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  How has he not been arrested...?
  Dude is on video telling people to go into the Capitol on the 5th and 6th
context: r/LeopardsAteMyFace >
  
  And then he goes on to regurgitate the lies fed to him about antifa being embedded instigators on Jan 6th.
  "I can't believe these politicians are spreading lies about me"
  But also...
  "I still believe this particular subset of lies spread by these very same politicians" >
  
  
  "We had a tour bus come by our home and our business with all these whacked out people in it," Epps said. "There are good people out there that was in Washington. Those aren't the people that's coming by our house. This attracts — when they do this sort of thing, this attracts all the crazies out there."
  
  Says the man who stormed the capitol for a known conman >
  
  Boy he almost gets it >
  
  Almost. >
  
  That was my nickname in college! >
  
  that’s your name >
  
  Those theories did not ruin your life.  All of us had equal access to those theories.  Very few of us decided to attack the capitol ...... or believe the theories.  This is on you.  You.  Just you. >
  
  Imagine finding out at this late date that 45 is, was and will always be nothing more than a loud mouthed, foul, cheap ass, bigoted con man.  And you threw away any honor you had left as a Marine and are facing significant jail time for being such an easily played tool.
  Bitter pill.  Somebody wanna tell him about the Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus? >
  
  He still hasn't found out, though. He's still defending Trump and repeating conspiracy theories about Jan 6. >
  
  Yes, that was the point, the cognitive dissonance hasn't bitten him yet but it's coming.  And it's gonna be a massive mind fuck or mind un-fuck.  Prison gives one a goodly bit of time for reflection. >
  
  Let's hope it's a mind un-fuck so there's one less idiot out there. Now, I wonder how many crying nazis we'll get by the time this whole thing is over (assuming it ever is)? People are getting away with essentially slaps in the wrist, but some of those slaps are like 7 years. That's still no joke. >
  
  
  Even after telling the committee how conspiracy theories had torn apart his life, Epps continued to repeat other unfounded claims about the 2020 election including that "antifa" had infiltrated the mob.
  
  Wait, so after he spoke to committee and tried to explain what a “good guy” he was/is,  he continued to spread The Big Lie after this? am I reading this correctly? 
  Also,  earlier in this article it mentions he was “under the impression”  the night before January 6 that the Capitol was going to be open to the public.  Is he this stupid or was this another instance of right-wing disinformation that was spreading before January 6? Or maybe he’s just straight up lying. >
  
  The military doesn't draw the best or the brightest but the easily manipulated followers flourish.  Ours is not to reason why, ours is but to do or die.  And that they do in record numbers. >
  
  Conspiracy theorist angry that other conspiracy theorists came for him. >
  
  
  Conspiracy theorist angry that other conspiracy theorists came for him.
  
  "Your leg is in a meat grinder."
  "No it's not."
  "Well...it obviously is."
  "That's what the Deep State wants you to believe."
  "Okay...fine...but maybe you could at least stop turning that crank?" >
  
  Ha. >
  
  He still thinks Trump is a good guy who is just getting some bad info from his staff.
  There are none so blind as those who will not see. >
  
  Easier for most people to blame everyone else, even made-up people, than admit they were wrong. >
  
  "Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."
  \~ John Kenneth Galbraith >
  
  Just the "crazy" ones though, right? >
  
  Alternate headline:
  Man From Party of 'Personal Responsibility' Incapable of Accepting Personal Responsibility >
  
  It's never their fault, is it? >
  
  He's just bummed because he ended up on the receiving end of the conspiratorial mob. Were he the one inflicting the torture he probably would still be fully on board.
  Same with Rusty Bowers. That MAGA trash only gave a shit when the mob came for HIM. >
  
  No one put a gun to your head and forced you to believe in such obvious bullshit, Ray. You have free will and access to all the information the world has to offer. If you ended up delusional it’s your own damn fault for lacking the ability to think clearly and critically as a supposedly functioning adult. And it’s DEFINITELY your fault for supporting Trump after all we know about him
  Maybe listen to the millions and millions of people who say something is a bad idea before believing the first person who tells you something you want to hear >
  
  Over at r/conspiracy they're convinced that this is the guy that got thousands of people to storm the Capitol and not the guy who tweeted "be there ... will be wild" >
  
  
  Pro-Trump protester
  
  Good thing NBC News isn't normalizing terrorism and sedition. >
  
  Enjoy prison, traitor. >
  
  For being the primary instigator there, his part was quickly dismissed by FBI even before the committee was put together and record deleted while people who did less get 20+ yrs. If that could be cleared up I'm sure people would put to rest the conspiracy >
  
  And yet he's still a republican.. some people don't have the ability to learn. >
  
  The only qualification to be republican, is to be hateful and swear to take down the libruls... he will always be a republican >
  
  
  Epps continued to repeat other unfounded claims about the 2020 election including that "antifa" had infiltrated the mob.
  
