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Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by jgwil2 on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @10:59PM (#25667133)
Hasn't it become clear that appeasement won't work with these people?
Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by eloff on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @11:05PM (#25667170)
No. Weigh the risk and reward. If you take harsh action now, you risk provoking the situation for what? He's gone in two weeks.

Just maintain order and wait it out.

Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by ashtonkem on Thursday January 07, 2021 @12:42AM (#25667655)
It seems to me that teaching potential demagogues that they will go unpunished if it's sufficiently inconvenient is a bad lesson to teach if you want to keep a republic.
Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by eloff on Thursday January 07, 2021 @09:41AM (#25671530)
You can't impeach or have any justice done in two weeks. It's just not worth it.

If there's some kind of crime that's been committed and it can be prosecuted successfully, then by all means after he's out of office. I don't think that's the case though.

Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by ashtonkem on Thursday January 07, 2021 @10:45AM (#25672278)
You can prevent him from pardoning the rioters. You can bar him from running again.

Impeachment actually does things other express disappointment.

Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by titzer on Thursday January 07, 2021 @01:08AM (#25667787)
I have been hearing this same shit for 4 years and look at this smoking crater.
Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by vkou on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @11:50PM (#25667399)
If you take harsh action now, you make it clear to any future copy-cats that this behaviour will not be tolerated.
Re:U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests by ashtonkem on Thursday January 07, 2021 @01:52AM (#25668019)
There's a reason why kings typically had the parts of traitors nailed to the city gate, after all.