what was the goal of jan 6 ?

[bullimiami]

i believe, failing to get georgia to flip for him and failing to get pence to do his bidding, that the goal was to interrupt the counting and cause mayhem. then depending on what happened, declare martial law, stay in power, force the count to the house so they could annoint him. basically play it by ear and grab whatever he can to hold the office he lost.
there was obvious coordination at many levels plus 30-40000 wound up dupes.

there is no innocent interpretation of events.
this was a violent coup attempt.
trump, giuliani, djtj, the rest of his family and organizers and instigators need to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
not believing in the death penalty i think they all deserve to spend their remaining days in prison.

[Timewas]

1. I don't know either

Maybe they thought that they could grab the certificates and destroy them and then things would start over or some such... Ya gotta remember these are not the brightest bulbs in the chandelier.

[bullimiami]

2. the mob needs to be separated from the few that had a purpose.

[bullimiami]

8. i did read that the "rally" was approved for 10k and they estimated triple or better.

There must have been less actually marching off to the Capital Bldg.

[durablend]

4. Warm up for the "real" performance?

[FoxNewsSucks]

9. Yep.

MF45 pardoned DeVos's brother's thugs for a reason. The message was sent.

[Chicago1980]

10. I wouldn't doubt it...

Perhaps on local levels that aren't even thinking about it?

or something else. They're not done.

[bullimiami]

11. i dont think they get another chance this cycle. they blew their surprise attack.

The posse will be lying in wait the next couple of weeks.

[MustLoveBeagles]

5. Ghouliani should also be stripped of his law license

[Vivienne235729]

6. To get instagram worthy pictures? Not sure what the were trying to do once they got inside

[Girard442]

7. Maybe the operation failed when the MAGAts failed to take any hostages.

If they had been holding, say, Pelosi hostage, the martial law thing might have happened.

[bullimiami]

13. i think that was one of the possibilities.

[LizBeth]

12. Trump is suh a fool, I think when he sent the people there and they broke in and chaos, fear ensued,

he could call them up an convince them he had an army and the GOP republicans needed to vote him in to get peace.

[LisaL]

14. What would have happened if they destroyed the certificates?

Congress couldn't have then certified the election that night?

[David__77]

15. Well, it depends on who you ask.

Some might say it was to "give courage" to wavering Republicans.

Others might say it was to capture and kill lots of people.

[Dem2]

16. Intimidation

Trump has always ruled by intimidation, he doesn't know how to execute violence in my opinion.

[bullimiami]

17. maybe if he would have been a soldier instead of a gold plated chickenshit he would have known.

but then, every part of his life made who he is now and that experience would have changed him.

[Clearly fogged in]

18. Whoa. You're talking trump here. 3-30 rule.

To avoid confusion the 3-30 rule means any combination exceeding 3 sentences or 30 words is some nth level of chess.