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Huli_Blue_Eyes t1_j8ezm32 wrote

So, he knew about the J6 planning. Because he helped.

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Pick_Zoidberg t1_j8fldj1 wrote

Everyone knew J6 was going to be a thing. It had a weeks of media coverage and all kinds of public groups.

I think the only people who were shocked by the turnout were the ones responsible for containing the turnout.

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bozitybozitybopzebop t1_j8gm7pa wrote

Not everyone.

The Capitol Police knew, and they requested the national guard be brought in 3 days beforehand.

Someone intentionally made the National Guard sit on their hands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack

People weren't shocked. This was an inside job.

I await further firings.

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Professional-Bee-190 t1_j8hmd4n wrote

This is going to culminate with the most seriously worded letter in the history of history!!

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Most_Ruin_3005 t1_j8i7bxn wrote

You should await further coup attempts, because they're coming. Fascism is a cancer that, unless stamped out, will fester and hollow out all that it touches. We still haven't made moves against the fascists that coordinated the first coup, so it's all but guaranteed that there'll be a second.

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BrownEggs93 t1_j8j7ozk wrote

> I await further firings.

I want hangings. These people are still sitting in seats of power, still "guiding" this country's policies. Fuck them.

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blankarage t1_j8jmxh6 wrote

if there ever was a case for denaturalization, this would be it.

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Mumof3gbb t1_j8g6fgz wrote

Yup! I’m Canadian and I was watching a YouTuber who was from Washington and I remember early December being worried about her. We knew. Anyone who says they didn’t is either living under a rock or lying.

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excitedburrit0 t1_j8gcvxy wrote

In all of my 4 years lived under the Trump presidency, never once did I turn on the livestream to see a rally of his. But that morning I did. Had to tune in for Copefest 2021. Everyone who was paying attention to the post election news *knew* something was in the air.

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Jessica65Perth t1_j8h5a2j wrote

I live in Perth Australia and woke up in the middle of the night to watch expecting it, based on what Trump had been saying and comments on Social media by his cultists. I expected to see a strong Police presence

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jardex22 t1_j8h0xxo wrote

Even other organizations were specifically telling their members to not go out to counter protest. They knew shit was going to happen, and they would be blamed as the cause if they were there.

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Malaix t1_j8h6n5u wrote

/r parlerwatch basically started because conservatives on that site wouldn't shut the fuck up about how much they wanted to do an insurrection/civil war 2.

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phoenix_fire_starter t1_j8hcghp wrote

Brit here, never once in my life watched any American news live. But on J6 I tuned in knowing something was going to happen. 10/10 best coup coverage I've ever seen.

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nordic-nomad t1_j8huf2h wrote

Yeah us news is weird. On an average day you’re liable to be less informed about what’s going on watching the news than people who don’t.

But if something major is happening then it all kind of makes sense and you know more than people that are actually there about what’s happening and every angle of why and what could happen next. It’s a bizarre dichotomy.

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sirdiamondium t1_j8iarkn wrote

There was a law about it called the Fairness Doctrine but the Reagan administration collapsed it… now anything broadcast can call itself “news” no matter how fictional it is

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Alan_Smithee_ t1_j8gjinu wrote

I predicted it in 2016.

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MillyBDilly t1_j8j05ac wrote

so in 2016, you said on Jan. 6th there will be an insurrection?

Or do you just

'predict' that a crisis was on its way like experts have been saying since the tea party?

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Alan_Smithee_ t1_j8j0kip wrote

I actually said that Trump would refuse to leave the White House, and there would be some sort of unrest or insurrection.

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Tinkerballsack t1_j8kfvvj wrote

Yeah, they planned and announced it on Facebook, Twitter and TV. Charlie Kirk let everyone know about his buses on Twitter.

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2020willyb2020 t1_j8m5sse wrote

Be there…. It’s gonna be wild. We’re gonna make history or some shit

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cosmernaut420 t1_j8fn8ms wrote

And ole Kev's butthole puckered up real tight because up until that moment, he didn't actually believe there were others in the government in cahoots with the nutbags who wanted to execute him on the lawn.

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swizzcheez t1_j8h243c wrote

Might even have been the architect of the plan.

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kingtz t1_j8ffkgg wrote

>The federal watchdog also accused Blanton, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, of ethics violations over an offer to provide tours to “patriots” weeks before the November 2020 election.

This seriously needs to be looked at a lot deeper...check his phone logs, text messages, emails, check for his fingerprints on those pipe bombs, etc.

