It's a clear attempt to rewrite everything that happened
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack
https://www.britannica.com/event/January-6-U-S-Capitol-attack
The White House updated its website to describe the January 6th attack
https://www.whitehouse.gov/j6/
76 Comments
Switorik@lemmy.zip · 185 pts · 220d
If we don't remove him sooner than later, we're going to have a really big problem. It's going go be too late to say I told you so and laugh about it. This is serious and everyone is just joking about how bad it is.
ExtremeDullard@piefed.social · 88 pts · 220d
Fortunately, at 80 years old and with his unhealthy lifestyle, there's a fair chance that the Grim Reaper will find it in its heart to remove this vile shitstain from the face of the Earth.
But Trump really isn't the problem. The problem is all the other Nazis in power, the corrupt Supreme Court, and the puppetmasters behind them all - the Heritage Foundation and the Federalist Society.
And of course, ultimately the blame rests squarely on a largely idiotic, gullible, racist voting public.
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 70 pts · 220d
The problem is that worldwide, Nazis have gone from fearing for their lives to emboldened
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 26 pts · 220d
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -1 pts · 219d
Do they though? Aside from a handful of them that one time? I seem to remember a bunch of them being employed by NASA
athatet@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 219d
That doesn’t change what the other user said.
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 219d
Zorque@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 219d
The reasons he's in power in the first place is because they're emboldened. He's a symptom, not a cause.
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 219d
He's both, he's a catalyst
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 6 pts · 219d
I don't really have an answer to this minidiscussion, but to me it was eye-opening to learn about the Tea Party (early 2000s) specifically, how it was sponsored by Very Rich People™, even astroturfed, how its stated goal was the infiltration of the Republican party, and how of course all their ideology and demented ranting were very much the same as what we see today.
And once my eyes were opened I started seeing it everywhere, going back in time: Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, the very questionable influencing by so-called christian churches, Big Oil deliberately making kids stupider, etc etc etc
And of course that's only the USA; I must admit I'm not so fluent in other countries, but surely we must see that assholes like Netanyahu or Orban predate Trump. There's also the Phillippines which basically experienced a Trump in 2015 iirc.
tl;dr: Trump is "only" the culmination of something that we have since dubbed "Trumpism".
D_C@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 219d
Grab the obese child rapist and guillotine its gawping head clean off would get the rest of the Nazis running for cover.
Unfortunately the people who want to do it can't get near that fat orange thing. And the people that can get near that thing are all ok with his fascist paedo bullshit.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 218d
And Putin, Dugin, Roy Cohn, and oligarchies on both sides.
village604@adultswim.fan · 15 pts · 220d
It won't stop when he's gone. Trump is a symptom, not the disease.
Switorik@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 220d
It has to start somewhere. With that attitude, why do anything?
village604@adultswim.fan · 9 pts · 220d
Because it's a mistake to think that Trump is the root cause of the issue, and if you're putting your hopes into things changing for the better once he's gone, you'll be disappointed.
But you have to properly acknowledge the scope of the problem to start working on it effectively. This is a systemic issue, not an individual one.
Switorik@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 219d
I know and I believe we need to read up on history.
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness], it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 219d
The founding fathers would agree. Much, much easier said than done, however.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 219d
"Cut off the head and two grow back"
Then just keep cutting. There aren't infinite heads.
SparroHawc@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 219d
And eventually the heads start to fear for their safety and stop poking out of their safe spaces.
LMurch@thelemmy.club · 8 pts · 219d
Let's treat the symptom and see where we end up.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 219d
We "treated the symptom" in 2020 and you can see exactly where we ended up.
Jason2357@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 218d
If he was thrown in jail after Jan 6 like a common criminal along with the rest of the mob, the Nazis would be all back in hiding now.
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 218d
You're absolutely right but the previous president decided to wait four years to even charge him, after he'd already won the '24 Republican nomination, in order to pretend like he was taking action without risking actual consequences for Trump that might prevent him from winning the election for them.
JGrffn@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 219d
As a Honduran watching all of this unfolding, seeing it directly affecting my country out of nowhere as if by some unimaginable cosmic joke, what the fuck else do we do? Rise against the empire and become a tale of failed ideologies for future generations?
The US had a fucking DECADE to do something about all this, and they didn't. That's a willful decision, and not one that anyone on earth can do something about, due to certain mutual assurances that the US made sure to have in place long before most of us were even born.
