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At no point did those Jan6 people have the ability to actually overthrow the US government. Let's not exaggerate their ability to take over all US armed forces

• macintux 2y ago
  They absolutely had the opportunity to give the president an excuse to stay in power. “The electoral ballots have been compromised, Congress is in disarray with its leadership killed. I’m staying in office for the duration of this emergency, and the states will decide on a process to select new electors, or the House of Representatives will elect the next president per its Constitutional authority.”
  • ahartmetz 2y ago
    ...or just permanent state of emergency, and voila. Very common way to do the democracy to dictatorship transition. "Many such cases"
  • ywvcbk 2y ago
    Virginia and Maryland were on the brink of invading DC (had the government continued to resist deploying the National Guard and the riot got even more out of hand) with all the bizarre consequences of that… To be fair it’s not like the mob was that determined and capable to actually murder Pence etc. (at least there weren’t any clear signs of it). They scattered immediately after the first guns were fired (I mean those close enough to witness it). So more people might have died but it would have primarily been the rioters rather than anyone else..
• sanktanglia 2y ago
  January 6th was an excuse for pence to not certify so in the fight for certification it would be thrown to the supreme Court that trump owns