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ohimjustakid t1_j8fhxea wrote

CSPAN recently did a podcast episode on this guy

> Mr Blanton sometimes let his wife and daughter use the (work) vehicle when he was not present; He took the vehicle on roadtrips as far south as SC and Florida; He also allegedly misrepresented himself as a LEO in an incident where a driver hit the car of his daughter's boyfriend - chased that driver and briefly detained him; Allegedly led tours with his Wife of the capitol building during COVID shutdowns.

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cosmernaut420 t1_j8fnpjt wrote

>pretends to be a cop and illegally detain some rando who hit your daughter's boyfriend's car

Everything you need to know about this person. Total fucking sociopath power tripping on his own bureaucratic farts.

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Picture-unrelated OP t1_j8fr9bi wrote

There is literally zero possibility of being a decent human being if you are willing to do that

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Laffingglassop t1_j8idksl wrote

As a father, if my daughter had a boyfriend, and his car got hit, id be laughing at him talkin bout him being a no car bum. Def wouldnt chase the perp down.

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MillyBDilly t1_j8j0f4v wrote

You laugh at people how get hit by cars? or do you just laugh at your daughter boyfriend to make her feel bad?

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Laffingglassop t1_j8j18gm wrote

That is so far off base. Nowhere has anyone said shit about a person being hit by a car until you. A car was hit by a car. And this was never about "people"in general.

But yeah sure bud im a horrible person , so whats it to you.

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Reasonable_Ticket_84 t1_j8mte3x wrote

Jesus, he's just joking around on the internet.

You do realize that people don't have to be serious on the internet? Right? Right??

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demarr t1_j8flzjw wrote

It's almost like trump ran the government like the MOB

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psychedoutcasts t1_j8fqhmt wrote

Most Republicans are Mafia. We've been run that way for a long time now.

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demarr t1_j8fsml1 wrote

No we haven't and it a farce to equate it to the past. This is new and It just downplays the acts him Admin did.

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psychedoutcasts t1_j8fu464 wrote

When everyone is in the same clubs and fraternities and interests converge, it's hard to tell otherwise.

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Xardrix t1_j8ha4iy wrote

>He also allegedly misrepresented himself as a LEO in an incident where a driver hit the car of his daughter's boyfriend - chased that driver and briefly detained him

I don't know about other states, but in Georgia law books that's two felonies.

  1. 16-10-23 Impersonating a Public Officer or Employee
  2. 51-7-20 False Imprisonment

Forget fired, this guy needs to be investigated for multiple felonies.

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kingtz t1_j8iturq wrote

Merrick "the Turtle of Justice" Garland strikes again.

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kingtz t1_j8j5aj3 wrote

I agree. Not to mention that if it wasn't a high profile right winger, anybody else would be cuffed and in jail already. It really galls me that they get treated with kid gloves and given every benefit of the doubt.

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gmb92 t1_j8fitmn wrote

"The federal watchdog also accused Blanton, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, of ethics violations over an offer to provide tours to “patriots” weeks before the November 2020 election."

Somehow don't think the calls for his resignation would have any serious bipartisan element if 45 was still president. He wouldn't have been fired.

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youngmoneymarvin t1_j8flyeo wrote

It wasn’t so much that he wanted to provide tours to ‘patriots’ but his agency had just implemented a policy barring employees from bringing non-employees into the building for tours.

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Axerwylde t1_j8id1b9 wrote

It really rubs me the wrong way that Republicans have somehow co-opted “patriot”. Like they are somehow the only patriots in this country.

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syrynxx t1_j8j7g8l wrote

I remind myself that "patriot" has the same letters as "traitor" if you use the Russian "P" pronounced "r".

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Marchinon t1_j8i0myf wrote

I like how they always use “watchdog” when they could just list the name of said watchdog.

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FapMeNot_Alt t1_j8ifv4e wrote

It's how they refer to the Office of Inspector General instead of repeating themselves.

>In the fall, an inspector general report accused Blanton of abuse of government property and wasting taxpayer dollars by allowing his family to drive a government-owned vehicle and taking the vehicle on out-of-town trips to South Carolina and Florida, according to the report. The federal watchdog also accused Blanton, who was appointed by former President Donald Trump, of ethics violations over an offer to provide tours to “patriots” weeks before the November 2020 election.

On top of providing clarity in the sense that it somewhat explains what the inspector general does, restating like this can help keep readers from becoming disengaged due to repetitious writing. The issue here is that the headline buries the lede and tries to drum up minor controversy.

