I aplaud this decision. 
I’m tired of this right-wing insistence on bringing up the summer’s protests whenever the Capitol riot (and yes, it was a riot) is discussed.
They’re completely unrelated.
It’s like if I got drunk, back out of my parking space, dented someone’s car, and when called on it, said “well, what about that ship stuck in the Suez Canal? Huh? What about that? Why aren’t we talking about that? That did way more damage than this tiny dent in your car. Obviously you’re biased and a Marxist.”
It’s just a distraction, an attempt to shift attention away from the riot. Again, it was a riot, not a peaceful protest. A riot. A disgusting, violent, ignorant, un-American riot.
The crowd “heave-ho-ing” at the doors, crushing cops inside the capitol- total tourists. Jesus christ, Republicans.
When I was fairly young, I couldn’t tell the difference between the words terrorist and tourist.
It seems as though there are some who still can’t.
“Riot” doesn’t even convey the full magnitude of what happened. A riot is spontaneous and chaotic. This was an insurrection – the leaders of the mob that stormed the capitol had the full intention of violently disrupting the lawful activity of the government.
People who broke windows and stole things during the George Floyd protests were criminals. People who broke into the Capitol on Jan. 6 were traitors.
- Where are these “ubiquitous media references to the “mostly peaceful” George Floyd riots” and
- Did you bother to search for those threads before you decided to complain about them not existing?
And since the false equivalence of the riots followimg Mr. Floyd’s murder and the insurrection keep showing up, it must be stated clearly that the riots following the murder were people pissed off about a murder, and the insurrection riot was people pissed off about pure imaginary bullshit.
It sounds like you’re trying to make the argument that as long as you can find a single person who did not engage in violent acts, then that makes the whole even peaceful.
Of course that would be an idiotic argument to make. But that’s exactly what it looks like.
Is this how you react when “tourists” are in the building?
He was just volunteering to move furniture for the remodeling.
It’s also useful to add that Jan 6 was a planned riot and was a riot right from the beginning. The vast majority of riots that happened over the summer were planned peaceful protests that, for various reasons not relevant to this thread, escalated into riots later on.
Also, in general, most democrats denounced the riots. They may have understood them and empathized with the people involved, but most still said they shouldn’t have happened. We didn’t encourage them, we didn’t egg them on and most of all, we most certainly didn’t deny that they happened. How many dem leaders suggested that, had you seen videos without being given the context, you would have thought that it was like any other nice day in middle America with lots of people hanging out on their front lawns, talking to the neighbors, walking down the sidewalks. Maybe even a block party or parade going on. Nothing out of the ordinary.
True words right there.
^ This.
Facts matter. The right will go on offering up false-equivalencies and What-About-ism, because they have nothing else.
But even they know, though they will not admit they know, that what we all saw on January 6 at the Capitol was treasonous insurrection against the United States of America.
I’ve already addressed your whataboutism. It doesn’t even make sense.
If your point is that the Capitol riot was actually a peaceful protest, or just a bunch of tourists visiting the Capitol off-hours, because not everyone who entered the building physically attacked people or damaged or stole or broke stuff (although it’s worth noting that, in fact, everyone who entered the building did so illegally), then of course you’ll be the first to admit that the same standard applies to the summer’s protests.
And now your whataboutism makes even less sense.
No, they’re not. Right-wing extremists rioted over the summer, and right-wing extremists rioted on January 6. I expect that in many cases, it was the exact same people.
The riots over the summer were not started by the people who had legitimate grievances. They were started by groups like the Hell’s Angels, the Boogaloo Boys, the Proud Boys, and the Minneapolis Police Department.
Good point, but I would call it a insurrection attempt.
An insurrection is simply the violent uprising (against the government). Actually overthrowing the government isn’t part of the definition.
https://dictionary.findlaw.com/definition/insurrection.html
“…but they believed something!”
Because in America, all it takes is believing.
No. There was an insurrection.
Reminds me of Sideshow Bob’s defense: “Attempted Murder! Really, what is that? Do they give a Nobel Prize for Attempted Chemistry?”