Impeachment

Discussion in 'West Mall' started by mchammer, Sep 24, 2019.

  1. iatrogenic

    iatrogenic 2,500+ Posts

    Unfortunately for you, Trump never yelled "fire". He did say act peacefully and patriotically and have your voices heard. You cannot change the facts no matter how much you try.
     
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  2. mb227

    mb227 de Plorable

    You were not paying attention...there were literally millions of people pissed off at the move towards socialism long before Trump even arrived on the political radar. If Trump is to blame for ANYTHING, it is that his lack of filter allowed people to quit swallowing their levels of pissed-offedness.

    There were plenty of discussions about Democratic shenanigans long before 2016 and **checks notes** that was before January 06, 2021. It was very much in place on Twitter for those that were looking. But many chose not to listen, just as we saw people ignoring the claims from lesbians like me about the erosion of female space and rights. Eventually, it makes its way to the surface and people listen.
     
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  3. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    Nothing public from what I've seen other than a few dozen that were suspended in the immediate aftermath. It's possible they weren't Trump supporters but local officers on the ground made the decision to not fight the oncoming crowd. The only way to avoid that fight is to let them through.

    This will likely be covered in the multiple investigations/after action reports. Will they ever be publicized?
     
  4. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    All this explained why they chanted "HANG MIKE PENCE! HANG MIKE PENCE! HANG MIKE PENCE!" as they sacked the Capital Building? That's why the shouted "TRAITORS" at the LEO trying to hold back the mob?
     
  5. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

    Joe is out of touch with reality, more so than everyone else in DC.
     
  6. OUBubba

    OUBubba 5,000+ Posts

    Much like all of the missing debt pearl clutching from 1/20/17 to 1/19/21.
     
  7. OUBubba

    OUBubba 5,000+ Posts

    Can you imagine if they had found pelosi?
     
  8. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

    I hate Pelosi but my guess she would hold her own.
     
  9. OUBubba

    OUBubba 5,000+ Posts

    None of us could “hold our own” against a mob.
     
  10. horninchicago

    horninchicago 10,000+ Posts

    Wait...I'm still busy fantasizing, er, imaging that.

    :clap:
     
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  11. OUBubba

    OUBubba 5,000+ Posts

    we see you...
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  12. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

    Thread by @MattWalshBlog on Thread Reader App

    So of the five deaths linked to the riot, only one — Babbit — can be conclusively considered a death caused by violence during the riot. Only the violence in this case was done by a cop. That is what we know right now. If anyone knows more, they aren’t telling us.
     
  13. bystander

    bystander 10,000+ Posts

    Both of you are incredibly naive. That's all I can say.
     
  14. OUBubba

    OUBubba 5,000+ Posts

    Two cops died correct? I saw one cop beaten, ironically, with an American flag pole. And you people go ape **** when CK takes a knee.
     
  15. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    Is it ok to condemn both?
     
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  16. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    What I've heard is that they removed the barriers because they were clearly overwhelmed and couldn't resist a crowd of that size. Obviously investigations are taking place, but the original explanation at least seems pretty plausible. It isn't a very big force. It can deal with a few freaks causing trouble. It's not equipped to deal with hundreds or thousands of people causing trouble all at once. They need backup (such as the National Guard) to deal with that.

    My guess is that Capitol security will be dramatically beefed up after this. I don't think the current deployment of several thousand troops will be long term. In fact, I think most of them have already gone home. (I think about 5,000 remain after a high of about 25,000 during the inauguration.) However, I could see a big, permanent increase in the number of officers with plans put in place to be able to very quickly deploy a huge force if something like this happens again and have no problem with all that.

    I don't buy the narrative that "we were close to losing our democracy." That's hyperbolic ********* designed to drive a political point and to stroke the egos of politicians with delusions of grandeur. We've had presidential assassinations, and we didn't lose our democracy. Flight 93 could have been successful (meaning struck the Capitol and killed the entire US Congress), and we wouldn't have lost our democracy. President Bush would have ordered the military to go after the bad guys. We would have very quickly held 435 special elections for the House to fill the vacancies, and our states would have appointed senators to fill those vacancies. Within a month, we'd have a fully-functioning US Congress meeting in a temporary capitol building, and we would have built a new permanent one within a few years. It would have been horrible, but our democracy would be OK. Our democracy isn't secured by a bunch of self-important politicians with fancy offices in a fancy building. It's secured by the brave people in uniform willing to take a bullet to protect it overseas and by a people and a culture willing to demand it at home. Having said that, it is pretty absurd that these yahoos got as far as they did, and we should take big measures to keep it from happening again.
     
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  17. Sangre Naranjada

    Sangre Naranjada 10,000+ Posts

    I wish we would stop calling it a democracy, and instead use the proper term: representative republic.
     
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  18. theiioftx

    theiioftx Sponsor Deputy

    Although it ain’t too representative these days.
     
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  19. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    I use it colloquially because everybody else does. I know it's not correct. It's a little like calling the former GB Packers quarterback Brett "Farve." We know it's wrong. We just say it that way anyway.
     
