The worst part for me was that asshole with the Confederate flag...

[First Speaker]

...I'd make a link, but don't know how. But one of the big heroes yesterday was photographed waving a huge Confederate flag right thru the Capitol building. All I could think of was that Jefferson Davis and Robert E Lee were laughing somewhere, watching this. What they couldn't do, this asshole managed. The flag of slavery and treason, being brandished arrogantly in the Capitol of the United States. These--things--deserve whatever the fuck happens to them...

[llashram]

1. yep, me too

I defend the red, white and blue...not the flag of traitors and trump seditionists. No need to post a link, that photo went around the world and fast.

[Tree-Hugger]

2. That flag

That was the flag of the losers in the Civil War. It is still the flag of losers.

[Karma13612]

3. Excellent point...eom

[Hugin]

4. Yep, to me that is where this turned from armed insurrection to treason.

and domestic terrorism.

[forgotmylogin]

5. Here it is, with an article:

WP: The Capitol mob images shouldn’t surprise you. Open insurrection was always where we were headed.

By Philip Kennicott Art and architecture critic
Jan. 6, 2021 at 5:03 p.m. CST
If you’re not sick to your stomach looking at the images coming out of Washington, you will be. And if a lawless mob carrying Confederate flags, braying open sedition and storming the Capitol doesn’t sicken you, it will sicken your children — if the nation survives.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/images-trump-mobs-at-capitol/2021/01/06/87324ae4-5061-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html

[UpInArms]

6. Here it is

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/01/trump-u-s-capitol-riot-photos.html

And this one is also beyond the pale

[Karma13612]

11. OMFG

I did NOT know about the noose. And hubby just told me they had plans to take legislators physically, and hold mock trials and execute them.

These cretans need to get life in prison.

Take them to G-Bay.

OK, I’m still trying to wrap my head around how they actually got the opportunity to erect this. Were the authorities just looking the other way????

[Vogon_Glory]

7. I believe that General Lee was repentant after the Civil War

And he would have been mortified.

Either way, I think this makes it clear that the Confederate Battle Flag is inextricably linked to reactionary right-wing racism.

[Karma13612]

8. The Confederate flag image is frightening

But for me, the shot of one rioter sitting in the Senate chamber in the big chair that Pence presided in last night....

That was the definition of a violation to me. It was repulsive and soul crushing.

[TheRealNorth]

9. Yup

The Republicans squatted a #2 on the graves of 360,000 American war dead right there.

[Wounded Bear]

12. I posted elsewhere about that. Makes me sick...

Traitors and losers.

[patricia92243]

13. Somebody - Pelosi? - said the Confederate Flag didn't enter the Capital

during the Civil War - but did now.

Made it more disgraceful than ever for me.