FACT: More Than Twice As Many German Generals Were Executed for Opposing Hitler Than GOP Senators Voted for a January 6th Insurrection Commission.

@LamontCranston No, the commission is a necessary investigation to get to the truth, and it is important that it be bipartisan. But the Republicans are petrified the truth will come out about their involvement in the insurrection. So it won't happen.

I'm against increasing the number of justices permanently, but a temporary increase of two is needed to make up for the McConnell stolen seat under Obama's Administration. They should increase the Court by two, with the provision that the next two vacancies will not be made up. This approach has been used before.

There is no evidence of voter fraud or corrosion of election integrity. That's just false. Voter suppression is the clear objective and is obviously a threat to democracy.

I thing DC should be a state, but it isn't something I lose sleep over.

@windinhishair You live in dreamland.

@LamontCranston I live in a reality-based world and always have. Unfortunately, there are many who live in a world of fantasy where a candidate who loses by 7.2 million votes is the winner, and non-existent fraud becomes real.

@SomeMichGuy You will have to be more specific. I can think of at least a dozen in officer Republicans who fit that decription..😷

@whowasthatmaskedman LMAO Yeah, you are right.

@windinhishair Trump is not the least bit involved/ Trump will be fine, and probably be our next president.

@Oberon1 Inciting an insurrection does mean he was involved, intimately. He was filled with glee when the violence broke out, and refused to call off his seditionists. He will never be elected president, but he may take over as Emperor or King if his adoring Cult can suppress enough votes and cancel state election results through legislative shenanigans.

My bet is that he is indicted later this year on multiple fronts and spends his remaining days delaying justice and destroying democracy.

@Oberon1 Jan. 06
"I'm willing to stake my reputation, and the president is willing to stake his reputation, on the fact that there was criminality there. Let's have a trial by combat." Rudy G
"Does anyone here believe that Joe Biden won that election ?" Eric T

A nice peaceful demonstration, a few chants, wave some flags, sing some songs, sell a few MAGA hats, have a cheeseburger or some KFC and at the end of the day we'll all go home fat dumb and happy ? 🤗

She just keeps getting hotter. @beckyromero

@jackjjackson

You'd have a major dilemma picking between Tulsi and Trump. 😉

Gabbard was and is the top dem candidate. Trump was the top Republican candidate in 2020. Now he is retired and and should no longer be a future nominee. @beckyromero

@Pfuzylogic Classic artwork!

@windinhishair
Seminal magazine!

@Pfuzylogic Yes, indeed.

@Budwick

@whowasthatmaskedman [quote]$Mega Billion carrier group that can be taken out with a single nuclear hit.[/quote]

That's what also makes aircraft carriers a deterrent.

Lauch a nuclear strike against a U.S. CVN and you're inviting a massive retaliatory attack. An adversary might as well lob a nuke against Honolulu or Seattle.

Thus an adversary, to avoid getting into a shooting nuclear war with the United States, might instead launch a convention attack against a carrier task force.

And right now, a carrier battle group is much more difficult to successfuly strike and put out of action than any forward U.S. base.

Satellite technology does not always provide intelligence in real time and satellite survelliance isn't 24/7 over a moving target. Satellite themselves are moving - in orbit. Moreover, satellites themselves are probably more vulnerable than the naval target they are trying to detect.

China, strategically, is at a big disadvantage if it fights a naval war with the United States. Like Japan did in World War II, it relies on much of its oil via shipping lanes. And those tankers can be either sunk or disabled by the U.S. submarine fleet without much effort.

True, there's a long supply line to Taiwan. But, let's face reality. The United States won't be sending troops to Taiwan. What it would be sending is weapons that can be airlifted. Supplies sent via an air corridor, protected by a mobile and robust U.S. carrier fleet, is how Taiwan will receive critical supplies in the event of an attempted Chinese naval blockade as part of a prelude to invasion.

But the only real way to really stop the PRC from establishing a bridgehead on Taiwan is to sink the invasion fleet. Or to make the PRC fear that's what will happen.

@beckyromero While on the same side of the question here, we are not going to agree on strategy. The fact that China has always claimed Taiwan will make it possible for them to send troops to "restore order" before the US can do anything. No troops will be there to stop them and by the time they gret there it will be too late. The Logistics are all wrong. Plus the US cannot afford to put a carrier group and 10,000 plus service people at risk. The politics at home would crucify them.

