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I'm glad you shared that, because it's another example of how many rich people were in this hate rally. The talking points are already out to try to convince everyone this was "economic anxiety." I still have a feeling many of the loud voices online will try their Josh Hawley redemption tour soon, for whatever that is worth, but tweets like this show you many of those who control the party strings will not.

I don't care much for Jimmy Fallon, nor do I think he is exempt from criticism for his mistakes, but he was saying the right thing here, and he has tried to open his show up more to progressive viewpoints over the last year. At this point, after Trump got 71 million votes after 4 years of ugliness and bile, assuming that a hair ruffle on a talk show got Trump elected is either extremely naive or a way to get a lot of Twitter likes.

I saw the clip with John King, but that one of their major employees is still trotting this out at the worst possible time, and puts the narrative in the minds of viewers, is why I don't trust them. Similar to their wheeling out Rick Santorum again and again. They can't sell their agenda right now, because Trump has been too much of a car crash to let them, but they will.

Ben Sasse will "definitely consider it." That's the same profile in courage I associate from the man who laughed at Bill Maher's racial slur. I had said before that Pelosi pushing impeachment would be dismissed as performative. I still think that's true, but I also think she is making the right decision (if we get that far). I really want to see some of the little worms who were endlessly passed of as moderates or future faces of the GOP continue to squirm. I hate the Cheneys, but they do tend to have political survival instincts (aside from the time Liz decided to sacrifice her sister to jump ahead of the line in Wyoming - a disaster all around).

Never trust CNN. Ever. Posturing and platitudes and adorable giggling can't hide what is underneath.

Based on the massive ratings drop, I'm not sure how many were glued...

For some reason I thought Marj's Alex used to call Ron's Alan "big brother," but I may be making that up... (Marj was about 13 years older than Ron, but she aged well so it wasn't very noticeable) Or did she say "brother dear"? Totally blanking now.

The Washington Times knew exactly what they were doing. Old hatemongers like Mo Brooks were trumpeting that "story" as proof it was all down to Antifa. The Native American tweets reminded me that already various horseshoe theorists, like Ezra Klein and Kyle Kulinski, are handwaving the thugs who stormed the Capitol, saying they aren't the real problem, are weak, etc. It's "economic anxiety" all over again. So many on the left and the right will work to make sure these lunatics get a pass.

Another leech and piece of garbage from Britney's past.

@Vee that item about the masks made my blood run cold. I have a feeling that similar to what happened in Pennsylvania a few months ago, those Republicans wanted to infect and kill Democrats. If that happens, then I hope Pelosi uses this last term to start expelling some of these pieces of garbage, like that fat, mutilated drunk Matt Gaetz.

@ChitHappens yes, much of the media is working hard to whitewash this lunatic woman who got gunned down doing exactly what she wanted to do. She wanted to die...and she did! Frankly, I'd say the world is better off. Call me hard-hearted, but I do. Yet she will be made a martyr by the right and some in the press. Elaine Chao is a vulture - I guess you can't say she isn't effective at what she does.

I'm aware that there isn't really much of anything Pelosi or the House can do, and I'm also aware that if she did try to do something, many would just say it's theater, but the knowledge - and this was with me all throughout yesterday too - that nothing will ever happen about this increasing danger (which will be there long past Trump as it was there before him) beyond some speeches makes it hard to not just give in fully to despair.

I saw the Faux News threads posted in the politics section. Do they have the morning hosts parrot soft criticism to be seen as "balance" to the hatemongers and propagandists of the evening? I still see so many faux-leftists who desperately pine for !@#$%^&*] Carlson. I guess they are the type who were cheering this attack on anyway.

Some of the legislators who participated:

Agreed. I'm not surprised at how quickly we are back to "normal," right down to the usual anonymous sources telling us how Concerned and Angry Trump enablers are, and the empty reminders of how we are all in this together and we are better than this (when the main difference between now and many past years of right wing extremism is we have unedited video footage), but it's still incredibly dispiriting. I don't like Chris Hayes, who exploited a mentally ill grifter to try to salvage Bernie's campaign, but underneath all the usual empty self-important blather from him and Maddow, solid points are made.

This looks like something from a South American coup (that our money helped fund...).

Oh I don't think he ever had a real chance of being President, as he has no charisma and he is ugly in a very personal way. I just meant I don't think he's going to face any long-term blowback. I hope I'm wrong.

Hawley is bought and paid for by Koch money, so he will probably continue on unscathed, but I am laughing even more bitterly at the gushing media profiles from last week comparing him to Teddy Roosevelt. Say what you will about Teddy - he would have kicked Hawley's flat ass all over DC.

That was likely a staffer. Pence is no better than Trump, and many people in Indiana suffered, especially drug addicts and people with AIDS, because of him. They can both go to hell.

@Vee I'm sorry for what your mother has gone through today. The demoralization and dehumanization is key to the machine which Trump has used to his own ends, and vice/versa. There's nothing worse than seeing your parents cry. I'm sure you were a great comfort to her. Anyway, I can't get this photo out of my head.

Apparently all this is playing on Russian television. This is a wakeup call - yet again - to just how vulnerable our systems are. We have mostly just gotten lucky that nothing terrible has happened yet.

(not a "militia," but that is as far as Amy Gardner will likely go...) A lot of people will try to pretend these images never happened after today. I hope no one ever lets them.

I don't know if the Beltway will ever see the light, but that Jake Sherman tweet gave me a good laugh. This tweet from one of the dead end left in Congress reinforces why they should be kept out of power positions.

Thanks for sharing that @DramatistDreamer. Those images above make my blood boil. These terrorists won't even get a slap on the wrists.