# Jan 6 Hearings Follow-Along & Commentary Thread (Starts Jun 9, 2022) **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [June 9, 2022, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940 "2022-06-09T22:34:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 104
**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:** [July 21, 2022, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/2063 "2022-07-21T22:33:11Z")
I agree with both @Aspenglow and @bobot . What I’m hoping is that the J6C has a fair idea who their target audience is, and is continuously ensuring that they are delivering a compelling message _to_ that audience, and in an effective way. I can’t get past the idea that we’re The Choir. They had _us_ at ‘hello’ 😉 ---
**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:** [July 21, 2022, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/2064 "2022-07-21T22:44:33Z")
Haven’t they left the question of more hearings open? I got the distinct impression that after the firehose of information they’ve been getting that they want a little time to analyze and regroup. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/2065 "2022-07-21T22:51:23Z")
They have. I think it was Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson who said possible further proceedings in August and/or September. They will also have a hearing when they issue their final report. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Wiggler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/red_wiggler/32/13190_2.png) [@Red\_Wiggler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Wiggler)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/2066 "2022-07-21T22:58:55Z")
1. How did he respond to requests for releasing nearby National Guard units? 2. What were the circumstances behind Mike Pence assuming responsibility for finally authorizing said units instead of Trump? ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/2067 "2022-07-21T22:58:55Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > They will also have a hearing when they issue their final report. And they may issue an interim report. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/2068 "2022-07-21T23:00:03Z")
I hope they do. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/2069 "2022-07-21T23:01:30Z")
> [@susan](#): > > When I do it, it’s good clean fun. When the prez does it, it’s arguably dereliction of duty. When everyone was discussing “high crimes and misdemeanors”, and people were complaining about how ambiguous that was, I always thought that the military code of conduct could be used as a fairly reasonable standard. A commander should lead by example and, in the government, the President is the ultimate commander of all of them. If he’s telling others to tend to their duties with proper and faithful consideration, and then goes and violates that same, then he is guilty of something that even he can’t defend himself of. It’s his demand of others and is a standard that he should hold himself to. I have a fair list of executive orders that I would issue, as President, largely to lock in later presidents against corrupt behavior by stating, for the historical record, the Executive branch’s view on a few Constitutional questions in areas like this. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/2070 "2022-07-21T23:07:30Z")
> [@Aspenglow](#): > > I just heard a commentator put it well. He said he hoped that no one on the Committee tonight would refer to it as Trump “doing nothing.” In fact, ginning up an insurrection and controlling the whole thing, then standing back and letting it all burn should not be characterized as “doing nothing.” I so agree. Approaching it from the angle of someone who views the riots as evil, sure. If you’re on the side of the people who perpetrated the rioting - who were all at home, watching TV, and cheering it on - then showing that Trump was doing the same is not a very useful thing. “He’s one of us!” Is the takeaway. Likewise, if your goal is to investigate areas of law to change, then there’s no clear purpose to demonstrating that Trump was derelict in duty. He can’t be prosecuted for that and, likewise, there’s no law needed to allow Congress to impeach a President for that. They could do so, tomorrow. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2022, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/2071 "2022-07-21T23:57:16Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > It’s his demand of others and is a standard that he should hold himself to. In a normal world, sure, but in the Trumpyverse it is _always_ “You do this for me now and I’ll consider later what I’ll do for you,” with the implication _if anything._ ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2022, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/2072 "2022-07-21T23:57:56Z")
MSNBC now reporting that there will definitely be more hearings scheduled in September. Multiple additional hearings. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2022, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/2073 "2022-07-21T23:58:08Z")
More hearings in September. Witnesses arriving. ---
**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:** [July 21, 2022, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/2074 "2022-07-21T23:59:15Z")
Matt Pottinger and Sarah Matthews were just seated. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2022, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/2075 "2022-07-22T00:01:41Z")
CNN Commentator: “Consider tonight the finale of Season 1. We’ll be back with more in September.” ---
**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:** [July 22, 2022, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/2076 "2022-07-22T00:02:48Z")
Cheney in the big chair, gavel down. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/2077 "2022-07-22T00:02:50Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > “You do this for me now and I’ll consider later what I’ll do for you…” “You do this for me now and I’ll consider ~~later~~ IN TWO WEEKS what I’ll do for you…” ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/2078 "2022-07-22T00:07:20Z")
Anyone tracking Trump’s response? ---
**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:** [July 22, 2022, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/2079 "2022-07-22T00:14:33Z")
Cheney is taking no prisoners tonight. Naming names and pointing the accusing finger. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2022, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/2080 "2022-07-22T00:21:37Z")
“He chose not to act.” ---
**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:** [July 22, 2022, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/2081 "2022-07-22T00:22:21Z")
Today, seems to be taking the stance that The Big Lie was the “lie” that Mike Pence did not have the power to overturn the election. > He’s never going to let up on Pence. While I’m glad the god-bothering lickspittle didn’t try to overturn the election, I still think he deserves it. ---
**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:** [July 22, 2022, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/2082 "2022-07-22T00:26:29Z")
Did Pottinger not sleep well last night? Those are some major league dark circles under his sort of red eyes, and he has a slightly wired vibe that reminds me of the day after a sleepless night, Then again, I don’t know what his “normal” is. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940.md?page=103) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940.md?page=105)