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Remember the rule of the ledge: no matter how bad you think it is, it’s actually worse.

The GOP has fomented a terrorist movement that has tens of millions of adherents. It continues to do so. It’s going to get worse. One person dead today? That will be a footnote when this is all over.

I remember the last terrorist attack on my capital. I was enraged then. I listened to this attack unfold in real time today. I am raged again. And this time, the terrorist movement isn’t some nuts 10,000 miles away. It’s my fellow countrymen, willing to destroy my nation if they can’t have it.

The GOP is a terrorist organization. It must be destroyed. Nothing less will do.
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Just now, Grandioso said:

Lovett and his analogies, just perfect.

 

So is Trump gonna be the Waingro then?  We're gonna tie up all the loose ends before we leave town?  

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Saint Tacky

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2 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

I’ve told this story before but I interned and worked in the state Capitol in the lead up and during all of the 82nd legislature most of 2010 they mid 2011. Anybody could walk into the Capitol, no metal wand, no basic security measures, no nothing. Few months into being an intern some random guy walked up to the front of the Congress entrance, fired a few rounds into the air and waited to be arrested. Nothing changed immediately. Once the session began I was on the crack team of fearless messengers that did all your bs busybody work. I was in the state senate side and had a hate-hate relationship with Rick de Leon the sergeant at arms. Always had to fill up his ice chests whenever he decided to shoot some animal and throw it in the back of his truck on the way to work. One morning after finishing it I was waiting in his office and a Capitol deputy came in and asked me and his secretary if he was in but he wasn’t. Deputy said please get ahold of him immediately and he took out from his pocket a red handkerchief with some peashooter gun they found hidden in the Senate gallery. Could not have been bigger than my thumb to pinky. At the end of the day he called me into his office and asked I tell nobody (told everyone at HH). Came in next week and they finally put up the metal detectors at all entrances. 
 

Telling the story just to show a lot of basic measures weren’t even implemented until 10 years ago here in Austin.

I worked in the House Sergeant at Arms office in 1985 for the 69th Legislature. I was assigned to the doorway of the House floor and was told only Representatives were allowed past me.  It's odd looking back now and thinking that only a 160-pound sack of shit in a blue blazer stood between Gib Lewis, the House of Representatives, and a potentially motivated gunman.

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I don't think Bernie is there.

He dropped a 4000 page unbound proposal for overhauling the out-of-pocket maximum for dental plans in Montana during the fracas earlier today and is still attempting to re-order the pages before returning to the floor.  As of last reports, he is completely unaware of the rest of the events of the day.  

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I worked in the House Sergeant at Arms office in 1985 for the 69th Legislature. I was assigned to the doorway of the House floor and was told only Representatives were allowed past me.  It's odd looking back now and thinking that only a 160-pound sack of shit in a blue blazer stood between Gib Lewis, the House of Representatives, and a potentially motivated gunman.

I worked for the Senate Sergeant at Arms during the 1987 session.  Sometimes on the floor during session, sometimes answering office phones, running bills around to different buildings (Enrolling and Engrossing holla!), sometimes even got to take the shitty Senate car - a Ford Escort with the stenciled "Texas Senate" on the door - to run other official errands, and sometimes running the elevator to the floor.  Good times.

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the thing that has stuck out to me the most today his how little security our elected officials actually have. from Mitt being harassed in the airport to the insurrection on our Capitol, I would have expected secret police to be coming out of panels in the walls and from inside the ceiling and through the floors to stop these traitorous thugs from ever getting 50 feet from the front doors, much less into the chambers. hollywood definitely failed my perceptions, but we have seriously failed ourselves. we failed this test miserably. glad these people weren't more competent

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4 minutes ago, Saint Tacky said:

I worked in the House Sergeant at Arms office in 1985 for the 69th Legislature. I was assigned to the doorway of the House floor and was told only Representatives were allowed past me.  It's odd looking back now and thinking that only a 160-pound sack of shit in a blue blazer stood between Gib Lewis, the House of Representatives, and a potentially motivated gunman.

You were just there to absorb a bullet and give everyone a head start for the exits.

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Just now, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

the thing that has stuck out to me the most today his how little security our elected officials actually have. from Mitt being harassed in the airport to the insurrection on our Capitol, I would have expected secret police to be coming out of panels in the walls and from inside the ceiling and through the floors to stop these traitorous thugs from ever getting 50 feet from the front doors, much less into the chambers. hollywood definitely failed my perceptions, but we have seriously failed ourselves. we failed this test miserably. glad these people weren't more competent

 

epic, epic fail by capitol security today. they had zero preparations in place 

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