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  Or if they had just turned on the fucking tv that day
context: how could you not know - these people were outwardly encouraging their behaviors in big online groups that are 'semi' private, all full with right wing trolls under the guise of Patriotism >
  
  Yup. We talked about it right here on Reddit, how we were seeing posts about the planning. >
  
  I remember people on reddit urging liberal counter protesters to stay away because of the planned violence and the perception--more likely than not--that cops would defend MAGAs and attack liberals. >
  
  
  that cops would defend MAGAs and attack liberals.
  
  Considering “antifa did it” was the story even though no one went, this was a spot-on prediction. >
  
  They were pretty upfront about this plan too
  Far-right group Proud Boys claim they will attend January 6 DC rally 'incognito' and wear all-black to blend in with antifa protesters
  
  Jan 3, 2021 >
  
  They didn’t want to arrest their coworkers on their day off >
  
  Bingo. >
  
  If that’s true then it’s appalling that they left the capital police to battle for hours with that mob of traitors. >
  
  Battle? They let them in by moving the barricades for them. >
  
  I'm of the firm belief that there were try types of capital police put on duty that day: those there to help the insurrection, and those who were thrown under the bus to be mowed down by the insurrectionists.
  While not impossible that I'm wrong, I'll forever believe that the cops who fought back and did their jobs were put there by leadership as punishment for not being fascist pieces of shit. I'm sure none of them were in on it, while the ones opening doors and moving barricades were. >
  
  Which may explain the multiple suicides. >
  
  It absolutely does. 
  I can’t even imagine realizing that not only is your entire job a joke to the people around and above you, but realizing that everything you thought you stood for was a lie. The good cops were used as cannon fodder by/for the people who claim to love cops. 
  I mean if there’s anything that people in America used to be able to agree on, it’s that democracy is good and defending it is worth dying for. We were all brought up with these values. So when you act on them, and then get attacked by the people who are claiming they support those causes the loudest? 
  Yeah, I can see that really undermining your faith in everything you thought you believed in and hold dear. The realization that a significant number of our countrymen have legitimately turned to fascism should make anyone who loves America and democracy slightly depressed, at the very least. >
  
  In the weeks leading up to Jan. 6, trump and his team tried to decapitate the US security apparatus. The CIA and NSA seemed to have resisted somewhat, but the rest of the agencies/departments were at least hamstrung, with leadership either resigning or being forced out, and replaced by trump sycophants.
  The goons attacking the Capitol was the culmination. Not enough has been said or written about the weeks leading up to Jan. 6. >
  
  This is part of what makes it a coup attempt, not a mere "riot." Trump and his accomplices deliberately put the circumstances in place  -- from traitorous Congresspeople giving reconnaissance tours the day before, to the Capitol Police deliberately scheduling relatively few officers, to the FBI failing to act on its intel, to the Secret Service planning to get rid of the VP -- to help the paramilitary boots on the ground succeed in storming the building and stopping the vote.
  And make no mistake: they very nearly did succeed. We got lucky that a few things went wrong for them, such as Trump failing to fully commit to his treason by leading the march in person and the Trump-loyalist SS goons stopping short of kidnapping Pence against his will. >
  
  It wasn't even Intel, it was broad daylight planning for a terrorist attack >
  
  Hell,  you are right.
  It was on damn Facebook,  not "dark web" mythos,  and it was in broad daylight and they saw them coming... >
  
  Fr there were ‘undercover’ journalists there at the Capitol that day. Obviously people who went online knew what was going to happen. It was planned on fb lol >
  
  They didn’t stop the mob cuz they’re on the same team >
  
  Some of them, certainly not all of them. >
  
  I figure the FBI is at least 50% compromised.  As opposed to the Capital Police, who are probably closer to 80%. >
  
  Also had they wanted to. >
  
  Also if most LE wasn’t complacent in Trump’s entire plan to remain in power. >
  
  This was public information to anyone who knew where to look. For instance, Robert Evans tweeted on January 5th that it was very obvious that something was going to happen on the 6th.
  So it should have been stopped. >
  
  Oh you mean like THE FUCKING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES ORDERING THEM TO GO THERE >
  
  In all fairness,  yeah,  the night before,  I think pretty much anyone who is the type to be active on this sub,  thought that 'something' was going to happen...   It wasn't like this chatter came out of thin air and wasn't being spoken about in the mainstream media at all....
  It was...
  Doesn't make what those insurrectionists did right at all,  but hey,  this one wasn't ~that~ difficult to see coming,  even though when it did happen,  it was quite an abomination to behold. >
  
  You are confused that Republicans didn't try to stop a Republican coup? >
  
  Hard to stop it when they are participating in it. >
  
  It’s almost like they let it happen. >
  
  Ashli Babbit was deservedly shot trying to climb through a broken window into the Speakers Lobby. No one else then attempted to get through. 
  Showing that all that the Capitol police had to do was draw their line.  They could have drawn that line at the entrance of the Capitol, but chose not to. >
  
  The Capitol Policed feared, and rightly so, that many in the crowd were armed. Had gunfire ensued countless people would have been struck in the crossfire. >
  
  Guess even LE knew Antifa wasn't involved otherwise they would have showed up. >
  
  I love how they say “Intel”
  Anyone that had Facebook or Twitter had all the info >
  
  No shit. Those hillbillies wouldn't have been much of a match for the National Guard. >
  
  Would have been fun to see how fast they bowed down . >
  
  Christ,  could you imagine what would have happened if that crowd looked like the same crowd in Lafayette Square during the George Floyd demonstrations? >
  
  So basically no one would be charged, the president would get put into a bunker, and  a historic church would get burned >
  
  Wait… you mean like the public tweets made by the President of the United States that were then broadcasted all over MSM?!? >
  
  FBI and Homeland Security had previously warned of the growth of domestic extremists, but they were blocked from taking action by the then President and AG Barr. >
  
  weird thing about republican presidents not preventing terror attacks when they have prior intel huh? >
  
  Yes and no. It's pretty clear from the contents of the January Six hearing that the DOJ, DOD and Homeland Security and an informal agreement that if Trump was going to attempt a coup they'd stop it. Which, on January Six, is exactly what they did. They didn't prevent the coup from being attempted, but they did stop it from succeeding.
  Yes these are conservative institutions, no they did not want a coup. >
  
  
  Yes these are conservative institutions, no they did not want a coup.
  
  They wanted it to succeed. When they realized that was implausible regardless of their failure to act and that they might get hanged as traitors, something was done. 
  You can say "Yes these are conservative institutions but they didn't want a coup" all you want, there's little evidence for it. There is a paper trail of those institutions openly trying to aid the insurrectionists. I mean, fuck, how many republicans still say they did nothing wrong openly now? 
  You have far too much faith in Republicans. >
  
  Have you seen the hearings yet? >
  
  Thats because they were instructed to stand down and let Donnie John murder Mike Pence.