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riversedge

(79,501 posts)
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 08:20 PM Tuesday

Speaker Johnson put todays Democrat Jan6th meeting in the BASEMENT!!

i asked google if the insurrection meeting was held in the basement today.
I thought I had heard it on TV a bit ago but was not sure.
What a disgrace Speaker Johnson is!!


was the insurrection meeting held in the basement today?
AI Overview
On the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack (today, January 6, 2026),
House Democrats held an event in a Capitol basement conference room, not an "insurrection meeting".
The event was a forum where dozens of Democratic lawmakers recounted their experiences of the 2021 attack and pledged to never forget the insurrection. The event was held in the basement after the Speaker's office declined requests for a dedicated hearing room or the larger auditorium in the Capitol Visitor Center.
The search results also mention:

During the actual insurrection on January 6, 2021, many senators were hustled into the Capitol basement by police for security.
A plaque commissioned by Congress in 2022 to honor the police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 remains in a Capitol basement utility room in storage, as Republican leaders have reportedly blocked its display.

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greatauntoftriplets

(178,635 posts)
1. The members of that committee shine wherever they are.
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 08:23 PM
Tuesday

They're good men and women who care about this country and fidelity to the Constitution.

BOSSHOG

(44,738 posts)
3. How do badass republicans walk erect?
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 08:29 PM
Tuesday

Doesn’t one need a spine for that? Each morning Johnson awaits his instructions from fake field Marshall miller, who scowls as if his toughness exists outside the Whitehouse cocoon.

A PLAQUE COMMEMORATING POLICE OFFICERS WHO DEFENDED THE CAPITOL REMAINS IN A BASEMENT UTILITY ROOM IN STORAGE AS REPUBLICAN LEADERS HAVE BLOCKED ITS DISPLAY. THESE ARE THE PEOPLE MANY OF OUR NEIGHBORS VOTED FOR. THEY WORSHIP TRUMP AND PISS ON THE CONSTITUTION BECAUSE THAT IS WHO AND WHAT THEY ARE.

highplainsdem

(60,091 posts)
7. Please don't use AI Overview. It's notorious for wrong answers, and its data is ripped off from websites
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 08:57 PM
Tuesday

deprived of traffic. AI search is harming the internet.

I did a simple Google search.for

democrats house basement

and results from the last 24 hours, and immediately saw a Politico article on the first page of results. Politico is good at reporting this sort of Capitol Hill detail.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/06/january-6-anniversary-capitol-riot-00713422

The Democrats’ event was held in the basement after the speaker’s office declined to allow them to use a dedicated hearing room or the larger auditorium in the Capitol Visitor Center, according to a person granted anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly. Johnson’s office did not respond to a request for comment on the claim.


It looks like Google's seatch chatbot ripped off Politico, possibly without linking to the article.

littlemissmartypants

(31,684 posts)
9. Nothing like returning to the scene of the crime when a person is trying to recover from...
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 09:11 PM
Tuesday

The trauma that was suffered there.

Sometime in the future, I hope Mikey gets to experience a case of PTSD from which he never recovers.

ms liberty

(10,979 posts)
10. Was it the same basement hearing room they consigned the Gold Star Mothers Iraq hearings to?
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 09:17 PM
Tuesday

Wasn't that the hearing they put in the basement back in the day?

turbinetree

(26,998 posts)
11. This does not surprize the people of this country..............while the speaker was being defended ..by police officers
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 10:14 PM
Tuesday

that were maimed and hurt and protecting this feckless jerk............he and his mage enablers consigns heroism to a basement..............

Greybnk48

(10,669 posts)
14. Baby Bush/Cheney did this to the Democrats too. It was a meeting I think about election fraud in Ohio
Tue Jan 6, 2026, 10:45 PM
Tuesday

or some sort of cheating on the Republican's part. When they did not like what was being said at the basement meeting, Republican pig and Wisconsin Kotex heir and nepo baby, James Sensenbrenner, who was chairing the meetng, cut their mikes and shut all the lights off so the meeting had to stop. It was horrible.

Trump keeps mimicking past Baby Bush bad behavior it seems.

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