Wow. I deliberately haven’t watched many of the videos from the 6th (not even much of the mainstream coverage here in the UK), simply because the facepalm is too strong.
But browsing a few faces and watching the associated clips on the Faces of the Riot site… holy crap. One shows a stream of ‘gentlemen’ exiting the capitol, 'USA’ing and high fiving and all I’m thinking as I count them out is “you’re going to jail… you’re going to jail… you’re going to jail… and oh, even you with the full face mask will be going to jail, because you have your cellphone turned on!” Opsec? they’ve heard of it…
As has been said here many times, play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Meh. I’m kinda bummed I used my last “free article” to read that.
Summary: the new occupants take standard COVID-19 precautions and quietly set about doing their jobs.
I thought there’d be more about the mess left behind to clean up. Which also would’ve been a waste of my last free article for the month, but at least a little more entertaining, in that gory horror film way.
Pity that the DoJ is apparently now considering letting a bunch of them off without charges. “UGH! Do you have any idea how much paperwork would be involved if we charged every single person who broke into the Capitol building as part of a bloody attempted coup?”
felony rioting was the charge given to dc black lives matter protestors. not to mention that the feds have usurped local law enforcement decisions in oregon to charge protestors on questionable evidence
i don’t know. i’m all for impeaching every president who tried to overturn an election and sicced their supporters on congress in attempted coup. i don’t even care if they were democrats or republicans!
“If it is a good idea to impeach and try former presidents, what about former Democratic presidents when Republicans get the majority in 2022?”
They will try this, if they have a chance in hell of pulling it off. They actually don’t need an excuse, they will take any bullshit excuse they think they can ram through.
