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Reports of protests are overblown. A few incidents around the country, but nothing major.

5 (45.5%)

A few major incidents in capitals, but nothing much in DC.

5 (45.5%)

A major incident in DC, but nothing much around the country.

0 (0%)

More than 10 capitals have major upheavals, but nothing much in DC.

0 (0%)

A major incident in DC plus more than 10 capitals with significant upheavals.

1 (9.1%)

More than half the capitals around the country have problems with protesters, but DC is quiet.

0 (0%)

DC has major problems, while more than half the capitals around the country also have considerable trouble with protesters.

0 (0%)

Huge disruption to the day.

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 9

Voting closed: January 19, 2021, 10:49:21 PM

[facilitatorn]

If you are a republican you had better know how to cook. Trump has signed all republicans up for ground glass roulette any time they order a food delivery.

Republican owned cars are libel to have their breaks or exhausts tampered with.

It’s going to be very ugly for anyone who retains allegiance to anything rightwing for the next few years in this country. They’ll need extra smoke alarms and should keep several charged extinguishers in reach of their beds.

[facilitatorn]

http://www.salon.com/2021/01/08/trump-cant-be-trusted-to-oversee-a-peaceful-transition-of-power-he-must-be-impeached-again/

Beaten to death with a lunch tray by a valet as the secret service stands by and politely golf claps is the most fitting end to the trump presidency such as it is. 

[josh]

https://theintercept.com/2021/01/07/capitol-trump-violence-law-enforcement

Planned and executed - and ignored by law enforcement.

[facilitatorn]

http://www.salon.com/2021/01/08/donald-trump-wont-survive-this-american-carnage-of-his-own-making/

The problem with kid’s wet dreams is that on the occasions when the become realities, the wetness is always spilled blood.

[facilitatorn]

http://youtu.be/MEVTnC0Hky0

Rick Wilson, sober and clear headed, breaks it down.

[facilitatorn]

The twitter, facebook, parler, twitch, and 8chan accounts along with email, IG, snapchat and telegram, signal and any other medium every GOP staff member, office holder, bundler, lawyer, influence peddler, judge, law officer, soldier, talking head, and go between, especially those with education, not for profit, and religious status must be poured over word by word to establish complicity or innocence in the wrongful death suits not to mention the unfolding criminal matters.

[bambu.]

The GOP can rise again...but it would have to do things the bambu-ilk way.

1. Copy what the Liberal Party in Australia is doing. It's Conservative/Right wing, with a social conscience/social programs, but with a sound financial management/business/economic agenda.

Wouldn't find a better Treasurer anywhere than Josh, pictured at left.
Wouldn't find a better leader anywhere than Scott Morrison ["ScoMo"], pictured at right.

It's all there, just do that are the GOP would have a great chance of being elected to power in 2024.

https://www.liberal.org.au/

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[LarryBnDC]

Back the Blue!

Blue Lives Matter!

Except...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVZvp-Dv0gg

Pushing and shoving protesters...ridiculous.
Where were the tear gas, rubber bullets, tasers, pepper spray?
 Maybe next time.

Don't call them protestors.  They're criminal thugs bambu.  Stop the horseshit.

More of a rally than a protest

It was an act of terrorism.

[facilitatorn]

Back the Blue!

Blue Lives Matter!

Except...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVZvp-Dv0gg

Pushing and shoving protesters...ridiculous.
Where were the tear gas, rubber bullets, tasers, pepper spray?
 Maybe next time.

Don't call them protestors.  They're criminal thugs bambu.  Stop the horseshit.

More of a rally than a protest

It was an act of terrorism.

An act of terrorism with a higher American body count than Benghazi.

[bodiddley]

He brought peace to the Middle East.

Bahrain and UAE, two rather small countries who were never at war with Israel, opened diplomatic relations with IL.  A promising development which could lead to more.  (Morocco and Sudan did as well, but hey aren't really part of the ME).

Otherwise, Trump salivated over the prospect of selling more military weaponry to Saudi Arabia to help them bomb the poorest country in the ME and kill more Yemenis in the 7th year of that ongoing human disaster.
Of course war profiteering is the GOP way.

