# 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:** 60
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/1183 "2021-01-07T04:19:55Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > May have to ask the mods to change the name–Maybe Certification–The Odyssey. _Game Of Thrones2_ is starting to sound apt. Similar plot-capital city in ruins, attempted coups, exiles vowing to return… ---
**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 7, 2021, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/1184 "2021-01-07T04:20:04Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > And the house votes 303-121 against Trump. So both Houses rejected him soundly. Now onto the counting again. What’s the next state up for argument–Georgia?? - It’s a stain that it wasn’t a unanimous rejection. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/1185 "2021-01-07T04:21:59Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > Those 121 votes to reject Biden electors from Arizona represent a sizable majority of all House Republicans. There’s your future of the Republican Party. If they want to turn the US into North Korea so badly, why don’t they just move to North Korea now? Win-win. ---
**Author:** ![Morgyn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morgyn/32/3041_2.png) [@Morgyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgyn)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/1186 "2021-01-07T04:22:24Z")
Are we sure it was going to be a show trial? They put up a gallows across from the Capitol and while I’m sure they’ll say it was “just for show”, mobs get ugly. ---
**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, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/1187 "2021-01-07T04:23:40Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > And the house votes 303-121 against Trump. So both Houses rejected him soundly. Now onto the counting again. What’s the next state up for argument–Georgia?? That’s 60% of the House Republicans. ---
**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, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/1188 "2021-01-07T04:23:50Z")
> [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](#): > > May have to ask the mods to change the name–Maybe Certification–The Odyssey. Certification – Week 1 ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/1189 "2021-01-07T04:25:55Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > this _doesn’t_ include the 9/11-equivalent 3,541 deaths from Trump’s COVID which _also_ occurred today. And will continue to occur every day for the foreseeable future, well into spring. Abating only if we can get our shit together and vaccinate 70-80% of 300 million people. Every day a 9/11 equivalent 3,541 deaths of Americans. Every. Day. ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/1190 "2021-01-07T04:27:10Z")
> [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > Yeah…but they could do it in an evening if they were of a mind to. The whole process would take a while, and power would be yo-yoing back and forth. People always leave off this part: “Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office unless the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office. Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.” ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/1191 "2021-01-07T04:30:12Z")
> [@Morgyn](#): > > Are we sure it was going to be a show trial? They put up a gallows across from the Capitol and while I’m sure they’ll say it was “just for show”, mobs get ugly. “Show” refers to the theatricality and predeterminedness of the trial, not to a lack of punishment. ---
**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 7, 2021, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/1192 "2021-01-07T04:30:37Z")
I know a little about Stalin’s show trials, did they alway end in execution, I think sometime it was just exile to Siberia. But what did these fucking maroons hope to accomplish? They had to believe Trump would send in troops. Except for some maroons who thought it would be fun to walk out with a stolen podium or painting and think they would not be caught ---
**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 7, 2021, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/1193 "2021-01-07T04:31:44Z")
> [@Mike\_Mabes](#): > > But what did these fucking maroons hope to accomplish? They had to believe Trump would send in troops. - To support them, not to stop them. ---
**Author:** ![eschrodinger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschrodinger/32/122_2.png) [@eschrodinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschrodinger)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/1194 "2021-01-07T04:31:45Z")
There’s a first person account from a journalist on the Washington Post site. I apologise that it may be behind a pay wall, but it was too moving not to link to it. Made me choke up a couple of times. Inside the assault on the Capitol: Evacuating the Senate By Paul Kane > **[Inside the assault on the Capitol: Evacuating the Senate](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/reporter-senate-evacuated/2021/01/06/3e7d5456-5061-11eb-83e3-322644d82356_story.html)** > > Washington Post reporter Paul Kane was in the Senate press gallery when a pro-Trump mob invaded the U.S. Capitol. Here’s what happened next. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/1195 "2021-01-07T04:31:46Z")
> [@Mike\_Mabes](#): > > They had to believe Trump would send in troops Only to help them out. (ninja’d!) ---
**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 7, 2021, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/1196 "2021-01-07T04:32:03Z")
> [@eschrodinger](#): > > Thereupon Congress shall decide the issue, assembling within forty-eight hours for that purpose if not in session. If the Congress, within twenty-one days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall continue to discharge the same as Acting President; otherwise, the President shall resume the powers and duties of his office.” Meaning they could run out the clock with Pence in charge easily. ---
**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, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/1197 "2021-01-07T04:32:12Z")
Best post of the entire thread. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/1198 "2021-01-07T04:32:29Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > Rudy is continuing to Treason by calling Tommy Tuberville around 7pm to ask him to object to 10 states. > > However, this is Rudy… > > He dialed the wrong number and left a voice mail on a different Senator’s phone Where does Tuberville stay when he’s in town? Maybe Rudy left a message for him at the Four Seasons. I believe Rudy has that number on speed dial. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/1199 "2021-01-07T04:33:33Z")
> [@k9bfriender](#): > > Going for the insanity defense, I see. I said a few years ago I want to see Donny Two-scoops sitting in a prison cell for a long, long time. I’m okay with a looney bin as a substitute. Especially if we can get a nurse Ratched-type in charge of his care. ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2021, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/1200 "2021-01-07T04:33:42Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > I hope he’s smirking out of his other hole now. I leave this thread for half an hour and this is the first thing I see. Although that’s a visual I didn’t really need, it did make me laugh. ---
**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 7, 2021, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/1201 "2021-01-07T04:34:18Z")
of course, that had to be the plan, as if these maroons could formulate a complex plan any more than Trump could ---
**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, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/1202 "2021-01-07T04:36:10Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > Especially if we can get a nurse Ratched-type in charge of his care. He’d borrow a pack of cigarettes in order to play cards. Never intending to pay it back, of course. Then he’d break a cigarette in half, and call it a nickel. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770.md?page=59) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770.md?page=61)