DC Unrest Megathread

[Horus]

https://twitter.com/alexisgoldstein/status/1346940983431335938

"When protestors tried to take the Capitol" hahahaha

It literally says the Capitol steps. Can you read?

Actually, you're from Alabama, so maybe not.

He's not actually from Alabama lmao, he's from Spain

Spain is a funny way to say Belarus.

[Co-Chair Bagel23]

The right only loved law enforcement when they thought all they did was kill black people. They have no loyalty to America, to the thin blue line, to anything at all besides Trump and preservation of the white race. Everything else is simply a tool.

[Omolloy]

BASED Ralph Northam has totally made up for that whole yearbook thing now. He said “Jurisdiction? LOL no, my National Guard is marching on DC anyway.”

Can’t believe the Governor of Virginia who apparently maybe once dressed up as a Klansman is now the based defender of American democracy for ordering state troops into DC, but here we are.

How exactly does jurisdiction work here? It was of course the right decision, but I wonder what the legal mechanism actually is for the Virginia National Guard to intervene outside of their state.

[It's Perro Sanxe wot won it]

Apparently, the Electoral College certificates from the states were saved by a Senate aide before the thugs swarmed the chamber. President Biden should grant the Presidential Medal of Freedom to this hero.

[7,052,770]

It's all over right wing social media that the people who stormed the Capitol were actually Antifa provocateurs. So don't expect any soul-searching or introspection out of the vast majority of them. They'll see on this "information" and believe it.

[PSOL]

https://mobile.twitter.com/SocialistAlt/status/1346922932208087046

Socialist Alternative are the first major group to publicly announce they are mobilizing. Others have most likely done so, but won’t post their efforts for a while on their organ.

[OSR stands with Israel]

I’m so relieved that I didn’t give in to the temptations I had multiple times during the last year to vote for Trump .

He’s such a terrible human being , and I would have felt guilty  it for a long long time if I had done so , so I’m so relieved that I refused to vote for the guy

Wow, you’re so brave. You heard the President talk and act like a fascist for four years and you courageously decided at the last second not to vote for him. I hope you get a medal of freedom.

You have been here for long enough to know that I never became a Trump supporter   at any time during his presidency.

I just said I was tempted to at many times , but am relieved that I didn’t

[Former Crackhead Mike Lindell]

Hi - it's page 38 and I just got here. Can someone please give me a quick rundown of what I missed?

[brucejoel99]

Hi - it's page 38 and I just got here. Can someone please give me a quick rundown of what I missed?

Just put on a TV

So much for that muting.

[Middle-aged Europe]

https://twitter.com/CharlieCrist/status/1346933196324294658

[ultraviolet]

Hi - it's page 38 and I just got here. Can someone please give me a quick rundown of what I missed?

Just put on a TV

Aren’t you supposed to be muted?

[DabbingSanta]

So, are we invoking the 25th amendment?

[Badger]

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.

Seriously dude. We get it that you have more than a little bary concealed sympathy for these fellow right-wing jackbooted thugs from whose ranks you retired only a couple years ago. But maybe take a break under the circumstances, drink a nice tall glass of STFU juice, and realize that your brownshirt types are not welcome here.

And by here, I don't mean Atlas, I mean America.

[Never Made it to Graceland]

Watching Trump and his terrorist thugs trying to shred the Constitution I once swore to preserve, protect and defend infuriates me.

That moldy piece of paper's extreme limitations are the reason why Trump happened and why this will continue to happen.

I hope that today's events cause more people to realize that the fashionable rhetoric of radicalism does more harm than good.

Our collective faith in that "moldy piece of paper" - and not, as the authoritarian right would have you believe, the so-called "thin blue line" of raw state power - is what stands between us and today's events being normal.

You can have all the faith in the world in it. But when your state institutions have failed and there's a massive degree of polarization, not by ideas but by misinformation, then it will fail like it always has.

[Fmr. Gov. NickG]

Not only should all of these protestors be arrested and charged with sedition, but so should everyone who has promoted this movement on social media.

[ProgressiveModerate]

Hi - it's page 38 and I just got here. Can someone please give me a quick rundown of what I missed?

-Democrats won the Senate
-Trump turned on Pence as he refused to reject the results.
-AL and AK are certified, but from there it went downhill
-Congressional members fled the capitol building as Trump supporters angry about the election results broke in
-Trump has basically done nothing

[ηєω ƒяσηтιєя]

China is going to show these images to its citizens and say that this is what "democracy" leads to. We can't tell China anything now

[It’s so Joever]

So...how does this influence the 2022 midterms?

[ProudModerate2]

I’m so relieved that I didn’t give in to the temptations I had multiple times during the last year to vote for Trump .

He’s such a terrible human being , and I would have felt guilty  it for a long long time if I had done so , so I’m so relieved that I refused to vote for the guy

Wow, you’re so brave. You heard the President talk and act like a fascist for four years and you courageously decided at the last second not to vote for him. I hope you get a medal of freedom.

You have been here for long enough to know that I never became a Trump supporter   at any time during his presidency.

I just said I was tempted to at many times , but am relieved that I didn’t

You have said things swinging your decision back and forth. You deserve very little credit for your words today.
And remind me again ... Did you vote to put this Orange Moron in office back in 2016?

[VAR]

I’m so relieved that I didn’t give in to the temptations I had multiple times during the last year to vote for Trump .

He’s such a terrible human being , and I would have felt guilty  it for a long long time if I had done so , so I’m so relieved that I refused to vote for the guy

Wow, you’re so brave. You heard the President talk and act like a fascist for four years and you courageously decided at the last second not to vote for him. I hope you get a medal of freedom.

I never supported Trump, and I also didn't vote for any R candidate on the ballot this year (because of McConnell ramming through ACB, which I felt was unfair to half the country). Do I get a medal of freedom?

[Diabolical Materialism]

https://mobile.twitter.com/SocialistAlt/status/1346922932208087046

Socialist Alternative are the first major group to publicly announce they are mobilizing. Others have most likely done so, but won’t post their efforts for a while on their organ.

Good on the Trots.

[Interlocutor is just not there yet]

Hi - it's page 38 and I just got here. Can someone please give me a quick rundown of what I missed?

Just put on a TV

Aren’t you supposed to be muted?

Never underestimate the power of the "Forum Institution" defense

[It’s so Joever]

Not only should all of these protestors be arrested and charged with sedition, but so should everyone who has promoted this movement on social media.

“Fascism for me but not for thee.”

Okay traitor.

[Alcibiades]

What’s the latest on the police response? Are they finally getting a grip? Have the National Guard arrived?

[Dereich]

It's all over right wing social media that the people who stormed the Capitol were actually Antifa provocateurs. So don't expect any soul-searching or introspection out of the vast majority of them. They'll see on this "information" and believe it.

They're making the same argument on OANN.