WASHINGTON, D.C.— Today, Congresswoman Elaine Luria issued the following statement after returning to the House floor to vote to certify President-Elect Joe Biden’s electoral college victory.
“Tonight, I will return to the House floor to fulfill my duty and oath to our Constitution by certifying the electoral college victory of President-Elect Joe Biden. The domestic terrorists who stormed the Capitol today will not prevent the continuation of our democracy. Free and fair elections are the foundation of our government and, with that in mind, the House of Representatives will resume its work on behalf of the people.”
Michael says
Joe Biden.can you hear me ? .these are my and most of America thoughts.Oh my God,hear my prayers ,in these last year’s we have Democrats And Biden Steal our Country .How ? . How. Does a crook proven, a Traitor to America proven over 47 years.and a child molester.proven .. On every video he’s with a child. A China owned man if you can call him 1 I wouldn’t.How ???? In America Can we let this go on.
Paul Plante says
I seriously doubt that Joe Biden hears you, Michael, and if he does, with that comment, you have just been relegated to the category of “dregs of society” or placed not gently in the “Basket of Deplorables” min America which is everybody who isn’t registered as a Democrat.
And Micheal, educate yourself, dude – this **** is nothing new.
Check out these political cartoons from the 1800s and you will see what I mean since a picture mis worth a thousand words:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall#/media/File:Nast-Tammany_crop.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall#/media/File:Tammany_Ring,_Nast_crop.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall#/media/File:Rogers,_W._A._(William_Allen),_Rogers_A_Cinch_1893_Cornell_CUL_PJM_1112_01.jpg
Catherine Nottingham says
To answer your question Michael… I will never let it go. ..
Steal our election. silence our voice, eliminate our communications, set us up at the capital, 2nd BS impeachment (debunked a day later)…. and lie lie lie about it all.
They keep kicking and kicking us…. How could it get any better? It will not.
THE LEFT’S GOAL IS TO DESTROY US ….
I have never had “a cause” except for own business success…
This is now “my cause”. I don’t care if I lose friends …
They are too ignorant, evil or both to worry about.
Stuart Bell says
Hear!! Hear!!!
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late,
With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy — willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.
Their voices were even and low.
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd.
It was not taught by the state.
No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.
It was not suddenly bred.
It will not swiftly abate.
Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate.
Paul Plante says
OH, WHAT A BUNCH OF PURE BULL****!
Pure hyperbole!
“Tonight, I will return to the House floor to fulfill my duty and oath to our Constitution by certifying the electoral college victory of President-Elect Joe Biden.”
Electoral college victory?
Horsecrap!
She didn’t fulfill any oath to the Constitution, and she must be an uninformed idiot if she thinks she did, and she must further think we are a bunch of morons if she thinks we think she fulfilled any kind of oath to the Constitution.
Between the Democrats and Republicans and their lackeys on the supreme court, the electoral college has been rendered into nothing more than a sick joke on WE, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE who aren’t Democrats or Republicans.
Congresswoman Luria fulfilled her oath as a Pelosi Democrat to keep our presidential elections CORRUPT!
And then she wheels off into outer space with this gem: “The domestic terrorists who stormed the Capitol today will not prevent the continuation of our democracy.”
Sure, okay, Congresswoman, but if you had ever bothered to actually read the Constitution and our history all the various times you took an oath to it, you would know that we are supposed to have a REPUBLIC, not a “democracy,” which is the moist unstable and corrupt form of government that there is on earth.
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the REPUBLIC for which it stands!”
Except thanks to sell-outs like Democrat Luria, the flag no longer stands for anything, starting with our REPUBLIC, which has been replaced with her “democracy,” another name for totally corrupt government.
And then she wheels off even further into outer space with this: “Free and fair elections are the foundation of our government and, with that in mind, the House of Representatives will resume its work on behalf of the people.”
If free and fair elections are really the foundation of our government, then why don’t we have free and fair elections in this country?
And please don’t tell us this FARCE was a “free and fair” election when it was anything but.
And what a horse**** statement this is: “the House of Representatives will resume its work on behalf of the people.”
Yeah, right, congresswoman – except the house of representatives does not work on behalf of the people – it works on behalf of faction.
Does she write this sophomoric bull**** and tripe herself?
Or does she pay out big bucks to have some high-priced speech writer write the bull**** for her?
