Right Wing Extremism
Lauren Boebert Sucks But Does She Suck Like Someone Who Supports The Mob During A Coup?
Don’t mess with Nancy Pelosi, lady.
January 12, 2021 12:15 PM
Did Rep. Lauren Boebert give up Nancy Pelosi to a violent mob during the January 6 Capitol siege? (Also, when did real life turn into an episode of "Scandal"?). Serious questions were raised about why the Colorado congresswoman would live tweet the House Speaker's movements when the Capitol was under attack.
That seemed ... unwise. Boebert might've wanted to keep her constituents in the loop but the MAGA mob also had cell phones and Twitter accounts. Hundreds or thousands of unhinged people had stormed the Capitol and she's acting like their personal GPS. When I saw this last week, I just shook my head and assumed she was dumb. That's a safe bet for Ms. Congressional Glock-Waver of 2021.
<p>However, yesterday Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii noted on Twitter that Congress members were "specifically instructed by those protecting us not to tell anyone, including our family, where exactly we were, for <strong>reasons that remain obvious.</strong>"</p><div id="a9805" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="bb82c6571e2b66bb171d41c805f6176b"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1348847600926126080" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">@brianschatz @gtconway3dg So were we in the House. @laurenboebert was told by the Sergeant of Arms in the chamber t… https://t.co/6hzLrCOx3V</div> — Rep. Eric Swalwell (@Rep. Eric Swalwell)<a href="https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell/statuses/1348847600926126080">1610425303.0</a></blockquote></div><p>As a member of the QAnon Caucus, Boebert takes pride in her ignorance. She might've defied obvious instructions that were obvious because she wasn't going to let the government tell her what to do, even though she's now part of said government. <br></p><p>Rep. Eric Swalwell came right out and accused Boebert of being “more closely aligned with the terrorists than the patriots." She's been his colleague for a little over a week and he's already reading her for filth on Twitter. He even tagged her so her loved ones can see it. He's not afraid. Surviving an attempted coup from the sitting president can change a person.</p><p>(Schatz and Swalwell are two of the nicest guys in Congress, so this is just one example of how much Boebert sucks.)</p><p>Before the siege, Boebert had willingly aligned herself with the mob when she challenged the election results in Arizona, where she doesn't live and <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/live-blog/electoral-college-certification-updates-n1252864/ncrd1253058" target="_blank">had no legal grounds to do so. </a></p><blockquote>Madame Speaker, I have constituents outside this building right now and I promised to be their voice. It is my separate but equal obligation to weigh in on this election and object.</blockquote><p>She sure did have constituents outside. They were beating cops with flagpoles. And “separate but equal obligation"? Oh, go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut, lady. Go take a flying fuck at the moon. </p><p>Also, while Boebert has bragged about bringing her Glock to Washington DC to defend herself from violent thugs, she didn't actually get her Annie Oakley on in defense of the woman who's second in line to the presidency. </p><div id="2a495" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="742ec5bd32f78314725f3759466e9724"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1348853130084155392" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">@RepSwalwell @brianschatz @gtconway3dg @laurenboebert And this https://t.co/TDwP7MTLOe</div> — Asha Rangappa (@Asha Rangappa)<a href="https://twitter.com/AshaRangappa_/statuses/1348853130084155392">1610426621.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Lawyer and CNN commentator Asha Rangappa noted that Boebert had tweeted on January 6 that “Today is 1776." This pushes the “she's real dumb" defense to its limit. She's directly linking the electoral vote certification to the American Revolution, which like most revolutions involving white people was violent. She might've grossly co-opted the language of the Civil Rights Movement, but she wasn't calling for civil disobedience. The American colonists didn't hold marches and sit-ins against the British. Shots were fired. Blood was shed.</p><p>Great power demands great responsibility. That don't just apply to Spider-Man but to our elected officials who don't have web shooters. Boebert isn't a conservative talk show host. She's a member of Congress and probably shouldn't call for the violent overthrow of the US government, which she compares to a tyrannical regime. </p><p>Pardon my spoilers here but American colonists won the Revolutionary War and went on to form a new nation that Trump would later ruin. Anyone who could count (and I'll graciously include Boebert) would've known that the baseless objections to Biden's victory weren't going to pass. Now, after Trump's failed coup, Republicans want to talk about “lowering the temperature," but the time to do so was during the two weeks after the Electoral College voted.</p><p>Trump supporters didn't gather on January 6 to peacefully protest Biden's election. They showed up to “stop the steal" and “save America." There was no legal way to achieve their aims, so violence was inevitable. </p><div id="e9678" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="dbb979654a391fa85e9b2b7e4038d362"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1348848556501729281" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">It’s not clear to what extent the rioters were coordinating operationally with government officials, so we ought to… https://t.co/8v2R2WK6ZS</div> — Brian Schatz (@Brian Schatz)<a href="https://twitter.com/brianschatz/statuses/1348848556501729281">1610425530.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Young political geek SER, who watched “The West Wing" every week, takes no pleasure in the idea that Boebert might've aided and abetted terrorist activity. I'd rather she was just dumb. 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Being Hunted In The Capitol Riot Not Enough? Congrats The GOP Just Gave You COVID!
