Trumpists Made Plans To Build Gallows Weeks Before Capitol Riot

[babylonsister]

https://www.nationalmemo.com/capitol-riot-gallows

Trumpists Made Plans To Build Gallows Weeks Before Capitol Riot
Darrell Lucus
@DarrellLucus
May 30 | 2021
Reprinted with permission from Daily Kos


One of the most enduring—and horrifying—sights of the January 6 insurrection was an actual gallows erected on the west side of the Capitol. People for the American Way's Right Wing Watch has revealed that plans to erect the gallows were underway almost as soon as Donald Trump issued his now-infamous call to arms on Twitter.

According to analysis from the nonprofit research group Advance Democracy, literally within hours of Trump calling for his followers to come to Washington on January 6 and "be wild," posters at TheDonald.win—successor to the r/The_Donald subreddit—took it as an order. One poster, CaptainChrisBacon, posted a picture asking, "Who Is Bringing The Gallows On January 6th, 2021?" The picture depicted the hanging of a Confederate war criminal—ironic given the number of Confederate flags on display at the insurrection.

Another poster, sunlessmage743, started a thread about the details of building a gallows, saying it could easily be done "with the right plan and the right people bringing pre cut materials to the site." Respondents were positively giddy. One claimed that the scene would be "so 1776." When user DJT2020 suggested they should also build a guillotine, user webthing offered to build it. User jc99ta mused that a guillotine could be used to slice watermelons when it wasn't being used to behead people.

Talk about a gallows dominated TheDonald.win for days afterward.

One user swiped Home Depot's logo to show just how easy it was to find the materials for a gallows. Another offered to bring a 500-foot paracord as a rope—and warned that they would be on the hunt for insufficiently loyal Republicans, as well as Black Lives Matter and "antifa." He initially backed off on using a paracord when told it could decapitate the person being hanged, but later mused that it would at least keep the person being hanged from thrashing about on the gallows. Among those on the list of targets were the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, Maxine Waters, Chuck Schumer, and Mitt Romney.

There's more where these came from. Check out Advance Democracy's archive here.

These insurrectionists were dead serious about killing a lot of people. Consider that many of these sans-culottes were heavily armed, and some of them were carrying zip-ties. Simply put, these were not just "tourists." (I'm looking at you, Rep. Andrew Clyde.)

For the better part of the last three years, the Republicans have called Democrats an angry mob. And yet they believe it's too soon to investigate how an actual mob attacked the Capitol. This is yet more evidence that we need to get to the bottom of how this horror happened—with or without the GOP.

[KS Toronado]

1. Nancy Pelosi will make sure this is looked into.

[malaise]

2. I still want to know who allowed the gallows to be erected

Lock them all up

[mopinko]

3. considering you arent allowed to have a sign on a wooden stick, per the rules.

[malaise]

4. Someone let them erect that weapon and it is a weapon

Dems need to make much more of this attempted coup

[mopinko]

5. i wish they would also put more emphasis on the fact

that it wasnt just a random day.

i heard someone comment the other day that- democracy depends on the consent of the losers.
this was an attack on the very process of democracy. not just the building. not even just the people, but the very transition of power.
thwarted like never before in our history.

[malaise]

6. Yep folks are treating it like some 1776 reenactment

It was an attempted coup and they planned to assassinate people

[mopinko]

8. they really did think they were going to change the outcome.

hard to argue they dont mostly belong on the short bus, like the lawyer said. crudely.

[malaise]

10. Their abysmal failure is the only good part of this attempted coup

It wiped the smirk off the seditionist in chief's face

[mopinko]

11. and sent shivers down many a yellow spine.

[Progressive Jones]

17. I want to know who prevented Capitol Police from shooting at the rioters that day. nt

[malaise]

18. That's an even better question

The first set that breached it should have been shot

[rickford66]

7. And I thought riots were spontaneous.

Silly me.

[mopinko]

9. yeah, riot is the least appropriate word for it.

[bucolic_frolic]

12. That was a Weapon of Mass Destruction for the Reign of Terror

You think dictatorships around the world would tolerate these insurrectionists?

[Hekate]

13. Thanks, B'Sis. Right Wing Watch was my go-to for info all during the BushCheney years & still...

They are an excellent resource.

For all the professed ignorance and amazement about the goals of the insurrectionists from the GOP, isn’t it amazing that the whole of DU understood it months beforehand. The insurrectionists really intended to bloodily massacre as many members of the House and Senate as they could get their hands on — and they still do. Vipers.

[calimary]

14. Yes. With OR WITHOUT the GOP.

They don’t want answers because they don’t want the rest of US getting answers.

Besides, they already know what the answers are, and about whom.

[Paladin]

15. Everybody put this in your "Least Surprising News Of The Day" file. (nt)

[Blue Owl]

16. JFC

Why aren't these public menaces in jail???

[BobTheSubgenius]

19. There are obviously both pros and cons in forging on without the Rs.

But no matter how that calculus is resolved, in the abstract, I can't believe that it would be conclusively FOR waiting for them when real world considerations are given appropriate weight.

The "con" points are all optics and PR. All the practical considerations come down on the "pro" side. Climb aboard or get left behind Red State.

I realize I could be wrong, but, if I am, it's not by much. Being wrong the other direction could turn out to be be way, WAY more wrong.