Well that's where Mets starts. He eventually gets somewhere above a quarter up from the bottom.
Anyway, if Mets was smart enough to pick a video he could have picked this interview where Rep. Jayapal explains
exactly the full situation and context:
https://www.thecut.com/2021/01/prami...tol-riots.html
We have a Congresswoman, who had a cane after a recent surgery...which means by the way she can't simply run and bolt at a moment's notice like everyone else making her uniquely vulnerable. She wore a mask and then capitol police told her to get on the floor (which again because of her cane meant that it was hard for her to bend down and then get back again) and use the special gasmasks they have at the Capitol for gas attacks...and then she goes and finds herself in a special anteroom where she has no choice to walk away from (physically and situationally). While also dealing with the notion that as a South Asian woman, she can't blend in and will stick out and would probably be a target for the mob.
Not to mention by the way that Republicans in the room not only refused a mask when offered but basically gloated and sneered at the offer by the Dem Represenative from Delaware, Lisa Blunt Rochester. Including among those Republicans is that Qanon Clown Marjorie Greene, Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs, Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry, Texas Rep. Michael Cloud, and Oklahoma Rep. Markwayne Mullin, who can be heard rebuffing Rochester’s proffered mask by telling her, “I’m not trying to get political here.”
Anyway, that's that. It's kind of infuriating that when you have posters who have proven themselves to argue in bad faith multiple times, sloppy in their reasoning and citations, that you have to go out of your way to be thorough. It's an extension of "work twice as hard to be half as good". You need to read far more extensively, and post longer to refute this, then these figures have to about their posting. It's exhausting frankly. And I wish there was a ranking of "good faith" about posters on CBR and elsewhere. In academics, when you have people do sloppy citations or work, there's a mark against that and it goes in the record. We need to introduce that to online discourse.
What gives power to the crazies is the non-crazy conservatives deciding to get in bed with them because they care more about tax cuts and stacking the judiciary than any long-term plan to reform their ideology. Numerically, the MAGAs would not have been a national level movement, and would not find themselves in power. Yet the Republicans despite your own party condemning Trump during the primaries in strongest of terms decided to get in bed with them because you guys wanted to own the libs far more than own yourself.
The Republican party should do what Lyndon B. Johnson did when he backed the Civil Rights Movement knowing that doing so would cost the Dems the South. Johnson believed that losing the South might cost the Dems in the short term but would ultimately benefit them. If any Republican had real principle, they would take stock regroup and redo the party aware that it might cost them short term but ultimately reform into a more viable party later on. But you guys want power...and I mean all of the power. It's not gonna stop with 6-3, it's gonna go till it's 9-0, it's going to continue until NYC is gerrymandered, isn't it? The Democrats can praise Republican presidents and senators and representatives and build on their policies and works but no Republican now or in the past can bring themselves to credit the Dems with anything, nor can they admit that Dems in power isn't really so bad.
What else is there to say? Republicans want us to agree that voting for HRC over Trump was a "bridge too far". No it wasn't. It was an easy choice, just as voting for Biden over Trump was easy...or voting for Sanders over Trump would have been easy.