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US House speaker to make good on promise to far-right Republicans including Matt Gaetz and Donald Trump

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[–] [email protected] 181 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Because he wants them to succeed in the next a coup attempt.

he's aiding and abetting insurrectionists.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Trump is running a draconian platform; Muskee is running an antisemitic website.

If we all don’t wake up, Trump-ler and Elon Muskells will bring about the Forth ~~Reich~~ Wrong

Edit: in this comment Hitler is a low level Donald Trump and Joseph Goebbels is a poor Elon Musk. In reality all 4 are Nazi shit-heel, boot-lickers

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Just a friendly heads up, you need 2 ~s on each side for strike through. ~~like so.~~

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Dude, I’m sitting here like what is Decoy321 talking about?! I see a strike through (I’m on the Voyager app). For me it was stricken through. Before I replied I checked the desktop version and then I saw my weird shrunken ~reich~ (this time on purpose). Thanks for the heads up cause I would literally have never known

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Because Jesus is butthurt over queers, according to this lunatic.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Yup. He also just provided aid to “enemies of the united stares” in the form of a sweet sweet intelligence coup

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 9 months ago (9 children)

why do they want more footage of their lawbreaking out there? im confused

[–] [email protected] 143 points 9 months ago (10 children)

training. they want it for training.

Included in the video is the response by the capital police and lawmakers trying to get out of there. the Captial building is built like a warren maze, in large part as additional security. one of the reasons that we didn't have any lawmakers (or pence,) get seriously hurt was because most of the insurrectionists couldn't find their way.

With this video, they can study it and practice.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

And with enough editing you can tell any story you want. Ask every reality tv show in existence.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

A warren typically refers to the series of interconnected holes that rabbits dig and live in. Part of the defense they provide is the difficulty that predators like foxes have when navigating them.

In this instance warren maze just refers to a deliberately difficult to navigate floorplan.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

a rat maze that they don't get to leave.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There are undoubtedly thousands of hours of footage of no laws being broken they can use to muddy the water.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

This is 100% it, there's already so much "bad" footage out there that no one is going to change their mind about jan 6 if more comes to light. But they're hoping to find a few clips that make it look good that they can play on a loop on fox News

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Because morons already forgot it was released to Fox and didn't have anything unknown so why not do it again lmao

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

Especially since Tucker’s exclusive access resulted in fuck-all

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Right? This... seems like a good thing... I think?

Maybe the far-right Republicans, thinking that a mob of angry Trumpers can do no wrong, believe the footage will exonerate them and are wanting the footage released for that reason? (And if that's correct, they'll find out otherwise soon enough.)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

Anything that isn't just footage of people walking around the mall eating ice cream will not be released.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It's enough footage to muddy the waters. Too much to individually review, but a perfect amount to point at and say nothing happened during most of it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

The given answers, and so they can act like there wasn't that much of what happened.

No one can watch all that, so they'll claim that violence is cherry picked and it's the mostly peaceful protest they've been claiming the whole time.

It's still a lie but it's one they're giving "evidence" to their supporters for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The footage is already out there. These seems like an information dump under the guise of transparency. It's like when a corporation gets sued and has to release records so they send 20 million pages of documents to the plaintiff, far too much to actually wade through.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

except if it's released to the public, there's literally millions of people to comb through the footage

[–] restingboredface 2 points 9 months ago

Yeah there's plenty amateur detectives out there with time on their hands who will absolutely find shit that the GOP doesn't want found. This seems all kinds of reckless.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 9 months ago

Kevin McCarthy gave 41k hours to Tucker Carlson, I assume the same stuff. So it's not that anything politically or legally interesting will come out of it, it's just going to be like the Hillary emails where conspiracy theorists trawl through and invent things, "Pizza" must be a child sex ring, I don't see what else it could possibly mean. Stuff like that.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm sure his son has vetted it first!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

That's how he hides his porn, in 44000 hours of Jan 6th footage.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Oh, he's not hiding it, that sweaty, throbbing throng of insurrection is what he's into. This is his Fappening.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So you're saying there's a difference between the two?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Not to the MAGA crowd.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

my son's phone about to blow up

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

I don't understand. These videos are short. There's not 44000 hours of video here.

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