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IronLionZion

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30. Dems control both houses now and president in 2 weeks

Thu Jan 7, 2021, 01:12 AM

Jan 2021

so Pelosi and Schumer could get it done. There are so many reforms to pass now for VP Harris to break the tie and President Biden to sign.

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Jim Hines (D) makes a terrifying observation. [View all] drray23 Jan 2021 OP

I'd say so soothsayer Jan 2021 #1

There's a movie, of course PJMcK Jan 2021 #2

yes i have seen it. it was gerard butler staring in it right ? nt. drray23 Jan 2021 #6

Great movie! Time to watch it again. R B Garr Jan 2021 #12

There were two simultaneous Bad-Guys-Take-Over-The-White-House films in 2013... First Speaker Jan 2021 #26

I think Olympus Has Fallen was just on. bearssoapbox Jan 2021 #46

The resources are there. They were purposefully withheld. NYC Liberal Jan 2021 #3

That's painfully obvious. dchill Jan 2021 #10

And Secret Service -- no where to be seen. Capitol Police? They were letting Nay Jan 2021 #11

Secret Service wasn't the problem StarfishSaver Jan 2021 #25

Who protects Speaker Pelosi? Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2021 #27

She has a plainclothes Capitol Police detail StarfishSaver Jan 2021 #29

Thanks Hassin Bin Sober Jan 2021 #31

I do not think that Capitol police wnylib Jan 2021 #28

I don't have reason to think at this point they are complicit StarfishSaver Jan 2021 #32

Did they really tell Capitol police wnylib Jan 2021 #39

Local police was preparing for mobs of thousands and they knew thousands of people were gathering StarfishSaver Jan 2021 #42

mob of thousands intelpug Jan 2021 #51

How large is the Capitol police force? wnylib Jan 2021 #52

1700 StarfishSaver Jan 2021 #54

There is another thread here that wnylib Jan 2021 #55

I will put it to you this way. If they were not complicit than they completely inept and derelict IsItJustMe Jan 2021 #45

They were also severely outnumbered StarfishSaver Jan 2021 #49

Exactly. Orrex Jan 2021 #18

Exactly. What's wrong with this picture: SunSeeker Jan 2021 #21

When BLM were outside the Capitol, Trump wnylib Jan 2021 #41

THANK YOU. The resources were available, but went unused because certain Nay Jan 2021 #60

"beef up security" must remove police coordinating with the mob DBoon Jan 2021 #4

there are reports that some capitol police officers drray23 Jan 2021 #8

They should be prosecuted as well, for being co-conspirators with the terrorists. nt Nay Jan 2021 #13

100% (N/T) Old Crow Jan 2021 #15

Agreed. /nt spudspud Jan 2021 #24

The magat terrorists said they'd be back. With weapons. C_U_L8R Jan 2021 #5

They should be hunted down an arrested in their homes Orrex Jan 2021 #19

This👆 I_UndergroundPanther Jan 2021 #56

K&R MustLoveBeagles Jan 2021 #7

In the story the handmaid's tale d_r Jan 2021 #9

Mumbai hotel style attack... greenjar_01 Jan 2021 #14

foreign operatives embedded among the rioters? bigtree Jan 2021 #16

Nice mug shot C_U_L8R Jan 2021 #20

Embarrassingly Diraven Jan 2021 #34

YA THINK? Acornsouth Jan 2021 #17

This could have been a tragic disaster if those people had had half a brain among them StarfishSaver Jan 2021 #22

People need to be fired! wolfie001 Jan 2021 #23

Dems control both houses now and president in 2 weeks IronLionZion Jan 2021 #30

More than just sorely lacking: they LET them in (!) sandensea Jan 2021 #33

They should go to prison. In fucking Gitmo. OverBurn Jan 2021 #43

+1 sandensea Jan 2021 #53

How about we remove MAGAts from the police force(s)? Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2021 #35

Ex-military woman shot breaking into corridor of Speaker's office area. SHE KNEW WHERE SHE WAS GOING Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2021 #36

This job belongs to the Marines RainCaster Jan 2021 #37

Or they could have just accepted Mayor Bowser's offer of the DC police assistance StarfishSaver Jan 2021 #44

They acted like college campus rent-a-cops today FakeNoose Jan 2021 #38

Let's face it. From the video footage I saw, these police abandoned their post at a drop of a IsItJustMe Jan 2021 #40

D.C. is going to be a police state for the foreseeable future. Ace Rothstein Jan 2021 #47

I said that to my wife tonight True Dough Jan 2021 #48

Yes. We are all lucky most of these people were little more than yahoos StarfishSaver Jan 2021 #50

Yeah, but the police were not shooting back. BrightKnight Jan 2021 #57

if you try to storm the white house , pentagon, any military installation drray23 Jan 2021 #61

Congress cannot depend on the Federal Government for protection malaise Jan 2021 #58

"Beef up" insinuates more of the same crap. Capital pd needs to be Vivienne235729 Jan 2021 #59

The response to the mob looked so weak as to appear staged. BobTheSubgenius Jan 2021 #62

For the State of the Union GopherGal Jan 2021 #63