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The Washington Post
Pence says media focus on Jan. 6 insurrection is to demean Trump supporters https://wapo.st/3DhjR4C
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kentuck
(111,242 posts)Why did they make such a big deal out of it?
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,624 posts)They were typical tourists who wanted to take a look at Pearl Harbor. They didn't even land.
bullwinkle428
(20,634 posts)Evolve Dammit
(17,073 posts)raccoon
(31,176 posts)Champp
(2,114 posts)The poor, sick bastards are just putty in the hands of tyrants,
feeble and meek to the Fascist Boots of their own degenerate QOP,
built on a mountain of lies and deception.
The Republicans' darkside anti-American Russian cronies are
laughing their babushkas off at Republican obedience and stupidity.
HUAJIAO
(2,432 posts)bucolic_frolic
(44,025 posts)Republicans will destroy anything to promote their power and self-interest. It's all about spin for them now. Question your eyes, and especially your ears when they speak.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,665 posts)Much blood is about to be spilled IMO.
KS Toronado
(17,846 posts)With so many reQublicOns relying on Qanonsense's BS as being the truth, whenever Qrump starts
to feel cornered, he'll give them orders to kill Democrats to "SAVE" our country. Hope I'm wrong.
hadEnuf
(2,316 posts)I put nothing past these bastards. They have openly shown that they will use any and all means to achieve their cult leader's goals.
It's time to stop trying to figure out these animals. It's pretty clear what they want and they need to be stopped using whatever means are necessary. Hopefully it can be done peacefully but we must be prepared for their escalation which is almost sure to come.
KS Toronado
(17,846 posts)RVN VET71
(2,713 posts)Fat Man will speak indirectly to his devotees through one of his broadcast apparatchiks, maybe Carlson, saying The people are with
their backs to the wall and, I really hate to have to tell you, but theres enough frustration with all the socialism and loss of freedom that somebodys liable to start shooting. Im not saying Id want to see it, but Im telling you, the violence is coming.
Fat Man may not even have to say anything. The currents are already flowing in that direction. But Fat Man will definitely want to position himself so he can either deny he sought violence or take credit it for it, however it suits him.
KS Toronado
(17,846 posts)in such a way as to deny what he said, "I was only joking". Plus with the Grand Juries & the Jan 6th
Committee closing in on him, he's going to feel like a cornered rat sooner than later. That's when he'll
strike.
Evolve Dammit
(17,073 posts)A "meet and greet" to feel the comradery and do a little net-working. We were lucky and I don't think they thought it would be so easy to storm the capitol. Proudest day of their lives said many.
dflprincess
(28,134 posts)They don't need any help to do that.
czarjak
(11,538 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(17,242 posts)Will be rethinking their votes for Trump and stay home in 2024 if he even thinks about running again. With all the crap yet to come down, perhaps people have had enough. They may not like living in a country where they are RULED with NO rights whatsoever.
OrangeJoe
(362 posts)Remember after 4 years of Trump in office his support among white women actually increased in the 2020 election.
czarjak
(11,538 posts)PatSeg
(48,401 posts)Pence easily could be dead right now. Surely, that must enter his mind frequently. There are no do-overs once you are dead.
Evolve Dammit
(17,073 posts)PatSeg
(48,401 posts)Maybe once you've sold your sold, there are no take backs.
It is like some of these people are a very different species. It is truly unsettling.
Evolve Dammit
(17,073 posts)own brand or Rule. Pence does it with the demeanor of an undertaker/ mortician but the evil and intent to destroy all but christo fascism rules his life. Never forget he and Nazi salute Laura Ingraham are buds, and he filled in on her radio show. These people are fucking dangerous. Pence was Manafort's pick. They knew who would be best suited to work for the new US oligarchs.
PatSeg
(48,401 posts)and they are more focused on "winning" rather than "doing". Power at any cost.
Evolve Dammit
(17,073 posts)and attacking the rule of law? As a nation, we can't allow this if it becomes violent. They may need to be dealt with harshly if it continues. It feels like a civil war already.
PatSeg
(48,401 posts)for the last four years. It is just hard to see it sometimes when you are right in the middle of it.
Evolve Dammit
(17,073 posts)media AM hate radio, "social apps", Faux News? Probably most of it. Few have actual conversation anymore.
PatSeg
(48,401 posts)It took years to cultivate and feed all that anger. AM talk radio and Fox News laid the groundwork and social media fueled the fire. I remember the turbulent sixties, but it was nothing like this. There was anger and rebellion, but never this level of blind hatred. Throw in right-wing media and the Internet and you have a civil war.
Evolve Dammit
(17,073 posts)radio hate, no internet hate and no Fox hate and propoganda. There were 3 networks and PBS (the fuzzy channel with the auction). I'd go back to my rabbit ears and my black rotary phone in a heartbeat.
PatSeg
(48,401 posts)Last edited Thu Oct 7, 2021, 02:15 PM - Edit history (1)
are payback for the left-wing protestors of the sixties, but today's right-wingers are violent primarily for the sake of being violent. Most of the protestors in the sixties were peaceful and were trying to make the world a better place. There were a few exceptions, but they didn't represent the movement as a whole.
Evolve Dammit
(17,073 posts)and hurt/kill Dems and libs anyway they can. Alarming actually.
PatSeg
(48,401 posts)looking for an excuse to get into a fight, any reason will do. Some of them grow up and start fights in bars, because they like the adrenal rush - "What are you looking at?" Obviously, some people never outgrow it.
Evolve Dammit
(17,073 posts)PatSeg
(48,401 posts)AllaN01Bear
(19,878 posts)PatSeg
(48,401 posts)Yet so many republicans are prepared to just put it behind them, as if it was of little significance, but we've seen the videos and they were very frightened at the time.
AllaN01Bear
(19,878 posts)PatSeg
(48,401 posts)That is what republicans crammed down our throats about 9/11 for twenty years, but January 6 was a far greater threat to our democracy than the attacks on 9/11.
Baitball Blogger
(46,950 posts)in order to destroy the Democrat's agenda. And they will if we don't find a way around Sinema and Manchin.
God, I would love to see those two become irrelevant.
uponit7771
(90,411 posts)marble falls
(58,681 posts)jaxexpat
(7,050 posts)That was the most piss-poor design and build I've ever seen for a scaffold! It would have collapsed with the first execution. The media should be ashamed for even calling it a scaffold.
GoodRaisin
(8,985 posts)The 2x4 on the top is turned in the correct position. The 4x4 columns look a little shakey. It might have held.
Hekate
(91,633 posts)Ropes can be slung over any tree limb or balcony. Pence is delusional.
ananda
(29,032 posts)I mean totally insane.
Silent3
(15,614 posts)...is life even worth living if you can't be working the system from a position of power, trying to turn the country into a theocracy?
Hekate
(91,633 posts)The GOP McConnell, Lindsay Graham, and their ilk have lost control of the monster.
hadEnuf
(2,316 posts)His "base" of rebel animals will never trust him again for not subverting democracy and sane people see him as a spineless collaborator who is trying to kiss the asses of people who wanted to murder him.
Grasswire2
(13,589 posts)Still thinks he's in the game.
Patton French
(828 posts)Ha ha ..ha ..