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  They shit all over the Capitol today in rememberance
context: Yeah...that's why they didn't join... >
  
  Who doesn't celebrate their failures? >
  
  All the assholes with confederate flags on their trucks sure do love celebrating that failure! >
  
  They should make a 1/6 commemorative flag, which is just the rebel flag with the rebel flag as a canton >
  
  Rebelception. If they try and fail again they can put a canton in the canton. >
  
  is there a hero named Jayne? that's a lot of cantons. >
  
  He robbed from the rich
  And he gave to the poor
  Stood up to the man
  And gave him what for
  Our love for him now
  Ain't hard to explain
  The hero of Canton
  The man they call Jayne >
  
  No, this is what going mad must feel like. >
  
  By “riot” you must mean “insurrection.” >
  
  By "insurrection" you mean coup. >
  
  Failed coup* >
  
  Agreed. But just because it was done by idiots doesn't mean it wasn't a coup. I really wish more people called it what it was. >
  
  Agreed. I just like pointing out that the Republicans failed >
  
  Ahh yes too busy, so that's why they keep having to revote so they don't have to attend a commemoration of their previous failure to overturn the government. And all this time I thought they were bunch of childish morons....oh wait. >
  
  Somewhat true.  If a dozen R's leave the room for too long we get Jeffries as a speaker... >
  
  I'm actually astonished we didn't see some sort of repeat attempt yesterday. >
  
  I mean to be fair how many members of Al Qaeda came to pay their respects on 9/11/2003? >
  
  In the words of Bret Baier, “Understood.” >
  
  The same people who planned and supported Trump's coup attempt are the ones blocking McCarthy's bid for speaker. They're still obstructing Congress. >
  
  Fitzpatrick for speaker, McCarthy can’t lead the investigation into those responsible due to conflict of interest. >
  
  If 6 decent Republicans had joined them, they could have settled the speakership right then and there. Unfortunately, 6 decent republicans are nowhere to be found. >
  
  And the overton window shifts yet again. >
  
  Right.
  "Busy..." >
  
  Busy trying a different method to reach the same intended outcome. >
  
  And there it is. They were too "busy" with this to join the commemoration.
  Business Insider is such a horrible outlet. They didn't miss it because they were busy, they wouldn't have gone any way. This certainly is a convenient excuse for not going. >
  
  Busy with what? They don’t even have jobs. >
  
  Busy fighting over who their new district manager is gonna be. >
  
  Assistant to the district manager. >
  
  Yeah, half of the R's are worried the FBI would be waiting to take them into custody. >
  
  They should be. >
  
  That was quick >
  
  Rapid- even >
  
  Aw yes. "Busy." >
  
  They don't want to back those blue cause they stopped THEM not the brown people. >
  
  Aren't they literally sitting at the scene of the crime right now fighting with each other over the Speaker of the House? >
  
  Republicans hate America. 
  Why would they attend anything that has even a whiff of celebrating democracy? >
  
  “During the ceremony, members of Congress honored the four officers who lost their lives as the result of the riot: Capitol Police Officers Brian Sicknick and Howard Leibengood, and DC Metropolitan Police Officers Gunther Hashida, Kyle DeFreytag, and Jeffrey Smith, ringing a bell each time their names were called. Sicknick suffered violent attacks during the riot, while the four other officers died by suicide in the days and months afterward.”
  Party of Law & Order + Blue Lives Matter doesn’t seem to GAF. >
  
  Not a riot. Call it what it was an insurrection. >
  
  "Domestic terrorist attack on the capital" is my preferred terminology over "insurrection."
  It frames Jan 6 for exactly what it was. Politically motivated violence designed to instill fear. 
  And it also leaves no wiggle room for those that defend what happened.
  And it also contextualizes the republican motto of "being tough on terrorism" in the early 00's and the wars they lied their way into. >
  
  That's not at all why they weren't there. Come on >
  
  The American version of the Feast of Fools. >
  
  I'm surprised they didn't try to lock all the doors to the House Chambers while all the Dem reps were outside so they could ram McCarthy through with a majority of Rep votes. >
  
  Two years ago, the Republican party led by a failed president, attacked the United States of America. This was an act of war! The purpose of this attack was to kill democracy in the United States take over the government and control the nations resources and they even had people in place to kill political officials!
  The Republicans were not there today because they’re planning their next attack! This is the only thing the press should talk about when they talk about any Republican! >
  
  Oh goddamnit why didn't I think of the date. Now I'm highly suspicious this will all get sorted out over the weekend/Monday because it, like so much else they do, is just theater meant as a distraction. They've had way more bad press over their attempted terroristic government coup than they want for a while, so pulling all this bullshit as a distraction so people don't talk about Jan 6 on... Jan 6. >
  
  Republicans are busy preparing for their next attempt to destroy the republic.  That attempt will involve paralyzing the House until the US defaults on its debt and causes a worldwide economic catastrophe. >
  
  r/Conservative has articles claiming Biden started this as an “anti-republican” holiday >
  
