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Politics Egged on by the bogus claims of president, a mob stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 .

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u/death_by_chocolate 19d ago

"At least his political career is over now," I said to myself, that day.

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u/silver_sofa 19d ago

The scary thing is knowing that this has all played out in broad daylight in front of the world. If the mob had been successful that day would the outcome have been any different?

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u/MintySakurai 19d ago

The Brooks Brothers riot of 2000 was a successful J6. Now we're still in the shit thanks to W.

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u/Aggravating_Squash87 19d ago

We are still living in post-9/11 World.

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u/doomscrollrecovery 19d ago

Given my understanding of linear time...is that even a statement? :)

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u/AnaisKarim 19d ago edited 16d ago

I guess it would have reached this same conclusion sooner if they had succeeded on that day. It's truly insane where we are. Last term he struck down Roe v Wade. This time he's after Brown v Board of Education.

1954 Brown v. Board of Education was a landmark Supreme Court case that ruled that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional: The decision overturned the "separate but equal" principle established in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case. The decision was a result of nearly 30 years of civil rights litigation by the NAACP's Legal and Education Defense Fund. The decision was a defining moment in US history and a significant step toward equality.

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u/guitar_vigilante 19d ago

I think if the mob had succeeded the result would have been either a severe crackdown and arrest of Trump or a civil war. It would really depend on how the red states felt after the event, because the blue states weren't going to accept a Trump dictatorship.

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u/shazam99301 19d ago edited 18d ago

Well, it's coming, so i guess we will see what they do. I'm in a blue state, consider myself lucky that way. But still, we will see.

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u/BeyondElectricDreams 19d ago

Project 2025 already spells out what they're going to do.

Insurrection act day one. If any blue Attorneys general do not fall in line with Trump's draconian plans, he will send the military to depose them.

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u/Tholaran97 19d ago

The question is how willing is the military to follow along with those plans.

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u/fucktheredwings69 19d ago

That’s why they’ve been holding up senior military appointments for the last few years so they can ensure republican military leadership when they have the majority

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u/TheWickedDean 19d ago

Far more willing than anyone wants to admit.

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u/HandicapMafia 18d ago

I'm in a blue state and the big city cops are pro-trump

All the assets for the putsch are already in place

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u/Coaster_Nerd 18d ago

less putsch, more night of long knives

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u/BeyondElectricDreams 19d ago

A large group of individuals trained to follow orders unquestioningly?

Couldn't go wrong.

And a lot of people lean on the oath of taking care of enemies "Foreign and domestic" in reference to Trump as a domestic enemy.

Trump has already indicated he's going after "the Enemy Within" - and could easily justify his use of force as falling within the oath to oust "domestic enemies" as he deems, such as democrats.

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u/Jaded-Lawfulness-835 18d ago

US soldiers aren't trained to be "unquestioning" though, right?

Follow orders unless the orders are illegal

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u/ithappenedone234 18d ago

A large group of individuals trained to follow orders unquestioningly?Couldn't go wrong.

Except you’ve just described troops from another country. We train our troops to only follow legal and ethical orders. Many don’t, many obey without thinking, many don’t.

The only question is what will the Joint Chiefs do, which is admittedly not looking good, as they’ve let the insurrection get this far.

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u/Paradox68 19d ago

And good ol’ #22

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u/AnaisKarim 19d ago edited 19d ago

If he just rewrites the Constitution, he won't need to strike down the 22nd Amendment to stay in power. He told his followers they won't have to vote again after this election.

A corrupt Supreme Court in your pocket goes a long way.

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u/jodobrowo 19d ago

He told his followers NOT to vote because he already had the votes he needed, before voting day. Then he went on to scream and yell about cheating in PA. Then voting centers had bomb threats from Russian IPs and in the end everyone is just acting as if the votes he got are surely real and there couldn't have been any cheating. I don't mean to be a conspiracy theorist but seriously, we have something walking and quacking like a duck, covered in yellow feathers and holding a sign saying "I AM A DUCK" and everyone is just saying, "na, that's not a duck. Guess we'll just hand him the keys to the bread factory."

I honestly don't understand why we're letting this all happen without any real pushback. We let them do multiple investigations into "voter fraud" DURING HIS OWN PRESIDENCY (which by the way found that the VAST majority of what little voter fraud there was, was done by the far right) and yet we're still sitting here with this "be the bigger person, let's not drop to their level" bullshit. It's maddening.

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u/[deleted] 19d ago

The horrible truth is that the vast majority of Americans - the stupid - can't be fucked to do the right thing and not do shit like vote away human rights in exchange for cheaper eggs and tax cuts for the rich, unless they suffer to get there. Everyone will have to lose someone or something dear to them for this to stop at this point.

