The defenses were so poor it was a coin flip whether it would succeed.

konjin · on Jan 28, 2021

What would success have looked like? Stealing the original copy of the constitution and using whiteout to change the bits they didn't like?

kibwen · on Jan 28, 2021

Success for them would have looked like apprehending the legislature and coercing them into throwing out the votes of states that didn't go to Trump. And this is charitably assuming that their chants of "hang Mike Pence", along with the gallows they erected out front, might have only been for show.

konjin · on Jan 28, 2021

My version of editing the constitution is vastly more likely to happen than whatever fever dream this is.

kibwen · on Jan 28, 2021

Perhaps you're so naive that you think that a murderous mob successfully overthrowing an elected government is unprecedented in US history? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_insurrection_of_189...

konjin · on Jan 28, 2021

Ah yes, Wilmington NC 1890, the place I go to when I need to imagine what could possibly happen in DC not 130 years later.

kibwen · on Jan 28, 2021

If oblivious sarcasm is your only recourse for when you have nothing left to contribute to an argument, then I accept your concession.

konjin · on Jan 28, 2021

Yelling at the top of your lungs that cosplayers are a real danger to the biggest superpower on the planet makes you either dishonest or insane.

Either of those precludes a good faith argument.