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Picture-unrelated OP t1_j8f72p8 wrote

If you are wondering about WTF this guy does Wikipedia gives a brief overview

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architect_of_the_Capitol

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bluebirdgm t1_j8fsz0b wrote

Yeah, my first reaction was “Why is his job title ‘Architect of the Capitol’? Wasn’t that job done over 200 years ago?”

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cosmernaut420 t1_j8fnxw6 wrote

Probably thought the pudgy orange mob boss was setting him up with a real cush gig. Barely work at all.

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johnny5semperfi t1_j8gthkk wrote

Yeah this guy definitely ran a contraband pipeline for the Mob.

/He then served as Deputy Vice President for Engineering at the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority which operates the Reagan National and Dulles International Airports.[5]\

Fixes tie I do import export

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hegotthedream t1_j8fp2cw wrote

I can't believe there are people who were serving under trump still working in any aspect of any job that Biden can fire outright

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UofMtigers2014 t1_j8fywv4 wrote

There were TONS of people in Washington who worked in government jobs that served multiple administrations. It was actually Trump who broke the mold and him and his cronies went on massive firing spree's to basically rid departments of any liberal minded people.

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Kharnsjockstrap t1_j8g6u4g wrote

He literally kept Eric holder and Salley Yates on as AG so if he was doing that he was pretty fucking shit at it lol

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UofMtigers2014 t1_j8gbo92 wrote

You’re literally making stuff up. Holder left AG before Trump was even elected back in 2015 and was replaced by Loretta Lynch. Then Yates served as interim AG while the Senate confirmed Jeff Sessions.

Yates was then fired before Sessions was confirmed because she wouldn’t sign off on Trump’s travel ban from Arab countries. That was like a week into his Presidency.

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Kharnsjockstrap t1_j8gc2bi wrote

Sorry yeah Loretta lynch not holder. Stayed on for a year into the presidency. Just figured if he was purging lynch would be first to go and Yates wouldn’t have even been sat

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UofMtigers2014 t1_j8gdafh wrote

Nope. Yates was the interim after Lynch was relieved after Trump was inaugurated. It went Holder, Lynch, Yates (like a week), some other dude for 3 days, and then Jeff Sessions.

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Kharnsjockstrap t1_j8gdfwp wrote

Nope? But yates was AG into 2017 iirc

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Drakonx1 t1_j8gkcaz wrote

Lynch was removed on inauguration day in 2017, and Yates was fired on Jan 30th, so 10 days.

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PineappIeSuppository t1_j8hypay wrote

Literally nothing you have recalled thus far is correct.

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Kharnsjockstrap t1_j8iidfd wrote

Lynch was ag into 2017 that’s all I posted and I get blown up with ass mad reddit posts. Trump left her AG into the next year and left Yates as her interim. Those are both correct statements.

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cubedweller t1_j8iitpn wrote

You literally have zero idea what you’re talking about. Yet you keep talking. Lol.

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Kharnsjockstrap t1_j8iiyrq wrote

Nah you’re right I’m confused. Post the year lynch left office maybe I’m misremembering.

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Ronin_Y2K t1_j8jbhvx wrote

It's cool, friend. The past few years have melted all of our brains.

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Some-Redditor t1_j8gqkep wrote

The election was in Nov. 2016 and inauguration was Jan. 2017.

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whoelsehatesthisshit t1_j8hcaoh wrote

Inauguration marks beginning of new administration. It takes place ~Jan 20 following the election, so Nov 2016 election = Jan 2017 Trump. The time between the election and inauguration is for peaceful transfer of power.*

*Until recently

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shryke12 t1_j8hy25q wrote

Lmao this dude just keeps doubling down on ignorance.

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Picture-unrelated OP t1_j8fpcyz wrote

Eh me too but I think it’s just a Washington DC thing, where they don’t want to look like they are doing some massive purge.

Not that I care about those optics, they should just do a purge

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hegotthedream t1_j8fr02h wrote

like not even a Janitor or a groundskeeper should be left wonder if they fired the Diet Coke guy yet

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Professional-Can1385 t1_j8gxpmn wrote

Washington used to be run this way. The president could fire everyone and put his folks in positions. That’s how you lose all the institutional knowledge a place has. If everyone at the FDA is replaced by new people, then everyone has to be trained and new drugs aren’t approved, food plants aren’t inspected. It’s a nightmare and bad for the country.

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Epistatious t1_j8h06uv wrote

Obama kept Comey in as FBI director, even though he was a Bush Jr appointment, and that worked pretty well, especially for Hillary, but really for all of us. /s

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dmcnaughton1 t1_j8exbqm wrote

I'm confused as to how Biden is able to fire this guy. I thought the Architect of the Capitol is a legislative branch agency, not an executive branch one.

