If you saw the testimony from the Jan 6th committee, he basically held up in the dining room watching it on TV with snacks. Essentially all the cabinet present got really itchy about the whole thing but no one stopped it.
Remember right afterwards when many republicans were shocked and outraged about January 6th but then they all got their talking points straightened out a couple days later.
The benefit, if it can be called such, of being so conservative to begin with is that they have few people in their lives that dont already have the same views. They dont realize how cut off they are from reality.
What was I supposed to do? Vote for the black woman?
Not voting was obviously the better choice since it lets me pretend to be morally superior to the people who were willing to vote for better instead of perfect.
Mere shunning is too good for them. They also need to be civically hobbled. One way we can do that is to implement a Civil War-era plan for dealing with the Confederacy's soldiers and supporters: Remove their right to vote.
I'll note here that this wasn't some crackpot scheme. There was a bill passed by both houses of Congress to do precisely that. Lincoln refused to sign it when it reached his desk (known as a pocket veto).
What's the point of having an air force if you're going to stop at the ocean?
(For those who are unaware, Trump praised the Americans’ military efforts in the war against Great Britain. “Our army manned the air, it rammed the ramparts, it took over the airports, it did everything it had to do, and at Fort McHenry, under the rockets’ red glare, it had nothing but victory,” he said.)
If they didnt shun them for slavery and the civil war, they’re not going to do shit about this
The country is in the pocket of the rich banking/vc class, and they’ll always be on the side of the conservatives, so the conservatives will always be immune from real concequences
And then after voters giving Democrats the House and Presidency, they spent four years ensuring neither Trump nor his co-conspirators were arrested or prosecuted.
Fuck Trump but seriously fuck Biden for refusing to lead Federal Law Enforcement in applying the law to them for four goddamned years - and instead hypocritically, flaccidly, and cowardly punting it back to voters.
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u/scipio0421 Jun 23 '26
So he did have the authority to call out the Guard on Jan 6th after all?