Their willful stupidity is a hate crime.
January 12, 2021 10:03 AM
During the Capitol siege, Congress members were huddled together in a secured room, an ideal venue for the coronavirus to mix and mingle. Even when not under lockdown, House rules require that members wear masks at all times when indoors, for all the reasons that have become tiresome to repeat. Just wear a damn mask, dummies.
Look, it's reasonable that when you're hiding from the violent mob Donald Trump incited, you might temporarily forget about the pandemic Trump ignored (although much like "Law & Order: SVU," COVID-19 isn't going anywhere). However, Democrat Lisa Blunt Rochester from Delaware tried to pass out masks but was rebuffed by at least six snickering members of the GOP's Sedition Caucus. In this video, you can see House members Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, Andy Biggs of Arizona, and Scott Perry of Pennsylvania sneer at Blunt Rochester like she's some nerd who's trying to make them wear masks like a nerd.
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According to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2021/01/09/gop-lawmakers-refuse-masks-capitol-riot-raju-nr-vpx.cnn" target="_blank">CNN's Manu Raju, </a> Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma said, “I'm not trying to get political here." What's political is Mullin's defiance to the most simple public health measures. When John McClane was trying to find shoes in <em>Die Hard</em>, he wasn't making a political statement. How did half the country get so stupid?
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Blunt Rochester is a Black woman with a brain in her head who was trying to keep people safe, but these Republican know-nothings insisted on throwing an impromptu superspreader event. Monday, Bonnie Watson Coleman from New Jersey <a href="https://twitter.com/RepBonnie/status/1348686673085931520?s=20" target="_blank">tweeted</a> that after sheltering in place with these maskless morons, she decided to take a COVID-19 test. It came back positive. She's now isolating at home.
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<strong>WATSON COLEMAN: </strong>While I am experiencing mild, cold-like symptoms, I remain in good spirits and will continue to work on behalf of my constituents.
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Although Watson Coleman, who's also Black, looks 60 at most, she's actually 75 years old and a cancer survivor. It's not “getting political" to show a modicum of concern for your colleagues who are at risk. You might say it's “pro-life," but today's Republican Party makes a mockery of that term.
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Watson Coleman wasn't the only person exposed to stupidity and infected with COVID-19. Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington state has also announced that she's tested positive. Understandably, she's real mad.
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<strong>JAYAPAL:</strong> Too many Republicans have refused to take this pandemic and virus seriously, and in doing so, they endanger everyone around them. Only hours after President Trump incited a deadly assault on our Capitol, our country, and our democracy, many Republicans still refused to take the bare minimum COVID-19 precaution and simply wear a damn mask in a crowded room during a pandemic — creating a superspreader event on top of a domestic terrorist attack.
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While I am isolating per the Capitol Physician's instructions, I will continue to work to the best of my ability because the deep urgency of our many crises is paramount.
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My former representative is going to impeach Trump again with her mask on and both middle fingers extended.
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<strong>JAYAPAL: </strong>I share the outrage and anger of my constituents and those across this country who have watched Donald Trump fail to combat this raging pandemic and refuse to take care of Americans who are suffering, dying, and devastated. Now, we have also watched him openly fuel and incite these insurrectionists who attacked the Capitol and our democracy on January 6 — so I will not rest until I do everything in my power to remove this President from office.
