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January 6 Hearings Live

ZiprHead said:
[TWEET]<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Meet Dr. Tammy Towers Parry a Family Medicine Doctor in Seattle, WA, "We just stormed the Capitol.. it's the least we can do, so God Bless America. Joe Biden did not win. He's hopefully going to prison" <a href="https://t.co/BrAcKQsKVg">pic.twitter.com/BrAcKQsKVg</a></p>— Cleavon MD (@Cleavon_MD) <a href="https://twitter.com/Cleavon_MD/status/1347598242809139208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>[/TWEET]..
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How the fuck did she pass medical school? Seriously how stupid do you have to be to admit on video to participating in a felony where a police officer was killed? She and her nurse will lose their license and now be prosecuted.
 
An attempted murderer, a lawmaker, white supremacists: Police records shed light on those arrested in Capitol siege - ABC News - some of them are connected with right-wing groups and none with left-wing ones.

This is what Trump told supporters before many stormed Capitol Hill - ABC News - quoting from what he said
Media will not show the magnitude of this crowd even I when I turned on today, I looked, and I saw thousands of people here, but you don't see hundreds of thousands of people behind you because they don't want to show that. We have hundreds of thousands of people here, and I just want them to be recognized by the fake news media. Turn your cameras, please, and show what is really happening out here because these people are not going to take it any longer, they're not going to take it any longer.

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All of us here today do not want to see our election victory stolen by a bold and radical left Democrats which is what they are doing and stolen by the fake news media. That is what they have done and what they are doing. We will never give up. We will never concede. It doesn't happen. You don't concede when there's theft involved.

Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore, and that is what this is all about.

And to use a favorite term that all of you people really came up with, we will stop the steal.

Today I will lay out just some of the evidence proving that we won this election and we won it by a landslide. This was not a close election. You know I say sometimes jokingly, but there's no joke about it. I have been into elections. I won them both and the second one I won much bigger than the first, okay?
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ZiprHead said:
[TWEET]<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Meet Dr. Tammy Towers Parry a Family Medicine Doctor in Seattle, WA, "We just stormed the Capitol.. it's the least we can do, so God Bless America. Joe Biden did not win. He's hopefully going to prison" <a href="https://t.co/BrAcKQsKVg">pic.twitter.com/BrAcKQsKVg</a></p>— Cleavon MD (@Cleavon_MD) <a href="https://twitter.com/Cleavon_MD/status/1347598242809139208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>[/TWEET]..
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How the fuck did she pass medical school?
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By rote memorizing lots of stuff. Contrary to the common belief, doctors are not that smart.
 
I looked for the Parler app in the Play Store of my Android tablet, and it was gone.

Parler social media app removed from Google Play Store - CNN

Apple Suspends Parler From App Store – Deadline

Max Berger on Twitter: "Republicans in 2016: Sure Trump is a bit foul mouthed, but what’s the worst that could happen?

<370,000 people die, the economy collapses and he incites a fascist insurrection>

Republicans today: Ah well, nevertheless." / Twitter

10 Thousand Spoons on Twitter: "@maxberger @AhhhKansas Then - just because he's a little rough around the edges, you don't need to be hysterical.

Now - US generals forced to inform the American public that he can't start a nuclear war on his own" / Twitter


Young Daddy on Twitter: "I don’t ever recall Republicans saying we shouldn’t investigate Hillary again because we need healing. It’s only when Republicans screw up do they suddenly say we can’t have consequences, we need healing." / Twitter
 
Andrew Feinberg on Twitter: "Whoa. ⁦@Forbes⁩ chief content officer warns against hiring ⁦@kayleighmcenany⁩ ⁦or other prominent Trump flacks: “Hire any of Trump’s fellow fabulists above, and Forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie.” (link to article)" / Twitter
No wonder all those Trump staffers are weeping about their employment chances.

