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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by abduhl on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @08:43PM (#25841578)
You honestly think that THE defining event of Trump's presidency is going to be the Capitol riot? You don't think it's the bungled response to coronavirus that landed us all locked up in our houses for over a year, the assassination of an Iranian leader on another sovereign's soil, the trade war with China, the tax reform bill he pushed through, the Mueller probe, the BLM protests, the "stolen" SCOTUS seats, or any number of other things he did?

You think the defining moment of his presidency is something that he only tangentially had a hand in that resulted in a couple arrests and a stolen podium?

That's a hot take.

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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by dragonwriter on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @09:21PM (#25841832)
How many of those other things was he impeached and subsequently condemned by the Republican floor leader in the Senate for?
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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by thatcat on Thursday January 21, 2021 @07:26AM (#25858165)
None of those threatened Senate directly. They are simply protecting themselves.
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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by abduhl on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @09:23PM (#25841844)
I didn't realize that Moscow Mitch was the bellwether of history.
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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by three_seagrass on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @02:04AM (#25843365)
Being impeached twice is the landmark here. We're living some pretty important history as it's being written right now.
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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by rtx on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @02:40AM (#25843629)
Yup, down fall of an empire. Don't fight it, world would be a better place afterward.
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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by LarvaFX on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @04:06AM (#25844209)
Would it? After the fall of rome we got the middle ages
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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by selectodude on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @09:12PM (#25841768)
Those are slow burns. The attack on the capital was a severe jolt to our national psyche. You may not want them to be different, but they are.
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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by notahacker on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @05:38AM (#25844793)
We remember Nixon for Watergate rather than how he normalised the relationship with China, ended the Vietnam War, floated USD and handled the Civil Rights movement despite all of that stuff having more long term consequences
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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by triceratops on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @01:45AM (#25843243)
> It's just hard for me to believe that in fifty years I'll be saying "oh boy you remember those dudes that broke into the Capitol?"

I betcha it's a Jeopardy clue in 50 years. "This president incited a riot that led to an invasion of the Capitol building for only the second time in its history".

Assuming we have Jeopardy in 50 years, of course.

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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by dragonwriter on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @05:37AM (#25844789)
> It's just hard for me to believe that in fifty years I'll be saying "oh boy you remember those dudes that broke into the Capitol?" as I stand in line for my bi-monthly mRNA booster shot that the newly appointed 99th Supreme Court Justice (after the Court has been packed, of course) has ruled is mandatory for all citizens.

Well, yeah, all the stuff added to describe the context in which you would be remembering the events sounds pretty implausible.

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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by rat87 on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @11:35PM (#25842627)
those dudes who attempted a coup and got pretty close to a hostage situation or even assassinating the Vice President or congressmen

This event made the US seem less like a super stable countries and more like one of those tin pot countries where coups frequently happen. Could it have succeed, probably not even if they did kill the VP but will we see more coup attempts is the real question

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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by Bakary on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @09:24PM (#25841856)
To be honest I had almost forgotten about many of these events until you mentioned them again. There are just so many things going on that it's hard to fixate too much on one thing. That said, humans tend to focus on both the beginning and end of a time-frame. In this case, the Capitol raid has a clear advantage over the other things you listed.

The virus is in its own zone as far as memory is concerned. It's been going on for so long that it overshadows Trump to some extent

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