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Joinfortmill

(14,247 posts)
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 07:39 AM Feb 2022

"A big hammer is about to drop and they don't want to be in the path."

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-8-2022

“First Pence, now McConnell,” NBC’s legal commenter Katie S. Phang noted. “A big hammer is about to drop and they don’t want to be in the path.”

More odd, though, was Representative Troy Nehls’s (R-TX) claim on Twitter that the Capitol Police Intelligence Division on November 20, 2021, “investigated my office illegally” and that Capitol Police leadership was “maliciously investigating me in an attempt to destroy me and my character.”

The Capitol Police responded that an officer found the office unlocked, entered it, and “saw a white board with text about body armor and an accompanying map of the Capitol campus.”
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"A big hammer is about to drop and they don't want to be in the path." (Original Post) Joinfortmill Feb 2022 OP
I am starting to get the feeling that CrackityJones75 Feb 2022 #1
Nothing will surprise me Generic Brad Feb 2022 #54
Exactly what I think. Dark n Stormy Knight Feb 2022 #81
respectfully, my jaw has already dropped stopdiggin Feb 2022 #75
Someone needs to remind Troy Nehl his office is the property of the United States! Emile Feb 2022 #2
Precisely... WE own it more than he does!! InAbLuEsTaTe Feb 2022 #4
The insurrectionists repeated it over and over again "this is our house" Walleye Feb 2022 #5
Well...there ARE some things that are secret COL Mustard Feb 2022 #14
His lame excuse about body armor from China and staff finding the ice machine just fucking comical Walleye Feb 2022 #15
Plus his claim that construction workers were disguised Capitol Police investigating him ... Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2022 #36
Insanity is the inability to distinguish fantasy from reality Walleye Feb 2022 #41
you're wrong. 3Hotdogs Feb 2022 #8
That's true too, LOL. Emile Feb 2022 #9
No, His ASS Is Owned By Charles Koch nt smb Feb 2022 #11
Touche!! InAbLuEsTaTe Feb 2022 #18
Of course the Capitol Police would need cause to enter Hortensis Feb 2022 #24
Yes. If there had been a breakin by Antifa & the officer simply walked by, Nehls would be screaming! Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2022 #34
Lol, pretty sure this scum's already taken various opportunities Hortensis Feb 2022 #38
Yeah, one of the big Insurrectionist talking points was US Capitol is the "people's house" Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2022 #33
I think it's important for the Republicans to start peeling themselves away from Trump, Baitball Blogger Feb 2022 #3
The exact opposite is happening, gab13by13 Feb 2022 #7
Pootie Misses His Trumpy Bear nt smb Feb 2022 #13
:D C Moon Feb 2022 #56
It's a mistake for a dictator to believe his own propaganda Walleye Feb 2022 #16
Well said. Farmer-Rick Feb 2022 #23
I can't help but to think that Putin and or Zuckerberg/Facebook/Meta have something to do .... Botany Feb 2022 #26
Yeah, aside from Internet propaganda Farmer-Rick Feb 2022 #27
The pro C-19 party aka anti vax republican establishment want to keep the disease going for .... Botany Feb 2022 #37
Don't forget billionaire Peter Thiel. BComplex Feb 2022 #44
Exactly FR DENVERPOPS Feb 2022 #72
The European calls for a truck convoy targetted NATO headquarters in Brussels. I wonder why? . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2022 #32
+1, after reading a MAGA was on the board of FB I would put good money on it this is close to true uponit7771 Feb 2022 #46
A little known fun fact as per FB is that they paid a 5 billion $ fine for rat fucking the .... Botany Feb 2022 #47
Whoa, I remember that ... yeah ... Buck BaceFook uponit7771 Feb 2022 #51
This was really for rat fucking the 2016 election Botany Feb 2022 #52
