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*Extremely* prescient thread (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jan 2021 OP
Don't forget, tRump called Dec 19 for the protest Jan 6: "Be there, will be wild!" Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2021 #1
Yes, it's not really "prescient" when it's a public invitation sent out a few days earlier Bongo Prophet Jan 2021 #2
It is prescient, but it is not rocket science. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jan 2021 #3
I guess that is technically true, point taken Bongo Prophet Jan 2021 #4
he's pretty spot-on IcyPeas Jan 2021 #5
Officials who ignored the warnings were being willfully ignorant... Wounded Bear Jan 2021 #6

Bernardo de La Paz

(49,020 posts)
1. Don't forget, tRump called Dec 19 for the protest Jan 6: "Be there, will be wild!"
Tue Jan 12, 2021, 01:46 PM
Jan 2021




Two days earlier than that, Dec 19, Arieh Kovler was on it:




Bongo Prophet

(2,650 posts)
2. Yes, it's not really "prescient" when it's a public invitation sent out a few days earlier
Tue Jan 12, 2021, 02:04 PM
Jan 2021

To Nora O'Donnell, it might look like magic. Better for her to think that than grok the fact that citizens can 'do journalism' from time to time...

Bongo Prophet

(2,650 posts)
4. I guess that is technically true, point taken
Tue Jan 12, 2021, 02:41 PM
Jan 2021

If I got an invitation to a party, and told someone I was going to be there on said date, when I shoed up would they say "Ooh, how prescient you were to be here! What foresight, how'd you do that?"

I would probably look at them funny, lol.

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