I have always thought morons that break the law and post selfies or videos of the act and think they will get way with it…..I feel they are swimming in the shallow end of the gene pool.
Take all the selfies and videos that have been posted of those committing the insurrection of 06 January….were they so flipping stupid to think that they would be safe in posting these incriminating social posts?
Well my thought is they were idiots in the highest degree….but is there a reason they are this flipping stupid?
Many Trump supporters who took part in the January 6th riots at the United States Capitol building made the job of law enforcement officials much easier by snapping incriminating photos of themselves committing crimes as they were happening.
MLive.com this week talked with several extremism experts for some clues about why so many MAGA rioters thought they’d get away with sharing photos of themselves breaking the law to the entire world.
Sam Jackson, a professor at the University at Albany who studies anti-government militias, tells MLive.com that the rioters likely thought they would succeed in overturning the results on the 2020 election and thus imagined creating historical records of themselves to show they were heroes at a world-changing event.
“I think a lot of it has to do with the folks who participated feel like they weren’t doing anything wrong, probably combined with a sense that they thought they were doing something historic,” he explained.
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“The people who went to the Capitol trying to ‘stop the steal,’ by and large, expected that they were going to succeed at that and thought that they would really push the government to make different decisions,” he said. “Some of them didn’t realize the seriousness with which storming the Capitol would be taken.”
(alternet.org)
Good to have scientific explanation….but mine is more simple and just a valid….these insurrectionist are just morons….they lack any knowledge beyond stupidity.
Speaking of morons….
The greatest threat to America is not foreign terrorists, its domestic morons.
Thoughts?
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“lego ergo scribo”
In Saner Thought 
To some extent, I think those idiots expected to start off a ‘popular’ uprising of some kind, one that woud leave them as ‘heroes’, and not facing prosecution. With Trump implying he was going to join them, and them stupid enough to believe that, they were grabbing what they saw as their ‘moment in history’.
Even though they were betrayed by Trump, they still seem stupid enough to continue to support him.
Best wishes, Pete.
Like I say…”Can’t Fix Stupid” chuq
Stupid, delusional, arrogant…
You left out racist, clueless and revisionist….LOL chuq
Their heads full of themselves and their ’cause’, that common sense, if it ever was there, was blown away
Commonsense left this country with Reagan chuq
You are right!
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Unfortunately, those intellectual non-swimmers aren’t blocked by borders. A few weeks earlier some of them tried to storm the Parliament in krautistan, but failed since there is no lifeguard at the gene pool.
Social media is the ladder they need to spread like a plague. chuq
Maybe that’s why Steve Jobs called it Fecebook.
It is just that chuq