Yes. If you listen carefully to Trump’s speech to the crowd earlier that day, he pretty much outlined the plan - it’s just that his poor vocabulary and Trumpian theatrics made people ignore it at first, thinking it was his usual stream-of-conciousness rambling.
My bet is that Michael Flynn outlined the general plan to Trump, but he couldn’t keep his mouth shut (as usual) and said the abridged version out loud - get in, “support” the GOP senators and congressmen (who were remarkably loyal in the immediate aftermath all things considered, objecting to results even after the clusterfuck) and “persuade” Pence.
And he said he’ll “be leading them”, but chickened out and left to watch it over TV, which was to be expected considering his characteristic weakness. Even the ever-drunk Yeltsin understood when you have to put your ass on the line.
Go in, lead the crowd before it dissolves into selfies and petty theft. You can’t direct them via Twitter.
It would have been interesting to see how it would have played out, with probably over-represented Trump supporters among the federal agencies.
Obviously, there was some inkling of Flynn’s (I assume it was him) plan, which explains the unusual timing and nature of that letter from former secretaries of defense
Doesn’t seem like a weak response by the police. Seems more like the police were quickly out manned. How many were injured in the line of duty here?
And we had months upon months of people being killed, stores looted and burned, etc often to nearly a complete absence of law enforcement. Accompanied by long stretches of utter silence and even denials from media and officials.
Anyways, I hope they pour over video footage and charge every single person involved in this.
Oh, and without a doubt, impeach Trump. Post handover if need be. But impeach that man. No tolerance for this crap. He seeded the roots of that chaos.
The videos of police opening gates and doors for rioters and taking selfies with rioters in the capitol building have now become part of the Qanon conspiracy. It is apparently evidence that antifa was really the ones who trashed the capitol, and the capitol police (being deep state) were in on it to make trump and Qanon look bad.
I think I’m getting that right. I’m not as good as them with the mental gymnastics and 5D chess.
It’s why I don’t buy it when I watch youtube and you have bums saying "guns are for when we need to take up arms against a tyrannical government. All I can think it is, “You are going to pick up a rifle and fight? YOU? You’ll piss your pants the moment shit gets real. Get the fuck out of here lololol.”
(Which does not mean I’m pro or anti gun control. Just laughing at the ones who are obviously full of shit.)
Personally, I read it for the first time when I was in high school and found it rather disturbing, despite it being obvious satire. The transformation of the characters from skeptics to deranged conspiracy believers was quite disconcerting.
Don’t compare someone from Murphy’s generation, or Murphy himself, to cosplaying neck beards who post on Twitter and wouldn’t last one day in basic training.
Murphy was not only insanely brave but he was humble and made sure that people didn’t forget that the real heroes are the guys who didn’t make it back home. He wasn’t thinking about politics or about “getting some” when he did what he did. When asked why he took on a German infantry unit by himself, and held them off for an hour, he answered that they were killing his friends. He should never be mentioned with the muh freedom clowns.
That’s a disturbing novel because so much of what is in it is true, and although it takes place in the 19th century and mostly in France, you can’t help but think how the people, actions and events in the novel are linked to the Holocaust. It hangs over the novel in a menacing way.
Simonini is also like the internet trolls and fake news personalities like Alex Jones and whoever is behind Q; they don’t have any ideological beliefs and just like the idea of being able to say, “I’m responsible for that,” when their lies have real world consequences.
It’s about a person, the only fictional character in the book, who was behind the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It gives you a sense of what someone like that is thinking and what motivates him. And most of what is in the book is true. He doesn’t care that what he wrote will result in what we would end up knowing as the Holocaust. He even acknowledges that it could result in a genocide against the Jews. He takes pleasure in knowing that he has the ability to set those events in motion. It’s like the internet troll who enjoys being able to get an emotional reaction out of a stranger. It’s that power that is satisfying and not the real world consequences that matter. In other words, he takes more pleasure in thinking it will be his work that causes the Holocaust than the deaths of millions of people. He doesn’t see himself being responsible for what people choose to do with his work. Like Alex Jones saying it’s not his fault if a fan of his show harasses a parent of a child killed at Sandy Hook.
I’m not sure whether that’s a mark of great writing or a mark of depressing history (probably both) but that’s always something a great book contains. Looking forward to this
