There were at least excuses for 9/11...not great ones mind you but I mean back then they got credible threats all the time and that plan seemed a bit far fetched.
This one they were planning out in the open to the point that even Parler, a fucking app that was designed for this exact purpose, thought this was getting out of hand and they could get in trouble and reported it to the FBI. That isn't rumor and innuendo that is criminals and traitors so worried about how far their fellow criminals and traitors are going that they try and nuke them to protect their own criminal behaviors. This is like when the mob turns of drug dealers or pedos so the cops leave them alone over their book making and racketeering back in the day.
I mean for fucks sake we were openly talking about it here going back to December of 2020. Every step of the Eastman Memo was something brought up by someone here as what would happen next. I was posting messages from Parler and other Right Wing Nutters about violence and overthrow all the time as were others. None of us work for the FBI or LE (cause we aint Maga Qucumbers!) or are even investigators and it didn't take any sort of effort to find it out. The same people spreading lies now were talking about all of it on twitter and Parler and no one cared.
It is not a coincidence that the FBI looked the other way as they were getting intelligence on 1/6 and how they can't seem to arrest many of them now. You would think with all their money and technical expertise and access to methods of research and finding people they wouldn't be begging for people to identify them from home. What they don't have wifi and a twitter account at the FBI? I mean they tag their location in their tweets and Facebook posts along with pictures! The FBI doesn't care and it isn't hard to figure out why.