“Dept leaders were scattered during the riots. The chief of police was with Pence in a secure location, & other high-ranking officials had been dispatched to scene of bombs found outside the RNC & DNC.”
“‘They had apparently more bear spray and pepper spray and chemical munitions than we did,’ the ATF said.”
Many of us have been highlighting the use of bear spray by Trump convoys across country — especially the groups deliberately facing off with protestors in Portland/Seattle
“‘We just started moving crowds of people out of the Capitol Complex and then going through one by one, each room and rooms off of rooms, to identify friendlies from hostiles.’”
IN THE CAPITOL
Still not over this.
(To be clear: the “They” is the insurgents)
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The introduction lays out the failures in mindset that have allowed ascendant autocrats to exploit the cracks in our democracy
At home and abroad, our blindness in how we evaluate these weaknesses—in how we interpret threats against us—exposes this failed mindset /2
In recent years, we’ve basically been running a giant wargame against ourselves — and every adversary has had a front row to see the failures in mobilization, intelligence, decision-making, command and control, security — and above all, the failures in leadership. /3
As more comes out about the WH preventing preparation for & holding back response to the attack on the Capitol, the more I want to know about comments to reporters that White House staff were in touch with “protest leaders” and discussing their objectives. /1
Because right now it looks like Trump weaponized a mob, sent it into the fire, held back response — endangering lives of Congress, staff, police, reporters — and watched on TV hoping for — what?
What was the objective they had been hoping for? /2
Still totally struck by sense of non-reality of the mob in the Capitol — no idea at all what they have just done.
As I mentioned earlier, after the one participant is shot, you see police trying to help but the livestreamers initially get in the way. /1
The priority is to feedback into the online loop.
In one video, this extraordinary moment, where a young man initially goes to check the woman who is shot, backs off for police, realizes “oh I should record this,” gets out his phone — and realizes he has blood on his hand. /2
It’s just extraordinary. Everyone coming out of the Capitol is dazed. Why weren’t the cops on our side. Something big was supposed to happen. In the universe we live in, we just saved America.
Here’s a snapshot of information diet of the veteran who was shot today invading the capitol in defiance of the constitution she had sworn to uphold: flynns, trumps, QAnon, antimasker LARPing, gang rape hot takes. They all hate pence so now say he must also be a pedophile
QAnon. Flynn’s. Lin Wood. The fight continues after the inauguration. Pedophiles everywhere.
It’s a sad broken non-reality that is a totally unremarkable trumpworld social media footprint. All the grifters and goons are reflexively posted,
Little original content.
QAnon memetics. Trump rallies. Praise for a Russian intelligence front.
Millionaire sh*tposter Tucker Carlson says “there are old people and people with jobs here, maybe that should give you pause and make you wonder why”
Stream of guests justifying “anger and fear” of insurgents.
Tucker: “Donald Trump didn’t actively try to ruin the lives of Hillary Clinton supporters in his four years in office, and I think the right has real reason to fear what’s coming now from the left”
FoxNews: appalling. Looking for next fire to light.
Tucker: “political violence begets political violence” and now someone is dead he says with heavy ...
It’s clear what he is asking for.
Hannity is not differentiating between political and militant wings of trumpism 🙄