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That’s my take. A lot of smoke but no fire. The chance of these people actually overthrowing the change in presidency is pretty much 0%.

It’s over let’s move on.

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There needs to be some consequences here. Maybe it was just for show, and turned out harmless, whatever. Regardless, the people who participated in this, and those who incited them, should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Otherwise this sort of thing will happen again, and next time it may not be so harmless.

I agree 100%. Of course that is what lots of people have said previously about similar incidents coming from the left but calls for prosecution and stronger police tactics were dismissed in favor of the less-than-peaceful actions because "reasons".

Personally I'm exhausted at trying to "score" the actions of two teams when in fact I really don't want either team to win. It has become an absurd attempt to decide which team is less awful while each side fools itself into thinking it exclusively represents political virtue.

I'm hoping that events don't escalate further and that perhaps there is some opportunity for the emergence of some alternate political parties and more thoughtful political leadership in order to let the existing parties fade into history.

I wonder if the Trump administration will enforce their executive order calling for maximized penalties for anyone damaging federal property [0]

[0] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/executive-or...

"A mob overtook the capitol, four people died, the police did nothing and let them go, let's move on"?

Literally shaking my head. I just can't fathom how this is so unremarkable to you.

3 people died not at the capital building. Why are you including them?

Are those 3 people not related in any way to this incident? As far as I can tell the 4 deaths were directly related to the protest. The one person in the US Capitol was shot and was pronounced dead later on. Does it make a difference that not all 4 were shot in the same place?

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