Newly revealed surveillance footage from Jan. 6, 2021, shows two Capitol police officers escorting Jacob Chansley, the be-horned so-called “QAnon Shaman,” through the halls of the Capitol and to...

Who could have predicted that the democrats were holding back footage showing their heckin' brave sheepdog capitol cops escorting the q-anon shaman like his own personal guards

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  • stalin_but_trans [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I can't talk about Jan 6th with my lib friends, it's too hard to take an angle without sounding like you're defending one of either the cops, the protesters, or the US government. Like my takeaway here would be arrest the cops too, but also there should be protests in the capitol building just with socialists instead.

    I also can't talk about it because I was hootin' and hollerin' the whole time I was watching the livestream of them meandering the halls, which libs don't appreciate.

    • Ericthescruffy [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, absolutely. Like by all rights storming the fucking capital and smashing everything to shit should have been a thing to fucking celebrate but its hard to do so when its happening for the absolute dumbest reasons possible by a group of people who want an even more grotesque and draconian version of American fascism than already exists. At the very least: I do think its fucking funny as shit and I will die on that hill.

        • goboman [any]
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          2 years ago

          It's hard to celebrate something so baffling. The protesters themselves didn't know what to do when they got inside and just milled around doing very damage. The cops didn't really seem to know what to do either. They knew they shouldn't let them in but didn't really want to stop them.

          It is an incredibly bizarre set of circumstances for a group to attempt storm a capital, the defence force to let them do so, and that group immediately lose all momentum upon success.

          It's political action without coherent ideology. They don't know what specifically they want to achieve, just that they've seen storming the capital on TV.

          • Tormato [none/use name]
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            2 years ago

            Exactly.

            I tell friends I’m envious that these assholes, who could have just as likely been at an NFL tailgate, Hooters for happy hour or Black Friday sale, did something by all rights we should have been the ones doing.

            But for Universal Healthcare.

          • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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            2 years ago

            The protesters themselves didn’t know what to do when they got inside and just milled around doing very damage.

            great argument for a vanguard right there.

        • ToxicDivinity [comrade/them]
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          2 years ago

          They did it because the cops let them and were on their side so it was easy. It would be a lot harder for a left wing group to do the same. If left wingers got through 1 door of the capitol national guard would probably open fire on the crowd

    • Phish [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      Oh yeah, suggesting to libs that it was actually one of the most hilarious endings possible to Trump's term never goes over well. They get very desanctimonious about it.