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Artorias

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trenchfoot

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Those rioters were symbolically protected by Trump via his encouragement and endorsement of that "protest" turned insurrection/riot.

In that sense, I can see where a lax attitude toward security was taken seeing as if it had a stamp of approval from the President of the United States himself. This along with the attitude and understanding of the rioters that they had the express permission and encouragement of their president to interpret and act on his approval in any way they saw fit of which in large part was to support their president by relieving their angst by "patriotically" taking over the Capitol in an overwhelming show of force.

As well, there were opportunists within the mob who had their own agendas of which had nothing to do with supporting their president. Herd mentality is also a fickle thing and starting a stampede doesn't take much encouragement of which I think also contributed to the chaos at the Capitol.
 

Zorba

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Likely logistics. You don't arrest thousands of people easily with limited resources available. Or it might get much worse. Everyone calling the leo's cowards probably have never faced down a situation like that.
I also love the exact same excuse that is used for killing black people is used as an excuse to not kill white people.

"It's so stressful, I'm so at risk, you don't understand."
 

gothuevos

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Those rioters were symbolically protected by Trump via his encouragement and endorsement of that "protest" turned insurrection/riot.

In that sense, I can see where a lax attitude toward security was taken seeing as if it had a stamp of approval from the President of the United States himself. This along with the attitude and understanding of the rioters that they had the express permission and encouragement of their president to interpret and act on his approval in any way they saw fit of which in large part was to support their president by relieving their angst by "patriotically" taking over the Capitol in an overwhelming show of force.

As well, there were opportunists within the mob who had their own agendas of which had nothing to do with supporting their president. Herd mentality is also a fickle thing and starting a stampede doesn't take much encouragement of which I think also contributed to the chaos at the Capitol.

I dunno. I think we have a major problem here.

How many sympathizers do they have within law enforcement and the military? 50%?

Heck, even 25% might be enough to at least cause mass casualties or even topple the government. This is going to be a recurring event, I'm afraid.
 
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Grey_Beard

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I think we need a new “Bye” RIP/In Memoriam thread for this guy:


Don't let the image fool you. This is a soft man baby, who wouldn't know anything about hard work, hardship or what freedom and liberty actually is.

WW2 veterans are rolling in their graves. What the fuck happened to America.

Seems like children playing G.I. Joe. Unfortunately, out of the imaginary world, reality is harsher and much less forgiving. I wonder if the life insurance company will be paying out the benefits? I would suspect they won’t be.
 

UNCjigga

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Seems like children playing G.I. Joe. Unfortunately, out of the imaginary world, reality is harsher and much less forgiving. I wonder if the life insurance company will be paying out the benefits? I would suspect they won’t be.

I would imagine a heart attack induced by frying your nuts off with a taser while committing treason is one of those “act of God” type things.
 
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Grooveriding

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What a sad state of affairs. I don't think this will be the end of it. The nuts are still out there, radicalized and angry. Lock them all up. Trump better be arrested after leaving office. Not doing so after this would send an awful message.
 

Grey_Beard

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Slowly but surely the mob Trump and the GOP fed fistfuls of lies to is turning on them when it all falls apart.


How are these folks allowed to fly? I guess this will be their last. Soon be arrested on domestic terrorism charges that mandate being added to the No Fly List. Just imagine how much better flying will be after this pandemic. Not having these imbeciles on flights. I would take a loud crying baby over these fools on any flight. I might harass them if I see one.
 
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shortylickens

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PSA: A Serpa holster means the person in question is NOT a trained professional.
It means they are an amateur who reads tacticool websites and doesnt actually know what he's doing.
 

Grey_Beard

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Trump tried a grassroots coup. According to Ben Sasse Trump watched it unfold and "was delighted." Confused why others weren't happy.

Trump the Traitor wanted to see dead politicians

I, for one, am not surprised and was thinking this while the enemy’s were unfolding

From the article:

“I don’t have any idea what was in his heart about what he wanted to happen once they were in the Capitol, but he wanted there to be chaos,” Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) said, during an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt Friday morning.

“And I’m sure you’ve also had conversations with other senior White House officials, as I have,” Sasse continued. “As this was unfolding on television, Donald Trump was walking around the White House confused about why other people on his team weren’t as excited as he was as you had rioters pushing against Capitol Police trying to get into the building.”
 

SMOGZINN

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What a sad state of affairs. I don't think this will be the end of it. The nuts are still out there, radicalized and angry. Lock them all up. Trump better be arrested after leaving office. Not doing so after this would send an awful message.

We Americans are freedom-loving people and nothing says freedom like getting away with it
We went from Billy the Kid to Richard Nixon, Enron, X-on, O.J. Simpson...
We used to dream about heroes, but now it's just how to beat the system
 

Hail The Brain Slug

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PSA: A Serpa holster means the person in question is NOT a trained professional.
It means they are an amateur who reads tacticool websites and doesnt actually know what he's doing.

Regardless of how trained he was, he clearly came prepared with the means and arguably the motive to take hostages or worse.
 

shortylickens

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Regardless of how trained he was, he clearly came prepared with the means and arguably the motive to take hostages or worse.
Yeah but you can do that in speedos and a fishnet tank top.
You dont need to be tacticool to commit treason.
My point is the media likes to make a big deal about how people dress and what kind of toys they carry because it makes the news more interesting.
It doesnt matter. The people who ruin this country will be dressed super casual.
 
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