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8th January 2021, 04:55 AM | #241 |
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She comes across on her social media as a bit unhinged but nobody deserves to be shot like that. However, of course, the security guy was simply doing what he had been trained to do. If the security at the door and the outskirts had been the slightest bit secure this could never have happened.
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That is nonsense. There are some indicators of a medical cause of psychopathy such as an undersized amygdala gland. However, that could be caused by exigencies in early childhood. Psychopath is simply the earlier term for sociopath. Just as the terms 'cretin' and 'moron' have been replaced, due to language stigmatisation.
As for 'narcissistic' that term is also so overused as to be near meaningless and more a term of abuse , like the above. There is no doubting Trump is a cunning, sly, calculating and cruel man but to claim it is caused by illness rather than his vile personality is a cop-out IMV. |
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To be fair, Capitol Building is a highly secure one, rather like Parliament in London. After the stabbing of a policemen in its grounds by a jihadist, police will now shoot to kill anyone who tries to breach its security. That is what the world has come to. Can't expect the armed police to make exceptions as ignorance of the law is not an excuse. Try bursting into the White House or the Pentagon and you are a goner.
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According to Snopes, it's unknown if the listing was genuine and Ebay has already removed it.
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Looks like you have some of our own brand of deplorables there helping out. Quite sure he is one of the NRI Modi devotees (sanghis or bhakts as they are referred to here). |
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It's the riot equivalent of those "Karen" videos where the Karen runs off as soon as she gets even a mild slap to the face. |
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# 1 target was Pence. Pelosi would have been next. Anything after that with a "D" after their name would have been gravy to them (with a special bonus if they are brown).
People are already downplaying what happened two days ago (including a poster above) but if these very fine people had not been kept away from politicians we would have had dead politicians. It starts as role playing a lynching until it turns into a real lynching. 53WSESMT4NBIFKJXUNIQYZUM6Y.jpg |
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The highlighted part. They have drunk their own Flavor-Aid. Cops have as well (they may be the worst offenders). We have had a white supremacist, right wing terrorist threat in the making for decades and law enforcement doesn't take it seriously beyond a occasional DOJ reports that get ignored by the actual forces on the ground. They'll even shoot the occasional officer dead and it gets treated as an aberration but the real enemy is antifa.
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It’s probably just my own bias but to me Trump looked scared when ..halting.. slowly.. reading what someone else had put in front of him.
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According to multiple reports, the woman killed was part of a group trying to break through the last door to the chamber where dozens of legislators were sheltering. If she herself wasn't an immediate threat to life, the raging mob certainly was. Putting the cop on leave is routine; it doesn't mean he did anything wrong. And this was not a "few protesters." Hundreds, if not thousands of rioters roamed the building freely. Some were armed, and some assaulted police. One cop has died. They did extensive damage to the facility, and they stopped a joint session of Congress to ratify the next President. It will be a national humiliaton for decades that police allowed this to happen. |
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Bear in mind, live tv broadcasters tend to turn away from ongoing violence or 'incidents', so whilst what we saw were groups of straggling MAGA making their way, mostly middle-aged overweight smiling women, we didn't see the uglier side until the live debate inside the chamber suddenly came to a halt with a commotion outside of its doors.
Initial reports dismissed the crowd as 'less than 5,000' whereas today reports have the figure at 'at least 10,000'. The adept way some of them smashed their way in and clambered up the walls with ease, indicates to me there was an organised hardcore at the heart of the storming of the building. Some of the policemen at the doors put up a brave front trying t fight them off and stop them entering. Must have been quite frightening for them being understaffed like that. There was no chance they could halt the onslaught. It is lucky that the 30K who had tickets for the rally were searched for firearms before being let in or it could have been much worse. |
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You obviously haven't followed this at all. In the days before the event, the Capitol Police turned down offers of assistance from other agencies, and even during the assault they delayed calling the D.C. Metropolitan Police and other departments for backup. The Pentagon refused to authorize activation of the National Guard for hours. Legislators trapped inside were making their own calls for help to other officials. It's clear that for whatever reason, the Capitol Police never took the threat seriously, at least until their own guys started getting hurt.
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When the election was called for Biden, I predicted that the trumpkins and their movement would deflate. I was all ready for peace and reconcilliation, and working towards unifying the country again.
A couple months later, and here we are . There can't be a discussion anymore as to whether or not he should be prosecuted. This. Event. Alone. is sufficient for him to have to stand trial. He's been building this narrative and glorifying violence for over four years, ever since he told his supporters to rough people up at his rallies. Telling them to march on the Capitol and "take their country back" was just the worst event in a series. |
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