Yes, of course - Putin's fingerprints are all over it. Totally Putin's style. lagomorph777 Feb 2022 #48
Or for trump to use his own money. housecat Feb 2022 #58
+100. nt MarineCombatEngineer Feb 2022 #28
Troy Nehls was one of the congressmen who voted KS Toronado Feb 2022 #6
Yup, a proven traitor, having participated in the failed internal coup d'etat Hortensis Feb 2022 #39
The toilet has so much ... MiHale Feb 2022 #10
They might have to flush 10-15 times. tinrobot Feb 2022 #68
Remember when Trump was complaining about the amount of water a toilet uses.... William Gustafson Feb 2022 #78
This rapid development, is really multigraincracker Feb 2022 #12
True. I thought it had a familiar feel. There were some jaw-dropping revelations there Walleye Feb 2022 #17
+1 2naSalit Feb 2022 #19
We said the same with dirt coming out during Dumpy's presidency. I'll believe it when it happens Amishman Feb 2022 #21
Some of us are indeed old enough. Images of snowballs and avalanches come to mind. niyad Feb 2022 #30
Yup. I remember, too, Silver Gaia Feb 2022 #42
THIS malaise Feb 2022 #76
Navarro: 100 congressmen moondust Feb 2022 #20
Navarro thinks if he admits to the non-violent part, they can escape being connected. Nah. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2022 #31
Love this peggysue2 Feb 2022 #43
My Dog what an idiot. lagomorph777 Feb 2022 #49
Let's hope so, lagomorph! peggysue2 Feb 2022 #50
"Green Bay sweep" what a bunch of children!Got that macho sports analogy Walleye Feb 2022 #59
"because we had over 100 congressmen committed to it." SHOULD SAY "REPUBLICAN" congressmen BComplex Feb 2022 #45
Right out loud he says they were working on negating the votes of millions of people. DeeNice Feb 2022 #62
those 100 congress critters should be EXPELLED Skittles Feb 2022 #74
"Leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen" dalton99a Feb 2022 #22
wait I'm confused Snoopy 7 Feb 2022 #25
Wow. Body armor and map. Wow. Just who is "malicious", really. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2022 #29
He was fired when he was a law enforcement officer TexasBushwhacker Feb 2022 #35
Become unhirable? Run for congress as a Republican. Hortensis Feb 2022 #40
It has better benefits than "Mall Cop" ThoughtCriminal Feb 2022 #55
Lol. I'm sure most who're noticing think so too. Hortensis Feb 2022 #63
It'll be like Fitzmas multiplied by Mueller Time! maxsolomon Feb 2022 #53
Seriously obamanut2012 Feb 2022 #66
Big hammer enid602 Feb 2022 #57
A huge hammer smashing a tiny mushroom? I_UndergroundPanther Feb 2022 #69
I'd love for that to be true... Happy Hoosier Feb 2022 #60
Indeed. bucolic_frolic Feb 2022 #61
Woohoo! BlueWavePsych Feb 2022 #64
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow greenjar_01 Feb 2022 #65
And, ol mitch.. TFCG must be spitting toxic Nails! Cha Feb 2022 #67
Where is Merrick Garland? BlueIdaho Feb 2022 #70
1/6 defendant threatened his kids, implying they would be "shot" if they turned him in. Maraya1969 Feb 2022 #71
One of the hammer blows in the Mahler 6th Symphony.. Wait for it. HUAJIAO Feb 2022 #73
Did gallagher I_UndergroundPanther Feb 2022 #79
Who is Gallagher? HUAJIAO Feb 2022 #84
A comedian I_UndergroundPanther Feb 2022 #89
I'm thinking Death Hammer from Mahler's 6th Blue Owl Feb 2022 #77
Coincidence but I posted the exact same link LOL HUAJIAO Feb 2022 #83
Right on -- great minds think alike!!! Blue Owl Feb 2022 #86
There has been for a long time a 'dispute' over whether Mahler wanted 2 hammers or 3. HUAJIAO Feb 2022 #87
Hmm... Mike Nelson Feb 2022 #80
Hope it drops today malaise Feb 2022 #82
Ya right!....... nt Hotler Feb 2022 #85
He sounds like he has something to hide ck4829 Feb 2022 #88
 

CrackityJones75

(2,403 posts)
1. I am starting to get the feeling that
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 07:55 AM
Feb 2022

I am starting to get the feeling that when this all comes out it is going to be jaw dropping.

