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greenjar_01

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18. I think it started to dawn on them around late-afternoon yesterday that they'd overplayed the hand
Thu Jan 7, 2021, 02:13 PM
Jan 2021

Lots of social media takedowns of the materials they posted, excuse making, and they sure did disperse pretty easily after 7 or 8pm once they realized the whole thing had gone mammaries up. Certainly after Pence and McConnell restarted the Arizona objection session by basically calling them disgraceful idiots, they understood that the coup attempt had failed.

One of the most striking things about yesterday afternoon for me was the neutrals coming out on social media absolutely infuriated and disgusted by it: the people who aren't usually publicly political but were hopping mad about the Capitol takeover and posting about how despicable it was. These aren't the people who are usually shut out by partisan filter bubbles on your socials. It was bad. When Unvcle Jim who usually just posts about the Iggles and Phillies games is calling MAGAs assholes on Facebook, the coup is in smithereens.

There's a lot of nervous MAGAs waiting for the knock on the door right now

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Nope Ferrets are Cool Jan 2021 #1
Time will teach, as families of ant-maskers learn when theirs go Covid empedocles Jan 2021 #2
Nope. They are patriots in their own warped minds. KPN Jan 2021 #3
Not a fan of facial recognition Warren_Pointe Jan 2021 #4
The great irony - of all the times to wear a mask... underpants Jan 2021 #8
That's what I keep saying Warren_Pointe Jan 2021 #12
I doubt it. Hopefully they'll figure it out in prison. NoRoadUntravelled Jan 2021 #5
Nope. underpants Jan 2021 #6
Some have already lost their jobs exboyfil Jan 2021 #7
Generally speaking, I have very little faith in their capacity for self-reflection. Laelth Jan 2021 #9
No. pwb Jan 2021 #10
No. BlueIdaho Jan 2021 #11
Not until they find themselves behind bars Dem2 Jan 2021 #13
They are a brainwashed cult, doing their cult leaders bidding, blindly Roisin Ni Fiachra Jan 2021 #14
They are probably thinking that there was soo many of them at this riot that the Government won't do dustyscamp Jan 2021 #15
zero idea as they thought its justified as they view themselves as the real American patriots beachbumbob Jan 2021 #16
They're patriots - they're immune... lame54 Jan 2021 #17
I think it started to dawn on them around late-afternoon yesterday that they'd overplayed the hand greenjar_01 Jan 2021 #18
Drop the "t"and make one word sanatanadharma Jan 2021 #19
I'm guessing: about as many as were at the march in Charlottesville... brooklynite Jan 2021 #20
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