Capitol is on lockdown as pro-Trump demonstrators try to break into the building

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  1. JakeJ

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    Rest In Peace. Thank you for your service to this country. Sorry you were killed for again trying to do so.

    One of the newly elected (claimed elected) Democratic candidates for Senate said people like her who serve in the military are going to hell for having been in the US military - with Democrats in Georgia overwhelmingly agreeing. Do you agree with him?
     
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    I heard last night they had arrested a dozen. I'm sure the number is probably higher by now.
     
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    So you’re saying the police were caught off guard because this is nothing new?

    Ultimately, I agree with you, though. We should be thinking ahead now at how we’re going to change rather than constantly looking back to past issues continuously.
     
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    2019 - RESIST!
    2020 - OVERTHROW!
    2021 - OBEY!
     
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    She wasn't killed trying to serve her country. She was killed attacking it. She was in desperate need of mental health care.
     
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    It's very to effect arrests during something like that, each arrest takes one or two units our of service for transport, leaving more work for the remainder to handle, better to MACE them and then have units outside, if there are any take them down.

    And since dye's a person, a clear UV activated dye, that is very hard wash off they, can be found away from the scene during an interview if needed.

    And of course their hundreds of surveillance HD cameras in and around the FED who always have plenty of time will be able to ID even more of them.
     
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    I always expect pure hypocrisy from most Democrats on the forum.

    Prove me wrong. Link you your messages condemning a Democratic mob completely taking over the Wisconsin Capital to stop the functioning of government for days? You were on the forum then. You can't, can you?

    Rather, you approve that an unarmed female protester Republican was killed by police. It is that simple, that hypocritical and just how dangerous progressivism is.
     
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    You do realize this was a meme created by right wingers, not an actual antifa flyer, right? Protip: antifa doesn't refer to Trump supporters, etc. as "patriots."

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/antifa-flyer-trump-supporters/
    https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-...r-riots-after-election-day-2020-idUSKBN27I2IM
    https://www.politifact.com/factchec...ifa-activists-arent-disguising-themselves-tr/


    "Hickman County Antifa was a satire page, either the creator or Facebook took it down, that post was just a bad joke. I deleted soon after it got shared because it made a lot of people freak out more than I expected, nobody in the group was really actually connected, we were just sharing dumb antifa memes."

    Edit: Sorry if I got mixed up and that's what you were actually pointing out.
     
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    Well, she did help get Trump suspended from social media and was partly responsible for finally getting the administration to promise a peaceful transition of power.
    A great service to the country even if it was not what she intended.
     
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    He did not say that in response to her death. You’re making that up.
     
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    Who told you that?
     
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    If you're a gay male born into one of those homosexual hating redneck communities you have to figure out how to express yourself without getting the living bejaysus kicked out of you by the good old boys.
    Imagine how great it must be for an organisation called the 'Proud Boys' to emerge.
    For a start it's not called the proud people, or the proud boys and girls, or the proud girls, or proud men and women, or proud patriots or proud republicans, but 'Proud Boys'.
    What does it offer?
    The chance to dress up.
    The chance to shout and sweat with other males.
    The chance to show off naked parts of your body to other guys.
    The chance to caress, and clean, and polish and rub, and to shoot all those phallic guns.
    Pwoar!
    Proud Boys are really quite a nice refuge group for rednecks to set up as a safe home for gay men.
    One thing I don't get though is what happens if a white Proud Boy gets the hots for another male who isn't white?
    Back to suppression mode?
     
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    Not a Dem and I've condemned violence on both sides.

    Fake argument.

    And again you make **** up. No, I'm not glad she was killed. As I said, she needed mental health care. The woman was not well. She was acting in the wrong, but she was in her right mind. And, I don't know whether or not the shooting was justified, nor have I claimed to.
     
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    With the plutocrat's successfully coup to take over the government, the new standard is that anyone who protests the government should be gunned down. Historically that is always the action and goal of corporate-fascists.
     