Generic Brad

(14,270 posts)
54. Nothing will surprise me
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 01:38 PM
Feb 2022

So far everything I have heard sounds like what I suspected was happening or is plausible considering the collective behavior of Republicans.

stopdiggin

(11,095 posts)
75. respectfully, my jaw has already dropped
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 10:01 PM
Feb 2022

and dropped again. In fact, early on in the presidency they warned us that the avalanche of unbelievable head-swivels - would have a tendency to numb the observer over time. They spoke the truth!

So, at this point, am I really surprised about new disclosures? Hardly at all. Dislocated jaw - and Novocaine numb.

Walleye

(30,726 posts)
5. The insurrectionists repeated it over and over again "this is our house"
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 08:25 AM
Feb 2022

Nothing a congressman does in relation to his office should be secret

COL Mustard

(5,784 posts)
14. Well...there ARE some things that are secret
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 09:07 AM
Feb 2022

Those are classified, though, and you can't keep them in the office. There's a secure facility under the Capitol where members and staff receive classified briefings and information. I couldn't find it again without help.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,790 posts)
36. Plus his claim that construction workers were disguised Capitol Police investigating him ...
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 10:28 AM
Feb 2022

The workers are just people. Nehls is a paranoid nutter.



Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
24. Of course the Capitol Police would need cause to enter
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 09:50 AM
Feb 2022

as part of execution of their duties. They explained the reason for checking the office.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,790 posts)
33. Yeah, one of the big Insurrectionist talking points was US Capitol is the "people's house"
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 10:22 AM
Feb 2022

But, of course, Capitol Police doing their job defending his office and checking in case of break-ins is somehow nefarious.


Because he is nefarious.

Baitball Blogger

(46,576 posts)
3. I think it's important for the Republicans to start peeling themselves away from Trump,
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 08:07 AM
Feb 2022

because I suspect Putin is calculating that our country will be in disarray and unable to react quickly to what he plans to do in the Ukraine.

When you look at it through those lens, all the MAGAs and Russian supporters, like Tucker, are active Russian agents.

gab13by13

(20,872 posts)
7. The exact opposite is happening,
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 08:45 AM
Feb 2022

Putin fucked up thinking president Biden couldn't handle the situation. All of the NATO countries are united thanks to president Biden. It is Putin who will be denounced as a rogue nation and the sanctions are going to devastate Russia.

Putin underestimated president Biden and now he is cornered in having to do something to save face. The NATO alliance is stronger than ever.

Farmer-Rick

(10,072 posts)
23. Well said.
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 09:41 AM
Feb 2022

Putin is still sending his flying monkeys at the US in the form of bots, trolls and cyborgs. But some people are starting to catch on to those manipulative tools....though Zuckerberg is still making millions off it.

Putin really lost alot of power when Trump got voted out. Biden called his bluff. Putin just misses the old days when he could so easily control the US.

Botany

(70,291 posts)
26. I can't help but to think that Putin and or Zuckerberg/Facebook/Meta have something to do ....
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 09:56 AM
Feb 2022

... with the Canadian Trucker shit. Although Putin has been successful beyond his wildest dreams
in installing Trump in order to cause chaos and civil disruption just look at all those anti vaccine
idiots.

Farmer-Rick

(10,072 posts)
27. Yeah, aside from Internet propaganda
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 10:08 AM
Feb 2022

I think there is is something more going on with the anti-vaxxer crap.

I feel like we are just missing one very important piece to the puzzle.

Botany

(70,291 posts)
37. The pro C-19 party aka anti vax republican establishment want to keep the disease going for ....
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 10:28 AM
Feb 2022

.... 2 reasons:

1) So they can blame Joe Biden for not controlling "it."

2) Chaos theory. In which the disruption allows the minority to have some kind of control over
the majority. Ron DeSanitis & Greg Abbott are both very smart men and they know their
policies as per masks, vaccines, and testing will spread the disease.


