# January 6th Hearing-Adjacent Discussion Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [July 12, 2022, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829 "2022-07-12T16:20:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![gnarator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gnarator/32/8266_2.png) [@gnarator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnarator)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829/381 "2022-08-19T16:27:58Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > Reminds me of what I most often think when people say, “With all due respect…” 😉 Yeah, I got an email reply with that phrase the other day. I thought it was kind of funny, but my coworkers (cc’d on the email) were outraged. ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2022, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829/382 "2022-08-19T17:49:00Z")
I guess it just tells you how much respect the sender feels you are due! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/son_of_a_rich/32/5439_2.png) [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Son_of_a_Rich)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829/383 "2022-08-20T00:03:57Z")
Could have been worse. Could have been “regards”. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829/384 "2022-08-20T12:08:12Z")
What’s wrong with ‘regards’? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829/385 "2022-08-20T12:27:59Z")
'… Regards, Shodan’ (I am assuming. Sounded like an inside joke to me.) ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829/386 "2022-08-20T14:06:28Z")
> [@enipla](#): > > What’s wrong with ‘regards’? I’ve asked the same thing. Another poster said Shodan explained it was a gesture of contempt, but they never cited the post. ---
**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:** [August 20, 2022, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829/387 "2022-08-20T14:58:44Z")
I’m not going to go back and dig through 20 years of **Shodan** ’s posts, but yes, he did admit in at least one post that “Regards” meant “Fuck you.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2022, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829/388 "2022-08-20T15:08:54Z")
Nothing to it: > [@Re: Regards, Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-regards-shodan/474699/13): > > The sign off is part of it. Sometimes it means exactly what it says, Sometimes it means “Fuck you”. > > Sometimes it is a reminder to myself that it is just a message board. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2022, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829/389 "2022-08-21T01:50:31Z")
So it’s sort of like “Bless your heart.” ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2022, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829/390 "2022-08-21T03:36:23Z")
It’s like, “Good day sir!” You don’t really want them to have a good day. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829/391 "2022-08-22T13:41:49Z")
🤷‍♂️ I never saw it as an insult at all. I use it in all of my email responses to the general public from work. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829/392 "2022-08-22T13:59:24Z")
But I’ll bet you’ve never used “Regards” right after telling someone how useless and stupid they are. (After you sign off like that, tell everyone that you’ve been meaning “Fuck you” for years. See how that goes.) So it’s not the word, it’s how you use it. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2022, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829/393 "2022-08-22T14:26:09Z")
> [@digs](#): > > So it’s not the word, it’s how you use it. Yeah, I’ve thought about using ‘Best Regards’ but I don’t know these people from Adam. I guess I could just use a simple ‘Thank You’ but that bristles me to be honest. I’m helping them. If it’s someone helping me, I always use Thanks or Thank You. ---
**Author:** ![Temporary\_Name](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Temporary\_Name](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Temporary_Name)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2022, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829/394 "2022-08-25T03:04:04Z")
September is only a week away, I do not know when the House is set to reconvene, but it must be fairly soon, yes? Is there any word on when the next hearing will be? What it will focus upon? Who will testify if anyone? If interviews and investigations are still on going?? Just before Liz Cheney officially lost the primary, in an interview she said work was still proceeding with the January 6th Committee. I have heard nothing, no detail, not even a hint for quite a while. no one seems to even be covering the Committee anymore. Any word if they can make a connection between Jan. 6th and the documents in Florida? They probably have no business in that pond, but would love to see them address that issue also. ---
**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:** [August 25, 2022, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829/395 "2022-08-25T03:14:31Z")
> [@Temporary\_Name](#): > > They probably have no business in that pond, but would love to see them address that issue also. Two possible (tenuous) connections come to mind: 1. Jan 6 as a step in a series of attempts to overturn the election, leaving time only for a chaotic and hasty Trump exit from the White House, giving him opportunities to get away with crap like this; 2. Trump’s frame of mind continuing, even until today, to be that he IS in some sense still President, and can do what he pleases with sensitive government documents (even thought this wasn’t entirely true even when he WAS President). Enough to be mentioned in Part II, but not, I think, to be a focus of a full day or more. (The Georgia “find me 18,000 votes” felony is more a propos, and I think will be revisited with more attention than the Mar-a-Lago classified documents). ---
**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:** [August 25, 2022, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829/396 "2022-08-25T12:52:50Z")
the committee has been speaking to those that have some knowledge of the discussion of the 25th amendment on or after jan. 6th. they have sent investigators to denmark to watch 170 hours of video a doc crew has of roger stone. i thought using the 25th had merit as trump was and is clearly delusional. officially congress is back after labour day. maybe last couple of week of september? ---
**Author:** ![Dahnlor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dahnlor/32/533_2.png) [@Dahnlor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dahnlor)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2022, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829/397 "2022-08-25T14:46:06Z")
> [@JKellyMap](#): > > 1. Trump’s frame of mind continuing, even until today, to be that he IS in some sense still President, and can do what he pleases with sensitive government documents (even thought this wasn’t entirely true even when he WAS President). Along these lines, remember the mini-bruhaha about Trump’s passports. When Trump claimed his passports were stolen, he said two were valid and one was expired. When the FBI leaked information about his passports, they said two were expired and one was valid. So, what exactly were those three passports? Probably these: - His expired personal passport from before he was president - The diplomatic passport that is given to all former presidents - The official presidential passport that expired when he left office His claim that two of these were valid would suggest at least a nod to the conspiracies, if not his own belief, that he is still president. ---
**Author:** ![Temporary\_Name](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@Temporary\_Name](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Temporary_Name)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2022, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829/398 "2022-08-25T15:25:02Z")
Thank You. And thanks for all the updates! ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2022, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829/399 "2022-08-25T16:35:38Z")
> [@Dahnlor](#): > > So, what exactly were those three passports? One is John Barron’s. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2022, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829/400 "2022-08-26T03:28:01Z")
Gavin Mcinnes, founder of the Proud Boys, was raided by the Feds during his livestream tonight. You can see it here (the first 50 seconds are all you need to see). Apparently the stream continued for 2 hours, focused on an empty chair, before being shut off. > [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829.md?page=21)