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NoRoadUntravelled

(2,626 posts)
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 11:32 AM Jan 2021

Am I wrong in thinking that it is only through sheer good fortune that other terrorist groups [View all]

have not stormed the US Capitol in the last 4 years (or any other time) and taken out a large cohort of our elected officials in an effort to destroy our Republic?
Yesterday's horror story is proof that the Capitol Building is insufficiently protected and its occupants, our elected leaders, are woefully vulnerable to attack.
How on Earth can this be possible? It's like it's all built out of sand and we've just been lucky rather than smart and prepared.
This is wrong on so many levels.
If Trump's dummies can do what they did yesterday, what happens when a professional group gives it a go?

Where the fuck are we?

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