Trump

[ZedLeg]

Honestly, most people on twitter are smooth brains.

[McSwede]

Just seen the ITV footage while watching CNN. Astonishing stuff!!

[Beany]

It is amazing that the police efforts were so pathetic, it's not like Washington is a stranger to protests. It makes you wonder whether it was intentional, but if intentional, who it was on behalf of is hard to gauge. Trump might have wanted this to happen, but the only real winners I see when the dust settles are the Democrats.

MAGA is full of authoritarian white supremacists.

US police are full of authoritarian white supremacists.

I wonder what the connection is

[Beany]

Also the Ryna Lizza thing does look like it was just poorly worded and correctly capitalised. I can understand MAGA chumps not understanding what via Getty means, but I'd expect a fairly experienced journo to be quite familiar with it.

[ZedLeg]

There’s evidence that white supremacists and other right wing groups have been organised in their infiltration of police, armed forces and federal agencies for decades.

[mik]

Trump would have loved a heavy police/defence response - he could have spun it nicely into another conspiracy story about democrats killing good American people and cited it as further “evidence” of fraud against Trumpublicans.

[duncs500]

I did see one of the 'protesters' doing a selfie with a policeman inside the capitol. That guy should be fired on the spot as a minimum.

[Gavin]

I did see one of the 'protesters' doing a selfie with a policeman inside the capitol. That guy should be fired on the spot as a minimum.

Perhaps that stopped the nutter firing a gun? Not that I am generally in favour of appeasing fascist idiots, but surely they were told not to do anything that could raise hatred levels?

But the cop could well be just as far right as the terrorists in which case fire away.

[ZedLeg]

If the BLM protestors through the summer had tried to break into the Capitol Building the police would have been breaking heads before they got anywhere close.

[Gavin]

Well indeed, did an armed mob, not already storm a state goverment building a few months back and seemed to meet little or no resistance either? BLM protesters got teargassed for sitting peacefully so that Trump could get his photo taken outside the church?

[duncs500]

I did see one of the 'protesters' doing a selfie with a policeman inside the capitol. That guy should be fired on the spot as a minimum.

Perhaps that stopped the nutter firing a gun? Not that I am generally in favour of appeasing fascist idiots, but surely they were told not to do anything that could raise hatred levels?

But the cop could well be just as far right as the terrorists in which case fire away.

I get what you're saying, and I agree where possible in terms of policing strategy, but once they're inside it's no longer the softer approach that's required.

[Mito Man]

Any word on the number of arrests? Looked to me like they all just started walking out once they got bored, free to leave.

[speedingfine]

15 arrests I think, but the FBI have set up a tips page

Slightly more seriously:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... c-enablers

We are not Germany in 1933. But we may be Munich, 1923. On 8 November of that year, a couple of thousand Nazis staged a failed putsch to topple the Weimar Republic. Ten years later the same insurrectionists seized power in Germany – through electoral means.

[ZedLeg]

Yeah, there's been a lot of comparisons drawn between what happened Yesterday and the Beer Hall Putsch

[duncs500]

It's in reverse though, they already had power through electoral means, and got kicked out after the first term!

[Beany]

There needs to be some serious action taken, before the end of the week though - otherwise, they needn't bother claiming to have a stable, functional democracy.

The first thing they should do is drop this idea that 'anyone can be president'.

And as Trump was so keen on getting firing squads back in place, I can think of no better first test of them...

...ideally in front of all his family and major contacts so they see what happens. Talk shit, get shot.

[McSwede]

If the BLM protestors through the summer had tried to break into the Capitol Building the police would have been breaking heads before they got anywhere close.

Absolutely. It'd have been carnage. You only need to look back through the events of last year for evidence of that. America appears to be institutionally racist. Look how many black people are killed by the Police. It's disgraceful.

The fact the POTUS, his idiot offspring, and Rudi G were encouraging people to do this only earlier that day is astonishing.

This shit show is going to go one for quite some time. The inauguration is going to be something else. The mind boggles at what will go on.

[Beany]

One of Trumps legal team, on Parler yesterday as this was kicking off.



Pretty sure incitement to murder is some kind of crime.

[Beany]

Also, Scott Adams (creator of Dilbert, one of Trumps biggest apologists) is still a fucking retard

[V8Granite]

If the BLM protestors through the summer had tried to break into the Capitol Building the police would have been breaking heads before they got anywhere close.

Absolutely. It'd have been carnage. You only need to look back through the events of last year for evidence of that. America appears to be institutionally racist. Look how many black people are killed by the Police. It's disgraceful.

I got this wrong, you are more likely to be killed if you are black, Hispanic. It was the prison stats I was remembering.

Dave!