1. #5281
    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    Given the current pearl clutching about subpoenaing members of Congress, I think it's probably pretty far down the list. Democrats seem like they still haven't found a spine and are still more worried about "What Republicans might do" than anything else.

    Fuckin shitgibbons.
    At this pointr the Democrats should just disband the 1/6 committee. If they aren't willing to subpoena (and enforce those subpoenas)... they're never going to accomplish anything. You'd think by now they can't just shame Republicans into doing the right thing. The GOP has lost all shame.

  2. #5282
    Quote Originally Posted by Egomaniac View Post
    At this pointr the Democrats should just disband the 1/6 committee. If they aren't willing to subpoena (and enforce those subpoenas)... they're never going to accomplish anything. You'd think by now they can't just shame Republicans into doing the right thing. The GOP has lost all shame.
    Like, at least do what Republicans did with Benghazi and make a political spectacle of it. Right now it's just boring procedural work, the only bullet they've fired off are some of the texts to lawmakers and that's pretty small caliber shit.

  3. #5283
    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b1995572.html

    And apparently there are plans for "daily" public hearings from the committee. Good shit, this shit should be as public and transparent as possible.

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    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b1995752.html

    Man, Ginny Thomas just out there stanning for the Capitol rioters and wants Kinzinger and Cheney off the Jan. 6 committee.

    Is there precedent for a sitting member of the SCOTUS to recuse themselves because their spouse is actively involved in a case they may rule on?

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    https://truthout.org/articles/jan-6-...retakes-house/



    Grow a fuckin spine and stop worry about what Republicans "might" do. They'll do it anyway, whether they have a "reason" to or not.

    This kinda spineless bullshit is exactly what will result in lawmakers who played an active role in the riot getting off scott-free.

    Grow. A. Fuckin. Spine.

    Look at how the Republicans ran the Benghazi investigations and mirror that, you fuckin brainless losers.
    Like I posted the other day, Ginny should be lucky she isn't being fucking indicted for aiding and abetting capitol insurrectionists. I don't care if none of the people on her buses went in, they are all guilty for all I fucking care.

  4. #5284
    Quote Originally Posted by Vegas82 View Post
    Y

    I feel like I have some kinda catch phrase for these kinds of situations…
    is it "whoop de doo"?

  5. #5285
    https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article...olating-orders

    Pruitt is one of 11 people charged in connection with the attack on the US Capitol who were ordered into custody after initially being released; eight of those cases involved defendants who violated conditions of their pretrial release. Prosecutors have a pending request to put another defendant behind bars, and BuzzFeed News identified at least 16 cases where judges tightened restrictions or issued warnings after finding defendants failed to be in full compliance with the letter, or spirit, of their release conditions.
    In which, unsurprisingly, the many of the capitol rioters released on bond while waiting their trial struggle to abide by the rules of their release including things like, "You will not have access to guns while out on bail." which is apparently just way, way too difficult to abide by. Curfews too, are apparently proving very tricky.

    Stop leting these folks out, let them sit in jail and think about what they've done while awaiting their trials.

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    https://lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol-...ng-dwi-arrest/

    And more on "why they shouldn't be free", another one picked up for a DWI...with an AR-15 in his car that he wasn't supposed to have.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article...olating-orders



    In which, unsurprisingly, the many of the capitol rioters released on bond while waiting their trial struggle to abide by the rules of their release including things like, "You will not have access to guns while out on bail." which is apparently just way, way too difficult to abide by. Curfews too, are apparently proving very tricky.

    Stop leting these folks out, let them sit in jail and think about what they've done while awaiting their trials.

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    https://lawandcrime.com/u-s-capitol-...ng-dwi-arrest/

    And more on "why they shouldn't be free", another one picked up for a DWI...with an AR-15 in his car that he wasn't supposed to have.
    Hey, if their own continued stupidity lands them in further hot water and compounds their sentence into something more appropriate for their original crime… yay?
    “Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
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    Kaleredar is right...
    Words to live by.

  7. #5287
    Quote Originally Posted by Kaleredar View Post
    Hey, if their own continued stupidity lands them in further hot water and compounds their sentence into something more appropriate for their original crime… yay?
    If there weren't killing people while drink driving, which has happened, I'd be more on board with this. But these folks are a fuckin risk to the general public.

  8. #5288
    And SCOTUS decided not to block jan 6th committee getting all the documents. Just heard it on tv, will edit in a link if I can find one.

    well didn't hear it on CNN but there ya go
    https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/19/polit...ocs/index.html
    Last edited by beanman12345; 2022-01-19 at 11:18 PM.

  9. #5289
    Quote Originally Posted by beanman12345 View Post
    And SCOTUS decided not to block jan 6th committee getting all the documents. Just heard it on tv, will edit in a link if I can find one.

    well didn't hear it on CNN but there ya go
    https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/19/polit...ocs/index.html
    Only Justice Clarence Thomas said publicly that he would have granted former President Donald Trump's request to block the document handover from the National Archives to the House select committee. The other justices did not make their votes public.
    In a surprise to literally nobody.

