Inside the Capitol Today

[jon-nyc]

@horace I doubt many municipalities are going to follow in Portland or Seattle’s lead.

As for the destruction of federal property last summer, Trump and Barr were pretty adamant that they’d be prosecuting to the limits of the law. While I haven’t seen any follow up, I assume they did.

[Horace]

@jon-nyc said in Inside the Capitol Today:

@horace I doubt many municipalities are going to follow in Portland or Seattle’s lead.

No slippery slope?

As for the destruction of federal property last summer, Trump and Barr were pretty adamant that they’d be prosecuting to the limits of the law. While I haven’t seen any follow up, I assume they did.

No slippery slope?

[taiwan_girl]

@aqua-letifer said in Inside the Capitol Today:

@doctor-phibes said in Inside the Capitol Today:

What the fuck drugs is she on

The real TDS.

Yup. Trump Deification Syndrome

[Aqua Letifer]

@taiwan_girl said in Inside the Capitol Today:

@aqua-letifer said in Inside the Capitol Today:

@doctor-phibes said in Inside the Capitol Today:

What the fuck drugs is she on

The real TDS.

Yup. Trump Deification Syndrome

That's good!

[Doctor Phibes]

Trump Defecation Syndrome - Belief in his bullshit.

[Loki]

This post is deleted!

[Jolly]

@horace said in Inside the Capitol Today:

If it had ever come to that in a BLM riot, people would have been screaming fascism. Now people are rejoicing at the restoration of law and order. Enjoy.

Amen.

[jon-nyc]

[George K]

Stormtroopers, eh?

[Loki]

@george-k said in Inside the Capitol Today:

Stormtroopers, eh?

I support a huge presence. It’s a consequence on what we are now learning was a premeditated attack on our Capitol.

Also now the fringe groups have earned the right to be taken at their word.

That’s just the way it is.

As it happens I will coincidentally be in DC on Inauguration Day. May be the safest place in the US.

[Aqua Letifer]

@loki said in Inside the Capitol Today:

As it happens I will coincidentally be in DC on Inauguration Day.

Dear God what for?? Are you going to be close to the stuff downtown?

[George K]

@loki I don’t disagree at all. I was referencing The Speaker’s comments about federal troops in Portland.

Stormtroopers for thee but not for me.

[Mik]

@loki said in Inside the Capitol Today:

@george-k said in Inside the Capitol Today:

Stormtroopers, eh?

I support a huge presence. It’s a consequence on what we are now learning was a premeditated attack on our Capitol.

Also now the fringe groups have earned the right to be taken at their word.

That’s just the way it is.

As it happens I will coincidentally be in DC on Inauguration Day. May be the safest place in the US.

My daughter and her roommate had a trip to DC planned for the inauguration. They have reconsidered.

[Aqua Letifer]

@george-k said in Inside the Capitol Today:

@loki I don’t disagree at all. I was referencing The Speaker’s comments about federal troops in Portland.

Stormtroopers for thee but not for me.

Portland is not where a national election was delayed due to terrorism.

[jon-nyc]

@aqua-letifer said in Inside the Capitol Today:

Dear God what for??

He maxed out on Biden and every competitive congressional race so the DNC gave him a ticket.

Yeah, that’s it.

[George K]

@aqua-letifer said in Inside the Capitol Today:

@george-k said in Inside the Capitol Today:

@loki I don’t disagree at all. I was referencing The Speaker’s comments about federal troops in Portland.

Stormtroopers for thee but not for me.

Portland is not where a national election was delayed due to terrorism.

No. But is where a federal building was firebombed.

[Aqua Letifer]

@george-k said in Inside the Capitol Today:

@aqua-letifer said in Inside the Capitol Today:

@george-k said in Inside the Capitol Today:

@loki I don’t disagree at all. I was referencing The Speaker’s comments about federal troops in Portland.

Stormtroopers for thee but not for me.

Portland is not where a national election was delayed due to terrorism.

No. But is where a federal building was firebombed.

The response to Portland was abysmal but I see no argument that it was in any way on par with an attempt to overturn our elections that resulted in an officer dying, terrorists preparing to assassinate our leaders, and Congressmen having to shelter in place due to pipe bombs being planted. It's not even remotely close to the same scenario.

[Mik]

You keep saying that but it still does not wash logically. It's how you FEEL about it, not the facts.

[Aqua Letifer]

@mik said in Inside the Capitol Today:

You keep saying that but it still does not wash logically. It's how you FEEL about it, not the facts.

It washes legally, sorry. An entirely different set of laws were broken on top of the commonalities between it and Portland. Read the FBI and attorney releases and tell me I'm wrong.

[Horace]

There was just no way we as a society could have squelched the BLM riots with force. Pop culture would not have allowed it and the righteous retribution of the nation-wide mobs against any such use of overwhelming law enforcement would have been even greater. Meanwhile, after the group of unarmed doofuses raided the largely unguarded Capitol, pop culture has become engorged with excitement at the prospect of bringing the law enforcement hammer down on any such future attempts. So that's a huge difference. I totally accept use of force to quell doofuses against Capitol invasions. I do not accept our status quo of righteous rioting, about which we can do nothing, whenever a racist cop incident goes viral.