BTW my is that the dumb ass Canadian anti vax truckers (a really small minority) not only
are getting input from Russia but right wing dark money billionaires are funding them too.

DENVERPOPS

(8,679 posts)
72. Exactly FR
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 05:27 PM
Feb 2022

One or more things, for sure......

Putin is a cold hearted, destructive tyrant.......... But don't ever think for a minute he is stupid..........

He probably has Plan B, Plan C, etc all in place.............

We should take NOTHING for granted concerning Putin and praising ourselves at this point.........

Want proof? Look at all he has accomplished in destroying the U.S. economy and Democracy without even starting a war, firing a missile or rocket. And how easily and effortlessly he has done it.........

uponit7771

(90,225 posts)
46. +1, after reading a MAGA was on the board of FB I would put good money on it this is close to true
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 12:09 PM
Feb 2022

Botany

(70,291 posts)
47. A little known fun fact as per FB is that they paid a 5 billion $ fine for rat fucking the ....
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 12:45 PM
Feb 2022

.... 2016 election. In 2016 if you were reading an anti Hillary's email post on FB you were
more than likely reading Russian produced propaganda and your were targeted via an
algorithm from Cambridge Analytica.



KS Toronado

(16,911 posts)
6. Troy Nehls was one of the congressmen who voted
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 08:44 AM
Feb 2022

not to certify the election on Jan 6th. He was aiding and abetting the head insurrectionist and should
be labeled a domestic terrorist or traitor.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
39. Yup, a proven traitor, having participated in the failed internal coup d'etat
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 10:29 AM
Feb 2022

and eager to succeed eventually.

William Gustafson

(289 posts)
78. Remember when Trump was complaining about the amount of water a toilet uses....
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 11:19 PM
Feb 2022

I guess when you try to flush classified documents, handwritten notes, and insurrection instructions down the toilet it takes a lot of water especially when they are a single gallon flush toilet (water saving toilets installed many years ago). I could never understand why he was on this kick, until now.... Now I understand that he had to flush 15 times to get it to go down and end up plugging up the toilet.
Plus, his continuous body waste going down there.... whoever had to clean that up should get the Metal of Freedom!!!

multigraincracker

(32,532 posts)
12. This rapid development, is really
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 09:03 AM
Feb 2022

starting to remind me of how Watergate went. It just kept growing and growing. For us old enough to remember how that went.

Amishman

(5,541 posts)
21. We said the same with dirt coming out during Dumpy's presidency. I'll believe it when it happens
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 09:33 AM
Feb 2022

After so many disappointments my base expectation is that nothing of significance will happen to anyone of significance.

I'd love to be wrong

moondust

(19,917 posts)
20. Navarro: 100 congressmen
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 09:32 AM
Feb 2022
~
“We spent a lot of time lining up over 100 congressmen, including some senators. It started out perfectly. At 1 p.m., Gosar and Cruz did exactly what was expected of them,” Navarro told The Daily Beast. “It was a perfect plan. And it all predicated on peace and calm on Capitol Hill. We didn’t even need any protestors, because we had over 100 congressmen committed to it.”
~
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-advisor-peter-navarro-lays-out-how-he-and-steve-bannon-planned-to-overturn-bidens-electoral-win

To the lifeboats?

peggysue2

(10,811 posts)
43. Love this
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 10:57 AM
Feb 2022
It started out perfectly. At 1 p.m., Gosar and Cruz did exactly what was expected of them, . . .

I watched the original on Ari Melber's show and literally stopped what I was doing (cooking dinner).

It's seldom that you hear someone indict themselves and others on national TV. But Navarro, the arrogant prick to the end, couldn't help himself. He was proudly describing what they'd done, what a brilliant plan they'd executed. The only moment when Navarro appeared to realize what he was doing was when Ari said (paraphrasing here):

You realize you're describing a coup?

Of course, Navarro disagreed but there was a small expression of shock, a stumbling around verbally to recenter himself before going on.

Amazing!

