# 7 Jan 2021 and beyond - the aftermath of the storming of the Capitol **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 8, 2021, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-jan-2021-and-beyond-the-aftermath-of-the-storming-of-the-capitol/930020 "2021-01-08T10:28:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 40
**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 17, 2021, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-jan-2021-and-beyond-the-aftermath-of-the-storming-of-the-capitol/930020/784 "2021-01-17T01:17:31Z")
> **[Report: Man Arrested In D.C. With 500 Rounds Of Ammo And Unauthorized...](https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicholasreimann/2021/01/16/report-man-arrested-in-dc-with-500-rounds-of-ammo-and-fake-inaugural-credentials/)** > > Biden’s inauguration is now less than four days away. > Wesley Allen Beeler, of Virginia … was arrested for possession of unregistered firearm, possession of unregistered ammunition and carrying a pistol without a license, according to Capitol Police, with [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/biden-inauguration-dc-capitol-news-01-16-21/h_1ac0f2630492cc82c96cc5c2cb16a07b) reporting he had a loaded Glock semi-automatic pistol with 17 rounds in the chamber. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-jan-2021-and-beyond-the-aftermath-of-the-storming-of-the-capitol/930020/785 "2021-01-17T01:19:54Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > …with 17 rounds in the chamber. I do not believe that this is possible. ---
**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 17, 2021, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-jan-2021-and-beyond-the-aftermath-of-the-storming-of-the-capitol/930020/786 "2021-01-17T01:21:04Z")
Yeah, _Forbes_ means a 17-round clip and one in the chamber. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-jan-2021-and-beyond-the-aftermath-of-the-storming-of-the-capitol/930020/787 "2021-01-17T01:28:28Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Yeah, _Forbes_ means a 17-round clip and one in the chamber Maybe, maybe not… [![](https://external-preview.redd.it/KxsoljgpLZt_6HWDwKdyFHZMJ8-8_WYCWTJfD5G5rJ4.jpg?auto=webp&s=53a6506eda1003276f0b611920465f94ca23b3ad) ](https://external-preview.redd.it/KxsoljgpLZt_6HWDwKdyFHZMJ8-8_WYCWTJfD5G5rJ4.jpg?auto=webp&s=53a6506eda1003276f0b611920465f94ca23b3ad) ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-jan-2021-and-beyond-the-aftermath-of-the-storming-of-the-capitol/930020/788 "2021-01-17T01:35:08Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > I do not believe that this is possible. Well, not all at _once_… ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-jan-2021-and-beyond-the-aftermath-of-the-storming-of-the-capitol/930020/789 "2021-01-17T01:51:50Z")
> [@RyanAdam](#): > > Republicans as fascist since 2000 They are not, not at all. They do let the fascists and nazis run free and support their actions however. All right wing authoritarian governments are not- in any way shape or form- fascist. In fact, pretty much fascism as a real political entity is gone. Netanyahu is a right wing authoritarian, but I’d be very careful calling him a fascist. trump is a type of populist, and a con-man. Too many people see a authoritarian and just call it “fascist”. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-jan-2021-and-beyond-the-aftermath-of-the-storming-of-the-capitol/930020/790 "2021-01-17T01:59:01Z")
Well, they also might want to wait until trump does his mass pardon. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-jan-2021-and-beyond-the-aftermath-of-the-storming-of-the-capitol/930020/791 "2021-01-17T02:35:47Z")
> [@flurb](#): > > She’s just being smart. With her real estate business now up in flames, her future earning potential lies in being a MAGA martyr. The problem with that (and the beauty of it) is that her message is not really getting out to the MAGA people. They aren’t seeing her on any of their regularly scheduled MAGA media. Their media is too invested in telling people that “antifa” was there, not “patriots” like her. The majority of people seeing her pitiful pleading are laughing at her on her way to prison. ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-jan-2021-and-beyond-the-aftermath-of-the-storming-of-the-capitol/930020/792 "2021-01-17T04:24:47Z")
I have a vision of some future Traveller in post-apocalyptic America macheting his way through the swampland of a now-flooded Florida, to find a Brando / Kurtz-like figure who is still revered as a god by a few backward and blood-thirsty hillbillies, squatting alone in a crumbling mansion. The Traveller feels trapped as the Grotesque regales him for hours with a long rambling and mumbling narrative about how he was once the most powerful man in the world and one day will be again. All this time he taps a mildewed brown carry-case. The Horror, the Horror… ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-jan-2021-and-beyond-the-aftermath-of-the-storming-of-the-capitol/930020/793 "2021-01-17T06:53:27Z")
_Hey, man, you don’t talk to the President. You listen to him. The man’s enlarged my mind. He’s a poet warrior in the classic sense. I mean sometimes he’ll… uh… well, you’ll say “hello” to him, right? And he’ll just walk right by you. He won’t even notice you. And suddenly he’ll grab you, and he’ll throw you in a corner, and he’ll say, “Do you know that ‘I won’ is in the name Suriwong? Somebody told me that he ruled Thailand or something. If he ruled Thailand, I should rule the US. I won, I won–der who–who wrote the book of love…”_ _I mean I’m… no, I can’t… I’m a little man, I’m a little man, he’s… he’s a great man! When he found me, he said, “Young man there’s no need to feel down; young man pick yourself off the ground…” Like a fucking poet warrior in the classic sense, y’know?_ ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-jan-2021-and-beyond-the-aftermath-of-the-storming-of-the-capitol/930020/794 "2021-01-17T07:45:12Z")