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    theiioftx Sponsor Deputy

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  21. bystander

    bystander 10,000+ Posts

    The entire riot or whatever you want to call it was a crime and incredibly stupid. I have no problem with them all being charged, tried and convicted with whatever crime they committed. Speaking for myself, you and OU seem to think I love white people no matter what they do. I don't. When I look at a white person I don't think, "That's my tribe" or "Those are my people." I don't even think that when I'm in the presence of Cubans. I don't think that about anyone except people that share common tastes.

    It was stupid because a crime was committed. It was stupid because they opened the door for Liberals to pretend they have clean hands.

    As for Trump, I'd have to read the entire transcript, which I have not. I can admit that I've not studied the matter. But I've read your posts asking for proof of election fraud and from what I can tell, none has been brought forward or if any, it's minor. So it was a huge mistake in my opinion for Trump to continue to say the election was stolen.

    Yes, the President influences people. But not me. There was nothing he could say that would make me act. And if he encouraged them to come to DC, then he should have known his audience. I don't believe he actually thought they'd do what they did. Maybe he is naive or stupid when it comes to reading people.

    But to impeach him over these words is a very dangerous thing. The door will be open. People will listen intently now to the words of a Maxine Waters and others who clearly incite anger in others. Maybe it's a good thing to make Trump an example so that future leaders learn that words can be deadly.

    And now we have these idiots willing to tell anyone who will listen that Trump incited them. That he betrayed them. They will say anything to get off. We all know that. THEY are the malcontents who thought it was a joy ride. F'em. They should be punished with no deals made. Trump didn't organize them. Their testimony will be 100% self-serving. Rational people know this. But the political climate is so bad that their OCD pathological need to act like rebels is on them and the Liberals will turn their lying testimony as to motive, intent and organization as a fact that Trump made them do it.
     
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  22. bystander

    bystander 10,000+ Posts

    Yes.

    Ape-****. That's an attempt to marginalize the problem of CK. And what is the problem?

    The one time that many adults have a chance to commune with the anthem and the flag has been politicized. If you stand you are seen and accused as being in favor of black men being killed in cold blood. It is a "SUPPORT THIS OR ELSE" kind of situation. It was a stupid tactic. Why force people to choose between support for black causes and patriotism. You can't win hearts and minds like that.

    At the same time, we know that there are "patriots" who "Point the cannon at you" (to coin a lyric from the CCR song Fortunate Son). Nobody should be forced to do anything. Nobody should be forced to stand. Nobody should be forced to kneel. We should do what we want in terms of symbolic gestures as long as there isn't any violence or property damage. What one person lives another can only imagine. So if CK wants to kneel so be it.

    I don't care.

    But I like to talk about it on here and dissect it. That's not going ape-****. It sound like ape-**** when you totally disagree with a take.

    CK is not a big problem but the giving the finger to the anthem and the flag is not the way to get things done. The real problem is the Liberal elites who are fooling their beneficiaries or those who want to be "good" who believe everything they say and who ignore what is really happening.
     
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  23. 4th_floor

    4th_floor Dude, where's my laptop?

    Careful, you could be impeached.
     
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  24. Horn6721

    Horn6721 10,000+ Posts

    Why are the Democrats using such dirty tactics? Editing vids and outright lying.
    If their cause is so just why resort to lying?
     
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  25. iatrogenic

    iatrogenic 2,500+ Posts

    Incorrect. No cops died at the peaceful protest. No cop died from being hit by a fire extinguisher or beaten with a flag pole.
     
  26. OUBubba

    OUBubba 5,000+ Posts

    It's the 7th most discussed thing on the front page. Seems like it's still a big deal. And I'm of the opinion that the "blue lives matter" crowd beating police officers to death is WAY more damning than an activist quietly taking a knee.
     
  27. Seattle Husker

    Seattle Husker 10,000+ Posts

    Dirty tactics = using Trump's own tweets and video'ed speeches against him. Just more of the previous claim that you can't listen to what Trump says but what he does. Of course, in this case he was saying come to D.C. on the 6th. It will be "wild". "March to the Capital". "I'll be there with you." "If you don't fight like hell we won't have a country." Then he waited for 2 hours after the breach to react at all. Trump must have been taking a nap or something. Wait, he did tweet his chastisement of Pence 30 minutes into the breach prompting his supporters on bullhorns to read the tweet aloud then chant "Hang Mike Pence".

    All selective editing...outright lying. Don't believe your eyes or ears.
     
  28. iatrogenic

    iatrogenic 2,500+ Posts

    I would agree, but that did not happen. Just another lie spread by Libs for political purposes. It never ends.
     
  29. iatrogenic

    iatrogenic 2,500+ Posts

    In other words, let you interpret the situation regardless of the facts in order to push a narrative.
     
  30. horninchicago

    horninchicago 10,000+ Posts

    Quietly take a knee on your own Gawdamn time. I don't give a **** about these stupid *** "protests". It has been shown countless times that white people are killed by police, while usually being justified uses of lethal force, more than black people. But facts never matter.

    And, something being front page news when it has been shown countless times, that only unreasonable people don't believe, that most of the print media lies to further the liberal agenda, doesn't really matter to most of us.
     
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