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  • pangolin
    pangolin Posts: 6,648
    "Protest" does seem quite generous at this point
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  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    elbowloh said:

    When does a protest become an attempted coup?

    Lol have you seen what they look like in there? This isn’t a coup.
  • pangolin
    pangolin Posts: 6,648
  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078

    elbowloh said:

    When does a protest become an attempted coup?

    Lol have you seen what they look like in there? This isn’t a coup.
    Its was tongue in cheek, but there is a line there. There is also a big difference between and attempted and a successful coup.
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  • While this is going on, similar simultaneous operations in a number of state capitals. DoD refuses request for national guard.
  • pangolin
    pangolin Posts: 6,648
    Rioters then no?
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  • pangolin
    pangolin Posts: 6,648
    Bbc news presenter really laying into trump in a way I haven't seen. Refreshing.
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  • To be honest, the US really is becoming similar to Venezuela. Just under Republican ‘president’.
  • Today is going to be a popcorn day. Republicans just lost the senate.

    I didn't budget for this much popcorn.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    It's gone exactly as some on here predicted even before the election.
  • elbowloh
    elbowloh Posts: 7,078
    elbowloh said:

    elbowloh said:

    When does a protest become an attempted coup?

    Lol have you seen what they look like in there? This isn’t a coup.
    Its was tongue in cheek, but there is a line there. There is also a big difference between and attempted and a successful coup.
    And yet there are are some "protestors" who think they're military
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    Muppets don't wear masks = muppets going to jail.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,348
    Given the speech that McConnell gave taking down the attempt to use Congress to overturn the election result, it's not impossible that they'd vote to impeach and remove him today or tomorrow. Maybe this is the shock that the US needed to demonstrate what happens when you elect a populist madman.
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,151
    joelsim said:

    Is this bloke 100% or just 99.99% muppet?


    What a tool.


    Discuss.

    It's time to meet the Muppets on the Muppet Show tonight!
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    If I was Kermit or Fozzie I think I'd be suing.
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,167
    Priceless from CNN. "Most of these people are probably too stupid to realise they will wind up in jail."
  • focuszing723
    focuszing723 Posts: 8,151
    Joe Biden ain't quite the ticket either, listening to him speak now. Why the hell can't major Countries field half decent half sensible candidates?
  • First.Aspect
    First.Aspect Posts: 17,167

    Joe Biden ain't quite the ticket either, listening to him speak now. Why the hell can't major Countries field half decent half sensible candidates?

    Beats to alternative. Did you watch Ted Cruz earlier? That's US politics for the next decade. Lies to persuade stupid people.
  • mrb123
    mrb123 Posts: 4,815

    elbowloh said:

    When does a protest become an attempted coup?

    Lol have you seen what they look like in there? This isn’t a coup.
    The Beer Hall Putsch wasn't too impressive either if my memory of A Level history serves me right.
  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,348

    Joe Biden ain't quite the ticket either, listening to him speak now. Why the hell can't major Countries field half decent half sensible candidates?


    He's desperately wanting to 'heal' America, I think, so avoiding inflammatory rhetoric... but Trump and his thugs are making that seem a less and less plausible/sensible path to tread.

    At least he's appointing Merrick Garland (the person that McConnell denied a Supreme Court position) to be the next Attorney General, so there's a nice bit of trolling there.
  • Trump's come out with a video to the rioters on Twitter. It's as insane as you'd expect.
  • I've not seen this one before

  • briantrumpet
    briantrumpet Posts: 20,348

    Trump's come out with a video to the rioters on Twitter. It's as insane as you'd expect.

    And already Twitter has flagged it. I think he might well get chucked off before the 21st.


  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,814
    Trump half-heartedly asks rioters to go home, whilst still saying the election was stolen. Insane doesn't even begin to describe it
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    When do the tanks roll up to the White House and the generals tell Covfefe Man to GTF? US democracy follows the models set by African, Asian, European states various.... happy times eh.
  • He says "I love you" to the rioters.
  • pangolin
    pangolin Posts: 6,648
    edited January 2021
    Aahahaha just watched his video...what a bell end.

    "You're very special"

    Got that right at least.
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  • MattFalle
    MattFalle Posts: 11,644

    MattFalle said:

    MattFalle said:

    elbowloh said:

    Full blown authoritarian attempt to overthrow the election result going on by the Republican Party.

    They’re not backing down.

    TBF, it's only a (relatively) small number and not supported by the Senate Majority Leader. Hopefully Pence will see sense and not support it.
    FWIW I would suggest hoping people see the better side is not really an effective tactic in this scenario

    Sounds like you want boots on the streets.....


    No, you just lack imagination.
    So you want a protest. Something nice and jumpers, few placards, back home on the train, dinner and pseudo discussion, back to the recruitment office to sell jobs to fascists the next day. Cool.

    No. That’s not what I want.

    You need serious people who people listen to continue to point and explain what the Reps are doing - particularly republicans who are pro-democracy.

    Your Mitt Romney’s of this world.

    They all need to get organised and mount their own material response to it.

    Sitting and hoping they fail is not a strategy.

    Less useful but Biden needs to spell it out.

    You need to get serious people who people listen to explaining how America is actually one of the world’s leaders when it comes to vote counting.
    There we go. Pence and McConnell go against trump and for the electoral result.

    That’s how you stop it.
    well that post lasted well.

    good job Richard - you read that situation perfectly.

    Best stick to the day job at the employment agency we think.
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    The camera down the willy isn't anything like as bad as it sounds.
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    CNN saying Dems win 2nd Georgia Senate seat. 50:50. Therefore with Kamala in charge control the Senate.