Thread by @originalspin

As the FBI asks Twitter for help finding the 1200 people who took selfies while storming the Capitol and DC police claim there was “no intelligence” pointing to violent insurrection, it’s worth considering just how close we were to DESIGNATED SURVIVOR becoming a documentary.

Every hostile nation on earth saw how easy it was for half-naked Chewbacca cosplayers and clinically obese Civil War reenactors to overrun what’s supposed to be one of the most secure buildings in our government—with the VP and a full joint session of Congress in progress.

The key is obviously that an assault on our government needs to be done by people with white faces. Nonwhite invaders would have been shot before they got to the Capitol steps.

If I’m ISIS or North Korea, I’m sliding into militia group DMs right now.

“No intelligence that this would happen”?

These guys were planning this in the open. They printed t-shirts. They HELD A RALLY THE DAY BEFORE.

And they effectively conducted a trial run back in May, when a similar crowd overran the Michigan state house carrying AR-15s.

There need to be mass arrests, and people need to go to jail. Not for misdemeanor trespassing or vandalism, either: For insurrection. And ringleaders, who kindly identified themselves publicly in many cases, need to be charged with seditious conspiracy.
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White supremacy is America’s biggest blind spot because when you’re swimming in the ocean, you don’t see water. If these insurrectionists aren’t prosecuted swiftly, fairly and thoroughly, with major consequences, we’ll see more and deadlier occurrences like this in years to come.