Current capitol storm mega thread

My heart is broken...at what is happening...

There wasn't really a Step 2 to any of this. Just blind, reckless, impotent rage hyped up by a demagogue and pointed towards the place they were told their problems lie.

It's sad that so many people will support a man who bragged about sexually assaulting women, bilking people out of money, never having read a book, suggested we drink bleach as a cure for Covid, and said in an interview he's running as a Republican because they're the dumbest people on Earth and easy to control.

I'm appalled. They bludgeoned a police officer with a fire hydrant and he dies of his injuries. Like wow. And appalled by anyone that thinks storming the nation's capitol full of some the nation's leaders isn't criminal. It make us look weak to other countries. Embarrassing that it happened. 

I am not condoning what was done at the capital on 1-6-21. But I will say I completely understand it. I am also not saying it was just President Trump supporters. The people are sick of NOT being listened to. We are sick of the politics trying to take our freedom of everything. This country is based from WE THE PEOPLE not we the government.

I started a pretty long, annoyed comment.. basically, about two echo chambers, the liberal mainstream vs. QAnon, and how the failures of Democrats enabled Trump more than the cunning of Republicans, and so on, but I realize that this is a very delicate issue and I'm too annoyed to be diplomatic or brief about it, so I'm biting my tongue altogether. Instead I'll leave you with the most important link in that comment, Noam Chomsky talking about root causes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiCeqySVhCE&t=20m55s.

You could summarize my stance on this incident, and pretty much all of 2020, and probably the following years, like this: The continued shift of wealth from bottom to top, and the consolidation of control in fewer and fewer hands, that is what matters, the rest follows from it and/or is circus to distract from it.

Everyone keeps talking about this storm at the capital but I didn’t even see any rain... maybe the weatherman was lying that morning or something...

https://nypost.com/2021/02/17/accused-capitol-rioter-john-sullivan-sold-footage-for-35k-to-nbc-cnn/

The news came as prosecutors on Tuesday tried to ban the Utah provocateur — a self-styled anti-Trump activist who they allege infiltrates protests to cause chaos and record video footage — from accessing social media, according to Politico.

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the feds allege in a criminal complaint that Sullivan was actively participating in and encouraging the siege.

As throngs of President Donald Trump supporters stormed the building, Sullivan helped one of the rioters scale a wall leading up to an entrance of the Capitol, an affidavit alleges.

He then entered the Capitol through a window that had been smashed by a rioter.

As he recorded footage inside the building, Sullivan allegedly said, “we gotta get this s—t burned.”

“It’s our house, motherf—kers. We are getting this s–t,” he added.

Still recording, Sullivan moved with the crowd to outside the Speaker’s Lobby, where rioters faced off with police officers who were securing a doorway.

He then captured an officer fatally shoot rioter Ashli Babbitt as she attempted to climb through a broken window that was being guarded by the officers — footage he sold to several news networks.

When George Carlin said that when fascism comes to America, it won't be with jackboots and swastikas, but with Nike sneakers and smiley shirts, he was half right. It's Nike sneakers and these pathetic, pseudo-concerned grumpy faces talking about how white old men are the root of all evil, doing NOTHING to abolish the police state or punish war profiteers, or do ANYTHING real.

Screw this pearl clutching nonsense, every day 50k people die of hunger or thirst, EVERY FUCKING DAY, totalitarianism is going stronger than ever, and even in democracies the tools for totalitarian takeover are getting perfected... but oh noes, some people ran around the capitol, you need a domestic terrorism task force ASAP, better mechanisms to censor social media in real-time, no more encrypted communications rather sooner than later. Because some people are *bad*, they just are. Looking at root causes would be crazy, that would require reflection and criticism of more than just the "other". So just do more of the problem/reaction/solution dance, patting each other on the back at every step.

I still think Trump is an evil scumbag, but the thing is, that doesn't make anyone else even one iota better. It's pathetic to use him and his supporters as a fig leaf for just about anything, and that's basically what the US is now: two large groups of evil idiots pointing fingers at each other, getting fuck all done.

Am I swearing too much? Because believe it or not, I'm still biting my tongue.

Modern day Reichstag fire. 

I'll admit, I was shaking in fear when I woke up late and saw everyone on Twitter talking about it. After that, I just wanted to go back to sleep. It was absolutely horrific.

All of that could've been prevented if homeland security or the pentagon actually heeded the three warnings they got of an insurrection openly being planned on Facebook

It was a psyop, there are videos of police letting them into the building. 

PS. im not a trump supporter lol, he is just as much controlled opposition as anyone else 

The man is unreal and lives in a bad realm ... he is not for America just himself and those that he uses to hurt our democracy ... I heard him say all working people here in the US are going to hell ... I am sure they will fry him... when he meets his maker :>) for what he has done to harm our country... an the other Magas an people that stand with him..." oh and they want to follow the constitution... well  defendant trump does not have the right to run again for president... look at the 14th 3 line he of the constitutions he is fired !  an those in with him in the insurrection are traitors to are country all of them ... their time will come...

I still believe the insurrection was horrible..." and I did not think he won this election by a land slide
Unfortunately we will pay some how... from his dirty deeds... he has created himself ... I can't believe
this is happening to our country now and letting him in again is truly pathetic... they said it was becouse
a lot of the dems did not come out to vote... that is the worst excuse I have ever heard .."
with his health the way it is ... I do not see him living much longer... his brain is fried ..." thats what I don't get his whole election with what he would say is like he new all along he was going to win and did not care what he said ... thats what did not add up to me ... but if gives me great pleasure Putin has put malania nudes on tv over there laughing away after trump won ... I feel for ukraine to .." both Gaza and Ukraine can be called now inhuman wars for what happen to them ...

The what now?