So... the election is certified...and now some motherfucker is babbling some shit to almighty god, or some such fuckin? thing...
Well, anyone who knows anything knows that god - the Christian god - came down from the heavens to give us our rights in 1775, and the American revolution was a holy war, against Great Britain, who is now our closest ally and our media (and government) loves to present the royal family to Americans to help us get used to the idea of having a king and queen.
I guess now the argument will be trying equate strings of Trump quotes to get "Who will disrupt this meddlesome Congress" -vs- pinning blame on a small number of spontaneous bad actors.
But there are 3 camps. Dems in 1 group making the "meddlesome" argument, Trump loyalists in group 2, and the 3rd group would be Republican that see this as their opportunity to distance themselves from Trump after 4 years on his side.
The camps aren't that far apart. This gave the Trump loyalists in the house and senate a chance to rhetorically separate themselves from Trump and come back into the fold. With canned statements like "
While I still think there was election fraud, I have to condemn violence and so I'm now going along with certifying.." And the Republicans in Camp 3 have been more or less just waiting for this all along.
I dunno... I listened to most of the speeches last night and the whole thing seemed pretty choreographed to me.
From reading a more non-partisan account that cited other police on the topic of crowd control, who noted that the DC police obviously sandbagged their efforts here, and if they really wanted to keep protestors out of the capitol, they would have. and other people that had ACTUALLY protested in DC, contrasting their treatment in prior protests - like those opposing wars, or for medicare for all - with the way the capitol police beat the shit out of them but seemed to handle the Trump crowd with kid gloves. And that emboldened them and let them take it too far.
Much like the Michigan state police didn't bring out the water cannons on the "reopen Michigan" idiots earlier in the year.
That being said... I think some people took things too far... even choreographed mobs can get out of control. This was evidenced by the fact that someone apparently got shot and killed. ( Of course, a little bit of violence helps it appear legit)
