General Politics Discussion VIII [ARCHIVED] • Page 1325

It is happening everywhere

 

I have a meeting with a professor in 45 minutes and am really not sure how I'm going to go from watching this to coherently talking about my master's thesis in that time haha

 

CNN reporting a woman shot in critical condition inside the capitol

 

This is a serious, actual coup attempt. I am so speechless.

 

anytime i see tim on podcasts i need to shut it off. guy thinks he knows everything and pushes some fringe shit.

 

Do it. Fucking do it again

 

How many cops are on PTO

 

Reschedule that!!!

 

Someone go throw salt at Susan Collins

 

Jason where you at

 

Why wait?

 

"If we do not have the capacity to distinguish what’s true from what’s false, then by definition the marketplace of ideas doesn’t work. And by definition our democracy doesn’t work. We are entering into an epistemological crisis."

This quote from Obama comes to mind. If truth is not truth anymore, violence follows.

 

They'll never be able to impeach and remove him. All GOP elected officials will say Trump did not cause or encourage this. There's nothing anyone can do to force them to admit Trump called for this.

 

Video on Twitter of the woman being shot. Appears to be a protester. Does not look good

 

he's taking his no doom scrolling resolution seriously.

 

happening in other state's now too

 

Praising them as Patriots is fucking disgusting.

 

Might be kinda hard to hold a vote to impeach someone when you have rioters in the chamber

 

Semi-unrelated, is anyone annoyed that tons of people are likening this to a "banana republic" as opposed to "true democracy" when the term "banana republic" literally comes from the US military occupation of Latin American countries in support of exploitative fruit monopolies