"Where's Nancy? Where's Nancy?"

[RandySF]

The screaming and shouting soon seemed right outside. Only then, a text alert from Capitol police blared on every phone in the room: “Due to security threat inside: immediately, move inside your office, take emergency equipment, lock the doors, take shelter.”

Three senior GOP aides piled furniture against the door and tried to move stealthily, worried that the intruders would discover them inside. In waves, the door to the hall heaved as rioters punched and kicked it. The crowd yelled “Stop the steal!” Some chanted menacingly, referring to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: “Where’s Nancy? Where’s Nancy?”

Peering out a window into a courtyard below, the adviser could see scores of people still streaming in — and no police in sight.



https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/inside-capitol-siege/2021/01/09/e3ad3274-5283-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html

[SheltieLover]

1. Terrifying!

And infuriating!

[soothsayer]

2. Yes and yes

[SheltieLover]

4. ...

[SunSeeker]

3. Horrifying. Only 25% (500 of 2000) of the Capitol Police force was on duty for Jan. 6.

Legislators were so stunned by the lack of visible Capitol Police that they said it "looks like a Saturday" as they walked into the Capitol that Wednesday morning.

This sure looks like a setup.

[SheltieLover]

5. It definitely was!

If that had been an attempted bank robbery, you know what those police would have done to those assholes scaling the wall?

...

[SunSeeker]

6. Capitol Police once arrested & fined Rep. Jayapal for wearing a mylar blanket!

Link to tweet

But they let these murderous assholes come in wearing chewbaca suits and all manner of flags, not to mention backpacks full of weapons--no problem! Hell, let me hold the gate open for you so can get in with all your stuff to kill me with!

[SheltieLover]

7. Unbelievable!

[uponit7771]

17. Whoa

[bdamomma]

20. That poor

woman they showed her up in gallery that horrible day laying on the floor for cover.

[SunSeeker]

22. The insurrectionists would have killed her if they had found her.

It was a miracle more people weren't killed.

[Action_Patrol]

9. Where did you read those stats?

This is the first I’ve read that info.

[James48]

12. That was in a Clyburn interview yesterday.

[SunSeeker]

24. Here's a link that mentions those numbers...

https://www.tmz.com/2021/01/11/ex-capitol-police-chief-requests-backup-denied-steven-sund-national-guard/

[malaise]

10. IT WAS A SETUP

History will absolve me

[Desert_Leslie]

11. So true

The more I read, the clearer it becomes that this was a premeditated insurrection.

[RandySF]

23. I read that a lot were 'out sick'.

[gademocrat7]

8. The terrifying desecration of our Capitol

Is unforgivable. The fomented hate for Speaker Nancy Pelosi is beyond the pale. These domestic terrorists need to be incarcerated for a long time.

[bdamomma]

21. They just hate

smart women.

These thugs all of them like Hawley and Cruz who went to top notch colleges are not too smart, they incited these bastards.


Hawley putting his fist in the air, and Cruz talking to a crowd on Jan 3rd inciting insurrection. Those 147 House Repigs should resign they do not honor the oath they took.

[Kid Berwyn]

13. Treason, thy name is Trump.

Thanks, Putin.

[yuiyoshida]

14. This was no frat house party...

Shit was serious enough that people died. I even wonder if that statement even makes sense any longer since we now have as of today 373K dead of Covid 19.

[amywalk]

15. That's because the police were on the other side in paramilitary gear.

[amywalk]

16. That's because the police were on the other side in paramilitary gear.

[RVN VET71]

18. It's Benghazi in America, dude!

Will the GOP call for hearings? Summon Trump and Cruz and Hawley and Turbojet (or whatever that jackass’s name) and Goehmert and Gaetz and Gosar (Gozer?) and . . . holy shit, if the GOP wanted to have hearings, who the hell would chair them! Almost all of them would be suspects!

[Jon King]

19. We have to wait for Garland's DOJ

So many charges to be filed of many different levels. But we know the real large amount of arrests won't be made until Garland can get DOJ up running fully again.