But the biggest blow to the false flag antifa hypothesis is the utter lack of reliable evidence. In the initial hours, motivated individuals spread rumors about people featured in early pictures of the riot as antifa folks.
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For example, there was buzz about the buffalo headdress guy being at a BLM rally. And, as it so happens, so he was...in opposition. The self-described "QAnon Shaman" has a long paper trail as an ardent supporter of Donald Trump.pic.twitter.com/uevxge2Cei
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So to sum up, we have copious evidence that the people who stormed the capitol were actual Trump supporters and they did so in such numbers as to make the possibility of it being a false flag operation unlikely (to say the least).
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-------- "The riots are bad, sure, but the rioters don't represent the peaceful protests. I heard second- or third-hand from someone who went and they didn't see anything untoward happening. This is just some small, weird fringe or a bunch of unsophisticated rednecks."
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This is a variant on the prior approach. It's not quite so risible as blaming it on a false flag operation, but it's similarly an attempt to absolve from blame or to avoid internal dissonance by displacing responsibility onto someone else.
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This hypothesis felt plausible early on in the riot given the happenstance of just what information / images leaked out. For example, it was easy to slot the buffalo headdress wearing QAnon Shaman, who was prominent in early pictures, into the "oddball crazies" category.
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But as images from inside the capitol spread, it became clear that there was nothing funny about it. You can find images of people who came dressed for trouble in body armor, carrying zip ties, baseball bats, firearms, riot shields, and so on.pic.twitter.com/Zx7qXXGuQX
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Paul Matzko uudelleentwiittasi Matt Jones
By evening, we had video looking out from the capitol building. This wasn't just "a hundred bubbas" (to quote a friend); it was hundreds of heavily armed and armored insurrectionists in front of a mob of thousands surging against a thin police line.https://twitter.com/KySportsRadio/status/1347031398176223233?s=20&fbclid=IwAR0QYwzmzTHC1xq7IVMHhasnKBJYkQVbIq92EYCL1ZxREcTDmUqNSruVwMc …
Paul Matzko lisäsi,
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Okay, you might say. So it wasn't a small group and they weren't just laughable wierdos. But still, Paul, they don't represent reasonable people like me! Well, about that...
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Many were ordinary folks, people you might know from your neighborhood, church, or school. One, Derrick Evans, was just elected to the West Virginia state legislature and livestreamed himself storming the capitol, encouraging the mob, and so on.https://www.npr.org/sections/congress-electoral-college-tally-live-updates/2021/01/06/954227854/video-shows-newly-elected-w-va-lawmaker-among-mob-that-stormed-the-u-s-capitol …
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This should be disqualifying.
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Vastauksena käyttäjälle @DrDadabhoy
Probably *will* be. There are calls for him to go. And according to the reporting out of WV, his actions are within the jurisdiction of WV state law. Hard to see how he’s not charged by the Feds. Haven’t checked in with WV news today.
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