Actually, non-sarcastically, I do love the painstaking deliberation on the part of “the experts” in this regard. Because I want the folks who are officially classifying this stuff to take the time to get the facts and weigh the evidence, even if they end up only confirming what some more shoot-from-the-hip political analysts opined about it long ago.
And speaking of people it would be interesting to hear from about whether they’ve subsequently altered their views on the seriousness of the Jan. 6 events:
No self-respecting insurrection can be carried out with Viking helmets and selfie sticks.
There was nothing self-respecting or indeed anything-respecting about what those morons did. It was treason by idiot.
And meanwhile Trump had been trying like mad for 6 weeks, and pretty darn hard for the previous 4 years to suborn enough of the government to put some real muscle behind the rabble.
On the day of, the rest of the government could not stop Trump bleating his public demand for a coup. But they sure as hell made sure that nothing that looked like an order to perform the coup using Federal forces ever went anywhere. Instead Trump was shouting into Twitter and only the twits showed up.
Rest assured those twits could have killed a couple hundred members of Congress before they ran out of ideas, beer, and Slim Jims. And that in turn could well have destabilized the rest of the political establishment enough that who knows where we’d be today.
They were dangerous. And would have been far more so with just a little more help from the Feds. Help which was not, thank goodness, forthcoming. Much.
It’s well known in legal circles, that if a bank robbery is carried out by complete idiots who fail to get any money…
Then it was all good, and we need to just let it go. Particularly we need not even do a cursory investigation of the main idiot who planned it all. Because he was an idiot, he gets a pass on criminal acts.
Any decent mall lawyer or pillow salesman could tell you that.
No one expects The Hindsight Bandwagon Inquisition! Actually, we do because this is The Straight Dope.
If you dudes are looking for a retraction or affirmation of grave error, fine, the conclusion I drew as the title of this thread was incorrect. It has been a long time, but I think I said that way up top shortly after the OP as well.
To be fair to me, much has come to light since this thread started that no one here knew at the time, I can comfort my imagined bruised ego with that I guess.