  If I'm remembering my history textbooks correctly, January 6 was originally the date picked by the brave fellow travelers in the Party of Trump to celebrate their anti-American beliefs. >
  
  They were too busy planning the next one >
  
  Suddenly the vote swings to yes. >
  
  Maybe this was all a game so they could just not take a stance, be asked about, or just be noticed on jan 6th. Considering they supported and encouraged this coup.... >
  
  Incorrect. They weren’t there because they supported the insurrection >
  
  They weren’t too busy they simply don’t care >
  
  This whole shit show almost seems staged just so the Jan 6 commemoration wouldn't be in the spotlight... >
  
  The house chaos was a planned distraction so they wouldnt have to join...jk repulicans arent organized enough to plan anything. >
  
  OR Republicans not showing up for that ceremony which wasn't political but to honor, just shows exactly how far down they have fallen and what side of democracy they  are really on. They I believe would rather show some kind of warped allegiance to the man that almost every one of them have admitted was responsible for January 6th >
  
  They did that when they voted against giving medals of honor to the Capitol police and snubbed them that same day.
  Two more Capitol cops killed themselves after that. >
  
  It just hit me. The whole McCarthy issue is playing out as a distraction to Jan 6. Mind. Blown. It’s all a act. >
  
  "Insurrection"
  There's been legal charges of that I believe. So "riot" no longer applies.
  (iirc) >
  
  Yeah that's why. >
  
  What if McCarthy gets the votes first thing on Monday now that Republicans were able to skip today. 
  Or even possibly he gets voted in at the end of the day today >
  
  Yep. The whole thing was a fake theatre act to steer media away from the January 6 topic. >
  
  They don't seem too interested in picking up the phone today either.  
  If one of them is your rep, try and call.  I've called throughout the week and today is the first time I'm getting VM.
  I wonder why. >
  
  Shame on Fox News for not covering it.
  Shame on republicans >
  
  Pssh we don't have time for things we did. Can't you see we can't even pick a leader?! How do you think we can do two things when we can't even do one thing... because of the Democrats?! It's all their fault!! -GQP >
  
  “Too busy” >
  
  Republican 1: “Damn we sucked in the last election, should we change in some way to better our chances?”
  Republican 2: “No, let’s keep being insufferable douche bags.” >
  
  Was this the play all along? Will the vote go through tomorrow now that they've used it as an excuse to be awful people? Why even play at covering it up anymore? It's incredibly obvious what they are by now. >
  
  Too busy or “didn’t want to” >
  
  It’s almost like there were more pressing matters than that. >
  
  No… they buggered the vote to roast mccarthy AND to have a lame excuse for crapping on the heroes of 1/6 and the other real patriots receiving awards. “Win/win” for the pro insurrectionists. >
  
  “Too busy” is a weird way to write “didn’t want to” >
  
  What fucking assholes Republicans are. >
  
  Holy FUUUUCK it's been two years already >
  
  Hold on… 2 years?!! >
  
  Nice F U to the great men and women of Capitol Blue that protect their sorry asses >
  
  2023… let it go >
  
  Did Republicans do this on purpose? >
  
  "Blue lives matter" yea right. Republicans didn't show up for the people who defended them. This is disgraceful! Fuck the speaker drama, this is the biggest story. >
  
  Been highly critical of the US my whole life, always bothered me to see such endless patriotism from people who cannot name 9 out of every 10 skeletons in our closet. 
  I never really believed in the whole “greatest country”, “land of the free”, beacon or bastion of whatever, but I guess I really did think it was at least the kind of place that would do something about domestic extremism jeopardizing it’s people. 
  Spending years watching traitors walk free kinda does something to your sense of hope & faith in this place, right? >
  
  cause it's ok to attack police officers if you're a white racist. >
  
  I'm not going to hold this one against them. They have a damned duty to figure their shit out and put a speaker in place so that they can actually get back to work! >
  
  Why would anyone with a brain commemorate the anniversary of a protest? It’s getting to the point of ridiculous. >
  
  
  Why would anyone with a brain commemorate the anniversary of a protest? It’s getting to the point of ridiculous.
  
