I understand why the media are calling it a "mob" conducting a"riot." But it's just not true.

QAnon is a CULT. This was a quasi-religious cult engaging in a theocratic, seditious coup.

If ISIS or Scientologists had done it, you wouldn't call it a "mob" or a "riot." /1

The FBI is looking at each person trying to ascertain their own intent. But they wouldn't do that if this was an attack by ISIS or some other violent cult.

Everyone who was there, knew what they were there for. They were all in the cult, and the ideology was public. /2

The intent was expressly to overturn the secular government with a government of the Great Awakening, headed by God Emperor Trump. The Ichthys & Crusader flags were no accident. The scaffold was there for a reason. The zip ties, all of it. They knew what they were there for. /3

What surprised them, if anything, was that Trump didn't, in fact, have their back. They thought he would be there with them, that he would announce the Storm, that the cops would join them in arresting Members of Congress, that the military would help reinforce them. /4

The cult catechism for years has been that when the Storm comes, they will all be vindicated, their enemies publicly executed, they will be able to tell their estranged families that they were right all along, and they would be heralded as society's new leaders. /5

So why would they hide their faces? This was their coming out moment! Why would they think they had anything to lose? This was their time to shine in person and seize their destiny after years engaged in the Online War to Redpill America. /6

And Republican leaders knew all this. Most of them didn't expect it to threaten their personal safety quite so immediately, but they knew.

Trump, in his usual way, knew it too, but had no loyalty to his cult & wanted to maintain legal deniability while pushing it to the brink./7

But it's crucial to remember that this was no disorganized mob.

It was a sacking, an attempted coup and kidnapping/murder attempt by an organized, seditious cult that believed its hour had come. They all knew what they were there for, and GOP leaders knew it, too. /8