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Post by Vertigowooyay » Wed Jan 06, 2021 7:55 pm

But... but... Antifa!

This is f.cking insane and that orange c.nt is criminally culpable.
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Post by Brightonian » Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:04 pm

Watching CNN who seem a bit over the top, surely? Don't the Capitol police (or capital police or DC police or whatever - it's so confusing) just have to pour in in numbers and shove the protestors out? They don't look armed.

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Post by Rich Scopie » Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:06 pm

Doublepost - sorry.
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Post by lpm » Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:07 pm

One woman has been shot in the neck. Allegedly. Some rioters are likely to die before this is done.
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Post by lpm » Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:10 pm

Maga insurgents attempting to seize state houses in Georgia and Kansas.
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Post by Brightonian » Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:15 pm

In the crowd outside, there are, oddly, a South Korean and a Japanese flag.

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Post by dyqik » Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:15 pm

Brightonian wrote:
Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:04 pm
Watching CNN who seem a bit over the top, surely? Don't the Capitol police (or capital police or DC police or whatever - it's so confusing) just have to pour in in numbers and shove the protestors out? They don't look armed.
They say they are outnumbered, and the Defense Department have blocked the National Guard - who were deployed in the summer for BLM protests - from assisting.

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Post by dyqik » Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:18 pm

dyqik wrote:
Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:15 pm
Brightonian wrote:
Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:04 pm
Watching CNN who seem a bit over the top, surely? Don't the Capitol police (or capital police or DC police or whatever - it's so confusing) just have to pour in in numbers and shove the protestors out? They don't look armed.
They say they are outnumbered, and the Defense Department have blocked the National Guard - who were deployed in the summer for BLM protests - from assisting.
Reportedly the National Guard has now started to deploy.

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Post by lpm » Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:19 pm

Government loyalist forces are beginning to regain control inside the Capitol. Rioters being arrested at gunpoint.
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Post by Brightonian » Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:24 pm

dyqik wrote:
Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:15 pm
Brightonian wrote:
Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:04 pm
Watching CNN who seem a bit over the top, surely? Don't the Capitol police (or capital police or DC police or whatever - it's so confusing) just have to pour in in numbers and shove the protestors out? They don't look armed.
They say they are outnumbered, and the Defense Department have blocked the National Guard - who were deployed in the summer for BLM protests - from assisting.
I'm probably influenced by protests in the UK where the police would simply plonk huge numbers of bodies in the way.

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Post by bjn » Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:27 pm

Brightonian wrote:
Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:24 pm
dyqik wrote:
Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:15 pm
Brightonian wrote:
Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:04 pm
Watching CNN who seem a bit over the top, surely? Don't the Capitol police (or capital police or DC police or whatever - it's so confusing) just have to pour in in numbers and shove the protestors out? They don't look armed.
They say they are outnumbered, and the Defense Department have blocked the National Guard - who were deployed in the summer for BLM protests - from assisting.
I'm probably influenced by protests in the UK where the police would simply plonk huge numbers of bodies in the way.
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Post by lpm » Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:28 pm

Senate area recaptured. Rotunda stand offs continue.
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Post by Trinucleus » Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:51 pm

Pence calls for the protestors to leave.

Trump doesn't

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Post by lpm » Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:57 pm

Yeah, the rioters will listen to deep state pedo Pence.

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Post by bjn » Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:58 pm

Trinucleus wrote:
Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:51 pm
Pence calls for the protestors traitors to leave.

Trump doesn't
FTFY

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Post by lpm » Wed Jan 06, 2021 9:01 pm

I'm amazed none of these rioters set the place on fire.
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Post by monkey » Wed Jan 06, 2021 9:08 pm

lpm wrote:
Wed Jan 06, 2021 9:01 pm
I'm amazed none of these rioters set the place on fire.
Britain did it first.

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Post by lpm » Wed Jan 06, 2021 9:16 pm

The woman shot was a rioter. Looks like Capitol police shot her in the chest.
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Post by lpm » Wed Jan 06, 2021 9:30 pm

We love you, you're very special, I know how you feel, says the President of the United States to his Red Hat troops.
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Post by Little waster » Wed Jan 06, 2021 9:42 pm

lpm wrote:
Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:19 pm
Government loyalist forces are beginning to regain control inside the Capitol. Rioters being arrested at gunpoint.
Isn’t this the point when the “International Community” calls for calm on all sides and for peacekeeping troops to be deployed to ensure the safety of aid workers.
This place is not a place of honor, no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here, nothing valued is here.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us.
This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.

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Re: US 2021 Capitol insurrection

Post by Grumble » Wed Jan 06, 2021 9:43 pm

Serious question: are they now at a point of invoking the 25th? (I may have the number wrong)
And if not, why not?
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Post by Bird on a Fire » Wed Jan 06, 2021 9:58 pm

bjn wrote:
Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:58 pm
Trinucleus wrote:
Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:51 pm
Pence calls for the protestors traitors to leave.

Trump doesn't
FTFY
Hmm. I'm not sure if the US Constitution would consider the President an enemy of the USA, which seems to be crucial to the definition of treason (based on my extensive studies at the Wikipedia school of law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason ... ted_States)
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Re: US 2021 Capitol insurrection

Post by bolo » Wed Jan 06, 2021 9:59 pm

It's starting to get dark. DC curfew starts in an hour. Police are coming in from neighboring states. This may get worse before it gets better.

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Re: US 2021 Capitol insurrection

Post by Vertigowooyay » Wed Jan 06, 2021 10:00 pm

Do we know if Susan Collins is ‘concerned’ yet?
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