All I can say is if the rhetoric and stupidity keeps up, today will be nothing. Honestly, I was expecting much worse and it still may come to pass.
Come on dude, just stop. Trump supporters, after being incited to riot by the President, stormed the capital building today. After doing so, he's tweeted multiple times after the fact, still telling people the election was stolen from him, and not condemning what happened today. Please, just stop.
If you believe that this all started with the 2020 election, you've missed a lot of signs. This has been building for years thanks to the deep division in this country. I find what's been happening and the escalation today deeply distressing, but I'm sure as hell not surprised.
You know what would be fucking hilarious? If Trump resigns in a few days, AND PENCE DOESN'T PARDON HIM.
Apparently senior Twitter execs are meeting right now to decide whether to ban Trump from their platform. That should have been done weeks ago.
"I'm not surprised the guy I voted into office whipped up a little coup attempt." It's idiotic to both sides the events of today. Or even the past 4 years. Lamenting the deep division of the country without recognizing that the main driver of all of it is Trump is just plain dumb. He's a cancer. He should have never been put into office. If your political analysis can't grasp that basic truth, maybe sit this one out.
supposedly the Trump/Pence Twitter thing was false. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...ence-did-not-unfollow-donald-trump-on-twitter
No, I don't think this started with the 2020 election. Some things have been going on since the actual civil war and has been passed down through generations. However, the division in our country has not even been close to this divided until a black guy was elected president. That's where the majority of what's unfolding today started. Having the current president railing against an elected president, calling him illegitimate and a non-citizen for YEARS was the seed planted that's in full bloom today. The deep division in this country has been, and will continue to be pushed by a shifting majority/minority of the same people.
That I can completely agree with. And until we can figure out a way to keep people from treating someone with a different political ideology as a contemptible enemy, it's going to continue.
"If the tweets are not removed, the account will remain locked" Swallowing his pride to delete those tweets might be the hardest thing he's done in the past four years. Could twitter have done that if Trump used the official POTUS twitter? I would think "Yes" but I sorta remember something about @POTUS being different. Trump's handle is just a dude who happens to be President
Fox News is now trying to push the idea that ANTIFA were the ones behind storming the capital today. Like....I just can't anymore...
Yup, I predicted this (not here, but I knew the right wing media was going to try to spin it that way). Jungle Julia told me that she saw where bombs (probably fakes) we're found at the RNC headquarters.
This is some serious bullshit behavior. Those people who crashed the barricades and entered the Capitol are rioters. My heart bleeds purple piss for those who got hurt doing stupid shit. This country is fucked up right now; its a powder keg. Republicans need to ensure they don't make the same mistake Democrats did earlier this year; it was riots before, these are riots now and it isn't acceptable behavior. I see nothing that will stop this current trajectory, somehow though, this tit-for-tat escalation between the parties needs to stop.
the riots before were in regard to the republicans and the police. Some were misguided, sure, but do you honestly think it would happen without the rhetoric from the GOP and trump specifically? The blame for those riots does not belong at Democratic feet.
that took my breath away. I got it back, but I lost it for a moment. In a very horrible day for America, that might have been the saddest picture I have seen yet.