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Many of those who stormed the Capitol will also find themselves left with criminal records (including felonies) and jail time. Those self-serving Congressmen who still did Trump's will after the Capitol was cleared and Congress resumed certifying Biden's win are facing calls for their resignations ... and more importantly, corporate donations are rapidly drying up. Does anybody with even half a brain really think that the Traitor In Chief will share his half billion dollar slush fund with them once he's out of office???? All of the people I've been personally acquainted with who embrace radical right wing causes and/or conspiracies are white, middle class conservatives who have a sense of entitlement, never take responsibility for their own (or their families) mistakes, and always blame somebody else whenever things don't go the way they want them to go. They always have a list of grievances against people they perceive to have somehow thwarted their aspirations. The four individuals you outline seem to fit that mold as well.

Get this through your thick stupid head: Twitter didn't act against Trump until he riled up his rabid horde and then sicced them on Congress. Trump is a traitor who has used Twitter repeatedly to promote treason. Words have consequences. Cry me a river about your fake concern for freedom of speech while advocating overturning a fair and honest election the Traitor in Chief lost by 7 million popular votes and 74 electoral votes. You're a traitor wannabe too cowardly to get out from behind your computer screen and join your fellow terrorists in the streets.

Awesome!!!!

January 20, 2017 when Barack Obama peacefully left office.

I know EXACTLY what #walkaway is -- and what it purports to be. Apologies to Bill Parcells, but "you are what your actions show you are" no matter whatever bull manure you claim.

When you use somebody else's property, ie, a privately owned social media platform, then you have to follow their rules. If you don't like that, then build and implement your own platform.

The truth hurts. Private entities aren't subject to the First Amendment. Deal with it. The POTUS inciting insurrection in order to nullify the result of an election that he clearly lost by large margins is what is scary. Maybe not. See below. I believe the Apple app store is going to do the same.

Exactly. Most Democrats I know weren't particularly excited about Biden but saw him as the candidate best likely to beat Trump. That so many Republicans down ticket from Trump won their elections but Trump lost suggests that many Republicans either voted for Biden or didn't vote for either presidential candidate. This election was all about getting rid of Trump, especially after his mishandling of the pandemic.

Crazy Rudy and Baby Trump, Jr, too. Incited the mob and then ran for cover in their limos and private jets and left the little guys to do the dirty work.

Your numbers aren't right. 2021 isn't even 10 days old. Maybe you meant 2019 and 2020. According to the nleomf.org stats for 2019, 135 police officers died in the line of duty, divided up by firearms related, traffic accident related, and other causes including job-related illnesses. The National Law Enforcement Officer Memorial and Museum has only published stats for half of 2020: 65 LOD deaths, including 27 by firearms, 26 in traffic accidents, and 12 other, including 5 from Covid 19. That was 14% less than the 76 who had died during the same period in 2019. (National Law Enforcement Officer Memorial and Museum) According to the FBI, only 89 LEOs died in line of duty incidents due to "felonious acts" or accidents in 2019. The stats from 2020 won't be available for several more months. (FBI stats)

He was pointing out that you misspelled Capitol as "capital". The Capitol is the building that was invaded by domestic terrorists on Wednesday afternoon. States can also have State Capitols. "Capital" is the city that's the seat of federal or state government.

What did you expect?

So, are you happy now?

Your reaction pretty much mirrors mine except that I was less optimistic, primarily because it appeared that the Ryan experiment had resulted in Russ Brandon gaining even more power. I was a long-time critic of Brandon, and I figured that McDermott was just another mediocre HC in the mode of Brandon's previous hires: Dick Jauron, Chan Gailey, and Doug Marrone.

bull manure

Yes, they have. The US Congress gave a big FU to Trump by returning to the Capitol after it was cleared of Trump's domestic terrorists to confirm the election of Joe Biden as the 46th POTUS. The National Association of Manufacturers has called for using the 25th Amendment to remove the POTUS, and several members of Trump's cabinet have actually discussed invoking the 25th Amendment to remove the POTUS. There are discussions among Congressmen about impeaching or censuring Trump in Congress. State officials are even more likely to seek to put Trump in prison after he leaves office. On January 20. 2021, the President of the US will be a Democrat, the US House of Representatives will be controlled by Democrats, and the US Senate will be controlled by Democrats.

