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In reply to the discussion: Hopefully, I am permitted to ask this: if it was appropriate to shoot Ms Babbitt as she was [View all]joshcryer
(62,270 posts)Half of them probably have long haul COVID.
It was Trump's speech beforehand and the concerted collaboration beforehand that permitted the first invasion. People who sought to turn the mob into an invasion force and used psyop tactics to rile the mob up. What I may get in trouble for is the fact that most of the mob didn't in fact invade. Had the majority of the mob invaded there would have been nothing the capitol police could've done and it would've been a truly insane scenario where the military itself would've had to get involved. Had Babbit not been shot this is actually very likely to have happened because the mob would've been further emboldened (and at some point would have acquired capitol police weapons).
We're talking a Cliven Bundy style standoff with the government. We are talking having to do the Electoral Count in some other building in DC heavily guarded.