Rufus Gifford on Twitter: "From @nytimes this morning : “Mr. Trump is the first president since Herbert Hoover to preside over the loss of the White House, the House and the Senate in a single term”" / Twitter


I thought that conservatives believed in taking responsibility for their actions and not claiming that they are victims. Ted Cruz calls himself a victim here.
Ted Cruz on Twitter: "Really sad. At a time of deep national division, President-elect Biden’s choice to call his political opponents literal Nazis does nothing to bring us together or promote healing.

This kind of vicious partisan rhetoric only tears our country apart." / Twitter
noting
James Hohmann on Twitter: "Biden invokes Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and says Hawley and Cruz are as much a party to The Big Lie as Trump himself. “It’s the Big Lie,” he says. “The Big Lie.”" / Twitter
 
Zeke Miller on Twitter: "WASHINGTON (AP) — Twitter permanently suspends Trump from its platform, citing 'risk of further incitement of violence.'" / Twitter
then
Sean Davis on Twitter: "The account of the terrorist ayatollah of Iran, who has repeatedly called for literal genocide against Jews, is currently being *promoted* by Twitter.

Twitter doesn’t care about violence. What it wants is silence from its enemies: you. https://t.co/3vGutcV0Xc" / Twitter
then
Ted Cruz on Twitter: "Big Tech’s PURGE, censorship & abuse of power is absurd & profoundly dangerous.

If you agree w/ Tech’s current biases (Iran, good; Trump, bad), ask yourself, what happens when you disagree?

Why should a handful of Silicon Valley billionaires have a monopoly on political speech?" / Twitter
I love the sight of right-wingers turning anti-capitalist while claiming that capitalism is an absolutely perfect social and economic system.

Donna Imam on Twitter: "Congress must expel Trump's chief enabler Ted Cruz." / Twitter
I think that it's worth considering, especially considering how he was right about Trump's lack of truthfulness before he became a Trumpie.
 
Matt Katz on Twitter: "Confederate flag was just tied to the front door of the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC. (image link)" / Twitter
then
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "We stand with our Jewish neighbors & loved ones, and will always stand to protect them from these sickening acts of hatred + intimidation.

White supremacists should pack up their garbage & get out of our city. New York does not and will never welcome you. We protect each other." / Twitter


rebekah entralgo fernández on Twitter: "This is how Capitol police treated ADAPT activists for peacefully protesting their right to healthcare (imgs link)" / Twitter
then
Rebecca Parson on Twitter: "ADAPT activists are legendary and have 1,000x more courage than right wing terrorists ever will." / Twitter


Rep. Nicole Malliotakis on Twitter: "Proud to #BackTheBlue from the halls of Congress on #LawEnforcementAppreciationDay https://t.co/4TLEbGkLAJ" / Twitter
then
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Twitter: "One of your first votes in Congress was to amplify a known lie about our nation’s free elections that incited a riot that killed a Capitol Police officer.

There’s no crawling back from that with a hashtag. You brought shame to our delegation and the district you represent." / Twitter
Rep. NM supported the objections to the electoral-vote counts of AZ and PA, the only ones voted on in that interrupted session of Congress.
 
ZiprHead said:
[TWEET]<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Meet Dr. Tammy Towers Parry a Family Medicine Doctor in Seattle, WA, "We just stormed the Capitol.. it's the least we can do, so God Bless America. Joe Biden did not win. He's hopefully going to prison" <a href="https://t.co/BrAcKQsKVg">pic.twitter.com/BrAcKQsKVg</a></p>— Cleavon MD (@Cleavon_MD) <a href="https://twitter.com/Cleavon_MD/status/1347598242809139208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>[/TWEET]..
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hopefully, you are
 
Capitol Hill riot could prove to be COVID-19 superspreader event, experts say - ABC News
then
Arielle Mitropoulos on Twitter: "Thousands of unmasked rioters at the nation's Capitol flouted public health guidelines in what experts have said may become a COVID-19 superspreader event.

