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Prof. Hill has built an esteemed career, while Mrs. Thomas will always be known as the desperate housewife who left a harassing message on Hill's answering machine. She/they can't hurt Prof. Hill anymore.

 

 

LMAO, he lives in Cleveland?? Well, he can never go home again. Those former Young Lords in NYC wouldn't have it.

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Members of the House of Representatives disliking the new metal detectors.


There were too many tweets from reporters about this,

so I'll just post the reporters' tweets in plain text:

 

(These were all tweeted around 7:30pm - 8:30pm EST, Tuesday Jan. 12.)

 

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Tweeted by: Matt Fuller @MEPFuller  (Huff Post)

 

Members are stacked up at a metal detector, trying to get on the floor right now.
Steve Womack was just yelling that he was “PHYSICALLY RESTRAINED” from entering the floor.

Just watched about 10 Republicans walk around the magnetometer.
The group just literally pushed through and the cops guarding the door didn’t seem to know what to do.

 

Didn’t see them all, but among the group was Ralph Northham and Scott Perry.
Jeff Duncan bypassed the metal detector right before them.
Yes, yes. It was Rep. Ralph Norman, not Governor Ralph Northham. 
That’s an autocorrect, I swear.

 

Rep. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio) just told the cops at the door he believes the magnetometers are unconstitutional.
To clarify for people here, Stivers did go through the magnetometer. He just told the cops he thought it was unconstitutional.

 

Louie Gohmert just walked around the magnetometer.
“You can’t stop me; I’m on my way to a vote,” he said as he passed the cops.


Another member — didn’t catch who it was — sets off the metal detector.
He doesn’t stop to get wanded and the Capitol Police don’t stop him.

 

The metal detectors are going to be useless if they’re just going to let the members who don’t want to go through the magnetometer sidestep it.

 

I’m watching Democrats and about 4/5ths of Republicans comply. It’s really causing tension between police and members.


It’s actually incredible to watch Members of Congress go through a metal detector. There are certain tricks — like walking through the center, not wearing large belt buckles — that won’t set off the machine.

They’re blithely unaware, setting it off most of the time.

 

Another member — I believe it was Russ Fulcher —  just pushed his way through. He went through the metal detector, set it off, ran into a cop, and then pushed his way past her.

 

Randy Weber just sneaks past the metal detector, pushing his way past the cops and another member.

 

Richard Hudson just walks through the metal detector, no concern that he set off the magnetometer.

 

Pretty amazing to watch Republican Members of Congress, after the week that Capitol Police has had, push their way past officers and not follow rules about metal detectors on the floor.

 

Randy Weber blows past security once again, setting off the metal detector and not stopping.

Rep. Randy Weber’s office is looking to send out a joint statement about the metal detectors.

 

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Tweeted by: Ryan Nobles @ryanobles (CNN)

 

RIGHT NOW-> Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, who has bragged about her desire to carry a weapon on Capital Hill is currently in a standoff with Capitol Police at the newly installed Metal Detectors outside the chamber doors.

 

Boebert walked through with her bag which set off the mags. She refused to offer the bag over to be searched and is now in a standoff with Cap Police.

 

Capitol Police won’t let her in until Boebert shows them what is in her bag, she won’t and is now standing by the entrance of the chamber. She is respectful but defiant

 

Boebert has now been let into the chamber it was unclear from my vantage point if the Capitol Police searched her bag before she went in.

 

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Tweeted by: Chad Pergram @ChadPergram  (Fox News)

 

GOP TX Rep Chip Roy: “The metal detector policy for the House floor is unnecessary, unconstitutional, and endangers members. I did not comply tonight. I will not comply in the future.”

