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First coup attempt in the history of the world where they tried without any weapons.

They had fire extinguishers, oh wait,  Bear spray.  And signs.

It seemed more like a mob to me, something without a consistent purpose or goal except to be there.

They got pretty rowdy, some of them anyway.  I would say many were peaceful while breaking the law, a fair number were breaking things to enter.

My GUESS is 90% were following along "because everyone else was doing it" and had no clear vision of why.

I certainly don't mean to defend any of them, it was wrong.

yup, it was obviously breaking the law and they should all go to jail for a while, but.....

it wasn't a coup attempt and I really don't think Nancy's life was in danger

I could be wrong about that.  Now she and her other fellow congress folks should have been scared.  Scared of being tarred and feathered and run out of Washington.

There is no mystery here.  The mob didn't like that Donald Trump wasn't re-elected president.  Donald Trump set up the mob in an attempt to disrupt the electoral process enough that there would be enough confusion to trigger a vote by state in the house as a way to overturn the will of the states and the people.  It was a brazen attempt to overturn the election, and he had a lot of support from Republicans to do it.

First coup attempt in the history of the world where they tried without any weapons.

Gotta love the media and their bullshit reporting on this when it happened.

Only for the FBI to admit now that nobody had arms. Kinda crazy how media tried to spin it as an "armed insurrection". First armed insurrection in the history of armed insurrections without arms. Funny.

Gotta love the media and their bullshit reporting on this when it happened.

Only for the FBI to admit now that nobody had arms. Kinda crazy how media tried to spin it as an "armed insurrection". First armed insurrection in the history of armed insurrections without arms. Funny.

It's the same everywhere.  The crown prince of Saudi Arabia had an American journalist sawed into pieces, but was given a pass so we wouldn't disrupt oil prices. In return, he had the people he ordered do the job executed. So all these rubes who showed up at Trump's beckon will get some sort of federal punishment, even though we all know they were there at the express direction of Trump.

It's the same everywhere.  The crown prince of Saudi Arabia had an American journalist sawed into pieces, but was given a pass so we wouldn't disrupt oil prices. In return, he had the people he ordered do the job executed. So all these rubes who showed up at Trump's beckon will get some sort of federal punishment, even though we all know they were there at the express direction of Trump.

You are comparing apples to oranges. Donald Trump never ordered anyone to storm the capitol or break the law. He encouraged people to express their legal constitutional rights to protest. 99.99% of them did just that. A few hundreds rejects that should've been aborted went overboard. Quit acting like all 100,000+ people that were there did the same thing.

And get real- of course the US wasn't going to do a god damn thing about the Saudi's. It's not about oil prices at all. It's about protecting the petro-dollar and US defense contractors and arms dealers (aka military industrial complex) reliance on Saudi money to buy arms. Saudis buy hundreds of billions of dollars worth of arms from the US. Funny how virtually all of islamic terrorism and the extreme fundamentalist Wahhabism sect of Islam emanates from Saudi Arabia, yet the brain dead Biden is bombing the shit out of Syria right now and the US is still "fighting terrorism" with troops in Iraq & Afghanistan for 20 fkkn years.  Can't blame that senile old reject- every president before him is at fault for this garbage too.