General Discussion

… any of these people “planned” the riot (at least not that I have seen). They “planned” the rally that turned into a riot, sure. But there is a difference between picking out the ribbons to decorate the stage and mapping out the weakest access points to breach the building.

Look, I want their heads on a pike as much as the next guy. I fully believe that some of them DID plan to use the rally to jumpstart the riot and use that as cover for some really dark shit. But this article doesn’t offer support for that scenario. There IS some circumstantial indications (most notably to me is the use of military assault team tactics to move through the crowd) - but that really doesn’t suggest that MOCs helped them.

I just think we look stupid when we conflate an admission that someone helped plan the rally with an admission of planning the physical attack on Congress. RS is intentionally promoting that conflation.