# 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:** 44
**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, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/863 "2021-01-07T01:00:15Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > Crazy Rudy sounds off. Scum. No, that would be an insult to actual scum. Hmmm… ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/864 "2021-01-06T22:25:27Z")
> **[Mob Attack, Incited by Trump, Delays Election Certification (Published 2021)](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/06/us/electoral-vote)** > > Vice President Mike Pence made Joe Biden’s victory official early Thursday despite mayhem at the Capitol that delayed proceedings. President Trump said there would be an “orderly transition.” Oh and I totally called this, like months ago. I love how after election day everyone was like “Our long national nightmare is over!” and I’m over here going What are you nuts?? It will get darker before the dawn. There will be blood. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/865 "2021-01-06T23:34:43Z")
thank christ that DC has strict gun control. imagine if these fascists all had AR 15s. I’m normally kind of divided on gun control but we really needed it in this situation. ---
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/866 "2021-01-06T23:37:49Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > as Congress began debating President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. WTF, there is no “debate”! Dan ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/867 "2021-01-07T00:45:18Z")
And now a woman was killed during the insurrection. ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/868 "2021-01-07T00:56:37Z")
Keep up > [@6 January 2021; A Day worth a Thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770): > > I’m starting this now so it is in place (it is 10:30pm Central, 11:30pm Eastern as I type this) when the day dawns. I know we have more than a few threads, but IMHO January 6th is going to be a day of such consequence that it deserves to be remembered by it’s own stand-alone thread. I mean, tomorrow: a. Should bring about a final result in the Georgia Senate Races, and if…if…they go Democratic, there will be loud and vociferous reaction. b. An unknown number of Proud Boys and other reaction… ---
**Author:** ![raventhief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/raventhief/32/4_2.png) [@raventhief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raventhief)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/869 "2021-01-07T01:00:02Z")
_ **Moderating** _ Since there’s already a thread on this, I’ll merge this into that one. ---
**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 7, 2021, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/870 "2021-01-07T01:01:14Z")
That’s evidence of conspiracy (to commit any number of things), which is pretty serious offense. I hope the feds lock them up and throw away the goddamn key. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/871 "2021-01-07T01:04:19Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > thank christ that DC has strict gun control. > > imagine if these fascists all had AR 15s. I’m sure virtually all of them are from outside DC, and brought any weapons they have with them. DC laws could provide cause to charge them, but they wouldn’t have affected having them. ---
**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, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/872 "2021-01-07T01:04:42Z")
Why on earth, why, would you tell a mentally unstable person what you are planning to do? You just do it, you don’t give them warning. You do it and get out of town. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/873 "2021-01-07T01:06:37Z")
> [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](#): > > Republican Sen. Richard Burr: “The President bears responsibility for today’s events by promoting the unfounded conspiracy theories that have led to this point.” > > [https://twitter.com/dnvolz/status/1346968321124675585](https://twitter.com/dnvolz/status/1346968321124675585) Even a stopped click is right once a day, I guess. I went to high school with that mf, so he particularly annoys me. ---
**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 7, 2021, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/874 "2021-01-07T01:07:19Z")
There’s been a really strong force for everyone to pretend things are normal, that we didn’t just go down the fucking crazy hole because we like the way racist senile grandpa “tells it how it is” (hates the same thing I hate) and that this is just a slight deviation from normal. The media has always bent over backwards to excuse his evils and his incompetence and to make him seem more presidential and more normal than he was. And now these people who were in denial saw the exactly expected and predicted things that he basically told us all along he’d do and act shocked. Bullshit. I can’t tell if they’re stupid, in denial, or have some sort of agenda in acting this way. ---
**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, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/875 "2021-01-07T01:08:15Z")
And we are back in the senate. ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/876 "2021-01-07T01:08:21Z")
Wow, Pence is actually capable of speaking with some sort of emotion. Who knew? ---
**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 7, 2021, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/877 "2021-01-07T01:09:19Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Not enough time for that. Is there a procedural rule that says impeachment has to be drawn out and long? It seems like if everyone is on board, they could do it in a day. File the paperwork, vote on the impeachment, vote on the conviction, done. Even if it somehow can’t, it should still be pursued as a message that this is intolerable and that the US Congress emphatically rejects what’s happening here. Even if the conviction is after he leaves office, it still bars him from serving in the future. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/878 "2021-01-07T01:09:50Z")
Pence is a fucking nightmare, but if it wasn’t his toady hypocritical self giving it, that would have been a great speech. ---
**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, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/879 "2021-01-07T01:10:32Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > Wow, Pence is actually capable of speaking with some sort of emotion. Who knew? His speech writer earned his pay today (not dissing Pence on that count…they all have speech writers). ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/880 "2021-01-07T01:11:15Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > Not enough time for that. > > Much better to arrest him and charge him in a criminal trial anyway. > > Or maybe, as commander in chief of the armed forced he is eligible to be court-martialed. The only thing that can be done to a sitting president is to impeach him. Under DOJ rules, he can’t be charged with a crime while in office, and though he is CinC, he’s still a civilian and not subject to UCMJ or court-martial. An impeachment could be concluded in hours if the Congress were so inclined. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/881 "2021-01-07T01:11:16Z")
Why was my thread closed? I looked for any other threads on the subject before I posted mine. This thread is from before the event, bwhich after 800 posts self-hijacked to the subject. Is merging to a thread with 879+ comments supposed to keep the subject focused? Because it seems to me to just swallow it up. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/882 "2021-01-07T01:11:20Z")
Man, exact same comment only about McConnell this time. His voice is shaking. Maybe he’s finally found what remains of his soul. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770.md?page=43) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770.md?page=45)