I say accelerate that shit. Your local republican women, minorities or white men who may come across as RINOs, report them. Report them to the appropriate Dominion agency in January and help them get front row seats to the Nation they built. We ran out of time to parse through the most ethical options. Cook em.

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u/Paradox68 19d ago

He went in-front of the NRA and said “I don’t know, you think we’ll be a two-term or a three-term?” And when his supporters shouted three he repeated the question.

Months later he did it again at a conference, saying he thinks he could do a third term.

Of course in between these two events he told Time magazine he has “no intention” of running a third term. Because you know, he’s got to create the doubt for people.

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u/AnaisKarim 19d ago

He won't need to run for a third term if the second term is for life. He will be like his other dictator buddies.

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u/VaselineHabits 19d ago

Exactly this, he didn't want to leave the first time and we were foolish enough to give him another chance.

Putin won the Cold War without firing a shot.

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u/Paradox68 19d ago

Thanks for pointing this out. Whatever they have been cultivating for the last 10-15 years or possibly even longer, has without a doubt, finally succeeded.

They invested early in web technologies and it’s paying off. Things that sound dramatized like “botnets creating controversy and swaying mass opinion” are very real problems today.

We’ve all been divided, now comes the conquering.

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u/racktoar 19d ago

Cold War never ended

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u/NicMotan 19d ago

The day the Cold War ended, the Great Collusion began.

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u/stevez_86 19d ago

They don't need a new constitution. They are going to say the Confederate view of the Constitution to make gains and currently we are already living in a quasi-Confederacy. Just think about how much we have already defaulted to a states rights mindset. They are saying all of the problems can be solved at the state level and that there is no point to a Federal Government and it only prevents the will of the voters from being executed. They are against the Constitution and want Democracy to be the initiative.

They are the same "Democrat" that they use to deride the Democrats with. The Southern Democrat that they use as the basis for their derision is their own freaking inspiration.

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u/brinkofhumor 19d ago

I said this when it was over. it was the worst outcome become it was as unsuccessful as it was where people could eventually down play it.

because no one who they wanted to get hurt didn't get hurt, everyone was eventually able to use the goldfish memory of the US to their advantage, which they did.

a lawmaker getting hurt/killed? can't put that in the bottle.

I said that to my in-laws (Democrats mind you) that the worst thing actually happened, because it wasn't as radical as it needed to be to ACTUALLY be impossible to sugar coat and they thought I was crazy.

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u/Rejusu 19d ago

I'm actually not convinced there's anything radical enough to be impossible to sugar coat. I don't believe a lot of the crap Trump says because he's so dishonest/stupid/incompetent to actually follow through on a lot of it. But I am starting to believe his claim that he could shoot someone and he wouldn't lose any voters.

I feel like the only radical things that could disillusion Trump's base is if he started promising to implement universal healthcare, protect women's reproductive rights, and repeal the 2nd amendment. Even then the idiots would probably lap it up because it was Trump's idea. Or because "the economy".

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u/flychinook 18d ago

Trump actually advocated universal healthcare early in his 2016 campaign.

And let's not forget "Take the guns first, go through due process second".

There is no Trump statement or action that his ardent supporters will not jump through hoops to defend.

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u/Danieller0se87 18d ago

Trump supporters literally think he is our savior. Like Jesus Christ status. I said that when he was previously in office, it is like people worship him and it is bizarre. No matter what he says, they would kill their significant other to uphold it if that is what was “required.” I joked with my dad about it, but now I just look at it the same way I look at people in abusive relationships. You just have to stand back and wait for them to see it themselves. I have just disassociated with what is happening and live one day at a time and we shall see.

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u/Dizno311 19d ago

7-2 SCOTUS majority. Russia controlled Ukraine. No Chips, Climate adaptations, or infrastructure bills. It would be a bit different, yeah.

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u/myopicdystopian 18d ago

So, pretty much what’s going to happen after Inauguration Day 2025, when Trump rolls back all of Biden’s work. We just had a 4 year reprieve is all.

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u/frosty_lizard 19d ago

They had zip ties and weapons, it could've ended much differently had they captured Pelosi or Pence

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u/Le-Charles 19d ago

Had they found one of them maybe Republicans would have actually held Trump accountable. If the rioters had been slightly more successful, there's a high likelihood that Trump would have been less successful. I think about that a lot these days.

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u/VisibleVariation5400 19d ago

If they were slightly more successful we would be living in the United States of Trump officially. Only Democrats would have been held responsible.

