‘How It Started Vs. How It’s Going’: People Are Posting What Happened To These US Capitol Rioters Since The Riot
The world was utterly shocked after thousands of Trump’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol building on January 6th in what turned out to be an unprecedented act of “domestic terrorism.” The rioters armed with “Make America Great Again” caps, military-style gear, flags, and, allegedly, zip-tie restraints breached barricades, smashed windows, and ransacked the Capitol building.
But now that the hunt to identify and arrest the rioters has begun, leading to some successful attempts already, the offenders don’t look so confident anymore. And people on the internet just couldn’t miss a chance to make fun of them.
The meme “How it started Vs. How it’s going” started circulating on social media, where people are sharing side-by-side images of Trump supporters during the Capitol ordeal versa their mugshots. “Where did his smile go?” someone rightly noted on Twitter, and you start wondering who’s smiling now.
People are sharing side-by-side pics of the Capitol rioters for the “how it started vs. how it’s going” meme
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The initial confidence has left the stage
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The smugness is visibly gone
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Fashion Life reached out to Philip Lewis, a senior front page editor at HuffPost who recently tweeted a “How it started vs. How it’s going” meme featuring a shot of a Parrish man carrying a lectern during riots at the US Capitol. The man was identified as 36-year-old Adam Johnson and has been arrested and booked into the Pinellas County Jail. Meanwhile, Philip’s tweet went viral with 834.1K likes and 106.5k retweets.
When asked to share his initial reaction on the day of the events, Philip said he was stunned but not surprised by what he was seeing. “The rioters were only doing what they said they would do on online forums and social media for weeks prior. This was the logical conclusion after Trump incited his supporters to ‘stop the steal.’”
“They went to the Capitol and literally stopped Congress from certifying Biden’s win, at least for a moment,” Philip said and added: “What started off as a meme about relationships quickly took on a different meaning after brands and politicians started using it.”
At this point, Philip sees the meme used primarily as a way to point out the scope of hypocrisy. If given a chance to say something to the rioters, Philip would say: “The president that you’re willing to ruin your lives for couldn’t care less about what happens to you.”
The ‘cool guy’ does not look that cool in a mugshot
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The horned man called ‘QAnon Shaman’ has also fallen to the hands of justice
The hunt to identify and arrest the rioters has brought some successful results
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The Trump supporters who stormed the US Capitol on Wednesday to interrupt a session of Congress, leading to five fatalities, will not remain unpunished. According to the US attorney for the District of Columbia, Michael Sherwin, “hundreds of people may ultimately face charges” related to the riots.
The US Capitol Police is now having its staffers put in “24-hour shifts” to identify the suspects while browsing through evidence online and saving it before it can be deleted.
NPR reports that there’s likely to be “a wide array of criminal charges, ranging from destruction of federal property to murder.” The police is also expecting to find evidence of coordination among the rioters.
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Sherwin also told NPR that the police is now in search of the key hallmarks. “We saw in some of these individuals we identified—they look paramilitary almost, right? You’ve got the uniform, you’ve got communication, you have all the paraphernalia. Those show indications of affiliation and a command and control. So I believe we are going to find those hallmarks.”
Sherwin named the Capitol events “unprecedented.” “I don’t think we’ve ever seen a ‘crime scene’ with such a diversity of charges, with such a large group of individuals on such a large grounds, in such egregious conduct,” he said.
Others pointed out that rioters employed a ‘shave disguise’ method, but it doesn’t seem like it’s been helpful
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Others expressed how much they enjoyed seeing the rioters getting captured
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Someone pointed out that simply putting on an obligatory face mask in times of pandemic would have helped not to be identified, but the rioters were too cool for that
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And this is what other commenters had to say
Bunch of idiots- what exactly did they think was going to happen?
Dummies thought they were mini-Trumps; getting away with murder and not suffer fallout
@C what the Black Panthers did back then was legal at the time, they walked in with the press and wanted to sit in the viewing section. Gun laws at the time apparently let you carry a gun as long as it was not concealed. When they were told to leave they argued their rights for a bit then left. That's not really the same thing as what happened with MAGA.