"This could be the superspreader event to end all superspreader events, @johnbrownstein told @ABC. https://t.co/g2bBPF1K7r" / Twitter
then
Arielle Mitropoulos on Twitter: "Many of the rioters travelled from different parts of the country. "It's extremely likely that multiple rioters brought COVID with them to the Capitol and spread it to others, who in turn will bring it back to their communities," @angie_rasmussen said. https://t.co/g2bBPF1K7r" / Twitter
Like that Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in the middle of last year.

Then
Dr. Angela Rasmussen on Twitter: "Talked to @AMitrops about the potential for the Capitol riots to be a superspreading event. Potential=extremely high" / Twitter

Then
Lindsay Beyerstein on Twitter: "When the members, reporters, and staff were herded into a more secure but very overcrowded conference room, there were at least 50 Republicans who refused to mask up, despite being asked. Despicable. They should be expelled just for that." / Twitter

Then
Donna Benenson on Twitter: "@beyerstein @DemFromCT "I’m quarantining now because I am convinced that where we ended up, in the secured room — where there were over 100 people and many were Republicans not wearing masks — was a superspreader event." - @RepJayapal https://t.co/mAn1zja3fk" / Twitter
 
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal on Surviving the Siege
We all were aware of the danger. Ten days ago, Maxine Waters had raised the issue of our security on a caucus call to the Speaker and asked what the plans would be. And 48 hours before, we had gotten instructions from Capitol police about all the threats: that we had to be on high alert, that we had to get to the Capitol by 9 a.m. before the protesters, that we couldn’t plan on going out, that we should have overnight bags. It was very clear, and everyone understood what the threats were.

As we sat there, my husband texted me, “There’s a big mob of protesters. Are you sure you’re safe there, do you want to come back to the office?” And I said “No, this is the U.S. Capitol Building; the Speaker’s here; this is probably the most secure place to be.”
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Then the insurrectionists entered the Capitol building and they were making their way to the House chamber. The people on the floor were evacuated first, but it was a while before the people in the gallery were evacuated, people including PJ. Eventually they were, going a long way down to a secure location.

She later decided to self-quarantine because of all the maskless Republicans there.
RT: What was going through your head while you were waiting to go to the secure location?

PJ: My biggest concern was honestly for people’s safety. I think we all understand, but particularly as a woman of color and an immigrant woman of color, what happens when you have white nationalist, armed, violent individuals. The threat is extremely real. I just knew this was going to be terrible and consequential. And that it would not be fixable quickly. I saw the Confederate flags on social media. And I saw them put a Confederate flag on the Capitol. I think for people of color, the rising of the Confederacy in such vivid detail … there was an added sense of what this meant for the country beyond what was happening on that day.

I also felt rage. I mean, I wrote that in my first tweet, and then I thought, Maybe I shouldn’t have said that, because we always are aware of what happens to us as brown or Black women, or women generally, when we talk about our anger. But I felt it towards my Republican colleagues and Donald Trump for leading us down this path.
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About the attackers,
They came with guns. They were armed. They were clothed in bulletproof vests; they were shooting towards the chamber in the Capitol. They desecrated the Capitol, broke into offices, the office of the parliamentarian. Had the Electoral College certification votes been there, they would’ve taken them. No question.
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PJ, like some others, suspects that there were some fifth columnists within the Capitol Police.
The lack of security at the Capitol is not an accident. It is very clear to me that there were breaches of our law-enforcement agencies. The fact that there were no barriers, that they were essentially allowed in. And again, the discrepancy of what would have happened if these had been peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters … Believe me, they would not have been anywhere near that building. And there would have been a lot of arrests.
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 Fifth column - that term originated in the Spanish Civil War, but its origins are obscure. Some Franco supporter besieging a city reportedly once claimed that he has five columns of troops when he had only four. The fifth one was sympathizers in that city.

Rep. Maxine Waters reportedly stayed in her office because she didn't trust the Capitol Police - she suspected fifth columnists among those cops.

