentally normal person who participated.

Glad the fucker is in jail.

What explains the Republican members of Congress, many of whom were in the Capitol chambers on Jan 6th, who sat silent when a blanket pardon of an unknown number of people was issued by the President on Day 1 of his 2025 Presidency... and said nothing when these goons were released from Federal prisons within days of the pardon?

 

[rareboy]

That they were all mostly complicit in the attempted Jan 6 Coup attempt.

That is what it says.

 

[KaraBulut]

That they were all mostly complicit in the attempted Jan 6 Coup attempt.

That is what it says.

I don't know if I would say, "All". There's a handful of far-right members, mostly from southern states, who were part of the effort to overturn an election. They were never held accountable, which is one of the big problems now in the United States. It's why Miss Lindsey got her tits all tied in a knot when it came out that Jack Smith had collected phone numbers for the people Trump was calling in December, 2020 and January, 2021. Miss Lindsey knows that it's going to come out that she was a coup plotter.

Two things happened since 6-Jan-2021: Miss Lindsey had to run for her life when the Capitol was invaded and Miss Lindsey had to run for her life at National Airport when a few of the mob confronted her in a public hallway. Now, Miss Lindsey is back on the golf course with Dear Leader and back at Trump's table at the Mar-A-Lago Superbowl party, living the best life that a 70 year old alcoholic queen could hope for.

These days, politicians have no shame. Voters make excuses for them. No one suffered consequences for trying to subvert our democracy.

It may be the the problem is circular. The low-level useful idiots who bought into Trump's election lies were charged and either pleaded guilty or were found guilty by a jury. Trump was allowed to pardon them, and now they're part of the hoard who threaten the people who did make an effort to hold them accountable.

I'm beginning to think that the only way to fix all of this is for every possible Republican in Congress to be thrown out. However, looking at what is going on in the Senate primary over in Texas, I fear that the replacements might even be worse than what we have today.

 

[rareboy]

As I said...mostly.

But their complicity was not necessarily in actively helping the insurrectionists...their complicity was in hoping that it would work and then mostly remaining silent and not calling Trump and their colleagues out on it...for not pushing to have charges laid against Trump himself. Their silence was more than consent.

 

[KaraBulut]

As I said...mostly.

But their complicity was not necessarily in actively helping the insurrectionists...their complicity was in hoping that it would work and then mostly remaining silent and not calling Trump and their colleagues out on it...for not pushing to have charges laid against Trump himself. Their silence was more than consent.

We also forget that guys like Ted Cruz and Paul Gosar were actively trying to prevent the Congress from certifying the results of the Presidential election before the goons descended upon the Capitol.

Something similar had happened in 2000, when there was controversy in the election results. A small number of Democrats objected to the certification but the presiding officer, Al Gore (ironically), wouldn't have any of it.

The insurrection happened really because Trump's pressuring of Mike Pence was doomed and the efforts of Ted Cruz and company was similarly doomed. Almost all of the guys involved in the effort were re-elected and those who had stood up to Trump (e.g. Flake, Corker, Romney) are mostly out of office now. The riot on Jan 6th made us forget about all those other coup-plotters.

It's a sickness and it is a sickness that infected the base of the party first, and has since spread to every spineless sycophantic Republican member of Congress. Even the ones who show some spine- like Thomas Massie- ultimately vote with the White House on every vote.

 

[NotHardUp1]

On February 10th, this Ohio State professor assaulted a cameraman during a post-lecture interview. It's pretty horrific. He's on suspension while it is investigated, but I'm gonna go ahead and put down my $20 on TERMINATED.

Video in the article. Shameful attack.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...deo-shows-him-tackling-cameraman/88649861007/

 

[KaraBulut]

Comedian Matteo Lane has a joke about Oprah's horcruxes- a Harry Potter reference where an evil witch stores a piece of their soul in an object in order to attain immortality. Because of this, we're stuck with Oprah's horcruxes: Dr Phil, Dr Oz, Gayle King...

And João Teixeira de Faria. De Faria is Oprah's "spiritual healer". He's also a serial rapist who is accused of sexually abusing over 600 women.