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U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests

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Post by jandrese »

marktangotango wrote: post #128
root_axis wrote: post #43

This is a failure of leadership by the republicans - plain and simple. I don't care if this comment is perceived as partisan, it's a statement of fact. If the republican leadership had unequivocally come out against the narrative that the election was stolen, this wouldn't be happening. Edit: Yes, it's true that the top leader and his acolytes have engineered this outcome, but the majority of the republican leadershi…

I was glad to hear McConnel and Pence finally (FINALLY) do the right thing.

I wasn't sure if McConnel finally found a conscious or if he was simply pissed off at Trump for spreading the "Stop the Steal" nonsense that likely suppressed a little bit of Republican turnout and lost them the Ossoff/Perdue race. That speech seemed carefully calculated to draw the maximum ire of the President.

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Post by kadoban »

MattGaiser wrote: post #117
root_axis wrote: post #43

This is a failure of leadership by the republicans - plain and simple. I don't care if this comment is perceived as partisan, it's a statement of fact. If the republican leadership had unequivocally come out against the narrative that the election was stolen, this wouldn't be happening. Edit: Yes, it's true that the top leader and his acolytes have engineered this outcome, but the majority of the republican leadershi…

> If the republican leadership had unequivocally come out against the narrative that the election was stolen, this wouldn't be happening. They all came out against Trump when this started in 2016. Was not even a speed bump.

Most of them came out against Trump only so long as it didn't matter, and in the least effectual way they could. They also almost universally stopped even pretending once he was elected.

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Post by AsyncAwait »

root_axis wrote: post #43

This is a failure of leadership by the republicans - plain and simple. I don't care if this comment is perceived as partisan, it's a statement of fact. If the republican leadership had unequivocally come out against the narrative that the election was stolen, this wouldn't be happening. Edit: Yes, it's true that the top leader and his acolytes have engineered this outcome, but the majority of the republican leadershi…

> This is a failure of leadership by the republicans - plain and simple.

The cops have a strange affinity for certain kinds of 'protesters' too, we all know it would end differently if BLM or 'Antifa' did this.

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Post by jonny_eh »

marktangotango wrote: post #128
root_axis wrote: post #43

This is a failure of leadership by the republicans - plain and simple. I don't care if this comment is perceived as partisan, it's a statement of fact. If the republican leadership had unequivocally come out against the narrative that the election was stolen, this wouldn't be happening. Edit: Yes, it's true that the top leader and his acolytes have engineered this outcome, but the majority of the republican leadershi…

I was glad to hear McConnel and Pence finally (FINALLY) do the right thing.

But only when violence was on their literal doorsteps.

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Post by 01100011 »

Trump could stop this in minutes, but he won't, yet. He wants you to know how much power he has. He wants you to remember that, even though you voted him out, he can still spoil the party. This is about his ego and his power. He has an army, and that army can shutdown the government.

It's sad to see people enabling him. He won't win. The nation is stronger. He probably thinks he's winning right now though.

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Post by majormajor »

codingprograms wrote: post #84
umvi wrote: post #72

How did we arrive to this point where a huge chunk of the population is in one reality and another huge chunk of the population is in another reality? Segregation of information sources? Politicization of media outlets? Self-reinforcing social bubbles? A combination of all of them and more?

Nobody trusts the media. So people will believe what they want. There’s no source of truth

Everybody there has been fed bullshit by the media - talk radio, Fox News commentators, etc - for decades. They eat it up.

Big chunks of the media decided a long time ago that they could make money by just pandering to angry people, and here we are.

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Post by znpy »

btw Trump just tweeted the following an hour ago:

> Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have > been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, > giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of > facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they > were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!

(source: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/13469004345402408...)

If this is not an acknowledgment of an ongoing coup...

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Post by hertzrat »

awnird wrote: post #12
voisin wrote: post #10

I am shocked and horrified that it is taking so long to clear those who have breached the Capitol. There is more police efficiency and aggression in a run of the mill BLM protest. Edit: for example: https://twitter.com/RedR1dngHood/status/1346908557560537091

The police and the fascists are on the same side.

“The Police” is an over generalization. We shouldn’t ask the police to both intervene while also calling all of them fascists.

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Post by hxhdjdjdjhd »

A lot of these psychopaths will justify this because of ANTIFA/BLM protests from before — like its okay now.

Like it or not, law and order is needed all the time for a functioning society because of all the idiots.

The normalization of previous riots by talking heads and politicians have created this.

It literally happens every election by some radicals (e.g: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_shooting_of_Dallas_poli...).

If you are Republican or Democrat and find yourself getting so angry you are joining in on any nonsense that is violent or destructive like this you really need to just turn the tel-y off and take a break from social media algorithms feeding bull shit into your brain.

Right now, if you open TikTok, you can literally see China turning up their algorithm to feed fuel to fire with more controversial videos. America did the same thing with Hong Kong through FB and Twitter.

Take a break. Peace and love to all, take control of your lives. Manipulation is the game.

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