intrepidity
intrepidity's JournalPandemic response needs to be Federal. Period.
The former guy (TFG) messed it up so much that it'd be nearly impossible to implement mid-stream now, but I hope that some serious planning is underway for the next one (which won't be 100 years away this time).
States don't get to "opt-out" of, eg, mask mandates, and they don't get to decide individually how to manage a pandemic; that is absurd and counter-productive (as has been painfully demonstrated). As long as there is free movement of citizens across state borders, states MUST defer to the Federal government on issues like pandemics!
Even now I'm seeing vastly different implementations of vaccine delivery across states! Why?
If we truly are ONE nation, how about we act like it when it really, really matters?
TFG is, imho, fully culpable for all 500,000+ U.S. deaths for this reason. He allowed a weak, partial and highly fragmented response to the greatest lethal threat our nation has encountered in our lifetimes.
That should never be forgotten nor forgiven. Ever!
My greatest hope for Garland
is that he does something(s) so stunningly monumental, that Mitch and the GOP deeply and sincerely regret not having seated him on the SCOTUS instead.
Will the Prosecution bring up Trump's well-documented history of encouraging violence
by his followers?
I've lost count of the number of times we've heard Trump encouraging his rally attendees to inflict violence upon anti-Trump people in the audience.
Remember how he promised to pay their legal fees?
Hopefully, they'll show a video compilation of these events.
Let's keep a tight hold on that Congress, ok folks?
Hold it like your very life depends on it.
Let every future election follow the pattern and strategy set forth in the Georgia runoff.
Never again. Mitch shall NEVER again in his life control the Senate.
Help make it so, DU!
These 2A die-hards made the strongest argument against their needing guns
Don't they always say that they need their arsenals to defend against tyranny?
And didn't they manage to storm the Capitol without firearms, coming a hair's width from actually capturing and perhaps killing many government high-ranking officials??
Apart from their rank incompetence and utter buffoonishness, didn't they mount an insurrection, and nearly actually accomplish a coup d'etat???
And is there any doubt, that had they shown up armed to the teeth, they'd have been stopped a mile away from the Capitol, would have never even been able to step a foot on the grounds????
Doesn't that sort of TOTALLY INVALIDATE THEIR WHOLE FUCKING ARGUMENT?????
Because it seems that way to me.
Trump is our modern-day Icarus
This bad boy is only now beginning to feel the heat from the approaching sun.
Just wait 'til he's a civilian again. I can't think of anyone as ill-equipped to reenter society, except perhaps those ending very long prison sentences.
Was watching a video of 1/6 DC, and saw a guy launch a 4x4 at police
that struck the officer in the head.
I don't use Twitter (etc) where I know they are compiling such evidence for investigation, so will post the leads here.
This is the video. At 11:53 lower center of frame, a guy (black jacket, grey ball cap, grey backpack) picks up the board and hands it off to a young guy (red sweatshirt, light blue 'Trump' hat, blue backpack, white mask below his nose) who then, at 11:59 launches the board that strikes the officer in the head.
Hopefully this info gets where it needs to be and accomplishes what it should.
Rep. Boebert (R-CO) tweeted at 11:18am that Pelosi had been moved from the House Chambers
Why did she tweet that?
Was she trying, as some suggest, to comfort everyone that Pelosi was safe?
Was she trying, as some suggest, to tell the Invaders to look elsewhere, not waste time trying to enter the House chambers?
Or, was she herself still in that location, and trying to protect herself?
Her preceeding tweet was from just one minute earlier, 11:17am, saying they "were" locked in the chambers. Did she mean "were" as in before, or as in, "were locked in by (eg, security)"?
If she was, at 11:18am, still locked in the House chambers, then my assumption is that her tweet was purely self-serving: she was scared shitless and didn't want the hoards entering the room, especially because their prime target was not there anyway.
I don't begrudge anyone's self-preservation, but I gotta say, she strikes me as someone you wouldn't want to share a foxhole with. She'd be the person who would trip you as you were both running from zombies.
https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1346898958900199429
About the camo guy with zip ties and 'Punisher' logo
When I was watching the live coverage, around the time when law enforcement backup was finally arriving, I saw one video of a line of FBI agents walking through the crowd towards the Capitol. At least I think they were FBI--I think I saw "FBI" emblazoned on whatever they were wearing (vests?) on their chests.
What was odd, though, was there was another guy, dressed similarly (dark tactical gear) walking sort of with them, but not ecactly. They were all walking single file but this guy would jump the line, trying to get ahead of them.
I noticed two things about him: the skull "Punisher" emblem, and the bundle of white zip tie restraints hanging from his side. At the time, I assumed he was law enforcement of some sort, because of his proximity to the line of others I took to be FBI, and because of the zip ties.
I don't know if it was on CNN or MSNBC, as I was switching between them. I also don't know if it was live footage or from earlier. I know that they showed the video around the time when law enforcement was finally showing up.
So, later when people started posting pics of ziptie guy, I thought: yeah, he was LEO, no big deal.
Bur now, I don't know.
Does anyone know the video footage I'm talking about? It was filmed outside, from slightly above, in front of and to the right of the advancing single file of "FBI" agents. This guy passed that line to their right to jump ahead.
I just saw the thread of the "Oathkeepers" walking single file through the crowd (from behind), advancing towards the Capitol, and it looked very similar to that, so I may have been mistaken about the "FBI" on their chests, but it was something similar.
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