# Pitting UltraVires **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 22, 2018, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ultravires/821734 "2018-09-22T16:05:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 754
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2022, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ultravires/821734/754 "2022-04-26T12:48:51Z")
He’s doing the same thing with the insurrection as he did with the Russian attack on the 2016 election. He’s focusing on one tiny aspect of an enormous undertaking, and pretending like that accurately describes the whole thing. The insurrection is described as people trespassing and breaking shit. This ignores like 95% of the insurrectionist activity. He will post this repeatedly despite being corrected. > [@14th Amendment - Section 3: Can it apply to someone running for president?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/14th-amendment-section-3-can-it-apply-to-someone-running-for-president/963182/39): > > Not just people trespassing and breaking shit on one single day. With the 2016 election it was, “My understanding was that the Russians just put out garbage on Facebook and other social media.” This ignores like 95% of the insurrectionist activity. He posted this repeatedly despite being corrected every time. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-ultravires/821734)._