# 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:** 41
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/803 "2021-01-07T00:27:18Z")
> [@Deeg](#): > > McConnell wanted it moved to a secret location. A bunker? ---
**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 7, 2021, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/804 "2021-01-07T00:27:18Z")
> [@Deeg](#): > > Ah, thanks for the info. I thought I had read that McConnell wanted it moved to a secret location. They were in secret locations while deciding how to proceed. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/805 "2021-01-07T00:27:41Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > News flash: we do not know what the fuck we are doing. Disagree. We know exactly what we’re doing, we’re just fucking rotten to the core. Even the “good guys” are too self interested to actually do what needs to be done to steer the car back into the vicinity of the road. ---
**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 7, 2021, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/806 "2021-01-07T00:27:46Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > reading the Constitutional language, it seems to me that an argument could be made that they have to certify in the House building. If they can get it clean enough, sidestepping any argument of that sort seems worth doing. > > > §15. Congress shall be in session on the sixth day of January succeeding every meeting of the electors. The Senate and House of Representatives shall meet in the Hall of the House of Representatives I would say that the Hall of the House of Representatives can be wherever the speaker of the house gavels in a quorum. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/807 "2021-01-07T00:28:04Z")
Ya know, without a link or a quote box I thought maybe, just maybe, you were funnin’ with us… Nope! OMFG 🙀 > ---
**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 7, 2021, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/808 "2021-01-07T00:28:54Z")
Going for the insanity defense, I see. ---
**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 7, 2021, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/809 "2021-01-07T00:29:21Z")
With due respect for the local sensibilities in these curious times but Twitter suspending an account would seem to a rather millennial response to a crisis, bit like myself threatening to confiscate a truant child’s iPhone. When do the adults blow the whistle? … and who would these adult people be anyway? ---
**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 7, 2021, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/810 "2021-01-07T00:29:34Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > How many MAGA people are running around the capitol? It only seems a few hundreds or low thousands. And whether or not they’ll be out in stronger force tomorrow. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/811 "2021-01-07T00:30:41Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > I would say that the Hall of the House of Representatives can be wherever the speaker of the house gavels in a quorum. I would say that that’s quite a good argument, and that it seems unlikely that the intention was to make it impossible to certify an election if one specific building wasn’t available for the purpose. But I’d be just as pleased not to hear other people arguing about it. And I bet some of them would. ---
**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 7, 2021, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/812 "2021-01-07T00:30:47Z")
Well, the rioters have triggered a new low. Boris Johnson–Boris Johnson!–has called them “disgraceful”. They must get bonus points for that. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/813 "2021-01-07T00:31:02Z")
> [@Mike\_Mabes](#): > > Can someone drive himself mad? Trump was crazy enough a few months ago, but with his constant obession about losing could that cause him to go clinically insane? I think usually one goes insane and then starts rambling nonsense With enough sleep deprivation and enough drugs? sure ---
**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 7, 2021, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/814 "2021-01-07T00:32:04Z")
And Recep Erdogan is using language that the US usually uses when condemning violence in other countries. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/815 "2021-01-07T00:32:08Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > reading the Constitutional language, it seems to me that an argument could be made that they have to certify in the House building. I No, since that building didnt even exist when the Constitution was ratified. ---
**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 7, 2021, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/816 "2021-01-07T00:32:18Z")
CNN: Melania Trump’s chief of staff has submitted her resignation. ---
**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 7, 2021, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/817 "2021-01-07T00:32:36Z")
Melania’s chief of staff, Stephanie Grisham, has resigned effective immediately, saying it is the result of what happened today. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/818 "2021-01-07T00:33:23Z")
It appears that Pence is the one who called out the DC National Guard. For once, his statements didn’t mention Trump. Plus, Melania Trump’s chief of staff just resigned - because of the riot. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/819 "2021-01-07T00:33:37Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Anyone expect deaths from/in the mob today? So only one death. I’m a little surprised. ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/820 "2021-01-07T00:34:13Z")
> [@Mike\_Mabes](#): > > Can someone drive himself mad? Trump was crazy enough a few months ago, but with his constant obession about losing could that cause him to go clinically insane? Trump is a text book example of a [malignant narcissist](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malignant_narcissism). Narcissists, when faced with failure, generally dive deeper into their narcissism building ever more walls and lashing out even more aggressively to maintain and protect their self-image. They will never acknowledge their flaws. Introspection is not something they do. So has Trump gone mad now or was he always mad and is just doubling-down? ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/821 "2021-01-07T00:34:44Z")
Dan Amira, Daily Show: “Can’t believe the creators of the monster have lost control of the monster, is there any precedent for this in books or film” > ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/822 "2021-01-07T00:35:01Z")
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