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A security failure? Just add it to Donnie’s bigly list of failures.Just like his failed coup.
The only way Trump would have a successful coup is if his daddy left it to him in his will.
No surprise at all
This proves that it’s nothing but the color of the protesters that defines the response. SHAMEFUL
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David Carter, director of the Intelligence Program at Michigan State University, said that sometimes, the best intelligence in the world doesn’t translate into adequate preparedness. Perhaps the security officials responsible for protecting the Capitol simply could not envision that a crowd of Americans would charge through a police line and shatter the glass windows that stood as the only physical barrier to entering the building.
And yet these same security officials were asleep when this happened this Spring.
Were there any protests yesterday at state capitals that resulted in injuries or death?
Conversations on right-wing platforms are monitored closely by federal intelligence.
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Exactly, TPM reader BK is on it: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/race-white-privilege-capitol-siege
Yes, the prior examples used before Trump came to office was the “out of hand celebrations” of fans when some one’s sports team won a national championship.
How about a medically induced coma?
Possible, but I think there needs to be actual brain function before a coma is induced.
A quick EEG test will verify that Trump’s brain is working. He’s not a Borg.
I’ve seen comments from retired CH police. It’s NOT that they weren’t ready, it’s that they chose not to prepare. They chose not to have support, they chose not to have mounted police, they chose not to have dogs; they chose not to have effective barriers. The entire CH force needs to be expunged.
Just want to say that I think we can expect more execrable behavior from Trump in the next two weeks. He seems to be quite good at toning things down and appearing to have some stability after one of these episodes. But it never lasts more than 24-36 hours.
We can speculate on what he’ll do, but we can only ask: “What will he do next?”
Capitol Rioters Planned for Weeks in Plain Sight. The Police Weren’t Ready
Of course not. They knew about, and they let it happen, either on orders form the WH, or out of sympathy with fellow QAnoners.
Since they were neither black nor liberal, nothing could have been done. Isn’t that obvious?
It helps when one of the people you’re relying on for reinforcements is part of the coup.
This wasn’t a security failure. This was a riot by white people and the police acted the way they always act when white people riot. They treated the perps with deference and kid gloves. If there had been black people openly discussing an assault on the Capitol for weeks, DC would have been in lockdown, armored cars on the streets, and thousands of officers in full riot gear. If BLM had breached the Capitol, they would have been carted out in body bags.
This wasn’t a failure of security. This was white privilege - ETA: and rank racism - on display.
I believe I read something happened at the State House in Ohio. Really surprised nothing happened in Michigan