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    Never question the idiocy and outright false claims by some progressives. Figure the truth is exactly the opposite and leave it at that.

    The leader of Proud Boys is black. But don't let that stop hating yourself for being white as you have been ordered.
     
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    Quote anyone who has expressed such a belief.
     
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    Forget the claim, it is now the established practice. Not ONE Democratic protester - anywhere - not storming and taking over a capital, not looting, not committing arson, not committing assault - has been shot and killed. Merely using tear gas was condemned by the MSM and Democratic Party - even outlawed by Democratic federal judges.

    But kill the unarmed Republican female protester.

    Why am I the only person condemning her being killed and pointing out the extreme double standard of do nothing to Democrats forcibly taking over a Capital building - and killing a Republican merely for trying to?

    She was UNARMED. She poised a deadly threat to NO ONE. The Capital is NOT a home. None of those protesters had firearms. The Capital police had tasers, tear gas and tazers.

    I see NO legal justification for shooting her. NONE. It was outright minimally manslaughter. If so, what law is it? What law allowed gunning down that unarmed protester? Cite that law.

    Why couldn't shop owners shoot looters coming thru a broken window? Why didn't police shoot those looters? SERIOUSLY, explain the legal defense to shooting that unarmed protester.
     
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    Yes . . . they have been shot and killed.

    I have condemned her action. I have neither condemned nor supporter her death. Because I don't know the details. I have specifically said that I'm not sure whether or not the shooting was justified. I still don't.
     
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    In Italy news say that 4 [four] persons have been killed.
    This is heavy to digest.

    All around the Free World we have been looking at the United States as a model.
    One of the columns of the American model was [I hope to be still able to say "is"] that the President is the President of all.

    Now, in 2015 I was predicting the victory of Trump [when no one gave him credit] on the base of an evidently correct reading of the US electoral system [you need to win more states, not more popular votes, to become President]. Moreover, I trusted Trump. I'm a person who never denies the past. I trusted Trump [he reminded me Berlusconi ...]. And to say all, the first years were quite good [from the perspective of a Conservative like me, obviously].

    But the last year has changed all for me [and for Italian Americans, as for I know].
    If I had to summarize a political judgment I will say that the President has derailed.

    Now, 13 days are 13 days. Personally I wouldn't add drama to drama. The impeachment of a President would be a further disruptive event for the American democracy. Now he says he's going to ensure a peaceful transition ... nice. It's too late, but it's nice.

    My suggestion for Americans is: close this book and start to write a new one.
     
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    They already identified several as Antifa members who participated in the riots there, ironically.
     
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    What an interesting day yesterday.

    I missed it all, got off work early, had a couple beers, then a couple shots of southern comfort and slept through the entire situation at the capital, woke up and had some dinner, watched groundhog day on TV, never turned on the news, so t

    Not really freaked out about it myself, I consider the group that did this no different than the crazies on the left that did insane stuff over the summer of love, its unfortunate and I denounce all activities such as this, but it is what it is.

    The only bright spot that MIGHT come out of this is that government officials are now realizing that their little safe space isn't exactly safe like they thought and this is just a taste of what business owners around the country faced when out of control mobs with extreme positions do.

    So I'm kind of glad that the lawmakers had an opportunity to understand just what it feels like to be overrun by a mob. Maybe next time they will be more sympathetic to what others have experienced.
     
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    Amazing. You conflate people objecting to the left's war on men and masculinity with homosexuality. Your post certainly seems to display a certain affinity with the later.
     
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    I was never under the illusion Trump was a good person...

    I believed Trump wanted to put America first (and I still believe that, to an extent), and I believe most Democrats are a cancer. Only reason I voted for him.

    If an option of "third party, young person who wants to legalize pot and limit government" was available, I'd have gone that route.
     
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    A concise post that says all that needs to be said.
     

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