Not fine but safe

[rthstewart]

None of us was downtown today.  Secret Service had closed a lot of buildings starting Tuesday.  I've been so exclusively remote since March I moved out of my office. 


The trade association representing 14,000 small and midsized manufacturers and factory owners, the National Association of Maufacturers, called on the Vice President and Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment.

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[rthstewart]

I hope you're feeling better but feeling frightened, disoriented, and angry are all very reasonable and understandable.
It's awful, though not surprising. My spouse, bless him, was busy all day -- not at his office as the Secret Service had booted them from it. When I showed him a picture of the Senate Chamber being occupied (and he once worked for the Senate Judiciary Committee) his reaction was the same as other DC residents. No. Impossible. The Capitol Police would never allow that. They'd never get in. When I showed him further pictures, the reaction was, well, incompetence or conspiracy.
The Cap Police shot a woman who made a wrong u turn. They routinely tackle and assault people who get "too close." The zip tie disabled activists to their wheel chairs. But I guess we're all just the easy marks and as the commentary has stated today, the U.S. Capitol was taken over by Duck Dynasty and a guy in Chewbacca bikini.

[katharhino]

Thanks for sharing. I've been hearing some very mixed things about the Capitol Police response. It honestly sounds like it probably WAS a mixed response. I'm scared by how much worse everything might have been, it seems like total chaos.