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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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I think you mean “SRV” as opposed to “SVR” – so I am going to interpret it as such (since I don’t know what you would mean if you really meant “SVR”).
That being said – I only returned here because I was notified and yet I was hopeful that in the rational light of 2 months later Jon would have the stones to say something to the effect of “maybe I was a bit overboard there…” which, had that happened, would have increased my respect for him dramatically. As it stands, his index remains as low as it ever was.
By the way SRV was awesome. Left us far too soon.
Seems like someone’s initial post just weather’s worse and worse as time goes by
https://greenwald.substack.com/p/as-the-insurrection-narrative-crumbles
Hi mom.
https://rumble.com/v3xyo53-shocking-new-jan-6-footage-released.html
Well, Clay Higgins is not the right sort of Republican.
“January 6 was a Fed-manufactured riot to frame a sitting president and carry out election interference in 2024. ”
I want to believe, but no.
That video above at Rumble is eye-opening. And infuriating. In particular, the video of the cops tossing one grenade after another into the crowd. (Or firing directly at them with rubber bullets. The image of the bullet lodged in the face of that man will stay with you.) The conversations of the cops is chilling.
I agree. I was only commenting on that particular sentence from the tweet, with which I disagree as going too far. Was there federal involvement? Yes. Was it Fed-manufactured? I don’t believe so.
Only the violence/riot part needed to be manufactured. But that’s the main issue. The people were already there, but what evidence is there that it would have become a “riot” absent the fed instigation?
Why not? The Feds have been credibly accused of manufacturing many crimes by instigation.
This is about the documented events of one series of crimes and an incident of considerable magnitude. There is no credible evidence that the riot was “manufactured.” In fact, the sedition trials of the Oath Keepers etc. indicate otherwise.
It’s one thing to think that there was federal involvement in exacerbating the situation that needs to be addressed, and another thing to think that the feds created it.
I think the trials you mention are important in that the feds had assets embedded in these organizations, and we must ask if without those embeds any of the actions they committed that day would have happened. See also: the “kidnapping plot” of Gretchen Whitmer, which was organized, plotted, and planned entirely by the FBI.
Regardless of manufactured or not, the OP has been refuted pretty well since its emotional posting.
Suggested edit.
Good point.
No.
They mean different things and the post is not hysterical.
I was trying to find a word that would get by the CoC.