Regrading the Jan 6 treason; wondering if any Trump Cultists have the balls to answer this question:
If the situation were reversed, if Biden was the incumbent who had lost, declared the election stolen and exhorted his followers to overturn the results of a democratic election....how would you have reacted?
Being honest, would you have tried to ignore it as you do now? Say it wasn't a big deal? Argue that Biden does not bear any responsibility for it?
I want you to thoughtfully self-examine here. If liberals had tried by force to overturn an election...would you be saying the same things you are now?
I anticipate a very low number of responses from Trump supporters here....
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If the situation was reversed, I’d still think that Biden was an idiot suffering from dementia. I’d still think that Trump is a megalomaniac. Neither is fixable. Neither should’ve had their party’s support to run as a Presidential candidate.
That said, the election was lost fairly and by a wide margin. Jan 6 was not treason. It was an uprising. The event speaks volumes about the division of Americans. However, it pales in comparison to the division that preceded it, BLM.
I'm not sure what the legal definition of treason is but it seems to me that trying to overthrow by force the rightfully elected president would fall under that umbrella.
I think you're wrong though that this division is less than previous ones. There has never been this sort of rabid hatred of the other. Not in my lifetime, anyway.
@Pikachu Overthrow by force? I’m trying to be kind because I’m not a trump fan, but that’s just nuts. If anyone wanted to overthrow the standing government, there’d be hundreds of thousands of guns firing millions of bullets.
That didn’t happen and CNN can’t make it so.
Let’s see the video evidence. Show me the violence intended to overthrow the government… not words.
Well they stormed that capitol building attempting to halt the democratic process. That's force even if it wasn't a hail of bullets.
They didn't accept the results of the vote, they didn't use their words. They showed up in person, broke through security, occupied the capitol building and tried to get what they wanted. If you don't consider that force, what do you call it?
@Pikachu What do I call it? I call it a protest, remember like BLM.. only they (some) were armed, violent and burned down buildings.
They were stupid for sure, but they never tried to occupy the Capitol. Now, if I break into your house, it’s breaking and entering. It’s not armed robbery. It’s not kidnapping. It’s the same with the Capitol, a bunch of idiots/houligans With a half of a plan and a half of a brain - much like Trump.
I guess i just don't have as high a bar for force as you do. As soon as they abandoned the agreement we all make to abide by the results of a democratic election and showed up en masse to stop the election, that's using force.
If they had showed up and stayed outside the buildings that would have been a protest. But they didn't stop there. That's force.
