'They wouldn't care if I was dead' -- staffer fallout from Jan. 6 continues

[CousinIT]

https://www.rollcall.com/2021/05/27/they-wouldnt-care-if-i-was-dead-staffer-fallout-from-jan-6-continues/

A congressional staffer froze recently when elevator doors opened and there stood a member of the House who has downplayed the violence of the Jan. 6 insurrection. Some congressional employees are shaken by what they see as the whitewashing of the attack, and the denials have reignited lingering trauma.

One House employee who works in the Capitol building and heard the rioters banging on their office door said seeing the lawmakers try to erase the destruction is jarring.

Thirteen staffers interviewed by CQ Roll Call, who were granted anonymity to speak candidly about their mental health and how they are coping, point to comments like those from Rep. Andrew Clyde. Despite helping barricade the House chamber from rioters, the Georgia Republican downplayed the events of Jan. 6 at a hearing earlier this month as “acts of vandalism” and said the rioters were “orderly” and looked like “a normal tourist visit.”

Five people died in the attack, including a police officer. Two officers died by suicide after the violence. Some officers have brain injuries; one lost an eye.

“When I see those members in the hallway or the basement, I think to myself that they wouldn’t care if I was dead,” one staffer told CQ Roll Call.

[2naSalit]

1. They don't care if the staffers die...

They are that far over the edge in seeing their goal of oligarchy that nothing can sway them now. And that's why they are dangerous, as we have seen, they will stop at nothing.

[Siwsan]

2. The video contained in that article gets a high recommend, from me.

It is absolutely chilling.

[Kid Berwyn]

3. Well, if they treat people they know that way...

...It’s easy to how they could care less about the rest of the country and planet.

NAZIs.

[Hortensis]

7. 600-900K dead is a holocaust. It's THEIR holocaust. All positions

and principles abandoned, lethal virus spread righteously, in solidarity with their leader.

On a heartening note, I was re-reading Berlin Diary, and the numbers and manic fervor of Trump's crowds are nowhere equal to Hitler's in 1934-5, and staffers are not being beaten up by passing Republicans for failing to show respect to Republican leaders.

[HUAJIAO]

10. As to BERLIN DIARY----not at that level... yet.

If something isn't done it will be that bad....

[Hortensis]

15. Yes, not at all. Same kind of people, but very different situation.

Americans actually have everything extremely good compared to 1930s Germany. Without the divisive, fear- and hatemongering manipulations of the internet,... Well, just look at what losing his social media tools did to Trump in almost no time.

[keithbvadu2]

4. Clyde would send your family some thoughts and prayers.

Clyde would send your family some thoughts and prayers.

MTG would call you a Nazi who deserved it.

[KS Toronado]

6. Nazis don't belittle their own

More than likely MTG would call you a JEW who deserved it.

[brush]

5. All the people in the video should be witnesses in any hearing held...

whether there's a Jan. 6 Commission of a House select committee hearing that the Speaker will see to if the republicans succeed in stopping a commission.

[FoxNewsSucks]

8. It's not just the staffers that they don't give a damn about

They don't give a shit about any of us.

[Wednesdays]

14. They would kill us all

if they knew they could get away with it.

[Captain Zero]

19. At some point they will become convinced they can

Be Ready for it.

[ananda]

9. They are lost in their own vile hate and delusion.

Totally lost and demented.

[BobTheSubgenius]

11. There's bound to be a little collateral damage when you're trying to negate an election.

Amirite? Of course I am.

JFC A bare semblance of human values, if any at all.

[sop]

12. Cowards and opportunists, all of them. Pandering to all the moronic Trumpers in their districts,

and terrified of losing their seats.

[onecaliberal]

13. Would someone please ask Clyde WHY HE WAS BLOCKING THE DOOR?

Why are these fucking people getting away with this shit. If your an elected person the law doesn't apply? Funny I never read that in the constitution.

[bottomofthehill]

16. There is a whole universe of staff members that are really fucked

Those who who work for the AOC, Clerk, CAO, Chaplin, Capitol Police, Sergeant at Arms, Parliamentarian and others who do not work on Partisan issues, those who are there to keep the trains running on time, keep the members safe, keep the members fed, make sure the members IT works, make sure there remarks make it tinto the congressional record, ensure the elevators work, the trash is emptied. That the lights are on and that the toilets flush....those that make the place work. The Republican members who downplay what they do and lie about their exposure to potential harm shoudd both be ashamed and should go fuck the selves.

This was as bad as we all saw it was, trying to say it did not happen is an insult to all who were there and were in harms way anyone with those who saw it as it was ongoing on television in real time.

[IcyPeas]

17. the video in the article has some never before seen images.... give it a watch.

[wnylib]

20. I tried. It doesn't show up on my phone

when I click the link.

[MiHale]

18. Looks like someone's vacation videos...

How the ever loving farts can any half-witted imbecile even conceive of that sentence in respect to this insurrection? Should be jailed just on that comment for his own safety.

[calimary]

21. Never forget what one trump insider said: "cruelty is the point."

If they felt it was fitting when it came to imprisoning children after having separated them from their parents, then why wouldn't it be the operating policy elsewhere in their sphere of influence, also?

By now, I've come to expect the worst of this bunch - from trump all the way down through the fetid bowels of the republi-CON party.

Saves time.