# 6 January 2021; A Day worth a Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 6, 2021, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770 "2021-01-06T04:30:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 34
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/663 "2021-01-06T23:11:30Z")
You’re so completely wrong. They didn’t stop Congress – yet – but they “inspired” millions of similar idiots to do the same any time an election goes the way they don’t want it to. And next time they might break in with assault weapons. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/664 "2021-01-06T23:12:02Z")
Twitter has a message saying not only is this message of election fraud disputed, but that it can’t be replied to or retweeted due to threats of violence. Is that new? ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/665 "2021-01-06T23:12:24Z")
> [@mikecurtis](#): > > These people accomplished only one thing today. Riling up the media And a dead woman. Damage to the capitol. Interrupting a session of congress. Having the National Guard mobilized. Nothing to see here. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/666 "2021-01-06T23:12:24Z")
Crossposted from the Pit thread, which I had mistaken for this one: I just received an alert on my phone: Northern Virginia is under curfew until 6 in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_S](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/46a35a/32.png) [@Max\_S](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_S)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/667 "2021-01-06T23:12:40Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > Trump’s latest tweet (saw it on NBC so can’t link to it) is possibly the most sickening thing I’ve ever seen. It basically celebrates what happened today with no rebuke or regret whatsoever. The tweet: > Donald J. Trump > @realDonaldTrump > “These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election victory is so unceremoniously & viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long. Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!” > [6:01 PM · Jan 6, 2021·Twitter for iPhone](https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1346954970910707712) ~Max ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/668 "2021-01-06T23:12:50Z")
Them being stupid and petulant doesn’t make them not dangerous or not terrorists. At least one dead. Bombs, plural, have been placed in government buildings. The GOP Congressmen conspired with them to orchestrate this. You’re part of the problem. ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/669 "2021-01-06T23:12:53Z")
Fine. Put them in jail. Punish them for whatever law you think they broke. Who cares what building they entered. It’s just a building. Our democracy is not a building. It’s the people. The people who will not be swayed by some misguided insurection. Calling for riot police would only make things worse. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/670 "2021-01-06T23:12:55Z")
At least because so many of these idiots don’t wear masks it will be super easy to identify them later. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/671 "2021-01-06T23:12:58Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > To little too late. And dollars to donuts, these limp “calls” will amount to nothing. No one will be imprisoned, no one will be impeached, no one will be censured. Business as usual. > > I fucking sick of being the party of pussies. I can almost imagine them offering a deal: give up the challenges and accept your man lost, and we don’t go after anyone. And the Trumplicans would refuse. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/672 "2021-01-06T23:13:10Z")
It’s new as of today but it’s not the first message they’ve used it on. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/673 "2021-01-06T23:13:23Z")
I was on the much more laid back campus at UCLA, and even there they herded us all over campus and arrest dozens. I agree with your screed completely. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/674 "2021-01-06T23:14:03Z")
What the fuck? ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/675 "2021-01-06T23:14:20Z")
> [@Omniscient](#): > > At least one dead By the hands of the police ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/676 "2021-01-06T23:14:25Z")
Before and after, pictured: > ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/677 "2021-01-06T23:14:26Z")
CNN reporting that the woman who was shot inside the Capitol building (by police, I think) has died. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/678 "2021-01-06T23:15:18Z")
> [@mikecurtis](#): > > By the hands of the police You’re making them the victims? Seriously? Traitor. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/679 "2021-01-06T23:15:29Z")
What name do you guys think this will be given? “1/6” is too bland, but I’m not sure what short and pithy phrase we’ll be referring to this event by in a month or two. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/680 "2021-01-06T23:15:41Z")
Please enjoy some biting humor on this dark day. [https://mobile.twitter.com/jonlovett/status/1346938754758553601](https://mobile.twitter.com/jonlovett/status/1346938754758553601) ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/681 "2021-01-06T23:16:16Z")
It’s 15 minutes past curfew. In Portland, the police were gassing protestors and busting heads by now. ---
**Author:** ![Akaj](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/akaj/32/145_2.png) [@Akaj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akaj)\ **Post date:** [January 6, 2021, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770/682 "2021-01-06T23:16:18Z")
> [@mikecurtis](#): > > Fine. Put them in jail. Punish them for whatever law you think they broke. Who cares what building they entered. It’s just a building. Our democracy is not a building. It’s the people. The people who will not be swayed by some misguided insurection. > > Calling for riot police would only make things worse. No, it’s not just a building. A others have pointed out, today was a massive security breach. Congresspeople and their staffers had no protocol for mobs entering the building, so every computer was accessible. One MAGAt with a thumb drive could cause billions in security issues. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770.md?page=33) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/6-january-2021-a-day-worth-a-thread/929770.md?page=35)