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I earnestly cannot understand what a tiny minority of people trespassing could have done to destroy anything meaningful. Our country has survived much worse. Do
by ng12 5y ago
I earnestly cannot understand what a tiny minority of people trespassing could have done to destroy anything meaningful. Our country has survived much worse. Don't forget that same building was once burned down by a hostile invading force.
- willis936 5y agoSaying "tiny minority of people" is a flaccid lie. Watch the footage and stop lying. When has the country failed to have a peaceful transition of power? When has the entirety of congress been ripped apart by a mob of a thousand extremists? When has USA survived worse?
- ng12 5y agoIt was 2,000 people. What are you referring to? My point is that the building was literally burned down and our country bounced back to the point where most people probably don't even know it happened. There's nothing sacred about the Capitol building itself or honestly the people in it. Our collective commitment to democracy doesn't exist in a physical location.
- seanw444 5y agoRipped apart? Really? Imagine the damage if BLM had been there. And don't pretend like there isn't a long history of their extensive damages. The U.S.A. has survived literally splitting itself in half, and having a war against itself. Despite a presidential assassination. I'm pretty sure people who were videoed saying "we gotta keep it peaceful guys, we have the right to peacefully assemble" after Capitol cops told them to stay civil, are not nearly has bad of a threat.
- beams_of_light 5y agoCongress was set to certify the election that day. Had the insurrection succeeded, Mike Pence likely would have been killed (remember the "hang Mike Pence" slogan?), along with Democrats in Congress. This would have allowed Trump to remain "president" indefinitely, especially because any election he wouldn't win would be "fraudulent". It was an extremely important moment for our country.
- ryan93 5y agoCongress doesn’t need to be in that building to certify. How would trump have stayed president? You just glide over that part
- willis936 5y agoIf the executive decapitates the legislative how would the executive individual stay in power?
- ModernMech 5y agoThe law says what the process is on Jan 6. It is silent as to what happens if the process on Jan 6 is disrupted. There is no law that brings them back together, so if they don’t finish their job on that day, they would have entered a Constitutional grey area, a kind of hack of the electoral process system. Trump needed such a hack because the regular order would have, and did, end with him losing power. This is why Pence refused to leave the Capitol, McConnell insisted on finishing the certification that night, and Trump’s associates were furiously calling Senators to continue delaying the certification (even after the insurrection).
- ng12 5y agoIf they had killed Mike Pence I have absolute faith they would have been thrown in jail forever and the Speaker would have taken over his duties certifying the election. If all that's standing between us and fascism/anarchy is 2,000 people choosing to walk into the Capitol we are already lost.
- ModernMech 5y agoThe duty of certifying the election falls to the President of the Senate, not Speaker of the House. It would have been up to Republicans to replace him. It’s possible in such a scenario they would have replaced him with someone who was willing to decertify the election and initiate a contested election, which would have then enabled Trump to be installed over Joe Biden.