Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
by SpicyLemonZest on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @05:27PM
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Storming the Capitol building isn't how it works either, but it happened! The whole point of a coup is to dictate new rules for how it works, by looking at things you cannot do and deciding to do them. Don't get me wrong, "they come back and finish the count" is the overwhelmingly likely outcome, but we can't ignore coup attempts just because they aren't likely to work.
Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
by 8note on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @08:14PM
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The capitol building doesn't make decisions though. The building grants no legitimacy. Just because there's people on the capitol building, doesn't mean anyone will listen to them.
If congress wants to meet on zoom, they can
Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests
by cmurf on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @07:15PM
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Trump has been attempting an autogolpe for weeks. That will be his legacy. That will be the legacy of those who have been supporting him since the election.
Whether they are delusional or they want an autocracy, I can't assess and it doesn't even matter. I'd consider both example of mental illness, but this is a country with a culture that persists in not taking mental illness seriously. Including the one manifested by the sitting president. The solution is to remove him from office without any delay beyond the certification of the Electoral College.
Everything else going on is a show. And it is working insofar as Trump's sore loser supporters have sent him more money after the election than before the election. They love the lies. They hate the truth. They lack the coping skill to deal with truth, so they sign up for the lies. They purchase lies as a product, that is what Trump sells. It's who he has always been and always will be.
Trump right now: we had an election, that was stolen from us, it was a landslide election, and everyone knows it, especially the other side...but you have to go home now, we have to have peace.
they took it away from me, from you, from our country
this was a fraudulent election...so many are treated with evil...go home in peace
Translation: We won, but you gotta go home. They stole from me, from you, from the country, but you gotta go home. They are evil, but you gotta go home.
He is unfit for office. He's ill. The proper thing to do is wrap up the counting of ascertained Electoral College votes, declare Biden the winner. And then the House should immediately impeach Trump. And then the Senators can choose to remove him from office and ban him from ever holding public office again. That is the proper way to end this.