Joe Biden is now POTUS

easy_b

Look into my eyes you are getting sleepy!!!
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It will. But it's ok. Expelling someone from Congress, even Boebert, is going to be framed as an overstep... a dangerous precedent when they'll be able to argue that there was nothing nefarious about their actions. I don't trust the media to frame it like it should be either. Not being hyperbolic, but these people are invading Congress in the same what the Nazis did in Germany before Hitler's rise.
I disagree
 

Keepthapeace

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I am from Tobago but I’ve lived in Philly all my life. I could have gone to Europe like the rest of my cousins but I remained here because I felt this country was my destiny. There was something about the brothers and sisters here that made me feel at home. I am grateful for everything this country has done for me. However great it has been for me it hasn’t served the majority of my community as well. Just as we can take pig intestines and splash some black pepper on it and make it a meal we can take chronic underfunding and meddling and still turn out great.

I say that to say: whatever advantages they may gain from it they will eventually lose it. That’s who they are. They will always fumble the bag. Do you remember when the NBA was really great until they let black people in? The same thing applies to their esteemed schools of higher learning. We are the original men. They can have a million year head start and still blow the race. I have stated numerously that this pandemic was going to be our great equalizer, and when you give us cash, wipe our college debt away, we are going to show you how to do this capitalism thing.

Word up, I was just telling someone this the other day.
 

TEN

Tensei - Admin
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Wow; stuff like this is why you MUST stay on top of what your kids are being taught in schools. :angry:


A substitute teacher seen on video falsely telling her students that "Antifa" stormed the Capitol on January 6 is no longer with the school.

The video was recorded inside a classroom at Edward W. Bok Academy South in Lake Wales, Florida. The school is a part of the Lake Wales Charter Schools (LWCS) system.

According to the Daily Dot, the video was taken by a student and the person addressing the students in it is a retired teacher who had returned to the school as a substitute.

Dr. Julio Acevedo, the director of human resources and transportation at LWCS, confirmed to Insider that the teacher who appeared in the viral video is "no longer with" the school or charter system.
 

Spectrum

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The Capitol has not been offering any "official" tours since March...right?

:smh:

At least one person in congress has to be expelled over this. It's the only way. You can't have people in congress coordinating an insurrection that literally ended up with people being killed and not remove at least someone from Congress. There is nothing worse you can do besides actually succeeding with your coup.
 

tical

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So much shit is going to come out post-Trump it's going to pisse many of us off. Mainly, How in the world did some know about all this shit and remained silent and voted not to have Trump removed from office. If it wasn't apparent by now then it should be we have some spineless law makers in power. They openly admit to voting against their conscious and sworn duty because they're scared of their crazy base.
 

Nzinga

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When I alluded to this, someone said that this did not apply in this age:
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Trump’s last days and the echo of one specific Hitler analogy
Ishaan Tharoor 11 hrs ago
http://a.msn.com/01/en-us/BB1cLSUa?ocid=sf
Members of the National Guard outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 13. (Joshua Roberts/Reuters)
President Trump’s time in office has often been stalked by historical analogy. His presidency reflected something old and something new in U.S. political life, a resurrection of a tradition of angry nativism and the advent of a demagogic style unseen before in the White House. Political scientists and historians puzzled over the dimensions of Trump’s would-be authoritarianism. They described what they saw as Trump’s “pre-fascism” or “post-fascism” or just plain fascism and pointed to behavior and rhetoric that had grim precedent in 1930s Europe.

