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« on: April 20, 2021, 01:54:58 PM »

That just blows my mind. Especially considering how many basically doxxed themselves or posted on social media evidence against them under their real names. And they thought they could just go home like it was a film festival or comic convention.

There's a video I saw of a woman crying in an airport after she was denied boarding her flight because she was added to the "no fly" list. Like what did she expect? Maybe not it happening that fast but being arrested by the FBI at home isn't pleasant either. Or that West Virginia Delegate guy. Did he seriously think everyone would just shrug over his actions there that he openly livestreamed?

It really makes no sense. It's akin to robbing a bank and then making public Facebook posts bragging about it and showing you with what you robbed.
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« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2021, 01:57:14 PM »

There wasn't "thinking" involved
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« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2021, 01:58:00 PM »

They’re idiots, not much more complicated than that.
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« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2021, 02:01:05 PM »

Because President 'God-Emperor' had literally told them to do it.
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« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2021, 02:01:31 PM »

They thought they would seize the Capitol, force Trump to declared the winner, and then be given a full pardon by their glorious leader. They're morons, but that's to be expected from Trumpists.
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« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2021, 02:07:04 PM »

Treason that succeeds in its objective of overthrowing a lawful government or unlawfully extending a once-legitimate government is always legitimized after the fact.
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« Reply #6 on: April 20, 2021, 02:23:42 PM »

They are whites, you see.
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« Reply #7 on: April 20, 2021, 02:30:12 PM »

That just blows my mind. Especially considering how many basically doxxed themselves or posted on social media evidence against them under their real names. And they thought they could just go home like it was a film festival or comic convention.

There's a video I saw of a woman crying in an airport after she was denied boarding her flight because she was added to the "no fly" list. Like what did she expect? Maybe not it happening that fast but being arrested by the FBI at home isn't pleasant either. Or that West Virginia Delegate guy. Did he seriously think everyone would just shrug over his actions there that he openly livestreamed?

It really makes no sense. It's akin to robbing a bank and then making public Facebook posts bragging about it and showing you with what you robbed.

Riots doesn't think they act.
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« Reply #8 on: April 20, 2021, 02:37:52 PM »

They sincerely believed they would be successful or that the police would be on their side
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« Reply #9 on: April 20, 2021, 02:39:52 PM »

The anonymity of the mob.  Up until very recently it was sufficient defense.
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« Reply #10 on: April 20, 2021, 02:43:23 PM »

They were dazzled by the power of the crowd (strength in somewhat organised numbers), and assumed that power would persist beyond the march. Unfortunately for them, the tie that bound them together was a cult of personality around an unreliable joker who left them to rot, and the demoralisation of that betrayal probably shattered whatever collective power they had left.
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« Reply #11 on: April 20, 2021, 02:49:52 PM »
« Edited: April 20, 2021, 02:58:45 PM by President Johnson »

They didn't think or actually expected their dear God Emperor would succeed with the coup and give them a total pardon for "saving the republic".
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« Reply #12 on: April 20, 2021, 02:51:55 PM »

 They will. Their punishments won't be proportionate to their acts or the same if it had been "The Million Man March" storming The Capitol.
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« Reply #13 on: April 20, 2021, 02:54:21 PM »

They thought it would end like when various anti-masker groups stormed state houses.
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« Reply #14 on: April 20, 2021, 02:56:28 PM »


In all honesty, there is some truth to this.
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« Reply #15 on: April 20, 2021, 03:02:45 PM »

They were convinced there was so much happening behind the scenes in their favor that nobody was seeing. That they'd go into the House chamber and find a notebook saying "We stole the election. Trump won by a lot! xoxo Nancy" They thought the Capitol police were fellow travelers who would take up arms to hold Pence at gunpoint to overturn the election. They thought Trump would swoop in and direct them like a squad leader in battle. They thought they'd find the Senate in session cowering and pleading for mercy, that they were all thieves and of course Trump was the real president. I mean, it's not like Trump is just going to sit back at the White House with a Coke and watch them get shot.


Basically this:


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« Reply #16 on: April 20, 2021, 04:21:37 PM »

Because Cruz and Hawley participated in the Insurrectionists, that's why Johnson said QAnon was a well behaved party., He will lose in ,2022

McConnell won't expel Cruz and Hawley thanks to Graham friendship with them, there is no accountability, that's why 2022/24/26 will go bad for Rs they will never be the Majority party along with Inhofe denial of Wildfires being caused by oil drilling in the Gulf causes droughts on the Pacific

We are in a drought now
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« Reply #17 on: April 20, 2021, 04:30:59 PM »

It's a coup attempt. Historically if you didn't succeed(not in America for say), you get lined up against a wall or a a ditch and be permanently dealt away with
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« Reply #18 on: April 20, 2021, 04:33:57 PM »

The anonymity of the mob.  Up until very recently it was sufficient defense.

Except they refused to wear masks even though it's now commonly accepted practice and posted selfies on Facebook and Instagram. Clearly they were not going for anonymity.

As an aside I remember on the news they kept talking about pipe bombs set at the DNC and RNC on Jan. 6. The person on video performing the act had the good sense to wear a mask and as far as I know they're still at large.
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« Reply #19 on: April 20, 2021, 04:40:26 PM »

"Capitol rioters" and "think" shouldn't be used in the same book, much less the same sentence.
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« Reply #20 on: April 20, 2021, 05:03:21 PM »

The anonymity of the mob.  Up until very recently it was sufficient defense.

Except they refused to wear masks even though it's now commonly accepted practice and posted selfies on Facebook and Instagram. Clearly they were not going for anonymity.

As an aside I remember on the news they kept talking about pipe bombs set at the DNC and RNC on Jan. 6. The person on video performing the act had the good sense to wear a mask and as far as I know they're still at large.

They are, and it's not for lack of investigation. The only real lead the FBI has reported is that they figured out the person was wearing a particular kind of Nike shoe.
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« Reply #21 on: April 20, 2021, 05:06:44 PM »

White privilege.
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« Reply #22 on: April 20, 2021, 05:11:43 PM »

Cruz wants to censure Waters, what a hypocrite, he assisted in mounting an Insurrection
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« Reply #23 on: April 20, 2021, 05:43:40 PM »

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« Reply #24 on: April 20, 2021, 06:34:35 PM »


I agree. White privilege expects automatically to be at the top of the heap. And should always be there. It's nothing to even think about.

I guess that mindset has been busted wide open now.
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