American politics

[Daisuk]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1346917661087838212

 

[Robbo]

I think the opposite will happen now. More will distance themselves.

I certainly hope so, and I think so too, but seeing how the GOP has fallen over the past four years, I'm not over confident.

 

[Daisuk]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1346905249546706948

 

[Robbo]

I hear the 25th amendment being mentioned. Probably won't happen, but if there ever was a time to invoke it, I suspect now's a good opportunity.

 

[Jordinho]

Ideally the Republican party will tear itself apart over this, but they'll probably unite in their common goal of taking from the poor to give to the rich in the end.

 

[awesome dawson]

I hear the 25th amendment being mentioned. Probably won't happen, but if there ever was a time to invoke it, I suspect now's a good opportunity.

Mike pence is a wet blanket. No way is he capable of playing the role of President at a time like this.

 

[Daisuk]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1346935436027981824

 

[scaramanga]

Yes, he really could.

Where's the room for clarity in "No violence"?

OK, he could have phrased it in far better English but it's very clear.

 

[awesome dawson]

Where's the room for clarity in "No violence"?

OK, he could have phrased it in far better English but it's very clear.

So it's ok for them to enter Congress peacefully to stop an election result being called?

 

[Notmegov]

Any body in a white fudging cowboy hat needs shooting.

 

[AuroRaman]

 

[Diamond Lights]

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Was this before or after the selfies with the police inside the Capitol?

What an embarrassment.


Sitting on my porcelain throne using glory-glory.co.uk mobile app

 

[Diamond Lights]

Btw this isn't solely on Trump. This is on Cruz, Fox, Pence, anyone who gave credence to this horsebrick. They've all played a part in this and are just as culpable.


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[scaramanga]

So it's ok for them to enter Congress peacefully to stop an election result being called?

Of course not, but it's just not accurate to say that Trump is in any way encouraging this.

 

[awesome dawson]

Of course not, but it's just not accurate to say that Trump is in any way encouraging this.

I’d suggest he’s not discouraging it enough, given the audience of racist rednecks he’s talking to.

 

[awesome dawson]

Tear gas being used to get rid of the scum from Congress. Good.

 

[Baleforce]

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Ok Google, show me white privilege

 

[Robbo]

Of course not, but it's just not accurate to say that Trump is in any way encouraging this.

NY Times Washington correspondent Charlie Savage wrote this:

Before they stormed the Capitol, the rioters had stood on the Washington Mall and listened to Trump gave a speech. At its end, Trump told them that Republicans have been too nice, like a boxer with his hands tied behind his back, and now needed to “fight much harder” against “bad people.” He told them to walk to the Capitol and “demand” that Congress “confront this egregious assault on our democracy” (that is, his loss to Biden), and kept exhorting them that “you have to show strength and you have to be strong” and “you will never take back our country with weakness.” (Amid all that inflammatory rhetoric, he also used the adverb “peacefully” once.)

 

[Baleforce]

NY Times Washington correspondent Charlie Savage wrote this:

Before they stormed the Capitol, the rioters had stood on the Washington Mall and listened to Trump gave a speech. At its end, Trump told them that Republicans have been too nice, like a boxer with his hands tied behind his back, and now needed to “fight much harder” against “bad people.” He told them to walk to the Capitol and “demand” that Congress “confront this egregious assault on our democracy” (that is, his loss to Biden), and kept exhorting them that “you have to show strength and you have to be strong” and “you will never take back our country with weakness.” (Amid all that inflammatory rhetoric, he also used the adverb “peacefully” once.)

Giuliani calling for “trial by combat” too.

 

[Hotshot-Tottenham]

Of course not, but it's just not accurate to say that Trump is in any way encouraging this.

This contrarian standpoint is coming close to parody.