I get the sense that the White House has absolutely no clue the extent to which the mob riot at the Capitol has shaken the city and the country to the core. No clue. Useless. Clueless.

Lawmakers are absolutely shaken. Members of press corps going through various degrees of ptsd
USCP in massive crisis. Sergeant at arms in both chambers gone. People dead.

All after trump encouraged his supporters to march to the Capitol and declared weakness wouldn’t win. All Bc he was angry he lost the election and lied about congress’s ability to change that.
They aren’t even lowering the flag for an officer who was killed defending out Capitol. What a disaster.
It’s never the White House’s fault. Never. It’s always someone else. A system that’s unfair. Big tech is biased. Media is bad. People are disloyal. Republicans on the hill weak. What a joke. Take some responsibility. Own up to your actions. Honor the fallen.

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This is how it ends.

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