Calling the attempt to interfere with election certification a "riot" in the first place is nothing short of dishonest revisionism
Almost like hand waving away hundreds of riots in a matter of months as "firey but mostly peaceful protests that escalated due to hundreds of years of oppression". Even during the Rittenhouse trial you still had violence appologists claiming the violent rioters who were shot were "racial justice protesters at a protest" even though it occurred at night time, while trespassing on private property, and involved illegal arson, window smashing, property destruction, vandalism, and assault. That is not a protest. Legitimate protests dont happen at night and dont involve arson and window smashing. The 2020 rioters and the Capitol rioters should both be punished severely. Yet when the Biden transition happened, DOJ dismissed most of the 2020 prosecutions and focused on MAGA meemaws walking between the velvet ropes rather than the Portland Antifa terrorists.
In June of 2020 when violent rioters breached the White House and burned the church across the street there were a ton of posters on this site gleefully mocking Trump as a coward for being evacuated to the White House bunker. Then on Jan. 6 when an ostensibly less destructive riot forced members of congress into bunkers yall claim its literally a treesuncoo. Both should be prosecuted as violent riots. Instead Biden claimed Antifa didnt exist and had most of the 2020 prosecutions dismissed while shamefully comparing Jan. 6 to 9/11 and pearl harbor.
So much cover was given to the 2020 riots that it desensitized the nation to political violence. Dozens of politicians encouraged 2020. AOC told rioters to wear "heat-resistant gloves" and to conceal their identities. Popular Mechanics did an article on how to illegally pull down statues. The VP tweeted bail funds for rioters. There were articles on how looting was "reparations". Louise Lucas in Portsmouth ordered the police to stand down from stopping a riot. Seattle and Portland local governments permitted riots, autonomous zones, and attacks on federal property and Soros prosecutors refused to prosecute the violent rioters. The 2020 riots were an order of magnitude worse than Jan. 6 and yet you expect us to forget that and just focus on the 1 riot that scared the Dems. If yall had been consistent on locking up rioters and werent just trying to claim "insturrection" to invoke the 14th amendment I doubt most of the Republicans would have boycotted the Commission. I want the Jan. 6 rioters prosecuted too but I refuse to accept the Dem propaganda that it was worse than 2020.
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And I want EVERY ONE of those defendants being granted reasonable bail in line with the 8th amendment. EVERY ONE of those defendants should be dealt with in terms of the charges they are actually charged with. NOT ONE of those defendants should be in Solitary Confinement while in PRETRIAL status.
It is immoral to refer to people who have been charged with misdemeanors as being guilty of treason while you actively maintain that the Leftist rioters of 2020 were Peaceful Protesters.
1.) The left has continually condemned any riots in summer 2020 that turned violent. Some of them were peaceful, some weren’t. The ones who weren’t peaceful should be prosecuted. What more do you want on this issue?
2.) Explain exactly how the Jan. 6 rioters were NOT worse than the summer 2020 riots? Only one attempted to overthrow the government and subvert the Constitution in order to install a dictator. That one is inherently worse. How are you not getting this???
One targeted people in power; the other targeted average people.
That's the difference. It's pretty simple.
Democrats have shown very clearly which type of protest they care about stopping, and which type they don't.
I’d argue that the January 6 attack targeted everyone in the country who voted for Joe Biden by attempting to nullify their votes. Certainly the ones in swing states.
