DC Unrest Megathread

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https://twitter.com/trishkilgannon/status/1346981739948695558

She's trash.  Can NY gerrymander this worthless moron into oblivion?

You've asked this question many times so let me answer, if HR1 does not pass, NY Dems will draw the maps, there is no way to screw her over, her seat is a GOP sink that actually supports the map, and you want to pack as many GOP votes there as possible, if anything she might lose Plattsburgh, if Democrats want to go scorched her, but drawing her out is very, very stupid.

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I just keep thinking how the midterms and 2024 will look for the GOP after today.

Don't expect a Democratic landslide. Much of the Republican base approves of what happened today, and we saw how 2020 turned out. But I think that the Democrats, if they turnout at high rates like they did last year and for the Georgia runoffs, stand a good chance of holding their ground and overcoming the Republicans in the next two election cycles.

Basically my thoughts are in states where Republicans are reliant on suburban support like Az, GA, and TX this won't go too well for them, but in like WI and IA they rely on rural, so this'll have little impact there

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I just keep thinking how the midterms and 2024 will look for the GOP after today.

Don't expect a Democratic landslide. Much of the Republican base approves of what happened today, and we saw how 2020 turned out. But I think that the Democrats, if they turnout at high rates like they did last year and for the Georgia runoffs, stand a good chance of holding their ground and overcoming the Republicans in the next two election cycles.

Basically my thoughts are in states where Republicans are reliant on suburban support like Az, GA, and TX this won't go too well for them, but in like WI and IA they rely on rural, so this'll have little impact there

I don't want to hear anyone say I'm too "condescending" toward these people ever again.

Yeah today's events make me so glad that I left the GOP, but I remind everyone that we were warned about this 4 years ago by Hillary Clinton, and too many, including myself didn't listen, but look at how accurate this is now:

"And if you have read about the ones he says he’s likely to support, he’s not kidding. In fact, if you look at his running mate, his running-mate signed a law that would have allowed businesses to discriminate against LGBT Americans. And there’s so much more than I find deplorable in his campaign: the way that he cozies up to white supremacist, makes racist attacks, calls women pigs, mocks people with disabilities — you can’t make this up. He wants to round up and deport 16 million people, calls our military a disaster. And every day he says something else which I find so personally offensive, but also dangerous.

You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. Right?

[Laughter/applause]

The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamaphobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people — now how 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks — they are irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.

"---Hillary Clinton, October 2016


She was mocked for this, but literally all of it came true

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https://twitter.com/DannyZuker/status/1347009049397612544

lol, please tell me this is true

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SirWoodbury has been offline since this morning. Hope he made it back home from the Capitol okay.

I don’t!

Why was he at the Capitol? Did he identify himself as being one of the people storming it, or does he work there as a Congressional page or something?

I think it's a joke about Woodbury basically being a fascist (before I get modded for this, he literally had Nazi symbols in his signature)

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how are majority of gop in favor insanity pure evil despicable.

They're not (all) insane. They are just bad people.

No, there are some very fine people on their side

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Between Trump admin officials in the Pentagon telling the National Guard to stay out of DC, and now this, it is crystal clear that we just narrowly avoided a coup:
 
https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1382124393896288260

The Capitol Police needs to be rebuilt from top to bottom while there were some valiant officers, who did their job and some who unfortunately died doing it, it's very clear that the leadership was at best, unaware of the threat, and at worst, was a co-conspirator in a plot to establish a Trump dictatorship.