  10. #5290
    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    In a surprise to literally nobody.
    I'm sure we'll get the GOP talking points soon enough, trying to explain why government transparency is bad.

  11. #5291
    Quote Originally Posted by Machismo View Post
    I'm sure we'll get the GOP talking points soon enough, trying to explain why government transparency is bad.
    Probably, but I'm just going to once again point out that Thomas is an openly partisan Justice with a spouse who is deeply involved in political activism with the extreme right.

    There is no analog with the "liberal" Justices in this regard.

  12. #5292
    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    Probably, but I'm just going to once again point out that Thomas is an openly partisan Justice with a spouse who is deeply involved in political activism with the extreme right.

    There is no analog with the "liberal" Justices in this regard.
    Thomas is a fuckstick.

    He and his wife have been nothing more than GOP shills for 40 years. If historians had a rating for SCOTUS Justices, he'd rank right there with the idiots who voted on Dred Scott

    He and his wife are evil.

  13. #5293
    ayyyyyyyyyyy subpoeaned Nick Fuentes. hes a little nazi moron. be surprised if he doesnt commit perjury at somepoint

  14. #5294
    Quote Originally Posted by jonnysensible View Post
    ayyyyyyyyyyy subpoeaned Nick Fuentes. hes a little nazi moron. be surprised if he doesnt commit perjury at somepoint
    https://www.politico.com/news/2022/0...omoters-527422

    And Patrick Casey. Man, that America First group looking pretty sus.

  15. #5295
    Quote Originally Posted by Vegas82 View Post
    Great news for the committee. I look forward to Trump making an angry statement via proxy.
    Meh at this point Trump is basically counting on the clock once republicans take over the house in 2022 get ready for the Qanon 1/6 truth committee headed by Majorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz.

  16. #5296
    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...phanie-grisham

    Apparently Stephanie Grisham, former Press Secretary that didn't hold any briefings and then Chief of Staff to Melania, is just fuckin dishing the dirt at the committee hearing.

    I mean, we know she's trying to sell her book and do a redemption tour, maybe this is part of rehabbing her image. Either way, good shit. Snitch on all the things.

  17. #5297
    Quote Originally Posted by Vegas82 View Post
    Before then the committee can send all their evidence to the DoJ. Which means Republicans will be forced to deal with it.
    That is the thing, all the committee has to do is submit their evidence to the DoJ. After that, the committee has done its job. Once the DoJ has it, only the president can stop it. And we are pretty sure that Biden isn't stopping anything.

  18. #5298
    https://www.motherjones.com/crime-ju...y-6-qrf-trump/

    Shortly after the 2020 election, in an encrypted “Leadership Intel Chat” with fellow Oath Keepers, Rhodes had begun talking up “a civil war” and “a bloody and desperate fight” if Biden were to become president. Three days before the insurrection, prosecutors allege, Rhodes informed a co-conspirator by encrypted message, “We WILL have a QRF. This situation calls for it.”
    The violent Civil War fantasies amongst conservatives continue to be cover for what is just a desire to murder their fellow Americans.

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    https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/21/polit...rds/index.html

    House committee has everything now. All relevant docs have been provided.

  19. #5299
    Quote Originally Posted by Edge- View Post
    https://www.motherjones.com/crime-ju...y-6-qrf-trump/



    The violent Civil War fantasies amongst conservatives continue to be cover for what is just a desire to murder their fellow Americans.

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    https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/21/polit...rds/index.html

    House committee has everything now. All relevant docs have been provided.
    And they did have a QRF. Right across the Potomac. Dozens of guns and thousands of rounds of ammo were seen wheeled into the hotel via their cameras.

  20. #5300
    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/21/u...-electors.html

    Law enforcement officials, members of Congress and the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol are digging deeper into the role that fake slates of electors played in efforts by former President Donald J. Trump to cling to power after he lost the 2020 election.

    In recent days, the state attorneys general in Michigan and New Mexico have asked the Justice Department to investigate fake slates of electors that falsely claimed that Mr. Trump, not Joseph R. Biden Jr., had won their states. Representative Mark Pocan, Democrat of Wisconsin, wrote to Attorney General Merrick B. Garland on Friday demanding an investigation into the same issue in his state.

    And this week, members of the House committee scrutinizing the Jan. 6 riot said that they, too, were examining the part that the bogus electoral slates played in Mr. Trump’s scheme to overturn the election.

    “We want to look at the fraudulent activity that was contained in the preparation of these fake Electoral College certificates, and then we want to look to see to what extent this was part of a comprehensive plan to overthrow the 2020 election,” Representative Jamie Raskin, Democrat of Maryland and a member of the committee, told reporters on Capitol Hill.

    “There’s no doubt that those people were engaged in a constitutional fraud on the public and on the democracy,” he added in a separate interview, referring to the bogus electors.
    Thank goodness, sounds like there may be some movement on investigating the fake slates of electors.

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