People need to stop acting like the FBI are better than any other cops or acting “surprised” that it took them this long to take this seriously. This is par for the course with the FBI.
They’re doing this begrudgingly. They didn’t want to stop January 6th, because you’ve got a lot of Trump sympathizers in the Bureau, but after the fact, they needed to “prove” themselves since they obviously fucked up massively by ignoring a coup attempt that was so brazen, so not hidden, so out in the open that motherfuckers printed up t-shirts for the event.
Stop acting like this is anything but covering up for a right wing organization with a history of abusing left wing movements while letting right wing movements thrive. This is the same FBI that wrote letters to MLK Jr telling him he should commit suicide. This is the same FBI that railroaded Bruce Ivins over Anthrax in the Bush years (literally Robert Mueller) only for it later to be proven that it was impossible for Ivins to have produced Anthrax that pure. This is the same FBI that has made it a mission since the Bush years to find troubled, mentally-ill US citizens, put guns or bombs in their hands and push them to commit violence, only to swoop in at the last second, stop the violence, and then claim “We’re stopping terrorism!” It’s such a commonly known thing they do, comedy movies have been made about the subject.
In other words, the FBI is responsible for creating homegrown terrorists as a business model for funding for the last 20 years. Do we really believe that they’re so concerned about the MAGA threat after they completely ignored it during the Trump years?
This is PR bullshit. This is to cover for the fact that at the end of the day, the FBI are cops and what do we say about cops, kids?