@whowasthatmaskedman [quote]While on the same side of the question here, we are not going to agree on strategy. The fact that China has always claimed Taiwan will make it possible for them to send troops to "restore order" before the US can do anything. No troops will be there to stop them and by the time they gret there it will be too late. [/quote]

China, like Germany did in World War II with regards to Britain, will be telegraphing its intensions with invasion troop buildups. It's not going to look like Crete or Arnhem. It's going to look like Normandy.

And, you're right. No U.S. troops are going to be sent there. Because no amount of troops can stop the PRC once they are ashore.

The trickier questions are whether the U.S. will attack the embarcation points, the landing craft at sea and the covering force of Chinese naval vessels. And what our response will be to the Chinese response should it launch missile strikes against Guam, Australia and the Philippines.

[quote]Plus the US cannot afford to put a carrier group and 10,000 plus service people at risk. The politics at home would crucify them.[/quote]

Not in the Straits. But to keep an air corridor open in order to continue to supply Taiwan with SAMs. If we become too fearful of operating our carriers in the wide open waters of the Pacific, we might as well mothball the fleet in Bremerton and put up a foreclosure sign on the West Coast. Because the ball game will be over.

@PrincessAwesome [quote]My bigger fear is that Republicans will use voter suppression to control congress and then let Trump run the country like a dictator.[/quote]

That's the plan.

Then he runs in 2024 - and if he gets in he (and his fanatical followers) won't give up power.

@PrincessAwesome [quote]If he was smart like Hitler was, he definitely would have been able to make himself dictator and would have had much less resistance.[/quote]

Mike Pence was the monkey wrench in the plan.

@beckyromero Trump is toast...

@graphite “nightly insurrections”

Lol

Where did you read this fable?

@graphite

🙄

The seat of the federal government isn't in Portland. Nor in Seattle, either.

@GailCob [quote]In a lifetime of collecting false analogies, I would have to say that this comparison [/quote]

I guess actually critiqing the analogy is too difficult for you, so you instead dismiss it out of hand.

[quote]And it is just possible your reference to 'slimy creatures' ...[/quote]

Most creatures without backbones can be considered "slimy."

@beckyromero

@eli1601

Biden will be the [b]LAST[/b] president ever if Trumpets have their way.

@beckyromero 😂

@Pfuzylogic I don’t think the fence needs to remain up. That said I don’t really care if they keep it up. But if they removed it, a seance of “ normalcy” might start to creep back into
D.C.? I think our Congressional members are safe. But yes they like others of certain position are always in the limelight and not being sarcastic or funny, a certain risk goes along with being a politician regardless of affiliation.

@soar2newhighs
Members of Congress are entitled to safety. Especially with new legislation that the extreme right will oppose. It is the number of thugs that flood the Capitol that determines our law. I see fear on the Republican side to find out the truth. Let the curtain be exposed to what vermin statesmen participated in these traitorous activities. We already know the names of at least eight Republican representatives that gave tours to the leaders of the invading mob on the day before.

Especially notable douchebaguettes


@soar2newhighs

Exactly @revenant

@revenant

Trump isn't going away gracefully.

In fact, word is he is telling people he will be president again by August.

@beckyromero Which is amazing, because he might as well say the zombie apocalypse is coming in August. Just as unhinged, just as palatable to his idiot followers.

@geoam1

Who are the "they" in "they already know what happened"?

And "who" will "keep them or anyone from doing it again"?

@geoam1

What do "they" know.

And are you blaming the Capitol police force, when over 140 of them were injured in the line of duty that day? What would you have had them do that they didn't do?

@PhilDeep

An escaltor ride in 2019.

@whowasthatmaskedman

Trump has the 2024 nomination if he wants it.

No way any other Republican can defeat him.

@thedarkside [quote]He would not be president if the election was honest.[/quote]

If anything, an "honest" election would have saw Biden win in Texas and North Carolina, as well as all the states he DID carry.

@beckyromero Remember. In America an "honest" game is where a .45 beats 4 Aces. The game has always been rigged in favour of the Republicans or the Presidency would be decided on the national popular vote.