So uh yeah... I'll just keep joking about it until you fucks bomb us all to death for national security or some shit.
Scubus@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 219d
Lmao, its laughably too late for that. No one did anything about january 6th, no one did anything about his mishandling of covid, no one did anything about the various countries he has fucked over in the US' name. You need to face the facts homie: our ship is sunk. Leave while/if you can.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 219d
Because there's jack shit we can do about it. The people with the power to remove him certainly aren't on Lemmy!
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 219d
Yep, this was Biden and the democrats responsibility and they didn't do shit when they had the reigns and thanks to our shit two party system we have no other viable options. Just the gutless losers they allow on the ticket.
phx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 218d
Oh yes, totally their responsibility and not the fault of the Republicans in power now, who were the same ones that rejected the other impeachment votes. But yeah, must be on Biden...
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 218d
Yes, Biden had all the justification he needed for 4 entire years and he sat on his hands in the hopes that the justice department would do something. They didn't and he didn't do anything to make them. He the ball and holds an enormous share of the blame for this mess. Of course the fucking republicans aren't going to help, to expect otherwise is asinine.
Hapankaali@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 220d
Did I just time travel to 2015?
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 219d
Don't worry just wait til midterms... /s
Switorik@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 219d
If we make it to them, we all need to vote. This might be our last opportunity.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 219d
That is an enormous if. I'm not saying don't vote. But shit is going to get a heel of a lot worse before we get there. We can't afford to wait that long and those Dems who currently hold power need to be already taking a lot more action than they currently are to organize resistance if there is to be any hope. Unfortunately they seem to be limiting themselves to making snarky comments on social media.
Switorik@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 218d
I'm with you. What more can we do?
The dems appear to be useless and the gop seem hellbent on world war 3.
orbitz@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 219d
Youdo have a big problem, please as a country deal with it rest of the world
I assume you were joking but my reply is not (though not specific to you), please as a country deal with your malignant narcassisisc leader issue because you hold all the military might, the rest of the factions that want to deal with it really never thought you'd get this awful.
Switorik@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 219d
I'm not joking. We're not at the point of no return yet but soon will be.
The next problem we're going to have if we remove him is cleaning house. There are many corrupt officials that need to be booted out.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 219d
Unfortunately, as the Biden administration showed, Democrats don't have the stones to aggressively remove the fascist cancer even when they have the power to do so.
Switorik@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 219d
They were a let down. Our government as a whole is in a bad state.
jontree255@lemmy.world · 168 pts · 220d
Ashli Babbit was a fucking terrorist and a rube. As was everyone else attacking the Capitol that day. She was just stupid enough to get shot after a Secret Service member told her twice to stop.
Donald Trump and everyone in his cabinet is a fucking fascist.
Donald Trump lost the 2020 election but he’s too much of a baby to admit he did.
Most of the US and the world saw what happened that day and it’s our job to remind everyone that it was a fucking coup attempt.
DrFistington@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 220d
Every current and former US soldier should be fucking ready to kill over Ashi Babbit. That bitch was a fucking traitor, and every single person there on j6 should have gotten the same punishment she got.
And then Trump cheated his way back into office, posthumously made her an honorary US soldier, and gave 1 million in tax dollars to her family.
What real soldiers have to kill, die, and get maimed for, she gets for trying to overturn an election result she didn't like.
aesthelete@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 219d
Agree, but also I read a bit of her backstory (https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/22/all-day-suckers/) and it was full of things that happened due to regulatory / governmental policy failures and in a way was actually pretty tragic, just more in the "fell victim to multiple scams of various types" way rather than the "dedicated patriot who lost her life standing up for what is right" kind of way.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 123 pts · 219d
This is what America says North Korean propaganda is.
IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 219d
My local NPR radio station has been repeatedly mentioning that NPR has been creating an archive of everything they can collect about Jan 6. They’re clearly fighting the attempts to whitewash it all. The archives can be found here:
https://apps.npr.org/jan-6-archive/
Johnmannesca@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 219d
So that's why they're defunding and dismantling CPB
XeroxCool@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 219d
The officer had his gun pointed at the door window. The insurrectionists knocked out the glass. She partially climbed through, towards the drawn gun. He fired one shot. It reeks of castle doctrine, doesn't it? She fell back and the dumb fucks went QUIET, shocked the armed and aiming officer fired the gun when they breached the barrier, with one LARPer shouting "MEDIC!". Get the fuck outta here.
