The recent violence on Capitol Hill

DesVegas

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/election-us-2020-55558355

S56035

CNN is much more fun

MagicPigDetective

CNN is essential viewing right now

DesVegas

Curfew in one hour. I think it might go boom 

Hattigol

Utterly disgusting. 
Need to send in the military, start shooting and make sure they don't miss the ringleader. 
The beacon of democracy? America, wtf have you become...

Jalapeno

Attempted coup d'état I'd call it !

Interesting to see even Mike Pence and #1 slimebag Mitch McConnell disown Trump (before the storming)

poopot

Surely they have to remove the giant man baby from office now no? He’s lost the plot completely!...

Funkfingers

Jalapeno said:

Attempted coup d'état, I'd call it ! 

Nah. Just an extremely crude delaying tactic.

The underlying logic must be that, if the election result is not formally confirmed, there remains some possibility of changing it.

Once Congress completes the formalities, the only remaining option to delay the handover to a new administration is an outbreak of war.

Fretwired

Jalapeno said:

Attempted coup d'état I'd call it !

Interesting to see even Mike Pence and #1 slimebag Mitch McConnell disown Trump (before the storming)

Oh please .. it wasn't a coup d'état .. :-) A small rabble managed to breach Capitol Hill as the powers that be didn't have enough security. It was a leaderless rabble with no plan or objective who couldn't believe how easy it was to breach the security (source: BBC News). A cynic might say it was deliberate to get something Trump could be charged with - incitement to riot, disturbing the business of Congress and the Senate and damage to public property. Normal service will be resumed tomorrow and Biden will be sworn in as president as planned.

The BBC gets the world's worst journalism award for personal opinion and hyperbole dressed up as facts. If only the BBC's journalists had a grounding in US history - this sort of thing has happened before.

MagicPigDetective

Fretwired said:

Jalapeno said:

Attempted coup d'état I'd call it !

Interesting to see even Mike Pence and #1 slimebag Mitch McConnell disown Trump (before the storming)

Oh please .. it wasn't a coup d'état .. :-) A small rabble managed to breach Capitol Hill as the powers that be didn't have enough security. It was a leaderless rabble with no plan or objective who couldn't believe how easy it was to breach the security (source: BBC News). A cynic might say it was deliberate to get something Trump could be charged with - incitement to riot, disturbing the business of Congress and the Senate and damage to public property. Normal service will be resumed tomorrow and Biden will be sworn in as president as planned.

The BBC gets the world's worst journalism award for personal opinion and hyperbole dressed up as facts. If only the BBC's journalists had a grounding in US history - this sort of thing has happened before.

Apparently the last Capitol breach was by the British in 1814.

Even George Bush is calling this an insurrection.

octatonic

Fretwired said:

Jalapeno said:

Attempted coup d'état I'd call it !

Interesting to see even Mike Pence and #1 slimebag Mitch McConnell disown Trump (before the storming)

Oh please .. it wasn't a coup d'état .. :-) A small rabble managed to breach Capitol Hill as the powers that be didn't have enough security. It was a leaderless rabble with no plan or objective who couldn't believe how easy it was to breach the security (source: BBC News). A cynic might say it was deliberate to get something Trump could be charged with - incitement to riot, disturbing the business of Congress and the Senate and damage to public property. Normal service will be resumed tomorrow and Biden will be sworn in as president as planned.

The BBC gets the world's worst journalism award for personal opinion and hyperbole dressed up as facts. If only the BBC's journalists had a grounding in US history - this sort of thing has happened before.

You have to acknowledge that if these protestors/terrorists (pick one) were black then police wouldn't simply allow them to walk away.

UnclePsychosis

Fretwired said:

Jalapeno said:

Attempted coup d'état I'd call it !