</blockquote><p>Jayapal had the foresight and consideration to quarantine immediately after the attack, because she rightly figured that the COVID Caucus had created a superspreader event. She's now asking that the Republicans who refused to wear masks in accordance with House rules are severely fined and immediately removed from the floor. </p><blockquote><strong>JAYAPAL:</strong> This is not a joke. Our lives and our livelihoods are at risk, and anyone who refuses to wear a mask should be fully held accountable for endangering our lives because of their selfish idiocy.</blockquote><p>The Capitol's attending physician warned of possible risk of COVID-19 exposure during the lockdown. It's unlikely that any of the Republicans who refused to wear masks will show any remorse for their actions or alter their behavior. </p><p>We hope Watson Coleman and Jayapal recover fully and quickly.</p><p><strong>UPDATE:</strong> Third House member, <a href="https://twitter.com/GregJKrieg/status/1349022424193519617?s=20" target="_blank">Brad Schneider from Illinois,</a> also confirms COVID-19 diagnosis. He’ll vote to impeach Trump’s sorry ass by proxy.</p><p>[<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/11/politics/bonnie-watson-coleman-covid-19-positive/index.html" target="_blank">CNN</a>]<br></p><p>
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Protests
It's Your GOP Sunday Show Idiot Roundup, Post-Capitol Insurrection Edition!
We watch so you never have to.
January 11, 2021 03:54 PM
On January 6, 2021, Donald Trump incited an insurrection at the Capitol.
After the dust settled, blood was spilled, lives ruined and Republicans in Congress continued to try to disenfranchise voters, even after the sedition, we were left with trying to hold Trump and his enablers accountable for a tragedy that was entirely predictable and four years in the making. So, with that in mind, this week's Sunday shows!
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We'll start on CBS's "Face The Nation," where host Margaret Brennan interviewed Missouri GOP senator Roy Blunt. She asked if Trump should resign for his role in inciting the violence and chaos on January 6, but Blunt said nah. Then he said this bafflingly daft thing:</p>
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<strong>BRENNAN</strong>: Are Republican leaders going to hold them accountable in any way for it?
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<strong>BLUNT</strong>: Well, I think the country is the-- the right way to hold Presidents accountable. The President should be very careful over the next ten days that his behavior is what you'd expect from the leader of the greatest country in the world. <strong>Now, my personal view is that the President touched the hot stove on Wednesday and is unlikely to touch it again.</strong>
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If that sounds familiar, it's because your <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUcWYIHIT44" target="_blank">"Susan Collins Sense"</a> is tingling.</p><p>The idea that Trump learned about anything from his first impeachment other than Republicans' lack of spine would be laughable if he wasn't a dangerous madman. Brennan asked if Trump treason enablers like senators Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz should be held accountable, and the answer is no, and also that again, Trump should not be removed.</p><blockquote>
<strong>BLUNT</strong>: --I said that wouldn't happen. I'm not-- I wasn't interested then or now in spending a lot of time on things that can't happen--
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<strong>BRENNAN</strong>: So no sanction?
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<strong>BLUNT</strong>: --just like the impeachment-- just like the impeachment of the President, to remove him from office clearly is not going to happen between now and the last day he's in office. [...] Is there any likelihood that he could possibly be removed between now and January the 20th? And if there's no additional ensuing event my-- my belief is there is no possibility of that.
