# 6 January 2021; A Day worth a Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 6, 2021, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770 "2021-01-06T04:30:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 22
**Author:** ![The\_Librarian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_librarian/32/402_2.png) [@The\_Librarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Librarian)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/422 "2021-01-06T21:16:19Z")
Did you see Ivanka’s tweet calling them “patriots”? This ends in one of two ways: the Trumps in cuffs or Biden in cuffs. They have begun crossing the Rubicon. ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/423 "2021-01-06T21:16:48Z")
So has USA Today. I think it’s basically over as far as Georgia is concerned. > **[Georgia's Senate runoffs: Ossoff projected to win runoff, giving Democrats...](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2021/01/06/georgia-election-results-raphael-warnock-kelly-loeffler-ossoff-perdue/4131906001/)** > > Raphael Warnock is the first Black man elected as U.S. senator from Georgia and the first Democrat elevated to the Senate from Georgia in 20 years. “Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock both won Senate runoffs in Georgia, giving Democrats control of the Senate.” ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/424 "2021-01-06T21:17:23Z")
> [@Velocity](#): > > These protesters are merely going around room to room like tourists and only apparently want selfies. Some of those selfies show them stealing statues and artwork and other mementos. Hey, police, look, white people can be looters too, bust out the rubber bullets already. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/425 "2021-01-06T21:18:16Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Hey, police, look, white people can be looters too, bust out the rubber bullets already. They don’t dare. Those might leave a _bruise_. ---
**Author:** ![Jungian\_Camisole1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jungian_camisole1/32/3646_2.png) [@Jungian\_Camisole1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jungian_Camisole1)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/426 "2021-01-06T21:18:23Z")
I wonder if Mike Pence is thinking some long thoughts about the 25th Amendment right about now. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/427 "2021-01-06T21:18:45Z")
> [@AK84](#): > > Can the safety and security of the US nuclear arsenal be ensured with the political unrest? The officer with the nuclear football is presumably near Trump at all times, so, not even close to the Capitol. ---
**Author:** ![Deeg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/deeg/32/2955_2.png) [@Deeg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Deeg)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/428 "2021-01-06T21:19:06Z")
Trump might want to do it but he doesn’t have the support of the Republicans now. Even if he could it would be over quick. ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/429 "2021-01-06T21:19:39Z")
Lester Holt on NBC just said: “if Trump speaks to the nation, we need to think really hard about whether we want to air it given his propensity for spreading mistruths.” Holy crap. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/430 "2021-01-06T21:20:21Z")
Also, on this: > [@Velocity](#): > > These protesters I saw a tweet from an American journalist working the international beat. She said (and I paraphrase), Hey, my fellow domestic counterparts, when this kind of thing happens in other countries, we don’t call them “protesters.” Get some perspective. Stop with the “protesters.” This is a lawless insurgent mob. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/431 "2021-01-06T21:21:39Z")
We do, though. When students stormed the legislature in Taiwan and occupied the chamber for days, they were called protesters by the Western media. When Hong Kong students led the protests a year and a half ago, they were dubbed protesters - and they were using Molotov cocktails, too. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/432 "2021-01-06T21:21:52Z")
I tend to agree that it would probably be over quick, and it’s entirely possible that generals refuse to carry out the orders simply because they just don’t fucking want to enable this piece of shit anymore. But we just don’t know anymore; we don’t know where this ends, and how much damage this will cause. ---
**Author:** ![Dahnlor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dahnlor/32/533_2.png) [@Dahnlor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dahnlor)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/433 "2021-01-06T21:22:55Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > > [@Acsenray](#): > > > > Let’s wait and see what Trump has asked the National Guard to do. > > Is Trump federalizing the national guard? DC has its own National Guard, controlled by the White House. ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/434 "2021-01-06T21:22:58Z")
Welcome to “The Lost Cause - Revisited”, now with 74 million votes ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/435 "2021-01-06T21:23:27Z")
Individual 1 made a speech. He’s calling the Democrats evil and stole the election, but everybody should go home. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/436 "2021-01-06T21:23:40Z")
On the upside, when this coup attempt fails (and it will), it will put paid to Trump and Trumpism for a good long time. His followers will still be out there, but any politician who tries to invoke The Holy Name will torpedo his chances in any state in the union, even Alabama. Nothing stinks (politically) more than a loser than a loser who tried (and failed) to overthrow the Government. Side note: Trump just unfollowed Pence on Twitter. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/437 "2021-01-06T21:23:47Z")
CNN: Trump is speaking; it’s been taped. Lots about election fraud, landslide victory … oh, and go home and be peaceful. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/438 "2021-01-06T21:24:03Z")
Go get em. > ---
**Author:** ![Mike\_Mabes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mike_mabes/32/1782_2.png) [@Mike\_Mabes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike_Mabes)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/439 "2021-01-06T21:24:06Z")
He is not going to do that. Again, if he does I will apologize to you in the gulag. I agree with other posters who say he should be impeached or have the 25th invoked. Although hell, they might cause more “protests”. No win situation. FOX just said the was expected to speak soon, we’ll see what he says ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/440 "2021-01-06T21:24:53Z")
> [@FlikTheBlue](#): > > I wonder if Pelosi and McConnell can organize a quick impeachment and conviction from whatever bunker they are hiding in. That’s another option. The faster the better. Before he has a chance to issue all those pardons, too. Including for himself. ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/441 "2021-01-06T21:24:59Z")
> [@Dahnlor](#): > > DC has its own National Guard, controlled by the White House. Sort of. The District of Columbia has its own National Guard, which doesn’t report directly to the White House. However, as D.C. is a special Federal district, it requires Presidential authorization to mobilize them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770.md?page=21) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770.md?page=23)