Coup on Capitol Hill (Trump#117)

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The ongoing Trump saga.

Continuing from www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/4110252-May-Hope-and-History-Rhyme-Trump-116

This is not what happens in the USA. Surely?

Also... Dow closing at record high.

Yes! Bloomberg were commenting earlier how the stock market is so disconnected from real life.

All these people just wandering nonchalantly around in the chamber, do they think they'll just be allowed to walk out? Do they not realise they are only leaving in handcuffs?

Oh right!

@AlternativePerspective

No, trump can’t hold on until the 20th. He has to come into Scotland on the 19th so we can witness him being refused entry.

With a massive “Get Tae Fuck Ya Orange Bawbag” banner.

I’m sure that could be arranged?

Or maybe it’s Melania seeking asylum?

The US just keeps getting more third world by the day

There's decent counter-terrorism in the US. Time to turn it on Trump's fans and start separating the "never-Dems" from the actual terrorists.

@tobee

Apparently Pence has unfollowed Trump on Twitter

Not from what I can see on Twitter - he's still following POTUS and RealDonaldTrump accounts.

KALEIGH ROGERS
JAN. 6, 3:42 PM
Storming The Capitol Has Been Glamorized Online

The fact that Trump supporters have stormed the Capital is shocking. But the idea of physically storming the halls of Congress and taking it over by force has cropped up in many far-right communities online for a long time. Q — the anonymous poster who inspired the QAnon movement — regularly makes mention of “taking back” control, and “taking back” the country. On Twitter, TikTok, Parler and TheDonald (a forum that took the place of the now banned, pro-Trump subreddit with the same name) leading up to today’s protest, threats of violence were sprinkled in with discussions of plans for the day. In many ways, this is the culmination of similar acts we’ve seen over the last few months, including the FBI-thwarted plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, and anti-lockdown protests that led to armed trespassers storming into statehouses in Idaho and Michigan. Online, comments alongside livestreams of the protests have been encouraging those who have raided the Capitol and even calling for violence. This is an act many online communities continue to glamorize and support.

Looting the lectern

Let's say that the police leave them to it. It's just a building. What would they do next? Get bored and go home?

There's reports they've found an improvised explosive device near the capitol building.

www.nytimes.com/live/2021/01/06/us/electoral-vote#an-explosive-device-is-found-at-the-rnc-and-the-dnc-is-evacuated

Special forces in chinooks heading in now

@Roussette

Looting the lectern

Apparently looting is not allowed. Or is it?

Biden speaking

Joe Biden speaking live now.

Shocked is an understatement

holy cow

2 hours to curfew. Once daylight goes it will get more dangerous.

Biden on air now. Safe in Delaware thankfully.

Absolutely shocking behaviour. Surely Trump can’t be allowed to carry on with all this? He has brought the office of the president into disrepute to say the very least.

DH works for an international company with a Washington office. The President of the company has just sent out a company-wide email to say he’s ordered the DC office to close immediately and all staff to go home and stay home until further notice.

But then he has been doing that for four years.

@Lweji

Also... Dow closing at record high.

Yes! Bloomberg were commenting earlier how the stock market is so disconnected from real life.

Same with the FTSE.

DH and I have been saying that for months.

Hope the twat with the lectern enjoys his 5 minutes of fame cos he's going to jail.

Biden is calling on Trump to go on TV now to demand an end to this siege.

Let's say that the police leave them to it. It's just a building. What would they do next? Get bored and go home?

Plant a few pipe bombs? Trash the place? Loot?