January 30, 2021: The January 6 Mob Was "Provoked" by the President

 

1/30/21: David Millage, longtime conservative activist, and member of the Iowa GOP, has the nerve to say that Trump deserves to be impeached for his role in stirring up the mob that attacked the Capitol.

 

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“They were provoked by the president, and other powerful people.” 

Sen. Mitch McConnell

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In today’s version of the Republican Party, he gets swamped by nasty phone calls, emails, and social media posts. 

One calls him, simply, “Traitor.” 

Millage’s sin: speaking his mind to a reporter on the evening of January 6. “I think they ought to impeach” him, he said, answering a question the reporter didn’t ask. “For the president to egg them on is just atrocious conduct,” Millage added.

 

Millage, 67, had voted for Trump twice. Finally, the president’s anti-democratic tendencies proved too much. First, Trump had cozied up to dictators. Now the riot. “That he would rather have state legislatures and judges appoint our president rather than the voters, and then what he did on Jan. 6 was just over the top,” Millage told the Associated Press.

 

He was soon forced to resign his positions in the party.

 

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JACOB MONTY, another life-long Republican, and a major donor, saves the Trumpophiles the trouble of casting him out. “If you stay in the Republican Party, you have to pay homage to Trump and I don’t do that. I don’t pray to any man,” he explains.

 

When asked if he thought the GOP was now the party of QAnon, he replied, “Absolutely. Trump owns the party and Trump has always loved the conspiracy theories and this is Trump’s party now.”

 

Mr. Monty quits the party.

 

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ANY FOOL (Sean Hannity comes to mind) can find members of the Republican Party willing to attack Democratic leaders. It’s equally easy to find Democrats to attack Republicans. It’s different when members of a party speak out against their own. Today, Sen. Mitch McConnell made his feelings clear on the floor of the Senate. “The mob was fed lies,” he said of the Capitol Hill rioters. “They were provoked by the president, and other powerful people.”

 

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PROTESTERS at Dodger Stadium in Anaheim, California blocked traffic at a vaccination site for COVID-19. 

The geniuses in this case carried signs like: “99.96% Survival Rate,” if you catch the virus. So we know they don’t get math. 

One carried a placard that read, “Save Your Soul Turn Back Now.” They don’t get theology, either. 

Another demonstrator, determined not to wear a mask, held a sign that read: “I Only Like Muzzles in the Bedroom.” It had hearts to set off the word “Bedroom.” 

“You’re a lab rat,” one anti-vaxxer screamed. 

And there’s still more of this right-wing gibberish. Even the BBC takes note of this gathering of idiots. 

A post on social media called the protest the “Scamdemic Protest/March”.

 

“This is a sharing information protest and march against everything COVID, Vaccine, PCR Tests, Lockdowns, Masks, Fauci, Gates, Newsom, China, digital tracking, etc.” it said.

 

People waiting in their cars, in line, were held up for an hour before police showed up and chased away the loonies.