An eclectic group to be sure

 

Raise your hand if anyone read that...

 

Indeed, a very eclectic group.

Helluva job Tsuroth, el perro will be hard pressed to respond with any credibility.

 

Look at comments #1806, #1807, #1808, #1809, #1810

 

How am I in a whole? What have I said that is not true? Unpopular facts are nevertheless facts.

 

Republican GA Election Official Allegedly Pins Hit-And-Run on Black Colleague

https://www.thedailybeast.com/repub...-pins-hit-and-run-on-black-colleague?ref=home

 

White Privilege is storming the US capitol and the capitol police just politely step out of your way.

 

Agreed and the way they were treated compared to the peaceful protest in Lafayette Park is white privelige in action!

'White privilege on display': police hypocrisy condemned after pro-Trump insurgence
Social media users lambaste president and compare police treatment of racial justice protesters with response to mob

Many Americans and people around the world watched in horror as a mob of Donald Trump supporters rushed the US Capitol in Washington DC on Wednesday afternoon, wreaking fear and chaos with seemingly little resistance from police on Capitol Hill.

The events inside the building quickly unfolded on social media as tweets poured out from concerned members of Congress and images of the insurgents inside the Capitol went viral.

While fury over the mob was directed at various Republican lawmakers on social media, Trump bore the brunt of the blame from his most stringent critics. Multiple people, including George Conway, husband of Trump’s former adviser Kellyanne Conway, and the US representative Rashida Tlaib called for Trump’s immediate impeachment.

While images and videos of Capitol police pointing their guns and running around the building were shared, many more images of the Trump-supporting mob successfully overtaking the building, including sitting at the front of the Senate and walking away with a podium, spread on Twitter.

People were quick to point out the hypocrisy of law enforcement letting the mob, which was overwhelmingly White, take over the Capitol building with little hindrance.

“Always interesting to see how white protestors can encounter so little resistance and breach the capitol with the vice-president there, while black protestors would be lying dead in front of the capitol building right now,” wrote the writer Roxane Gay.

“White privilege is on display like never before in the US Capitol,” tweeted the author and scholar Ibram X Kendi.

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Others pointed to the stark contrast between law enforcement’s response to the mob at the Capitol versus their treatment of protesters against police brutality.

“Peaceful protestors got pepper sprayed so Trump could hold a Bible up for a photo in front of a church,” tweeted Shannon Sharpe, a former American football player, referring to an incident that took place over the summer in the midst of protests following the police killing of George Floyd.


“Thinking about all the protestors who got their eyes shot out by rubber bullets this summer for doing things like ‘walking’,” said the journalist Libby Watson. Dozens of people who were peacefully protesting for racial justice, along with some journalists who were covering the events, have sustained serious injuries from rubber bullets and teargas that were used by police to disperse crowds.

“Appears the ‘looting/shooting’ rule does not apply to everyone,” wrote the Atlantic writer Adam Serwer in reply to a picture of an insurgent walking away with a podium, referring to Trump’s tweet in May telling racial justice protesters that “when the looting starts, the shooting starts”.

The New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb said the aggressiveness of the police in Ferguson, Missouri, following the police killing of Michael Brown compared with officers’ response to the mob at the Capitol was “effing astounding”.

Previous crackdowns by Capitol police against peaceful protesters were also shared on Twitter.

Photos and videos were shared of protesters from Adapt, an advocacy group for people who are disabled, being picked up and dragged by Capitol police during a protest for healthcare in 2017.

Another photo showed a dozen police arresting the actor Jane Fonda for protesting against climate change.

Political scientists pointed out that the day’s events would change the way the world views the US. “No one in the world is likely to see, respect, fear, or depend on us in the same way again,” tweeted Richard Haas, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, a US-based thinktank.

Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group, wrote on Twitter: “It is unimaginable that today’s political disaster could happen in Canada, Japan, France or the UK,” saying that the US “is the most politically dysfunctional and divided of advanced industrial democracies”.

World leaders also condemned the insurgence, expressing alarm about what it meant for US democracy.

“Shocking scenes in Washington DC. The outcome of this democratic election must be respected,” tweeted Jens Stoltenberg, secretary general of Nato.

The British prime minister, Boris Johnson, wrote: “Disgraceful scenes in US Congress. The United States stands for democracy around the world and it is now vital that there should be a peaceful and orderly transfer of power.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/06/us-capitol-trump-mob-police-protesters

Thinskin

 

Here's the capitol steps during the BLM protests.

 

I hate the Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol Building as much as I hate the black ghetto rioters who caused two billion dollars of damage in the George Floyd Riots. The cost of the storming of the Capitol is miniscule compared to the cost of the black ghetto riots.

During those riots there were disgusting spectacles like this one:



No, they are not kneeling for those who lost their stores and their jobs in the riots. They are kneeling for a convicted criminal who resisted arrest at the scene of his most recent crime.

Have you ever heard of whites looting and burning stores because a white criminal was killed at the scene of this most recent crime? I never have either. Orientals do not behave that way. I have never even heard of Hispanics doing that.

 

That white privilege thing didn’t work out too well for president Donald Trump . Lol lol lol lol lol lol lol . But it’s gonna work out real well for Kamala Harris how about that shit

 

agreed: violence is not tolerable
but: there is a "small" difference between fighting for racial justice and trying to abolish democracy

 

@tenguy it was the case, and you know that. everybody knows. what else was the purpose?

 

to right a perceived wrong? in what way? not accepting a fair election? ignoring the constitition in order to "direct an assault" on ? ignoring court decisions? ignoring the law. this is ignoring democracy. it fits in the anti-democratic q-anon scheme. this is not protest anymore...

 

of course they think that they were doing the right thing. that makes it even more dangerous. and this is no excuse. of course these people were mislead and used by others (you know whom i mean). still everyone is responsible for himself.

 

@thinkskin yes. tone and contend. standing for democray, law and science. sorry if this confuses you.

 

The last election was like no other election we have ever had. All the rules and laws were thrown out the window.
People can see the difference in the last election and all others.
Mail in voting isn't any better than some of the voting on who is the best performer.
At least on them the people had to call in and vote. In the last election the government sent out to ballots to people who didn't ask for them, were dead, had moved to another state, and some that were not even human.
That in no way can be called an honest election.

 

no. this is not true. the election was fair and legal. many courts confirmed this. mail voting is not a new thing. and it's legal. besides of some small errors (that always happen) no problems occured. this happend only in the president's pseudo world. who has to decide if an election is an "honest election"? you? the losers of an election? or the courts? maybe next time no election, just fighing? you seem to not understan how democracy works... america has a bad voting system, but you need to improve the voting system legally not to abolish democracy...

 

That was done some 240 years ago, to do it now would mean all was lost. We aren’t even close to that right now.

 

@tenguy i only wished you were right. but it was much too close. what if Pence would have cooperated. and also some policemen in congress??.. Trump never respected the democratic system (the "establishment", the "fake news", the "radical" democrats...) ... and almost half of the americans voted for him again (first time to vote for him is ignorance 2nd time stupiduty). sounds like a bad movie. but this is reality (i mean the "real" reality). and i fear it's not over... america needs a complete change: away from fighting one another (white against blacks; reps agains dems; rich against poor ..). maybe the 2 party system is not the best choice...