No one should be surprised about what happened with Trump supporters storming the Capitol yesterday, but why yesterday, and not on election day or some other day since the election, several reasons......
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8 - but wait, what signal could confirm this would be a disaster yesterday, aside from the President holding a rally in from the Capitol and saying he was going to walk up there with them? You knew it, Alex Jones of course.pic.twitter.com/aaudPlEmcZ
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9- Why would protestors think they should storm the Capitol? maybe when President's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, calls for "trial by combat", crowd might have thought peaceful options were expended & it was time to resort to violence?https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/01/watch-giuliani-demand-trial-by-combat-to-settle-election.html …
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10 - Many groups said they would standby these individuals, lots of III%er's out there yesterday, they even put out a statement a while back, guess who they mention = Flynnhttps://www.thethreepercenters.org/single-post/ttpo-stance-on-election-fraud …
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11 - Why would we imagine that they'd break into the actual U.S. Capitol yesterday, not just protest, because it already happened in MI on April 30. these groups celebrated it & guess who was there, terrorists later arrested by FBI https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2020/11/01/michigan-kidnapping-plot-coronavirus-lockdown-whitmer/?arc404=true …pic.twitter.com/13aJjv6fDp
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12 - Just know way of knowing this would get ugly, when people publicly fantasize killing innocent peoplehttps://twitter.com/BenLorber8/status/1346494428609974273?s=20 …
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13 - decade ago, we worried al Qaeda ideologues inciting violence with speech, sending terrorists into places like Capitol, what did we observe over the past week by our elected leaders, their surrogates & their supporters? FBI definition terrorism is?https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/terrorism …pic.twitter.com/uBzOwabTdb
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14 - FBI warned us about domestic extremists this year, Director Wray briefed us, QAnon specifically cited, and what did we see yesterday?https://www.rollcall.com/2020/09/17/fbi-director-describes-domestic-extremists-in-homeland-threats-hearing/ …
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15 - this was the natural culmination of the QAnon conspiracy theory and its committed community. This is what we all thought would happen, it only took this long because they needed direction, which they got from the Presidenthttps://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katienotopoulos/qanon-believers-stormed-the-capitol …
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16 - what's remarkable many same Congressmen scared by yesterday's events were briefed on this for YEARS & did nothing. Suddenly, when it comes to their house, they're activated.
@LindseyGrahamSC nice speech, but remember this discussion you convened https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/10-31-17%20Watts%20Testimony.pdf …pic.twitter.com/8UUwjCcu3v
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17- another key difference between yesterday’s Capitol insurrection & other mobilizations was response. When states have foreseen mobilizations like this, we’ve seen Governors prepare, respond, national guard etc. but in DC, who commands resources, in this case, the instigator
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18- final note on thread, we should expect the Trump machine will keep pulling stunts like yesterday at the Capitol. Trump has consistently pushed these provocations, it would be inconsistent for him to stop doing this post inauguration.
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I bet pardons were offered
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