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Rioters storm and occupy the US Capitol
I thought we should have a dedicated thread for this.
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CNN: Multiple officers injured.
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I am rather surprised but not shocked that there was not a more violent response. If the rioters were wearing colors other than red hats, I think there would have been.
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Biden is speaking right now.
Trump is barely tweeting, although its probably his staff with access to his account. |
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Trump lost and he knows it.
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Trump has taken to Twitter telling them they were robbed, just like him, but they should go home now. It's okay to be bitter, he's bitter too, but they should go home now.
Yeah, that'll do the trick. |
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CNN: Entire DC National Guard activated.
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Trump is finally speaking. He's still playing to the election conspiracy nonsense. But at least he's telling them to leave.
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Why isn't this in politics?
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Trump just called the people storming the White House "Beautiful People" while making a weak attempt to tell them to go home.
Trump must be removed from office. By any means Nessacary. |
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A lot of them are armed, things could turn sour quick
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Trump could stop them, but he wont.
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1. He'd never do that. 2. Okay but he's not currently doing it. 3. Okay but he's not currently technically doing it. 4. Okay but everyone does it. 5. He's doing it, we can't stop him, no point in complaining about it. 6. We all knew he was going to do it which... makes it okay somehow. 7. It's perfectly fine that's he's doing it. |
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Along those lines:
"White House adviser: Trump doesn't want to do more to calm riots" https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-ne...5d36a6dd5c6254 |
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Trump just released a tape played on CNN;links to it will be easy to find.
Warning: it might well make you vomit. |
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Multiple officers have been injured, at least one on the way to the hospital. National Guard activated.
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The crowd isn't even that big.
It was the police who shot a protestor. There was an IED apparently found on the Capitol grounds. If you are at work, it's the best place to let this all pass. By nightfall this will be mostly over and the vote count will continue. The next event on the schedule is a taped speech by Trump. Will it be "stand by and stand down" or will it be another proclamation that he won the election? I'm sure he's pleased with himself being all about revenge and all. |
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Yep:
Trump: It was an election that was stolen, I won by a lot, now go home. |
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The German police handled the NSDAP better in 1923.....
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I don't think he could. He has been egging them on for too long. If he told them to leave and go home, the Qanon idiots will say that it's a deep fake or he was forced to say what he did by the deep state.
Well, he just told them to go home, so we'll see what happens. ETA: Of course, he started by agitating them even further by insisting that the election was stolen. |
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As human right is always something given, it always in reality reduces to the right which men give, "concede," to each other. If the right to existence is conceded to new-born children, then they have the right; if it is not conceded to them, as was the case among the Spartans and ancient Romans, then they do not have it. For only society can give or concede it to them; they themselves cannot take it, or give it to themselves. |
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I've stood in streets with "electronic surveillance equipment" under threat of "conspiracy/terrorism" charges on many ocassions. I've exchanged names with people who spent time in jail after some of those experiences.
If the hammer doesn't come down for this, I don't know how I'll stomach it. |
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For reference (mostly 2 minutes about how he really won and it was a stolen election. At one point he tells them they can't "play into the hands of these people" —of course, IMPOTUS incited this):
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/...28882595885058 https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1346928882595885058 |
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