Jan. 6 takeaways: Subpoena for Trump, warnings for democracy

[BidenPresident]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee took the extraordinary action of subpoenaing former President Donald Trump on Thursday as it issued a stark warning in its final public hearing before the midterm election: The future of the nation’s democracy is at stake.

The panel’s October hearing, just weeks ahead of the midterm election, focused on Trump’s state of mind on Jan. 6, 2021 as he egged on his supporters with false claims of election fraud, pushed to accompany them to the Capitol while lawmakers were counting the votes, and then did nothing for hours as the mob violently breached the building.

https://apnews.com/article/capitol-...and-politics-6f302d624f539504339dc48d938eb6e0

 

[Hawkeye10]

So much for the theory that they would have something today.

This is farce.

 

[BidenPresident]

U.S. lawmakers made urgent pleas for help during Jan. 6 riot, video shows

WASHINGTON, Oct 13 (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and other top lawmakers urgently dialed military officials and White House staff seeking help during the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol by Donald Trump supporters, video shown on Thursday revealed.

At what is likely its last hearing on the deadly attack, the House of Representatives Select Committee aired the previously unseen video that showed the fear gripping the Capitol as rioters stormed the building.

Video showed Pelosi and Schumer, top Senate Republican Mitch McConnell, and Republican Senator John Thune calling the Department of Defense asking for military backup to help clear the Capitol complex.

Pelosi and Schumer also called acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us...elp-during-jan-6-riot-video-shows-2022-10-13/

 

[T. A. Gardner]

I really hope that Trump shows up, says something like "I'm here to answer your subpoena. I'm not going to answer a single goddamned question and now that I showed up as required, I'm leaving. Fuck your useless committee..."

That would make for must see TV!

 

[Hawkeye10]

I really hope that Trump shows up, says something like "I'm here to answer your subpoena. I'm not going to answer a single goddamned question and now that I showed up as required, I'm leaving. Fuck your useless committee..."

That would make for must see TV!

Well since this whole production is all about the melodrama that would be just about perfect.

 

[BidenPresident]

I really hope that Trump shows up, says something like "I'm here to answer your subpoena. I'm not going to answer a single goddamned question and now that I showed up as required, I'm leaving. Fuck your useless committee..."

That would make for must see TV!

Trump and his supporters are fascists.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Trump and his supporters are fascists.

 

[BartenderElite]

I really hope that Trump shows up, says something like "I'm here to answer your subpoena. I'm not going to answer a single goddamned question and now that I showed up as required, I'm leaving. Fuck your useless committee..."

That would make for must see TV!

You probably won't be disappointed. Trump has general disdain for the rule of law.

 

[Hawkeye10]

How about getting Meghan Markle to cry for us....I would tune in for that.

 

[BidenPresident]

Eat shit you fucking asshole.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

You probably won't be disappointed. Trump has general disdain for the rule of law.

That would be inline totally with US rule of law. You cannot be compelled to testify against yourself. And, it doesn't mean you're guilty either. That'd be Kafkatrapping.

 

[BartenderElite]

That would be inline totally with US rule of law. You cannot be compelled to testify against yourself. And, it doesn't mean you're guilty either. That'd be Kafkatrapping.

But his reaction will be based on disdain for the rule of law - and the feeling that he's above the law.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

But his reaction will be based on disdain for the rule of law - and the feeling that he's above the law.

Are you psychotic... err, psychic, or something? You'd have to be to be able to know that.

 

[BartenderElite]

Are you psychotic... err, psychic, or something? You'd have to be to be able to know that.

Ad hom and appeal to speculation fallacy.

No; we have decades of empirical evidence on Donald Trump. Sorry 'bout that.

 

[BartenderElite]

Even the folks who swear that they don't really support Trump will defend him vigorously.

 

[BidenPresident]

Even the folks who swear that they don't really support Trump will defend him vigorously.

Yes, quite comical.

 

[T. A. Gardner]

Ad hom and appeal to speculation fallacy.

No; we have decades of empirical evidence on Donald Trump. Sorry 'bout that.

Wrong! That was just an insult. It wasn't ad hominem. You need to learn the difference.

 

[BartenderElite]

Wrong! That was just an insult. It wasn't ad hominem. You need to learn the difference.

LOL

A distinction without a difference.

Let me know when the next meeting of "Hairsplitter's Anonymous" is.

And again: LOL

 

[BidenPresident]

LOL

A distinction without a difference.

Let me know when the next meeting of "Hairsplitter's Anonymous" is.

And again: LOL

Gardner reminds me of that nut Intothenight blabbering about logical fallacies all the time.

 

[Text Drivers are Killers]

When are they gonna call black cop michael byrd to explain why he fatally shot unarmed white girl ashli babbitt?