Trump loyalists in Congress to challenge Electoral College results in Jan. 6 joint session (Update: Insurrectionists storm Congress)(And now what?) (1 Viewer)

[superchuck500]

I guess it's time to start a thread for this. We know that at least 140 members of Congress have pledged to join the objection. Under federal law, if at least one member of each house (HOR and Senate) objects, each house will adjourn the joint session for their own session (limited at two hours) to take up the objection. If both houses pass a resolution objecting to the EC result, further action can take place. If both houses do not (i.e. if one or neither passes a resolution), the objection is powerless and the college result is certified.

Clearly this is political theater as we know such a resolution will not pass the House, and there's good reason to think it wouldn't pass the Senate either (with or without the two senators from Georgia). The January 6 joint session is traditionally a ceremonial one. This one will not be.

Many traditional pillars of Republican support have condemned the plan as futile and damaging. Certainly the Trump loyalists don't care - and many are likely doing it for fundraising purposes or to carry weight with the fraction of their constituencies that think this is a good idea.

https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL32717.pdf

 

[CoolBrees]

Yeah, not surprising…

This guy is the definition of a coward.

Goes to military prison for shooting civilians and attacks defenseless in a mob.

And if I'm not mistaken, he is wearing his Air Force patch in the first picture where he looks like he is on his way to a Mad Max cosplay. Piece of shirt lies about being a soldier too.

 

[zztop]

hope he wins

Harry Dunn, officer who defended the US Capitol on Jan. 6, is running for Congress in Maryland

A former police officer who defended the U.S. Capitol against rioters on Jan. 6 has announced he is running for Congress in Maryland.

apnews.com

 

[SaintForLife]

If he did that, and I don’t believe your sources for one second, he will make it right. Are we fine with Fuentes now, though? Is he a good example of a Trump supporter?

If you would click on the post and see the community note to show that he deceptively edited the video to make it seem like he was talking about DeSantis when he was actually talking about Kayne. And yes Fuentes is a huge piece of shirt.

 

[SaintForLife]

Committed multiple crimes...

 

[SaintForLife]

hope he wins

Harry Dunn, officer who defended the US Capitol on Jan. 6, is running for Congress in Maryland

A former police officer who defended the U.S. Capitol against rioters on Jan. 6 has announced he is running for Congress in Maryland.

apnews.com

Dunn's story doesn't seem to add up when you look at the video footage that's available.

 

[MT15]

Committed multiple crimes...

So? None of that changes anything that Coulter said. Or is she in on it too? lol.

 

[SaintForLife]

So? None of that changes anything that Coulter said. Or is she in on it too? lol.

Ann Coulter lol

 

[LA - L.A.]

We're witnessing firsthand the process of someone radicalizing themselves. It's not just something that happens to someone. It happens because of the choices they make in what they seek out and what they believe.

 

[coldseat]

We're witnessing firsthand the process of someone radicalizing themselves. It's not just something that happens to someone. It happens because of the choices they make in what they seek out and what they believe.

It's not just what they believe, It's what they need to believe in order to justify the feelings they have.

 

[LA - L.A.]

It's not just what they believe, It's what they need to believe in order to justify the feelings they have.

Yes, a lot of people reverse engineer what they believe by starting from what they feel and the biases they have.

 

[MT15]

Sedition Hunters still getting them.

 

[SaintForLife]

 

[coldseat]

Sucks that those insurrectionist get all that due process.

I say throw them in the Gulag like they do in Russia.

 

[Taurus]

Sucks that those insurrectionist get all that due process.

I say throw them in the Gulag like they do in Russia.

Usually when you f-up a coup, they put your head on a pike.

 

[brandon]

Usually when you f-up a coup, they put your head on a pike.

Or blow your plane up mid-flight, a la Prigozhin.

 

[zztop]

Appeals court ruling that vacates Capitol rioter's sentence could impact dozens of Jan. 6 cases

A federal appeals court in Washington has ordered a new sentence for a retired Air Force officer who stormed the U.S.

apnews.com

 

[Optimus Prime]

Donald Trump spent the days after Jan. 6, 2021, privately fuming about the election and his media coverage. Leaving office with an approval rating below 40 percent, he skipped Joe Biden’s inauguration and retreated to Mar-a-Lago. He was banned from posting on Twitter and avoided public appearances.

The next month, he accepted an invitation to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, his first post-presidential speech. On the drive, Trump seemed surprised that the roads again closed for his motorcade, an adviser said. A rapturous reception appeared to lift his spirits, the adviser said. Still, his speech made no mention of the event that prompted his isolation: the deadly attack by his supporters on the U.S. Capitol.

In those early months of lying low, Trump himself was not the main driver in rewriting Republicans’ collective memory of Jan. 6.

Attempts to minimize, excuse or deny the violence of that day began with people returning home from the mob and intensified with family members of rioters, including the mother of a woman killed at the Capitol.

Their cause became championed by pro-Trump writers Julie Kelly and Darren Beattie, and amplified by prominent right-wing media figures.

The grass-roots and media pressure then spread from far-right lawmakers such as Reps. Paul A. Gosar and Marjorie Taylor Greene to take over the Republican mainstream.

This changing view of Jan. 6 among Republicans offered Trump a lifeline, paving the way for his political comeback. By October 2021, when he claimed “the insurrection took place on November 3, Election Day,” rather than on Jan. 6, he was merely repeating a meme that was already widely circulating on Facebook.

“There were other people planting the seeds, and then Trump comes to harvest them,” said Jared Holt, an extremism researcher at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, of the rewriting of Jan. 6. “It’s canon at this point.”

Now, on the third anniversary of the nation’s first interruption to the peaceful transfer of power since the Civil War era, Republicans’ attitudes about Jan. 6 are increasingly unmoored from other Americans, and Trump holds a commanding lead in the race for the party’s 2024 presidential nomination.

The share of Republicans who said the Jan. 6 protesters who entered the Capitol were “mostly violent” dipped to 18 percent from 26 percent in December 2021, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll.

More than half of independents and about three-quarters of Democrats, on the other hand, believe the protesters were “mostly violent,” numbers that have remained largely unchanged over time, the poll found.

The percentage of Republicans who hold Trump responsible for the attack dropped from 27 percent to 14 percent, compared with 56 percent of independents and 86 percent of Democrats.

More than a third of Republicans said they believe the FBI definitely or probably organized and encouraged the attack — a conclusion contradicted by an extensive congressional investigation and more than 725 completed federal prosecutions…….

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/01/06/trump-jan-6-rewrite-presidential-election/

 

[MT15]

They are still charging those bastages. Good, keep it up.