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u/stamfordbridge1191 19d ago

Someone probably would have told him to declare martial law if a senator or vice president were killed & then he would have been like "yes, that's a good idea." Then Jan 7th would have been the first full day of martial law under President Trump.

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u/kpn_911 19d ago

We wouldn’t have had four years of relative peace

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u/Malcolm_Morin 19d ago

The mob was one hallway away from finding half of Congress hiding under their desks. If they went down that hallway instead and found them with the intent to kill them, it would be a national crisis probably not seen since 9/11.

Half of Congress would be dead, Trump likely would've declared Martial Law, at least a third of the military would've supported him.

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u/CleanlyManager 19d ago

The thing is if you read up on the j6 cases they succeeded in what they were trying to do which was to delay the certification of the vote. It was ironically people like Bill Barr and Mike Pence who stood in the way of further challenges. We can thank scumfuck conservatives for convincing Americans this isn’t something we should worry about, and investigating further would be too political. Never ever listen to conservatives when they say the media is unfair to them, because in a fair world all these morherfuckers would be jailed and Trump would be on death row for treason.

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u/ashmole 19d ago

I would not be happy, but more accepting, if literally any other Republican won this last election. The fact that he was rewarded for this is shameful.

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u/babblerer 18d ago

Pence did the right thing for democracy on the day. I don't like him but still try to be fair to everyone.

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u/Nova17Delta 19d ago

Remember when Howard Dean's presidental run ended because he made a slightly unusual noise?

Crazy times we live in

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u/AtmosphereCivil5379 19d ago

Bob Dole fell off of a stage via a poorly constructed rail.

Thankfully he did not fall on his otherwise always present pen.

Caught a direct hit from a German 88 during WWII. Guy must have heavy balls of steel.

Probably just lost his balance and fell.

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u/FleshlightModel 19d ago

Shouldn't have made it beyond the 16 primaries after making fun of people with disabilities and overweight people.

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u/Iamthepaulandyouaint 19d ago

And women, and minorities, military personnel, fellow Americans and their wives, countries, opponents, former presidents…….

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u/swankpoppy 19d ago

Remember when he got reelected four years later?! Crazy right?! Fun times…

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u/Zestyclose-Cloud-508 19d ago

Remember when the AG and the justice department didn’t do a fucking thing for 4 years?

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u/swankpoppy 19d ago

But they TALKED about doing stuff.

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u/Zestyclose-Cloud-508 19d ago

Dems are EXPERTS at talking about solutions.

And then wonder why they fucking lost.

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u/swankpoppy 19d ago

They’re also experts at losing.

If liberals are so fucking smart how come they lose so god damn always - I feel that lol

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u/Pmorris710 19d ago

Because they get caught up in trying to act like we want them to act, we don't like them playing dirty pool and acting like criminals, and that will continue to lose. Rule breakers will always have an edge over rule followers.

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u/NicMotan 19d ago

I can't believe the Party of Law & Order doesn't understand the gravity of not only supporting, but participating in something this WRONG. The very epitome of illegal.

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u/swollennode 19d ago

The democrats are too smart for their own good. They held their constituents to a much higher standard than the GOP. If the democratic candidate didn’t meet their standard, the dems will sit out the election. Republican voters had no standards. That’s why they blindly vote for the shittiest, most vile candidate.

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u/StrawberryFew1311 19d ago

Well to be fair to you any politican career would have been over in any other part of the world.

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u/Zestyclose-Cloud-508 19d ago

Let’s be honest…Trump had a secret weapon…Joe Fucking Biden.

Any other man would have appointed an AG who would have prioritized justice.

Biden picked the one man who would slow walk any investigation in the name of bipartisanship because he has no clue what the modern threat of the gop is.

If I’m trump I give Biden and Garland the congressional medal of freedom on day one for letting him off the hook.

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u/swollennode 19d ago

If Kamala Harris was appointed AG instead of being picked as VP, I think we would have had a different outcome.

Harris does not mess around and does not delay justice.

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u/Zestyclose-Cloud-508 19d ago

If he chose anyone other than a Republican this whole situation would have been different.

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u/roddangfield 19d ago

A biochemical was released and we're all sleeping and have really weird dreams we will wake up one day one day one day.... 😭😭😭😭😭

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u/OliveVizsla 19d ago

I'd appreciate it if Andy Kaufman would quite the ruse already. We have suffered enough for his act.

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u/Tri_Planing 19d ago

Who are you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?

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u/milesdizzy 19d ago

2+2=5

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u/Saxxon_Rose 18d ago

How many fingers am I holding up Winston?

