DC Unrest Megathread

[Diabolical Materialism]

This should be a wake up call to American liberals. These people will not listen to platitudes, they do not care about institutions, voting isn't enough. Get organized and be prepared.

[WD]

Welp, so much for the party of law and order.

Goddamned traitors. Too bad we liberals are supposed to be against the death penalty.

I for one, have always supported the Death Penalty. Today only re-enforces my support.

[Splash]

https://twitter.com/GovernorVA/status/1346916716614451207

[SteveRogers]

Absolutely surreal question to have to ask, but does Congress have to meet in the physical Capitol in order to achieve quorum and pass laws, or can they do it anywhere? Just wondering if we can confirm the election results and maybe remove Trump from power without first having to clear the Capitol.

As far as I know, there is no legal/ constitutional requirement that Congress do business on Capitol grounds. During the Cold War, bunkers were built where congress could meet in the event of a nuclear war https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Greek_Island. Presumably some such undisclosed location still exists...

[The Free North]

https://twitter.com/osinttechnical/status/1346917094881976325?s=21

Based

[Frozen Sky Ever Why]

Any Trump voters ready to apologize yet?

You won't be forgiven, of course, but you should do it anyway.

I voted for him last year because I oppose this type of behavior.

[Buffalo Mayor Young Kim]

Replace whatever maga bullsh**t they are on with black lives matter.
Does anyone think live rounds wouldn't have been fired well before they breached any barracade?

[Suburbia]

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

[Middle-aged Europe]

Virginia is sending into DC their National Guard at the request of the DC Mayor.

https://twitter.com/GovernorVA/status/1346916716614451207?s=20

I appreciate the historical irony of the Virginia National Guard saving Washington, DC from white supremacists.

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

Catharsis.  Not just for those protesting/rioting today, but for all of us.  It takes events like this for our national purpose to be allowed to change and update.  Whatever may come of this, we should relish this opportunity to break the "end of history" ethos that has strangled our spirit for the past 30 years.

If we had a more transformative Democrat as president-elect (i.e., not Biden), he would go on national television tonight to announce the immediate establishment of a provisional government, reconstitute the House and Senate (w/ Ossoff and Perdue being seated immediately) and implement martial law.

Use this opportunity to flip the table and unleash all the pent-up social/political change we've needed since WWII.   

F##k you too. Your side and your vote is 100% responsible for all of this. If people like Biden were running the show, absolutely none of this would be happening. Dumbass.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Catharsis.  Not just for those protesting/rioting today, but for all of us.  It takes events like this for our national purpose to be allowed to change and update.  Whatever may come of this, we should relish this opportunity to break the "end of history" ethos that has strangled our spirit for the past 30 years.

If we had a more transformative Democrat as president-elect (i.e., not Biden), he would go on national television tonight to announce the immediate establishment of a provisional government, reconstitute the House and Senate (w/ Ossoff and Perdue being seated immediately) and implement martial law.

Use this opportunity to flip the table and unleash all the pent-up social/political change we've needed since WWII.   

Go to hell, fascist.

[Torrain]

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1346917505177182209

[It's Perro Sanxe wot won it]

https://twitter.com/osinttechnical/status/1346917094881976325?s=21

The Cabinet should be invoking the 25th Amendment right now.

[Crumpets]

MSNBC has confirmed that one person (unclear which side) has been shot in the Capitol.

[Person Man]

Welp, so much for the party of law and order.

Goddamned traitors. Too bad we liberals are supposed to be against the death penalty.

I for one, have always supported the Death Penalty. Today only re-enforces my support.

I support the Death Penalty, but only for terrorism, treason, and genocide.

[Alben Barkley]

Northam sending in National Guard and VA State Troops.

YES.

[Starry Eyed Jagaloon]

Any Trump voters ready to apologize yet?

You won't be forgiven, of course, but you should do it anyway.

I voted for him last year because I oppose this type of behavior.

Because I am--and this is objectively true--better than you?

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

BREAKING: DC National Guard will be activated.

[Beefalow and the Consumer]

If I went back in time to 2016 and warned that if Trump fails to win re-election, he would refuse to concede, engage in a flurry of lawsuits to try and overturn the results, bully GOP officials to "find" votes for him, purge the Department of Defense, and incite a legion of protesters to storm the US Capitol and attempt to prevent the counting of electoral votes in Congress...

ALMOST EVERYONE I KNOW WOULD TELL ME I WAS A CRAZY ALARMIST AND SHOULD CALM THE **** DOWN.

This is the single most shameful day for our republic since Appomattox.

[Gass3268]

https://twitter.com/DanLamothe/status/1346917938843029504?s=20

[Omolloy]

Every single Republican needs to do a lot of soul searching. You’re all literally fascist enablers.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

I generally oppose lethal force used by police but this has got to come to an end.

If the police start killing people on the spot, especially innocent protestors, fire will be returned. They better be smart this time.

[HisGrace]

The unfortunate thing about all of this is that once the barrier has been broken down, this sort of thing becomes tacitly legitimized. In the same way Turkish coups became legitimate over the past 70 years as a means of protecting Kemalism , so too may this become a normalized thing in American society.

And its very very difficult to put the cat back into the bag once its out.

In a similar vein to my CHAZ comment this is why they need to be aggressive here. Wouldn't mind them shooting rioters at all. People won't pull stuff like this if they think they could actually die.

[Ferguson97]

Donald Trump is an evil man. He knows damn well what he is doing when he incites this.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

This is not a "whataboutist" defense of what is going on but I absolutely think the weak ass response to the summer riots contributed to this. These guys might not think they could get away with this if they'd seen the CHAZ clowns getting rolled over by armored cars on TV.

This.