@C That was the California state capitol, They also didn't destroy anything, or threaten anyone. They were removed peacefully by California state police.
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yeah exactly , They shuld learn the craft from Antifa , how to riot , loot , kill , Repeat & Get away with it. Antifa even buid a country called chaz. Hail Lord Biden. He will hunt the trump supporter like the maggot they are. #The hunt begins
Notice the racist weak-as-f**k references to Black Panthers. LOL. Incels sticking together. Mommy says QDude won't eat his non-organic jailhouse food. Boo-f*****g-hoo.
I guess that they were naïve enough to think that there wouldn't be consequences. Although who knows. Trump still has time to pardon them :(
President Trump could absolutely pardon them. It was federal crimes on federal property. The pardon power is absolute for federal crimes (Presidents can't pardon state crimes). If Trump really believed in what they were doing, he would pardon them all. Trump said "And after this, we’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you. … We are going to the Capitol..." He said he would be there with them. But he went back to the White House to watch it all on TV. Why don't the rioters care about that?
Assuming he's still in office by tonight...
Just pardon them? No! They were expecting to be knighted as protectors of Trump Kingdom, and given riches, land, serfs (white Democrats and you know “those” republicans), slaves (POC), plus all the Copenhagen they can dip, as their rewards. Because that’s the direction that the fantasies of crackers like these tend to go.
he COULD but as i stated in another comment, he doesn't care about anybody but himself and will push everybody else down if it benefits him
or they thought they would be welcomed as heroes
Trump can only pardon convicted criminals, not people awaiting trial. He will be long gone before these clowns are adjudicated.
While some are now facing criminal charges, unfortunately vast numbers will never be caught - and go unpunished
Nevits Yibble love
They thought God would appear in the sky and send his bolts of lightning down upon those who dared to be so unpatriotic and that the angels would come and take selfies with them.
More patriotic than you
Probably that they'd get away scott-free, and unfortunately, some will. It's terrifying that a mob of that size is going unpunished. It's also horrifying that fully grown ADULTS think that by throwing a temper tantrum of epic proportions they will get their way. Heads up- if it doesn't work for babies, it won't work for you either!
Oh you mean like the democraps did when their queen lost an election rigged in her favor and for over 4 years investigation after investigation of MADE and fabricated crimes and multiple impeachments starting 19 minutes into his presidency, the DEMS own this problem for what they have done for damn near 5 years
They are Trump supporters I would imaigine thinking is something they are very good at
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Stop the certification of electoral votes, let Congress decide the outcome of the election, Trump wins (because each state delegation gets one vote in this situation), Trump pardons the mob. It really was a planned coup, not a random mob.
no this was not a coup, standing up for the law against a fraud election and YES there is ample proof of that. But the one that needs to be on trial for instigating a coup is Nancy Pelosi when she without consent of Congress and went behind the backs of a legally elected President and Vice president went to the joint chief to stop President Trump's legal responsibility THIS is a textbook explanation of a coup. SO WHERE IS YOUR OUTRAGE NOW. OH, a Dem. done it so that's OK typical BS from the left
They reversed what they wanted to after on the news they were talking and a few were going to reject the votes but they didn’t because of the mob
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Probably the same thing that happened with the BLM folks. They were able to completely destroy neighborhoods, occupy police stations, and in many cases physically harm innocent people. The media put them in a nice light so only serious crimes were prosecuted.
My dads in the Army and when he heard veterans were storming it he kinda went crazy saying they were failing their duty to the country and all. He wants them to specifically be persecuted since they take an oath to specifically defend the country’s democracy.
Especially after Trump insulted war heroes, veterans and anyone else who fought for their country and democracy.
YOUR FULL OF S**T
Ignore those asshats that drank Trump koolaid. Ten dollars says they shaved Thursday morning in hopes the FBI won't find them. Criminals gonna crime, you know?
