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A thread to list and discuss the consequences, repercussions and reactions to the perpetrators and instigators of the deplorable attack on the Capitol, and the associated effort to withhold electoral votes from Joe Biden by some GOP Congresspeople.
To be clear, the "evidence shows the mob was overwhelmingly made up of longtime Trump supporters, including Republican Party officials, GOP political donors, far-right militants, white supremacists and adherents of the [you know what conspiracy theory]."
For Trump himself, for his role in instigating:
*calls for removal via the 25th Amendment
*calls for impeachment
*nuking his Twitter and similar services declining to do business with him
*The PGA has yanked the 2022 Championship from Trump National
For the Congresspeople who participated in the failed effort to refuse certification to Biden's electoral votes.:
*Marriott and probably other companies have declared they will cease donations to the 147 GOP members who participated in the farce.
*Senator Josh Hawley, I hear, had to sit all by himself in the Senate bunker because no one would talk to him. Being shunned is probably not the end of his woes.
For the rioters:
Obviously, arrests and criminal charges grow daily.
These and others are being fired or resigning from their positions.
The 14 unruly participants on an Alaska Airlines flight are now banned from flying back to DC, and there are broad calls to put more people on no-fly lists.
As for reactions, I was struck by this article discussing Sunday sermons from Trump-supporting pastors. There is quite a variety of responses.
Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, the president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, who delivered a prayer at Trump’s inauguration and has also advised him: “We must repent for making the person who occupies the White House more important than the one who occupies our hearts. We must repent for permitting the donkey and the elephant to divide what the Lamb died for on the cross,” Rodriguez said. “We must repent for voting for individuals whose policies run counter to the word of God and the spirit of the living God.”
Brian Gibson, pastor and founder of His Church in Kentucky: “So now I know some, some bad actors went in, and I believe potentially there were antifa up there. I think more and more I know there were antifa up there, insiders up there that started that action,” Gibson said, with no evidence.
“The Secret Service had to escort the vice president of the United States to safety out of the Capitol building. Gunshots were fired. Tear gas was deployed in the Capitol Rotunda. People were killed. ... This was an assault on law. Attacking the Capitol was not patriotism; it was anarchy,” [John] Hagee said.
The Rev. Tim Remington, the conservative Christian pastor of the Altar church of Idaho: “The next two weeks are probably the most important two weeks in the history of America,” said Remington, who in the spring led in-person services in defiance of a stay-at-home order issued by the governor. “I pray the army of the Lord is ready.”
“I rebuke the news in the name of Jesus,” Remington said. “We ask that this false garbage come to an end. ... It’s the lies, communism, socialism. I don’t know how we’ve put up with it this long.”
To be clear, the "evidence shows the mob was overwhelmingly made up of longtime Trump supporters, including Republican Party officials, GOP political donors, far-right militants, white supremacists and adherents of the [you know what conspiracy theory]."
For Trump himself, for his role in instigating:
*calls for removal via the 25th Amendment
*calls for impeachment
*nuking his Twitter and similar services declining to do business with him
*The PGA has yanked the 2022 Championship from Trump National
For the Congresspeople who participated in the failed effort to refuse certification to Biden's electoral votes.:
*Marriott and probably other companies have declared they will cease donations to the 147 GOP members who participated in the farce.
*Senator Josh Hawley, I hear, had to sit all by himself in the Senate bunker because no one would talk to him. Being shunned is probably not the end of his woes.
For the rioters:
Obviously, arrests and criminal charges grow daily.
These and others are being fired or resigning from their positions.
The 14 unruly participants on an Alaska Airlines flight are now banned from flying back to DC, and there are broad calls to put more people on no-fly lists.
As for reactions, I was struck by this article discussing Sunday sermons from Trump-supporting pastors. There is quite a variety of responses.
Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, the president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, who delivered a prayer at Trump’s inauguration and has also advised him: “We must repent for making the person who occupies the White House more important than the one who occupies our hearts. We must repent for permitting the donkey and the elephant to divide what the Lamb died for on the cross,” Rodriguez said. “We must repent for voting for individuals whose policies run counter to the word of God and the spirit of the living God.”
Brian Gibson, pastor and founder of His Church in Kentucky: “So now I know some, some bad actors went in, and I believe potentially there were antifa up there. I think more and more I know there were antifa up there, insiders up there that started that action,” Gibson said, with no evidence.
“The Secret Service had to escort the vice president of the United States to safety out of the Capitol building. Gunshots were fired. Tear gas was deployed in the Capitol Rotunda. People were killed. ... This was an assault on law. Attacking the Capitol was not patriotism; it was anarchy,” [John] Hagee said.
The Rev. Tim Remington, the conservative Christian pastor of the Altar church of Idaho: “The next two weeks are probably the most important two weeks in the history of America,” said Remington, who in the spring led in-person services in defiance of a stay-at-home order issued by the governor. “I pray the army of the Lord is ready.”
“I rebuke the news in the name of Jesus,” Remington said. “We ask that this false garbage come to an end. ... It’s the lies, communism, socialism. I don’t know how we’ve put up with it this long.”
