A brand new board game is being released this weekend to mark the three year anniversary of the January 6 Capitol riots in Washington DC.
The right-wing podcast TrueAnon has created the game “Storm the Capitol – TrueAnon Edition” where players can “relive one of the funniest days in American history!”
Despite the day not being particularly funny for the Capitol staff and law enforcement officers who were faced with an angry mob of far-right activists and Donald Trump supporters seeking to overturn American democracy, the game celebrates the violence of the day – with players able to pretend they are “battling” their way through the Capitol building.
Players take on the role of a “Patriot” and try to “collect ballots, take hostages and fight the police” in a re-enactment of the riots.
Other players can take on the role of the Capitol police, aiming to stop the so-called “Patriots” from getting to the roof with enough ballots to “Stop the Steal”.
The game comes with cards such as Capitol police attack dogs, which leads to a “Patriot” losing points.
Players can gain points by stealing “AOC’s shoes” or “Pelosi’s laptop”.
At the end of the game, if the “Patriots” win, former president Donald Trump will be waiting to take them in his helicopter to change the results of the 2020 election, according to the game.
If the police win, President Joe Biden will be victorious.
The controversial game is being sold exclusively for $64.99 on the far-right podcast’s merchandise website and will be released on 6 January.
In a podcast episode announcing the game’s release, the host Brace Belden recalled seeing the riots covered in the news, saying it was “the best day of watching TV I’ve ever had in my life”.
He also falsely claimed about those who died that day that “most of them died from being too excited”.
Fellow podcast host, Liz Franczak, boasted about how fun the game is, calling it a “riot of a time”.
The hosts even went so far as to humbly say the board came could “heal the nation,” putting their product up with the invention of the wheel or the discovery of fire.
The podcast hosts wrote on X that they hope the game will bring back the “amazing feeling” felt on 6 January 2021.
The TrueAnon hosts claim the game is designed for everybody in America on “every single side of every single political issue” – as long, of course, that you are comfortable attacking police, taking hostages and upending democracy.
Over a thousand rioters have so far been arrested for their parts in that deadly day, with many being handed long prison sentences.
You know, between the lines of smug, ‘righteous’ fury, I couldn’t help but single this out
Over a thousand rioters have so far been arrested for their parts in that deadly day, with many being handed long prison sentences.
Really, 15 years is ‘long’ now? Plenty of people still in prison have gotten longer sentences than that for drug possession.
About 277 defendants have been sentenced to time behind bars, and roughly 113 defendants have been sentenced to a period of home detention.
Either this was a serious insurrection where participants should be charged with treason and punished accordingly (executions or life), or it was a farcical attempt at one and they’re not being punished harshly, but you don’t get it both ways you clowns
ask any liberal who buys into the PROTECT OUR DEMOCRACY bulllshit the dems are pushing about this contradiction and it flips the “angry” switch in their brains.
They think that smarmy condescension is a substitute for an actual argument
Stop disrespecting the law and the brave police officers who drew the short straw and were one of like two guys guarding the Capitol instead of getting to teargas George Floyd rallies
Whenever they actually make this point, I still direct to the videos showing officers just getting out of the way of the mob, letting them in
And then later pics/videos showing some of the cops taking pictures with the ‘insurrectionists’ lmao (bonus: tagline says Nancy Pelosi demanded Capitol Police Chief resign, libs sure did an about face on that in a hurry lmao)
I can’t find it now, but there was a vid (on twitter, maybe?) showing police in front of the capital just…moving out of the way, and hogs storming past them out on the front lawn
All the liberals say “well what were they supposed to do, shoot them?”
Uhh, yes?
Sure, but for treasonous insurrectionists who were trying to ‘overthrow democracy’ who participated in ‘that deadly day’?
Seems a bit lenient, especially for the American justice system and ESPECIALLY since only a handful of people have gotten that (I know at least one other plotter got something like 22 years after the article I noted was published)
ed. goddamn some of these lmao
Robert Sanford was sentenced to four years and four months in prison. He hit two police officers in the head with a fire extinguisher and threw a traffic cone at another officer
Jeffrey Scott Brown was sentenced to four years and six months in prison. He assaulted police with pepper spray.
Anthony Sargent, a Proud Boy from Florida, was sentenced to five years in prison. He threw a rock at the Capitol doors.
lmao
‘that deadly day’
Deadly if you had a taser in your pocket with no safety
15 years is an eternity, are you kidding me? Imagine going to prison when you’re 29 and missing out on all of your 30s. You only get one life, that’s it, and spending 15%-20% of that in prison is an insane punishment. Imagine if you went to prison in 2009 and only just got out, just how much you’d have missed and how many people will have moved on from knowing you, basically.
If you’ve spent 15 years in prison, your life is effectively over and if you’re lucky, you might get to start a new one. It’s insanely long.
Really, 15 years is ‘long’ now?
Its long when you have to live it, yes.
Plenty of people still in prison have gotten longer sentences than that for drug possession.
Those are also long sentences.
Either this was a serious insurrection where participants should be charged with treason and punished accordingly (executions or life), or it was a farcical attempt at one and they’re not being punished harshly, but you don’t get it both ways you clowns
It actually doesn’t need to be either-or. The fact that so many people were arrested and prosecuted is wildly unusual when you consider the historical response to right-wing protests and riots in the past. Certainly, this is a far higher percentage of people facing jail time than after the Brooks Brothers’ Riots used to shut down the 2000 Bush/Gore recount. Its harsher punishment than anyone at Project Veritas suffered for breaking into a Senator’s home office. Hell, 15 years is far more than any of the Watergate burglars ultimately served
Even Liddy and Hunt weren’t in jail for more than 5 years, each.
So this is a “long” time for a politically motivated crime, both in terms of years assigned and cumulative time assigned to the volume of people prosecuted. Normally, none of these assholes would have seen the inside of a court room much less a federal prison.
Brooks Brothers’ Riots
Oh wow I had no idea. I feel like I can never get all the lore on the 2000s
It’s such a perfect fumble and perfectly American.
Quarter assed coup attempt, followed by a wet fart of an attempt to punish and prevent.
