American Politics Thread

[Volphied]

Congress turns into a circus in about 20 minutes

Follow up to the circus outside? MAGA chuds got pepper sprayed by the blue lines they love so much.


View: https://twitter.com/BGOnTheScene/status/1346658756285894661

 

[Rantaro]

Follow up to the circus outside? MAGA chuds got pepper sprayed by the blue lines they love so much.


View: https://twitter.com/BGOnTheScene/status/1346658756285894661

Trump is going to speak to those very people soon.

 

[Rantaro]

So much for the MAGAs being above riots like they always said.

View: https://twitter.com/RepElaineLuria/status/1346890833266683904?s=20

 

[zoroarctic]

This is shameful.

 

[Rantaro]

This is shameful.

It’s HORRIFIC. They should be using the same force they used against protesters last summer against these thugs because they’re a genuine threat to the government right now.

 

[A Wild Luxray]

These people are absolute hypocrites. This is the crowd that continually told Democrats who were angry and disappointed that Trump won that Trump is still their president. This is the crowd that calls for law and order and says stuff like blue lives matter. When the tables have turned, they're the ones rioting and got DC under lockdown. This is truly a shameful, disgusting display.

 

[Rantaro]

I remember 9/11 and I will say, this is the most horrific thing I’ve seen in my home country since that day. This is what domestic terrorism looks like.

 

[Aulos]

These people are absolute hypocrites. This is the crowd that continually told Democrats who were angry and disappointed that Trump won that Trump is still their president. This is the crowd that calls for law and order and says stuff like blue lives matter. When the tables have turned, they're the ones rioting and got DC under lockdown. This is truly a shameful, disgusting display.

And the next time a Republican president gets elected and the Democrats dare to protest it (likely because of legitimate voter suppression and a bullcrap electoral college-only [without popular vote] win), this exact same crowd will go right back to characterizing the left as crybabies who can't accept reality and any isolated protesting that goes even slightly too far will be called "violent rioting" and they will claim "See, the left is out of control. We Republicans don't riot".

I wish I was joking, but I predict this exact scenario, because it's already happened almost exactly like this.

 

[Rantaro]

First confirmed gunshot wound, a woman is now in critical condition.

 

[Beth Pavell]

I'm quite sure those rioters think they're re-enacting the heady days of 1775 (Challenge that date; my history of that period is a bit rusty, but I don't care enough to check)

 

[wanderist]

I knew to expect opposition and probably violence, but actually seeing it and at this level is still terrifying and depressing. This is so insane it's almost hard to believe it's actually happening. These people are so scary and delusional. Going this far because you lost an election? Is it really that hard to believe that most of the country did not want that orange wacko in office?

I'm just at a loss. It was so shocking for a poketuber I was watching that he had to stop and end his stream, and he doesn't even live here.

Just...please let this be the worst of it and things start to calm down once Biden actually gets in. This is too much insanity.

 

[prog rocker]

And I thought you only saw things like that in "democratic" countries...

 

[zoroarctic]

Hillary Clinton was right. These people absolutely are deplorable.

 

[Rantaro]

Hillary Clinton was right. These people absolutely are deplorable.

She told us chaos would break out if he lost, and it’s managed to do so in an even worse way than I thought it would.

 

[TechSkylander1518]

Good time to bring this abomination of a twitter thread back:

View: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1266711224391213056

 

[Rantaro]

They need to try remove Trump ASAP so he can be held accountable for helping to incite this.

 

[Volphied]

Y'all Quaeda getting arrested:

No mercy for these idiots.

 

[Rantaro]

Y'all Quaeda

I fucking snorted

 

[Rantaro]

In positive news, the AP has called both senate seats for the Dems

 

[Volphied]

And the next time a Republican president gets elected and the Democrats dare to protest it (likely because of legitimate voter suppression and a bullcrap electoral college-only [without popular vote] win), this exact same crowd will go right back to characterizing the left as crybabies who can't accept reality and any isolated protesting that goes even slightly too far will be called "violent rioting" and they will claim "See, the left is out of control. We Republicans don't riot".

I wish I was joking, but I predict this exact scenario, because it's already happened almost exactly like this.

The saddest thing about today is that now it's certain that Republicans will never give us a peaceful transfer of power ever again. We crossed the rubicon on that today. Expect violent protests every-time elections go against the chuds. Sore losers, the lot of them.