I know I say this too often. But many people at Jonestown were forced to drink the Flavor-aid at gunpoint. They didn't do it willingly. And if they didn't drink enough to kill them, they were shot. No one is holding a gun to these people's heads. They are choosing this out of their own free will. I know I'm a broken record on this. The Jonestown massacre was so awful, and the phrase "drink the koolaid" feels disrespectful to the 900 people that were murdered. **steps off soapbox**
Tabitha, maybe it is disrespectful to the 900 who murdered each other, even their children. The cultists were not terrorists or traitors. There’s nothing worse than treason. Even the 9/11 hijackers, may they burn in hell, were open enemies, not the enemy within
A lot of them shaved because they had to go to work, you should try it sometimes instead of leeching off the goverment
Armed forces, thoughout the world, are specifically non-political so as to avoid this nonsense. The trust the country places in them is beyond that given to any other. I must agree with your father. It is a terrible breach of trust..
Tina Hugh - what makes you think there will be a next election, the dems cheated and manipulated to get Biden in under the guise of COVID. And even an IDIOT will say it is a fraud just by viewing only the security videos in the counting rooms and there is a whole lot more evidence than that.
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Next election, let each vote be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. That should help some of these brainwashed fools back to reality. Then if the Democrats could stop subverting the Second Amendment and the media could stop trying to shape public opinion and report facts truthfully, we might be able to just live and let live. Trumpers are traitors and terrorists, but Democrats deserve blame for marginalizing them and making them vulnerable to a would-be tyrant. Both sides need to live and let live, and then go straight to hell for the harm they’ve caused to this republic.
Prosecuted. Don’t add to their sense of victimhood.
so does the Congress and Senate BUT they failed their duty but lined their pockets because ANYONE going into politics without a pot to piss in then comes out a multiMillionaire is a liar and a crook
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Try this on your dad: Hackers, probably foreign, got "God Mode" access to the Solar Winds program. This program is in millions of computers, including the Pentagon, our Nuclear Security agency, and voting machines in the last election. We are told that the election was completely secure, yet they refuse to audit the machines to test what this hacking did to them. Thusly, many of the rioters felt that they were there to prevent a voting-fraud coup by foreigners.
How's that freedom going 𝘯𝘰𝘸, shiteheeds?! Also, gotta get me one of these: 42a-5ffc47...86eece.jpg
Little Bo Peep, you seem upset. Are you crushing on the viking magat?
Ewe are right, and I'm woolly sorry. That was bleating awful.
Little Bo Peep has lost her sheeple, and now she's out of her flocking mind.
Ain’t no one else gonna be fool enough to crush on @Little Bo Peep, after all
That’s a baaad pun.
Maybe she is writing some viking magat/Joe Biden fan fiction? That is a weird ship, but different strokes for different folks?
@ Little Bo Peep: Bless your heart. Perhaps you can become his prison pen pal?
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He is kinda cute...
It's odd how these guys scream about freedom when they're actually not free. They're creatures of Trump, they do his bidding - especially if it pleases Their Master. Trump controls and manipulates them like little puppets. They're not free at all
I also like how they fill their moths talking about 'fighting for freedom' when it comes to support fascists or gun rights but other freedoms, like freedom to have healthcare are no important for them.
I really hope that those bastards spend time in prison for those crimes and don’t get to go home with a slap to the wrist
Since the US is a little soft on crime, the most these traitors and terrorists face is life in prison
All it needs is a gross confederate flag.
Technically the Dixie battle standard. The confederate flag was similar to the American flag. F**k the confederacy.
Eww I agree
Sign me up for one too
WHERE CAN I GET THIS?
I was nearly positive you knew it wasn't real! And BTW, I love Legos too, and I'm a middle-aged woman 😂
Does the set include the cop they murdered, the s**t and urine they smeared in the building or the gallows they set up or the American flags they trampled? It’s not complete without them.
I know lol My brother loves legos and I wish I could get that for him as a gift
LOL, it's not real :)
Hahahahahaha! Thats awesome! All I need after buying this set is to buy the lego prison set
Wait is that real?
No, tis but a joke
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This is funnier
Bunch of idiots- what exactly did they think was going to happen?
Dummies thought they were mini-Trumps; getting away with murder and not suffer fallout
@C what the Black Panthers did back then was legal at the time, they walked in with the press and wanted to sit in the viewing section. Gun laws at the time apparently let you carry a gun as long as it was not concealed. When they were told to leave they argued their rights for a bit then left. That's not really the same thing as what happened with MAGA.
