# US Capitol under siege **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 6, 2021, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-capitol-under-siege/929830 "2021-01-06T20:27:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-capitol-under-siege/929830/21 "2021-01-06T21:23:40Z")
We need to have a healthy hatred of the entire Republican party – that is the **only** way we can move past this anytime soon. It is not enough to hate Trump supporters; I am fucking tired of the goddamned republican party. If you are a republican and you are reading this, the only way to redeem yourself as a citizen is to leave the party and toss it in the dust bin of history. There is no middle ground. Republican = traitor. Period. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-capitol-under-siege/929830/22 "2021-01-06T21:24:31Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > They contribute nothing and are a burden we can no longer carry. There, there. I realize you are under stress. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-capitol-under-siege/929830/23 "2021-01-06T21:25:18Z")
Any word on Pence’s whereabouts? Maybe Dick Cheney told him how to get to his undisclosed location. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-capitol-under-siege/929830/24 "2021-01-06T21:27:21Z")
We’ve got 5-6 injured, including shot. There are “suspicious” items around the Capitol. Are tear gas and rubber bullets too good for these folks? I hear the National Guard and other agencies (many have been mentioned) will be coming in to clear these folks. Trump and the others should be prosecuted for sedition. Protests are one thing. Storming the Capitol building is something else entirely, particularly when they are doing this to prevent the election from proceeding. This is horrifying. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-capitol-under-siege/929830/25 "2021-01-06T21:27:55Z")
Secret Service moved him. No idea where. Same with Kamala Harris. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-capitol-under-siege/929830/26 "2021-01-06T21:28:12Z")
Inciting a riot (18 U.S. Code § 2102) surely qualifies as a high crime or misdemeanor. As soon the Capitol is cleared of insurrectionists and Congress has counted the electoral votes, the House should immediately send one article of impeachment to the Senate before recessing for the day. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-capitol-under-siege/929830/27 "2021-01-06T21:29:27Z")
After the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch (in which 20 people were killed, including several police officers), Hitler was sentenced to 5 years, and served less than a year (in a very comfortable prison). If the Weimar Republic had dealt with Hitler and his putschists more firmly, maybe we would just be calling it “Germany” instead of having to call it “the Weimar Republic”. On the other side of the political spectrum, if Venezuela had dealt with Hugo Chávez more effectively after he tried to overthrow the government in a military coup, that country might not be in the state it is right now. Trump is no Hitler. He’s not even a Mussolini. But this absolutely cannot be tolerated. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-capitol-under-siege/929830/28 "2021-01-06T21:30:35Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > It’s clear we need to kick red state America out of the Union. The hell with that. We didn’t let traitors carry off part of the United States in 1861, and we sure as hell shouldn’t now. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-capitol-under-siege/929830/29 "2021-01-06T21:30:46Z")
President Dipshit just released a video which looks like it was made in advance, almost as if its need was anticipated. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-capitol-under-siege/929830/30 "2021-01-06T21:31:31Z")
Heh - [apologies.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/337) OP: do keep up. Too much shit goin on all over he place! ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-capitol-under-siege/929830/31 "2021-01-06T21:34:05Z")
Like I said before, a pocket of this trash is to be expected. But do we need entire swaths of violent, anti science bigots? We don’t. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-capitol-under-siege/929830/32 "2021-01-06T21:34:18Z")
If this were a church and Trump wanted it cleared it would have happened by now. His message was one of “You did nothing wrong, go home and stand by for further orders”. This is sedition. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-capitol-under-siege/929830/33 "2021-01-06T21:34:29Z")
Fuck you. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-capitol-under-siege/929830/34 "2021-01-06T21:39:15Z")
If these were blacks storming the Capitol, they would already bagging bodies. Red state terrorists get to go home and brag about this to their trash neighbors. America’s Taliban. ---
**Author:** ![Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mundane_super_hero/32/6304_2.png) [@Mundane\_Super\_Hero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mundane_Super_Hero)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-capitol-under-siege/929830/35 "2021-01-06T21:43:19Z")
> [@Babale](#): > > Yeah but can we afford a third world theocracy on our border? Inside our border. “It’s not a Too-mah…!” - Arnold Schwarzenegger ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-capitol-under-siege/929830/36 "2021-01-06T21:43:21Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > Fuck you. Well, thank you! I haven’t had my ashes hauled in a couple days. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-capitol-under-siege/929830/37 "2021-01-06T21:44:28Z")
Fuck you. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-capitol-under-siege/929830/38 "2021-01-06T21:45:25Z")
You gotta give me a half-hour or so. Come on! ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-capitol-under-siege/929830/39 "2021-01-06T21:46:05Z")
I know you think you’re funny. Fuck you. ---
**Author:** ![Babale](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/babale/32/15666_2.png) [@Babale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Babale)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-capitol-under-siege/929830/40 "2021-01-06T21:47:08Z")
Right now they’re a moronic voting block, left to their own devices they’d be a radical theocracy. And we’d still be dealing with state sponsored Y’all Qaeda fuckers hopping the border to commit acts of terror in the US. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-capitol-under-siege/929830.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-capitol-under-siege/929830.md?page=3)