General Senate Judiciary Committee Report on Jan 6th

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John Lee Pettimore

Further south than you
May 18, 2021
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...not to put too fine a point on it, but...

Here's the way I deal with people: ad homs are best when they're objectively funny, but usually better left out altogether.

He and I have had plenty of amicable disagreements, it just takes crushing the Shasta. I could bust out a cold, friendly can if you like ?
If you're going to be a shill, that's fine. But at least be honest about it. ?

And it's not a respectable stance to cheerlead for vile idiot cunts whose ideal society you could never stand to live in.

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BeardOfKnowledge

The Most Consistent Motherfucker You Know
Jul 22, 2015
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arguing that "parallels" means the same thing as "virtually identical"...

Go Team!!!

by what mechanism were these "thousands of insurrections" going to "block the certification"? LoL
I've noticed some folks trying to make the defense of the Biden administration encouraging protesting at the Justice's homes by saying "This was one crazy guy" they seek to forget that when one crazy guy shot up a grocery store a month back that was fully and completely the fault of right wings politics.

It's really neat how that all works.
 

Speaker to Animals

encephalopathetic
May 16, 2021
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I've noticed some folks trying to make the defense of the Biden administration encouraging protesting at the Justice's homes by saying "This was one crazy guy" they seek to forget that when one crazy guy shot up a grocery store a month back that was fully and completely the fault of right wings politics.

It's really neat how that all works.
Did the Biden administration really encourage that?
 

Speaker to Animals

encephalopathetic
May 16, 2021
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They didn't exactly condemn it...
Encouraging isn't the same thing as condemning.

I'm asking for fact, because I don't know. Did the Biden administration encourage people to go to specific homes and protest?

With the way people are these days that would probably happen by itself, without the need for encouragement.
 

Filthy

Iowa Wrestling Champion
Jun 28, 2016
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That's not the mindset the criminals had before or during the attack though, is it. They were there to forcibly prevent Trump's legitimate election loss from being certified.

??
How many were there for that purpose, as part of a planned overthrow of the FedGov?
 

Lukewarm Carl

TMMAC Addict
Aug 7, 2015
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Encouraging isn't the same thing as condemning.

I'm asking for fact, because I don't know. Did the Biden administration encourage people to go to specific homes and protest?

With the way people are these days that would probably happen by itself, without the need for encouragement.
 

kaladin stormblessed

Nala fanboy
Apr 24, 2017
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How many were there for that purpose, as part of a planned overthrow of the FedGov?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it a "stop the steal" rally?

And didn't trumps speech center on Mike Pence not approving the electors?

If so, my guess would be most of them were there to "stop the steal"

Edit: it was a "save america" rally

My answer remains the same tho
 

La Paix

Fuck this place
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Jan 14, 2015
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it a "stop the steal" rally?

And didn't trumps speech center on Mike Pence not approving the electors?

If so, my guess would be most of them were there to "stop the steal"

Edit: it was a "save america" rally

My answer remains the same tho
There’s body cam footage showing large crowds of MAGAs yelling shit like “we’re taking back our country!” while assaulting officers with weapons and breaking into the capital. This stuff is easy to find right now.
 

Qat

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Nov 3, 2015
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They'd have been replaced but the integrity of the system would not have changed.
No changes or ripple effects at all? Cmon bruv. Imagine let's say 30 of den politicians including Pence and Pelosi would have been lynched.
Next day replacement and just business as usual or what?

We also don't have any reason to believe there was an actual plan to kill them or anyone else.
Many people disagree it seems, and the finding out process is still going on.
But the judge one wasn't even an attempt at all it seems?

People see to forget that we saw what happens when someone tries to get into somewhere within the capital they aren't wanted.
Wut? Unpack that bad boy for us pls.

two reasonably similar events


This isn't and has never been about the sacredness of democracy, it's always been about Trump
You could maybe say that if people simply voiced opinions brought up by Trump, but the capitol was stormed and people died/got hurt.

In a world without Trump that wouldn't have been a big issue? Is that really what you believe?
 

Filthy

Iowa Wrestling Champion
Jun 28, 2016
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No changes or ripple effects at all? Cmon bruv. Imagine let's say 30 of den politicians including Pence and Pelosi would have been lynched.
Next day replacement and just business as usual or what?
yes.

maybe Trump arrested immediately.

You could maybe say that if people simply voiced opinions brought up by Trump, but the capitol was stormed and people died/got hurt.


one person died from the riot, and it was a protestor shot by the police. The protests ended within a couple hours, there was never a plan or attempt to hold the Capitol. This whole thing was a power jerk-off for Trump.
 

Filthy

Iowa Wrestling Champion
Jun 28, 2016
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it a "stop the steal" rally?

And didn't trumps speech center on Mike Pence not approving the electors?

If so, my guess would be most of them were there to "stop the steal"

Edit: it was a "save america" rally

My answer remains the same tho
the speech didn't focus on Pence, not even sure if he mentioned Pence....but didn't provide any specific instructions other than "we're gonna go protest this injustice".
 

kaladin stormblessed

Nala fanboy
Apr 24, 2017
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the speech didn't focus on Pence, not even sure if he mentioned Pence....but didn't provide any specific instructions other than "we're gonna go protest this injustice".
He mentioned Pence multiple times during his speech. One last ditch effort to pressure Pence was the entire point of that rally
 

Filthy

Iowa Wrestling Champion
Jun 28, 2016
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He mentioned Pence multiple times during his speech. One last ditch effort to pressure Pence was the entire point of that rally
but he didn't say anything actionable about Pence, like "go get Pence, that traitor to America"...just called Pence names (AFIAK).
Trump never told the crowd to anything but go there and protest. The mob was the same as the mob that disrupted Kavanaugh's hearing, except that mob was actual threat to the function of democracy because they stopped the work of the Senate.

this mob stopped a ceremony. Getting thrown out of the reception isn't going to change the wedding.
 

Freeloading Rusty

Here comes Rover, sniffin’ at your ass
Jan 11, 2016
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"fiery but mostly peaceful"
The Christian Science Monitor agrees..


BLM and Floyd protests were largely peaceful, data confirms
In CCC data collected from May 2020 to June 2021, 94% of protests involved no participant arrests, 97.9% involved no participant injuries, 98.6% involved no injuries to police, and 96.7% involved no property damage.
 
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