QAnon and 'Stop the Steal' rioters will be in a world of hurt as the law crashes down on them

[scarletwoman]

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/qanon-and-stop-the-steal-rioters-will-be-in-a-world-of-hurt-as-the-law-crashes-down-on-them-11610475743?mod=mw_latestnews
Published: Jan. 12, 2021 at 1:22 p.m. ET
By Nicholas Grossman

Storming the Capitol was a next-level event, revving up the country’s national-security forces.

To the QAnon community, and others involved in storming the Capitol:

The Deep State is real, but it’s not what you think. The Deep State you worry about is mostly made up; a fiction, a lie, a product of active imaginations, grifter manipulations and the internet.

I’m telling you this now because storming the Capitol building has drawn the attention of the real Deep State — the national security bureaucracy — and it’s important you understand what that means.

-snip-

But now that QAnon was involved in violent sedition, the national security state is paying attention. Arrests of people caught on camera storming the Capitol have already begun. Prosecutions will follow. Big tech companies — which, while powerful, are weaker than, and have a healthy fear of the government — are now treating QAnon almost like how they treat ISIS. A giant federal apparatus built to fight al Qaeda will shift some capacity to fighting you, especially the white nationalist and anti-government militias in your orbit.

You cheered on lawyers who said they’d release the Kraken. But now you’ve poked Leviathan.

This is what you need to absorb: QAnon and “stop the steal” are forever associated with a violent attack against the United States. Maybe that’s not what it’s meant to you, maybe you think that’s a misread of last week’s events, but that’s how the real Deep State, a lot of elected officials, and much of the public sees it.

Please go read the rest at the link for an excellent explanation of what the "real Deep State" actually is.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. More arrests coming this weekend....

These assholes have no idea of the world of hurt they are going to face after the 20th if they take arms against the Government State and Federal.

[Initech]

2. The irony: the people who support the police will soon be on the other side of the prison wall.

[scarletwoman]

3. I would change that to: "the people who SAY they support the police..."

[Initech]

4. Too many characters for the subject line.

But yeah it is quite ironic!

[maxsolomon]

5. Meh, most of them will plea out to probation

and keep their arsenals.

Zero faith in the Justice System.

[mnmoderatedem]

6. what I'm looking forward to

is those reprehensible thugs rolling over on each other when they are offered plea deals in order to reduce or drop charges, once they realize the serious consequences of their actions. Then we'll see how much they believe in their "cause".