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Significant.Sen. Pat Toomey said Sunday that President Donald Trump should resign from office and could face "criminal liability" after the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol, becoming the second Republican senator to call for the President's resignation.
"I think at this point, with just a few days left, it's the best path forward, the best way to get this person in the rearview mirror for us that could happen immediately," the Pennsylvania Republican told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union." "I'm not optimistic it will. But I think that would be the best way forward."
Toomey joins a gr
owing number of Republicans who want the President out of office before President-elect Joe Biden is sworn in as the next president on January 20. He is now the second Republican US senator to call for Trump's resignation. On Friday, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski told the Anchorage Daily News, "I want him out. He has caused enough damage."
the great white civilization in action.SuperJail Warden wrote:
There is a video of the cop that got killed getting dragged into the crowd and throttled.
https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout … gged_into/
So far no video of the fatal fire can hit has been released as far as I know but we do have a picture of the cop injured.
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DamnTrump supporter beats a cop to death with the American flag. How symbolic is that?
Kind of, difference is a few hundred thousand iraqis died as a result. But they don't matter because they're foreign 'towelheads' and 'sandn---'.uziq wrote:
would republicans have been so batshit crazy and science-denying and conspiratorial under bush?
I say this in terms of having lived here, but the batshit crazy, science-denying, and endlessly conspiratorial was already established and newly expanding before Bush Jr. took office. Thanks in part due to right-wing radicalization programs polishing up old feelings, and prejudices (and bs like anti-vax) and shipping them out to a receptive audience.uziq wrote:
even in the darkest hours of 9/11, i don't think anyone could have even conceived a national nadir and disgrace such as has been seen under trump. if you had told someone in 2001 or 2002 that america would be helplessly over-run by a pandemic that was contained by countries like vietnam and taiwan, people would have laughed til blue in the face. imagine telling someone with a straight face that america would fail to deal with a preventable pandemic because americans were busy punching one another in the streets over wearing protective masks.
would republicans have been so batshit crazy and science-denying and conspiratorial under bush?
I am sympathetic to the idea by some moderate conservatives that this is a good moment to peel back the Imperial Presidency. They have also well argued that by leaning more into federalism we could lower the national temperature. Let people in California and Texas make their own choices regarding cultural issues. It would be however unfair to deny democrats their 4 years of a strong executive after Trump.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
I say this in terms of having lived here, but the batshit crazy, science-denying, and endlessly conspiratorial was already established and newly expanding before Bush Jr. took office. Thanks in part due to right-wing radicalization programs polishing up old feelings, and prejudices (and bs like anti-vax) and shipping them out to a receptive audience.uziq wrote:
even in the darkest hours of 9/11, i don't think anyone could have even conceived a national nadir and disgrace such as has been seen under trump. if you had told someone in 2001 or 2002 that america would be helplessly over-run by a pandemic that was contained by countries like vietnam and taiwan, people would have laughed til blue in the face. imagine telling someone with a straight face that america would fail to deal with a preventable pandemic because americans were busy punching one another in the streets over wearing protective masks.
would republicans have been so batshit crazy and science-denying and conspiratorial under bush?
I do think there are Trumpian lows to which W did not stoop, though. "Tre45on" has highlighted that the presidency is too powerful in the hands of a clinically self-absorbed madman and a sycophantic legislature. There should probably be stronger and more definitive rules in place as to what a president can and cannot do.
that's a good point, alex jones was active in the 90s, and it definitely goes back to waco and the conservative talkshow hosts we all talk about here, after all reading the same DFW essay.unnamednewbie13 wrote:
I say this in terms of having lived here, but the batshit crazy, science-denying, and endlessly conspiratorial was already established and newly expanding before Bush Jr. took office. Thanks in part due to right-wing radicalization programs polishing up old feelings, and prejudices (and bs like anti-vax) and shipping them out to a receptive audience.uziq wrote:
even in the darkest hours of 9/11, i don't think anyone could have even conceived a national nadir and disgrace such as has been seen under trump. if you had told someone in 2001 or 2002 that america would be helplessly over-run by a pandemic that was contained by countries like vietnam and taiwan, people would have laughed til blue in the face. imagine telling someone with a straight face that america would fail to deal with a preventable pandemic because americans were busy punching one another in the streets over wearing protective masks.
would republicans have been so batshit crazy and science-denying and conspiratorial under bush?
I do think there are Trumpian lows to which W did not stoop, though. "Tre45on" has highlighted that the presidency is too powerful in the hands of a clinically self-absorbed madman and a sycophantic legislature. There should probably be stronger and more definitive rules in place as to what a president can and cannot do.
