Was it a riot? I suppose. But maybe also a rebellion/insurrection. Perhaps even a coup d'état attempt.
I know it was just a disorderly group of idiots taking selfies to their QAnon buddies.
But what would have happened if there was little opposition and they had gained access to Congress? They could have squatted there for days demanding the election annulled.
It's not far from an attempt to overthrow a government. Various weapons were used and police and reporters were attacked.
It definitely was a lame coup attempt. Can't compare it to BLM where National Guard was predeployed and began cracking heads and making arrests right away. Also the DC Police got involved cause BLM wasn't smart enough to stay on Federal property where the DC Police have no authority. Of course there is a distinct difference between cracking black heads versus white heads.There is zero chance they would have overthrown or even mildly disturbed the government, this isn't the 1920s, or Rome Total War for that matter. Trumpists especially are 100% bluster and mainly wanted to make an appearance and go home. I'm seeing some of the same hysterical language being used by liberals that was used a few months ago against BLM, acting as if a few thousand insane people are enough to topple the largest concentration of power in human history.
If this was 1923 and we lived in a society where large numbers of people were radically committed to anti establishment political causes then they would have been blown away instantly, but for a postmodern western government a protest of this kind is just something they have to wait out.
the individual characteristics of donald trump as a person are almost completely irrelevant. no, trump is not the "sole cause of the problem". no, his ****ty upbringing is not "the heart of the matter". no, the fascism in the states is not just because of him driving the masses on before him.Why don't you ****ing enlighten me then instead of just being a prick. Children raised without proper role models turn into Donald Trump. That is how it works.
Excuse me? I was the first to mention the racism or white supremacy inherent in America. I even got a warning for it as you might recall. This is not news nor does it enlighten anything. Trump discovered it with the Obama presidency and his Birther conspiracy. But no one except someone with the lack of ethics, like Trump, would even have mentioned that Obama was not born in the US. So your argument, such as it is, falls flat and once again it is Trump and his moral ineptitude that becomes the source of the problem.the individual characteristics of donald trump as a person are almost completely irrelevant. no, trump is not the "sole cause of the problem". no, his ****ty upbringing is not "the heart of the matter". no, the fascism in the states is not just because of him driving the masses on before him.
the upswell of american fascism started long before trump's foray into politics, and would have continued even had he never made the attempt. his time in office has accelerated it, yes, but you literally said that he and his cronies were the "sole source" of the problem and that's just dangerously misguided.
just because he wound up being the catalyst around which this all came to a head doesn't mean he caused it, nor that the underlying problem didn't exist before him. the "source of the problem" is for example (among other things) the enduring and pervasive white supremacy in the country.
Mr. Brutus, I'm speaking. When I was a little girl, I marched with my parents to protest irregular elections. At some point, I fell from the stroller (few safety regulations existed for children’s equipment back then), and the adults, caught up in the rapture of protest, just kept on marching. By the time they noticed little me was gone and doubled back, I was understandably upset. My mother tells the story about how I’m fussing and she’s like, ‘Baby, what do you want? What do you need?’ And I just looked at her and I said, ‘To pwotest cewtifiayshun.’”Excuse me? Who exactly was talking about riots? Or the Secret Service?
Sad and amazing. No wonder you were traumatized.Mr. Brutus, I'm speaking. When I was a little girl, I marched with my parents to protest irregular elections. At some point, I fell from the stroller (few safety regulations existed for children’s equipment back then), and the adults, caught up in the rapture of protest, just kept on marching. By the time they noticed little me was gone and doubled back, I was understandably upset. My mother tells the story about how I’m fussing and she’s like, ‘Baby, what do you want? What do you need?’ And I just looked at her and I said, ‘To pwotest cewtifiayshun.’”
you do know that trump didn't invent the birther ****, right? you bringing that up literally proves my point.Excuse me? I was the first to mention the racism or white supremacy inherent in America. I even got a warning for it as you might recall. This is not news nor does it enlighten anything. Trump discovered it with the Obama presidency and his Birther conspiracy. But no one except someone with the lack of ethics, like Trump, would even have mentioned that Obama was not born in the US. So your argument, such as it is, falls flat and once again it is Trump and his moral ineptitude that becomes the source of the problem.
I expected something like "There will be no place for the weak in the future free market economy, baby", not this human stuff.My mother tells the story about how I’m fussing and she’s like, ‘Baby, what do you want? What do you need?’
Yes, but that doesn't matter at all. When looking at massive social phenomena like Trumpism you cannot just focus on minutae like how Trump was raised, it's masturbatory and asinine. Power does strange things to people, and even though it looks as if Trump is in charge, in reality he's just at the tip of a massive iceberg which is where the real power stems from. If I woke up tomorrow and I was Donald Trump, if I wanted to stay in power I would have to behave exactly like him. His personality is basically irrelevant because his real actions are dictated by his base. Trump might be a Montenegrin Communist in his heart of hearts, it really doesn't matter so long as he wants to maintain power.
I didn't see much of a riot. Trump urged them to go and stop Congress from affirming Biden as president./
He single handedly created the idea that fraud would be committed to 'steal' the election
Which other American president or politician has behaved in this way before?
Captain Jacob Hindsight: It was historically inevitable that A would happen. *Marx noises*
It's not advised to see populists do better all across your world, throw your hands up in the air and be like ''lmao ****'s anecdotal nothing we can do about it''