Well, so much for hoping that you have even half a brain.

I hope that you are missing the point rather than making excuses in order to defend the indefensible. This is not about a group of protestors getting carried away by their own rhetoric or about a cadre of radicals inciting anarchy or a gang of petty criminals creating opportunities for looting and vandalism. The outrage here is about the POTUS and his surrogates inciting his followers to attack the US Capitol in order to overturn an US election. Trump incited insurrection. That's sedition and treason. In 1861, Ulysses S Grant said: there are but two parties now: traitors and patriots. That's true today as well. This is not about left or right or conservative or liberal. This is about democracy or dictatorship and about loyalty to the US Constitution or a demented would be dictator. Anyone who continues to defend Trump and his sycophants after yesterday is as much a traitor as he is.

Russia maybe. If Trump just left quietly and went into retirement to play golf and squabble with the Palm Beach locals, he might have some legal troubles in New York that could cost him $$$ in fines, but as long as he wants to stay active in politics, the NY AG Letitia James and Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance are going to play hard ball and seek prison time for him.

Do the math .... Biden beat Trump by 74 electoral votes, 306 to 232.

Wait a minute ... the Bills have only played in 2 previous playoff games in the last 20 years. I think that 2 playoff losses -- one of which was a last minute surprise from a make-shift roster filled with hold overs from the previous regime -- does not scream a pattern of losing in the playoffs. I think that the Bills' long history of blowing opportunities to win games in the past is what's really limiting your excitement for their regular season. This team isn't anything like any Bills teams we've seen before ... even us old-timers who remembered the great Super Bowl teams of the 1990s. I will be disappointed if the Bills don't win the Super Bowl, but manure can happen in the playoffs. This season has already been a great success, win or lose against Indy on Saturday.

Absolutely dead on, Virgil! The Bills have been on an offensive rampage this season, and they've gotten better as the season's gone on. The defense struggled early on, but now that's gotten into high gear ... and yesterday, they demonstrated that their STs ain't no weak sister, either! They wiped the stadium turf with a good Dolphins team. They could have beaten anybody yesterday. I can't imagine that any Bills fans truly thought that this team would be this good ... or even could be this good ... this year or maybe any year. I have been repeatedly impressed and increasingly amazed by the Bills in the second half of the season. I remember the Glory Years teams, and it used to pain me to watch tapes of those teams and be reminded of how much better those 90s teams were compared to the trash teams the Bills fielded for most of the 2000s. It's hard to compare teams from different eras, but I think the 2020 Bills are at least as good as those SB teams from the 1990s, and they may be very well be much better. Go Bills!

I think that the early decades of the 20th century were much like the early decades of the 21st century: eras of massive economic/social change fueled by technological changes, massive human migrations, and political upheavals in other parts of the world. These are conditions that breed extremism that manifests itself in hatred aimed at "outsiders". Trumpism stems from the same sources as Fascism and Nazism and shares similar DNA.

Most of these military bases/forts/facilities were established and named in the first four of the 20th century, an era marked by not only virulent racism but also xenophobia, nativism, and religious intolerance. The popularity of Birth of a Nation, the restrictions on immigration based on country of origin, the re-emergence of the KKK to threaten Blacks, Hispanics, Jews, Catholics, and immigrants, and the epidemic of lynchings of Blacks were all symptomatic of the hate mongering mood that swept the country, especially immediately before and after WW I. In the context of the era, these Confederates weren't traitors but "real Americans" -- white, Anglo-Saxon Protestants -- fighting to preserve "American ideals" against "alien hordes" -- Blacks, Hispanics, Jews, Catholics.