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anneboleyn

(5,611 posts)
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 11:41 AM Mar 2017

Shots fired by Parliament: idea of Trump in office fills me with fear.UK Parliament/Big Ben Lockdown

This incident outside parliament looks very serious -- someone ran a car into a barrier and either stabbed or shot others in an attempt to either strike or terrify British gov -- Theresa May was VERY CLOSE and was rushed out of parliament and into a waiting car. Folks, the idea that the idiot, the Russian traitor is in POWER when an incident like this happens, that anyone would look to him for comfort, and that Putin has TOTAL CONTROL over these assholes terrifies me.

I was angry at Bush. But Trump terrifies me -- he is totally incompetent and he is beholden to Putin!! He didn't even comment on this incident when the cameras were on him. Hillary would have spoken at least a few words. Trump looked like a petulant dick, pouting as usual. Not one kind word for our best friend?! Trump said "something happened" in London. No other words of comfort or grace.

Update (CNN 11:45am EDT 3:45 GMT): DOZENS INJURED. The gov IS REFERRING TO THIS AS A TERRORIST INCIDENT. No suspect (or the person who was shot) have been identified yet. I have never heard British people so upset, even after the bombing on the Tube on 07/07/05. Witnesses are saying there were bodies "everywhere" on Westminster Bridge (it looks like there are bodies on the ground) -- the reporting is very sketchy so it is hard to figure out. I think someone crashed a car into people and then into the steel barriers that surround the gov buildings. A police officer was stabbed, and it is believed the person who stabbed the officer was shot by police. I have been in this area so many times that this is very sad and surreal to me.


I hate that the Orange Ass is sitting on his butt in the White House. Christiane Amanpour is on saying British security is way up. It has been one year since the Brussels attack.

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Shots fired by Parliament: idea of Trump in office fills me with fear.UK Parliament/Big Ben Lockdown (Original Post) anneboleyn Mar 2017 OP
It scares me too get the red out Mar 2017 #1
I've been there so many times. God, they are saying many bodies on bridge -- many dead anneboleyn Mar 2017 #4
OH SHIT NO!!!!! get the red out Mar 2017 #5
Try to find a way past the fear. I keep imagining our Intel doing a lot behind the scenes KittyWampus Mar 2017 #2
This incident will be used as an excuse for the rightwing leaders here and elsewhere Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #3
Yes get the red out Mar 2017 #6
Guaranteed Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #7
Trump looked like a total ass when the cameras went to him. Incompetent - dangerously so. anneboleyn Mar 2017 #10
Are they muslims? Jonny Appleseed Mar 2017 #8
This message was self-deleted by its author Kittycow Mar 2017 #9
 

KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)
2. Try to find a way past the fear. I keep imagining our Intel doing a lot behind the scenes
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 11:43 AM
Mar 2017

monitoring these lizard-people and hopefully keeping a handle on things.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
3. This incident will be used as an excuse for the rightwing leaders here and elsewhere
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 11:44 AM
Mar 2017

to go to war everywhere, criminalize existence of brown people and Muslims etc.

 

Jonny Appleseed

(960 posts)
8. Are they muslims?
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 11:51 AM
Mar 2017

Well even so, the fact that it didn't happen here shows that our "vetting" process is working just fine aintit?

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