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LimitedSwimmer t1_j8eyce3 wrote

Nominated by the president and confirmed by the senate I looked and didn't see anything clear cut but would think misconduct gives a lot of leeway.

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dmcnaughton1 t1_j8eykcp wrote

Ah, that makes sense. If nominated by the President then they can be fired at will. SCOTUS opinion on that dates back to Andrew Jackson. No way to legislatively protect a presidential appointment from being fired.

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avatoin t1_j8gu9d4 wrote

IIRC, this doesn't apply to committee type positions like the FTC. If it's a single position then he can fire, but Congress can protect committees/councils.

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TimeRemove t1_j8ezv1e wrote

Architect of the Capitol (AOC) is a federal agency. The Architect of the Capitol (federal agency) has an appointee (10-year term) also, confusingly, called the Architect of the Capitol. It has around 2.5K federal employees and an almost $1B budget.

So it being both a federal agency and also a presidential appointee, means the President has a lot of power. In this case congress essentially told Biden to replace him (bipartisan), and he did. Likely won't be controversial.

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asdaaaaaaaa t1_j8fe5l0 wrote

> The Architect of the Capitol (federal agency) has an appointee (10-year term) also, confusingly, called the Architect of the Capitol.

I expect absolutely nothing less in the form of confusing bullshit from our government.

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LepoGorria t1_j8fgdch wrote

Gentlemen, affairs of the State take precedence over affairs of the State!

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johnjohn4011 t1_j8fffhm wrote

Won't be controversial? Lol - Everything Biden does totally sucks and was the worst decision it's kind EVER, to certain, unnamed people.

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FamilyStyle2505 t1_j8fpwii wrote

Let's just see what happens. No use projecting negativity in advance.

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johnjohn4011 t1_j8fqshn wrote

Lol ok - was that statement incorrect? Just pointing out that there are those that will never be publicly happy with any decision made by any Democrat no matter what - except to gloat over their supposed mistakes. Such people thrive on controversy and would not know what to do without it.

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bubbafatok t1_j8i6qwa wrote

I mean, you're not exactly treading new ground here. There's an old joke (very very old) about a president predicting that if he walked on water the news reports would exclaim "President Can't Swim". Going back my entire life, which is back to the 70's, I can't think of a president would could do blow their nose without someone on the opposition side attacking them for it.

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DFWPunk t1_j8eyze1 wrote

It's a Presidential appointment, despite being under the Legislative Branch.

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JennJayBee t1_j8ffnro wrote

Someone already answered, but I want to add that there were bipartisan calls from Congress for his removal, and that includes McCarthy. So even if it wasn't a presidential appointment, I'm sure Congress likely would have done the same here.

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nochinzilch t1_j8gso46 wrote

The building (or campus if you like) is federal government property and managed by the federal government.

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Benni_Shoga t1_j8fjrt3 wrote

He is accountable to any branch

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dmcnaughton1 t1_j8g4tor wrote

Yes, but nominally he's directly accountable to the President as he's a presidential appointee to a legislatively created position. Congress could impeach him, and the courts could enjoin him, but only the president can fire him.

Edit: clarified it's a legislatively created position. Constitutional positions, such as Federal Judges, are presidential appointments, but are not directly accountable to the President and are only answerable to Congress.

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VegasKL t1_j8f1qxy wrote

Odd, I figured the architect died a hundred something years ago. A little late to fire him.

/s

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WeaselTeamSix t1_j8fpn2p wrote

Anyone appointed by Trump is likely bent and corrupt.

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Bellerophonix t1_j8ezg6j wrote

Someone explain to me why people are mad this guy wasn't around during Jan 6? Like, what is his role exactly that he was supposed to be helpful with that?

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LimitedSwimmer t1_j8ezmjo wrote

He is in the chain with the capital police responses. He is supposed to be coordinating with them to provide police access to Capitol property.

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panther254 t1_j8f97kp wrote

He is basically in charge of the building and all its facilities he also sits on the capitol police board. Obviously on a big day like Jan 6 even before the riot you would want him around.

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KingGidorah t1_j8gz1vq wrote

Can anyone explain to me how, after more than 2 years on, anyone appointed by Trump is still in place? WTF are they doing up there? You’d think they’d have a team dedicated to identifying these douches ffs

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Suspicious_Bicycle t1_j8gknz6 wrote

Is this the guy that allowed McCarthy to squat in the speakers office for a week before he was actually elected to the speakership?