MJM says
The democrat party has poven that they believe in the chaos theory of management while stability of America is one of our absolute strengths. So I do not see how they can be the answer with the way that they go about things. They seek no positives. Everything is a problem and a negative. It’s all someone’s fault while they state zero solutions and demonstrate none. I have no idea where they will really go with this, but I see it getting worse. Perfect example ? We need continuity of overnment, so we do need to support the president and certify the electoral vote. At the same time, for so few of “our leaders” to question the integrity of this vote and all of the problems that created it? THAT may be one of the worst problems that D.C. has ever created for this country. There are an awful lot of players in That Swamp that have created a horrible situation, and they are using the pandemic and any dirty trick they can to simply keep driving us farther into the muck. Elaine Luris, like the rest of those dirty players, did her duty and certified the vote, but when she went to work that day she forgot to close the bathroom door behind her just like so very many of her compadres. In doing so, we are able to see all the dirty business that is really going on, and they didn’t even bother to wipe themselves. DISGUSTING is apropos at this time.
Scotiagirl says
As an immigrant and a “come here”, Scotiagirl has actually READ the Constitution unlike “Congressperson Luria” it seems. Well, Eastern Shore, you got what you voted for when you decided at the polls to be “represented” by Lurua.
Paul Plante says
As an immigrant, most likely you were required to actually read the Constitution and know it and understand it.
Elaine Luria was born here, so she can go through her whole life dog-stupid and never bother to read the document or know what is in there.
And with respect to what congresswoman Luria calls “our democracy,” here context and history are all important, and we have to understand that she is talking about the democracy of a class of people in America, not a democracy of the American peoplethe American people.
Her “democracy” comes to us from Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, not any of our so-called “founders,” who rejected democracy and instead gave us a REPUBLIC, which no longer stands, and has not for some long time now.
When I was young, WWII was just over, but while the war itself was over, the struggle, which was between what was called “fascism” and communism, and fascism was not only the Nazis, and in fact, goes back to the Romans.
The first fascist country in the run-up to WWII was in fact Italy, ruled by Benito Mussolini (Il Duce), not Germany.
Hungary had the radical Arrow Cross Party, and Romania had the Iron Guard.
Even Australia had a fascist movement with the New Guard which was founded in Sydney in 1931 and was was pro-Monarchy and anti-Communist and was led by World War I veteran Eric Campbell.
Look at the dates, and focus on the words “anti-Communist.”
So we are looking at a struggle by the Communists for control that has been going on for over 90 years now, since the Russian Revolution, although it actually goes back in time before that in Europe, and when I was young, we were told that in our lifetimes, we would see the struggle being played out over here, as this would be the new battleground, and so it is, although most people don’t realize that, because it is not a battle being fought with bullets and tanks, at least right now – to the contrary, it is a battle fought with ideas.
And that takes us back to the 1800’s and Marx and Engels, which is where this “democracy” of Elaine Luria’s comes from.
Consider that dictatorship for Marx and Engels was not the rule of one man as in the Roman republic, nor was it rule by a group of revolutionary leaders over a mass of uncultivated people, as in the French revolutionary case.
Rather, it is the rule of the oppressed majority of people, sufficiently aware of their oppression to want to change the existing state of affairs.
So, who is the “oppressed majority” of the people in this case?
Congresswoman Luria would have us believe it is all the people who voted for “Corn Pop” Biden to be their savior, and yes, their dictator.
Getting back to Marx, who is the godhead here for the Marxists who use the Democrat party as their stalking horse, the way for the oppressed majority of people to become sufficiently aware of their oppression to want to change the existing state of affairs where it is absent is through democratic political activism and the attempt to develop the political character of class struggle, which is where Saul Alinsky and Barack Hussein Obama and BLACK LIVES MATTER come into the picture as “community organizers” so that they can develop the political character of class struggle which we in fact are witnessing today here in the United States, as the Marxists get ready to celebrate their victory on 20 January 2021 when “Corn Pop” Biden is sworn in as president.
To get an idea of who the “oppressed” really are in the minds of the Marxist Democrats, think back to 9 July 2019 and house speaker Nancy Pelosi saying Trump wanted to add a citizenship question to the census because he wanted to ‘make America white again.’
Getting back to what Marxists really believe, for them, Marx and Engels’s conception of dictatorship has a profound democratic character, in line with the traditional understanding of democracy as rule by the people.
Rule by the people!
That is the “democracy” of Elaine Luria and the Democrats.
The “oppressed people” of America wanted “Corn Pop” Biden as their leader, and so the will of the people must be obeyed.