@C That was the California state capitol, They also didn't destroy anything, or threaten anyone. They were removed peacefully by California state police.
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yeah exactly , They shuld learn the craft from Antifa , how to riot , loot , kill , Repeat & Get away with it. Antifa even buid a country called chaz. Hail Lord Biden. He will hunt the trump supporter like the maggot they are. #The hunt begins
Notice the racist weak-as-f**k references to Black Panthers. LOL. Incels sticking together. Mommy says QDude won't eat his non-organic jailhouse food. Boo-f*****g-hoo.
I guess that they were naïve enough to think that there wouldn't be consequences. Although who knows. Trump still has time to pardon them :(
President Trump could absolutely pardon them. It was federal crimes on federal property. The pardon power is absolute for federal crimes (Presidents can't pardon state crimes). If Trump really believed in what they were doing, he would pardon them all. Trump said "And after this, we’re going to walk down, and I’ll be there with you. … We are going to the Capitol..." He said he would be there with them. But he went back to the White House to watch it all on TV. Why don't the rioters care about that?
Assuming he's still in office by tonight...
Just pardon them? No! They were expecting to be knighted as protectors of Trump Kingdom, and given riches, land, serfs (white Democrats and you know “those” republicans), slaves (POC), plus all the Copenhagen they can dip, as their rewards. Because that’s the direction that the fantasies of crackers like these tend to go.
he COULD but as i stated in another comment, he doesn't care about anybody but himself and will push everybody else down if it benefits him
or they thought they would be welcomed as heroes
Trump can only pardon convicted criminals, not people awaiting trial. He will be long gone before these clowns are adjudicated.
While some are now facing criminal charges, unfortunately vast numbers will never be caught - and go unpunished
Nevits Yibble love
They thought God would appear in the sky and send his bolts of lightning down upon those who dared to be so unpatriotic and that the angels would come and take selfies with them.
More patriotic than you
Probably that they'd get away scott-free, and unfortunately, some will. It's terrifying that a mob of that size is going unpunished. It's also horrifying that fully grown ADULTS think that by throwing a temper tantrum of epic proportions they will get their way. Heads up- if it doesn't work for babies, it won't work for you either!
Oh you mean like the democraps did when their queen lost an election rigged in her favor and for over 4 years investigation after investigation of MADE and fabricated crimes and multiple impeachments starting 19 minutes into his presidency, the DEMS own this problem for what they have done for damn near 5 years
They are Trump supporters I would imaigine thinking is something they are very good at
Turner Diaries... future Timothy Mcveigh s
Stop the certification of electoral votes, let Congress decide the outcome of the election, Trump wins (because each state delegation gets one vote in this situation), Trump pardons the mob. It really was a planned coup, not a random mob.
no this was not a coup, standing up for the law against a fraud election and YES there is ample proof of that. But the one that needs to be on trial for instigating a coup is Nancy Pelosi when she without consent of Congress and went behind the backs of a legally elected President and Vice president went to the joint chief to stop President Trump's legal responsibility THIS is a textbook explanation of a coup. SO WHERE IS YOUR OUTRAGE NOW. OH, a Dem. done it so that's OK typical BS from the left
They reversed what they wanted to after on the news they were talking and a few were going to reject the votes but they didn’t because of the mob
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Probably the same thing that happened with the BLM folks. They were able to completely destroy neighborhoods, occupy police stations, and in many cases physically harm innocent people. The media put them in a nice light so only serious crimes were prosecuted.
My dads in the Army and when he heard veterans were storming it he kinda went crazy saying they were failing their duty to the country and all. He wants them to specifically be persecuted since they take an oath to specifically defend the country’s democracy.
Especially after Trump insulted war heroes, veterans and anyone else who fought for their country and democracy.
YOUR FULL OF S**T
Ignore those asshats that drank Trump koolaid. Ten dollars says they shaved Thursday morning in hopes the FBI won't find them. Criminals gonna crime, you know?
