Nationwide riot megathread

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Hawley and Cruz are ********

[Boiler 45,402]

I was pingining around radio stations and the refreshing thing was that all the condemnation including from people who attended the protest, one lady was really upset, she called them crazies.

 

Hopefully we will now see the same condemnation of Antifa/BLM.

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1 minute ago, Boiler said:

I was pingining around radio stations and the refreshing thing was that all the condemnation including from people who attended the protest, one lady was really upset, she called them crazies.

 

Hopefully we will now see the same condemnation of Antifa/BLM.

Okay , what the actual?  You are telling me that this is comparable to anything, I mean anything, you have witnessed at a BLM protest? Seriously whataatatawhataboutism.

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[HKS 169]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coups_and_coup_attempts_by_country
 

This isn't an all inclusive list, but the more you see of the world the more you understand. Or perhaps at least one opens the mind more. 
The true opening of one’s mind is to actually experience a government that is a Dictatorship, a democracy in name only, Communist, Socialist, Monarchy, etc. If you happen to be so unlucky/lucky (depending on your point of view) you experience more than one in your lifetime. 

Some of you on VJ have experienced this and understand what Im talking about. Think about these counties and what happened just before their country was thrusted into a new and different government without any regard to how it will effect the people it serves. Did they know it was coming? Were they better off after? Did they end up in another coup to “make things better”. 
 

my point...... every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The balance is delicate. 

[Orangesapples 1,954]

11 minutes ago, Boiler said:

I was pingining around radio stations and the refreshing thing was that all the condemnation including from people who attended the protest, one lady was really upset, she called them crazies.

 

Hopefully we will now see the same condemnation of Antifa/BLM.

But they didn't do the same thing. They didn't forcefully enter the  cabinet of the Speaker of the House. You can't claim an equivalency here

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1 minute ago, Orangesapples said:

But they didn't do the same thing. They didn't forcefully enter the  cabinet of the Speaker of the House. You can't claim an equivalency here

I never said I did but it does not help when you have something similar going on in Portland for nearly a year and getting a pass, hopefully this will be a one off. Gives the nutters to much of an excuse.

[Orangesapples 1,954]

10 minutes ago, CanAm1980 said:

Okay , what the actual?  You are telling me that this is comparable to anything, I mean anything, you have witnessed at a BLM protest? Seriously whataatatawhataboutism.

Trumpers can't ever condemn the actions of right wingers (including people that forcefully enter Capitol) without some whataboutism. Even if there is no analog whatsoever. 

 

What these unhinged lunatics are doing is orders of magnitude worse than anything BLM has done. 

Just now, Boiler said:

I never said I did but it does not help when you have something similar going on in Portland for nearly a year and getting a pass, hopefully this will be a one off. Gives the nutters to much of an excuse.

It's not similar. Not in the slightest. 

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1 minute ago, Boiler said:

I never said I did but it does not help when you have something similar going on in Portland for nearly a year and getting a pass, hopefully this will be a one off. Gives the nutters to much of an excuse.

No, I have been to Portland, I live in Seattle...all of this misdirection must be refuted. This is the capital building. You don't do that in our country.

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Just now, CanAm1980 said:

No, I have been to Portland, I live in Seattle...all of this misdirection must be refuted. This is the capital building. You don't do that in our country.

I never said you did and it should be roundly condemned as should attack against Government buildings in Portland.

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Representative Cori Bush has called for the following to be enforced:
Amendment 14 

Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

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6 minutes ago, Boiler said:

I never said you did and it should be roundly condemned as should attack against Government buildings in Portland.

Okay.  B'$.

No one cares that the Portland pioneer square Starbucks and headbanger wall was shutdown for a few days. Everyone needs to be concerned that the seated president and seated senators encouraged a mob to storm the Capitol building.

 

 

 

 

[laylalex 7,284]

What if... this incident actually brought us closer together when we realize all the principles that we share?

 

What happened today is greater than "this location was stormed in DC" and "that location was stormed in Portland." It's symbolic. We're hard-wired as humans to respond to symbolism. The 9/11 attackers chose their targets carefully. McVeigh chose his target carefully. The Capitol is a symbol that is greater than the materials of which it is composed, greater than the people inside it.  

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4 minutes ago, HKS said:

Representative Cori Bush has called for the following to be enforced:
Amendment 14 

Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

Sadly, I need to agree