Was there ever any chance they were going to overturn the election ? It was a bunch of dipshits…
That's not really the point... they tried. Do we just ignore that sort of thing unless it's done by competent people? Shouldn't we still be deeply concerned that it happened? Shouldn't we be even more deeply concerned that it has become clear that Trump and some other Republican politicians tacitly or outright supported this weak attempt? That's why the hearings are interesting, and important. because there is a lot of damning evidence being revealed, by his own people, that, at best, some government officials used a bad situation opportunistically. That is a very dangerous thing, the sort of thing that undermines democracies if left unchecked.
Let me put it this way, do you think that, if what I'm saying is true, and there were government officials who either helped an attempt to overturn an election/hang the vice president, or failed to try to stop it because of their own personal political gain, that we shouldn't get those people the fuck out of our government? Why should we ignore this if there is any chance it's true, and just say "ah, a bunch of a dipshits, it wouldn't have worked, let's forget it and move on"? I want to find the fuck out what happened and if it's what seems to me to be super clear did happen, actually happened, I want that faction prosecuted, or at the very least, removed from the government, because that is the worst kind of cancer on our civilization, if it is in fact there. No?
Some have described it as "a bunch of boomers let in to take selfies" (not referring to you), but they literally constructed a gallows and chanted "hang Mike Pence", then walked up to the capital building, smashed windows, shoved their way in, shit on the floor, stole papers and a laptop, and were on video talking about trying to find Mike Pence and Pelosi. Those are facts, it's all on video. To characterize it as "a bunch of boomers let in to take selfies" is, in the most generous interpretation, disingenuous to an extreme.