DC Unrest Megathread

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This is just a message that you have to stay out of rightwingers' way.

They see themselves as patriots, as patriotic people, the Left allowed the Right to take over the country's symbols and language for too long, and now you have angry people who are snapping.

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The entire DC Metropolitan Police force should have been there. What the HELL is going on??? Why aren’t they opening fire???

Now you want escalation tactics?

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This is a trite observation at this point but if these people weren't white or were on the left there would be blood in the Capitol right now. No respect at all left for people who continue to vote Republican after this. Law and order is a bad joke at this point and I am convinced that anyone who parrots these talking points just hates black people.

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You think Pete King, Rudy Giuliani, Alexis Weik and Boomer Esiason hate black people?

Also, people will continue voting GOP until the Dems get serious on urban crime and the tax issue.

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The whole message is get out of the far right's way

We saw the far left do their thing in the summer, this is the right's time.

This only helps the center

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The whole message is get out of the far right's way

We saw the far left do their thing in the summer, this is the right's time.

This only helps the center

What the hell are you talking about

Centrists get things done, the left and right bite each other up.

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The whole message is get out of the far right's way

We saw the far left do their thing in the summer, this is the right's time.

This only helps the center

What the hell are you talking about

Centrists get things done, the left and right bite each other up.

STOP CREATING FALSE EQUIVALENCIES YOU UTTER AND COMPLETE FOOL.

Stop replying to Bronz

It's the truth. Stop pretending that no one on the Left advocates violence, etc. What do you think elements of BLM was? They are just as insufferable as the right.

The center can hold

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Hawley and Cruz are finished.

Do you think Americans will remember?

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https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1346920198461419520

Because of course they are. Fascist f#%ks were never going to support democracy.

You still need a police force, though.

Police reform needs to be a main legislative agenda and Dems will have to tone down the BLM rhetoric. The police are acting like this because they see the Dems=BLM.

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Why is anyone responding to Bronz

I am speaking the truth. They are angry people. Get out of their way.

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MY QUEEN IS ALIVE!

https://twitter.com/RepCori/status/1346926083350794240

Cori Bush is actually very underrated but it has nothing to do with this.

Good for her, but her rhetoric is what will feed Ann Wagner to another term in 2022, she'll run a suburban flight campaign about Bush's St. Louis problems.

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Trump needs to resign

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Lets be clear, if Antifa stormed the capitol like this they would have all been arrested, maybe shot.  Our law enforcement has just become an arm of the Republican Party at this point. And the Republican Party are becoming traitors.  So there's an inherent problem here.

Been telling you for months now. What do you think the whole premise of Long Island, Staten Island and Mt. Greenwood is? And yes, Dems need to appeal to those areas, those Lean R areas. That happens when one party screams ACAB and paints all cops with the same brush, they go to the party that defends them.

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Anybody else think Cruz and Hawley overextended themselves in a Macarthyesque way? They can't come back from this.

Hawley wins reelection in MO, Cruz loses to Beto in 2024

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Many left-wing twitter users are saying it's the real face of America.
They consider it as the worst country ever in the history of mankind.
Their solution is f America to be dismantled, forgotten, erased forever.

https://twitter.com/Tinashe/status/1346945438939680770

Some leftifts’ hatred for the country is distressing

They are partly to blame for this stuff.

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Told you that LEO/Fire/EMS/Military are filled with far right people......

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Told you that LEO/Fire/EMS/Military are filled with far right people......

That was never in doubt.

But why, and also what can Democrats do to appeal to these voters instead of belittling their occupations?

Occupations shouldn't be political......most white NYPD officers don't even live in NYC, same thing with the white Philly and Chicago cops....their political stance is more "conservative" (if that's the word), or whatever.

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Members of Congress should be exempt from security checks.

Why?

This shouldn't require any explanation.

Not after the intelligence reports that the insurrectionists had inside help.  

- Members of Congress are allowed to be armed in the Capitol, and have access to everything, making any security search completely irrelevant
- Security exists to protect lawmakers from external threats, not the other way around
- They may be carrying sensitive documents that cannot be revealed to a random police officer
- If a member of Congress really wanted to cause damage, they don't need a gun to do it
- Capitol buildings exist for the sole purpose of allowing members of Congress to do their business. They do not need to explain themselves to anyone, and their movements should not be questioned or hindered in any way outside emergencies.

The nation's business should not be held up by irrational and unnecessary security checks. This is as ridiculous as making POTUS go through the same security checks as tourists when returning to the White House. Or a foreign ambassador, or Cabinet Secretary, or member of Congress, for that matter.

I'll remind you of this when Lauren Boebert tries to shoot Ilhan Omar for reaching into her purse a little too quickly.

Omar should get protection, but she should know that. AOC, all of them should get protection.