Readers of Today’s WorldView are probably familiar with these allusions, not least because we surfaced them from time to time. Of course, there’s a justified wariness when framing contemporary U.S. politics in terms that belong to another era and another country. American history, on its own, carries plenty of precedents for the dysfunctions revealed and the passions unleashed by Trump’s movement.
Nevertheless, in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 storming of the Capitol by a fervent mob hoping to overturn Trump’s electoral defeat, a litany of commentators invoked one notorious incident surrounding the rise of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler as a cautionary tale for Washington in 2021.
In November 1923, Hitler, then a young leader of a still-fringe nationalist movement in Weimar-era Germany, hatched a plot in Munich to capture the regional Bavarian government and, from there, provoke an autocratic transformation of the German state. Appealing to a sense of national humiliation after World War I, he peddled conspiracy theories and lies about the treachery of Jews and schemes of socialists that galvanized an aggrieved minority. On Nov. 8, Hitler and his associates interrupted a political rally in one of the largest beer halls in Munich, took a leading regional politician hostage and announced their intention of seizing power in Bavaria and provoking a “national revolution.”
The Beer Hall Putsch, as the episode would be remembered, was a failure. Hitler did not receive the local backing from politicians and security forces he expected. Sixteen Nazis were gunned down in the streets in clashes with police officers, four of whom were killed. Hitler slunk out of town and was later arrested and tried for treason. But his punishment ended up being lenient — he spent a few months in prison before being released with a pardon — and he emerged from the botched putsch as a more popular national figure. Within a decade, he would install the Third Reich.
Some observers of what happened this past week in Washington note potential echoes of the Beer Hall Putsch — not in the risk that Trump is about to turn into a genocidal monster, but in that there may not be meaningful consequences for the lies and subversion of democratic order that Trump appears to have encouraged.
Yes, the House this week impeached Trump for a second time. But a large body of Republicans, per current polling, as well as the majority of Republican lawmakers in Congress, still seem to support the president’s baseless claims. And rather than reckoning with what happened, they are mobilizing a new cycle of grievance against the forces they see arrayed against Trumpism. Down the road, they may well be able to engineer the sort of electoral coup that Trump could not in 2020.
“Republicans have pursued a project of minority rule for decades, exploiting structural features of American politics and opportunistically shaping rules in their own favor,” wrote Zeynep Tufekci in the Atlantic. “Already, there are signs that many in the GOP intend to respond to their loss in the Senate by doubling down on disenfranchising voters in the name of fighting the ‘election fraud’ they falsely convinced millions is widespread.”
The lesson of 1923 now, some argue, is that there cannot be complacency about the scale of the threat. “What at first blush looked like a failed coup proved successful in the long run because of a justice system that was blind in its right eye and conservative political leaders who fueled the myths that Hitler had tapped into, planted the seeds of political polarization and discredited the legitimacy of elected officials,” Michael Brenner, a historian at American University, wrote for The Washington Post. He concluded that, “as the German example warns us … knocking down an insurrection does not yet mean winning the fight for democracy.”
Other experts shrug off the utility of the parallel. Although there is evidence of off-duty and former military and police personnel storming the Capitol — as well as joining far-right militia-style groups now under increasing scrutiny — Trump and his movement have no real sway over the American security apparatus. The U.S. state is still more robust than the fledgling Weimar Republic. Moreover, “Hitler and his followers were young men in 1923. They could afford to wait,” wrote Richard J. Evans, a preeminent British historian of fascism. “Trump is in his seventies and can’t. A successor may emerge, but it seems unlikely that he would match Trump’s crowd appeal.”
“I think the chances of a right-wing takeover by force are close to zero,” Harvard political scientist Joseph Nye told Today’s WorldView during a Thursday webinar hosted by the Center for the National Interest. “You might find that some of these extreme groups will create violence, but I don’t think a putsch or a takeover is in the range of things they can accomplish.”
Evans argued that the current moment ought to give analysts enough to fret about. “It means that rather than fighting the demons of the past — fascism, Nazism, the militarized politics of Europe’s interwar years — it is necessary to fight the new demons of the present: disinformation, conspiracy theories and the blurring of fact and falsehood,” he wrote.
But the specter of darker histories will always loom. “A lot depends on what happens next,” Jo-Marie Burt, an associate professor of political science at George Mason University, told my colleagues. “If you’re going to allow impunity [in the United States], then that hurts the American experiment. Without accountability at home, we’re going down a path of saying, you know, stuff happens.”
 

Spectrum

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Yo. The GOP's platform has always been about "Fiscal Responsibility" and "Law and Order". It's always been bullshit, but it's never been exposed in such an obvious way. Trump added 7 Trillion to the national debt in 4 years and now Republicans literally ran an insurrection!

Come on Dems... you gotta control the narrative on this shit. Stay on message.
 

BKF

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Yo. The GOP's platform has always been about "Fiscal Responsibility" and "Law and Order". It's always been bullshit, but it's never been exposed in such an obvious way. Trump added 7 Trillion to the national debt in 4 years and now Republicans literally ran an insurrection!

Come on Dems... you gotta control the narrative on this shit. Stay on message.
Don't forget being a true patriots. Meanwhile they spray painted Trump's name on an Anerican flag, beat cops with a pole carrying the American flag, stroll through the capital with the flag of treasons, pulled down the American flag and replaced it with a Trump flag, etc....
I know...I know..those folks were not Trump supporters/republicans. Those folks were antifa/blm.
Trumpism has caused these folks to put it all out there. Sleeper cells everywhere.
 
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Dirtylakerie

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Spectrum

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Don't forget being true patriots. Meanwhile they spray painted Trump's name on an Anerican flag, beat cops with a pole carrying the American flag, stroll through the capital with the flag of treasons, pulled down the American flag and replaced it with a Trump flag, etc....
I know...I know..those folks were not Trump supporters/republicans. Those folks were antifa/blm.
Trumpism has caused these folks to put all out there. Sleeper cells everywhere.

Yeah man. That too... all that American flag-wearing, Patriot bullshit is dead! Mofos out there beating cops to death with confederate flags in the Capitol Building!
 

Spectrum

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Thus proving the point that dems are too pudding and are the reason republicans continue with their fuck you policy. Doing things just for unity sake or emboldens the already emboldened.

I do like that Dems don't seem to be going for that bullshit.

They impeached Trump within a week.

And they keep saying, we can't have unity until we have justice.

We'll see if they capitulate but as a caucus, they're uncharacteristically sticking together on messaging. However, it can't get much easier than this.
 
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