  When are the Antifa meetings and are there snacks? Because I am very anti-facists >
  
  No, YOU tore apart your life. You’re saying the match was the source of your problems, not the fact that every day you walked around with your britches full of more and more dynamite. >
  
  Well he's not in jail and that's the most important part. Seems like he got the best outcome possible from his part in it >
  
  Poor fellow >
  
  Take my upvote.  Still chuckling. >
  
  Ray Epps got labeled a FBI mole just because MAGAs were desperate for shifting blame away from themselves and Trump. The "proof" they needed was that he "looked" like a FED, what ever that means. >
  
  For being the primary instigator there, his part was quickly dismissed by FBI even before the committee was put together and record deleted while people who did less get 20+ yrs. If that could be cleared up I'm sure people would put to rest the conspiracy >
  
  He wasn't a primary instigator and if you read the article you would see he was trying to de-escalate things on Jan 6th and didn't even enter the capitol building. >
  
  Which came first; The conspiracy theory or the conspiracy theorist? >
  
  Something something leopards eat faces something. >
  
  Well I heard the conspiracy stories too and just thought….Well THAT’S stupid!  And went on my way. >
  
  I agree dumb people usually are dismissive >
  
  Where are you on the whole, "Jewish space lasers" thing? >
  
  I'd have to read into that never heard of it >
  
  I hear crazy conspiracy theories every day.
  No, **HE** tore apart his OWN life. >
  
  I’m convinced that this country is full of people that never followed the news or learned to be media literate. Too busy with a family, into sports or video games or whatever. When Covid hit they were all at home trying to figure out what was happening, and since they lacked any skill at discerning truth from fiction they lost their collective minds down the rabbit hole of Q and the self-serving lies of the president. >
  
  For being the primary instigator there, his part was quickly dismissed by FBI even before the committee was put together and record deleted while people who did less get 20+ yrs. If that could be cleared up I'm sure people would put to rest the conspiracy >
  
  Always so funny when a true believer gets sacrificed by the rest of his cult on the altar of “he’s a plant!” Almost as if this is not a belief system held by serious people… >
  
  Too late for crocodile tears >
  
  He sounds like he has the intellect of a 9 year old. >
  
  It must really suck having crazy people show up at your work and threaten you huh? >
  
  Oh really and I bet your still following your crazy conspiracies? >
  
  This guy is all over video telling people to go into the Capitol. Was actually on site directing traffic. He's not in jail, never even arrested. Ridiculous. >
  
  Just so you know, the Jan 6 "truthers" think Ray Epps was an FBI plant whose job it was to provoke the otherwise "peaceful protesters" into starting some shit.
  EDIT: Look below, I found one already! >
  
  This theory is hilarious. They think Ray Epps was capable of single handedly driving the mob to attack the capitol. But despite this almost other-worldly talent, the FBI has kept him laying in wait for 30 years since leaving the Marine Corps. And he wasn't rusty at all. On Jan. 6 he got the crowd to do his bidding in only a few hours, and then returned to his undercover identity in the Arizona desert. >
  
  Random dude shouting on a street corner had the ability to use his carnival barking to direct a mob of thousands into attacking the capital he is totally responsible. 
  But the sitting president of the United States explicitly at a rally with written out plans passed & communicates months in advance directing his supporters to the capital and explicit vocal instructions to attack the capital, he totally is not responsible. 
  The logic of these wing bats. These are illiberals not conservatives. >
  
  Why do people keep claiming that antifa infiltrated this or staged it? Is there even any actual evidence of that? Why is that theory easier to believe than that these rioters were actually Trump supporters / election deniers, many of whom have had their identities revealed in the investigation?
  To clarify: I do not believe that antifa is responsible I just wanna know where this BS comes from. >
  
  Because the party of personal responsibility means you take responsibility. They don't have to. And they spin conspiracy yarns because they're special little snowflakes who melt under the slightest but of pushback, so they create theories like this to spare their precious little fee-fees. >
  
  Lol I agree. I just wanna know what ‘proof’ has been offered to these people (if any) to support this crap. My dad 100% believes antifa and Nancy Pelosi orchestrated this whole thing. He said he knows it’s true because “Republicans just don’t act this way; Democrats do.” My eyes about rolled out of my head. >
  
  Did the committee withdrawal Trumps subpoena? Why can’t I find that anywhere except for friggin right-wing sites? >
  
  Yes. It's just part of wrapping up the investigations before the GOP shuts it down. >
  
  Bummer. Thanks for the info.