Not a failure in intel. AntiFa in D.C. come out after dark. They had been partying just the night before with the Proud Boys as per normal in running street battles.
Bowser fucked the plan up by putting in the curfew, and the idiots trump sent couldn’t even hold a simple building until after dark when the real fun would have gotten underway.
I doubt it even went that far. They probably just assumed that “antifa” was just as braindead as their side and would Pavlov-ily join the grievance-fest. They expressly ignored all the messages from people on the Antifa side who warned their people to steer clear of the shitshow on Jan 6.
No, they did not. They undermined elections administrators and consolidated control over the local boards, but they did not just grant themselves the power to appoint the electors themselves.
You might want to look up the meaning of “codified,” 'cause that it ain’t.
My suspicion is they thought counterprotestors would be present as well, leading to a clash outside the Capitol, and that the National Guard would then sweep in. The resulting physical “chaos” would complement sustained pressure to delay the certification or execute the many options floated in the coup powerpoint.
I think the fly in the ointment was that counterprotestors heeded the warnings (which were numerous in and about DC in the days leading up to Jan 6) not to engage the Trump protestors coming into town.
Another potential fly - and not talking Mike Pence’s buddy - was the storming of the Capitol. While some likely planned for precisely that, I suspect others may have just wanted the spectacle of protestors encircling the grounds. The moment the glass broke and destructive cultists started pouring into the building, they were left scrambling. It all looked so good on paper, or at least powerpoint, but the reality of the day left them scrambling for options, none of them good.
Hey, if your plan to rob the bank neglects to note the timelock on the safe, the emergency buttons under the counter and whatnot, still doesn’t make you any less guilty of conspiracy to rob the place.
Nobody’s claiming they were geniuses, and they clearly didn’t hire the best to give them a fighting chance at pulling it off, but that doesn’t mean they weren’t geniunely serious in their plans and were just passing around a powerpoint as a joke.
It is called EXECUTIVE privilege - meaning the Executive has it to invoke, not anyone else.
There is no “ass-kissing insurrectionist” privilege as Meadows seems to think.
There were clear, operational, and coordinated plans among the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers to breach the building from multiple entry points, starting on the west side and then moving over to the east. Those are the roughly three dozen defendants who have been charged with criminal conspiracy offenses, and they’re likely to end up in prison for a decade or so. Breaching the Capitol was aspirational for a whole lot of the insurrectionists, but they mostly had no real plans for accomplishing that goal beyond fucking up the police.
Meanwhile, while everyone’s distracted by old news about some coup at the Capitol…
I understand that. I just meant there were likely many others - idiots like Meadows among them - who just thought a little chaos down near the Capitol would serve their political means. They probably didn’t picture actual glass breaking or idiots smearing shit on the walls or gunshots fired to protect members of Congress.
They absolutely should have, of course. But their eyes were glazed over by 38 pages of steps to magically swing the election.
That’s the problem with cozying up to a bunch of terrorists and thinking they will execute according to your plans.
Wow, I didn’t even know she could read!
I was attending law school, taking my second year of constitutional law, during Watergate, it was a big topic in the school, so I have read nearly all the law on Executive Privilege and I recently reread a lot of the cases. I don’t think executive privilege extends to involving the military in an attempted coup. I would like to see the case that held otherwise.
Why are you surprised. Her father was a lawyer. I am sure she was raised being told she would follow in daddy’s footsteps.
It was a big fucking basket, too.
No. You’ve yet to throw out the trash.
OT: Seriously? Biden’s supposed to give a damn about the Fox Christmas tree? You’d think this was satire, but it’s apparently not.
If there’s a fucking $500k Christmas tree out there it probably should be burned down as a statement about the meaning of Christmas.
Actually, the correct spellings are Michael Cohen and Roy Cohn.
Is it any wonder people go crazy trying to learn English as a second, third or fourth language?
By Jan 6th, they had pretty much reached the “running out of runway and ideas at the same time” phase of the operation.
Anybody know if they ever caught whoever set the fire in the basement of St John’s Church May 31 2020 in DC?