After talking about how she was one of some 500 people arrested at a protest,
Then there were 250 people arrested during the Kavanaugh hearings. And then, of course, we know what happened during the Black Lives Matter protests and the National Guard being called in. Yet on Wednesday, there were no barricades. The National Guard didn’t show up until very late in the day. And Capitol police essentially allowed protesters to come in. We’re a country that, to my great chagrin, spends $750 billion on the military. And yet we can’t protect our own U.S. Capitol? To me, that’s no accident.
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Those insurrectionists got on planes and are laughing all the way back to wherever they came from. Members of Congress ended up on those same planes, and I’ve been hearing reports, from women primarily, of how they were mocked and taunted by these people who see [Wednesday’s events] as a great victory, the fact that they’ve got all these videos of them bashing windows and taking over Pelosi’s desk, with no consequence. So we need to get this president out.
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I agree. Even if impeachment can't be passed in time for Biden's inauguration, it ought to be done anyway, to deprive Trump of the privileges of ex-Presidents.
The other thing that we have to do is an immediate and thorough investigation into the security pieces of this. Why were there pictures of Capitol police taking selfies with these insurrectionists? Videos of barriers being open to let the crowd through? They said, “We were overpowered.” How could that be?

RT: You began by noting your extra awareness of vulnerability as a woman of color. Women, progressive women, Black women especially, members of the Squad — these are among those who have been particularly villainized by this faction. How much were you thinking about that as this was happening?

PJ: I know my friend Ilhan [Omar] has dealt with so much, in particular, because she is not only an immigrant, not only a woman, not only highly visible progressive, but also Muslim. One of the things I looked for immediately when this started was to see if any members of the Squad were on the floor, and I didn’t see any of them. And I was really relieved that they weren’t. I was just hoping that they were tightly locked away in their offices.
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Katie Porter, AOC, and Maxine Waters apparently were. No word of the others.
 
But I had another realization: One of my colleagues was talking about how she had instructed her staff to wear just regular casual clothes in case they needed to blend in with the crowd at any point, and she herself was wearing black pants and a black turtleneck because she wanted to fit in if she needed to. And when I saw that description, I thought to myself … that’s not an option for me. That’s not an option …
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She then got into her agenda of things to do, including DC statehood.

Chris Polansky on Twitter: "One of those 50 was @RepMullin of Oklahoma." / Twitter

The ReidOut on Twitter: ""Those armed militia, going in and storming Capitols, were the precursor to what happened two days ago."

@RepJayapal regarding armed militias storming state capitols last year. https://t.co/WGCX5zM27s" / Twitter
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Rep. Jayapal: Armed militias at state capitols last year 'were the precursor' to the pro-Trump mob


Tim Skellett on Twitter: "I'm disgusted to learn Ashli Babbitt is now being denounced on Parler as antifa. Call me hyper-loyal, but I would never dump and lie about someone because they became inconvenient. What has gone so wrong with y'all of the perps?" / Twitter
 
lpetrich said:
I looked for the Parler app in the Play Store of my Android tablet, and it was gone.

Parler social media app removed from Google Play Store - CNN

Apple Suspends Parler From App Store – Deadline

Max Berger on Twitter: "Republicans in 2016: Sure Trump is a bit foul mouthed, but what’s the worst that could happen?

<370,000 people die, the economy collapses and he incites a fascist insurrection>

Republicans today: Ah well, nevertheless." / Twitter

10 Thousand Spoons on Twitter: "@maxberger @AhhhKansas Then - just because he's a little rough around the edges, you don't need to be hysterical.

Now - US generals forced to inform the American public that he can't start a nuclear war on his own" / Twitter


Young Daddy on Twitter: "I don’t ever recall Republicans saying we shouldn’t investigate Hillary again because we need healing. It’s only when Republicans screw up do they suddenly say we can’t have consequences, we need healing." / Twitter
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I just signed up for it on the web. It’s up and running as ever. You just have to access it In a browser as opposed to an app.

My first post was fuck Trump and fuck you for voting for him. But no one has seen it.
 
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