New ‘Storm the Capitol’ board game celebrates Jan 6 riot
www.independent.co.uk
This new release has filled an apparent void in the far-right conspiracy-theoriest-board-game-lovers market

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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.

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    50·
    11 months ago

    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.