Much is being made over at Twitter about stills from a Capitol Police Security video of tourists taking pics and video of the tunnel beneath the Sam Rayburn Building that connects to the House proper.
Rep. Zoe Lofgren, who was evacuated from the House floor using that very tunnel during the riot that ensued the very day after the “tour” was given by her colleague Barry Loudermilk, has questions…
Lofgren: They took video of the tunnel from the Rayburn building to the capitol. That was the same tunnel the next day I was evacuated from… they took video of the stairwell that lead into the ways and means committee room, where 100 or so members of congress were sheltered in pic.twitter.com/EzBK2YroVo
— Acyn (@Acyn) June 16, 2022
But, no worries, Zoe, thanks to former FBI agent Peter Strzok posing this question on Twitter we have an explanation…
Well I think it's the light he was interested in. Stairs in different stages of light, like Monet's haystacks. Folks said, why are there so many haystack pictures? That looks like a boring vacation and a stupid tour. But it was the light on them haystacks. Same with the stairs.
— Nora Dunn (@noradunn) June 16, 2022
An art student! Of course! Why didn’t we think of that!
I do love a good haystack picture. Idea: put a haystack on those well-lit stairs. We can make NFTs and clean up.
— Army of the Decent ? (@smallsoulbites) June 16, 2022
I figured he was an amateur student of architecture, with a life-long goal of discovering the secret of flying buttresses.
— Caslyn Saint Denis (@CaslynSD) June 16, 2022
No doubt. And that's why he needed 4 phones to snap a picture of it! pic.twitter.com/TOMGw20ATe
— ?? ?The Pro-Democracy Carrie Sweet??? (@CarrieSweet2017) June 16, 2022
I understand that as well as examine corpses for his studies of human Anatomy, Da Vinci also did extensive studies of the play of light on interior architectural details for his painting “The Last Supper”… pic.twitter.com/6Yi09gNvXD
— durrati ?? (@durrati) June 16, 2022
But on the other hand perhaps Occam’s Razor applies…
He wanted to paint the Capitol… in the blood of Democratic congresspeople.
— Dr. McQuantum (@vities_mc) June 16, 2022
So many questions. I think the Jan. 6 Committee needs to ask Rep. Loudermilk a few.
The guy doesn’t look like a student of either art or architecture, and those are bog-standard stairs, not artistic at all.
I think that the Escher stairs are far more interesting. Although, looking at them makes me dizzy and the ones at the Capitol don’t.
MyQ for Lindsay Graham is why did anyone let the “art student” into the Capitol when there weren’t tours for the public.
The intensity of the GOP wave of stupidity is enormous … House stars have a way of annoying my wife and I, just seeing them in meetings … knowing full well, their limited vocabulary and negative intelligence will flow like liquid manure at the pig farm …
A prime example of this disease, a man that wears his blue shirt and dirty gold tie instead of a sports jacket or work-style suit, Gym Jordan, is there only to jam up the Democrats and make a nightmare for witnesses, trying to do the RIGHT thing, but then he comes along and makes the meeting into a hell hole for the witness … Doing precisely what McConnell has put in place for all GOP do-wrongs …
The GOP has a LOT of detailed questions to answer about ALL the ramp-up before during and after the riot on Jan 06 …
and if these questions get actual answers I think I’ll purchase a lottery ticket because I’m sure to be a jackpot winner.
“art student”? Who knew domestic terrorist had a new label…