Civilized said:
cowboypack02 said:
Civilized said:
Steve Videtich said:
"wholly propagated by the words of the POTUS"
This is where you lose me every time. First off, it was a bad day. But, it's not even the worst day the capital has ever experienced. That is a narrative continually propagated a corrupt media and folks like yourself, who have an emotional bias against Trump for not being "presidential" enough for your high standards.
You keep bringing up this point, even when nothing is relevant to it. Why are you so hung up on Jan 6? Why is it that you don't bring up any other riots that happened around the country, in the year leading up to Jan 6? You know the riots where the rioters killed people and police officers and did millions of dollars in damages. The same riots where our media stood in front of a burning building and said it was mostly peaceful. And the same riots that governed official, including the current VP, actually cheered and applauded, and told us they weren't going to and shouldn't stop. Why don't you bring those up?
Please, tell us why!
How big a misrepresentation, really, is saying January 6 was the worst day the capital has experienced? The only way to minimize January 6 is to focus on the riot itself and not the circumstances that led to it happening. We've had other riots in this country before, right comrades? The rad-libs riot every time a cop kills a black person! They can't have it both ways, amirite, we've seen this before!!1
Really? We've had that before?
We've had riots incited by an outgoing and self-absorbed President, who for months had maintained he may not accept the results of the election and who was ultimately refusing to do exactly that, all because he was too little of a man to admit he got beat?
Riots where the outgoing President was literally on the phone while the riot was happening, pressuring his Vice President to overturn the results of the American presidential election?
Strictly from a historical perspective, how does that compare to past Presidential conduct in our history? Have we ever seen anything remotely resembling a President threatening not to transfer power, and then encouraging rioters and lobbying the Vice President on his behalf?
What makes January 6 so egregious is that it wasn't outsiders encouraging the riots and overthrowing the election results. It wasn't a foreign army in 1814. It was our own sitting President.
How people want to continue minimizing the literal and symbolic importance of that key distinction is beyond me.
I would argue that your historical perspective seems to be skewed...
Republican congressmen being shot by a worker for a democrat political candidate
FBI agents who supported the democrats spying on a political candidate of the minority party
FBI agents who supported the democrats using made up political dirt to get a FISA warrant to spy on a president of the opposition party
Highest elected members of the democrat party saying that the president is not legitimate for years after his election, going so far as to say that he colluded with a foreign power to cheat in the election and refusing to work with him on that basis
Washington DC being set on fire by democrats due to riots during the inauguration of Trump, complete with speakers at the political rally saying that they want to blow up the White House.
Democrat members of Congress telling people that they should go after members of the administration
The President of the United States having to be moved to a bunker under the White House while democrat protestors assaulted secret service members and tried to tear down a fence protecting the white house.
Republicans who were leaving the White House being assaulted by Democrats after Trump accepting the nomination to run for President again.
Democrat members of Congress (and a future VP) paying bail funds for people who were trying to burn down cities and federal court houses.
I can keep going if you would like...
There's no need for you to go on.
You already proved my point by continuing to compare the actions of the single most powerful politician in the world to random Americans or much less powerful politicians that demonstrably didn't cause insurrections.
We've never had anything remotely resembling a President threatening to not transfer power or lobbying his VP to overturn the election.
Actually....i'm a little bit confused and i'd like a little bit more clarification if you don't mind.
Your saying that the democrats setting DC, which is the seat of power for our government, on fire three times in four years because they don't like the president doesn't move the needle for you?
Democrats, who had enough power to impeach a president twice are less powerful?
Nancy Pelosi, who is the democrat speaker of the house, working with military officials while Trump was president to not allow him to use his presidential powers as he sees fit, isn't powerful?
Chuck Schumer, who is the president of the senate, telling Trump that the intelligence community would get him 6 ways from sunday...and then the FBI went after him by falsifying documents to get warrants to wiretap him, isn't powerful?
General Mark Milley, who is the joint chief of staff for the entire military of the US, reaching out to his counterpart in China to tell him that if Trump decided to take any type of action against China that he would be given a heads up and wouldn't allow it to happen, isn't powerful?
As far as threatening to not transfer power...i was curious to i checked google and I couldn't really find any instances of Trump threatening to not transfer power. I read a whole lot of quotes from democrats saying that Trump wouldn't leave the white house and would refuse to give up his power, but nothing from Trump himself.
For the stuff with his VP...who cares....politicians lobby other politicians all the time to vote for bills and do things that shouldn't be passed.