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CantConfirmOrDeny t1_j8f2yth wrote

So why can't Biden just fire the goddam Postmaster General then?

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kstinfo t1_j8f3yx0 wrote

google it

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allegate t1_j8feybm wrote

Right? For as many times as this is asked I’m surprised there are people who still don’t know. Just fuckin look it up, Christ.

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Zounii t1_j8hkbs4 wrote

Architect of the Capitol?

Dude must be old as heck by now.

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UpbeatCloseness78 t1_j8ge3r1 wrote

There are a lot of tRump appointees that are still in government jobs. As far as I am concerned all of them need to go

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punkfunkymonkey t1_j8h6v33 wrote

Did this joker have anything to do with the panic alarms being disconnected?

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wingfan1469 t1_j8mcv6m wrote

Ooooh, now do the Postmaster General.

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Payinchange t1_j8fm4rk wrote

Sounds like they tossed another traitor out?

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Kahzootoh t1_j8gp1xq wrote

It’s kind of infuriating watching the members of Congress be so indignant that the Architect was not sharing their own peril by being at the Capitol during the unrest, when many of them do a similar thing to the American people by distancing themselves against the dangerous levels of confusion and anger in society they help create with their governance.

When Covid hit, the biggest threat to many of them was that their cocktail parties at expensive DC bars and restaurants were a health risk. While the rest of Americans were struggling with layoffs, reduced orders/demand, the isolation from friends and family, and the dangers of Covid- the biggest challenge for most of Congress was figuring out how to have lunch at exclusive restaurants without the press finding out and exposing them as hypocrites.

When they got a briefing on how bad Covid could be, what was the first thing they did? They adjusted their stock portfolios to profit off of the pandemic, and advised their biggest donors with stock tips. The second thing they did was start putting out dueling press conferences to publicly bicker with each other in front of the media, and drive up the polarization and public fear over Covid. Assistance to the American people took much longer to materialize, and only came after Congress and their rich donors were already in position to profit from the crisis.

Members of Congress don’t have to live on a typical income, they don’t have to pay medical bills, they don’t live among the same neighborhoods as the average American. They don’t experience normal life, they don’t suffer the consequences for their part in creating a dangerous society by the laws they pass and the laws they fail to pass. They’re collectively like a chef that refuses to eat his own cooking, but whose cooking is the only food available to the entire nation.

With such habits of evading responsibility for one’s own actions ingrained in all of the elites, is it really surprising that the Architect didn’t expose himself to the same peril as Congress that he had a hand in creating?

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bubbafatok t1_j8i78ni wrote

It's less about sharing the peril and more that during a major event at the capitol such as this it is reasonable that he would have been on site.

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MillyBDilly t1_j8j1afp wrote

lol, I take it you get all your news from reddit posts?

Bothsides!11!!, tied with straw man, misinformation, and ad hom. A regular melting pot of fallacy

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Complete_Entry t1_j8h6o63 wrote

He took them on dry runs. Just like Marge.

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Educational_Permit38 t1_j8h78ky wrote

Another inept and just plain crooked trump appointee. So many.

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dofffman t1_j8j926q wrote

I don't get it. Why would he fire the guy that laid out how washington DC federal buildings and made blueprints for them. I honestly did not think he was still alive much less working.

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isisishtar t1_j949qny wrote

Is that tRump appointee still head of the Post Office? I think he needs to go too.

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Techutante t1_j8hpehh wrote

Aww, now you have to pay him unemployment!

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Meatball_pressure t1_j8hx0fv wrote

"Rules for thee, but not for me!”

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yesmaybeyes t1_j8hxc23 wrote

Next will be the Ironclad Researchers Group and then the BiPlane Machinists Overseer.

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KingGidorah t1_j8gzavr wrote

Don’t forget about the Postmaster General while you’re at it, Joe…

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Jessica65Perth t1_j8h53uw wrote

So he should be fired, only politicions can abuse public funds the wsy he did. How dare he

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GongTzu t1_j8fb565 wrote

It’s no shame to go, when you are kicked out.

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Memd0 t1_j8fseot wrote

Nominated by the president. He can fire Thomas , barrett etc?

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FizzyBeverage t1_j8fzoko wrote

Nope. Justices can be impeached but conviction is 2/3rds senate vote. Not likely in our lifetime in either direction.

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jpipersson t1_j8fetcz wrote

Everyone was just happy they found someone who both Republicans and Democrats could jump on. I guess that's bipartisanship. Everybody loves a good scapegoat.

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kstinfo t1_j8f3v47 wrote

Bipartisan? Wow! How'd that happen?

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