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Impeach. Remove. Bar from Office.
For two months, President Donald Trump has promoted increasingly unhinged conspiracy theories and fanned the flames of outrage among his most dedicated supporters. Today, America learned that some people on the fringe took this all too seriously. Following a particularly ugly Trump speech, the crowd tore down barriers surrounding the US Capitol, assaulted police officers, and forced their way in. The following photos are not from Caracas or Minsk, but the capital city of the most powerful nation on earth.
At the Trump rally, Rudy Giuliani called for a “trial by combat.” He got it. Multiple injuries to law enforcement officers have been reported by the Capitol Police.
Shots were reported fired in the Capitol itself. One “protestor” was shot in the neck and carried away on a stretcher.
As the siege intensified, Trump blasted his own vice president on Twitter for refusing to break the law and overturn the election.
Senators, Representatives, and Capitol Hill staff fled the building for safety.
Later, Trump tweeted that his supporters shouldn’t use violence against the police. It was already too late.
Trump finally uploaded a video, spending the vast majority of the time claiming the election was stolen, but adding that the mob ransacking the Capitol should go home.
These are not protestors. They are terrorists. They are insurrectionists.
Just like Antifa over the summer, MAGAtifa needs to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
GOP Senators planning to protest the vote need to stop their grandstanding and accept the results.
Since the sitting president seems unwilling to strenuously condemn the violence he urged on, Vice President Pence should confer with the Cabinet to remove Trump via the 25th Amendment of the Constitution.
Congress should then bar Donald Trump from ever holding a future federal office.
Enough.
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Oh, and yes this will be final confirmation in Lin Wood and everyone else in the deep end of the conspiracy pool that system is rigged against them without any civil recourse. Cruz and Hawley flirting to keep these voters will never pull it off. No politician will ever be able to ride Trump’s back long enough to reach the other side of the river.
Quelle Horror
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Right after Obama is arrested and convicted for corrupting the FBI, DOJ, IRS. . . and Hillary is frog-marched in an orange jumpsuit for sharing national security secrets with the Russians, the Iranians, and the Chicoms.
An overreaction? Are you kidding?
After inciting the violence himself.
Anyone who feels that Trump is not completely responsible for this insurrection needs to reexamine their sense of reality. I have grown increasingly uncomfortable with Trump’s rhetoric over the last two month. He is going over the edge into insanity. He seems perfectly willing to bring down the entire government over his loss to Joe Biden. No one on this site is happy about Biden being elected, but a rational person accepts reality and moves on. What Trump has done and continues to do is no longer capable of holding the office of President of the United States. That is obvious. The 25th Amendment is completely appropriate.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for posting this. For the last couple of months I’ve watched the Member Feed turn into Crazy Town. I hope that the more reasonable among us will chime into this thread and denounce the awful actions of the traitors who stormed the Capital, and the cartoonish fool of a President.
I support the idea that Trump should be impeached and removed from office. Tomorrow, if tonight is too soon.
After he inspired it by his grotesque speech and actions since the election. He and his ego feed on this stuff; he’s in his glory, seeing the mobs in Our Capitol. I’m a lifelong Conservative Republican, and January 20th can’t come too soon.
You had me until the last sentence. I’m not interested in nobly being Charlie Brown for Lucy with the football. We’ve been subjected to endless rounds of irresponsible political statements by many politicians and Media. We only get this angry now? Maybe people will realize there are consequences to endless reckless acts and statements without consequences. Trump has real consequences here. He’s lost his political power with this. But what consequences has there been for Biden, Harris, Schumer, Pelosi, etc. etc.?
I’m not going to pay Dane-geld to the Left by self-flagellation. I wish this had not happened. I would not have participated. But since it did happen I see no value in cringing. We go on the attack pointing out this is the result of 12 years of gaslighting. Never let a crisis go to waste. Put the blame where it belongs on the Dem/Media/Establishment nexus of their attempts at suppression. Hammer that over and over.
Agreed…..Thaddeus Stevens is rolling over in his grave right now….still not sure what is worse….the actual violence or the amount of fellow Richochetti who are either condoning this or are just like “we knew it was coming” or no big deal…..they stole items from the House Floor….they are waving a flag that made war on the union…..this is appalling. Many on here wanted the Republican Party to die…well…you got your wish.
No
People need to learn, in addition to the definition of Treason in the US, what the definition of incitement is too.
Anyone who feels that the voter fraud has been completely examined and put to bed also needs to reexamine their sense of reality.
Every time I mentioned that the populist Trump right was stooping to the level of the unlawful left i was answered with some variation of “Heck yeah, we have to play by their rules! Are you afraid to fight or something you sissy??” (This was of course never said in person of course or they might have found i am not in fact, scared to fight). Well…..now Trump’s inability to admit defeat has succeeded in turning his supporters into the right’s version of Antifa. I suppose this is a good thing as well, beat them at their own game and all that right?
Well, I voted for the SOB this time around and at this moment I’m glad he lost. He is a whiney, dishonorable, and a sore loser. I am still a little sad he is now proving how unfit he was to be president all along while going out the door. Didn’t have to be this way…..
Once you pay the Dane-geld you’ll never be rid of the Dane.
Use of the 25th Amendment to remove Trump — even though there are only two weeks left — and barring him from serving in any Federal capacity again seem reasonable responses to today’s events.
The man has spent the past two months promoting insurrection and rumourmongering madly. There comes a time to bring it to an end.
That in my home of Toronto — not even in the United States — we had a Trump-supporting protest today shows just how wide-spread this behaviour has become.
But it’s not just a Republican problem. All in politics need to stand up for peace, order, and good government.
Jumping to conclusions??? Good lord drink some more coolaide
Pfft.
This has as much to do with the government throwing tens of millions of people out of work and refusing to give anyone any support.
Sorry. 5 trillion dollars to giant corporations.
Cause we all know big corporations are the most hurt by the lockdowns.
I am surprised this didnt happen 6 months ago.
Well, I guess that’s it for Ricochet for me.
I really enjoyed it here for the last several years, but the never-Trumpers seem to have won the day.
See ya.
There should be serious consequences for all of those idiots storming the Capitol. Serious jail time. One gets the sense that all of these rioters we’ve seen these past month view the thing as a form of entertainment; they’re not protesting, they are rioting and vandalizing. Just like the “protests” of last year. Disgusting and inexcusable.
I’m not into threats and am usually bemused by “Cancel My Subscription” rants. OK, go, the world won’t end.
But I’m sufficiently bothered by this post from someone I considered to be level-headed to really wonder what’s going on here and whether my pittance of a subscription is encouraging it.
Is this what happens when @arahant takes a sabbatical?
I think it’s very wise to jump to conclusions whenever news is breaking about a chaotic event. That really helps to keep matters in focus.
Reaction: Cooler heads must prevail!
Same people: “No, no!” said the Queen. “Sentence first – verdict afterward.”
Do you have evidence that Trump is directly responsible? Or is this one of those “he created an atmosphere” thing? The way Sarah Palin created a hostile atmosphere for Gabby Giffords?
So I guess this is advocated for no prosecution like Antifa and for leaders on the right (like soon to be VP Harris of the left) to fund raise to bail these people out.
He just keeps digging, doesn’t he?
See – you can’t even get the history right. The Jonestown massacre was perpetrated with Flavor Aid. This is the perfect example of how left wing indoctrination has reached the highest level of our culture.
BTW, it is spelled Kool-Aid.
Yes. And you’re one of them!
I am most upset with Trump b/c the last few weeks he has been acting to validate the Bulwark…..
Wow!