DO NOT buy the transparently ridiculous premise which most on the right are now trying to

[Atticus]

glibly sell as a "given" before proceeding to plead for "bipartisanship" and "unity".

In so many words, they begin their blather with the presumption that what just happened was SOMETHING OTHER THAN an armed insurrection by a mob incited by Trump, Cruz, Hawley and their fellow fascist SOBs and aided and abetted by a SCOTUS justice's wife and about half of all elected Republicans. That is EXACTLY what happened!

"BULLSHIT!", said loudly and firmly, should cut off any attempts at "discussing where we go from here" that does not begin with some sort of acknowledgement of the above.

Buckle up.

[samsingh]

1. the gop doesn't want unity - this is their ongoing ploy to avoid punishment

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. Tshirt

[mackdaddy]

15. What about BenghaZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii?

That went on for years.

[Bluethroughu]

2. 100%

[BlueIdaho]

5. We must not let them control the narrative.

Something the M$M is more than happy to promote.

[BlueIdaho]

8. Sorry - I missed him.

But I’m not expecting much from him. He’s such a panderer

[BlueIdaho]

12. Once in a blue moon

He steps up to support a democratic position, otherwise he’s an enormous disappointment.

[dalton99a]

7. Kick

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100214900219

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. Any RepubliCon or other Con must say "Election was fair and Biden is the true President of the USA"

That is an absolute minimum.

How many of the "unity" hypocrites are saying to their Conned followers: "Go home. Don't participate in violent protests. Stop posting QAnon fantasies. The election was not stolen."

[stillcool]

10. the worst part is that those...

who have control of the cameras and the microphones will continue to allow the Republicans to continue talking trash, and not correcting it any way. They will just repeat the buzz words themselves. Nothing changes, if nothing changes. I read somewhere that the police got radicalized after the 'defund the police' posters were seen at protests, and the media latched on to it. After the protests. The killing of countless unarmed black people was not radical at all. That was just, just fine.

[stillcool]

16. good point. Repetition is all that's needed.

[unblock]

14. republicans need to tell us what *they* are doing for unity.

because other than begging for democrats to do whatever republicans want, they don't seem to care much for unity with democrats.

[crickets]

21. 👆👆👆

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

17. Quarantine the traitors from power. No quarter.

[Flaleftist]

18. You do not get to attempt a violent overthrow of the government

and then cry for unity when you fail. There must be accountability.

[NotASurfer]

19. How divisive was Nuremberg?

It's a very binary choice. Either members of Congress support the government or they support armed and violent overthrow of the government. Stand against the Fascists, or with them.

Both House and Senate have this in the Oath of Office:

"I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same"

If you support the armed and violent overthrow of the government, that ought to be enough for expulsion from Congress, or grounds for resignation if an individual cannot faithfully adhere to that duty

[maxsolomon]

20. NYT had a sidebar about Ginni Thomas today.

she did NOT "pay for 70 buses". She's on the board of Turning Point USA, and THEY paid for 7 buses or so.

it's an important distinction - gotta use facts not hyperbole...