Trump supporters storm the Capitol Building

[MikeOberly]

Really is a bummer.

Also, Parler looks like 4chan/ 8chan more than anything else.

Rep. Eric Swalwell (RepSwalwell)

[FinnegansFather]

McCarthy and Scalise face internal dissension after Capitol riot

[jpinard]

Seems like nothing ever comes of reports like this.

[MikeOberly]

Antifa spy.

There was a Wash Post article today on Ms. Babbitt. Really sounds like she was just a very unstable/ mentally ill person most of her life. Follows the pattern to the letter – if you’re a rabid MAGA, you are very likely mentally ill/ insane, or just a criminal. Reminds me a lot of those who joined up with Manson’s Family decades ago.

John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave (StrangeAlienSky)

[strummer]

I assume “Kimberly Trump” has to be a parody account.

@KimberlyTrump - Kimberly Trump

[MikeOberly]

I assume. I doubt anyone but a few ‘personalities’ puts their real name in that open sewage of a platform.

Parody or just bogus name, who knows.

[Teiman]

Do you know these guys that rescue teenagers from sects and deprogram them?

We are going to need them for 40 million americans, bois.

This is a huge problem withouth a quick or easy solution.

[jsnell]

@Woolen_Horde

Nancy Pelosi’s laptop was stolen from her office by the mob who stormed the Capitol.

Might not be as bad as it sounds, it was a conference room presentation laptop.

[sillhouette]

@vinraith

@Woolen_Horde

Nancy Pelosi’s laptop was stolen from her office by the mob who stormed the Capitol.

Well, that’s just incredibly bad. It could be in the hands of anyone from a dipshit troll to a foreign intelligence agency, so that’s super fun.

so, Rudy?

[None]

Members of Several Well-Known Hate Groups Identified at Capitol Riot

The eight men, whose movements were captured on video, were identified by ProPublica and FRONTLINE as members of the Oath Keepers, a long-standing militia group that has pledged to ignite a civil war on behalf of Trump. Members of the group joined the protesters and insurrectionists flooding into the Capitol. Footage from later in the day shows Oath Keepers dragging a wounded comrade out of the building.

Also on scene: Jason Tankersley, a former Nazi skinhead leader from Maryland, and Gabe Brown, a New Englander who helped create Anticom, a now-defunct organization devoted to physically combating leftists. In 2017, Anticom members posted a vast trove of bomb-making manuals to a private online chatroom.

After the siege, a Boogaloo Bois group called the Last Sons of Liberty, which includes militants from Virginia, posted a video to Parler purporting to document their role in the incident — a clip that shows members inside the Capitol. A loose-knit confederation of anti-government militants, the Boogaloo Bois have been tied to a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and to the murder of two law enforcement officers in California. ProPublica and FRONTLINE have been unable to independently confirm their involvement.

[vinraith]

@sillhouette

so, Rudy?

We should be so lucky, I’m totally confident that Rudy wouldn’t know how to turn it on.

[MikeOberly]

DJT’s base.

[antlers]

I believe this is a term-of-art in the DC security community, referring to demonstrations that must be permitted because of the First Amendment. Like, they’d prefer never to allow big crowds to form near the White House or Capitol but must because of 1A

[Misguided]

As far as whether or not what happened the other day should be described as terrorism, I think the only reason we are having that discussion is because of a lack of organization and competence on the part of the perpetrators. They need to be punished and a message needs to be sent.

Unfortunately, That isn’t going to change the fact that many people in our country have been radicalized and Trump has normalized expressing their views openly. It feels like the country is heading toward powder keg status. How this is managed could be the difference in how we look back on that day, whether as the start of something or the butt of a joke.

[jpinard]

Did Trump’s healthcare plan get released yet? Still eagerly waiting for it.

[MikeOberly]

Two weeks. And it will be a full and complete healthcare plan.

[scottagibson]

@Misguided

How this is managed could be the difference in how we look back on that day, whether as the start of something or the butt of a joke.

I think the problem here is that so much of the power to determine the outcome is in the hands of the GOP. If they double down on people like Hawley or Cruz or some of the numbskulls in the House, then the crazies are going to continue to be encouraged and the craziness normalized. If on the other hand the torch gets passed to the blander types like Romney or Sasse, then the crazies are eventually going to get bored and go back to whatever they were doing before Trump gave them explicit permission to act out. Given the electoral balance, they’ll probably do the former, because the latter probably means a generation out of power.

[Misguided]

Yeah. If the GOP refuses to discipline those folks, and if they continue to have their faces plastered all over the TV spewing venom, hard to see how the situation improves.

[MikeOberly]

Accurate.

LOLGOP (LOLGOP)

[ShivaX]

@pyrhic

and thanks to that tweet, everyone who read it now knows how to make it.

Everyone who wanted to know already knew, trust me.

Signed a guy who has known since he was 6 and learned from his father.