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Nevilledog

(51,201 posts)
Wed Feb 10, 2021, 07:02 PM Feb 2021

If you are wondering why cameras are not showing GOPers with feet on desk......



Tweet text:
Greg Mitchell
@GregMitch
Jake Tapper: if you are wondering why cameras not showing GOPers with feet on desk, reading comic books, etc.--GOP insisted only show speakers at podium. They want base to know they are not taking seriously--but afraid to show it.
11:47 AM · Feb 10, 2021
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If you are wondering why cameras are not showing GOPers with feet on desk...... (Original Post) Nevilledog Feb 2021 OP
Have I mentioned lately how much I hate these f***ing people? nt mr_lebowski Feb 2021 #1
Ditto....more every day. Nevilledog Feb 2021 #2
I'm sorry, did Jake say "The minority party insisted...". CincyDem Feb 2021 #3
There is a scene in Birth of a Nation (1915 racist film) where iemitsu Feb 2021 #4
I hope someone took a surreptitious cell phone photo of those nimrods Peacetrain Feb 2021 #5
They insisted DeSmet Feb 2021 #6
The gop/GOQanon Party wants the white power, Proud boy,.... magicarpet Feb 2021 #7
I don't think this is true StarfishSaver Feb 2021 #8

CincyDem

(6,386 posts)
3. I'm sorry, did Jake say "The minority party insisted...".
Wed Feb 10, 2021, 07:05 PM
Feb 2021

How'd that work when we insisted on witnesses in round 1?

iemitsu

(3,888 posts)
4. There is a scene in Birth of a Nation (1915 racist film) where
Wed Feb 10, 2021, 07:11 PM
Feb 2021

Reconstruction Black Legislators are portrayed with their feet on the desks, eating fried chicken in the House of Representatives. Jake Tapper's description of the republican Senators today sound so much like this.
This disgusts me.

Peacetrain

(22,878 posts)
5. I hope someone took a surreptitious cell phone photo of those nimrods
Wed Feb 10, 2021, 07:12 PM
Feb 2021

That would be a come to Jesus moment for some of them

DeSmet

(257 posts)
6. They insisted
Wed Feb 10, 2021, 07:17 PM
Feb 2021

My contempt for these subhuman souless sycophants wouldn't allow them to ever insist on anything ever again.

magicarpet

(14,175 posts)
7. The gop/GOQanon Party wants the white power, Proud boy,....
Wed Feb 10, 2021, 07:23 PM
Feb 2021

.... 3percent, white nationalist voters for 2022 & 2024. They don't give a shit if the majority are Nazis because the politicians are sorta Nazis themselves.

 

StarfishSaver

(18,486 posts)
8. I don't think this is true
Wed Feb 10, 2021, 07:27 PM
Feb 2021

I think the Senate camera, which feeds the pool, always only show the podium and the floor in the Senate chambers. Hawley was up in the Senate gallery, which isn't shown during proceedings.

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