Thread by @shailjapatel

It wasn't just the federal Capitol in Washington DC that Nazis attacked yesterday. They attacked state Capitols in Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota, Texas, Oregon, and Colorado. They attacked federal buildings in LA.

thedailybeast.com/local-maga-mob…

Imagine how many new members Nazi movements recruited yesterday. Both in the U.S. and across the world.

Is this your ragtag mob?

When 147 Members of Congress publicly endorse armed attack on federal and state government, and use their taxpayer-funded offices to overturn legitimate election results, that's not insurrection. It's civil war.

nytimes.com/interactive/20…

"As liberals offered insulting platitudes about “banana republics,” Bolivian president Evo Morales tweeted a message of solidarity to the American people: “The Trump government has attempted an auto-coup to stay in power. The same as they do in Bolivia...”
tribunemag.co.uk/2021/01/after-…

After yesterday, the term moderate Republican is as ludicrous as moderate Nazi. The only moral course of action for Republican lawmakers is to leave the party.

https://twitter.com/RoyaTheWriter/status/1347181249983614979?s=20

The police were not unprepared, overwhelmed, caught off guard. The police were complicit, sympathetic, and enabling. In the next round of Nazi attacks on the U.S. government, the police will be participating.

https://twitter.com/ChipMitchell1/status/1347207462097715200?s=20

"they were voicing frustration"

https://twitter.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1347278200884363266?s=20

"Jo Rae Perkins, prominent QAnon adherent who ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 2020, and Angelita Sanchez, spokeswoman for Timber Unity who was recently elected to the Sweet Home, Ore., City Council, attended the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol"

wweek.com/news/2021/01/0…

"Trump retains considerable support among congressional Republicans. Shamefully, even after Wednesday’s insurrection, 139 representatives and eight senators backed Trump’s efforts to overturn the will of the voters in Arizona and Pennsylvania."
usatoday.com/story/opinion/…

Fiona Hill, Trump’s former top Russia adviser: “The president was trying to stage a coup. [ ] This could have turned into a full blown coup had he had any of those key institutions following him. Just because it didn’t succeed doesn’t mean it wasn’t real.”
thedailybeast.com/after-capitol-…

"One current Metro D.C. police officer said in a public Facebook post that off-duty police officers and members of the military, who were among the rioters, flashed their badges and I.D. cards as they attempted to overrun the building."
politico.com/news/2021/01/0…

"There is no requirement for extended hearings or debates when the high crimes and misdemeanors have taken place in plain sight, and when the threat of further abuses remains all too real. Members of the two chambers can fill in the blanks..."
thenation.com/article/politi…

"The guys were carrying flex cuffs, the plastic double restraints often used by police [and] kitted out in full paramilitary regalia: helmets, armor, camo, holsters with sidearms. At least one had a semi-automatic rifle and 11 Molotov cocktails." -@dankois
slate.com/news-and-polit…

"This was a trial run for a self-coup that could very well be tried in the future. An overwhelming majority of the GOP representatives in the house spent the day in lock-down and came back and promptly voted to overturn the election." - @zeynep
zeynep.substack.com/p/so-what-abou…