Disgust

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If you have to ask HUH? then you are living in a vacuum.


What is happening in D.C. both inside and outside is the singular most disgusting demonstration of anti-democracy I have ever witnessed outside of places like Russia and China.

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Sen. Chuck Schumer, the top Democrat in the chamber, said the day would “live forever in infamy” along with other watershed events.

“This will be a stain on our country, not so easily washed away,” Schumer said. He called the attack on the Capitol “the final terrible, indelible legacy of the 45th president of the United States, undoubtedly our worst.”

He said the riot at the Capitol “did not happen spontaneously” but at the instigation of President Donald Trump.

“This temple to democracy was desecrated, it’s windows smashed our offices vandalized,” said Schumer. He said Trump "bears a great deal of the blame" for the violence.

"This mob was in good part President Trump's doing, incited by his words, his lies. This violence in good part is his responsibility, his everlasting shame. Today's events certainly would not have happened without him."

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As Capitol police finally began clearing the building late in the afternoon, Trump issued a one-minute videotaped statement directed at the rioters that began by expressing sympathy for their “pain” and “hurt” before launching into a litany of his own grievances about “an election that was stolen from us.”

“But you have to go home now,” Trump said. “We have to have peace.”

“We love you. You’re very special,” he added. “I know how you feel.”

Trump struck the same tone later Wednesday evening. “These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long,” he tweeted. “Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!”

Both the tweet and the video were deleted by Twitter.

[Dtom]

Best day ever.

[Dtom]

The woman fatally shot inside the U.S. Capitol Wednesday has been identified as Ashli Babbitt, a friend confirms to Fox News. Babbitt was a 14-year veteran who served four tours with the Air Force and resided in San Diego, according to media reports

[Dtom]

Civil war is coming if things don't change.

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The senators who voted in favor of the Arizona objection were Hawley; Ted Cruz of Texas; John Kennedy of Louisiana; Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi; Roger Marshall of Kansas; and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama.

The senators who voted for the Pennsylvania objection were Cruz; Hawley; Hyde-Smith; Marshall; Tuberville; and Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming; and Rick Scott of Florida.



They should all be recalled.

[TimB]

There needs to be a reckoning for all those republicans who opposed yesterday. Shamed and humiliated every time they are on air being interviewed.

I have no words really for what I saw yesterday. Speaking as a Canadian (who has/had relatives in Harrisburg and Mechanicsburg) who is ashamed to be living so close to a once great country.

25 is my new favorite number. Use it, embrace its beauty. Love the number. Wear it on your shirts, tattoo it on your forehead.

25

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And just a little over an hour earlier, Trump had stood before a crowd in front of the White House and urged them to march to the Capitol to pressure Congress to overturn the election.

“We’re going to walk down and I’ll be there with you. We’re going to walk down,” he said. “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women. We’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”

Trump legal adviser Rudy Giuliani spoke from the stage as well, telling the crowd, “Let’s have trial by combat.”

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No words except; this is (these are) a Trump supporter

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On another continent



After an election marred by violence, the president of the Central African Republic (CAR) has won five more years in power. But his victory is contested and the fate of the country balances on a knife edge.

A disparate jumble of armed groups formed an alliance last month and launched an offensive in a bid to disrupt this crucial vote.

Since the election, fighting has continued in towns nationwide, with the rebels threatening to march on the capital, Bangui. So far, they have been kept away by United Nations peacekeepers, CAR's armed forces and hundreds of reinforcements from Russia and Rwanda.

The political opposition has said Faustin-Archange Touadéra's victory lacks legitimacy and are demanding a re-run.

While voters turned out in force in Bangui and some other towns, militants launched a violent and disruptive campaign of intimidation elsewhere - burning ballot boxes, ransacking polling stations and preventing the vote in over 40% of electoral districts in this chronically unstable country.

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He needs to be removed...NOW


Even after having witnessed the power of his words, the best Trump could muster in atonement was a one-minute video from the White House lawn. He did not concede the election. He merely told his supporters "to go home," in between reminding them that "we had an election stolen from us" and that "they've taken it away from all of us, from me, from you, from our country." These are not the words of someone who truly wants peace, a point made clearer when he added in another tweet, "These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long."



"Remember this day forever!" Trump implored. Twitter removed three of his tweets before locking his account — but it will be hard not to remember this day.

[Proud Boy snowflakes 2020]

Ah, we have another guest to add to the debate 👍 (if only it could be something with ANY value, beyond trolling, to it...)

Yes, a civil war is coming. Which side should we be on?

The side where we believe black people are right to protest their unequal treatment by police? That better handling of covid might not have resulted in 350k deaths? That it should, and is, possible for America to improve the rights of some people without impacting anyone else?

Or the side where people believe, with NO evidence, literally none, that a huge cabal of (only democrats, surprisingly) elites have formed a paedophile ring, that bill gates started covid, that the election was rigged. That trump isn't an elite. And that rich, white men are really the victims here.

The death of that woman is very sad. What lead to her death is far more concerning.

[Proud Boy snowflakes 2020]

Or, to put it another way:

America has taken great delight in the past with its virtue signalling calls of other countries being "tinpot dictatorships."

Yesterday, a bunch of conspiracy theorist nutjobs, acting off ideas with ZERO rational or credible evidence, stormed the govt chambers holding guns.

You don't get to talk about other countries anymore...

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I looked back at this image and felt that the caption I put was wrong.

It should have said:  This is Trump's coup d'é·tat team.  I wonder how hard Putin laughed at that image?