Coup/protest in the US

'Non-scalable' fencing erected around Capitol, security ramped up after mob attack - ABC News (go.com)

Security measures have been sharply stepped around the U.S. Capitol in the aftermath of the violent assault by a pro-Trump mob Wednesday, including a large National Guard presence and high, non-scalable fencing.
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Oh, perleeeeeeeeese.
South Africans will not only scale that fence, but have it sold for scrap, cut up and smelted down before Ted Cruz has the chance to stick his foot in his beak, yet again.
 
ghoti said:
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On January 8, 2021, President Donald J. Trump tweeted:

“The 75,000,000 great American Patriots who voted for me, AMERICA FIRST, and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, will have a GIANT VOICE long into the future. They will not be disrespected or treated unfairly in any way, shape or form!!!”

“To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”
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Interesting what twitter considers inciting violence. It's going to get worse for them as time goes on as they now have to understand the context of all tweets by influential figures across the world.
 
Interesting view on the Coup from somebody who lived through another coup

indica.medium.com

I Lived Through A Stupid Coup. America Is Having One Now

You’ve already lost. This is what Americans need to understand
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Two years ago, I lived through a coup in Sri Lanka. It was stupid. The minority party threw chili powder at everyone in Parliament and took over by farce. Math, however, requires a majority and the courts kicked them out. They gave in. We’d been protesting for weeks and yay, we won.

No.

I didn’t know it at the time, but we had already lost. No one knew — but oh my God, what we lost. The legitimate government came back but it was divided and weak. We were divided and weak. We were vulnerable.
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1 | You’re being couped​

What is a coup? It’s literally a blow, a strike. Someone hitting your normal processes of government, trying to knock them over. The blow doesn’t have to succeed. It still wounds. In our case it was occupying Parliament without a majority. In yours it’s denying the President-Elect after an election. [Oh wait, now you’ve attacked your Congress as well]. Whether it fails or not, deep structural damage is done. At the time, however, it just feels dumb.

Frankly, I expected more epaulets and tanks, but this is all you get. A bunch of dumbasses throwing chili powder. Someone at Four Seasons Total Landscaping, next to a dildo shop. What a ****ing stupid century. This is what our coups look like.
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One side has stopped believing in elections. This is very bad. Via Mediaite
This year America had fascism on the ballot and nonwhite people mercifully said no. The fascists, however, are now saying **** ballots. And enough of the population is like **** yeah!

This is a major problem, and it won’t just go away on a technicality. I’m telling you, as someone that’s been there, you’ve already lost. It doesn’t matter if you get Trump out. He and the Republican Party are destroying trust in elections in general. This is catastrophic. You have no idea.

Your media are covering this like a high school dance, but it’s not funny. See this headline in the NYTimes. It’s wildly irresponsible. All your local coverage is.
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TEXTILE GUY said:
South Africans will not only scale that fence, but have it sold for scrap, cut up and smelted down before Ted Cruz has the chance to stick his foot in his beak, yet again.
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That's some nice fencing. It would disappear overnight in Cape Town.

2012 said:
Interesting what twitter considers inciting violence. It's going to get worse for them as time goes on as they now have to understand the context of all tweets by influential figures across the world.
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"AMERICA FIRST" is also literally the calling card for Frank Underwood in House of Cards. Trump probably watches that hoping for some inspiration.
 
rietrot said:
They are allowed to be in some parts of the Capitol building. The Dems had protesters in the Capitol building during the Brett kavanaugh hearings.
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False.

They got to the door and banged on it. Police pushed them back.

They never entered the building.

www.nbcnews.com

After Kavanaugh confirmation, protesters chant, pound on Supreme Court door

U.S. Capitol Police said a total of 164 people were arrested during the protests for "crowding, obstructing, or incommoding."
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By the way, have you watched this video?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1347646782659031043

Or seen this?

https://twitter.com/x/status/1347763885646827522
 
so i havent been following this at all, other than reading the stuff here.


did these people pre arrange a full on "invasion" of this government building without any authority picking up on it?

or was it a spur of the moment thing where protestors overpowered/overran security at the building, with security having no other reinforcement?
 
access said:
or was it a spur of the moment thing where protestors overpowered/overran security at the building, with security having no other reinforcement?
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Security opened the doors for them, stood to the side and they walked in civily, looked kinda wtf. Dunno what happened after that.
 
access said:
so i havent been following this at all, other than reading the stuff here.


did these people pre arrange a full on "invasion" of this government building without any authority picking up on it?

or was it a spur of the moment thing where protestors overpowered/overran security at the building, with security having no other reinforcement?
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For weeks prior there has been significant chatter about on social media about their plan to do this after it became apparent that the court cases etc would fail and it would come down to Jan 6th.

Especially with the Qanon crowd. They have been fantasising about this moment for years and a significant weight of the rhetoric came from them.
 
ok so the bits and pieces ive picked up were true then. i wasnt sure so i asked.


ponder said:
Security opened the doors for them, stood to the side and they walked in civily, looked kinda wtf. Dunno what happened after that.
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alright. that seems a bit weird to say the least.

buka001 said:
For weeks prior there has been significant chatter about on social media about their plan to do this after it became apparent that the court cases etc would fail and it would come down to Jan 6th.
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this also seems weird that there would be no contingency with regards to the chatter.

(i did not quote that qanon qak cause im not interested in it or perpetuating it.)



now i am wondering why.

why let them walk in?

why not reinforce security when they were aware if it?
 
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