• MrVilliam@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Maybe I’m being optimistic, but I have to assume that since an adult is in the white house right now and since we know what happened on Jan 6, there will be significantly more resources in place to protect the Capitol and other government buildings around the country this upcoming January. Plus we’ve seen that the FBI got a bunch of them and charged, convicted, and sentenced them, so there’s some precedent to act as a deterrent now. The cultists may be fucking morons, but they’re also absolute goddamn cowards, so I don’t think they’ll try to “storm” shit that is obviously properly defended, especially when they know that they’ll probably be caught and go to prison for it. At least not thousands of them like last time. Maybe like 50 total will push through, but they ain’t even getting to the steps outside this time.

    • grue@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      It’s not about an adult being in the White House; it’s about a non-traitor being in it. The police weren’t conspicuously mostly absent on Jan 6 because of incompetence; they were deliberately sent away in order to help the coup succeed.