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COL Mustard

(5,782 posts)
Sun Jan 17, 2021, 04:46 PM Jan 2021

Republicans call for unity but won't acknowledge Biden won fairly

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 Trump’s 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 Jordan’s opinion, that meant allowing the president to finish out his term.

The committee chairman, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), pressed him on one point. Hadn’t 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?

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Republicans call for unity but won't acknowledge Biden won fairly (Original Post) COL Mustard Jan 2021 OP
That should be required- for 'unity' lisa58 Jan 2021 #1
The first step is to dismantle THE BIG LIE lame54 Jan 2021 #2
No Unity Without a Full Acceptance of the Legitimate President Frerotte Jan 2021 #3
McGovern asked Jordan about five times to state that the election wasn't stolen Walleye Jan 2021 #4
Trump Will Never Concede COL Mustard Jan 2021 #6
I agree. That's why we need to hold the trial in the Senate. Walleye Jan 2021 #7
No unity till they do and say the right thing. ananda Jan 2021 #5
They're the real snowflakes Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jan 2021 #8

Frerotte

(71 posts)
3. No Unity Without a Full Acceptance of the Legitimate President
Sun Jan 17, 2021, 04:59 PM
Jan 2021

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)
4. McGovern asked Jordan about five times to state that the election wasn't stolen
Sun Jan 17, 2021, 05:14 PM
Jan 2021

He physically couldn’t 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 we’re in a Civil War

COL Mustard

(5,782 posts)
6. Trump Will Never Concede
Sun Jan 17, 2021, 05:17 PM
Jan 2021

Kind of like Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race in 2018. I think he's still in it.

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