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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[josh]

https://nyegop.org/2021/01/08/a-letter-from-the-chairman

This, too, is real. (Might take a few tries to get through - somebody tweeted it out and their server has been overwhelmed.)

[LarryBnDC]

Tired of folks coming at me with, “Not everyone who voted for Trump is a white supremacist!”
Maybe not but y’all okay with backing one.

[LarryBnDC]

https://nyegop.org/2021/01/08/a-letter-from-the-chairman

This, too, is real. (Might take a few tries to get through - somebody tweeted it out and their server has been overwhelmed.)

It’s a death cult.

[josh]

Lots of governments provide anti-bias training.

The question is whether or how well it works. And the answer is, the bulk of the time it does not work well.

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/10/909380525/nypd-study-implicit-bias-training-changes-minds-not-necessarily-behavior

https://www.insider.com/police-defensive-deescalation-techniques-implicit-bias-training-2020-6

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/12/implicit-bias-training-salt-lake/548996/

The news is not all doomy gloomy:
https://www.police1.com/police-training/articles/quick-take-what-does-successful-anti-bias-training-look-like-NUWLUESCB6svMekx/

[kidcarter8]

Terrible post luee.  Just a really weak and willfully ignorant take.

Yet you offer no counter point.

[LarryBnDC]

Motherfucking Republicans


https://www.instagram.com/p/CJyxp1mDygy/?igshid=gza2rm686xi5

[josh]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/10/us/ufo-report-emergency-relief-bill-trnd/index.html

[Hamilton Samuels]

Lots of governments provide anti-bias training.

The question is whether or how well it works. And the answer is, the bulk of the time it does not work well.

https://www.npr.org/2020/09/10/909380525/nypd-study-implicit-bias-training-changes-minds-not-necessarily-behavior

https://www.insider.com/police-defensive-deescalation-techniques-implicit-bias-training-2020-6

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/12/implicit-bias-training-salt-lake/548996/

The news is not all doomy gloomy:
https://www.police1.com/police-training/articles/quick-take-what-does-successful-anti-bias-training-look-like-NUWLUESCB6svMekx/

We then the trainers aren't effective.

[luee]

This years police have been told to be less forceful, more understanding, and less committed to violence.  Now they are under attack for not shooting on sight at the capital building. Prez elect says, somewhat cynically, we all know what would have happened if they were black. Probably the same exact thing.

Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit

So can we expect four years of divisive race rhetoric and a further demonization of native born middle class American citizens?

---House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said that pro-Trump rioters who breached the Capitol on Wednesday "chose their Whiteness over Democracy."---

[kidcarter8]

Dershowitz:  "Trump will no longer be President and therefore cannot be tried in the Senate"

Rubio:  "We have no choice - if the House impeaches Trump we need to have a trial"

- Both quotes from the same show today

[josh]

This years police have been told to be less forceful, more understanding, and less committed to violence.  Now they are under attack for not shooting on sight at the capital building. Prez elect says, somewhat cynically, we all know what would have happened if they were black. Probably the same exact thing.

Get the fuck out of here with that bullshit

So can we expect four years of divisive race rhetoric and a further demonization of native born middle class American citizens?

---House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said that pro-Trump rioters who breached the Capitol on Wednesday "chose their Whiteness over Democracy."---

You would prefer the divisive race rhetoric of people like you, I understand, or of President Trump, or the rest of the GOP, and not truth.

[josh]

Dershowitz:  "Trump will no longer be President and therefore cannot be tried in the Senate"

Rubio:  "We have no choice - if the House impeaches Trump we need to have a trial"

- Both quotes from the same show today

Dershowitz is simply wrong. No news there - he is serving his client-to-be. But Cass Sunstein tends to agree with him, so maybe it is not purely posturing. There's also media exposure to keep in mind!

OTOH, Kid, we have already held one impeachment and trial after the individual had resigned from office - and back in that year the GOP has been so fond of lately! 1876, we had an impeachment of the (barely) former Sec'y of War. The trial ended with a majority, but not 2/3rds, so he was acquitted.

But the precedent is pretty clear. We have done it, so we can do it. And that's without the impeachment portion happening while the individual was still in, but trial after they've left, which is another position held by some.

[josh]

https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/2467051/planning-and-execution-timeline-for-the-national-guards-involvement-in-the-janu/

The DoD is calling Jan 6th's events, "First Amendment Protests."

That's the kind of whitewashing of events that Kid and Luee seem to want.

[bodiddley]

Dershowitz is a horrible human being.
Cass Sunstein taught the worst law school course I ever had.

[josh]

Some conservative media are now pushing the bogus story that Pope Francis was arrested.