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It's Wednesday, January 13, 2021, from Slate, it's the Gistai Mike Pesca. On the floor of

the Capitol, the congressmen and women wore masks. They all had to enter the public space

only after submitting to a metal detector. So in that regard, one complaint of the mob

calling it the people's house, well, maybe they were right. Now, our congressmen are

behaving more like all of us have to behave. One week earlier, to the minute, congress

had been overrun by insurrectionists loyal to the president, loyal at the expense of loyalty

to truth facts and democracy overall. 232 house members today thought about those

marauding rioters, thought about the man who helped inspire them or totally inspire them.

And they decided that entire dynamic was a bit objectionable. And they put that objection

on the record 197. All Republicans did not mind. Okay, let's be fair. Maybe they thought

it was suboptimal, but not enough to do something about or in the case of freshman representative

Marjorie Taylor Greene. They were more or less unborded. Democrats impeachment of President

Trump today has now set the standard that they should be removed for their support of

violence against the American people. The words were unimportant, really unintelligent.

It's just that they were delivered through a mask that read censored and yet I heard

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