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Lamest?.......The video I have been watching showed how protesters overwhelmed the Capital police and broke inside the Capital. If someone had produced a movie on an attempt to overturn the legitimate results of election and had this in it I would have turned it off saying that could never happen. I know some of you couldn’t give. rat’s ### but I today I put someone here arguing irrationally on ignore.
Everyone should care regardless of political affiliation. What occurred was inexcusable. Was it really going to ultimately stop the process? Of course not. The fact that every single person can’t just admit that what occurred should not have occurred is the problem.
Our democracy was more in jeopardy on Jan 6 than at any point since the states took up arms against themselves.
Their goal was to inappropriately influence congress from certifying the legitimate vote, thereby suppressing the will of the people.
Lol...puh_leeez. The fascists here are the Democrats, wanting to use government to attack political opponents.
They tried to stop a free and fair election and put the VPs life in danger as well as every Congressman and Senator in the Capitol. It was due to the heroic efforts of the Capitol Police and the National Guard that they weren't successful.
No...just Democrats = Fascists.
Seriously, so let me get this straight, 10,000 people armed mostly with flags was going to overthrow the government of 350.0m people with the strongest military in the world. Is that the angle your going with?
Who was defending the events on January 6th? Please quote me upthread and I would be happy to apologize. I was just pointing out reality as people are claiming our country was in jeopardy...
Watching It unfold live, I honestly had no idea what was going to happen. I watched in disbelief what was happening to our country as 1000s of Trump supporters broke through windows, smashed down doors, beat on the cops and sprayed them with chemicals. I was thinking "this is what we've come to?? All based on a lie from a sore loser president who then praised their efforts."
Not overthrow, no. But, for sure they were intent on changing our path to something where elections don't matter - if you lose an election, all you have to do is pitch a fit and you get to stay in power. It's not OK.
Not before a Constitutional crisis as the election process would have been incomplete.
How about a “failed insurrection”? Would you agree with that descriptor? Because that’s the phrase used by at least one very prominent Republican.
The actual President summoned a mob of people to the Capitol to “stop the steal”, pressured his VP to stop the count, asked a state to “find votes”, on and on.
it was pretty lame. might be different in the future. did you catch Matt Gaetz on Thursday?
Honest question. IF the President received calls for help (say, to send in the National Guard) during the Capitol riot and when people were breaching the Senate, and he chose to delay sending in additional forces because he wanted to see how things played out, would you consider that an act of treason? I’m not saying that this is what happened, or even whether the cost and distraction of a Congressional commission would be worth finding out whether it happened, I’m just curious whether people would consider this an act of treason.
The reason our democracy is still in danger it isn't as big of a minority opinion as you think.
Duh.
Does this mean Mitch is now a RINO?
How about...
There were 139 House Republicans who voted on January 6 to overturn election results. You can add 8 Republican Senators to the list.
Thank God. All fools should put me on ignore. We already know what went wrong that day, the Capitol Police and security dropped the ball and did not prepare for what everyone knew months in advanced was going to be a gathering of people upset at the ection results. The provided security was insufficient to control even a few hundred people let alone tens of thousands of people. The so-called "barriers" that were breached were a couple bicycle racks which a six year old could have easily breached. The amount of violence that day was laughable compared to the mayhem which we endured from the BLM riots. I am sick of the hypocrits on the left and their fake outrage. It is so old. Move on to some real issue instead of this lame effort to criminalize being conservative.
So your evidence that our democracy is at risk is a....... vote. You really can't make these arguements up.
I had some beef with how you characterized a few of those, but for the most part they were mostly accurate descriptions. It is your backyard trying to make hay out of this, so the burden is on you to make a legitimate case and not rely on lies.
How is that a hyperbole? It is exactly the purpose. Your buddy Maverick is trying to single out right-wing organizations and have them considered terrorists organizations. This whole commissions is an extension of that. The goal is to create an expansive list of right-wing organizations to which any association will cast suspicions on. And use this as a watch list for travel, to monitor communications, deny federal contracts and employment opportunity, provide cover for their tech giants minions to even greater censor and deplatform. It is the start of the new era of McCarthyism but with a much largest scope and with the full force of government.
It is a democratic part of the process. A vote which you disagree with is not an assault on democracy. It is democracy.
Are you arguing that had enough reps voted to decertify the 2020 election results (the will of the people) on January 6 , that this would have good for our democracy?
Whether it was good or not is irrelevant, tbh. It would have been a democratic vote via Democracy.
