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[–] [email protected] 185 points 7 months ago (15 children)

Which reminds me that Kevin Sorbo tried pushing for the Jan 6 insurrection and after it failed, he deleted the posts and said it was an Antifa plot to frame Donald Trump.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1bcc017d-49ea-4465-bf8e-9f21600f58b3.jpeg

Or this lol

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9e3eb388-6a35-4c70-9edb-14d328928f54.jpeg

[–] [email protected] 75 points 7 months ago (20 children)

Reminder that QAnon Shaman is running for Congress in Arizona's 8th district as a Libertarian. That doesn't exactly describe a leftist agitator.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 7 months ago (3 children)

It feels like he should be disqualified from holding office.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 7 months ago (2 children)

He should be but the 14th Amendment keeps him out only if he previously took an oath to the Constitution. You can go all out full shooting war against the federal government but as long as you weren't already elected or appointed or whatever, you're still eligible.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago

He was in the military and therefore swore an oath. He's absolutely disqualified under the 14th amendment.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That is my interpretation too. It feels wrong or at least lacking.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Now if only we could make changes to it somehow... Like amend it or something?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Jan 5th me thought doing what he did got you hanging from a rope

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You have to wonder how much of this is Sorbo's conservative brainrot and how much is being a paid conservative influencer, because this is disinformation agent type shit.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago

Probably equally both and given time he buys what he’s selling.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago

Damn, Xena dominated the shittiest Hercules ever.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The woman with Lawless in her name has more sense than the son of a god.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No Gods No Masters Only Xena

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

Well, she is a Warrior Princess.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

Lmao, took him a whole 45 minutes to flip flop. What a fuckin chode.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Dude got fucking rekt by Xena lol.

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[–] [email protected] 154 points 7 months ago (4 children)

If you had asked me January 5th what would happen if a mob tried to storm the capital and attack congress, I would have said they would be mowed down by machine gun fire.

After January 6th, I remember thinking "well shit, if people had actually showed up we really could have stormed area 51."

[–] [email protected] 135 points 7 months ago (7 children)

Y'all seem to be forgetting that the reason this was a coup attempt is because the national guard was never called in despite officials knowing of the attack.

They literally paved the way for the magats to get inside.

[–] eestileib 66 points 7 months ago (1 children)

A lot of Capitol police fought like fucking lions and are responsible for the survival of most of congress.

But there were also a few collaborators in there, make no mistake.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That one cop, I'm actually upset I forget the name of, that lead a group away from congressmen by baiting them into a trap will forever be a hero to me.

I mean acab but this guy still sets a better example than most.

[–] FellowEnt 52 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 23 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

Feels Goodman

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

Absolute legend

[–] winterayars 48 points 7 months ago

Dude was black and he just knew that mob would who aggro onto him instead of the representatives because of that. (I mean, they did, didn't they?)

Maybe it's different for Capitol Police, but for most cops being a decoy isn't a part of their job description. In that moment, he wasn't acting as a cop. He was acting as a hero.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not only were they not called in, but we all knew it was coming in advance. I refuse to beleive people on reddit knew about it but the government didn't. They should have been set up in advance with at least a bit more than they had.

But they didn't do that, and when people called for back up they were told "Lol no"

Yet if people try to peacefully protest against cops killing black people they get demonized and assaulted

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

that only happens if you are a leftie

fascists get a pass

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

It's high time the guillotine came back in fashion

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 7 months ago

Storming the capitol will get you shot with overwhelming force... just not if you're a far-right extremist - that kind of treatment is historically reserved for the leftists and minorities fighting for equal treatment.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And Babbit has been made into a right-wing martyr. Secret Service took their job seriously and fired once the house chamber itself was being actively breached. Capitol Police were in a shit position without backup, and the backlash against the whistleblowers who called out the delayed National Guard response was disgusting

[–] CaptDust 40 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Not gonna lie, I was watching horrified that police were about to do the thing on live TV. The emotions jumping between "they're just letting this happen??" and "Omg this is about to be bad" with each corridor the insurrectionists entered was too much.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago

imagine if the people storming were predominantly not white.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

Nancy Pelosi got her far left antifa friends to storm the capital wearing MAGA gear, plus the cops let them in because it was just a peaceful tour of the building.

[–] knobbysideup 19 points 7 months ago

That's what should have happened.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh it still will... if you're not right wing.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

Correct. If this was a bunch of brown people or left-wingers they'd have been mowed down before they ever got up the steps.

[–] rambling_lunatic 12 points 7 months ago

It will but only if you're a leftist.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

He's demonstrably the actual biggest loser in history, and he just got more loser-y folks... If any of you are starting to have your memories fade, here's a quick refresher to read this morning and then copy and send to your aunt karen in Missouri.

  • 0 re-elections won
  • 1 term president
  • 2 times impeached
  • 3 marriages
  • 4 inch lifts in his shoes
  • 5 kids, from 3 different mothers
  • 6 bankruptcies
  • 7 US Capitol police suing him for Jan 6 terrorist insurrection and murder of police
  • 8 trillion + dollars added to the US debt in a single term
  • 9 trump lawyers sanctioned by federal judge for lying in frivolous election fraud lawsuits and ordered to pay defendant's legal fees
  • 10 years that trump paid $0 in income taxes between 2000 and 2015. ($0 to cops, teachers, roads, prisons, disaster relief, etc)
  • 11 trump associates charged with serious crimes over the past 5 years
  • 12 million votes (the big lie) - trump claims he won the 2020 election by 12 million votes when in reality, he lost by about 7 million votes.
  • 13 of August, 2021 - one of multiple days that trump was supposed to magically become president again according to Qanon and a crack addicted pillow salesman (the two most respected information sources in the gop)
  • 14 year old girl in a youth choir that trump approached in 1992 to say, "Wow! Just think - in a couple years I'll be dating you."
  • 15 originally confirmed cases of COVID in the US trump said would soon be, “down to close to zero.” followed by, “like a miracle, it will disappear.” - over 1,000,000 Americans have since died of COVID and it continues to kill 4 years later.
  • 16 years old - age of daughter ivanka when she hosted "miss teen" pageant and, according to long time trump associate Noel Casler, "trump called her over in the middle of a rehearsal and had her give him a lap dance while he leered at the crew."
  • 17 known trump and russia investigations from local, state and federal prosecutors
  • 18 gop senators that ignored trump threats / warnings and supported Biden admin's infrastructure bill.
  • 19 as in COVID19 - trump was verified as the single largest source of disinformation on the virus, with a Cornell study claiming that 38% of the "misinformation conversation" originated with trump
  • 20 the day in January, 2021, when Biden was sworn in despite trump inciting a violent insurrection to stop election verification at the US Capitol.
  • 21 gun salute that trump ordered for himself when he left office after a humiliating defeat, even though he never served in the military, famously called military members "losers" and "suckers" and actively avoided the draft with a cowardly "bone spurs" excuse.
  • 22 date in August, 2021, when Alabama hate rally crowd booed trump for finally saying people should get vaccinated, only after 700,000 Americans have died due mostly to his failure as president
  • 23 as in wrestlemania 23 in 2007 where trump, a cartoon level failure with no other prospects, participated in a fake bet that a proxy wrestler would win a fake fight on his behalf or he would shave his wig and hair plugs off.
  • 24 day in August, 2021, when trump actually filed a lawsuit in Florida court against YouTube, a private company, demanding that they reinstate his YouTube channel like a desperate, irrelevant embarrassment with no platforms left to abuse.
  • 25 plus credible sexual assault allegations against trump, spanning decades and with accusers starting as young as 13 years old at time of assault.
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