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Seems Blunt needs <em>another</em> constitutional crisis to acknowledge reality. He also complained that an impeachment could not be rushed through becasue there is too little time, while forgetting that we all saw them confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court in
<a href="https://www.wonkette.com/how-many-people-will-senate-gop-infect-with-covid-19-before-confirming-amy-coney-barrett" target="_blank">10 days of hearings</a>.</p><p>
Meanwhile, over on Fox News's "Sunday Morning Futures", Maria Bartiromo's usual hive of scum and villainy seemed a bit more subdued after last week's events. </p>
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<p>Ohio GOP congressman Jim Jordan decided was more reserved than usual, whining out calls for <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/cruz-and-hawley-disappointed-biden-is-tearing-the-country-apart-by-calling-them-liars" target="_blank">unity</a>.<br></p><blockquote>
<strong>JORDAN</strong>: I hope the Democrats don't go down this road. We don't know if they re going to. Let's hope that they do not do that. [...] Now the Democrats are gonna try to remove the president from office just seven days before he's set to leave anyways. I do not see how that unifies the country. </blockquote><p>Somewhere in there, Jordan, like a cover band that has to play the hits, snuck in a Peter Strzok reference. He did refer to Joe Biden as president-elect, though.</p><p>Meanwhile, GOP Senator Marco Rubio tried to claim the Trump supporters who attacked the Capitol weren't really conservatives, or something.</p><div id="a186e" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="e04518abac765f4e5c23800b07998e8d"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1348303992154161152" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Marco Rubio claims that rioters who were chanting "we want Trump!" and adorned head to toe with MAGA attire are not… https://t.co/nBXB3wmAXE</div> — Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar)<a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/statuses/1348303992154161152">1610295696.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Finally, Devin Fucking Nunes told Maria Bartiromo about what truly matters, which is how he can't talk to his three million Parler followers no more:<br></p><div id="3d773" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="aefed5077d08b7a24313b757bc38396c"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1348301766740291584" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">Nobody:
Not a single soul:
Trumpers: https://t.co/eEjLqZPX1V</div> — Aaron Rupar (@Aaron Rupar)<a href="https://twitter.com/atrupar/statuses/1348301766740291584">1610295166.0</a></blockquote></div><p>OK.</p><p>Good Sunday shows, Republicans! Can't imagine what next week will be like.</p><p><strong>Wonkette is fully funded by readers like you! If you love Wonkette, FUND WONKETTE.</strong></p><p></p><form name="donation" method="post" class="donation-form"><p class="subheadline">How often would you like to donate?</p><div class="form-row row--plan"><label class="plan-type__label"><input type="radio" name="plan_type" value="once" class="plan-type" required="" checked> Just once
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Black Cops’ Blue Lives Didn’t Matter Much To Trump’s Mob
Trump supporters’ predictable racism is predictable.
January 11, 2021 03:04 PM
Donald Trump frequently described Black Lives Matter as racist and anti-cop. He was deeply offended that some protesters at some rally someplace chanted, “Pigs in a blanket. Fry 'em like bacon." (Five years ago. Fox News runs that clip A LOT.) It wasn't actually a call to murder all cops but just to legally treat the ones who murder people the same way we do common gangbangers.
I bring this up because President Law & Order has been conspicuously silent after his personal lynch mob invaded the Capitol on January 6. Trump supporters carrying “Stop the Steal" signs and Trump flags viciously beat a cop who stood in their way. They dragged him down the Capitol steps by his helmet.
The clip, which some may find disturbing, shows the moment where a protester wearing a black, red and white cap cli… https://t.co/mSM7eUKXGc— Bellingcat (@Bellingcat)1610292046.0
There's been recent focus on the fact that Brian Sicknick, the cop Trump's mob beat to death with a fire extinguisher, was also a Trump supporter. Sicknick was a white male in law enforcement, so this fact is neither shocking nor relevant. I don't want to see anyone beaten to death with a fire extinguisher.
