Newly obtained video shows movement of group suspected of constructing Jan. 6 gallows hours before Capitol siege

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40. It would have to be "art" because it would be fucking useless as a gallows

Let's count all the ways they fucked up if they were trying to make something that would kill anyone.

1. The tower is in the wrong goddamned place. It should be in the middle. If you tried hanging someone from this it'd flip over the first time you tried it. Admittedly this WOULD probably kill the victim by squashing them to death - and the insurrectionists by flinging their stupid asses thirty or forty feet - but it's not the recommended way.

2. It's too fucking short. There's a YouTube video of a tour of one of the execution suites at a British prison; the gallows is on the second floor of the prison, and the criminal drops into a cell on the first floor. The platform on this is barely head-height.

3. There's not enough rope to do the job. An Israeli comedy TV show did a sketch about hanging Adolf Eichmann, the first execution the young country had ever done, and it was just a comedy of errors - they didn't put a trap door into the platform, they put the platform a foot above the ground, this shit went on for two years until Eichmann finally had enough of it and hanged himself. It would be like that. (In real life the people hanging Eichmann asked someone how to do it, so they killed him the first time they tried it.)

4. They made the framework for the platform out of 2x4s? For fuck's sake, if you put enough people on this thing to hang someone who didn't want to be hanged they'd fall right through.

5. Probably no trap door, so apparently they were just supposed to shove Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi over the side.

Given that, this displays, more clearly than most of the other things they did that day (although the part about printing shirts is a little more clear) that this is no spontaneous demonstration. It was clearly a planned event. Someone spent time to make this! It's not like you can go to Lowe's and buy a gallows kit like you can for a picnic table or swing set.