Trump did nothing to help bring peace/resolve the warfare in Syria and Libya.
The US essentially has absented itself from these wars.  In Libya I believe Turkey, Qatar, and Italy have propped up the intl recognized gov't in Tripoli, while Egypt and the Saudis/UAE are backing the general in the East.  While the most powerful country is nowhere to be seen, not even negotiating peace settlements or warning Egypt about rolling across the border.

What Trump has done is give Putin and Erdogan, two autocratic strongmen he admires, increasing power and influence in the region.  And they are about power, not peace.

And that's just talking about the active wars.  Not even getting into how the Trump Admin screwed over the Kurds and Palestinians, as that never has negative consequences down the road.

Also, reneging on the US commitment to the Iran Nuke Deal and ratcheting up punishing sanctions has led Iran to increase its nuclear enrichment and increasingly engage in provocative/dangerous behavior, whereas Obama had Iran bound into a peace deal with plenty of economic incentives.

I'd say the Trump Admin has done a shameful job of handling the ME.  Basically Trump's hands-off, America First policies has emboldened dictators such as Erdogan and the Saudis and UAE to unleash whatever destruction they prefer. 

Last few years, the Saudis continued to decimate the starving Yemenis, dismembered a Washington post journalist in Turkey, kidnapped the Prime Minister of Lebanon and forced him to resign, and held most of its elite hostage and stripped them of their wealth under extreme coercion, and blockaded Qatar threatening them with war if they didn't shut down Al Jazeera (who wants a free press?) and stop being friendly with Iran.  Very peaceful.  Very stable.  Great Trump ME policy.

[josh]

The GOP can rise again...but it would have to do things the bambu-ilk way.

How many psychologists does it take to change a lightbulb?

[josh]

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/09/asia/north-korea-nuclear-development-intl-hnk/index.html

Kim Jong Un says North Korea is developing tactical nukes, new warheads and a nuclear-powered submarine

Boy, it sure is a good thing that Trump "stood up to Nth Korea," Bambu.

[Kam]

If you are a republican you had better know how to cook. Trump has signed all republicans up for ground glass roulette any time they order a food delivery.

Republican owned cars are libel to have their breaks or exhausts tampered with.

It’s going to be very ugly for anyone who retains allegiance to anything rightwing for the next few years in this country. They’ll need extra smoke alarms and should keep several charged extinguishers in reach of their beds.

Sometimes I have no idea if you have any idea who makes up this country. 
Nothing will happen to these politicians who support Trump except 6 figure salaries for appearances on right wing media.
Who is gonna mess with them?  Democrats are lawful people.  It's the right-wing deplorables who are capable of doing what you speak of.

[josh]

[bodiddley]

A few observations on security unpreparedness:

Outside the Building:
1) if you lock the metal barricades outside the Capitol together, it's much more effective and harder to breach.  It forms a more stable barrier and the police don't have to keep yanking each one back into place, as protesters pull on them.  That is a unified metal line is more stable and secure.

2) Generally you want two sets of barriers, another say 20+ feet back, so that any who breach the first barricades enter into a no-man's land where they can be subdued/arrested.  This should also provide the police with a fall back option to smaller more defensible perimeter and time to call in reinforcements as needed.

Inside:
3) my neighbors with retractable locking metal security gates on their apartment doors have more security than the doors within the Capitol.  Did you see the makeshift barricades made of desks and chairs, behind doors with breakable glass panels?  That's how the Federal Gov't is protected?  The entrance to the Senate and House chambers should have essentially bank vault doors that can be slid into place.  Unbreachable.  What if they couldn't evacuate the joint session in time and elected officials were taken hostage, beaten, killed?  Could have happened.
Some had guns, others had tactical gear, and loads of plastic handcuffs.

4) I guess you can call it a window Ashli Babbit was attempting to climb through, as it was a smashed glass panel adjacent to a set of doors leading to a hallway filled with Congressional offices.  The doors were locked and blockaded with chairs and there were a few Capitol Police on the other side with their guns pointed.  She tried to breach the doors/barricade and enter the hallway and a Cap policeman shot her from about 6' away.  Stupid lady died for Trump and Qanon.  Just seconds before she was shot a quartet of well-armed riot police came up the stairs behind the mob there, no doubt called as backup, and were likely to stop and disperse the mob.  So things were about to get settled there when she recklessly decided to be the vanguard of the breach (to a set of offices they likely knew nothing about).