And Sleepy Joe Will Get The Credit: US Politics January 2021

Ok I guess the one short clip didn’t really convince me but now that I’m seeing more videos it’s clear something pretty fucked is happening. Still think these idiots are going to get their heads busted in and/or end up in jail and things will cool off. I hope the violence gets contained without death or too much injury.

what is trump doing right now? is her out there in the streets with them like he said he would be?

building are being evacuated becasue of these idiots

Im ok if proudboys die

seems pretty harmless if the ultimate lesson is that democrats should go to their constiuencies and build grassroots, local support....

no dont you get it dems are awful the worst

Yeah I scrolled thru the Blaze guy’s feed and saw him talking about Patriots and just rolled my eyes. Sorry to diminish what’s happening.

These jackasses all probably have thin blue line flags on their trucks

― Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, January 6, 2021 6:33 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

lol

But..I thought #BlueLivesMatter 🤔 https://t.co/prrZQuE6r2

— Sale & Sell kicks Yall Asses Everyday B! (@justcallme__Ash) January 6, 2021

McConnell's voice is trembling.

Fuck you dude. This speech should have come 4 years ago. Asshole

MF-ers vying for some Darwin Awards today, I see

The state with the prettiest name!

The scene in front of Versailles in Miami. I’m hearing from more and more Cuban-American protesters who invoke the military and say Trump should be kept in power “by force.” pic.twitter.com/5lYyVNIikH

— Lautaro Grinspan (@lautarogrinspan) January 6, 2021

Trump is probably in a bunker somewhere

What little I could see on the video was more performative chest-beating than a direct physical clash with the Capitol police. That doesn't mean it won't get worse in a hurry, but that video wasn't yet a riot.

McConnell - "There must be no double standard."

I'm not one for violence, particularly not at the hands of police, but Proud Boys et al are neo-Nazi cancers who serve no purpose but impose their will with weapons.

I'm not calling for them to die...but I will not shed a single tear if they do.

God help the children in these families

The Washington Post is reporting the mayhem
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/01/06/dc-protests-trump-rally-live-updates

Trump is responsible for this. @tedcruz is responsible for this. @HawleyMO is responsible for this. You fucking irresponsible assholes sold these people an insane lie and these are the consequences. https://t.co/baM2BhIbXg

— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) January 6, 2021

Not to post the problematic video again, but Tommy otm.

but that video wasn't yet a riot.

No. But can we please maybe not do the whole thing where we downplay a literal coup attempt, no matter how small and laughable it may seem?

Elsewhere there's video of a black cop being pushed by a white exurban dad, who gets punched by the cop in return.

The Beer Hall Putsch was funny at the time, but then...

^^ yeah this

think people are more trying assuage frayed nerves rather than 'downplay'

"not yet a riot" is literally downplaying this

than again it was an Aimless post

wapo seems to not have put this story behind their paywall at least.

don't think it's really fair to call something a 'riot' based on a weirdly angled video that's less than 20 seconds.

Just more and more I think, this is not the end, this is only the beginning for the mainstreaming of the extreme right. There's already a stab-in-the-back narrative!

maybe not do the whole thing where we downplay a literal coup attempt

The Proud Boys are not the primary danger for a coup d'etat. It is Trump holding the power of the Commander in Chief for another two weeks. I don't downplay the potential for rioting. I even expect it at this point. But if riots could overthrow the US government it would have fallen in every decade since it began.

I don’t see this helping them mainstream their movement.

Nobody is saying that the US Government is being toppled by these chuckleheads! We're saying that this still isn't good!

i'm begging y'all, can we not do the thing where we eat each other just one day of the year, esp on a day where (outside of this worrying gathering of people in DC right now) we just got a dose of unexpected good news?

seriously....the wall of negativity everywhere I go lately is bad enough, I don't need it here too

Leadership!

"This election was actually not particularly close." -- McConnell

— Amy Gardner (@AmyEGardner) January 6, 2021

I don’t see this helping them mainstream their movement.

― epistantophus,

^lol

Seems more like the extreme wing turning on its erstwhile allies. Not to mention showing their true (violent, anarchic) colors. And proving their projectionism and hypocrisy vis a vis “radical” antifa.

We're saying that this still isn't good!

Oh. So then, we're in violent agreement.

But maybe I’m nuts? Not sure why I’m getting laughed at.

This is awesome:

Patty Brinkley, 66, said it was more important to show opposition to that vote than listen to the rest of what Trump had to say.

“We’ve heard all that stuff before,” said Brinkley, who drove in from Tennessee and was on her way to the Capitol in a wheelchair. “We thought he was going to come out and say something new. We heard there was going to be some kind of announcement about having arrest warrants for people, but that didn’t happen.”

are you not aware of lagoon's shtick?

― SDFG SDFG SDFG SDFG SDFG SDFG SF (stevie), Wednesday, January 6, 2021 1:32 PM (twelve minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

whats my shtick whoever you are

In laughing w u bc thats what centrist twits say about anything BLM does

Sorry, Neanderthal. The Senate win is nice!

I thought it was a good joke

lmao

Some maga diehard on TheDonald accidentally summed up Trump better than any Atlantic or NYT op-ed writer ever could pic.twitter.com/nKcOdpiLhL

— Aric Toler (@AricToler) January 6, 2021

watching this certification I think I may need to take four BP pills today

Alleged violence on the left supposedly helped turn the narrative against BLM and antifa, and supposedly helped fuck the Democrats over in 2020. But this kind of violence on the right is supposed to *help* them?

So it's safe to assume JFK Jr did not reach down from the heavens with a crown for Trump and arrest warrants for 1.2 million "deep state" operatives?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErEc-Q8WMAAykoW.png

i stepped away from the internet for an hour and when i came out the president was lecturing an angry mob about explosions of bullshit and inciting a riot at the capital building. 2020 still sucks i see

xps oh ok.

oh lord lol Ted Cruz wants a Hayes-Tilden commission

haha I love the Proud Boy implosion

Yes, Ted, we need to tell these people that voter fraud doesn't exist.

saw someone on twitter talking about how the proud boys had no protest technique just repeatedly walking into cop traps etc