Check out the 2nd video from 1:27 Near Capitol at about 1:01
An officer behind the barricade grabs a water bottle off the ground and tosses it behind him bagging another officer.
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God what a bunch of idiots. To think that so many of these idiots are going to go to jail for such a poorly executed, useless, disorganized insurrection. Watching that video it’s obvious almost everyone went in with a different agenda. You can tell so many of them didn’t even know what to do with themselves when they got inside, must have been pretty disappointing to realize that you’re entering an empty room, with no power to enact any laws or really do anything except break things and steal some stuff and then go to jail for a really long time. When I see how staggeringly stupid these people an awesome wave of relief washes over me knowing that these people could never truly get their #### together to accomplish anything, really, ever.
They did plan it and they succeeded to do what they had planned. This was a total and complete success as far as the Trumpers were concerned. Well, at least until they found out Pence and the rest of the republicans in the senate sold them out. That and they didn’t realize they’d be arrested for their actions.
Wow. The first ‘inside’ video captures the officer they chased up the stairs from another vantage point. I had read that he redirected them at the top away from the unsecured chamber, and wasn’t sure how exaggerated that was. But this shows that it really was the first thing that happened, and you can see the press member on the other side of the officer (who filmed the clip we’ve all seen).
Wow. The first ‘inside’ video captures the officer they chased up the stairs from another vantage point. I had read that he redirected them at the top away from the unsecured chamber, and wasn’t sure how exaggerated that was. But this shows that it really was the first thing that happened, and you can see the press member on the other side of the officer (who filmed the clip we’ve all seen).
What a terrifying situation that would have been. It's fortunate that the people who were forcing him back didn't seem to be among those out for the blood of anyone standing in their way and that the crowd wasn't armed like a group engaged in civil war, because he would have been utterly helpless with that wave of people coming in.
The collection of videos as a whole is just madness. It's like watching an amalgam of every Trump rally ever held being unleashed inside the Capitol. The ignorant, bigoted, entitled and angry elements of American culture coming home to roost in a place where the growth of those segments has been enabled and encouraged through decades of cynical policies and rhetoric. A rabble of the worst sides of American culture, aimed at the heart of democracy by a president who is himself the embodiment of all the worst aspects of American culture.
Had the mob entered the Capitol with the intent to kill everyone in their way, it would have been a blood bath. They were collectively much more restrained and peaceful than they could have been. The US is fortunate to have made it through the 6th so lightly scathed. I hope so very much that the crazies aren't planning the next round to be more like an actual civil war.
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They did plan it and they succeeded to do what they had planned. This was a total and complete success as far as the Trumpers were concerned. Well, at least until they found out Pence and the rest of the republicans in the senate sold them out. That and they didn’t realize they’d be arrested for their actions.
So they're idiots, and yes idiots make plans that are usually idiotic.
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Some of the crazier stuff (other than the obvious storming of the building) are the damn nut jobs on planes chanting for USA and Trump. Absolutely ridiculous and beyond stupidity. Imagine being on a plane with a bunch of decked-out MAGAs spewing a bunch of Qanon/kill libruls crap and then a USA/Trump chant breaks out and the staff can't do anything. I'd be thinking the damn plane is going down any second.
Never ceases to amaze me the kids of people that exist in this world. Especially our southern neighbors. People literally are in tears when asked questions asked to explain their devotion to Trump. This is cartoon level stuff. Except it's real life. With tens of millions of followers. Like WTF.
One of my favorite head-shaking videos:
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Some of the crazier stuff (other than the obvious storming of the building) are the damn nut jobs on planes chanting for USA and Trump. Absolutely ridiculous and beyond stupidity. Imagine being on a plane with a bunch of decked-out MAGAs spewing a bunch of Qanon/kill libruls crap and then a USA/Trump chant breaks out and the staff can't do anything. I'd be thinking the damn plane is going down any second.
Never ceases to amaze me the kids of people that exist in this world. Especially our southern neighbors. People literally are in tears when asked questions asked to explain their devotion to Trump. This is cartoon level stuff. Except it's real life. With tens of millions of followers. Like WTF.
One of my favorite head-shaking videos:
Yikes.
One of the videos in that library showed people walking down the halls of the Capitol, chanting “Treason! Treason! Treason!”.... I didn’t know whether to laugh or to cry.
Thank god they're incompetent and stupid. This could have been far worse if there had been any planning to it.
Castro must be rolling in his grave 'you call that a revolution?, I brought down Batista with a couple of hundred peasants living in the hills for years'
Castro must be rolling in his grave 'you call that a revolution?, I brought down Batista with a couple of hundred peasants living in the hills for years'
I don't know why I laughed so hard at that, but it was close to a spit take.
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God what a bunch of idiots. To think that so many of these idiots are going to go to jail for such a poorly executed, useless, disorganized insurrection. Watching that video it’s obvious almost everyone went in with a different agenda. You can tell so many of them didn’t even know what to do with themselves when they got inside, must have been pretty disappointing to realize that you’re entering an empty room, with no power to enact any laws or really do anything except break things and steal some stuff and then go to jail for a really long time. When I see how staggeringly stupid these people an awesome wave of relief washes over me knowing that these people could never truly get their #### together to accomplish anything, really, ever.
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God what a bunch of idiots. To think that so many of these idiots are going to go to jail for such a poorly executed, useless, disorganized insurrection. Watching that video it’s obvious almost everyone went in with a different agenda. You can tell so many of them didn’t even know what to do with themselves when they got inside, must have been pretty disappointing to realize that you’re entering an empty room, with no power to enact any laws or really do anything except break things and steal some stuff and then go to jail for a really long time. When I see how staggeringly stupid these people an awesome wave of relief washes over me knowing that these people could never truly get their #### together to accomplish anything, really, ever.
I think that perspective makes it easy for people to minimize this as a bunch of good old boy doufuses just there for selfies vs any sort of real threat. I started feeling that way for a while until the rest of the news started coming out.
I think that perspective makes it easy for people to minimize this as a bunch of good old boy doufuses just there for selfies vs any sort of real threat. I started feeling that way for a while until the rest of the news started coming out.
I'm concerned that the in-group/out-group mentality made even stronger by the emotional response to what happened on the 6th is resulting in the failure to recognize that the problems at the root of this insurrection are American problems, not just the problems of some hillbilly insurrectionists. Many of those people are victims of being conned as well. Why is it that tens of millions of Americans are so susceptible to that?
America needs to grapple with both how to bring the people who believe the lies back into a shared reality and how to address the root causes that made so many millions of Americans vulnerable to manipulation. Dismissing the millions of so-called deplorables won't make them disappear. It is quite possible that the left-right divide worsens out of a desire for vengeance and entrenched perception of individuals on the other side as the enemy. Really though, it's those people who have orchestrated and enabled the con to happen who should be targeted while the victims of the con should be helped back to reality and the systemic weaknesses that made them vulnerable should be addressed to prevent future cons.
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