<div id="a1532" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="b09ee59ae85280e153422d705f5381ab"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1348662666542329856" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">D.C. Police Chief Robert Contee says members of his force who served in Iraq says Wednesday's attack on the Capitol… https://t.co/ELwtH8wkUT</div> — Zach C. Cohen (@Zach C. Cohen)<a href="https://twitter.com/Zachary_Cohen/statuses/1348662666542329856">1610381211.0</a></blockquote></div><p>We've also learned the pro-Trump rally crowd included police officers from, so far, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/pittsburgh-police-officer-under-investigation-capitol-protests-trump-rally" target="_blank">Pittsburgh,</a> <a href="https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/seattle-residents-weigh-two-officers-pro-trump-insurrection/N6QNRZHWCFCP5BFWG6GO6C7Q5E/" target="_blank">Seattle, </a> <a href="https://www.wric.com/news/virginia-news/two-virginia-police-officers-who-attended-pro-trump-rally-in-d-c-placed-on-administrative-leave/" target="_blank">Rocky Mount, Virginia,</a> and probably many other places <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/nyc-police-union-stand-by-their-klansman" target="_blank">because cops love Trump.</a> This was always a potential concern if Trump tried a coup. <br></p><p>But there were also Black cops defending the Capitol and statistically they were less likely to ride at the front of the Trump train. They had to put up with Trump's racist supporters and were arguably left in the cold by Capitol Police who didn't treat Trump's rally as the looming threat it was. This was not any other protest, like some rightwing version of a Free Tibet rally.</p><p>Trump spent weeks targeting the electoral vote count in Congress. It was presented as a possible “last stand" to prevent a stolen election. The police often take greater precautions when <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/kenosha-wisconsin-da-graciously-declines-to-press-charges-against-jacob-blake-for-getting-shot-in-the-back" target="_blank">prosecutors are scheduled to announce</a> they aren't pressing charges against the latest cop who killed a Black person for a flimsy-ass reason. </p><p>According to an article in <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emmanuelfelton/black-capitol-police-racism-mob?bftwnews&utm_term=4ldqpgc#4ldqpgc" target="_blank">BuzzFeed, </a>one Black Capitol Police officer was only aware of potential trouble on January 6 when a friend tipped him off.</p><blockquote>"I found out what they were planning when a friend of mine screenshot me an Instagram story from the Proud Boys saying, 'We're breaching the Capitol today, guys. I hope y'all ready.'" <strong>The officer, who asked to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation from his superiors, </strong>told BuzzFeed News that it was just a sign of the chaos that was to come, which saw officers regularly finding themselves unprepared and then outmanned and overpowered by the mob.</blockquote><p>It's appalling that Capitol Police wouldn't give a heads up to minority officers that a bunch of Confederate-flag-humping white supremacists were coming to party. Historically, such events rarely end well. </p><div id="e4044" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="9043c9b913d6de34ca641e1c750d1ad0"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-twitter-tweet-id="1348137153700749314" data-partner="rebelmouse"><div style="margin:1em 0">@igorbobic He blocked the hallway then pushed him away from the hallway because he knew that guy would follow him w… https://t.co/xpGfmwEQhs</div> — ⓘ 10 PM Curfew Lefty (@ⓘ 10 PM Curfew Lefty)<a href="https://twitter.com/lazylefty/statuses/1348137153700749314">1610255919.0</a></blockquote></div><p>Black officers described Trump's goons hurling racial epithets at them, but verbal abuse was the least of their problems. Their supervisors clearly dropped the ball on what become a domestic terror attack with an obvious political objective. How did they miss this? The planning and plotting were all over the Internet.</p><p>One veteran Black officer told BuzzFeed that they'd tried unsuccessfully to keep the mob at bay for two hours, contrary to footage that shows the cops letting the terrorists in without even checking for tickets. He claims the footage of goofy Viking shaman roaming the Capitol downplays how organized and prepared the insurrectionists were.</p><blockquote>"That was a heavily trained group of militia terrorists that attacked us," said the officer, who has been with the department for more than a decade. "They had radios, we found them, they had two-way communicators and earpieces. They had bear spray. They had flash bangs ... They were prepared. They strategically put two IEDs, pipe bombs, in two different locations. These guys were military trained. A lot of them were former military," the officer said, referring to two suspected pipe bombs that were found outside the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee and the Republican National Committee.</blockquote><p>This was all coordinated, well-planned, and organized, as <a href="https://www.wonkette.com/nancy-pelosi-aint-afraid-of-trump-or-his-mob" target="_self">Nancy Pelosi said.</a> Black officers reportedly encountered thugs inside the Capitol who flashed their police badges and claimed they were “doing this for you," because apparently installing Trump as an unelected despot is how you ensure Blue Lives Matter. </p><p>A Black officer described how upset he was to see insurrectionists waving Blue Lives Matter flags and white colleagues taking selfies with white supremacists roaming freely in the Capitol with Confederate flags held high.</p><blockquote>"That one hurt me the most because I was on the other side of the Capitol getting my ass kicked," he said.</blockquote><p>Despite the abuse from within and without their own ranks, it was still a Black officer who bravely lured a pack of racists away from an unsecured Senate, which undoubtedly saved lives. 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