CALLED IT

This happened today:

A suspect who claimed to have an explosive device in a truck near the US Capitol has surrendered to authorities and is in custody, US Capitol Police said Thursday.

Police have identified the suspect as 49-year-old Floyd Ray Roseberry. The incident prompted multiple buildings in the area to be evacuated Thursday as authorities responded to an "active bomb threat investigation," the US Capitol Police wrote on Twitter.

Roseberry drove a black pickup truck onto the sidewalk in front of the Library of Congress at 9:15 a.m. ET, claiming he had a bomb and displayed what looked like a detonator to the officer on the scene, according to US Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger.

Even before the suspect was apprehended, it was easy for me to guess the response in Republican America:

Compounding the horror of this is the fact that millions of right-wingers - maybe the majority of them - will conclude that this is a false flag cooked up by the Democrats in order to distract us from Afghanistan. https://t.co/ngmAd2tpvv

— Steve M. (@nomoremister) August 19, 2021

And there you go:

Pro tip: running false flag events when nobody trusts you and are wise to your previous hoaxes is not a success strategy.

— The Virginia Project (@ProjectVirginia) August 19, 2021

Yes, the reason why “False Flag” is trending is because the MAGAs are saying the Trump-loving terrorist outside the Library of Congress is an FBI crisis actor, hired to make them look bad. Of course. Again. pic.twitter.com/6xMiCqyjmy

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) August 19, 2021

Got to love the FBI's #falseflag https://t.co/lHKswruvSH

— Bernie Hettrick (@HettrickBernie) August 19, 2021

Catturd reported that #FalseFlag was up to 10k twats until it was reset. pic.twitter.com/V51zD9UWhg

— Bill Crowell (@n4hpg) August 19, 2021

(Catturd is a Tweeter who was retweeted several times by then-president Trump.)

There was a scare in Times Square today, too, but it was nothing:

The outdoor seating area behind the TKTS booth at Father Duffy Square in Times Square was evacuated due to a suspicious package.

The NYPD moved people from that area before discovering that the threat was unfounded....

A man on a bicycle dropped a metal container with crackers inside near the outdoor seating area.

The container was recovered and is not considered a threat.

The true patriots at Gateway Pundit are doubly suspicious:

In one of the now-deleted videos he posted on Facebook, Roseberry claimed the ability to blow up multiple blocks of D.C.

“People think it’s a joke but they cleared the block,” Roseberry said in one of the live videos. “They need to get Joe Biden down here. I’m not hurting nobody Joe. I’m not pulling the trigger on this thing. I can’t – there’s no way for me to blow this up. Only you can by shooting a bullet through my window. You don’t want to do it Joe. I love this land. We got a few options here Joe. You shoot me, this two and a half blocks is going with it. You’re talking about a revolution? The revolution is on. It’s here. It’s today.”

It won't matter if the next would-be revolutionary actually destroys multiple city blocks or kills dozens of people -- the right will still say it's a Biden/Deep State/(Soros?)/(Bill Gates?) false flag. They'll insist to the end that 100% of the evil in the world is on our side.