Interesting to see even Mike Pence and #1 slimebag Mitch McConnell disown Trump (before the storming)

Oh please .. it wasn't a coup d'état .. :-) A small rabble managed to breach Capitol Hill as the powers that be didn't have enough security. It was a leaderless rabble with no plan or objective who couldn't believe how easy it was to breach the security (source: BBC News). A cynic might say it was deliberate to get something Trump could be charged with - incitement to riot, disturbing the business of Congress and the Senate and damage to public property. Normal service will be resumed tomorrow and Biden will be sworn in as president as planned.

The BBC gets the world's worst journalism award for personal opinion and hyperbole dressed up as facts. If only the BBC's journalists had a grounding in US history - this sort of thing has happened before.

I must have missed the last time a sitting US president incited a mob to descend on the Capitol. Pray tell. 

RaymondLin

It's interesting how some Trump supporters seeing things like this and still brush it aside….narh, it's nothing.

I question if they have their mental capacity altogether. 

Fretwired

MagicPigDetective said:

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Apparently the last Capitol breach was by the British in 1814.

Even George Bush is calling this an insurrection.

Was it? I don't think so. The 1954 United States Capitol shooting was an attack on March 1, 1954, by four Puerto Rican nationalists; they shot 30 rounds from semi-automatic pistols from the Ladies' Gallery (a balcony for visitors) of the House of Representatives chamber in the United States Capitol. They wanted to highlight their desire for Puerto Rican independence from US rule. 

George Bush .. what a joke. The National Guard would have cleared these jokers in 15 minutes.

MagicPigDetective

So it’s not a big deal? Is that what you’re saying? 

RaymondLin

It's interesting that Trump hasn't told them to leave.  They merely told them to stay peaceful.

Peaceful while storming the Capitol building, causing the law makers to barricade the doors…anyone who take their side is a ****.  

Heartfeltdawn

Fretwired said:

George Bush .. what a joke. The National Guard would have cleared these jokers in 15 minutes.

They might have had the President called for them as the mayor has no jurisdiction to call for them. 

The President in his tweet still farted on about his stolen election conspiracy. Even with a democratic exercise having been stalled, politicians scattering, a mob in the Capitol, a woman killed... and it's still all about him. 

It is now time for the GOP to insert the biggest knife possible and end this odious reign. 

DiscoStu

The woman shot earlier has died.

Fretwired

Heartfeltdawn said:

Fretwired said:

George Bush .. what a joke. The National Guard would have cleared these jokers in 15 minutes.

They might have had the President called for them as the mayor has no jurisdiction to call for them. 

Sorry mate but you're wrong. The Mayor of DC mobilised the National Guard - just not enough of them. They will be on the streets tomorrow.

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-01-04/urging-calm-dc-mayor-calls-in-national-guard-for-protests

Fretwired

RaymondLin said:

It's interesting that Trump hasn't told them to leave.  They merely told them to stay peaceful.

Peaceful while storming the Capitol building, causing the law makers to barricade the doors…anyone who take their side is a ****.  

Trump told them to go home.

Fretwired

octatonic said:

Fretwired said:

Jalapeno said:

Attempted coup d'état I'd call it !

Interesting to see even Mike Pence and #1 slimebag Mitch McConnell disown Trump (before the storming)

Oh please .. it wasn't a coup d'état .. :-) A small rabble managed to breach Capitol Hill as the powers that be didn't have enough security. It was a leaderless rabble with no plan or objective who couldn't believe how easy it was to breach the security (source: BBC News). A cynic might say it was deliberate to get something Trump could be charged with - incitement to riot, disturbing the business of Congress and the Senate and damage to public property. Normal service will be resumed tomorrow and Biden will be sworn in as president as planned.

The BBC gets the world's worst journalism award for personal opinion and hyperbole dressed up as facts. If only the BBC's journalists had a grounding in US history - this sort of thing has happened before.

You have to acknowledge that if these protestors/terrorists (pick one) were black then police wouldn't simply allow them to walk away.

I can't believe you wrote that or that three people gave you a wis. Fucking disgraceful ...

An unarmed woman was shot and killed by police ... murder .. she was white. Here you go ... I'm off.