> [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](#): > > At least the 4th Democratic Congressperson to get Covid from Republicans not wearing masks during the riot. [Democratic representative Lou Correa](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/capitol-riot-covid-lou-correa-b1788404.html?utm_source=reddit.com) And we can pinpoint the source of their infection because … ? ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-jan-2021-and-beyond-the-aftermath-of-the-storming-of-the-capitol/930020/795 "2021-01-17T09:28:39Z")
Well done. 🙂 _I love the smell of bronzer in the morning._ -/- _Smelled like…winning._ ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-jan-2021-and-beyond-the-aftermath-of-the-storming-of-the-capitol/930020/796 "2021-01-17T14:17:19Z")
> [@Heffalump\_and\_Roo](#): > > At least the 4th Democratic Congressperson to get Covid from Republicans not wearing masks during the riot. [Democratic representative Lou Correa](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/capitol-riot-covid-lou-correa-b1788404.html?utm_source=reddit.com) Why aren’t any of the Republicans catching it? Or are they but don’t want to 'fess up in public? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-jan-2021-and-beyond-the-aftermath-of-the-storming-of-the-capitol/930020/797 "2021-01-17T14:38:14Z")
Doesn’t really make a difference who caught what from who. Refusing a request from someone you are forced to share a room with to wear a mask is a dick move and potentially fatal. Sums up the selfishness of the Republican Party perfectly. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-jan-2021-and-beyond-the-aftermath-of-the-storming-of-the-capitol/930020/798 "2021-01-17T14:52:14Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Doesn’t really make a difference who caught what from who. Refusing a request from someone you are forced to share a room with to wear a mask is a dick move and potentially fatal. Sums up the selfishness of the Republican Party perfectly.- I agree with you. My question does not contradict anything you wrote. But I’m wondering if any Republicans caught it and are just too ashamed to come forward. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Duality](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.duality/32/4098_2.png) [@Mr.Duality](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Duality)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-jan-2021-and-beyond-the-aftermath-of-the-storming-of-the-capitol/930020/799 "2021-01-17T14:53:08Z")
I’m humor-challenged. It’s difficult to make me laugh, but you did it. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-jan-2021-and-beyond-the-aftermath-of-the-storming-of-the-capitol/930020/800 "2021-01-17T15:08:12Z")
I was mostly responding to @Peter_Morris ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-jan-2021-and-beyond-the-aftermath-of-the-storming-of-the-capitol/930020/801 "2021-01-17T18:11:31Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > But I’m wondering if any Republicans caught it and are just too ashamed to come forward. I would think it’s highly likely they caught it, but don’t want to be tested. Or if they tested positive, they don’t want to quarantine. Because they are dangerous, selfish, childish, anti-social, anti-science idiots. ---
**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 17, 2021, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-jan-2021-and-beyond-the-aftermath-of-the-storming-of-the-capitol/930020/802 "2021-01-17T18:15:14Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Why aren’t any of the Republicans catching it? Or are they but don’t want to 'fess up in public? Given that they behave this way more generally, and associate with people who behave in similar ways, there’s a high probability that they have already had it. I don’t think any of the Republicans that aroused ire for going maskless here were elderly, so probably a good chance they had it asymptomatically and don’t know. Or had mild symptoms and either didn’t get tested or didn’t say. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2021, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-jan-2021-and-beyond-the-aftermath-of-the-storming-of-the-capitol/930020/803 "2021-01-17T18:36:04Z")
More likely they think that only lefties are afraid of it because it is a disease of Lefties, they don’t want to admit to catching a Lefty disease - and yes I genuinely think they have politicised infection, they really do think like that - making any gesture to prevent the spread of it is a concession to Lfetist politics and leftist infections. If you wear a mask, then by definition you are a Lefty and not a Trump supporter - hell it must be true because even Trump won’t wear one unless he is forced into doing it by Lefties. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-jan-2021-and-beyond-the-aftermath-of-the-storming-of-the-capitol/930020.md?page=39) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/7-jan-2021-and-beyond-the-aftermath-of-the-storming-of-the-capitol/930020.md?page=41)