Us Senate Under Siege. What Fun.

[Paigntonian]

Trumpy supporters go ape.

[ichkeria]

Trump has finally conceded. At least declaring there’ll be an orderly transfer after “ the greatest first term in history” (!)

[tomus42]

Apparently Trump is now blocked from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat.

They're not taking any chance that he won't incite his idiot followers to more violence and insurrection.

[youngmafbog]

You really thinbk that Tomus?

I suspect all that will do is push his followers to believe they are being silenced.

I doubt this is over by a long chalk.

[ichkeria]

I think it largely IS over.
Disgracefully late.
A coup by racist bigots could easily have happened yesterday. If they’d known how easy it would be to storm the Capitol they might have planned it better and with so many guns sloshing about ...

[youngmafbog]

We shall see.

I dont think you understand how some Americans think though.

I see you are on the race card again.

[Ellipsis]

> A coup by racist bigots could easily have happened yesterday. If they’d known how easy it would be to storm the Capitol they might have planned it better and with so many guns sloshing about ...

You missed out the pipe bombs.

I was thinking along the same lines. People are saying this was unpredictable. It was not. If your purpose in life was military strategy for some terrorist organisation, you may well have seen this as a distinct possibility, and sent a few infiltrators down there with some serious weaponry. The entire Senate could have been wiped out.

[ichkeria]

Indeed Ellipsis.
It was bad enough as it was

[ichkeria]

“ I see you are on the race card again.”

I think you should wind your neck in on that one. Or you don’t think racism plays a large part in the mentality of Trump’s supporters

[needawin]

USA. World super power.
So powerful it can't even defend a Government building.
What a joke.

[youngmafbog]

I'm not going to wind my neck in because a lefty like you tells me to. Who in the hell do you think you are?

Open your eyes and see why this bloody awful situation is happening. It is not all about race.

[Untitled]

Does it taste nice when your tongue meets with donnie's shoeleather youngmafbog?

[needawin]

Trump declaring we will walk to Congress and I'll be right there with you. Then goes home.
We had our time of this in N Ireland. Ian Paisley Snr was a great man for telling the hotheads what they wanted to hear. Whipped up the crowds, encouraged violence, then retreated to the comfort of his home. Hundreds of his supporters ended up with long jail terms because of their "leader".

[ichkeria]

“ I'm not going to wind my neck in because a lefty like you tells me to. Who in the hell do you think you are? ”

Temper temper ;-)

Race has a lot to do with it. I’m not sure Trump himself is a proper racist as he’s too obsessed with himself, but his core followers are.
I think he’s finished in the Republican Party.
People were highlighting the extent to which he got the party vote out but now especially after Georgia yesterday they realise he also had a talent for getting the opposition out in even greater numbers. Trump visited Whitfield country the day before : but the Republican vote there remained static.
Meanwhile Jon Ossoff managed to beat a sitting member despite being ill at home with the virus ...

[ichkeria]

Dead right needawin. Paisley was an appalling racist too. I remember the story of him baiting some Israelis once by shouting “Germany calling Germany calling” after their car - in the style of Lord Haw Haw

[Ellipsis]

After Biden is sworn in, all of this will just settle down and soon be forgotten about ...

[Untitled]

I truly hope so ellipsis but trump now has a mob of violent people who are loyal to him, not the USA. I know hes now saying he will support an "orderly transition" but hes just saying that today and probably just to cover his backside. unless he is booted out pronto he will continue to try and subvert the result so long as he continues to insist it was fraudulent.

[tomus42]

//You really thinbk that Tomus?

I suspect all that will do is push his followers to believe they are being silenced.

I doubt this is over by a long chalk.//

I agree with you. This will probably have unpleasant and probably dangerous repercussions for years, because as you are demonstrating, the 'Orange man good' contingent just don't want to accept that their hero lost. They actually but into all the conspiracy / Qanon / election steal ullhbsit, as unbelievable as that sounds.

[tomus42]

*buy into*

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[ichkeria]

I think that is right but they are likely to be increasingly isolated. Trump will have lost a lot of his more decent supporters for good yesterday.

[Untitled]

I hope you are right ichkeria but i don't think he had many decent ones left.