CarlMarksToeCheese [comrade/them]
My partner doesn’t follow up on news too much and looked into this stuff today through an MSM lense and was completely bewildered when I brought up how the cops helped. They showed me what they looked at and all of it made it sound like the police got overrun by armed protesters. There’s no 180 imo
Mods please ban Lenin and all emojis with him, he’s cancelled now
There’s a variety of reasons why someone might not groom themselves and wind up with a neckbeard that doesn’t involve the stereotype, and mocking anyone on their appearance might hurt other people who look like that that are reading what you’re saying. That’s the take I’ve seen I’m not sure if that’s what was explained to Beatnik
According to the congressional calendar, the house is going on recess starting today until the 21st, and the senate until the 20th. Unless they decide to declare an emergency over this and force everyone to come in, the ball won’t even start rolling. It’s purely performative, but they are going to be able to slide that past a lot of people
It’s not a coup stop calling it a coup no power was threatened and it was only slightly worse than a drunk tour group running away from their guide. It’s not a coup, it’s not terrorism, it wasn’t anything beyond a spectacle at the end of the day
What would they have pulled? They refuse to leave the building until Trump is president? Won’t happen, even if Trump tried to go full coup. The fact the “mob” was unorganized, had no demands, had no real power etc is the whole reason they got into the building in the first place, if it was an actual possibility for a coup it would have been shut down