# 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:** 31
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/603 "2021-01-06T22:46:39Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > > [@ShadowFacts](#): > > > > NO. No no no no and, again: NO. They are not “just as culpable.” False equivalence and bothsiderism MUST STOP. > > Fuck that. This isn’t bothsiderism. This is a clear observation of the reality we live in, this event is the direct result of continuing appeasement. Are they equally culpable, no, but they are responsible. The media spent 3 years avoiding using the word “lie” in relation to Trump and his toadies. Now they will avoid using the term “insurrection” or “coup” or “terrorist” and in doing so provide comfort to those responsible and air cover for the inevitable slaps on the wrists that will be given in the name of “cooling things down”. You seem to be treating the media and Democrats as the same thing, and saying things “will happen” that contradict things that have already happened–both groups have already called this insurrection and Dems are pushing right now for articles of impeachment. It’s rather weird in general to attack people for what you assume they will do, anyways. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/604 "2021-01-06T22:47:18Z")
Karl Racine is killing on PBS right now. AG for DC. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/605 "2021-01-06T22:47:54Z")
> **[Romney tells Republican colleagues 'this is what you've gotten' as Senate...](https://news.yahoo.com/romney-tells-republican-colleagues-youve-201631157.html)** > > Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) put the blame for the chaos unfolding in the Capitol on Wednesday firmly on the shoulders of his Republican colleagues: "This is what you've gotten, guys," Romney was heard yelling as "mayhem unfolded in the Senate chamber,... > Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) put the blame for the chaos unfolding in the Capitol on Wednesday firmly on the shoulders of his Republican colleagues: “This is what you’ve gotten, guys,” Romney was heard yelling as “mayhem unfolded in the Senate chamber, apparently addressing his colleagues who were leading the charge to press Mr. Trump’s false claims of a stolen election,” The New York Times reports. Nicht schlecht, Mitt. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/606 "2021-01-06T22:48:25Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > Once more, with feeling…NOT IF YOU’RE WHITE. (I know you know this. Just trying to hammer the point home.) Oh, if white leftists tried to storm the Capitol, they’d be teargassed and clubbed and pepper sprayed and Tasered and shit. Don’t you worry. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/607 "2021-01-06T22:48:43Z")
Impeachment takes as much or as little time as the House and Senate thinks it takes. ---
**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, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/608 "2021-01-06T22:49:25Z")
Oh yeah, the “party of personal responsibility” is never fucking responsible for any of their individual behaviors. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/609 "2021-01-06T22:49:36Z")
Per NBC: the woman shot earlier has died. ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/610 "2021-01-06T22:50:15Z")
According to NBC, the person who was shot had died. I’m not celebrating anyone’s death, but I’m also not mourning. ---
**Author:** ![2nd\_Law](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/f475e1/32.png) [@2nd\_Law](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2nd_Law)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/611 "2021-01-06T22:51:02Z")
MSNBC reports that the woman who was shot has died. ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/612 "2021-01-06T22:51:07Z")
Ok, that’s it. All you MAGAts have interrupted Jeopardy. Prepare to die. ---
**Author:** ![Skypist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skypist/32/169_2.png) [@Skypist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skypist)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/613 "2021-01-06T22:51:20Z")
Mitch wants Senate to return tonight and resume count. Anyone know who shot the woman? ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/614 "2021-01-06T22:52:06Z")
Am I missing something, or is this genuinely the right thing to do? Because I kinda feel like it is. ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/615 "2021-01-06T22:52:19Z")
D. C. has felony murder, right? Charge each and every one of them, including the instigators in office. ---
**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, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/616 "2021-01-06T22:52:47Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > Impeachment takes as much or as little time as the House and Senate thinks it takes. When the joint session reconvenes, no matter when and where, could an impeachment motion be introduced by a House member for the House to vote on; and if it passes, followed by a Senate vote to remove? Do they really need anything else? (Just wondering what could be done on the double-quick in this regard.) ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/617 "2021-01-06T22:52:59Z")
> [@Deeg](#): > > I could imagine that after the grief they took for the heavy-handed response to BLM over the summer that they made an explicit attempt to be gentler. Oh, that’s funny. You kill me. ---
**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, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/618 "2021-01-06T22:53:21Z")
> > > Caroline Haskins @caro1inehaskins ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/619 "2021-01-06T22:53:33Z")
If there was a left wing equivalent to this - if Trump won the election and left wing people stormed the capitol in exactly this same way - do you guys agree that the police would be shooting, gassing, and beating them, and that there would be mass arrests? There is a systemic bias in policing towards favoring right wing nutjobs. Left wing actions are brutalized, right wing actions are treated with kid gloves and even in some cases faciltiated by law enforcement. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/620 "2021-01-06T22:53:51Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Side note: Trump just unfollowed Pence on Twitter. Best piece of news all night so far, thank you. _Se non è vero, è ben trovatto._ Seen from Europe: this is crazy. And dangerous. I hope you know what you are doing… As an aside: I was in Spain on 23. February 1981, when shots fell inside the _Cortes_ (the Spanish Parliament) during the voting and swearing in of the new Prime Minister (equivalent to your President in powers, _mutatis mutandis_). So the same situation: transition of power from Suárez to Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo. The events in Whashington remind me strongly of this [events in my youth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1981_Spanish_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat_attempt) (I was 17…). There were rumours then that tanks were on the streets in Valencia (today I read: Georgia _et al_). There were, they just went back into the barracks without firing a shot. It took ages before the King spoke on TV, that stopped it (very abridged version, but this is about official school history). We had just two TV channels back then. The other channel showed, if I remember well, _ **The Bridge on the River Kwai** _. Is any channel showing that film in the USA? But you don’t even have a king! (BTW: That very same king turned out to be a tax evader, a womanizer, a big game hunter, and a bit corrupt. Never mind). Who could speak today and be listened to if (s)he tries to calm things down? I hope this was not too much of a distraction, just wanted to say: where you are today others have been before. In Spain’s case it even turned out to be mostly for the good. Didn’t it? Anyway, this thread has been great to get an overview of what is happening _chez vous_. Thank you all! Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/621 "2021-01-06T22:54:05Z")
> [@Wheelz](#): > > According to NBC, the person who was shot had died. And now the revolution has its martyr. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/622 "2021-01-06T22:54:11Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Agree 100%. I, too, am old enough to remember mass arrests. Me too, at least the tail end of them. I was 17 and still in high school in northern Virginia when the May Day 1971 protests happened in DC. They rounded up thousands of protesters. I almost went, not knowing how it was going to play out, but a friend talked me out of it at the last minute. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770.md?page=30) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770.md?page=32)