US election 2020 thread

[bimble]

 

[cantsin]

jeez, they're not messing about here .... inside the Cap Building ??

MAGA lot are stopping the transfer of power at the moment... temporarily, this is a bit like what a revolution looks like I guess

 

[bimble]

That guy in the middle dressed in animal skins, he’s a celebrity in qanon world. What a final season.

 

[Ax^]

so here is the moment is Donnie above the law


after inciting all of this

 

[two sheds]

They have to shut them off and arrest the fucking lot of them.

 

[Ax^]

so how many BLM protester have been killed in the last year

just want to put it into perspective

and we had a democrat Baltimore poster condemning that protest

 

[Ax^]

They have to shut them off and arrest the fucking lot of them.

at this stage its the US how the fuck have the police forgotten they have guns

 

[teqniq]

They have to shut them off and arrest the fucking lot of them.

 

[bimble]

Is it a coup attempt now or still just a buffoon idk. Not that this will work obvs but look at it, they are doing what he told them to do.

 

[Streathamite]

Presumably this means they'll be objecting several states. Could take hours.

It does.
Procedural note. Whenever a formal objection is lodged - in writing, and co-signed by a senator - Congress must formally debate that objection. That debate is expected to take up to 2 hours.
In other words, they're going to waste everybody's time - and turn Congress into a laughing stock* for absolutely no possible end gain whatsoever.
Absolutely beyond mental.

*yeah, yeah, I know.....

 

[Plumdaff]

If these protestors were BLM they'd have opened fire by now. This is astonishing.

Is it a coup attempt now or still just a buffoon idk.

Loads of them videoing themselves in there (that'll end well for them). I think a lot of them are shocked they've got in. Doesn't mean it's not dangerous.

 

[killer b]

It does.
Procedural note. Whenever a formal objection is lodged - in writing, and co-signed by a senator - Congress must formally debate that objection. That debate is expected to take up to 2 hours.
In other words, they're going to waste everybody's time - and turn Congress into a laughing stock* for absolutely no possible end gain whatsoever.
Absolutely beyond mental.

*yeah, yeah, I know.....

I think all this won't be the story anymore though tbf

 

[tendril]

Fuck me, the trump protesters have gained access inside the building. Pence and McConnell evacuated.
This is not going to end well.

 

[bimble]

How the hell did they get in anyway was this not expected? It was loudly advertised. There’s bits of footage from inside the capitol building just before the mob enters which seem to show 4 police in total by the closed door just sort of mooching about whilst the windows smash.

 

[Streathamite]

I think all this won't be the story anymore though tbf

Of course it won't.
Quite an apt epitaph and end to the Trump presidency, though.

 

[Raheem]

Fuck's sake. It seems like someone just let them in.

 

[two sheds]

edited because a tad insensitive

 

[Ax^]

when its not white people

 

[rubbershoes]

Really not the most reliable of sources (right wing propaganda site, mainly).

Exactly. If they call it for Ossoff, he's definitely won

 

[cupid_stunt]

CNN reporting that Capitol Police [tiny force] has called for help from other police forces in the Washington area.

Also now showing images of police reinforcements arriving.

 

[Badgers]

Fuck me, the trump protesters have gained access inside the building. Pence and McConnell evacuated.
This is not going to end well.

A good old fashioned Jonestown incoming?

 

[Ax^]

and this is 2021

 

[Plumdaff]

CNN reporting that Capitol Police [tiny force] has called for help from other police forces in the Washington area.

Also now showing images of police reinforcements arriving.

How was this not anticipated when it always has been in the past. Is it deliberate?

 

[moochedit]

Are there no counter protestors? Trump isn't very popular with locals in DC is he?

 

[platinumsage]

Loads of them videoing themselves in there (that'll end well for them). I think a lot of them are shocked they've got in. Doesn't mean it's not dangerous.

I don’t think it’s illegal for them to be in there.

 

[two sheds]

Trump did keep referring to Jan 6th as the day of reckoning - this is clearly what he meant.

 

[bimble]

 

[Plumdaff]

I don’t think it’s illegal for them to be in there.

They are in areas of the Capitol, while it is in session, that the public are never allowed in, inciting sedition. Try having a wander around the Palace of Westminster next time Parliament are sitting and see what kind of reaction you get, even if you are not attempting a white nationalist overthrow of the government.

 

[cupid_stunt]

How was this not anticipated when it always has been in the past. Is it deliberate?

Fuck knows, but it's great TV.

 

[Ax^]

they had to evacuate mike pence

sorry if the world was not laughing at America

cheers donnie