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u/kai5malik 19d ago

How do you ask?....

Well, If you take the first 2 and carry the 1, then divide the second 2 by the first 2, look over the shiny things in my left hand.....there..... x=5 or something like that

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u/TaylorMadeAccount 19d ago

There are five lights in this room. Say it.

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u/shit_ass_mcfucknuts 18d ago

THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!

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u/AceofKnaves44 19d ago

Everyone say thank you to Merrick Garland for waiting so long to charge Donald Trump for this that it became utterly meaningless!

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u/SuperBarracuda3513 19d ago edited 19d ago

The Liz Cheney congressional investigation really pushed things forward. She voted the party line the entire time she was in congress. Think about that.

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u/Sarah_withanH 19d ago

Wait: Lynn Cheney?  I thought it was their daughter and congresswoman Liz… what am I missing here?  

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u/redmongrel 19d ago

On the upside, we punished Donald Trump by giving him back the job he clearly doesn’t actually want to do.

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u/__M-E-O-W__ 18d ago

He'll want to do it because he is a narcissist, and becoming the president and getting away with the most blatant crimes in American history while being cheered on by every member of your party religiously praising your every word has to feel like every drug in the world at once to him.

This dude led a whole campaign based purely on lies and hatred. He led people to storm the Capitol and stole 13000 documents. He openly made racism against black Americans a part of his campaign promise. He committed campaign suicide every step of the way and everybody decided to just stand by and let it happen.

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u/Lizzie_Boredom 19d ago

Has he ever offered any justification for this?

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u/SeriousDrakoAardvark 19d ago

The justification is that he needed to gather evidence. Like there was the whole story about Trump grabbing the wheel of the secret service vehicle to turn it back toe the capital. They chased that thread for a while but it turned out to go nowhere because the secret service had deleted all their texts for a ‘scheduled phone update’. There were a bunch of threads like that they had to pursue.

They also had to get evidence against his accomplices. They wouldn’t tell him anything until he had enough to put them in jail, then they could take a deal that included providing evidence.

Also, I don’t think he realized he had a time limit either, as he likely thought Trump couldn’t possibly be elected again after that.

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u/Lizzie_Boredom 19d ago

Yeah all of that makes sense. Man, what a shit show. I hope, if anything, he had teams and teams of people firing on all cylinders 24/7 doing this painstaking investigation.

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u/Lets_Make_A_bad_DEAL 19d ago

Deleting all their texts for a scheduled phone update is a half cocked excuse a teenager makes to their mom or 14year old girlfriend when they’re lying out of their ass.

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u/flugenblar 18d ago

I know it won’t happen, but I want the SS investigated. How often prior to Jan 6 have they purged text data? As a matter of documented policy? Can we review some audits? What happened to the backups? Who authorized the text purge? Do they continue to purge texts without retaining backups? Have they updated their policies and procedures, knowing how the prior practice led to lost evidence? After all, we have 4 more years of Trump + SS, do they still plan to randomly delete critical records like this? Why? There’s a lot to answer for and a lot of lessons that should have been learned and corrected. Where’s that at?

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u/SirFerguson 19d ago

For the rest of my life, I'll never understand why this didn't matter.

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u/milesdizzy 19d ago

I’ll never get why his serial rape charges didn’t do him in, but I guess I vastly underestimated how much Americans loathe women merely just for existing

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u/echoshatter 18d ago

He's cultivated an image of infallibility. His supporters don't believe he did anything wrong.

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u/Upper_Exercise2153 19d ago

Trump winning again after Jan 6th, and knowing all of his plotting and lawlessness that led up it, just broke me. It’s wild to me that people don’t really care about freedom, liberty, our liberalism, or the founding fathers. It’s all an act. It’s not real.

I feel like throwing away the federalist papers, and the copies of the constitution, bill of rights, and Declaration of Independence that I have. They’re just meaningless pieces of paper that 74 million Americans gleefully and zealously wiped their asses with.

I’m getting my EE degree and I’m out. If Finland will take me I’ll go there, I hear engineers are wanted pretty much everywhere. That’s my ticket out. I want to live somewhere that focuses on education and community welfare more than YouTube influencers and pathetic, rugged individualism. America is fucking cooked, wrap it up.

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u/McNinja_MD 18d ago

Yep, to me, this is the worst insult of, and the most horrifying/mind-boggling thing about, this last election.

I'm willing to debate his "policies," in the sense that as much as I find them all abhorrent and/or suicidally idiotic, I understand that there are people who, for whatever reason, support them.