  Yes, why would yall commemorate the time when a mob of fanatics stormed the capitol in an attempted insurrection... >
  
  Worse then 9/11 >
  
  There are more important things going on than to commemorate something that happened 2?years ago.? A waste of time >
  
  Guess we can take away July 4, it happened many decades ago. Same with veterans day, no need to commemorate that either. >
  
  Yes, let's commemorate meandering around the capitol day >
  
  I mean, destruction of property, theft, lot of talk about murdering the vice president and Ted Cruz, people being killed trying to claw their way into a barricaded room, etc.
  Yeah, just meandering. >
  
  I'll call it meandering cause that's what it a lot of it was. Just like you guys wanna say that the summer of 2020 was mostly peaceful protesting. You can't objectively say this was the worst thing ever post that summer. It's clearly some weird double standard and/or some jealousy that the right actually did civil disobedience better than antifa and other people who claim to be so anti-establishment. How ironic. And then someone posts an edited nytimes video of that day lol It's a joke if you believe this was a dark day >
  
  You understand how disingenuous it is to try and compare everything that happened over an entire summer to Jan 6th, right?
  And yeah, a crowd wanting to kill the vice president in an attempt to overturn an election is worse than burning down a Wendy's or something.
  How'd the right do civil disobedience better exactly? They got people killed based on a pipe dream to overturn an election. >
  
  Shows exactly where their priorities are, as if there was any doubt.  Sad. >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 75%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  On Friday morning, lawmakers gathered on the East front steps of the US Capitol to honor the police officers who died or were injured during the Capitol riot two years ago to the day.
  During the ceremony, members of Congress honored the four officers who lost their lives as the result of the riot: Capitol Police Officers Brian Sicknick and Howard Leibengood, and DC Metropolitan Police Officers Gunther Hashida, Kyle DeFreytag, and Jeffrey Smith, ringing a bell each time their names were called.
  The lawmakers then observed a 140-second member of silence to commemorate 140 other officers who were seriously injured during the riot.
  
  
  Extended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: officers^#1 ceremony^#2 during^#3 day^#4 Fitzpatrick^#5 >
  
  good, because they'd be doing a combination of celebrating it and planning for the next one not to fail >
  
  Are you kidding?  The 13th round of voting isnt going to fail itself! >
  
  Let’s be honest. They wouldn’t have attended even if a speaker were already selected. Republicans see January 6th as a positive thing. >
  
  Considering a lot of them were in on the deal, it's hardly surprising. >
  
  Failed coup- supporters don't tend to support the commemoration of the failed event >
  
  No. They weren’t there because they celebrated with cake and MTG had brought confetti pipe bombs. >
  
  Republicans were mourning it's failure, and planning for the next attempt. Since DOJ is not going to go after any of them, they have no fear of conspiring openly this time. >
  
  In all honesty did they even join on the one year anniversary... >
  
  Of course. They swept that under the rug >
  
  Oh, please. If it wasn't that, they would've come up with another excuse. The only hope the GOP has is to never let up on gaslighting about 1/6. >
  
  Shameful >
  
  Riot? >
  
  Wasn't a riot it was coup/insurrection to stop the peaceful transition of power and overthrow the government. >
  
  Yea they were. >
  
  They helped orchestrate it why would they try and look sad over it >
  
  Gee, why would the GOP schedule a conference in the middle of the ceremony? Weird coincidence… /s >
  
  Of course not.  It was their political party that did it. >
  
  “…2 years…” Let that sink in. >
  
  Plus they didn’t see or hear anything that day. >
  
  “too busy” >
  
  Like they would’ve gone anyways.  Fuck this headline >
  
  Coup** not riot. >
  
  Where were all the protesters?
  All in jail? Or congress. >
  
  They wouldn’t have shown up. Why would they even be invited? Are they actually even a functioning Party anymore? >
  
  The Jan 6 was nothing but bunch of corrupt politicians scared of being exposed and scared of their postions of power. We the people rule the country not those millionaires >
  
  That's why the charade of failing to elect a speaker has gone on this long. To have an excuse not to go to this or talk about it. I'm sure they will vote a speaker after this now >
  
  why would they celebrate failure of their operation? >
  
  That was the plan all along…the headlines are now crowded with something other than the two year anniversary of when Republicans planned and executed a coordinated attack on the United States of America. >
  
  Shit it has been 2 years, thought it was last year. >
  
  Those traitors wouldn't have come anyway >
  
  I’m sure they really really wanted to be there too. Pff yeah right. Republicans show again that they just don’t care enough about Americans. They are 
  Authoritarian now. That’s all they are. >
  
  Their full throated claims that this shit show is good despite also saying that they knew this was coming for months is staggering. Like is this what will happen every time something comes up… like the government funding bill for next year? That’s coming up in a few months… will republicans cause another government shutdown while they hash it out and have a plethora of votes on it? 
  I realize that Republicans are kinda forced to continue to push for Kevin to become Speaker now because putting anyone else forward will only give the freedom caucus more power ensuring that they pull this stunt again but geez…. It’s flabbergasting that they are fumbling this bad this publicly for this long. >
  
  January who ??? >
  
  n e 1 surprised? >
  
  How convenient for them >
  
  Back the Blue, but only when it’s convenient. >
  
  What's sad is that many of those McCarthy is cutting deals w are among the biggest January 6th deniers in Congress. >
  
  I kinda think the McCarthy thing is a  plan almost. Everyone forgot about the report and leader fiasco is controlling the news cycle >
  
  They don't believe it happened so why would they show up?