I could easily see someone like Cruz outing some of his Republicans following a closed session, to try and make up for loss of influence following the 6th. 

It is precisely what led to the conditions that will guarantee violence. It’s not pre-emptive now, that boat has sailed. Doing things that don’t cause widespread violence is generally what we want our leaders to do (such as actually resolving the things BLM has raised, and not punting them off until it seems riots are…

Well, one can dream....

Yes! Exactly!

Considering there are credible threats for armed violence on the 20th, and for if Trump is removed from office before then, I’m wondering if part of the Democrat strategy is to try and draw out the punishment to a point after the inauguration, when there’s a reduced chance of violence. Seeing how far people will go at…

Well...every bunker needs a Goebbels.

Have you heard the absolute, heart-rending agony the right is going through for losing Twitter followers once a bunch of Q Anon and white supremacist accounts got canned?

As much rage as I feel, listening to this guy rage and vent with a random lady in her car is strangely cathartic. Like a reminder I'm not losing my mind. 

In defense of Susan Collins (hrk), there was a credible threat concerning Iran retaliating on the 6th against Congress. In all honesty, I wouldn’t be surprised if Iranian or Russian agents didn’t use the riot as a chance to make off with a sensitive laptop or three. Everything after the first paragraph, though, is…

I got into it with some kid talking about the ‘necessity’ of a civil war, and how he wouldn’t be killing Americans because ‘socialists aren’t people.’ The absolute mental disconnect some of these people have is infuriating.

All that planning and outright help, and they still failed after only half a day. If this was a BLM/Antifa coordinated event (like the apologists are trying to spin it), they’d be setting up food gardens on the roof right now.

She is doing geeeerrrreeeat for her first few days in office, isn’t she!?

White privilege is freaking out like a child for getting on the no-fly list because your insurrection to overthrow the government failed.

Looks like pulling out your badge to get out of a speeding ticket has just been trumped (don’t pardon my pun) of pulling out the badge to get away with a domestic terrorism. Also, the dichotomy of punching a guy in the face while scream “We’re here to help!”

I will never not love everything about that ridiculous press conference. My only regret with it is that it didn’t include a repeat of Giuliani’s melting hairpiece. That would have been the chef’s kiss.

Yup. Suicide. I’d warrant that the absolute shitfest of the day did a massive number on his mental health, so I, for one, am damned sure to say this is also on Trump.

Seconded.

I can’t wrap my mind around the concept of bitching about living in the White House because of the age. I can understand that it’s not super swanky (it’s surprisingly not as big on the interior as the exterior would lead one to believe, and swanky mansion circa 1800s is moderately sized suburban home these days). It…

This may have been what popped in my head reading your comment:

I’m going with complicity: there was more than enough warning this would not be a ‘free speech demonstration,’ and once the riot was underway, the Chief of the Capitol Police called for support no less than SIX TIMES, and was ignored each time.