This is the problem, "The fact that you say x (or rather what I have understood as x) means y". Classic 2+2=5. Good luck healing the nation with that attitude!

x - I have not "defended" President Trump, just given my explanation as to how the situation has gotten to the point is at.
y - defending Donald Trump doesn't automatically make someone "delusional" or of low principles.

Whatever happened there it will take years or decades to repair the image USA has these days. Cui prodest?

What a load of bullshit.

You sound like someone who turned the telly on when the Capitol was already occupied and it all looked quite calm. You must have missed the things leading up to this, the rally in the morning where Trump and his henchmen called for revenge on the Republicans confirming Biden and not so peaceful pictures when people stormed the Capitol.

That Capitol Police look awful here is another story.

You are nothing more than a very accomplished troll. Your arguments have no substance, they do not reflect facts, you just constantly engage in attention-seeking and look to court controversy. The majority of us see straight through your superficial BS Tony and it's time you realised that.

I switched over to CNN last night and they had a 9/11 nation under attack theme which seemed a gross exaggeration for what it was. Sure the reputational damage is immense, but this is a President who continues to plumb new depths of awfulness so not really surprising.

How would you know? You just call everyone who doesn't agree with you delusional or a psychopath. Probably the result of an inability to argue your point.

Agree. But as much as I dislike Trump, it's only reasonable to say that Mr. Imbecile couldn't have possibly created these mobs. He only fanned the flames of something that's been there all along. The nationalists waving union flags, the racists, the white supremacists...they've all been there since Jim Crow and before that. They never disappeared. Trump merely profited from them one time around, and he paid the price with the moderate conservatives, who didn't support a second term. His fanning the flames certainly "activated" a few more of his so-called "base", which explains how he raked even more net votes than in 2016. But it stirred the undecided, to bring a record-shattering net vote for Biden.

My point is: the US has an alarmingly high number of "deplorables". Trump only made them visible, perhaps emboldened them a bit. THAT will take many years to heal.

Want to hear some "irony"? Turkey sent a message to their citizens living in the US, saying:

As Clarissa Ward, CNN correspondent said to Jake Tapper last night: "This is exactly the kind of language that we're used to reading in a US press-release to American citizens who might be in a city in the Middle East during a crisis or a riot of this nature. It is astonishing to see this sort of language being used by a country like Turkey warning its citizens of walking around the US Capitol".

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The internet makes it easy to be a jerk and forget the person we're talking to is a human. It also makes us see messages from awful people and assume they come from normal peers.

Thank you .. You help make my point..

There was a whole day, weeks, months leading up to this, people even wore t-shirts with the date on it, it was not a surprise.
The fact that these nutters could take over the capitol building is what? They were super professional? Umm really cleaver? or what, they were allowed to do it for effect?
The media of course directly blame trump for it but jeezus, could somebody else not have defended the place on such an historic day. It's just bizarre..

This is not a trump supporting thing, I couldn't care less who rides in airforce one, it's pointing out the obvious that it all stinks.

Now that is masterful trolling at a level to which even EF's most accomplished troll can only aspire!

Me? Or Turkey?

So, has the fat lady sung yet?

Tom

Yeah Trump has apparently said he'll agree to an orderly transition

Colbert nails it again

https://fb.watch/2SCMEwTdj_/

The threat to democracy isn't in what they did yesterday. The threat to democracy is in Trump's denial of having lost the election and his persistent encouragement of his supporters' belief in his delusions that the election results are invalid... even going so far as to pressure Pence and other Republicans to back him to try to overturn the election results.

But you can try to downplay the events of yesterday all you want. That doesn't change what happened. But clearly you think it's fine for Trump supporters to assault police officers and break into the Capitol building during a Congressional session, forcing that session to be brought to an end and all Congress members to be evacuated.

I'm willing to bet both my kidneys that if it was Biden supporters doing that, people like yourself and other Trump supporters would be calling them out on it.

just wonder what the thin one will do next? Won't be easy to run with those shoes on, but ...

I understand the first point, and agree with it. Once the allegations of electoral fraud had been disproven the Donald Trump should have conceded.

As the truth and facts matter to many on this forum, please point to an example where I've said it's "fine" for Trump supporters to assault police?

It certainly looked like 'the powers that be' did not want a pitched battle with people being shot on the steps of Capitol Hill.
Once the protesters started to disperse (ie; they had finished the protest and made their point), they were hurried along in a show of law and order.
Tactics that are used by security forces all over the globe.
JohnH is absolutely right, this was allowed to happen.

Well considering that Trump himself requested that the protestors do this, and then that he controls the security, then it's a pretty safe bet that instructions were given and allowances were made.

Not only this is supposed to be the most secure building on Earth, but at the time of the break-in almost all of the US government was present on site and had to be evacuated.

Rumors are that Xi has already offered to send 250 000 Chinese peacekeepers to Washington to help restoring the order