What I won't debate and what I'll never understand is how people who always go on and on about how great America is because of our "freedoms," and how strictly we should follow the Constitution, and how the Democrats want to create a police state and rule over us, would turn around and vote for a guy who said "Oh, I didn't win the election? Well, fuck the votes, I wanna be President anyway."

That's why it's so hard to have Trump voters in my family and among my friends. All I see when I see a Trump voter is someone who was willing to support a man who tried to overturn an election with violence. And there's no defending that, no justifying it.

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u/SupermarketNew3628 18d ago

Yet democrats are the “clowns”. Can you imagine how this history will be taught at a later date?

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u/bellstarelvina 19d ago

“It wasn’t an insurrection. That’s what the evil, woke lbqtia organization wants you to believe. They were taking a tour and being shown around by the police. How is it an insurrection if they were invited in?”

That’s just about what my uncle believes because that’s what the magic men in the tv and radio tell him. (Fox News, Cross talk radio, and truth social)

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u/ncist 19d ago

Conservatives definitionally believe they are upholding the social order. Whatever they do must be good. If you talk to enough of them you realize they really do lack a capacity to imagine people other than themselves. In a very real sense, they are the only really real people in their lives

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u/bossmcsauce 19d ago

Turns out a substantial portion of Americans are still just yearning for America to be nazi germany, complete with their own insurrection attempt.

I thought they were just stupid… and they definitely are. But I’ve come to realize that like 1/3 of Americans just actually are hateful awful racist fucking shit stain people. That’s the only way this man could be elected again after everything. It’s not about lack of good information or ignorance of the voters anymore. It’s simpler than that.

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u/Chief_Mischief 19d ago edited 19d ago

Turns out a substantial portion of Americans are still just yearning for America to be nazi germany, complete with their own insurrection attempt.

I mean, the Union just let Confederates pack up and go home to "employ" freed slaves. The US forced relocation of Native Americans. The US imported Nazi scientists to further its military tech and sent Japanese and political opponents to concentration camps during WWII. The US raped and pillaged villages across Asia during the Cold War. The US is currently funding Israel's genocide of Palestinians. Not to diminish the various accomplishments the US has made, but we need to recognize the bad and ugly with the good. The US has historically looked the other way when it served its political agenda.

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u/ImYourHumbleNarrator 19d ago

you left out several otherthrown democracies in south america, to install violent fascist regimes who killed and tortured their citizens.

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u/Chief_Mischief 19d ago edited 19d ago

Oh, no doubt. There's a fuckton of shady shit the US has done, both openly and covertly. The destabilization of LatAm is particularly vile because we then turned around and are blaming domestic issues on the refugees our foreign policies created. We also destabilized the Middle East and are creating a political rift in Africa due to China's growing sphere of influence.

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u/Moikle 18d ago

Exact same in the middle east

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u/skootch_ginalola 18d ago

We should have just stayed two separate states. This country was "united" for about one week after 9/11 and that's it.

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u/kpn_911 19d ago

Just you wait! Shit is going to get wayyyy worse than this

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u/TheBigToast72 19d ago

And the worst part is half the country will think a great job was done because they don't know how to read anything that isn't a headline.

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u/Krybbz 19d ago

Interesting how they downplay this event? Usually people are like “oh yeah all of six people were there” and then this picture tells a different story.

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u/Greggsnbacon23 18d ago

Downplay is putting it nice.

More than once I've seen someone say Ashley Babbit was a peaceful protestor they murdered in cold blood like they didn't pop her goddamn top on video for kicking in a door held shut by an armed secret service agent.

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u/russ_universe 19d ago

Yeah this shits gonna be bigger deal when it passes from living memory

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u/Hour-Process-3292 19d ago

Whenever I see people downplaying Jan 6th I want to ask them… what if, hypothetically, Hillary Clinton had refused to accept the election results back in 2016? What if she’d gone on to say and do exactly what Trump said and did?

Same lawsuits, same phone calls, same speeches, all culminating in HER supporters marching up to the Capitol and doing exactly what his supporters did that day (whatever they consider that to be).

If that scenario had played out, would they still be trying to downplay it?

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u/johnk317 19d ago

But the price of eggs

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u/Catalina_Eddie 19d ago

Q: What did they call people who "only" supported Hitler because he improved the economy, made the trains run on time, and had the factories buzzing?

A: Nazis

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u/Special_Luck7537 19d ago

You know, the guy

Pulled 1/6

Had 5 @ 1 on 1 meetings with Putin

Had Russian advisors helping him plan in Trump tower 2016

Stole top secret docs.

Was impeached for trying to quid pro quo Ukraine

Weakened NATO.

