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F*cking Trump - protestors breaching Capitol steps

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CurlyhairedAssassin · 06/01/2021 19:25

As if the world doesn't have enough to deal with without him inciting that sort of thing.

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reprehensibleme · 06/01/2021 22:28

Fucking psychopath. Took delight in rushing through death Row executions. How can one person cause so much damage.

Miljea · 06/01/2021 22:28

[quote wowfudge]@Miljea - tear gas was used in the Capitol building. Does that satisfy you?[/quote]

You're desperate to make this into a much bigger deal than it is.

A bunch of over-excited, whipped up zealots were pretty much allowed to stroll into The Capital. A building.

They weren't quite sure why they were there. They weren't expecting to meet so little resistance.

Most are now back home, on their second Coors.

This isn't to completely dismiss 'the importance' of this. Which is possibly how lame the security was...?

But this really, really isn't the beginning of the destruction of Amurican Democracy, as we know it.

Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g · 06/01/2021 22:30

@Miljea

I almost think you wanted a 'gun battle' to break out!

Security maybe recognised that this was a bunch of overwrought fanatics who needed the wind taken out of heir sails.

I think this has happened.

I almost think you wanted a 'gun battle' to break out!
F*cking Trump - protestors breaching Capitol steps
LowestEbb · 06/01/2021 22:31

This section of the population is the equivalent of Beavis and Butthead excited that their parents have just gone out for the night

Grin

Looks like the police are trying to flush them out, the worry being I suppose that those left over are the true die hard ones.

wowfudge · 06/01/2021 22:32

No that started when Trump deceived enough idiots to vote for him.

Figgyboa · 06/01/2021 22:32

@lljkk

So far peaceful trespassing, long may it continue so.

I am watching McConnell's speech now...

Its called insurrection, nothing peaceful about what's happening Angry
CurlyhairedAssassin · 06/01/2021 22:32

@Miljea, one would wonder about your motives for trying to minimise their actions.

Half expecting this to be the line that Trump takes next to try and save his neck. "oh it was a big fuss about nothing!"

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LowestEbb · 06/01/2021 22:34

@duckinatruckwithmuck Have you read the book by his niece, Mary Trump? It gives a really good insight into his childhood, megalomaniac father and how he became how he is, well worth a read!

Miljea · 06/01/2021 22:35

This is what a protest looks like.

F*cking Trump - protestors breaching Capitol steps
CurlyhairedAssassin · 06/01/2021 22:36

I also wonder what people like Mark Zuckerberg make of all this. Facebook and Twitter opened the floodgates for the dangerous conspiracy theories to take hold. The same has happened with COVID. The damage social media has done. Total Pandora's Box.

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CurlyhairedAssassin · 06/01/2021 22:37

@Miljea "Right to bear arms" No doubt that makes any kind of protest in the US more volatile.

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thecatfromjapan · 06/01/2021 22:39

@CurlyhairedAssassin

I also wonder what people like Mark Zuckerberg make of all this. Facebook and Twitter opened the floodgates for the dangerous conspiracy theories to take hold. The same has happened with COVID. The damage social media has done. Total Pandora's Box.
Yep.
Miljea · 06/01/2021 22:39

My 'motive' is to take the hysteria out of this.

This isn't a coup.

This is being made into something it isn't. Biden should be calling this for what this is. He's acting as if these misguided thugs have actually taken power. As if the axis of power has shifted. 'The mob, for now, in charge' is what Sopel has just said! And 'the bright light, shining on Capitol Hill, is flickering'

FFS! Hardly!

Get a fucking grip!

endofthelinefinally · 06/01/2021 22:39

Twitter and facebook have a lot to answer for.

thecatfromjapan · 06/01/2021 22:40

Twitter, Facebook and populism.

ListeningQuietly · 06/01/2021 22:43

Miljea
If armed protesters pushed their way into the House of Commons during a debate
and then broke into Keir Starmer's office and rifled through his desk
WHILE MPSs were in the building
would you be so relaxed

as this is the EXACT equivalent

thecatfromjapan · 06/01/2021 22:43

Hmm. I think the term is 'minimise', or move people's boundaries to accept the unacceptable, Miljea.

Which is what Trump has done over the course of his Presidency.

Something Biden is well aware of, which is why his entire pitch is 'a return to normal.'

And that pitch has delivered a Presidency to Biden, and Georgia to the Democrats.

Thank goodness.

And I think Trump may just have gone too far for the GOP.

Hopefully.

wowfudge · 06/01/2021 22:44

Oh bore off @Miljea - that photo you posted is exactly what the scenes around the Capitol were like before you tuned in. Trump incited those people with the aim of disrupting the democratic process. That was an act of sedition.

CurlyhairedAssassin · 06/01/2021 22:44

No-one's calling it a coup, @Miljea, calm down!

Armed stand off, protestors breaking windows, tear gas, someone SHOT. It may not be a coup, but I honestly can't understand why you haven't watched it unfold in disbelief. Why a supposedly civilised country does not accept the democratic process.

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thecatfromjapan · 06/01/2021 22:45

I think the majority of people in the USA have just had enough of having their boundaries pushed to the realms of the unacceptable.

Miljea · 06/01/2021 22:47

[quote CurlyhairedAssassin]@Miljea "Right to bear arms" No doubt that makes any kind of protest in the US more volatile.[/quote]
Potentially, yes, but at this moment, as we're pretty much live- not so much.

I am frankly shocked at the shock of Amuricans. Their overseas policies have wrought actual, proper anarchy across the globe. Where tens of thousands die, horribly.

Now the wheel-out of talking heads want us to be as outraged as we either were, or should have been at scenes played out across the planet over the past decades.

These people pretty much strolled in. Thus were disarmed of their dudgeon. Then went home.

Musing: maybe, just maybe, this tiny group of unhappy people being allowed to walk into the Capitol thus so distressing the very bedrock of US Democracy, apparently, will make a few Americans consider their own culpability in the world order?

As for the global reaction?

All a bit embarrassed.

Miljea · 06/01/2021 22:48

@wowfudge

Oh bore off *@Miljea* - that photo you posted is exactly what the scenes around the Capitol were like before you tuned in. Trump incited those people with the aim of disrupting the democratic process. That was an act of sedition.

Please post me that image.

wowfudge · 06/01/2021 22:50

I can't, it was on live TV. Try googling.

Miljea · 06/01/2021 22:51

@CurlyhairedAssassin

No-one's calling it a coup, *@Miljea*, calm down!

Armed stand off, protestors breaking windows, tear gas, someone SHOT. It may not be a coup, but I honestly can't understand why you haven't watched it unfold in disbelief. Why a supposedly civilised country does not accept the democratic process.

As we grab our popcorn, 'disbelief' has been somewhat suspended as we watch US politics.

We loved the soap opera so much, we replicated it!

BBC right now, on the BBC: 'How does the US ever come back from this???'

Come ON.

Miljea · 06/01/2021 22:52

@wowfudge

I can't, it was on live TV. Try googling.

Nope. You challenged. You provide the evidence.