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Who is the "we" that is giving him more powers? Trump is viscerally hated by the Speaker (2nd in line) and most of the House (they already impeached him once) and a significant por…

All the people who voted for Trump and who think the vote was rigged feel unheard. Dr. King was quite perceptive.

He says things that resonate with their beliefs. America is great, America is good in the world, a strong America is a good thing, get out of foreign wars, get out of bad trade dea…

And he'd have had zero supporters at that point. He'd already lost the VP, who refused his request to reject the votes. Absolutely nobody would have stood with him on extending his…

I don't think anyone (certainly not me) is denying some intent of at least a core of instigators to create a disruption, at minimum. They should be identified, charged with their c…

Because in trying to imagine the worst possible outcome, I still see no way Joe Biden is not sworn in on January 20. I grant you some of the people there may have been under delusi…

It would be a big problem, but I don't think so. It wasn't in the realm of possibility on January 6, but for sake of argument.... Say the entire Sentate and House is wiped out some…

Conducing a fradulent vote count to elect a president that the people didn't really want.

Because if there was one thing it wasn't, it wasn't an "existential threat to the republic." Hyperbole like this make it hard to talk about the rest of it reasonably. It was a prot…

After a summer of riots, looting, and violence all across the country, fueled by calls to violence on Twitter and Facebook

So the baker can refuse to bake cakes for Democrats?

(I can't see the flagged post that's at the top of this subthread so if this is a bit out of context that is why) If the baker thinks it's a message of sin, then what? It's not lik…

No, I mean AWS can choose to not host Parler, so why can't a baker choose to not make a gay wedding cake?

You can also choose your baker, so find one who thinks like you do.

In both cases it's a matter of being able to choose whether to participate in a message you don't agree with.

The various "big provider X boots conservative platform/person Y" are all popping on and off the front page fairly quickly. The comments are mostly what you would predict.

"use force to overthrow the election" Which politicians said that?

Hilarious how historic government symbols and tradition are suddenly cool again, after a summer of statues, monuments, and buildings being vandalized and toppled.

Is the guy in custody? Who is he? What's his background?

Likely as not an effigy symbol. Mike Pence was never going to be hanged on the Capitol steps. The guy has Secret Service on him 24x7

Maybe it's better that the discussions are happening where they can be seen? The other half of the problem on Wednesday was how unprepared and weakly defended the Capitol was, in l…

Really, anyone using cloud providers should have at least a plan on a side burner to move to another provider if they have to. We've seen cloud accounts canceled for many reasons, …

It's a big world. Someone will host them.

What does this sound like to you? Are you reading "storm the Capitol" in those words?