I don't know why people keep laughing this shit off...
It doesn't have be a 1/6 again for there to be danger. Like, you all forget that someone broke into Nancy Pelosi's home and beat her husband with a hammer?
He openly said his plan was to hold her prisoner and torturer her until she admitted to what faux news said she did. And that he was open to executing her if he couldn't get a confession out of her.
That shit was fucking real, and because just one person stupid enough to not even check if she was on that Coast of the country at the time.
Even 1/6 wasn't really a call to riot until everyone was already there. Most of the idiots that were there didn't know what was going to happen, but the militia assholes were coordinating with Trump's campaign to use those idiots as cover to prevent police from getting thru the crowd.
All it would have taken was 20 of those militia idiots to get in with handguns and they likely would have been able (and surely were willing) to execute any Senator or House member they wanted.
Stop taking fucking victory laps and treating literal by the neck victories like the war is over.
Because the fascists aren't going to just go cry in a corner. And I don't mean that like calling all trump supporters fascists. I mean the actual self aware and heavily armed people who want to install a fascist dictatorship and the people who funnel huge sums of money and even access to trump.
Hell, Russian propagandists are still a thing that happens, and they operate where trumpets already are. They're not trying to get trump new voters. They're trying to radicalize existing supporters and convince the masses to show up as a distraction.
So whether it's "lone wolf" attacks, or another serious attempt using idiots as human shields, something is inevitably going to happen again.
I really fucking hope the current administration is taking it seriously.
Like, despite the optics of it, if trump has any kind of advertised gathering anywhere near DC, NYC, or other densely populated important place that could be a target...
We need the National Guard out in full kit. Not just day of, posted up in advanced with fences and people in elevated positions.
This shit isn't a game, even hitler failed his first attempt and had to try twice. Germany didn't take the threat seriously and we aren't really either.
Instead everyone wants to act like smug assholes.
Too many people live such privileged lives that they really forgot at the end of the day what is allowed to happen is just what the people in a close distance most capable of violence in the moment want to happen
There's is a giant gulf in "what can they do?" between "what are they legally allowed to do" and "what they can do before anyone physically stops them".
So if trump is going to hold a large rally in DC or NYC, then when we need to make sure there are a lot of law abiding military members with the equipment and capabilities to commit violence in the same area.
This ain't some shit where we can just throw a couple cops in right gear out front and call it a day.
There's literally been corrupt sheriff's caught ordering military hardware like a 50cal machine gun designed to be fitted on a helicopter...
Then selling it to militias.
This shit tends to get real, really fucking quickly historically.
As a person watching it all from a safe distance (I will still suffer from the ripples of an event though) it's just bonkers that the republican party more or less are being controlled by the Russians.
If I traveled back 30 years no one, literally no one, would believe me if I told them about the current situation...
Imagine telling Reagan that his country and his party would be pwned by the Russians.
Yup, straight to the asylum you go....
I think there is a good possibility of small attacks here and there, but January 6th happened because they were already gathered in one place after a lot of planning and got fired up by both Trump supporters and Trump himself (who told them to go to the Capitol).
Their big civil war or whatever it is they are hoping for is not going to happen.
Is anyone surprised by this? He's spent basically the last 8 years training his cult members to commit homicide anytime they are even mildly inconvenienced...
This is an underrated comment. Putin's psyops is very alive and well throughout western nations. It works fabulously, especially among the poorly educated and the mentally unstable, essentially MAGA.
I just said something similar in another thread, but for January 6th to happen, they had to be gathered in D.C. for a rally a significant amount of time after the election to give them plenty of time to get riled up, there were prominent Trump supporters on stage getting them riled up even more, then Trump himself showed up and told them to march (with him) to the Capitol and that is when the insurrection started.
On top of that, you had the current president of the U.S. supporting them the entire time because he wanted to stay president.
This is not going to have the same effect. The true die-hards are too spread out now. Could there be a few incidences here and there? Possibly. There won't be riots.
Would this be the same Trump supporters who never bothered to show up to support him at his trial in huge numbers despite him personally telling them to?