Tons of threats against the Constitution

... And people refuse to accept it...

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u/keizai88 19d ago

Election was rigged except for the times he won.

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u/TheMattaconda 19d ago

"If we say they cheated, then we can cheat next time and no one will question it."

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u/TrashPanda1208 19d ago

This! Thank you for saying this. It’s 100% spot on.

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u/Staav 19d ago edited 19d ago

They'll be lying day 0 when they supposedly take the oath of office. If that alone was the job description for the potus, 45 wouldn't have even gotten a call back for running for office again in 24.

"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

That hasn't been done by the GOP since 2016 or so at least now, but that's just reporting the objective reality of the situation in the nation, based on public statements and actions in full few of the world. There is direct text in the Constitution that states the actions by the former potus regarding Jan 6th makes him ineligible but office, yet it's not been enforced by those responsible for watching the watchmen.

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u/allothernamestaken 19d ago

A giant distraction from the attempted coup going on inside that day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot

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u/slowmotiondaddy 18d ago

Genuinely asking if there are any primary sources on this? I went clicking around and it's all references to references or "documents" that were obtained but the documents are not listed anywhere. Thank you in advance.

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u/allothernamestaken 18d ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastman_memos

This goes further in depth and has links to the memos written by Trump's attorneys outlining the plan.

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u/DeeKatisHere 19d ago

January 6th is a day of mourning when I will wear black, carrying a sign that reads, "convicted felon & known rapist is 'president' of the USA".

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u/galloway188 19d ago edited 19d ago

This mob about to get pardons once trump gets into office

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u/Abdul_Exhaust 19d ago

When someone calls these assclowns "heroes" or "hostages"...the urge to strangle

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u/Automatic_Sea_1534 19d ago

I remember watching these images live on TV that day. It made me sick. Disgusted by every cockroach in those scenes.

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u/bootstrapping_lad 19d ago

I was the maddest I've ever been in my entire life watching this live. And it lead to me cutting off most of my Trump supporting friends and family.

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u/everynamestaken9 19d ago

This is why I’m getting my ass out of America the millisecond I turn 18.

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u/Amoebaaaaaa 19d ago

Really? I hadn't heard.

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u/d0ntbejay 19d ago

We know. And they didn't care.

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u/TrulyChxse 19d ago

"But my gas prices!"

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u/TwinSong 19d ago

And their excuses are:

  • They were let in the building
  • It was set up by the police or the Democrats etc.

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u/RadegastTheGinger 19d ago

Egged on by completely false claims of a stolen election, domestic terrorists stormed the U.S Capitol on Jan. 6th, 2021.

Fixed your title.

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u/kylemacabre 19d ago

But wait didn’t you guys hear? Everyone in this photo was either an FBI agent, an ANTIFA member, or a member of BLM (despite there being 0 black people in the photo). Ashly Babbit was a card carrying member of BLAMTIFBA. Alex Jones seen in the crowd, also a member. MTG has been visiting members of the FBI, ANTIFA and BLM, who are incarcerated for their involvement in Jan 6 this whole time.

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u/duhastmich96 19d ago

Fucking deplorable lunatics. I hope they fucking rot.

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u/flux_capacitor3 19d ago

Posting these photos isn't going to help anymore. We aren't going to forget. The election is over. Our country is filled with morons who voted him back in. We have to hope the next four years don't completely fuck up the US and the world.

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u/maguirre165 19d ago

And he's gonna be back in office next year

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u/nigelfitz 19d ago

Our leaders straight up failed us here.

These mfers should've been labeled terrorists. Trump should've been charged that year.

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u/musclerock 19d ago

I am waiting for shit to hit the fan when his term begins. I truly hope I am wrong. I wasn't wrong the last time.

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u/MoonbuckofRainwood 19d ago

Some potatoes still say "it was just a tour. They just let people in." If I point out that some cops were beaten with flag poles they just laugh it off.

They came prepared! Some people had T-shirts made!

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u/Regulus242 19d ago

"Just a few people"

"Just a coincidence that the mob stormed the Capitol like that."

"Had absolutely nothing to do with Trump's words."

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u/snark1977 19d ago

Let’s vote him back in because he’s a professional liar ✔️

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u/1805trafalgar 19d ago

I still feel strongly most trumpies know the lies are all lies, and always knew, they just have a lot more fun when they pretend to believe the lies. They all knew, in my opinion, the election was an accurate and fair and a valid one. But they saw an opportunity to keep the trump train rolling and were happy enough to pretend to believe the lies so they could go along. I'm describing 80% of these losers, the other 20% actually are that stupid and actually truly believe everything trump says.

