What’s going to be the bigger shit show today?

[Aqua Letifer]

@kluurs said in What’s going to be the bigger shit show today?:

@copper said in What’s going to be the bigger shit show today?:

Heard someplace else

If only the Capitol Police had more social workers!

Yeah, I was thinking about that. These past few months have not been the best for being a police officer. Today was a tough day to be a capital police officer. I hope recogntion is given to them for what they did and tried to do. Their leaders failed them - not having enough support when support was needed.

So far it's evident that the National Guard issue is Trump's. Pence got them in himself after Trump refused, presumably masturbating over the live feed.

As to the Capitol police's leadership, I'd love to know their rationale for basically watching this happen.

[George K]

@89th

She's dead.

[Jolly]

[Rich]

[Aqua Letifer]

@rich said in What’s going to be the bigger shit show today?:

@george-k Well, it's tragic that a person is dead, but goddammit, you can't storm the fucking Capitol.

Makes you wonder what would motivate someone to feel so negatively about an election resul—OHHHHH THAT'S TRUE, YOU'RE RIIIIIIGHT!

[Jolly]

@rich said in What’s going to be the bigger shit show today?:

@george-k Well, it's tragic that a person is dead, but goddammit, you can't storm the fucking Capitol.

The Brits burned it to the ground.

[George K]

@rich said in What’s going to be the bigger shit show today?:

you can't storm the fucking Capitol

I agree.

But, apparently, she was unarmed. Was she a credible threat, or just an obnoxious twat twit?

Don't get me wrong, because I in no way accept or condone the events of today. But, this woman, this unarmed woman, was shot, and killed, by the cops.

[Aqua Letifer]

@george-k said in What’s going to be the bigger shit show today?:

But, this woman, this unarmed woman, was shot, and killed, by the cops.

To what extent did the police understand the specifics of the situation outside of "the Capitol has been breached"?

[jon-nyc]

[Rich]

@george-k Yeah, I guess part of me is just trying to make sure I'm holding people who are more generally speaking "in my tribe" to the same level of accountability as I would the other guys.

I can imagine me having some pretty unsympathetic comments if a bunch of anti-fa made it inside the Capitol building while Congress was closing in on certifying the election for Trump.

Plus, to me...storming buildings and taking them over is in and of itself a threating/dangerous behaviour. Chaz be damned.

[Larry]

I want to make sure my position on this is clear, as well as address the claim that this was Trumps fault.

I have not said that a agree with them doing what they did. I'm simply saying I understand why they did it. And it's not Trumps fault that they did it. There were tens of thousands of people at Trumps rally. The vast majority of them were peaceful, and did not participate in the mob attack. If Trump had been responsible for this, there would have been 5 or 6 times as many people involved. But a small group who came to the rally decided to go out on their own and form a mob.

You can't ignore people, lie to them, make fun of them, and all the things the media and the Left have done for 4 years and not end up with a few hotheads who get so frustrated they take matters into their own hands. Most of the people at the rally are just as upset these few peopke did what they did as anyone else. But to claim its Trump's fault is simply a continuation of the treatment Trump supporters have had to put up with, and gives the democrst/Left a pass on their involvement.

In short, this was not a "Trump supporter/Trump caused this" mob. This was a few bad actors, who went off on their own, frustrated over the very kind of treatment the majority of Trump supporters are having hurled at them now, even though the vast majority do not agree with them Bob. Trump supporters have ALWAYS been peaceful, even polite. Yet the one time a small group of bad actors do something similar to what the Left has done for 4 years now, and suddenly it's "all Trump supporters are violent and Trump caused it. That's incorrect, shallow, and unfair.

[Loki]

I’ll bet if they had social workers surround the Capitol this would have all been prevented.

[Doctor Phibes]

@larry said in What’s going to be the bigger shit show today?:

I have not said that a agree with them doing what they did. I'm simply saying I understand why they did it.

That's pretty much word-for-word what the people who made excuses for the Antifa riots said.

[xenon]

@doctor-phibes said in What’s going to be the bigger shit show today?:

@larry said in What’s going to be the bigger shit show today?:

I have not said that a agree with them doing what they did. I'm simply saying I understand why they did it.

That's pretty much word-for-word what the people who made excuses for the Antifa riots said.

I wouldn't loot a store, I get why they did.

[jon-nyc]

@doctor-phibes said in What’s going to be the bigger shit show today?:

@larry said in What’s going to be the bigger shit show today?:

I have not said that a agree with them doing what they did. I'm simply saying I understand why they did it.

That's pretty much word-for-word what the people who made excuses for the Antifa riots said.

And Al Qaeda.

[Doctor Phibes]

People right on this board said it about the Provisional IRA.

[xenon]

@mik said in What’s going to be the bigger shit show today?:

@george-k said in What’s going to be the bigger shit show today?:

THIS will be Trump's legacy.

Yes, and it is sad and wrong. But it is also completely his own doing. His taped message to the protestors was so freaking lame.

Honestly, at this point I'd support removing him from office based on the 25th.

I partly agree with you. I think there was a lot to learn from the non-landslide victory the Dems had eeked through (plus they should have lost the Senate).

I think there was some reflection going on (why did minority vote for Trump go up? How did he have so much support hang on even after 4 years of Trump being Trump, etc.). But now this will just drive the narrative that Trump=bad, Trump supporters=bad.

I've obviously been an advocate of the former, but I truly have sympathy and on many issues agree with the latter.

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in What’s going to be the bigger shit show today?:

@doctor-phibes said in What’s going to be the bigger shit show today?:

@larry said in What’s going to be the bigger shit show today?:

I have not said that a agree with them doing what they did. I'm simply saying I understand why they did it.

That's pretty much word-for-word what the people who made excuses for the Antifa riots said.

And Al Qaeda.

Don't try, Larry. They don't care.

It's point-scoring time. I suspect they are delighted somebody is dead. Gives them a more dramatic finger point.

[taiwan_girl]

@george-k said in What’s going to be the bigger shit show today?:

@mik said in What’s going to be the bigger shit show today?:

He has sadly proven everything his detractors said about him.

There you go.

As I've said, many times, I had little respect for him as a man.

Today, I have little, if any, respect for him as a leader.

This. Very sad.

[Jolly]

BTW, the woman that was shot and killed was a 14-year Air Force veteran, with four tours of duty.