DC Capitol Riot & Subsequent Fallout Thread (Jan 2021)

[CliffFletcher]

Originally Posted by Manhattanboy

When is a coup a coup? When the military is involved?

Seems to me Trump's call on Sunday with Georgia's secretary of state plus the events of today equals a coup.

Coups are a carefully planned conspiracy carried out by military officers to seize all the levers of power of a state.

This isn’t a coup. It’s a deranged narcissist unleashing his moronic social media followers to cause mayhem.

[Looch City]

Originally Posted by Minnie

So, according to Jessie Weisner (Global), there's a protest going on at City Hall, directly related to the Trump and the events going on at the Capitol building in DC. Small and peaceful, so far, apparently.

Idiots...Idiots everywhere.

[darockwilder]

Originally Posted by chemgear

"This is America."

Guess Childish Gambino was right...

[BoLevi]

Originally Posted by New Era

You are a sad sad sad excuse for a human being. You have done nothing but make excuses for racists and #### disturbers hellbent on damaging democracy for the past six months. How you can honestly sit there and try to think this and the BLM protests are remotely the same is just mind numbing. A protest that grew out of the most oppressive action that one group can take against the other - killing in named of - versus a bunch of fat spoiled WHITE #######s who lost an election and decided to participate in a display of sedition. They are not the same. They are not connected. The only thing that made this possible was decades of systemic racism by conservatives and corpratists.

I'm just not under the delusion that one side has a monopoly on divisiveness.

You seem to believe, that the US is divided into two sides, with one side being the Good Guys, and one side being the Bad Guys. This viewpoint is, itself, divisive. If that is the case, then the only logical conclusion is national scale conflict and/or the US dividing itself up along ideological lines.

Perhaps that is the inevitable outcome here...I'm not convinced otherwise.

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by btimbit

Faith in humanity slightly restored. I have a friend in Kentucky who was always a Trump supporter. He's a nice guy, just a little dull and fell for the lies.

Today made him realize that he was tricked. He feels awful for voting for that scumbag.

Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me thrice, shame on me...... Fool me 2,349,854 times, shame on you!

Honestly, if he voted for Trump once, he is a little dull. If he voted for him again after Charlotteville and the event this past summer, he has some ideologies best kept to himself if you want to maintain a friendship.

[Pizza]

Police have retaken the steps of Capitol Hill

[FlamesAddiction]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

Coups are a carefully planned conspiracy carried out by military officers to seize all the levers of power of a state.

This isn’t a coup. It’s a deranged narcissist unleashing his moronic social media followers to cause mayhem.

Was this a coup?

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics...ssacre/536457/

[Scroopy Noopers]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

Coups are a carefully planned conspiracy carried out by military officers to seize all the levers of power of a state.

This isn’t a coup. It’s a deranged narcissist unleashing his moronic social media followers to cause mayhem.

You’re right that it’s not a coup. But that sounds like terrorism to me.

[Tron_fdc]

https://twitter.com/user/status/1346939860377096193

I love the Onion.

[troutman]

I've always wondered - when there are big protests in Washington, where do all these people stay? Is there enough hotel rooms for tens of thousands of people?

There are approximately 132 hotels with 31,673 hotel rooms located in Washington, DC. The Greater Washington Metropolitan Area is home to 695 hotels with 111,216 rooms (including those located within DC proper). There are 4,635 committable rooms within 1 mile of the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.

washington.org

[Senator Clay Davis]

Originally Posted by CliffFletcher

Coups are a carefully planned conspiracy carried out by military officers to seize all the levers of power of a state.

This isn’t a coup. It’s a deranged narcissist unleashing his moronic social media followers to cause mayhem.

While I would agree this isn't a coup per se, it's mostly due to incompetence and not a lack of trying. Trump did just try and pressure an elected official to rig the results for him after all.

[FlameOn]

They've spread to Calgary city hall... we've been infected

https://twitter.com/user/status/1346935987281162243

[cDnStealth]

Originally Posted by troutman

I've always wondered - when there are big protests in Washington, where do all these people stay? Is there enough hotel rooms for tens of thousands of people?

You have to understand the density of the east coast. DC is super close to a lot of areas and major cities. It's one of the big reasons I loved living in the area.

[Wastedyouth]

Originally Posted by FlameOn

They've spread to Calgary city hall... we've been infected

https://twitter.com/user/status/1346935987281162243

Stupidity has an R value of 100000!

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis

While I would agree this isn't a coup per se, it's mostly due to incompetence and not a lack of trying. Trump did just try and pressure an elected official to rig the results for him after all.

Oh, Trump would absolutely like it to be a coup. He has, in his own flailing and incompetent way, attempted to effect one behind the scenes by pressuring people to overturn an election that wasn't even terribly close, in the end. But a mob of people randomly installing themselves in offices in the Capitol with no actual endgame other than "we'll stay here until we get bored or they remove us" doesn't really qualify as an attempt to overthrow the duly installed government and replace it with another.

[Cappy]

Im just glad these people accepted the results of the election and didnt cry about it like the libtards

[Minnie]

Tear gas deployment, per MSNBC's reporter, who they just moved back.

[badradio]

Things like this will continue until social media is regulated... and i mean it needs a systematic change in algorithms. it’s the biggest security threat and fuels fringe groups into big balls of hate that live in false realities.

[Pizza]

images of the west side shows the police are using more flash bangs and smoke grenades to disperse the crowd.
Police slowly escorting people off the steps and grounds on the west side

[peter12]

Hard not to say that this was seditious and treason.