Review: A Monopoly-Style Game About the January 6

The hosts of the popular TrueAnon podcast made a board game that doesn't take the presidential transition crisis too seriously.

"While smearing your shit along the walls, you accidentally bump into a police officer," reads one of the event cards in the new board game Storm the Capitol. "'Please don't shoot! Blue lives matter!' you cry, only to realize that the officer is also smearing shit along the wall." Other cards have players setting off fire alarms with a tiki torch and walking in on various senators performing various sex acts.

Brace Belden and Liz Franczak, hosts of the irreverent podcast TrueAnon, are selling this Monopoly-style board game about the January 6 riot, in which players compete to steal 100 electoral ballots before the National Guard arrives. It's clearly designed to mock Donald Trump supporters, yet the game has enough widespread appeal that the TrueAnon team has been able to sell copies to fans of the ex-president outside Trump's trial.

Belden and Franczak don't take January 6 seriously, because they don't believe the rioters themselves were serious. "It was pathetic, as opposed to this terrifying spectacle," Belden said in a January 10, 2021, episode of TrueAnon. "The vast majority of people, once they got in there, didn't know what to do. And they just started making content." The FBI was able to track down many rioters, he noted, "because they couldn't stop posting pictures of themselves." Franzcak quipped that it was the "Night of Long Posts."

There's where the game gets meta. The same sense of spectacle that makes Storm the Capitol fun for everyone also led to the actual storming of the actual Capitol. It's a testament to the danger of irony poisoning: As Belden and Franczak acknowledge on TrueAnon, the riot, however absurd or ineffective, still had deadly and life-ruining consequences. Storm the Capitol is a parody of something that was already a sad farce.

Comments

[diver64]

They don't take it serious because there was no transition crisis. The only ones taking it serious are the Dems for political purposes, RINO's like Lizzy Cheney and Garland who is using the deep state to punish people of the opposite political party.

[SQRLSY]

If ye can't do the time, don't do the crime! Trumpanzees, please protest the stolen erections PEACEFULLY! Do ye even know twat PEACEFULLY means?

(Oh, I know, twatabout the other kids who did it first? Now after THAT, we can do TWATEVER WE WANT!!!)

With the NEXT set of "stolen erections" approaching, I am joining with the hordes of sensible people, and hiding my women, whiskey, money, etc.! Retreat to your bunker if ye have one! Mike Pence, flee to Canada!

[SRG2]

You omitted references to the Bavarian Illuminati and the Priory of Sion - by mistake, I'm sure.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

You made an ass of yourself. Again. FOAD, TDS-addled shit.

[John Rohan]

I kind of remember hype around a similar political game to take digs at Republicans during the Bush era, where you try to win by controlling as much oil around the world as possible. It failed so miserably I don't even recall the name.

[Michael Ejercito]

I wonder if there will be a game about the attempted storming of the White House on May 29, 2020.

[mad.casual]

It’s clearly designed to mock Donald Trump supporters

That’s weird. I don’t remember any Trump supporters stealing any electoral college votes. I do remember people, including patently retarded writers at Cato and this magazine, pretending that electoral votes were like actual physical artifacts that people could physically steal like it was 1789 and that democracy was going to utterly crumble rather than just, you know, cleaning up the riot in the next day or two and then just confirming with all the electors via phone, email, or other... like anyone who wasn’t an utterly dysfunctional sociopath persistently and insanely (especially after COVID) hedging on a mental breakdown would.

[Michael Ejercito]

I wonder if anyone would mock those who tried to storm the White House on May 29, 2020.

[mad.casual]

Nazis need punched in the face in perpetuity but the people who shut the world economy down for "two weeks" and then declared that The West would crumble if EC vote certification was delayed by more than a few hours should be forgiven, even when they try and foist their blame onto others, because that's just how granting yourself amnesty works.

[Dillinger]

bonus points if you find KH at the DNC

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

GFY Petti, you are the worst addition to this place imaginable

[mad.casual]

Yeah, the "irony poisoning" part is retardation-inducing from a wide array of pro-individual, pro-liberty angles that Petti's blind obedience and reverence for authoritarianism prevents him from seeing.

Are children allowed to play "Who shot J.R. got COVID?" yet or did too many Dead Grandmas pile up for Petti's good taste to allow them to? My kids aren't going to understand nor care why he thinks they can't/shouldn't play Mao.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"...the presidential transition crisis..."

When was that?

[Eeyore]

How many times does AOC die?

[AT]

What's amazing to me is how dumb the game's producers are. Like, was there no editorial oversight at all on this? Words are misspelled all over the place, grammar is atrocious, they can't even get the name of the guy they're mocking right.

Talk about phoning it in.

[vanessaa]

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