As if they did not expect to be charged

[question everything]

They stormed waved the flags took pictures and posted them.

And why not?

Started with attending Obama ACA meetings publicly displaying their guns.

Created a new culture - yes using “social media,” expressing and behaving in the most outrageous way just like, yes, Trump.

No one was ever called them up. No doubt, the ones that are charged, including the one from Pelosi’s office, cannot understand. After all, they, and their leader have been doing this for years.

[meadowlander]

1. One of them was a retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel wearing his patches.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/an-air-force-combat-veteran-breached-the-senate

Marching around on the Senate floor with his mask off. Either he's the stupidest mother-fucker on the planet or he didn't think he was coming out of that situation in a position to be prosecuted.

[Lucinda]

9. +1

[turtleblossom]

2. After generations of getting away with lynchings, cross-burnings, and church bombings...

they feel entitled. Their interpretation of freedom gives them the right to torture people.

[tblue37]

3. And Ammon Bundy and his crew got off scot free, as did the guy on the overpass pointing

a long gun at federal marshalls during the grazing rights confrontation.

[Hoyt]

4. That was a big mistake. Those MFers should have been prosecuted, although

I suspect there will always be a few rubes on any jury to hang it.

[tblue37]

7. They were prosecuted for Malheur, but the jury acquitted them because they thought the

prosecutor was too arrogant.

[happybird]

5. Yep

I kept thinking about those assholes while watching the riot unfold.

[Thekaspervote]

6. Retribution is coming..most will be caught, many already facing serious charges

[catbyte]

8. What stands out to me was this shocking exchange:

It was growing dark. Park lights along the Mall had switched on, illuminating the monuments. On the ground, in the hands of so many retreating protesters, American flags beat in the wind. Atop the Capitol building, now aglow under low-hanging clouds, the same flag flew.

“This is not America,” a woman said to a small group, her voice shaking. She was crying, hysterical. “They’re shooting at us. They’re supposed to shoot BLM, but they’re shooting the patriots.”

A man, possibly her husband, comforted her: “Don’t worry, honey. We showed them today. We showed them what we’re all about.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/capitol-trump-insurrection-explosions/

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White privileges, entitlement, and racism on full display. They sure as hell showed America exactly who and what they are. Utterly disgusting excuses for human beings and the furthest things from being "patriots" that I've seen in my lifetime.

[moondust]

10. Promise from the Pardon Fairy?

[TheRealNorth]

11. They thought that their putsch would be successful....

They had Donald Trump's backing. And he would never betray them....

[Lisa0825]

13. 'History is written by the winners.'

They expected to win and to be seen as heroes forever.

[Marie Marie]

14. Supposedly, there are going to be more "protests" coming, both at

state capitals and DC. I hope these idiots stay stupid and not learn a lesson about not covering their faces or giving their names to reporters. Now that the Feds are swooping these guys up like fish in a barrel because of their hubris, I want any future domestic terrorists that commit acts of violence to be caught and prosecuted. And this first batch of morons smiling and posing for the cameras made it easy to be tracked down and arrested. And some lost their jobs as an added bonus. Stay Stupid and Proud, Morons.