“Let’s walk down Pennsylvania avenue,” President Donald Trump ended his speech to thousands of supporters in front of the White House Wednesday, repeating an earlier call on his voters to march to the Capitol Building and demonstrate against legislators certifying Joe Biden’s electoral college victory.
Whoa: Trump supporters going at it with the police on the steps of the Capitol as Congress counts the Electoral College ballots inside
Blue lives matter. The party of law and order.
Or … one Hell of a whirlwind, being reaped on live TV.
I would say surreal. But that has been used far too many times lately. Bizarre, same thing. I think I will go with “Now ain’t that a dilly of a thang?”
Where are the Homeland Security troops using pepper spray, rubber bullets and flash grenades on this mob?
/s
Thanks to @scoutmom, the live video from the scene.
Next they’ll be wanting to defund the police.
All depends on whose ox is being gored.
Fucking Nazis.
Some.
Nice.
It’s happening. Gas is on, the cops have started pushing them back. Flashbangs and arrests. Going to get interesting.
I fear for the capitol police. Watch your backs, lads! When moving those dregs lift with your legs!
Yep…where are all the unmarked, armed enforcement folks?
Fucking lunatics inside and outside.
This is going to go on all day…we can hope that it doesn’t descend into real violence, that the protestors don’t pull out weapons and go after the police. Their intent appears to be to interrupt the Congressional proceedings, the same way things went in Michigan earlier this year.
This is also going to be the next few months, every “outrage” these assholes can come up with will turn into an event like this, on smaller scales…it’s going to be ugly times, with an unknown amount of violence on the table. Today is going to piss these people off immensely, because they are going to lose and become desperate.
Hang onto your butts…
Add this to the (long) list of Things I Never Thought I’d Live to See.
Haven’t watched the videos, but why in the hell DC didn’t gather an impenetrable force of NatGuard, Homeland Security, local police, etc to prevent such shenanigans is puzzling. If any of these nuts actually get into legislative chambers heads will roll. Like this afternoon.
Jan 20th, at 12:01pm.
Police should arrest trump for incitement to riot.
Well, between this and recent happenings, expect the Proud Trumpy Boys (incels for short) to throw away their greatest advantage - the tacit endorsement of the various police departments around the country.
The United States Capitol Police, according to their website, has 2,300 officers and civilian employees. And yes, that does include a SWAT team. If we manage to get through today sticking only with rubber bullets, I will count ourselves fortunate.
Is Trump still in the bulletproof box?
Anyone else getting logged out of TPM? Keeps happening every few seconds.
To see multiple streams from DC and around the country, check out the Twitch compilation. Eye opening
Nah. Let them in.
See if they really have the stones…
They want to be martyred