J. Walter Weatherman said:
CDUB98 said:
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The Capitol protest on 1/6/21 was a protest that turned into a riot - chaotic, unlawful, and deserving of prosecutions for the people who committed crimes. But pretending it was an organized attempt to overthrow the U.S. government orchestrated by Trump is just silly. An insurrection requires planning, leadership, coordination, and a realistic path to seizing power. None of that existed. A disorganized mob breaking windows and wandering the Capitol is not a coup, and insisting it was makes you impossible to take seriously.
Agreed with this. It also is probably the most glaring example of the hypocrisy of both parties. Democrats like DCAg who were silent while their party rioted and destroyed cities across the country over the death of a drugged up criminal were suddenly up in arms about property destruction. But sadly the opposite that was true for a lot of republicans who didn't care that a few hundred losers broke into the capital and destroyed property.
Either way it definitely wasn't an "insurrection." It was a riot (something the Dems are basically experts on at this point), nothing more than that.
And that's where you are wrong. Virtually every sane person I know agrees people who destroyed property or committed other crimes (besides criminal trespass) should have been prosecuted. But the Biden DOJ overreached so far on virtually everyone who even looked at the capitol that day, that most of them now don't give one thought it.
Remind us again how the dems were all up in arms when the "occupy protesters" sat in the senate building and disrupted official government proceedings and nothing happened to them?