Thread by @absurdistwords

Trump is sending in the National Guard to deal with the Trump mob assault on the Capitol.

And no. These are not protestors. This is a group specifically encouraged by the Executive Branch to attack the Legislative Branch.

These are agents of the President.

Trump is actually attempting to play both sides of this.

He sent white supremacists to disrupt the certification of the President and now hopes on the other end to position himself as savior, as long as nobody notices the giant Trump flags...

Trump's mob is now being directed to disperse when the National Guard arrives and to instead attack news outlets and journalists.

Notice how fucking silent the GOP is right now.

Remember that right now Trump's mob is attacking the Capitol and that the GOP members of Congress who WORK THERE are silent.

Dead silent.

Do not forget the silence.

Do not forget that this began as the GOP was deliberately and intentionally using rhetoric on the floor of Congress to incite this very reaction.

Let it set in that the House GOP WANTED this to happen
They advocated and aided and abetted an assault on their own institution.

They knew this was coming
They were willing to endanger the lives of their own colleagues not even to steal an election... just as a fundraising stunt

This is a group of the most dangerous humans on earth.

Angry entitled violent white men.

What Trump is doing with this action is demonstrating what his operating modality will be out of office.

This isn't going away.

Right now, the President is supposed to be quelling the protest.

Instead he is reinforcing the very conspiracy theories that brought the mob to the Capitol.

He is inciting the mob from the White House.

Trump just put out a video to his mob that says essentially "Go home (wink wink)"

The danger here isn't that a wannabe dictator on his way out the door is doing this.

The danger is that the party of people who will continue working in the capitol APPROVE of him doing this.

People waving the President's flag have had the legislative branch under siege for HOURS.

The President has proven that there is no line that is too far.

And half of Congress thinks this is FINE.

Also, do not forget the law enforcement restraint you see right now.

There is nothing like watching police deployed on a violent mob waving Blue Lives Matter flags.

The absurdity is endless.

This is the most real life Twin Spidey meme ever.

The police are currently talking publicly about "Regaining control of the Capitol"

The US Government lost control of the US Capitol to loyalists of the outgoing President.

That is what is going on.

Congress has been overtaken by loyalists of the President.

I'm saying this again because 2020 ruined all perspective.

Congress has been overtaken by loyalists of the President.

Nothing has been done for HOURS.

In every anti-Police protest in the past year... police in riot gear and tanks have been on the ready, deployed within the hour.

And this is in the fucking HOOD.

But in the literal center of US Government.

No mobilization of anything for HOURS.

This is literally the most predictable action EVER.

It might have well have been advertised in the papers.

And yet nothing.

But shoot an unarmed Black kid and there's battalions on the ready for the fucking FUNERAL.

Irony?

Both side of this mess, the police and the mob are the same folks responsible for the majority of violence at protests for Black lives.