 

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Tweeted by: Emily Goodin @Emilylgoodin (Daily Mail)

 

Two GOP Reps. angry about new metal detectors to get on House floor, reports pooler 
@elwasson
 “This is bull****," Rep. Rodney Davis tells USCP officers while Rep. Steve Womack yelled at them: "You are creating a problem you do not understand the ramifications of"

 

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Tweeted by: Manu Raju @mkraju (CNN)

 

House GOP furious at new mags outside the chamber. Reps. Markwayne Mullin and Steve Womack erupted at Capitol Police as they were forced to go through the mags. Womack shouted “I was physically restrained!” And Mullin said “it’s my constitutional right” and “they cannot stop me

Rep. Rodney Davis told Mullin not to shout at Capitol Police, and he said: “This is not their fault, they’re doing their job.”

But Davis, who is the top Republican on House Admin, told me: “I’m pissed” that the mags have gone up without any consultation.

 

Rep. Steve Scalise, the No. 2 Republican, told me that the situation is “untenable” because it “impedes the ability of members to come and vote. This is our job.”

These are the lines [image of them standing in line to go through]

 

Some Dems aren’t happy about the metal detectors either, which have prompted long crowded lines to get into the chamber
“I’m more likely to die of covid because I got it from a colleague than I am to die because a colleague shoots me,” Rep. Filemon Vela, Democrat of Texas, said

 

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Tweeted by Emily Cochrane @ESCochrane (NY Times)
 

Republicans are complaining about the magnetometers — Rodney Davis calls it “bullshit” and tells Hoyer that they’re “taking valuable resources completely away from where it needs to be without any consultation.”

 

normally lawmakers are exempt from the usual magnetometers on Capitol Hill, and now they have to get through one every time they vote.

 

“Where can I sign up for Clear?” one lawmaker jokes. (It’s very strange to see lawmakers — including Hoyer and Clyburn — get stopped and wanded outside the chamber).

 

I have now heard multiple lawmakers - Dems and a Republican, I’m pretty sure - apologize to Capitol Police for the disrespect from their colleagues.

 

Speaker Pelosi just went through the magnetometers and was wanded down. Such a surreal sight.

 

Kathleen Rice admonishing Republicans behind her as she gets wanded — “if I can do it, you can do it.”
 

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Tweeted by Caroline McKee @CarolineMcKee12 (Fox News)

 

Freshman Rep Marjorie Taylor Greene went through the magnetometers to enter the House chamber. When photojournalists started snapping her picture she admonished them asking where they were this summer when people “burned building and looted... do you guys remember that?”

 

She was wearing a mask, something she hasn’t been fond of since she joined the Congress last Wednesday. And as of late today, failure to wear that mask can result in a $500 fine for first offense/2,500 for second. This will be implemented when the House passes H. Res. 38.


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If they willfully ignore the safety detectors and are arrogant enough to march through anyway, I think they should be tasered, detained and searched.

 

If they are going to whine and blubber, give them something to cry about.

 

I am out of patience with these repugnant Republicans.

 

 

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This is the kind of thing that makes me wonder if everyone who is or ever was in government is just a bought out whore. Barbara Boxer using the old "I can change things from the inside" lie, while worker for a Chinese company that surveils the Uighur.

https://www.axios.com/barbara-boxer-biden-inaugural-foreign-agent-6022f95b-e6bd-44cc-b43c-2b7d50ffaca1.html

 

  • The state-owned China Electronics Technology Group is Hikvision's controlling stakeholder. Hikvision cameras have been installed at internment camps in Xinjiang, where more than 1 million Uighurs are estimated to have been imprisoned or subjected to forced labor.
  • Biden’s presidential campaign described China’s treatment of Uighur Muslims as “genocide” last year and said he "stands against it in the strongest terms."

Not just forced labor, but also forced abortion and sterilization. Really, she couldn't find any other way to make money? Or maybe just consider that its ok not to be rich, no matter what society tells us. Money is not worth getting involved with genocide on any level.

Same.  They supposedly want unity, but they won't comply by the rules a few days after a major attack. I can almost hear them screaming, but muh guns! You can't take away muh guns! What about muh freedom?!

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