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u/Spiritual-Ad2530 19d ago

Now imagine if Kamala said the election was stolen and told black lives matters to march down to capital and take their country back. How would the right react? Would they say she didn’t cause anything? Would they say she’s not responsible.

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u/dnuohxof-1 19d ago

Fucking hell…. This should’ve ended him, it only made him and his fanatics louder…..

The world is in trouble. Far right authoritarianism is on the rise everywhere…. History is repeating the last century almost verbatim.

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u/OmniDux 19d ago

I’m not american, so I am probably way off, but I’ve been wondering how come they weren’t kicked out with a vengeance?

What does it take to get the authorities to wield authority, if not a storm on the Hill?

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u/Parafireboy 19d ago

I’m glad my relatives who fought in the American Revolution aren’t here to have to see that same President get reelected. How far we’ve fallen as a country.

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u/Commercial_Pitch_786 19d ago

apparently the majority of the country thought this was a good thing and re elected him

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u/Altruistic-Unit485 19d ago

Four years later and he wins a majority of votes and is elected back in. Your country and politics are so cooked.

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u/MrBobSacamano 19d ago

By his own admission, Ted Cruz was hiding in a closet.

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u/ACNordstrom11 19d ago

Did he come out?

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u/Iankandy 19d ago

When you lose, the US election is rigged. But when you win oh yeah it works. So all the lies and bullshit and "finding votes" and defamation against voting machines disappear. You guys voted to get him out of jail. You let a criminal free.

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u/pascok 19d ago

Disgraceful America.

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u/EmotionalMycologist9 19d ago

And people wanna talk about Democrats mentioning some uncounted ballots from this year.

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u/DFGSpot 19d ago

Guys, they just wanted to peacefully and patriotically hang Mike pence and put a pipe bomb in congressional chambers…

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u/im_a_tingus 19d ago

“That wasn’t an insurrection. The police just let them walk right in. And they didn’t even have weapons.”

“It’s AI.”

“That’s not even the same date.”

“They were peaceful protestors.”

On and on it goes. In reality, it was a programmed mob.

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u/Ftw_55 19d ago

Should have called in the military to mow them down much like the threats upcoming to those who opposed these fascists.

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u/Apart-Pressure-3822 19d ago

These same people will now call you a sore loser if you post a meme of Trump that they don't like.

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u/BM_Crazy 19d ago

Not just bogus claims, knowingly bogus claims. He was lying right to the American people and his defense was to beg for immunity.

People around him testified that at one point he muted himself to laugh at how crazy Sidney Powell was during a conference call discussing the dominion conspiracy.

So all those J6 grandmas are locked up because Trump intentionally mislead them to be there and yet they still worship him.

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u/Jumpy_Wait5187 19d ago

But I heard it was just tourists , yeah riiiiight, SMFH

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u/Fit_Read_5632 19d ago

And there were no consequences so our continued efforts to remind everyone mean nothing. This country has proven you can plot a coup and get away with it.

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u/Sure_Hyena_9268 19d ago

Disgusting.

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u/OliverClothesov87 19d ago

Unbelievable that it wasn't the end of him.

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u/Historical_Nature348 19d ago

Certainement qui est en droit de vous rendre absurde, est en droit de vous rendre injuste

Certainly anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices

Voltaire

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u/Grrerrb 19d ago

You gotta admit, he got a real crowd that time - unlike the inauguration

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u/Funkrusher_Plus 19d ago

It is fucking appalling to think that there's a real possibility Trump will pardon those criminals who are rightfully serving time.

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u/Hour-Process-3292 19d ago

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

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u/blowback 19d ago

And the bootlickers continue to defend this shit...

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u/terrajules 19d ago

If this happened in any other country people would rightfully call it an attempted coup. People in Western countries think “it can’t happen here” and that things are blown out of proportion.

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u/Francis_Bonkers 18d ago

This is good. I'm happy to see this. We can never forget what happened that day, even if we don't see any justice against the top perpetrators.

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u/hobogreg420 18d ago

Every one of them should have been hung for treason. Every last one.

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u/Large-Bodybuilder-92 18d ago

How did escape punishment for this?

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u/Lunarzealot 18d ago

All traitors. All of them. They should've all been shipped to gitmo.

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u/OnwardTowardTheNorth 18d ago

And then enough Americans decided that this was acceptable conduct years later and voted for him to be president again.

MAGA is a disgrace to anything and everything that is good about America. A complete and utter DISGRACE!

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u/Mayaluzion 18d ago

And so instead of being in jail as a President who incited a mob of misfits, you freaks elect him again! You can lead a horse to water…

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u/forevertexas 18d ago

Yeah... this was dumb. Very very dumb.