Getting back to Marx and democracy, for Marx, democracy as a decision-making mechanism remains crucial even after the state has withered away.
Democracy takes a more deliberative and less antagonistic form, and is an integral part of the ways in which collective decisions are made, but it is a kind of democracy that no longer needs the state and resembles more the democratic ideal of the ancients like the Greeks.
With respect to the utopia promised to the “oppressed” by Marxist community organizers like Hussein Obama, whose protege is now on his way to the White House, the Marxist democracy is a form of decision-making where the personal and the communal interest of the individual support each other rather than pulling apart, and where the social nature of human beings prevails over their unsociable one.
It is a form of democracy that succeeds in delivering the wisdom of the multitude championed by Aristotle, but in a context in which the material or power-related objections to that ideal that Plato or Hobbes highlighted no longer apply.
Now, given that those words were written in the middle of the 1800’s, and notwithstanding that that democracy has never existed except in the fevered minds of committed Marxists, that is the democracy that Elaine Luria and the Democrats and BLACK LIVES MATTER are going to bring to America with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
Getting back to the godhead, Marx applauded many of the measures adopted by the Paris communards as channelling true popular rule: the progressive dissolution of state bureaucracy, the attempt to reduce the role of experts (or what we would call nowadays technocrats) in making political decisions, the abolition of the professional army and its substitution by a citizen militia, the revocability of administrative and judicial roles and positions, and the more general progressive transformation of representative democracy into direct popular rule.
As to the Paris Commune, it was a radical socialist, anti-religious, and revolutionary government that ruled Paris from 18 March to 28 May 1871 as the Franco-Prussian War had led to the capture of Emperor Napoleon III in September 1870, and the collapse of the Second French Empire, and the beginning of the Third Republic.
Because Paris was under siege for four months, the Third Republic moved its capital to Tours.
A hotbed of working-class radicalism, Paris was primarily defended during this time by the radical troops of the National Guard rather than regular Army troops.
Paris surrendered to the Prussians on 28 January 1871, and in February Adolphe Thiers, the new chief executive of the French national government, signed an armistice with Prussia that disarmed the Army but not the National Guard.
On 18 March, soldiers of the Commune’s National Guard killed two French army generals, and the Commune refused to accept the authority of the French government.
The Commune governed Paris for two months, until it was suppressed by the regular French Army during “La semaine sanglante” (“The Bloody Week”) beginning on 21 May 1871.
Debates over the policies and outcome of the Commune had significant influence on the ideas of Karl Marx, who described it as the first example of the “dictatorship of the proletariat”.
So when people like Barack Obama and Elaine Luria and Charley “Chuck” Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and “Corn Pop” Biden talk about their “democracy,” that is the “democracy” they are referring to, the “democracy” of the Paris commune that Marx, their founding father and godhead, was praising.
And that brings us to this, which is quite important in the wake of this “riot,” and the police state under “Corn Pop” Biden that is soon to follow: during this transformation of the representative democracy in this country into direct popular rule, it is clear to them that the dictatorship of the proletariat relies on the coercive power of the state to realise its goals.
So right now, for them, gaining control of the coercive power of the state is what it is all about, and on 20 January 2021, for them, that goal will have been accomplished, and this riot then gives them the excuse to use that coercive power harshly and relentlessly against their class enemies, which is all of us who don’t cleave to the standard of “Corn Pop” Biden and the Democrat party.
For those who don’t believe it could happen here, they are naive and uninformed, because it has happened here before, the use of the coercive power of the “state” by a faction to suppress those they consider a threat to them.
Recall that the summer of 1798 was considered by the John Adams administration to be a period of national emergency and criticism was considered so dangerous as to be tantamount to treason.
There is where we are headed back to, thanks to this “riot,” which hands “Corn Pop” Biden the national emergency he needs to conduct a massive clamp-down where once again, criticism will be considered so dangerous as to be tantamount to treason against the democracy the Democrats are going to be ushering in when “Corn Pop” becomes president.
Back then, the Federalists claimed the right to enact a federal Sedition Law on the grounds that the First Amendment had never protected the licentiousness of the press, that seditious libel was naturally not protected under the amendment, and it seemed eminently clear to them that particularly during a national emergency, criticism of government policies and men could not be tolerated.
For the general welfare and security of the Republic, it was not only constitutionally valid, but imperative to act.
