Thank you for tuning in. You are listening to Red Menace and we will also be putting this

up on Rev Left as well. This is Allison and here with Brett and we are doing somewhat of an

emergency episode because of events going on in the United States right now that I'm sure

all of you are aware of. So yesterday from the time of recording on January 6th, you know,

Wright Wingers had a large stop the steel rally in DC. It's one of several rallies that they've

had. This is not the first time they've been there but today it lined up with the congressional vote

to certify the electoral college and begin the transition of power more formally to Joe Biden

and they were there to protest that and to disrupt it and as things progressed and escalated very

heavily a crowd some of whom were armed to varying degrees basically got into the capital building

and were able to breach the Congress and Senate chambers. There's you know several things that

will talk about that led to this right how much of that was successfully breaching the building

how much of it was being let in by the police is hard to say but what happened was these buildings

were stormed they were successfully occupied for a period of time things were taken out a lot of

dumbass selfie moments for had for these people in very self incriminating ways and we are now kind

of in the wake of this right it's the next day now things have stabilized somewhat obviously they

cleared them out the congressional vote was able to continue and certify Joe Biden and Trump you

know as of about an hour ago managed to get back on Twitter to post a video saying the elections

over we're having a peaceful transition of power you know so we are kind of on the other side of it

and there's a question of where things are going and also like what the fuck happened yesterday um

I think it's just difficult to wrestle with um people were caught off guard I don't think any of us

were really expecting something you know this scaled happen after so many of these smaller rallies

from the right have been happening in DC for a two spillover into this I think is a little surprising

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