It’s official Joe Biden becomes the 46 President of the United States.

[RichardP]

Predictably, Republicans are distancing themselves from Trump like rats from a sinking ship after Tuesday's events. Jan 20 can't come soon enough.

 

[Rich One]

Why would they? Their government allows them to enslave Philippine workers - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_trafficking_in_Kuwait

True and Palestinians as well as other imported labor from Pakistan , Korea, Etc. Children born in Kuwait of Kuwaiti parents only can be Kuwaiti Citizens . Foreign labor population is larger than Kuwaiti citizens , therefore are not allowed to vote? Laborers are dependents on the Kuwaiti that sponsored their Visa. A bad face and you are deported Have visited Kuwait a number of times.

 

[Redpossum]

No, sorry. I will never agree with anyone who supports tRump and his cult . tRump is done, but he has left hate, division, lies, conspiracy theories and rampant racism and anti semitism in his wake. Every single person who supports tRump should be ashamed. They are traitors.

Whoa, whoa. Deep breath. You're making assumptions about me that are not valid. I do not support Trump. Neither do I support Biden.

I am just trying my best to look at the situation from a neutral point of view, and analyze it the best I can.

I do agree that Trump incited those who broke into the Capitol, and that he is morally responsible, at least in part, for the consequences. He has been a terrible President, no argument there.

 

[artisans]

You will note please that I put the word "journalist" in quotation marks.
This thread doesn't have to turn into a confrontation. Just because people in the US are tearing at each other in a frenzy doesn't mean we expats have to do the same.

Said the boy who threw a match on the gasoline and ran away. Retract and apologize your rioter sympathetic post or better still - just stop posting or pretending you have an objective pov.

 

[Ruta Otto]

Whoa, whoa. Deep breath. You're making assumptions about me that are not valid. I do not support Trump. Neither do I support Biden.

I am just trying my best to look at the situation from a neutral point of view, and analyze it the best I can.

I do agree that Trump incited those who broke into the Capitol, and that he is morally responsible, at least in part, for the consequences. He has been a terrible President, no argument there.

This is not the time for neutrality.

 

[Dougie]

Redpossum - If you watch the videos with other angles of the shooting you can see clearly that the window was broken and she was climbing through it while she was shot.

Yes the police often use excessive force, but we don't know the complete situation here. There were rioters that were armed. The area she was trying to enter could have been where politicians still were and the cops were told to hold the line at all costs.

If you're part of a violent group that forcefully enters into a federal building with the some of the most powerful politicians in the world what do you expect to happen? If they were BLM or anti-war there would have been massacred before they got up the steps to the capital.

Unfortunately, politicians are going to use the incident as a pretext to take away more rights from citizens. Patriot Act 2.0. The threat of white supremacists terrorists is so grave that we must take away more rights in the name of security like they did after 9.11.

 

[mageesa]

I'm guessing you haven't seen the actual video. US media have published some confusing video that shows nothing but a bunch of heads. PressTV had the courage to publish the one video that shows the African-American guard shooting the Caucasian woman, and the race issue is probably why the US media won't show it. This whole business is being spun very hard, Aztangogirl, and it's worth asking ourselves why.

The window was cracked but intact, and she wasn't crawling anywhere; she was just standing there. She was murdered in cold blood.But look for yourself -

Video shows moment woman killed by police in US Capitol amid riot

Four Americans are killed as supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday.

www.presstv.com

And if you watch the video to the end, you see there are already cops on the victim's side of the door. Indeed most of the crowd are "journalists" with cameras and phones. This shooting was totally gratuitous and unnecessary.

I'm just visiting from the US to see the response of the expats (always curious how it's going down there, as normally I would be there this time of year); actually she was climbing into the interior window. You can see it more clearly in this video, which splices together different angles:
<https://www.thesun.ie/news/6382693/ashli-babbitt-killed-us-capitol-video/>

 

[Renzi]

I'm just visiting from the US to see the response of the expats (always curious how it's going down there, as normally I would be there this time of year); actually she was climbing into the interior window. You can see it more clearly in this video, which splices together different angles:
<https://www.thesun.ie/news/6382693/ashli-babbitt-killed-us-capitol-video/>

The video as of this evening is all over the TV. It was rather unsettling to watch it in HD on a Samsung 50." She is most definitely attemoting to rush at the police through the window, and well within the unofficial "21 foot rule." As the internet says, "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes."

 

[Wade K.]

You are wrong. A domestic terrorist was killed trespassing in our Congress. Do you have any tears for the hundreds of black and brown people killed by the police with no consequences? I doubt it. This riot, this insurrection was fomented and incited by tRump. He needs to be removed TODAY!.

Hundreds killed with no consequences? FBI stats show very few shootings of unarmed blacks and few of those were prosecuted due to corroborating witnesses. Most black murders, 90%, are committed by other blacks. The narrative that cops are intentionally killing blacks is bogus. As far as what happened Wednesday it was tragic and senseless. But it pales in comparison to the riots and looting that occurred across the country last summer with dozens killed, including some cops, thousands injured including over 1000 cops, and billions in damage. Wednesday was the boiling over of anger after four years of Trump being villified and lied about. Bogus Russian collusion narrative, bogus impeachment, bogus everything. Seriously how often do you see conservatives riot? The whole white supremacist argument is garbage. Antifa has done a lot more damage in recent years. BLM isn't much better. It's just too easy to view yourself as superior and look down on those who don't have your college credentials and make snap judgements about who they are as people. That arrogance is largely responsible for Trump winning in 2016. Doesn't require you to think at all.

 

[D.B. Cooper]

If you look up the definition of the word “Demagogue” you’ll read a description that fits Mr. Trump to a T.
Other demagogues in recent memory ?... Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and the Americans Huey Long and Senator Joe McCarthy. None of them lived to have “happy endings”. The Capitol building debacle this past week will mark the end of Mr. Trump's political career.