It could have been worse.
More footage from inside the #Capitol today. I believe we were the first crew inside for some time. Had a first hand view of the chaos and the fury @itvnews pic.twitter.com/nyZtoc4IP3
— Sophie Alexander (@SophieAlex1) January 6, 2021
When Sen. James Lankford was speaking and an aide informed him that so-called protesters had entered the building, that announcement could have come in a flurry of gun shots. After all, it’s not hard to imagine that the majority of the rioters were armed.
#BREAKING: Senators pause Electoral College debate amid Capitol Hill protests.
Aide to Sen. James Lankford: "Protesters are in the building." pic.twitter.com/GNOCrtpAuN
— The Hill (@thehill) January 6, 2021
If this many people had charged the capital with guns blazing, the capital police would not have stood a chance.
Once they’d achieved that, the insurrectionists’ plans seem fairly obvious:
They came with zip ties to do in DC what they could not do in Michigan. And once they zip-tied them, we all know they wouldn’t have been content with just this:
Or this.
Or even this.
No, they had different things in mind.
Everyone who incited this needs to face justice. We need to see Rudy Guiliani standing before a judge.
The president’s lawyer, earlier today: “Let’s have trial by combat” pic.twitter.com/DxQDX4JIGs
— Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) January 6, 2021
Josh Hawley needs to be removed from the senate.
And Donald Trump should be impeached and convicted immediately in order to prevent him from running for federal office again.
That anyone needs even to consider the validity of these last three statements — let alone the fact that millions would dispute them, and some violently — shows the hole into which America has fallen.
That anyone would ever consider voting Republican again shows the hole into which America has fallen.
That (to my knowledge) not a single person was arrested for this immediately shows the hole into which America has fallen.
That almost every single inhabitant in America is not out marching in the streets, shouting these things in a deafening roar, shows the hole into which American has fallen.
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