Its original form, as proposed by General James Lloyd of Maryland, it was called “A Bill to define more particularly the crime of Treason, and to define and punish the crime of Sedition.”
The third section forbade criticism of any measure of the United States and expressions against any public officer which would damage his character.
The fourth section added that any material which tended “to induce a belief in the citizens” that the government “in enacting any law, was induced so to do by motives hostile to the constitution,” or any defamation of the President or any court, would result in a fine and an imprisonment.
So we have been here before.
The question before us now is whether or not Elaine Luria and the Democrats un der “Corn Po9p” Biden are going to take us back to there again, when they gain control of the coercive power of the “state” come 20 January.
Lifelong says
Wow! I mean you nailed it! Write a book! Truthfully!
Paul Plante says
How the Democrats conduct “free and fair” elections here in the United States pf America:
http://www.nysm.nysed.gov/fifteenth-amendment/activity-3
Paul Plante says
“TILDEN OR BLOOD” say the Democrats:
https://www.harpweek.com/09Cartoon/BrowseByDateCartoon.asp?Month=January&Date=27
MJM says
and shortly after Thomas Nast used Harper’s to deal with such a contested election in this manner, he was able to use his energy and creativity to give the world perhaps the greatest cartoon character of all time. Kris Kringle. Merry Christmas everyone ? Let us all hope the best is yet to come from our current debacle.
Paul Plante says
An American Pledge of Allegiance:
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands.”
A Democrat Pledge of Allegiance:
“I pledge allegiance to the banner of Nancy Pelosi and to the corrupt democracy for which it stands!”
Paul Plante says
And as the tyranny (cruel and oppressive government or rule) and despotism (the exercise of absolute power, especially in a cruel and oppressive way; a country or political system where the ruler holds absolute power) of the Democrat party descends down on us like the IRON CURTAIN descending on Hungary back in 1956, let’s go back for the moment to Congresswoman Luria’s statement about the the “House of Representatives will resume its work on behalf of the people,” which is a BULL**** statement, because the House of Representatives under Nancy Pelosi does not work on behalf of the people, it works on behalf of a minority of the American people, to see what this “work” really looks like in real life, let’s go to an Associated Press article entitled “Democrats tighten control with House rules changes” on January 4, 2021, where we have as follows:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats controlling the House moved aggressively Monday to tighten their hold over the chamber despite their narrow margin, ramming through a rules package that limits the potential for embarrassing votes and caters to the party’s progressive wing by weakening deficit-neutrality requirements for legislation such as a “Green New Deal.”
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“Aggressively” is defined as “in a manner resulting from or betraying aggression,” or “in a determined and forceful way.”
And who does this Democrat aggression benefit?
The party’s “progressive wing” is who, given that the “rules package” rammed through by Pelosi and her allies such as Congresswoman Luria.
And who is the party’s progressive wing?
If you answered Rep. Elaine Luria of Virginia, Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, Rep. Mark Pocan of Wisconsin, Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Sen. Jeff Merkley of Oregon, Bernie Sanders, and Elizabeth Warren, you would win the prize!
And how does catering to the progressive wing benefit the progressive wing at our expense?
It does it by weakening deficit-neutrality requirements for legislation such as a “Green New Deal,” or said the way it really needs to be said, it opens up OUR treasury to people like AOC and her pack to loot to their hearts content as if this were really some third-world ****hole like Venezuela.
It makes OUR treasury into their piggy bank, is what it does.
Getting back to that article, it continues as follows:
In Democratic control, House is a key asset for President-elect Joe Biden’s agenda, regardless of whether his party wins the Senate after Tuesday’s pair of runoff elections in Georgia.
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Yes, indeed, people, the House of Representatives under Nancy Pelosi and Elaine Luria is a KEY ASSET
(a resource with economic value that an individual owns or controls with the expectation that it will provide a future benefit) to “Corn Pop” Biden because it will be for him a rubberstamp (an organization that gives automatic approval or authorization to the decisions of others, without proper consideration).
And getting back to that article once again, we have:
Understanding the bundle of changes requires a dive into the arcane world of House rules and parliamentary maneuvering.
The Democratic-imposed rules continue a years-long trend of eroding the powers of the House minority through revisions enacted every two years.
Of particular concern now to Republicans are two changes: A plan to weaken GOP opportunities for end-stage amendments to bills, and a move to weaken “pay-as-you-go” rules that make it more difficult to pass legislation bloating the federal deficit.
Republicans said the hodge-podge of changes is designed to muzzle their party.