Wanna watch the video? I went straight to 4chan that day because I knew they'd have it. I bet they have it posted now for the anniversary. These dipshits were really in there, recording themselves, thinking they were the good guys.
Anyone got a nice projector to put up in the area?
Zoomboingding@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 219d
Yeah "shot without warning" is a blatant lie
UltraBlack@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 219d
This bullshit reads like kim jong un propaganda
mEEGal@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 219d
It's because it is
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 219d
Good work, Merrick Garland.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 219d
He did what biden hired him to do: make sure trump escaped justice long enough to run against biden again. biden knew he couldn't beat anyone else.
hatorade@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 217d
But he could beat medicare ;)
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 22 pts · 220d
It will be this mindless drivel for eternity if the American people dont drag this guy out of office. It will then be hard again as we realize a lot of the fountry supports this. America is fucken toast. Do what you can to kick her in the cunt on her way down.
Jhex@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 219d
At this point, I'm tired of asking but, are you there yet Americans?
I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 219d
Where is the 2nd amendment now, Americans. Fucking do something.
tauisgod@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 219d
The 2nd amendment was never about preventing a tyrannical government. It's always been about intimidating leftists and minorities.
aesthelete@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 219d
And about profit for gun companies.
Jarix@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 219d
No it absolutely was created to prevent a tyrannical government and has been bastardized and completely abused to do what you say.
And that's the f'n point of calling out the hypocrisy
art@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 219d
The whole world watched it unfold in 4k, in real time. We KNOW what happened that day. But who are you going to believe, the White House, or your own eyes?
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 218d
Americans are really bad about being propagandized.
A large swath just switched from "no new wars" and "FIFA peace prize" to "Lol, libs are supporting dictators now? How about that no kings stuff? Lol."
No one even had to ask them--the pivot was just natural for them.
Poojabber@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 218d
Correction: SOME Americans.... i cried on january 6th when terrorists attacked my capitol, just like I cried on 9/11 when terrorists attacked my country...
Now there are terrorists running my country, and working hard to consolidate power.... its hard not to cry every day now....
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 218d
None of us are immune to it. It is everywhere all the time and isn't just about the 6th.
jj4211@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 218d
The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 12 pts · 220d
Furbag@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 219d
Capitol police should have gunned down the whole lot of them the second they set foot inside.
The fact that even a single one of them walks free right now is a mockery of justice.
lolola@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 220d
death to them.
gilgameth@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 220d
Self-deleting spam account.
desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 219d
jesus….
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · -88 pts · 220d
I'm kind of alright with this...
Pelosi is a piece of shit and a huge problem not just for the country but the Dem party.
Being the first people to go down to show everyone else how undeniably serious this shit is, is pretty much the only way old guard neolibs are gonna be useful.
They won't fight, and they block people who would from holding their positions. So there's no benefit from them staying in office.
Maybe Pelosi being run thru a kangaroo court will make the rest of them finally realize how serious this shit is. Even if they still won't fight, they might resign and flee the country, again opening up their positions to people willing to fight.
timewarp@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 220d
Once you allow the kangaroo court to take out Pelosi it will be used against every one that doesn't fall into line. As much as you may hate her, you can't concede Democracy against people you don't like. Once you do that you don't get it back without much much pain.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 33 pts · 220d
Shit like this is how we ended up with trump in power.
nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 220d
Brain rot nonsense
ramenshaman@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 219d
People like you is why we should have people pass some sort of exam to be allowed to vote.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 13 pts · 219d
"The best way to get rid of the fascists is to let them do it! It will clean out the system!"
Did I read that right?
You understand this sounds a lot like "Drain the Swamp"? Has it worked?
I'm also remided of this quote from 2016 or 17:
"They voted for the elephant in the china shop. They did not realize that they were the china."
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 219d
Nope.
If they're going to do it to someone, it might as well be one of the people who let this happen thru inaction and refuses to fight back.
It would be much worse if he was going after people actually trying to fight back.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 1 pts · 219d
IDK. This still sounds a lot like Drain The Swamp.
Maybe you need to clarify what exactly the problem is with Pelosi specifically.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 219d
I don't need to do shit, if I had to explain myself to everyone who couldn't understand what I mean, that's all I'd ever do
If you had asked me politely to clarify, I almost definitely would have. But not like this
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 4 pts · 219d
lol, ok. I was just trying to have a dialog.
athatet@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 219d
Or you could just explain your point instead of acting like a child.