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context: Two days after pro-Donald Trump rioters attacked the Capitol, then-national security adviser Robert O’Brien got a call from Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell and an aide who asked him to look into something he’d been hearing: retired military personnel sympathetic to Donald Trump might be preparing to prevent Joe Biden’s inauguration.
  Even more notably, O’Brien said, he received a similar message in two calls with Biden’s incoming national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, who O’Brien said appeared to be conveying the sentiment of Biden himself.
  Others who reached out and urged him not to resign included Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) and former vice president Dan Quayle.
  O’Brien also described speaking with then-Vice President Mike Pence within minutes of his evacuation to a loading dock beneath the Capitol where he was sheltering amid the riot. >
  
  He cleared his name through impeachment twice. Fuck McConnell. He’s literally just as guilty. In fact if not for McConnell picking up Newt Gingrich style of politics the Republican Party would have never been in the place they were when Trump arrived. McConnell has done everything in his power to make America a non-functioning government while blaming everyone and everything around him. >
  
  “I think we could’ve repelled a Chinese airborne invasion of Washington that day,” he said.
  The military were over prepared to defend Biden against a militia attack. These militias aren’t smart and don’t do strategy well. 
  One day one of these militias is going to march right into a situation like this one and it’s going to be a mess. >
  
  
  One day one of these militias is going to march right into a situation like this one and it’s going to be a mess.
  
  Except that our country has a long and storied history of coddling right wing extremists since its inception. I never expect our government at any level to treat right wingers with any degree of seriousness remotely close to what they show even the most moderate leftist. >
  
  I think they've been scared to do anything about right wing terror cells since they fucked up Waco and Ruby Ridge. >
  
  I think it's more so about who they've been taught to consider a threat and who they see as "just some kid messing around" >
  
  And the McConnell team is co-responsible for allowing the child to enter the WH in the first place. >
  
  He should have had an abortion. >
  
  Yet didn’t have the balls to impeach him when he had the chance. He had multiple chances to get off the trump train wreck. He’s just another republican coward. >
  
  I think what’s not mentioned is that the military very seriously does not like active military officers who in any way shape or form touch on partisan politics. Especially generals and admirals, the review boards for promotion dislike like any officer who expresses a personal opinion on partisan politics to the media and public. It’s this whole Society of Cinnciatus mystic. 
  Also a lot of higher officers study history and realize that a politically active officer corps is a complete and total shit show for countries. >
  
  Did McConnell or his team tell authorities how they got this information? The RepubliKKKan Party is rotten to the core, even more so if there’s explicit rumblings in GOP circles about ongoing coup plans or attempts.
  The entire GOP, at this point, needs to be full on cavity searched by the entire national security apparatus until all of these violent traitors and co-conspirators can be rooted out and imprisoned.. >
  
  Well, they have been good friends for over 40 years >
  
  Yea, and that's why I think McConnell has helped push a lot of biden's agendas through.  He's been way more cooperative w Biden than he ever was with obama. >
  
  Damn, that's awesome.  Thanks for sharing. >
  
  I mean, that's the security problem at the Capitol in a nut shell: it's defensible only if you have advanced warning, but it's not at all sustainable.  Like they blocked off a massive amount of DC to make that happen.  They had enormous amounts of personnel there.  And that works for two weeks.  But nobody can live like that forever.
  And to make matters worse, if it's a domestic incursion killing them will garner greater sympathy for their cause more often than not.  And for anyone thinking it was a waste to have all that personnel there, I don't know how widely known it is, but there were multiple people probing the checkpoints.  Like there were one or two big ones but the was definitely more than that, and probably more than one was foreign fronted and may have been just because or could have been a genuine threat.
  But yeah, keep storing all 3 branches of government less than a mile away from each other with no obvious means of egress, see what that does for us. >
  
  He is really trying to sport this ugly outfit like he’s on a NYFW runway. >
  
  Never thought I’d say this, but I’m appreciating Mitch McConnell more and more with each story I read like this. >
  
  Who are these former navy seals they are worried about?