The DOJ announced that as of Aug. 6, more than 1,106 defendants were charged in nearly all 50 states and Washington, D.C., for actions they took during insurrection.

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      Carefully coordinated is a stretch. It was haphazardly coordinated at best.

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        I’m sure the planning was done in a highly coordinated way. But project execution always comes down to your resources, and … well … the rioters aren’t exactly the yummiest crayons in the box.

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          I suppose we have to be thankful that collectively they couldn’t outwit a potato. It’s also fortunate for them as well because if they had actually succeeded in their objective they’d probably all been shot.

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        Idk, great question. Maybe it was the cult leader?

        [Twice impeached, ex] president donald trump repeatedly said he wanted his supporters to fight Congress on accepting the electoral college results that showed Joe Biden won.

        “We’re going to walk down to the Capitol, and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators, and congressmen and women,” Trump told his supporters shortly before the Capitol assault. “We’re probably not going to be cheering so much for some of them because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.”

        The words Trump used to urge his supporters to show up and “fight” on his behalf Jan. 6.

        ‘We will stop the steal’ ‘We will never give up. We will never concede. It doesn’t happen’ “You will have an illegitimate president. That is what you will have, and we can’t let that happen.” ‘If you don’t fight like hell you’re not going to have a country anymore’

        “Let’s have trial by combat,” said Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani, warming up the crowd for Trump.

        Hmm. Who was leading this failed coup?

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          I wouldn’t say any of that is evidence of careful coordination. Careful implies intentional and thorough strategizing.

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            I mean the tours led by qanon affirming Congress members and the attempt to remove the VP from the premises for reasons that required text history purging certainly felt intentional. I suppose if they’d been thorough it wouldn’t be a failed insurrection.