Walleye

(30,726 posts)
59. "Green Bay sweep" what a bunch of children!Got that macho sports analogy
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 02:14 PM
Feb 2022

I’m sure glad we have actual serious and mature people back in the federal government now

BComplex

(7,984 posts)
45. "because we had over 100 congressmen committed to it." SHOULD SAY "REPUBLICAN" congressmen
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 12:09 PM
Feb 2022

We need to drill that into the heads of the American public. This was REPUBLICANS trying to destroy democracy.

DeeNice

(574 posts)
62. Right out loud he says they were working on negating the votes of millions of people.
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 02:56 PM
Feb 2022

I mean come on.

Snoopy 7

(522 posts)
25. wait I'm confused
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 09:54 AM
Feb 2022

Don't you have to have "character" before it can be destroyed? I guess he thinks because he was Sheriff he automatically gains character, I presume, or maybe it's because he helped plan the Jan 6 attempted coup that he thinks gives him "character"?

TexasBushwhacker

(20,044 posts)
35. He was fired when he was a law enforcement officer
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 10:26 AM
Feb 2022

He just moved to another county. Just Google "Troy Nehls disciplinary".

ThoughtCriminal

(14,011 posts)
55. It has better benefits than "Mall Cop"
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 01:39 PM
Feb 2022

but most mall cops would do a better job than this imbecile - On a white board? Really?

maxsolomon

(32,992 posts)
53. It'll be like Fitzmas multiplied by Mueller Time!
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 01:26 PM
Feb 2022

There's definitely distance being established by "traditional" Repukes before the J6 Committee's public hearings.

obamanut2012

(25,911 posts)
66. Seriously
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 03:03 PM
Feb 2022

I already told my boss I may be taking some annual leave to watch it all on TV if they televise some of this!

Cha

(295,929 posts)
67. And, ol mitch.. TFCG must be spitting toxic Nails!
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 03:38 PM
Feb 2022
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) tried to distance himself from the party’s stance, saying the events of January 6 were “a violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election, from one administration to the next. That’s what it was.”

NOT.. "..legitimate discourse.."

Maraya1969

(22,441 posts)
71. 1/6 defendant threatened his kids, implying they would be "shot" if they turned him in.
Thu Feb 10, 2022, 05:21 PM
Feb 2022

His daughter is going to testify against him. Good.


"Also today, prosecutors revealed their evidence for the trial of a January 6 defendant, Guy Wesley Reffitt, allegedly a member of the Texas Three Percenter militia group, mobilized against the U.S. government. The trial is set to begin on February 28. Their list of evidence is 11 pages long and extraordinarily thorough. It includes videos, phone records, texts, hotel receipts, pictures, and interviews, including ones with the defendant’s children, who will testify that Reffitt threatened them to keep them quiet. His daughter will testify that “she heard her father tell them that if they turned him in to law enforcement, they would be traitors, and that traitors get shot.” Also testifying will be one of the defendant’s colleagues in the Texas Three Percenter militia who traveled with him to D.C."

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,452 posts)
79. Did gallagher
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 12:43 AM
Feb 2022

Use a musical instrument hammer? Somehow it makes smashing watermelons with it a bit funnier now.

HUAJIAO

(2,362 posts)
83. Coincidence but I posted the exact same link LOL
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 10:06 AM
Feb 2022

I have actually played the Mahler 6th.. :&gt ) Although not the hammer part...

Blue Owl

(49,937 posts)
86. Right on -- great minds think alike!!!
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 10:48 AM
Feb 2022

I have never had the chance to play any Mahler, but have seen the 6th performed live a few times by various orchestras. That hammer blow is always a highlight!

HUAJIAO

(2,362 posts)
87. There has been for a long time a 'dispute' over whether Mahler wanted 2 hammers or 3.
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 12:20 PM
Feb 2022

He first wrote for three blows, then indicated to leave out the third.. so... we did two.

Mike Nelson

(9,903 posts)
80. Hmm...
Fri Feb 11, 2022, 06:11 AM
Feb 2022

... sounds like they have evidence on Troy Nehl and he is going to try and block it with an "illegally entered my office" defense.

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