A video glorifying violence at the Capitol insurrection is still circulating on YouTube
Right-wing disinformation hub The Grayzone streamed a video to their YouTube channel, on January 6, that glorified violence at the Capitol. The video collected money through super chats, and is still online, racking up over 43,000 views.
Seven people died from the white supremacist, Qanon/Stop the Steal inspired insurrection, where a violent pro-Trump mob illegally invaded the Capitol, chanting, “I can’t breathe,” a mocking, racist reference to George Floyd.
Floyd was an African American man murdered by Derek Chauvin, who was sentenced to 22 years in prison.
Insider reports that more than 586 people have been charged with crimes relating to the insurrection, ranging from the felony crime of obstructing the certification of President Joe Biden’s election victory, conspiracy, violence, property damage, and theft.
An internal document from an FBI office in Virgina warned days before the attack of ‘war’ at the Capitol, and Mother Jones reported that “it took more than three hours for the National Guard to get approval to respond to the January 6 insurrection.”
From Eric Tucker, Michael Balsamo And Colleen Long of the Associated Press’ report:
In The Times’ video titled: Day of Rage: How Trump Supporters Took the U.S. Capitol | Visual Investigations, Qanon adherent Ashli Babbitt is seen nearly breaching the House chamber and is subsequently shot.
Three Trump supporters died from medical emergencies, two police officers committed suicide in the days after, and a third officer — the subject of many conspiracy theories — Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, died of natural causes according to a medical examiner.
He’d been bear-sprayed by insurrectionists in an altercation a day before.
But Max Blumenthal had an outlandishly positive perspective of the insurrectionists, saying, “I live fifteen minutes from there, I just went not knowing what to expect and I’ve never seen anything like this. It was totally remarkable. There were about 10 or 15,000 people in front of the Capitol, and I didn’t even bother with them. I went to the back of the Capitol where protesters are basically broke in, and they’d gone into the offices of many members of Congress.”
Blumenthal said that as he “approached the door there were Capitol police pepper-spraying people and a guy runs out with his hand covered in blood. And he said, they shot her in the neck! I just start asking people what happened and all these people are crying, they’re running out, saying they shot her, they shot her.”
Blumenthal lavished praise on the insurrectionists, grossly equating them to leftists: “This leads to calls for revenge, people are chanting fuck the police, which is what you would normally hear at a BLM rally. […] People are calling the police traitors, we thought you were on our side.”
Anya Parampil later said, “It’s really unfortunate that it’s these crazy right wingers who are taking the storm of the people’s House, the Congress. […] If the right can do it, imagine if there was a movement for something with concrete demands like healthcare. Right now, we need some sort of occupation of the capitol, and that's how I would see like something such as Force The Vote being more successful is if people were able to mass move in massive amounts and claim that space.”
“I mean it’s insane to watch these images of people sitting in Nancy Pelosi’s desk or standing at the speaker’s chair in the House of Representatives, standing in the capitol, these these powerful places, it was a startling image and I think it’s valuable for the people of the country to see that,” Parampil continued.
Parampil further glorified the insurrection, “There was certainly a cathartic element. I think for different friends that I have around the world, this is something the United States encourages in other capitols but now it’s coming home, as Aaron said chickens coming home to roost.”
“I mean imagine if we had a movement with concrete demands storming the capitol,” Parampil said, bizarrely attempting to re-frame the insurrection as a leftist rebellion.
“Honestly, after this COVID experience, people should be storming the Capitol, it shouldn’t be to keep Trump in power,” Parampil said. “These people are definitely brainwashed, but say what you want about Trump, he does have this base of people that were willing go out there, and do this for him. I just wish that someone on the left, someone who represented not a border wall and increased militarization, but someone who represented access to housing and healthcare and education would do the same thing and say look, this is the people’s House, this is your city, your government.”
Parampil encouraged making Nancy Pelosi scared, saying, “I mean chase them out, replace them with actual people. I just think that people should be storming the Capitol and there should be clearer demands, there should be an agenda, and that there’s going to be more of this kind of opportunity under the future Biden administration if the first weeks leading into it are any signal.”
Afterwards, Blumenthal shared his tweet siding with the Stop the Steal insurrectionists, and mocked liberals for not coming to confront the rioters: “Well, how many liberal Biden voters who live blocks away with “Hate Has No Home Here” signs on their neatly tended lawns came out to confront #StoptheSteal? Absolutely none that I saw.”
“If they had, you would’ve called them deep state crisis actors funded by the CIA,” Daniel Moritz-Rabson, a freelance journalist, tweeted in response to Blumenthal.
Blumenthal complained about reporter Adam Serwer, calling him “the quintessential liberal intelligentsia guy,” for noting that, “If they get away with this, it will be worse next time. I promise you.”
“I’m getting ratio’d by resistance liberals,” Blumenthal vented, it would not be the only time in the video. “You can look at all of the responses from blue check marks people are really mad at me, they’re like furious that I said this. They’re furious.”
Blumenthal also falsely claimed during his stream that the insurrection wasn’t fueled mainly by baseless election fraud conspiracies: “The anger really was about the whole system, it wasn’t necessarily about the election.”
Also from The Times’ video: “There were over a million mentions on social media of storming the Capitol in the weeks before it happened; maps were shared of the building’s layout. There was talk of bringing weapons and ammunition, and discussion over which lawmakers should be targeted first. […] Plans to storm the Capitol were made in plain sight, but the F.B.I. and Department of Homeland Security did not deem those threats as credible. Capitol Police leaders and Washington’s mayor were warned at least three times of violent threats, but also didn’t take them seriously or circulate that information, and they declined offers of security personnel from federal and other agencies. They could have enlisted several hundred more Capitol police for duty on Jan. 6, but did not.”