It's funny and relieving that Trump has been banned from his primary social media platforms (And thus one of his primary tools used to stoke the insurrectionists has been taken away from him), but I'm very concerned about calls for domestic terrorism laws. They seem okay on paper, but laws are only effective if enforced properly. At least in my area, the mask edicts don't mean anything because the police collectively choose not to enforce them around here. And I live in California, run by a guy who seems to be taking corona seriously instead of letting his dipshit son hold maskless birthday parties and smugly post about it on instagram (Hi Doug Deucy of Arizona)
The cops let the insurrectionists in by opening the gate, they put up notable weaksauce attempts to rebuke them when face with an active, aggressive mob, and actively took selfies with them. All of these are things I've seen in video clips circulating on twitter. The feds are arresting them after the event, yes, but compared to the protests by disabled people when the republicans tried to take away ACA, there is a very notable difference between the treatment the cops gave them. It is true nobody got shot at those protests as far as I know of, however overall it feels like a disproportionately different response and that should be taken into account. This is because a significant chunk of cops are sympathetic to the insurrectionists. If a domestic terrorism law gets passed, it will be laser targetted at leftist movements like blm and only moderately at right wingers. It was not leftists who stormed the senate, but right wingers. There's a reason they felt emboldened to storm the capital.
Domestic terrorism laws will not be effective against the right wingers. We need a better solution.
Another thing I want to bring up--Pence refusing to invoke the 25th amendment despite the open calls to do it. This is just baffling to me. Trump threw the guy under the bus, tried to send his hate mob after him, lied about his capabilities to scapegoat him, and he just doesn't take the opportunity to remove the man from power. No matter what your politics, I feel that personally goes beyond spineless behavior and feels more like slathering yourself in fresh blood and barbecue sauce and laying down in the middle of nowhere for the wolves to eat you.