AOC said an interesting thing today. To paraphrase: What if a foreign leader (i.e. Putin) arrived in DC and incited the crowd to violence that lead to the storming of the Capitol. What would be the government's reaction?

The Trumpist should be distinguished from the Republicans.
This fractures the party.
It also helps others to identify the current and future insurrectionists.
Create the honeypot.
Create Trumplicans.

There is too much to unpack in this one: The Louder the Monkey, the Smaller Its Balls, Study Finds

https://www.vice.com/en/article/kb7eew/the-louder-the-monkey-the-smaller-its-balls-study-finds-42361364663309

That was fast:
"The Capitol grounds are now completely surrounded with fencing."

https://twitter.com/JakeSherman/status/1347579185892642817

This is the insurrectionist that was shot at the Capitol and died:
https://www.facebook.com/ashli.mcentee/photos

Biden is speaking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKy84YmL-sU

https://twitter.com/frankthorp/status/1346910235399659532

They are shooting

Guns drawn on the House floor.

TEAR gas has been used in the Rotunda.

Members are being told get gas masks under their seats.

Fight inside the Capital.

The US Capital is being stormed.

The Capital Police are currently tear-gassing Trump protestors trying to storm the building.

1.8% of the country has been infected over the past 30 days. This is one out of every 55.8 Americans.
5.83% of the country has been infected since the start of the pandemic. This is one out of every 17.2 Americans.
https://bit.ly/COVIDUSStates

I would be remiss if I didn't provide the following warning about 2021:
The first months of this year are going to suck like never before. At Christmas there were about 6M cases of COVID that are less than 30 days old - a 50% increase from 4M on Thanksgiving where
2 weeks later daily deaths had increased 43% to 2300 from 1600.
We hit ~2700 deaths at Christmas.
W/ 6M cases, at the same rate, we're looking at 3860 deaths **per day** after Jan 8th.
And, it's probably not going to be linear.

Revisited the COVID-19 data to see how long people take to enter a hospital after testing positive. Looks like 10 days has the highest correlation.
Should assume an additional 2-3 days to show symptoms to choose to get a test. So, somewhere between 12 to 13 days from infection to entering a hospital. Then, if they are going to die, seems like 10 days is the highest correlation.

At this point in time 1.45% of all Americans have become infected by COVID-19 in just the last 30 days. (5.3M)
And the Thanksgiving infections have yet to hit.
Sweet dreams, COSOnaughts!
https://bit.ly/COVIDUSStates

Yesterday there were 19,396 people in an ICU. Mortality rates for these people is about 77%. That means that 14,935 of these people will die. If nobody went into the hospital as of today, we would still exceed 280K deaths. 5% of the total COVID deaths will be from people presently in the hospital. 1 out of 20.
And....infections are getting worse, not better.

Just saw this COVID-19 trend in Canada following Canadian Thanksgiving. If you think it's bad now in the US......