What do you think is likely to happen the 17th through the 20th in Washington and the 50 state capitols? An net increase or a decrease in the risk to our representative government?
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Increasing Risk
- Thread starter Sunstone
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What do you think is likely to happen the 17th through the 20th in Washington and the 50 state capitols? An net increase or a decrease in the risk to our representative government?
exchemist
Veteran Member
Decrease, relative to 6th Jan. But far from zero risk obviously.
One major reason I think the risk is lower is that the security will be a damned sight better. Another is I think quite a few of these people may have second thoughts, now that they see the popular reaction. It's not quite a the jolly joke many of them thought the first time round. A third is that Trump will not be making inflammatory speeches or sending out incendiary tweets.
Mark my words. The proof is not in your theories, but in what will play out in reality. We'll see what happens.
Audie
Veteran Member
Audie
Veteran Member
Post'm for our viewing pleasure!
Thief
Rogue Theologian
yeah right......tell me another one
Audie
Veteran Member
could you, plz? I tried from this phone but can't make it work.
I don't know what you're looking for, but here it goes....
A short one...
A long one....
Ever had a chance to study Russia in the years
before the Revolution? Byzantine doesn't even
come close to it. False flags, sure. But also,
false-false flags, false-false-false flags, and I can't
recall now if it even stopped there. Apparently,
there's good evidence to suggest that the
assassination of Tsar Nicholas was carried out by
an agent of his own government who'd been
authorized to do it in order to prove to a group of
radicals he had infiltrated that he was not
a 'cop in disguise". I guess Humans can get pretty
detached from reality sometimes. Who would have
thunk it?
Totally agree.
Audie
Veteran Member
I was referentiating the antifa riots
at trumps inauguration.
Do you remember GWB being booed at
Obama inaugural?
I'm lucky to remember my name these days.
But you must be wrong.
Liberals, BLM, Antifa....they're never hostile or violent.
Trump has lit the fire and fanned the flames. Now what's left is to win the war.
Audie
Veteran Member
Its far from so simple.
What do you think a "win" would look like?
"Pyrrhic victory" mean anything to you?
I recommend that you avoid channeling Giuliani.
"Combat", "war" & such language is inflammatory.
exchemist
Veteran Member
One thing these people will not be, if they ever get to DC in the first place, is armed, by the time they arrive. I am sure the mayor and the police will have an exclusion zone round the sensitive areas and people will be searched for weapons before they are allowed entry.
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Just to remind, this movement still has no backing from anyone with real power. Not the military, not silicon valley (see Talk Radio Giant Tells Hosts to Stop ‘Stolen Elections’ Rhetoric: Live Updates), not corporate America (see Talk Radio Giant Tells Hosts to Stop ‘Stolen Elections’ Rhetoric: Live Updates), not lawyers (see Capitol Riot Fallout Live Updates: Fallout Spreads to Sports, Universities and Businesses), and arrests are being made (see Capitol Riot Fallout Live Updates: Fallout Spreads to Sports, Universities and Businesses). That's not to say there won't be serious issues - we'll be dealing with far-right extremists and terrorists for a while - but accountability is happening and the winds are not in favor of any prolonged insurrection that will have any real success in overthrowing our democracy. That's also not to say that we're out of the proverbial woods either, but these terrorists have a heck of a mountain to climb without the backing of any real powers.
Mr Spinkles
Mr
That’s right, but that cuts both ways. For many, this means they go home.
For others, this means that next time they will be better armed. And then it really won’t be a joke.
I hear what you are saying exchemist, and I don’t disagree. But there are two sides to this coin, which in some ways is decreasing, in other ways increasing, the danger of violence.