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After every single Republican voted against Joe Biden's coronavirus relief legislation, some Republicans complained the bill was an affront to "unity" because of the united GOP opposition.
Despite polls showing the majority of Republican Party voters supporting the legislation, GOP lawmakers have argued that unity among the American people is irrelevant if members of Congress don't care.
<p>Following the vote, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) <a href="https://twitter.com/LeaderMcConnell/status/1368270773924880391" target="_blank">complained</a> that voters had "picked a president who promised unity and bipartisanship."</p><p>Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenKevinCramer/status/1368272117305839618" target="_blank">said</a>, "it's clear whatever [Biden] meant when he promised unity, he's failed miserably."</p><p>Legendary actor and civil rights activist George Takei disagreed.</p><p>"Unity must continue to mean that government leaders agree to rally around the things the vast majority of Americans want. It can't ever mean we rally around those things and they thumb their noses at it. That's not unity. That's just spite," he <a href="https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/1368395967104389123" target="_blank">explained</a> on Twitter.</p><p>He went on to lecture Republicans on Trump's "Big Lie" about election fraud, which resulted in the fatal January 6th insurrection and hundreds of bills in state legislatures to suppress the vote.</p><p><br/></p><div class="rm-embed embed-media"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet">In history there are some clear rights and wrongs. The Confederacy was in the wrong. Segregationists were in the wrong. And now the GOP and the Big Lie are in the wrong. <br/><br/>History will record it so, but we must now ask it of every leader: <br/>“On which side of history do you stand?"<br/>— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) <a href="https://twitter.com/GeorgeTakei/status/1368400920480944129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 7, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div>
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'Complete bonkers': Lauren Boebert says it is Democrats who are obsessed with conspiracy theories
March 06, 2021
Gun-toting Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) complained on Fox News on Saturday about security at the U.S. Capitol following the fatal January 6th insurrection by supporters of Donald Trump.
During the riot, Boebert live-tweeted on Speaker Nancy Pelosi's location. Following the riot, Boebert sided with the insurrectionists and voted to overturn election results.
<p>"No one on the outside can get into the Capitol," Boebert complained to Fox News personality Jeanine Pirro. "It is only staffers and members of Congress who are allowed at the people's house -- at our nation's Capitol."<br/><br/>"Judge Jeanine, this is complete bonkers that we are keeping people out the United States Capitol," she argued. "There is clearly not a threat, there was nothing that happened on March 4th, the Democrats are obsessed with conspiracy theories -- and they won't let them go!" </p><p>Despite her accusations against Democrats, it is Boebert who has <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/gop-lawmaker-who-once-voiced-support-for-qanon-now-wants-to-bring-a-gun-to-the-capitol/" target="_blank">voiced support for the QAnon conspiracy theory</a>.</p><p>She then went on to push the latest version of Trump's "Big Lie" about Democrats' election protection bill, the For the People Act.</p>
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Trump supporters' lawsuit against grocery clerk over insurrection may backfire: report
March 06, 2021
Katheryn Cagle and her mother Thelma Cagle were allegedly in Washington, DC for the January 6th insurrection of Trump supporters after organizing busloads of attendees from Georgia.
Now the Cagles are reported suing grocery store clerk Rayven Goolsby for social media posts criticizing the insurrection, The Washington Post reported Saturday.
<p>"In late February, the exchange jumped from social media to a Pickens County Superior Court when the Cagles sued Goolsby for defamation and libel. Goolsby's attorney, Andrew Fleischman, characterized the Cagles' suit as an example of a prominent family active in local politics using the heft of the courts to intimidate his client, who works at a local grocery store, into silence," the newspaper reported. "The social media posts at the heart of the dispute, including deleted ones referring to the Jan. 6 protest, are preserved as screenshots in legal filings. None of the parties deny making the remarks cited in the dueling lawsuits."</p><p>However, the lawsuit may backfire on the Cagles.</p><p>The newspaper noted, "The anti-SLAPP suit notes that Katheryn Cagle deleted all of her social media history pertaining to Jan. 6. If the matter goes into discovery, both sides could be compelled to produce troves of personal data, such as GPS location history and message logs — 'all kinds of stuff even a police officer would have trouble getting,' Fleischman said."</p><p>"You should not file defamation suits if you're worried about criminal liability," he added.</p><p>Read the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/06/georgia-capitol-riot-defamation-lawsuit/" target="_blank">full report</a>.</p><p><br/></p>
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