(08-27-2021, 01:44 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(08-27-2021, 01:32 PM)Sneakers Wrote: You're consumed by the foaming at the mouth rhetoric spewing from the left.  How is it even possible to "overthrow" an election?  Government and the function thereof is not dependent upon a specific physical location.  Occupying the Capitol could never have done more than delay the event for a few hours.   They could have burned the place to the ground and the process simply would have continued at another location.

The process could only take place with a quorum of the 535 people needed all meeting physically in the same place.  If they managed to capture or kill members of Congress there could have been a very different outcome with no clear constitutional remedy. It wouldn't have taken many.