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How in the bloody hell are we supposed to move on when they lie and support the liar in chief? I'll unite with them when they make the first move to dial down the temperature. I won't hold my breath.
Source: WaPo
Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/17/republicans-call-unity-wont-acknowledge-biden-won-fairly/
Excerpt:
Amy B Wang
The call for unity came from one of President Trumps most loyal supporters in Congress, nearly a week after a pro-Trump mob rampaged the U.S. Capitol in a riot that left five people dead.
What happened at the Capitol on Jan. 6 was as wrong as wrong can be, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) told colleagues during a virtual committee meeting about Democrats demands that Trump be removed from office. Now was the time for healing, and in Jordans opinion, that meant allowing the president to finish out his term.
The committee chairman, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), pressed him on one point. Hadnt Jordan and more than 140 other Republicans given oxygen to the false conspiracy theory pushed by Trump that motivated the Capitol rioters that the election had somehow been stolen when they had voted to object to certifying the electoral college results?
lisa58
(5,754 posts)lame54
(35,134 posts)Frerotte
(71 posts)There can never be unity without all of the elected legislators accepting the legitimacy of our legally elected President, Mr. Biden. Without that we are fundamentally at odds and will continue to be.
Good thing we have the chambers to pass some legislation while they take a bit of time to think on that.
It feels so bizarre to be using word like"legitimate president" as if I had somehow stepped into another country.
Years of propaganda are coming home to roost. And the Republicans are making nests for more.
Walleye
(30,702 posts)He physically couldnt bring himself to do it. it was like pulling teeth. If they want this shit to end Trump has to come out and concede and say it was fair and square otherwise were in a Civil War
COL Mustard
(5,782 posts)Kind of like Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race in 2018. I think he's still in it.
Walleye
(30,702 posts)ananda
(28,782 posts)Say: Biden won.
Do: Convict Trump.