F*cking Trump - protestors breaching Capitol steps

[CurlyhairedAssassin]

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

[CatVsChristmasTree]

@CurlyhairedAssassin

What are those photos of the men in suits aiming guns at a door by the dais? Jesus, scary.

I assumed that was SS defending the building?

[Hatstrategicallydipped]

My US cousin is a massive fan of Trump. I literally don't get the appeal.

[Janedownourlane]

What on earth is happening to democracy? Trump just wont go quietly will he? Surely he has incited this just by his earlier speech. Sky News is reporting that some of the protestors are in body armour, its scary.
How can Biden get a peaceful inauguration now?

[CurlyhairedAssassin]

This is going to go on all night. The ones leaving the scene will just go off smashing cars and rioting.

[CurlyhairedAssassin]

Do you think the ones doing peaceful protests round the edges actually realise what's gone on inside the building?? How violent it has got?

[AuntyPasta]

Every elected Republican that supported Trump in his baseless allegations of electoral fraud shares responsibility for this. They caused this. The people out there protesting have been lied to by the sitting President and by elected officials and told to come out and protest.

[longwayoff]

I look forward to this dangerous lunatic joining his fellow fascists, Mussolini and Ceaucescu, and hope to see him meet the same fate.

[Aimee1987]

Trump wont send in the national guard. Apparently Nancy polosky requested them.

I have always said I am glad all the army generals hate him. Otherwise i fear he would genuinely try a coup

[CatVsChristmasTree]

Has anywhere got a more up to date feed than CNN? They keep looping the same footage.

[AuntyPasta]

Now they’re sending in the National Guard and state troopers. They should have been there hours before this started as a preventative measure. Trump wanted this to happen.

[CatVsChristmasTree]

@CurlyhairedAssassin

Do you think the ones doing peaceful protests round the edges actually realise what's gone on inside the building?? How violent it has got?

Depending on whether they are looking at their phones, maybe not? Some of them do seem quite calm and oblivious. CNN quite behind though.

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

CNN reporting that a woman has been shot and is in a critical condition, but no details about how it happened.

[CatVsChristmasTree]

@AuntyPasta

Now they’re sending in the National Guard and state troopers. They should have been there hours before this started as a preventative measure. Trump wanted this to happen.

I thought the defence department refused to send the National Guard?

[AuntyPasta]

PBS

[CatVsChristmasTree]

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g

CNN reporting that a woman has been shot and is in a critical condition, but no details about how it happened.

CNN don't seem to know much...

[Hatstrategicallydipped]

Sky News not yet confirming anything about the shots fired though reporting it as unconfirmed.

[merrymouse]

I think the most shocking thing is that this isn’t to support any serious political cause it’s all about conspiracy theories.

If any senior Republican believed the fraud claims they wouldn’t have left the legal cases to Giuliani et al, but it was politically convenient to pretend that the cases might have merit.

[shesgrownhorns]

@StillGardening

I love America. It is so sad watching them implode. Russia is pulling the strings and making it look like self destruction. This is about changing the balance of power. Everyone is so busy focusing on domestic issues that we are not looking at the global stage.

Can you explain a bit more there? (Clueless)

[CremeEggThief]

Absolutely horrendous. 😡

[AuntyPasta]

They’re being sent in now. I’d imagine that the National Guard were asked to come in and bolster the capitol police much earlier, possibly after Trump went out and addressed the protesters in person.

It’s amazing that thousands of armed white people can descend on the Capitol, force their way into the building and not be stopped.

[pinkhousesarebest]

She wouldn't be what I'd call thick, though not highly educated Irish.

[Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g]

@Hatstrategicallydipped

My cousin said that she was crying when Biden won.

Prior to that, she was actually praying for Trump to win. When I asked her how on fucking earth she could support a racist and she said that she didn't want to discuss politics. She wouldn't be what I'd call thick, though not highly educated Irish.

Sounds like your cousin supports Trump more as some form of religious or cult-like belief than a reasoned political opinion. It baffles me.

The man is beyond question a racist, sexist, disablist narcissist. He seems to have no moral compass at all. He inherited a lot of money and seems to have lost a lot of it, so he's not a great entrepreneur. He's a compulsive serial liar.

What on earth is the appeal?

[Janedownourlane]

Aree, absolutely shocking.

Sky are giving unconfirmed reports that the woman is critical. Its an absolute tragedy that its come to this.

[AuntyPasta]

It seems Mike Pence has found his balls.