One of the grimmest messages on social media I've heard in quite a while.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Dear Lord.

Link to tweet

Rep. Haley Stevens @RepHaleyStevens · 4m

I’m sheltering in place in my office. The building next door has been evacuated. I can’t believe I have to write this.
1:45 PM · Jan 6, 2021·Twitter Web App

[NoRoadUntravelled]

1. Where is the National Guard? nt

[Amishman]

4. probably best if they aren't there

push comes to shove, they'd probably join in with the Trumpers.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

5. Bullshit.

[Skittles]

21. nonsense

[TNNurse]

8. They are not armed. They are there.

[Doremus]

33. Who isn't armed? CNN reported earlier that a capitol police officer was taken to the hospital

after being injured by an insurrectionist.

[TNNurse]

37. The National Guard that the Mayor requested before were not to be armed.

Not sure about the ones from VA and MD who have been called in today.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

40. Probably roaming the streets looking for some anti-Trump

protesters they can bash.

[dalton99a]

2. Violence and unrest fomented and encouraged by the traitor himself

[wnylib]

23. Trump should be arrested for inciting

this riot. He used mob style rhetoric to cover his a$$, telling the mob to be peaceful, knowing full well they would not be. He told thousands of angry people to go to the Capitol. He knew this would happen. He riled them up for this for months. He called on them in advance to go to DC for "a wild" demonstration.

Arrest the SOB NOW!!!

This is a deliberate attempt to start a civil war to keep Trump in office.

[stillcool]

3. totally messed up

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[Ferrets are Cool]

6. This should NOT be ALLOWED to happen.

No way, not in OUR Capital.

[Cobalt Violet]

7. We need to reach out and understand these people.

[Grokenstein]

14. I get it.

But we already understand these shitbag cultists.
And eventually someone's gonna reach out to them, all right.
To take 'em down.

[llmart]

30. And Susan Collins thinks he learned his lesson.

They could have removed his criminal ass through impeachment, so Collins and the rest are to blame.

[Chemisse]

32. Understanding doesn't really help.

They are so entrenched that they will not ever budge from their beliefs.

[TNNurse]

38. I hope this is sarcasm because I will never understand these people.

[Cobalt Violet]

39. of course I am.

Never did I think anyone would think I wasn't be but I guess the smililes will always be needed.

[irisblue]

9. .

Link to tweet

?s=20

[badboy67]

10. REMOVE THE M*****F***** NOW.

Amendment 25!!!

[wnylib]

24. YEEESSSS!!!!! NOW!!!!

[Chemisse]

34. MSNBC said that some Dems and Republicans have mentioned immediate impeachment.

If Mitch has been humbled and horrified enough to agree with it, it could take place pretty quickly.

One major advantage to this is that Trump would not have time to pardon himself or all his minions.

[NotASurfer]

11. As the British found out in 1814, the US government is not a building

The members of Congress have been evacuated. Electoral votes are being counted, albeit with an interruption.

This criminal mob and the mob leader are delaying the process, and doing their level best to stage a coup, but they have not succeeded in anything even on the level of the British burning Washington in 1814. Nor will they

[orangecrush]

12. They can't arrest them en masse?

I call bullshit.

[FailureToCommunicate]

36. They had no problem arresting US en masse back when we peacefully protested the war(s).

And that was after turning tear gas riot vehicles on us first.

[Dukkha]

13. why are they not killing these terrorists?!

[whathehell]

16. They need not be KILLED, just arrested.

[Mr. Ected]

15. I am old enough to remember the peaceful protestors against overturning Obamacare

They were summarily led away to jail.

Why are these maggots allowed to re-enter our society unscathed?

[world wide wally]

17. These are not "protesters" as we have come to know protesters.

These are "Proud Boys", an armed Nazi fringe group attempting to violently overthrow our government

[wnylib]

25. They are domestic terrorists.

[housecat]

18. Thankful Democrats are smart enough to let the trumpies get all the credit for this one

[BobTheSubgenius]

19. In the past, an electoral fustercluck like this in another country and the US...

...would be demanding to monitor their elections until they could be trusted with democracy.

[Rhiannon12866]

20. Twitter reply:

Link to tweet

[nuxvomica]

27. She's a Democrat

The response makes it look like she's complicit. She isn't.

[Rhiannon12866]

28. I knew that. I didn't think the reply was directed at her, but to Republicans

Who are responsible for what's gone on.

[nuxvomica]

31. I checked Stefanik's twitter and she's condemning the violence

So I guess I don't need to call her office and demand she condemn it. She is complicit.

[Rhiannon12866]

41. Of course she is! Not a big surprise...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/106825884

[Meowmee]

22. Some of these cowards are starting to run away now that ng etc. are arriving to arrest them

Media as usual refusing to call this out for what it is...

[wnylib]

26. NPR is calling it "a violent occupation of

the Capitol by Trump extremists."

[Meowmee]

42. Yes it was

And it seems to have been organized and had help from dump et al as well.

[wnylib]

29. Trump's video message to his

domestic terrorists sympathized with how they felt about the "terrible" action of having their government stolen from them, and then told them to go home in peace.

He is now trying to protect them from arrest because the Guard is on the way. He does not want videos of them being arrested and put down. That would be a "losing" image.

I have every expectation that he will call on them again in the near future to pose a terrorist threat whenever he wants to.

[BobsYourUncle]

35. Today I wept. NT