Terrorists break into US Capitol Building

[Gelston]

NAtional Guard has just been ordered to the Capitol building.

[Bhaalizmo]

NAtional Guard has just been ordered to the Capitol building.

Good. Capitol building defenses were remarkably poor. I'm surprised it got that far with minimal effective defense measures deployed. And they KNEW it was coming.

[Gelston]

Good. Capitol building defenses were remarkably poor. I'm surprised it got that far with minimal effective defense measures deployed. And they KNEW it was coming.

The police claim they didn't expect this many people. I don't know why that is... On the DC mayor though.

[Bhaalizmo]

The police claim they didn't expect this many people. I don't know why that is... On the DC mayor though.

I've been saying in the weeks leading up to this that I expect the DC Mayor was having daily meetings with JTTF teams and prepping all kinds of plans for this. I guess I was wrong. This can't have been plan A. Can it?

[Gelston]

I've been saying in the weeks leading up to this that I expect the DC Mayor was having daily meetings with JTTF teams and prepping all kinds of plans for this. I guess I was wrong. This can't have been plan A. Can it?

Might have done this on purpose to make a point.

[Bhaalizmo]

Might have done this on purpose to make a point.

I concur. I suspected as much, that given the amount of surveillance around the capitol, they might choose to allow this kind of thing to happen and then charge the offenders. I don't know that it's a great plan. But I guess it's a plan of some sort. Still a little disconcerting.

[time4fun]

Might have done this on purpose to make a point.

Actually the DC major made a request to DoD yesterday to deploy the national guard, and Trump wouldn't approve it.


So he called tens of thousands of angry people to the Capitol, intentionally left the Capitol grossly under protected, then held a rally for a "Save America" march where he repeatedly told them that their country was being stolen from them/ he was never going to give up/etc and where Giuliani literally told them today would be "trial by combat", then encouraged a bunch of people who included several armed extremist militias to head to the capitol, and told them that the proceedings there were their last chance to save his Presidency and keep the country from falling into chaos.

He orchestrated every damn part of this.

[Gelston]

Actually the DC major made a request to DoD yesterday to deploy the national guard, and Trump wouldn't approve it.

She has said this is false in the press conference when asked about it just minutes ago.

Not only that, here is a story from yesterday that says that is false.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/04/polit...sts/index.html

[Parkbandit]

I've been saying in the weeks leading up to this that I expect the DC Mayor was having daily meetings with JTTF teams and prepping all kinds of plans for this. I guess I was wrong. This can't have been plan A. Can it?

Either Mayor Bowser is completely incompetent and has no idea what she is doing..

Or she wanted this to happen.

There is no way that they shouldn't have been completely prepared for this. They have protests in DC all the time.

[Back]

Either Mayor Bowser is completely incompetent and has no idea what she is doing..

Or she wanted this to happen.

There is no way that they shouldn't have been completely prepared for this. They have protests in DC all the time.

Oh please. She has more balls and works harder at her job than that lying shitbag of a president you support. She's done more for the people of DC than Trump ever has.

Maybe the police and national guard did not expect the mainly peaceful protesters to try to storm the Capitol? Did anyone expect something so brazen over the lie that the election was stolen?

At this point I don't think its a stretch of the imagination that someone somewhere ordered the national guard presence to be lighter than it should have been because these were white Trump supporters. The response today was in no way near as aggressive as when BLM protesters were in DC over the summer.