# 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:** 46
**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, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/903 "2021-01-07T01:19:43Z")
Kudos, more competent than the Capitol Police. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/904 "2021-01-07T01:23:26Z")
> [@RickJay](#): > > You remember the part in Jaws where the mayor finally has to admit the shark must be killed and the beaches closed, and he’s in shock and shaking as as gives Chief Brody permission to do it? That’s because he finally saw the shark could eat people. “_My kids_ were on that beach too!” Mayor Vaughn only got off his ass because his kids were in danger. McTurtle realized belatedly that _his_ ass was heading for a guillotine. Mob violence doesn’t get picky. ---
**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, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/905 "2021-01-07T01:23:59Z")
Did I just hear the asshole from Oklahoma say that he was giving up on the 10-day commission bullshit? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/906 "2021-01-07T01:24:08Z")
Is Langford signaling that the objections are going to be dropped? ---
**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, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/907 "2021-01-07T01:24:20Z")
Yes, you did. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/908 "2021-01-07T01:25:15Z")
I wonder if Cruz is sad or happy he’s already spoken today… ---
**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, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/909 "2021-01-07T01:25:30Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > There’s more but fair use and all that. I think anything that is a matter of public record (which would include these speeches) are not covered by copyright protections. It’s on the public record so, by definition, is public. ---
**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 7, 2021, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/910 "2021-01-07T01:25:40Z")
> [@Senegoid](#): > > In other news, by the way: Ossoff wins Georgia race; militia gathers outside Georgia capitol; Are there any kind of sore losers like republican sore fucking losers? Fuck. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/911 "2021-01-07T01:25:48Z")
Sounds like it to me…see what the next Republican Senator says… ---
**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, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/912 "2021-01-07T01:27:08Z")
Honestly, after a day like today, you’d have to have a real weird take on optics to hold this up for hours and hours. ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/913 "2021-01-07T01:31:05Z")
Washington. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/914 "2021-01-07T01:32:26Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > I went to high school with that mf, so he particularly annoys me. As a resident of North Carolina, I have to say that must have sucked. ---
**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, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/915 "2021-01-07T01:33:57Z")
Several senators had promised to object (oppose?) the certification of the election. Does anyone think they will still go there? (I am especially interested in what Senator Loeffler will do.) ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/916 "2021-01-07T01:34:00Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > I wonder if Cruz is sad or happy he’s already spoken today… He is thrilled. I’m sure he thinks that proposal for an election commission will help him be elected President in 2024. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/917 "2021-01-07T01:34:04Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > He’s out in a few days anyway. Criminal trial is much better. He still has nearly 14 days to try to ruin the republic. The house could vote articles of impeachment in five minutes and the senate vote for conviction in five more. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/918 "2021-01-07T01:37:36Z")
… and Trump to tell everyone who can stand to listen, for the rest of his life, how his impeachment was a rushed kangaroo court. I’m not sure I see the point. Plus won’t the Senate block it anyway? ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/919 "2021-01-07T01:38:25Z")
> [@Jungian\_Camisole1](#): > > 2020: Do you miss me yet? There’s a reason I’ve been saying I’m not celebrating the New Year until noon on January 20. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/920 "2021-01-07T01:38:28Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > > [@asterion](#): > > > > That’s not a power the VP has unless the President has been ruled incapacitated under the strictures of the 25th Amendment > > Is there any possibility that it was in his capacity as president of the senate to protect the capitol. Perhaps Nancy Pelosi could have done it. Otherwise I don’t understand it either. Already been covered: > [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > The Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs put out a notice that they were calling out the National Guard after speaking to Pence, Pelosi, McConnell, Schumer, and Hoyer. Nowhere did they say they spoke to Individual 1. > [@galen\_ubal](#): > > Apparently, the Secretary of Defense also has the authority to activate the DC National Guard. > “Supervision and control of D.C. National Guard was delegated by the president to the defense secretary pursuant to Executive Order 10030, 26 January 1949 with authority to designate National Military Establishment officials to administer affairs of the D.C. National Guard.” > [See the Wiki article here.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_of_Columbia_National_Guard#Unique_law) And the next sentence of that Wiki article says that SecArmy “was directed to act in all matters pertaining to the ground component”. ---
**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, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/921 "2021-01-07T01:38:44Z")
Bennett on fire is always good value. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/922 "2021-01-07T01:41:02Z")
Here’s an item I think is a bit cute: 😁 Commenter on Daily Kos says articles of impeachment should be written in Iambic Pentameter. Commenter LimeyExpatDave obliges: > [@Daily Kos commenter LimeyExpatDave](#): > > These violent acts that in this House we’ve seen, > Are those that Donald Trump did clear propose. > High crimes and misdemeanors we do deem > His acts to be. He is impeached, deposed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770.md?page=45) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770.md?page=47)