Multiple ReTHUG aides have told their bosses that if they don't sign on for impeachment

[malaise]

they will resign - per M$NBComcast.

You see when their own lives are on the line, people get serious.
Donald Trump is responsible for everything that happened in that invasion of Congress.

[CanonRay]

1. I've always said, for a Republican to give a shit

it has to happen to them personally. Still true.

[KS Toronado]

3. I agree, you are right on with that opinion

[ananda]

4. Exactly

!!!

[housecat]

5. what about covid?

[BComplex]

31. You haven't heard? It's a "democrat conspiracy" because it's mostly republicans getting covid.

They haven't figured out the mask thing yet. The entire republican base has a cumulative 100 IQ.

[Hav]

41. "I don't care if 1 million die, I don't want to be impacted by the restrictions"

That wasn't a summary of their attitude, that was pretty much verbatim what someone said.

[catbyte]

9. No kidding. I think one of the prerequisites for GOP membership is to be empathy-free

[GopherGal]

17. Empathy is for Cucks

and Libtards.

[summer_in_TX]

32. Destroying empathy towards libs is an obvious goal of RW media.

Why else would they have made up the "War on Christmas" lie to smear libs? That's just one of many, many ways they portray us as "other," not worthy of caring about. Even more so toward minorities and immigrants.

Their success in doing so showed in their audience's attitudes towards those dying of COVID and the overwhelmed doctors and nurses attempting to care for them.

Destroying empathy is a normal tactic used to get troops ready to fight and take the lives of those on the other side. It's why pejoratives like "wop," "gook," and other dehumanizing terms were regularly used within the armed forces and spread beyond them to voters and policymakers.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

38. You're so right. 👏🏽

[VA_Jill]

10. You got that right.

Seen it time and time again in my 77 years.

[uponit7771]

14. THIS !!!! ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾

[NHvet]

16. Correct

Not just this, but in everything that affects anyone and everyone...Homelessness, Hunger, unemployment, Covid, abortion, war, .. the list goes on and on. Not until it affects them or one of theirs. Sad indeed!

[Vivienne235729]

27. never truer words. And even then, it can be iffy if they are eyeball deep in the cult.

I have read of people actively dying from covid who could not process that it was happening to them.

[spudspud]

30. Completely agree.

They generally seem to lack the ability to empathize.

[The Conductor]

40. The Problem With Conservatives...

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." - John Kenneth Galbraith

[grumpyduck]

2. Link?

[Roc2020]

6. There is no walking back 1/6/21

Although not surprising still that was horrific. Heads careers personalities etc will be rolling for days weeks even months.

[calimary]

18. No, there certainly isn't.

And WE have to make sure that holds.

We must NEVER forget what THEY helped make happen: when mobs of armed thugs stormed the Capitol building, and at least five people were killed. This was a MURDEROUS event. People DIED.

(To which calimary will emphatically add - “where’s yer ‘pro-life’ NOW??? Explain, you willfully-stupid worthless anarchic anti-American fucks!”)

[Roc2020]

29. YES Yes and yes!

[mikeysnot]

7. Right now that it affects them

they are concerned....

[Butterflylady]

8. Of course they had to be terrorized.

One representative called her husband the night before to tell him where her will was because she didn't know what might happen the next day. Can you just imagine how horrible that felt?

[AllyCat]

11. She knew about it?

[Wednesdays]

12. Everyone knew about it .

Except possibly the capitol police.

[tblue37]

21. Democrat Linda Sanchez. She feared the possibility. She had no advanced "knowledge."

[xxqqqzme]

13. It was Linda Sanchez,

CA 38th. She said she was convinced there would be violence on Jan 6th. She called her husband the night of the 5th to tell him where her will was. I was hoping the interview was on youtube but I couldn't find it.Her voice breaks in a couple of places as she relates the story. She was obviously shaken by the experience.

[calimary]

19. I heard that interview. She was clearly shaken. You could hear it in her voice.

[Texin]

15. It has to get personal for the majority of them to be provoked to action.

[marble falls]

20. Usually aides are harder core than their bosses.

[PatrickforO]

23. Rats leaving a sinking ship.

And, using that analogy, instead of trying to save the ship of state, these rats have done everything they could to sink it, and now are fleeing because they fear for their own skins.

[malaise]

26. Yep

and they found the perfect moment to jump

[lame54]

24. The people who do the actual work

[malaise]

34. Indeed

but I get the impression that more than a few ReTHUG folks are really shook up over how close they came to being killed by their Dear Leader's goons.

[safeinOhio]

25. I see years and years of investigations.

So much we don't know now will come out. We will need a new "Topic" for DU.

[malaise]

35. You are right - this will take years to resolve

We should call the Forum The Epiphany Coup for it sure was a moment of realization for many and it was on Jan 6.

[BobTheSubgenius]

28. I just hate that the timeline is so thin.

The biggest benefit to impeachment is that he could never run again, but it's not going to take much foot-dragging to run out the clock.

[onecaliberal]

33. We cannot allow them to wash that shit stain from themselves ever.

[malaise]

36. THIS

For the rest of history they must carry an indelible mark for this one

[c-rational]

37. Early on in this dUmpster's reign, I called Rep.King's (NY) capital office to complain. The staff

member said King would not stand up against the POS and I told him he should resign. He said never. I got off he phone shaking with anger. I wonder what that aide is thinking now.

[tclambert]

39. The Republican attitude is if it happens to OTHER people, who cares?

But if it happens to ME, then somebody better answer for it.

[spanone]

42. K&R