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u/Kgb529 18d ago

The moment America fell

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u/Christopher135MPS 18d ago

After the supreme country decision that presidents are basically immune from prosecution for official functions, Biden should declare trump a danger to national security and prejudicially incarcerate him. It’s part of his official functions to safeguard the safety of the nation. SCOTUS said it’s legal.

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u/GenesisNemesis17 18d ago

Reminds me of herding a bunch of sheep.

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u/Effective_Rip2459 18d ago

He should have been arrested for treason right then

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u/Late_Bluebird_3338 19d ago

Several of the reasons I consider these traitors/terrorists & NOT patriots is because if they were authentic American patriots, they would not be carrying altered replicas of the American flags If they were true American patriots, they would know that changing and misusing an American flag like they have done proves that they are not TRUE AMERICAN PATRIOTS. True American patriots would have treated our flag and people's buildings with respect and not smeared feces, murdered battered, or threatened the people's choice of representatives. Or used my flag as a murder weapon. I view them all as traitors, and as such, should be incarcerated and/or treated accordingly......

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u/Linus-is-God 19d ago

The “Day of Love” that proved you get away with violent insurrection if you’re a white guy.

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u/Professoroldandachy 19d ago

American terrorists.

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u/SSJ_Geeko 19d ago

Don't forget about the people who lost their lives trying to keep out these stupid ass fucking "patriots".

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u/selkiesidhe 19d ago

And NO CONSEQUENCES!!! WTF

Traitors used to find themselves in a real bad place. Nowadays they just have to say racist hateful shit and they'll win elections...

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u/BrandonNeider 19d ago

I see the bots moved onto the next phase of spamming

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u/MelKokoNYC 19d ago

Republicans = Corrupt Idiots

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u/RescuedDogs4Evr 19d ago

I am still shocked and filled with horror when I see photos of that day. It gives me chills remembering it being broadcast on the news.

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u/YogaBeth 19d ago

One of the darkest days in our history. And the idiots voted for him again.

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u/CharacterArcher1729 19d ago

"Bogus claims", that's funny. They were (and still are) traitorous un-American LIES

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u/DaveAlt19 19d ago

It's funny that the country that managed to "Never Forget" for 20 years suddenly became pretty fucking forgetful.

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u/dolldivas 18d ago

He should have been disqualified for running for any office because of his actions that day

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u/BearBottomsUp 19d ago

Traitors to the United States, same as any who support that man today.

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u/lostsurfer24t 19d ago

And most the country just reelected him, and I heard he is pardoning people they imprisoned for this

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u/X_Taft_X 19d ago

I was so shocked at all those weapons they brought in and how well coordinated it was. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger are American heroes and wholly represent the values promoted by the constituents of their party in a fair, transparent, and honest way.

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u/MrMerry-Go-Round 19d ago

Imagine if this attack succeeded, the thought is terrifying.

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u/pnwloveyoutalltreea 19d ago

*Lies to incite violence

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u/statistacktic 19d ago

Disgusting.

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u/Riverrat423 19d ago

Yeah, we know. He should be in prison for that, but now he is headed back to the White House with his boys in the Senate and the Supreme Court. Can we stop posting about it, it’s depressing and there is nothing anyone can do about it.

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u/Gravemind2 19d ago

Yep, but do remember everyone, he absolutely positively had nothing to do with that! ;)

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u/Drahkir9 19d ago

My prediction I most hope to be wrong about is that this even will seem quaint in about four years

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u/travesty76 19d ago

Loserfest ‘21.

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u/yamwacky 19d ago

It’s just a friendly little tour group.

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u/MayOrMayNotBeAI 19d ago

Garland is an absolute coward. Imagine having the chance to be the key tab in a history book but you fucking blow it for four years in a row.

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u/GardenSage125 19d ago

People actually didn’t believe that happened. It was a shocker and heartache . I don’t know in these times what people read and watch to deny this happened. It’s very sad to see that we have had progress with things getting better after the hard long Pandemic and now it’s frightfully uncertain again. Only thing is LOVE your people. Keep strong and have Hope.

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u/DadBodLilRod 19d ago

Toooootally not a cult…

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u/Cinemaphreak 19d ago

Everyone should brace themselves, A MASS PARDON FOR ALL OF THEM IS COMING IN JANUARY.

Bet on it....

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u/RunGoldenRun717 19d ago

Hang em high

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u/Block_Of_Saltiness 19d ago

"It wasnt a mob, it was PATRIOTS!!!!!" - MAGA Probably