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They saved the lives of hundreds of elected officials and their aides. Given the choices they had in that split-second, they made the correct one.

 

Not taking selfies with the terrorists is where I'd start

 

Training determines outcomes. Capitol Police have been trained for and did execute their "protect those inside" protocols which were basically built around the scenarios of one or a few armed terrorists in the building (in 1954, five Puerto Rican nationalists opened fire on the House floor from the galleries). They were not trained, or not adequately trained, for a mass assault and therefore did not perform well in preventing/containing it.
Capitol Police reports directly to the Congress. It has also been for almost its entire existence a patronage dumping ground. I am sure heads at the top will roll, and some lower ranks will find they've lost their patrons.

 

I am never making another WNBA joke again.
They turned the tide against that insider-trading piece of human garbage, Loeffler

How the WNBA helped the Democrats take control of the US Senate

 

I have relatives who are still fighting the first American Civil War in their minds. That same mix of aggrieved victim and bully boy puffery comes out every time they think they have an audience.

Pence, et al may have been able to hit the pause button last night, but Trump's insurrectionists are not going away that easily.

 

Once again: if it had been a mob of hippie peaceniks or angry black people, there would have been a thousand dead.
Easy.

 

Gaetz is intrepid and comes from a long line of politicians. This is why Trumpism will continue.

High theater right here.

 

It's a party of traitors. If there's one benefit to yesterday, it's a small one. Pelosi and Schumer's caucuses will be unexpectedly unified now. Conor Lamb ain't no AOC, but he's the one who almost started a brawl on the House floor by calling out the GOP members as liars. My personal advice, and I know it's a hard ask, is that if you are unfortunate enough to have Trumpist friends and family members, cut them out of your lives right now. It's not worth the stress, and they need to know there are consequences for embracing treason.

 

My only issue with the "treason" claims is that it's only treason . . . if you lose.

No treason . . . no United States.

 

One guy.
I’m sure everyone wants to be painted as Albom who made shit up.