Thread by @AlexandraErin

I'm simultaneously shaking my head at the utter naive fabulism of imagining they could "arrest" congresspeople with no guns and the cynical ruthlessness of thinking the could sway Congress floor votes by implying they're killing reps.

https://twitter.com/LiteraryMouse/status/1347903805338382341

I just... I'm trying to imagine the headspace of someone who believes they could rush the floor of Congress and abduct people off it and that they would then be left alone *and* Congress would keep counting votes and voting on accepting votes after that point.

And I want to say that there's no way a person could sincerely put that forward and this therefore is somebody who was trying to encourage people to storm the capitol by spinning out a non-violent fairytale where they get the vote overturned by "keeping them honest".

But the sheer level of "that's not how anything works" that I have seen from this kind of crew... I don't know. Maybe they really thought it would work.

I mean, there's a thing in right-wing circles of unironically referring to people they don't like as "NPCs" (referring to computer controlled characters in a video game, who have no actual intelligence and can only make limited and mostly scripted responses).

So maybe they thought that the members of Congress they didn't abduct would continue counting the votes because that's their script.

Or maybe they assumed if they "arrested" all the "bad guys" in Congress then the ones who were left would cheer them for saving the day and then happily declare Trump the winner.