“It is all designed to take away the voice of 48 percent of this House chamber,” said Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La.
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Keeping in mind that as of today, our National Debt is now more than $27 Trillion, and the national government has no money of its own, having to borrow what it spends, that is the “people’s bidness” that Elaine Luria is backing – allowing AOC and her “squad” access to OUR treasury so they can turn the United States of America into another Weimar Republic or Venezuela.
Paul Plante says
So we can see that the “democracy” of Elaine Luria and Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats is really a closed society – a very one sided deal that is good for them, but for nobody else.
And instead of distracting us, Congresswoman Luria should be explaining to us in detail where the money to pay for AOC’s socialistic GREEN NEW DEAL is going to come from.
Louise Trader Johnson says
Luria is Pelosi’s puppet…useless.
Paul Plante says
And while we are on this subject of what Congresswoman Luria is calling “the people’s business” that she and Nancy Pelosi are conducting down there in the foetid, pestilential, miasmic and putrid swamp known as Washington, D.C., the “Ten Miles Square,” let us go to an OpenSecrets article entitled “Prolific fundraising gives Pelosi the edge in speaker election” by Karl Evers-Hillstrom on November 16, 2020, to take an up-close, in-depth look at what that business Congresswoman Luria and her boss Nancy Pelosi are engaged in full time looks like in real life, as opposed to the hype in a Luria press release, to wit:
Still, amid turmoil within her caucus, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is not expected to face opposition when Democrats choose their leaders this week.
Many Democrats have tried, and failed, to challenge Pelosi for the role of top House Democrat.
The lack of a challenger this time around signals that while House Democrats are stung by their 2020 losses, the caucus isn’t strong or united enough to choose a new leader.
Then there’s Pelosi’s ability to bring in campaign cash.
No other Democrat can say they’ve mustered anything close to the amount of money Pelosi raised for the party in 2020.
That matters in an era where positions of power in Congress — whether they’re leadership roles or committee assignments — come at a price.
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And WHOA, mule, stop right there!
Let’s scroll back up a bit to this: positions of power in Congress — whether they’re leadership roles or committee assignments — come at a price.
HMMMMMMM!
So, if that is true, and we all know it is, and Congresswoman Luria holds committee assignments, then how did she get them?
Did she have to buy them from Nancy Pelosi?
Getting back to that article, let’s explore that question a bit further:
Pelosi’s joint fundraising committee, the Nancy Pelosi Victory Fund, raised a whopping $23.7 million through September 2020, up from $3.7 million through the entirety of the 2018 cycle.
It transferred $20 million to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, House Democrats’ campaign arm.
Pelosi’s campaign committee transferred another $1.6 million to the DCCC.
Then there’s Pelosi’s leadership PAC, PAC to the Future, which contributed the maximum $10,000 to nearly every House Democrat running in a remotely competitive race.
Those are just committees with Pelosi’s name on them.
Pelosi also hosted numerous high-dollar fundraisers that brought in millions of dollars for Democrats, including a June event for wealthy donors featuring celebrities including John Legend and Jennifer Lawrence.
The committee for the event, Hold the House Victory Fund, raised $7.5 million for the DCCC and 30 frontline House members.
Other House Democrats in leadership positions raise big money for the DCCC but they aren’t close to Pelosi.
House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), House Democratic Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) each gave around $1 million between their campaigns and leadership PACs.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who oversaw impeachment inquiries as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, sent roughly $900,000 to the DCCC.
Schiff used his elevated profile to raise $10 million from small donors in the 2020 cycle, an incredible amount for a Democrat in a deep blue district.
Members of Congress are expected to pay “party dues” if they want to remain on their preferred congressional committees.
Any member angling to become chair of a committee must bring in significant funds, and they are expected to raise even more money once they become chair.
That encourages committee chairs to take large PAC contributions from industry players aiming to gain influence with the committee on key issues.
Some members gain cache within their caucus by spending hours calling wealthy donors and asking them to donate to the party, activity that doesn’t have a paper trail like direct campaign contributions.
Often called “dialing for dollars,” the practice has received criticism for effectively turning lawmakers into telemarketers.
In a 2019 report by Issue One, former Rep. Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.) called the party dues practice “virtual extortion.”
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That, people, is what the “people’s business” in Washington really looks like – but it is the business of those people with the money to buy up people like Nancy Pelosi and Elaine Luria.
No wonder there is such a stench emanating from that ****hole!
