Wed 6 Jan 2021, 3:26 PM
I can’t really process, but I’ll make some notes. As per usual, I’ll be able to update this timeline from re-tweets and likes.
1:11 PM
I started by tuning in to the count of the electoral college. in 4 minutes, the Rs shut down with dissent. Debate will probably continue into the evening. I was a cockeyed optimist.
Good timeline from Vanity Fair.
At this time protestors insurrectionists have occupied, climbed over barriers, broken windows. All politicians and reporters are locked down. Pics of an insurrectionist standing behind the speaker’s desk, another hanging from a wall (?!) inside the rotunda, officers barricading the door of the senate floor with weapons pointed at insurrectionists outside, chasing a police officer down the halls and up stairs.
Rs who incited this are now trying to distance themselves. BLM protesters would be dead by now, peaceful BLM protesters had DHS aggresively suppress them.
Complete failure of/complicity by police, they were warned.
3:35
Person confirmed was shot inside the capitol, VA national guard being finally sent in.
3:54
Pic of insurrectionist sitting at Pelosi’s desk.
It’s hard to look at these now, adrenaline and anger and disbelief, but not really disbelief.
Improvised explosive device found outside the building.
I don’t know the word for this, beyond cowardice:
Attempting to replace the US flag with a T**** flag; Nazi Confederate flags flying.
Lack of law enforcement is astonishing, almost a bigger story, DC can be invaded without effort.
4:06
Biden about to speak. Demands “I call on T**** to go on tv now and stop [this].” My first thought was that you shouldn’t make demands to someone holding hostages. Feeling that is horrific.
I’m thinking about the Sec of the UN denouncing what’s happening. We are 3rd world.
Two (?) hours ago, the Georgia Senate race was the most important thing, now it’s happened and I should be ecstatic but it’s difficult.
Ex-military are describing the containment effort as reminiscent of clearing insurgents in Falluja.
4:31
T**** video. I watched but didn’t want to. Asha Rangappa teaches me a new word: paralipsis, saying two things at the same time. He was OKing the insurrection as he was asking them to stop. Unbelievable.
5:03
Yasmine Vossoughian (MSNBC) on the ground saying that she spoke to a Florida militia member who told her that “this is not over”. Flash grenades and then tear gas, she pulls back.
6:29
What’s going to happen overnight?
The police are part of the insurrection, absent.
I first thought the Rs would pull back, but now I think they’ve learned selfishness from T**** and will do nothing and double-down, this is going to be a worse place to go.
The “he’ll never leave the White House” is no longer an almost-funny thing.
GWB called it sedition.
Have been watching The Lincoln Project video cast for the past 30 min, at one point Rick Wilson I swear was holding back tears, his eloquent anger was no longer humorous but rather impassioned. The Rs are going to pay. I know there are many Democrats who feel The Lincoln Project gets too much credit. No.
A caller asked how she should explain this to her young children. Tara Setmayer jokingly said that Rick should not be the one to answer that. His answer was perfect. While T**** was in office, I always thought about the foreign countries that will have no respect for us and maybe never have respect; the next generation will likely have similar feelings to deal with.
8:14
Congress reconvenes.
Pence gives a mealy opening. McConell, short, demanding they confirm the electoral votes, looks around accusingly at his R cohorts.
Schumer, Jan 6, 2021 will live in infamy, insurrectionists, all must be prosecuted The fucking president did it!
Other Rs: there were problems, but we’ll be the bigger man.
Corey Booker, god what an inspiration of a Senator.
Josh Hawley, unbelievably/not unbelievably doubled-down. Up at 6:29 (“they’ve learned selfishness from T**** and will do nothing and double-down”) I had feared that.
10:34
Drinking and giving up for the night.
Updated 3 Mar 2023
Images I often return to:
The image was taken around 1 p.m. prior to the breach. It shows two chamber assistants. The one on the right is a sophomore at Emory University and the girl on the left is a Northwestern student.
Both were taking the votes from the Senate chamber to the House chamber for them to be certified. They returned to the Senate chamber where, about an hour later, they had to shelter-in-place as rioters started to pour in.
–from the 11 Alive article