January 6th, 2021

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These Black Capitol Police Officers Describe Fighting Off "Racist Ass Terrorists"

BuzzFeed News spoke to two Black officers who described a harrowing day in which they were forced to endure racist abuse — including repeatedly being called the n-word — as they tried to do their job of protecting the Capitol building, and by extension the very functioning of American democracy.
Two Black officers told BuzzFeed News that their chief and other upper management left them totally unprepared and were nowhere to be found on the day.
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These Black Capitol Police Officers Describe Fighting Off "Racist-Ass Terrorists"

Two Black officers told BuzzFeed News that their chief and other upper management left them totally unprepared and were nowhere to be found on the day.
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doublejj said:
These Black Capitol Police Officers Describe Fighting Off "Racist Ass Terrorists"

BuzzFeed News spoke to two Black officers who described a harrowing day in which they were forced to endure racist abuse — including repeatedly being called the n-word — as they tried to do their job of protecting the Capitol building, and by extension the very functioning of American democracy.
Two Black officers told BuzzFeed News that their chief and other upper management left them totally unprepared and were nowhere to be found on the day.
www.buzzfeednews.com

These Black Capitol Police Officers Describe Fighting Off "Racist-Ass Terrorists"

Two Black officers told BuzzFeed News that their chief and other upper management left them totally unprepared and were nowhere to be found on the day.
www.buzzfeednews.com www.buzzfeednews.com
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There talking about this too.
 
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Jimdamick said:
This article made me smile, no, actually laugh hysterically :)
Hawley Faces Fierce Backlash From Colleagues, Donors After Capitol Riot - WSJ
You dumb/stupid fuck, you've ended your career/life over/for Trump.
Enjoy what's left of it :)
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Hawley Faces Fierce Backlash From Colleagues, Donors After Capitol Riot
Missouri senator’s objection to election results has drawn widespread condemnation, raising questions about his political future

In a secure room where stunned senators were hiding from an angry mob on Wednesday, Sen. Josh Hawley stood in a corner, mostly alone.

“It was extremely striking,” said a person who was in the room on that chaotic day. “For most of the time, he was in a corner of the room by himself with no one talking to him or acknowledging him.”

The Missouri Republican’s Senate colleagues were furious with him, according to GOP aides. Minutes before, pro-Trump rioters had overrun the U.S. Capitol, forcing senators to halt the ratification of Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential victory and flee their chamber in terror, some running, some while holding hands.

Now he has become a pariah among Senate Republicans, many who blame him for what they see as his role instigating a riot that overwhelmed the Capital and resulted in the deaths of five people including a Capital Police officer.
 
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We may not have yet reached the bottom of Trump’s presidency | Opinion

Now we have to figure out what to do with a man who has encouraged sedition and resists accountability.
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OPINION
We may not have yet reached the bottom of Trump’s presidency | Opinion
Posted: January 9, 2021 - 5:00 AM

This might be tough to swallow, but we still might not have reached the bottom of the Trump presidency. Now we have to figure out what to do with a man who has encouraged sedition and resists accountability on all levels.

For the first time, thanks to the president and his enablers within his administration and Congress, a group of Americans stormed the U.S. Capitol, wreaking damage wherever they went.

If this was not an attempted constitutional coup, I do not know what is. Even secessionists who warred against the Union and Constitution acknowledged Abraham Lincoln’s reelection in 1864. Trump’s army has managed to do more damage to our democracy. Proclaiming his “love” for the marauders whom he called “very special people,” the president poured fuel over the flames he had stoked. Armed with nothing but too-late platitudes, Republicans in Congress were profiles in opportunism and cravenness, and Trump’s face-saving video came too late to prevent five deaths, damage to the Capitol, and the insurrection he urged.

For years, Republicans say how privately they voice misgivings, even to the president — but does anyone really believe that? And if they truly did, what good did it achieve?

Always quick to claim the mantle of “law and order,” Republican lawmakers could not move fast enough to whitewash Trump’s misconduct and sat silently during his racist taunts, demonization of government, and war on the legitimacy of the electoral system and the Constitution itself.

As I watched these events, I was horrified but realized I had seen them before. As a young Jewish boy growing up in Alabama in the 1960s, I saw police and white Americans beat up peaceful protestors, sometimes lynching them. These marauders proclaimed themselves “patriots” just like those who vandalized Congress Wednesday.

When protestors were proclaiming “Black Lives Matters” near the Capitol, police surrounded Congress. When I walked into Congress in 2019 to testify against President Donald Trump in his impeachment proceedings, police were everywhere. When I returned to the Senate to work on President Trump’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, police again were everywhere. But on Wednesday, as violence erupted at the Capitol, the police presence was weak. Trump refused to order the National Guard to protect Congress or its members — and later lied he had ordered them “immediately” to protect Congress.

How do we move forward? How will the president, and his many enablers, be held accountable? We can proclaim our commitment to the rule of law, but that is not enough, especially since some senators already abandoned their often-expressed reverence for states’ rights and insinuated they had the ultimate power to undo what the states upheld. It’s easy for anyone, including the complicit, to cry “rule of law” and “law and order” amid this disaster. But how do we make sure we actually enforce those things with norms eroded to this extent?

The available options all have one thing in common: not just announcing our commitment to the rule of law, but actively applying it to Trump and those who broke laws in his name. Someone has to pay for the damage done, and it should not be the law-abiding citizens of this country.
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hanimmal said:
lmao I can't tell if this is real or just the best way ever to have his cultists turn themselves in. I have no idea who Rosalind is though.
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FBI or some clever citizen collecting evidence for the government, Uncle Sam is getting a lot of free help with this one. :lol:
 
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I honestly can't think of a better way for Donald and these clowns to fuck themselves than with the Coup Klux Klan at the Capital. Thank God it was a farce of mentally unstable morons lead by a mentality unstable moron, it was dangerous enough though. The radical racist right are fucked in America and their supporters are gonna be purged from the police forces of America. They are the number one threat and target of the national security community and their big money is gonna dry up real fast as the rich run away like they are on fire.

This single act of mayhem broke the republicans and has split them or will, it should work out ok for Joe though. He's pretty sharp mentally and is well prepared for the job and all this bullshit has helped him to get control and support. Having majorities in the house and senate is most important, but this fracturing of the republicans might help Joe to get shit done a lot easier
 
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GOP senator: Trump 'committed impeachable offenses'
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), who has played a leading role in opposing efforts to throw out the results of the 2020 election, on Saturday said President Trump has “committed impeachable offenses.”

“I do think the president committed impeachable offenses,” Toomey said during an interview on Fox News’s “The Journal Editorial Report.”

Toomey is the top-ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee. He plans to retire from Congress at the end of 2022 to return to the private sector. Toomey said he did not know whether the Senate would act on any articles of impeachment passed by the House during the final 11 days of Trump’s term in office and voiced concern that Democrats may try to “politicize” the process.

“I don’t know what they are going to send over, and one of the things that I’m concerned about, frankly, is whether the House would completely politicize something,” he said.

While Toomey said he believes Trump “committed impeachable offenses,” he added, “I don’t know what’s going to land on the Senate floor if anything.”
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GOP senator: Trump ‘committed impeachable offenses’

Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), who has played a leading role in opposing efforts to throw out the results of the 2020 election, on Saturday said President Trump has “committed impeachable offenses.”&nbsp…
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