Paul Plante says
The only difference between Nancy Pelosi and the working girls on Dupont Circle is in what they are selling access to:
Charlotte Observer
“Embattled Pelosi’s big survival weapon: Money”
by Anshu Siripurapu on June 23, 2017
Here’s a huge reason Nancy Pelosi maintains her iron grip on House Democrats, even after another bruising – and in many party circles embarrassing – election loss: Her ability to raise lots and lots of money.
The House Democratic Leader has few current peers when it comes to pumping money into colleagues’ campaigns.
No other potential up-and-coming Democratic challenger to her leadership comes close.
Since 1990, she’s raised more than $9.2 million for party candidates, including $739,000 in the 2016 election cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks contributions from candidate committees and affiliated PACs.
Pelosi’s office claims even loftier triumphs, saying she’s raised more than $500 million for Democrats since entering the party leadership in the early 2000s, including $141.5 million in the 2015-2016 cycle.
They explain their totals includes money raised for the party not directly controlled by her committees.
Big donors to the party’s congressional campaign committee were also available to Pelosi through her “Speaker’s Cabinet” program, which gave them special access to the Democratic leader.
Paul Plante says
And in the meantime, if we look at the CNN (Cuomo New Network) headlines today, we can clearly see that Nancy Pelosi and her raving pack of Democrats who impeached Trump for “insurrection” have got a real serious problem, because the FBI is calling it what it actually was – a riot, which means in their rush to harm Trump, they filed false charges against him:
“FBI Director Wray says over 200 suspects identified in US Capitol riots!”
“Investigators pursuing signs US Capitol riot was planned!”
“Key arrests so far from the Capitol riot!”
“Trump bears some responsibility for Capitol riot, ex-DHS acting Secretary Chad Wolf says!”
“Already, the public efforts by prosecutors and the FBI to encourage people who participated in the riot to turn themselves in is yielding fruit.”
Yes, people, a riot – it wasn’t insurrection.
Meanwhile, if we go to a USA TODAY article entitled “Timeline: How a Trump mob stormed the US Capitol, forcing Washington into lockdown” by George Petras, Janet Loehrke, Ramon Padilla, Javier Zarracina and Jennifer Borresen on Jan. 15, 2021, we find this following entry, to wit:
1:46 p.m.
Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., tweets she is being evacuated after reports of a pipe bomb outside.
“Supporters of the President are trying to force their way into the Capitol and I can hear what sounds like multiple gunshots.”
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One wonders who she was TWEETING that to, and why.
And how did she know they were supporters of the president?
Those commandos storming and climbing that wall looked like ANTI-FA commandos to me.
And the timing of her TWEET is certainly curious:
1 p.m.
Lawmakers gather for a joint session in the House of Representatives chamber to count Electoral College votes.
1:10 p.m.
Rioters begin grappling with police on the Capitol steps.
1:46 p.m.
Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., tweets she is being evacuated after reports of a pipe bomb outside.
“Supporters of the President are trying to force their way into the Capitol and I can hear what sounds like multiple gunshots.”
2:11 p.m.
Rioters breach police lines on the west side of the Capitol.
Moments later, rioters scale the walls.
(If you watch the video, at 2:11 P.M, twenty-five minutes AFTER the 1:46 P.M. TWEET of Congresswoman Luria, the majority of the people can be seen outside the Capitol)
2:22 p.m.
Reports say Vice President Mike Pence has been escorted out of the Senate chamber.
(Look at the elapsed time between the Luria TWEET and when Pence was escorted from the Senate chamber and ask yourself why the big gap in time between the two events)
2:33 p.m.
C-SPAN reports rioters have crossed Statuary Hall, the chamber that separates the House and Senate, heading for the House and Senate.
2:39 p.m.
Rioters are photographed breaking Capitol windows.
2:44 p.m.
Shots are reported fired in the House chamber.
2:47 p.m.
Huffington Post reporter tweets image of rioters at dais. “They’re in the chamber.”
2:53 p.m.
Rep. Alex Mooney, R-W.Va., tweets he has been safely moved from the House chamber.
(Why is the Republican still in the House Chamber at 2:53 p.m. when Congresswoman Luria, a Democrat, was evacuated at 1:46 p.m., a little more than an hour earlier?)
4:05 p.m.
A congressional correspondent tweets that congressional leaders are being evacuated from the Capitol.
8 p.m.
Congress reconvenes to resume counting Electoral College votes.