*** Official Right wingers storm US Capitol Building Thread ***

Phi1

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That was just left over after those quacks set every major city on fire and looted all the businesses within for a whole month that summer

But words and fake documents to interrupt a ceremonial process are much, much worse!
Do you think if Trump held his pity party tourist visit on January 7th the outcome would have been the same? The reaction would have been the same?

The dude thrives on technicalities, interrupting this process was one of those opportunities.

You keep telling us the ceremony was a formality. I think you’re just telling yourself that.
 

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Do you think if Trump held his pity party tourist visit on January 7th the outcome would have been the same? The reaction would have been the same?

The dude thrives on technicalities, interrupting this process was one of those opportunities.

You keep telling us the ceremony was a formality. I think you’re just telling yourself that.
the over-extension in attempting to minimize it is a major tell
 

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Do you think if Trump held his pity party tourist visit on January 7th the outcome would have been the same? The reaction would have been the same?

The dude thrives on technicalities, interrupting this process was one of those opportunities.

You keep telling us the ceremony was a formality. I think you’re just telling yourself that.
It's literally a formality

Sorry you people have had to replace religious rituals with secular ones
 

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Our version of this was to throw dirt clods and rocks across the creek at the kids we didn't know. I don't think we cared about their politics....they were just 'the other'.
the grownup version of this is to dress up in tactical gear and pretend you're an army and attempt to overthrow the government.


the enemy used to be the nazis.

now, to the Coup Klutz Klan the enemy is america.
 
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Ifallalot

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the grownup version of this is to dress up in tactical gear and pretend you're an army and attempt to overthrow the government.


the enemy used to be the nazis.

now, to the Coup Klutz Klan the enemy is america.
You're missing a 50+ year period of who the enemy was
 

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:roflmao: :roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao::roflmao:

The rioter at the front of a mob that chased US Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman up flights of stairs near the Senate chamber on January 6, 2021, has been sentenced to five years behind bars.

Douglas Jensen, who prosecutors say was one of the first 10 rioters to enter the Capitol during the attack, was convicted by a jury in September of each of the seven charges he faced, including obstruction of an official proceeding and assaulting a police officer.

“You, by your own actions, put yourself at the forefront of that mob,” Judge Timothy Kelly said to Jensen before handing down his verdict Friday, which includes 36 months of supervised release after he serves his time and $2,000 in restitution for damage to the Capitol.

Kelly said that the long history of a peaceful transition of power in the US was “snapped” by Jensen and others. “We can’t get that back, it’s broken.”

“We cannot, as a country, have what happened on January 6, 2021, ever happen again,” Kelly added.

Jensen, dressed in a shirt with the logo of QAnon – a baseless conspiracy theory about a deep-state pedophilic cabal that adherents thought former-President Donald Trump would expose – scaled a 20-foot wall on January 6 before breaking into the Capitol and demanding that Capitol Police arrest then-Vice President Mike Pence, prosecutors said.

“He believed the ‘storm’ had arrived and that corrupt politicians were going to be arrested,” Jensen’s attorney, Christopher Davis, wrote in a court filing, referring to the belief by QAnon followers in a day of reckoning for corrupt politicians and deep state operatives.

After nearly two years behind bars, Davis wrote, Jensen has moved on from his QAnon beliefs and Trump’s false claims of election fraud. “He has had more than enough time to dwell upon his actions,” his attorney wrote. “He wants to return to his normal life, raise his children, and be with his wife.”

During the attack, Goodman, who was being chased by Jensen and others in the mob, led the group away from the Senate chamber and up to an area guarded by more police officers, where Jensen faced off with police for nearly 30 minutes.



“What would have happened if the group you led that day turned the other way,” toward the Capitol, Kelly said to Jensen. “God only knows.”

US Capitol Police Inspector Tom Lloyd, who gave a statement during Friday’s sentencing, said “there would have been tremendous bloodshed” were it not for Goodman’s actions that day.

According to prosecutors, Jensen told the FBI in an interview after January 6 that what he did that day “would have been worth it” if Trump had remained in power....

Douglas Jensen: Capitol rioter who chased officer near Senate chamber sentenced to 5 years in prison | CNN Politics

 

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The rioter at the front of a mob that chased US Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman up flights of stairs near the Senate chamber on January 6, 2021, has been sentenced to five years behind bars.

Douglas Jensen, who prosecutors say was one of the first 10 rioters to enter the Capitol during the attack, was convicted by a jury in September of each of the seven charges he faced, including obstruction of an official proceeding and assaulting a police officer.

“You, by your own actions, put yourself at the forefront of that mob,” Judge Timothy Kelly said to Jensen before handing down his verdict Friday, which includes 36 months of supervised release after he serves his time and $2,000 in restitution for damage to the Capitol.

Kelly said that the long history of a peaceful transition of power in the US was “snapped” by Jensen and others. “We can’t get that back, it’s broken.”

“We cannot, as a country, have what happened on January 6, 2021, ever happen again,” Kelly added.

Jensen, dressed in a shirt with the logo of QAnon – a baseless conspiracy theory about a deep-state pedophilic cabal that adherents thought former-President Donald Trump would expose – scaled a 20-foot wall on January 6 before breaking into the Capitol and demanding that Capitol Police arrest then-Vice President Mike Pence, prosecutors said.

“He believed the ‘storm’ had arrived and that corrupt politicians were going to be arrested,” Jensen’s attorney, Christopher Davis, wrote in a court filing, referring to the belief by QAnon followers in a day of reckoning for corrupt politicians and deep state operatives.

After nearly two years behind bars, Davis wrote, Jensen has moved on from his QAnon beliefs and Trump’s false claims of election fraud. “He has had more than enough time to dwell upon his actions,” his attorney wrote. “He wants to return to his normal life, raise his children, and be with his wife.”

During the attack, Goodman, who was being chased by Jensen and others in the mob, led the group away from the Senate chamber and up to an area guarded by more police officers, where Jensen faced off with police for nearly 30 minutes.



“What would have happened if the group you led that day turned the other way,” toward the Capitol, Kelly said to Jensen. “God only knows.”

US Capitol Police Inspector Tom Lloyd, who gave a statement during Friday’s sentencing, said “there would have been tremendous bloodshed” were it not for Goodman’s actions that day.

According to prosecutors, Jensen told the FBI in an interview after January 6 that what he did that day “would have been worth it” if Trump had remained in power....

Douglas Jensen: Capitol rioter who chased officer near Senate chamber sentenced to 5 years in prison | CNN Politics

yo, what don't you get about free speech, man?!?!
 

Phi1

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It's literally a formality

Sorry you people have had to replace religious rituals with secular ones
So it is. But name any other time the ritual made front page headlines for weeks straight.

Before 1/6, 1/6 wasn’t exactly a household name. If the occasion actually took on religious import for the establishment then I would think it would draw the same hype as the State of the Union Address.