Again: we have to support the Capitol Stormers.
But we also have to acknowledge that this was all part of a plan, which we are now seeing unfolding very rapidly.
U.S. Rep. Cori Bush on Monday filed a resolution calling for the possible expulsion of more than 100 Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives, including five from Missouri, who voted against certifying results of the Nov. 3 election.
The vote against the routine certification, which followed months of false claims of election fraud by President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers including U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley, violated the U.S. Constitution and House rules and incited the Jan. 6. attack on the U.S. Capitol, Bush said.
“We have to send a clear message that this is not what our democracy is,” Bush told the Post-Dispatch on Monday before filing the resolution, her first piece of legislation. “We won’t allow it to be, and we’re stopping it in its tracks.”
Hawley, meanwhile, faces mounting criticism from Democrats, donors and former Republican allies for his vocal discrediting of the election results.
On Monday, U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-Rhode Island, said the Senate Ethics Committee “must consider the expulsion, or censure and punishment, of Sens. Cruz, Hawley, and perhaps others.”
The Senate will need to conduct security review of what happened and what went wrong, likely through Rules, Homeland and Judiciary. The Senate Ethics Committee also must consider the expulsion, or censure and punishment, of Sens. Cruz, Hawley, and perhaps others.
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) January 11, 2021
Because of massive potential conflict of interest, Sens Cruz, Hawley and Johnson (at least) need to be off all relevant committees reviewing this matter until the investigation of their role is complete.
— Sheldon Whitehouse (@SenWhitehouse) January 11, 2021
Hawley did not respond Monday to a request for comment.
Bush, D-St. Louis, first announced her resolution on Jan. 6, as a mob broke into the U.S. Capitol following a Trump rally at the White House.
For those not recalling the series of events: the Capitol Storm happened, and the Congress was vacated, and then they came back at night to hold the joint session, and most of the people who were planning on opposing it backed down.
Senators Hawley and Cruz were the only ones who held strong in the Senate, whilst a good number of House Members did.
What this Negress and others are trying to say is that these people are somehow complicit in the “attack” on the Capitol, something which Mitt Romney voiced on the night of, as The Guardian reported:
Others were undeterred. Republican senator Josh Hawley, one of the Senate leaders seeking to overturn the results, argued that the earlier violence should not dismiss his concerns that fraud had occurred during the election. Just after midnight, he joined some House Republicans in seeking to throw out Pennsylvania’s electoral slate.
For those who forged ahead with the plot, Republican senator Mitt Romney warned in a floor speech that drew sustained applause that they would “forever be seen as being complicit in an unprecedented attack against our democracy”.
So what this black bitch is saying is that these Congresspeople were all somehow part of the “attack,” which means they need to be expelled from Congress and then presumably criminally prosecuted.
Obviously, that’s very unlikely to happen, but the fact that it is being introduced as a plan should tell you just how far they are going to go with making this attack on our podiums the center issue of the entire world for months and years to come.
Again, this wasn’t like Charlottesville, because it wasn’t headed by disgusting freaks. Only a very small portion of the public supported Charlottesville, and at least half (and probably many more) of Republicans supported storming the Capitol.
However, it is like Charlottesville in that it was a spectacle created for the purpose of pushing an outrageous agenda, that is going to be used to justify things that you never would have thought were possible.
At this point, the number one thing that we can hope for is that Josh Hawley is exactly who he is presenting himself as, and instead of pushing for some idiotic “we’ll get ’em in 2024” lunatic scheme, begins to lead the push for secession.
If Hawley endorses secession, I’m behind him 100%.
If he starts talking about some 2024 nonsense, he is actually worse than useless: he’s dangerous.
So, just wait and see how that unfolds over the next weeks.
Remember: he’s from Missouri.
If he doesn’t want to spearhead the secession movement, then someone else is going to have to.
Really, we need leaders in every red state. We need to get this moving while the energy is still there.
Strike while the fire is hot, as they say.
Trump is apparently going to Texas today, so maybe Q is right and this was all part of the plan and he’s going to declare himself emperor of the New Confederate Republic of America.