I know I say this too often. But many people at Jonestown were forced to drink the Flavor-aid at gunpoint. They didn't do it willingly. And if they didn't drink enough to kill them, they were shot. No one is holding a gun to these people's heads. They are choosing this out of their own free will. I know I'm a broken record on this. The Jonestown massacre was so awful, and the phrase "drink the koolaid" feels disrespectful to the 900 people that were murdered. **steps off soapbox**
Tabitha, maybe it is disrespectful to the 900 who murdered each other, even their children. The cultists were not terrorists or traitors. There’s nothing worse than treason. Even the 9/11 hijackers, may they burn in hell, were open enemies, not the enemy within
A lot of them shaved because they had to go to work, you should try it sometimes instead of leeching off the goverment
Armed forces, thoughout the world, are specifically non-political so as to avoid this nonsense. The trust the country places in them is beyond that given to any other. I must agree with your father. It is a terrible breach of trust..
Tina Hugh - what makes you think there will be a next election, the dems cheated and manipulated to get Biden in under the guise of COVID. And even an IDIOT will say it is a fraud just by viewing only the security videos in the counting rooms and there is a whole lot more evidence than that.
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Next election, let each vote be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. That should help some of these brainwashed fools back to reality. Then if the Democrats could stop subverting the Second Amendment and the media could stop trying to shape public opinion and report facts truthfully, we might be able to just live and let live. Trumpers are traitors and terrorists, but Democrats deserve blame for marginalizing them and making them vulnerable to a would-be tyrant. Both sides need to live and let live, and then go straight to hell for the harm they’ve caused to this republic.
Prosecuted. Don’t add to their sense of victimhood.
so does the Congress and Senate BUT they failed their duty but lined their pockets because ANYONE going into politics without a pot to piss in then comes out a multiMillionaire is a liar and a crook
This comment is hidden. Click here to view.
Try this on your dad: Hackers, probably foreign, got "God Mode" access to the Solar Winds program. This program is in millions of computers, including the Pentagon, our Nuclear Security agency, and voting machines in the last election. We are told that the election was completely secure, yet they refuse to audit the machines to test what this hacking did to them. Thusly, many of the rioters felt that they were there to prevent a voting-fraud coup by foreigners.
How's that freedom going 𝘯𝘰𝘸, shiteheeds?! Also, gotta get me one of these: 42a-5ffc47...86eece.jpg
Little Bo Peep, you seem upset. Are you crushing on the viking magat?
Ewe are right, and I'm woolly sorry. That was bleating awful.
Little Bo Peep has lost her sheeple, and now she's out of her flocking mind.
Ain’t no one else gonna be fool enough to crush on @Little Bo Peep, after all
That’s a baaad pun.
Maybe she is writing some viking magat/Joe Biden fan fiction? That is a weird ship, but different strokes for different folks?
@ Little Bo Peep: Bless your heart. Perhaps you can become his prison pen pal?
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He is kinda cute...
It's odd how these guys scream about freedom when they're actually not free. They're creatures of Trump, they do his bidding - especially if it pleases Their Master. Trump controls and manipulates them like little puppets. They're not free at all
I also like how they fill their moths talking about 'fighting for freedom' when it comes to support fascists or gun rights but other freedoms, like freedom to have healthcare are no important for them.
I really hope that those bastards spend time in prison for those crimes and don’t get to go home with a slap to the wrist
Since the US is a little soft on crime, the most these traitors and terrorists face is life in prison
All it needs is a gross confederate flag.
Technically the Dixie battle standard. The confederate flag was similar to the American flag. F**k the confederacy.
Eww I agree
Sign me up for one too
WHERE CAN I GET THIS?
I was nearly positive you knew it wasn't real! And BTW, I love Legos too, and I'm a middle-aged woman 😂
Does the set include the cop they murdered, the s**t and urine they smeared in the building or the gallows they set up or the American flags they trampled? It’s not complete without them.
I know lol My brother loves legos and I wish I could get that for him as a gift
LOL, it's not real :)
Hahahahahaha! Thats awesome! All I need after buying this set is to buy the lego prison set
Wait is that real?
No, tis but a joke
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This is funnier