At MINIMUM an insurrection is an armed attempt - successful or not - to overthrow the government. Not "interfere" with government.she was so triggered she has to interrupt the guy ...
Jan 6 WAS AN INSURRECTION ....
Heck, if that's the definition they want to use, insurrection happens several times a year, and MOSTLY by the left.
I think what I DIDN'T know - was just how often Trump, once it began - had tweets asking people to calm down, remain reaceful, respect the police. I had not read about those. I did know he told the crowds to "peacefully and patriotically" make their voices known - and I guess those words were some kind of dog whistle or secret code meaning "charge in a take over" - but I didn't know he subsequently told them to calm down.I'd off there is more insurrection and rebellion on campuses right now calling for
Death to America
and the end of Our Country ... all SUPPORTED By Soros and other Foreign interests
For Fox Sake .... J6'ers WERE NOT chanting DtA
I posted this, on another thread. The whole thing is utterly brilliant.
What gets me is, she totally, utterly confirms his points while acting all elite about it - that Portland and all of the other riots which destroyed SO MUCH property, killed so many others and injured far more - somehow they don't compare to the Capitol - event - (I'm repulsed by applying the term insurrection - we're talking an unarmed mob of nitwits, most of whom just waltzed in and most of whom have been charged with trespass and minor things) - and of course - the Left's OUTRAGE that Trump's insistence that the 2020 election was stolen -
And Pelosi insisting - right there in front of God and everyone - that *2016* was stolen. She cannot see that at minimum, the two are equivalent. That to the left, Trump is outrageous for insisting 2020 was stolen, but they continue to insist the SAME about 2016.
I think what I DIDN'T know - was just how often Trump, once it began - had tweets asking people to calm down, remain reaceful, respect the police. I had not read about those. I did know he told the crowds to "peacefully and patriotically" make their voices known - and I guess those words were some kind of dog whistle or secret code meaning "charge in a take over" - but I didn't know he subsequently told them to calm down.
I did know that people left the Capitol once he said "go home". The police weren't going to get them to leave - but Trump told them to stop, and they listened. I suppose to the Left, they believe that means they BEGAN their behavior at his direction also.
What do I think? I think there was a massive crowd of angry people who had not done a damned thing until the Capitol police started to get abusive - pushing people downstairs, stomping and beating people - and they incited a riot. I think there were agitators in the crowd who got the mob moving in. I think a portion of that crowd went pouring in but originally had no intention of doing that. Why? Because they were unarmed. MOST of the ones who entered did so with the help of the cops who held the door open. Tucker's airing of those videos WITHHELD from the public for two years confirmed that. Hitherto, the popular narrative was a dangerous mob swarmed in, smashing, burning and destroying - when reality for the most part looked like a typical day of tourists.
It was SO FAR from the narrative on the media it prompted Naomi Wolf - by NO MEANS a right-winger - to write an "apology" to the right -
Dear Conservatives, I Apologize
My "Team" was Taken in By Full-Spectrum Propagandanaomiwolf.substack.com
- because - she believed the image being sent across the airwaves.
And it DOES play out exactly as in "The Christmas Story" when Scott Farkus gets the sht kicked out of him - the toadies learn their bully friend can't protect them - and they flee. We've seen THAT, too.In my sociological endeavors I got interested in why people stand behind bullies. We've all seen it, a bully with a posse of dipshit clingons going, "Yeah!" Every school in America has one.
And I actually KNOW PEOPLE who believe that a thing isn't violent if stuff is burned, destroyed, vandalized so long as no one gets hurt.
And I actually KNOW PEOPLE who believe that a thing isn't violent if stuff is burned, destroyed, vandalized so long as no one gets hurt.
That it is NOT violence to BLOW UP YOUR HOME if you're not in it when it happens.
This is the kind of mindset we need to confront.
(shrug) I'm not trying to persuade or enlighten them. Once we engage - if we do - they will reach a point of outrage where you could tell them the house was on fire, and they've tuned out. J6 - and other things - are triggers that set them off. Most of the time, they're as "normal" as anyone else you'd meet.A ton of people got injured and killed in those riots. WAY more than on J6. So your friends don't get to go, "Oh, no one was hurt..." because many people were in fact hurt.
So what do you say to them when they relay those beliefs to you?
It IS - so long as you don't redefine the word, which somehow - once relinquishing the description to Trump - they've somehow repurposed it to mean "racist".My favorite line from his speech:
"Populism isn't a threat to democracy. Populism IS democracy."