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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The January 6th hearings are the latest reason why Democrats will be slaughtered in November. While Americans struggle to put food on their tables and gas in their cars, Democrats are focused on taking down a former president for exercising his first amendment right to free speech. What is their problem with encouraging peaceful protests? They didn't mind protests when Roe was overturned.
for exercising his first amendment right to free speech.
So under the reversed roles with Biden exercising his free speech and his supporters storming the capitol building to prevent Biden from being dethroned....you'd be eager to ignore that attempt to overthrow a democratic American election because gas prices are high?
@Pikachu I wouldn't blame Bien if he, like Trump, encouraged peaceful protests. i don't blame guns involved in shootings and I don't blame presidents when their supporters ignore calls for peace.
lol calls for peace? "You will have an illegitimate president. That is what you will have, and we can't let that happen." 'If you don't fight like hell you're not going to have a country anymore'
He didn't call for peace. Amongst his exhortation to fight, fight, fight! he mentioned to do so peacefully. Biiiig difference.
So you're telling me if Biden had said those words and his followers had broken into the capitol building to stop Biden being deposed...you'd be content to let it go?
Yeah, after he made a speech wherein he told them they had won but that they had been robbed, that they had to fight, that only through strength could they save America and that they should march down to the capitol building....after he did all that and after *gasp* quelle surprise, his supporters attempted to use force to "stop the steal", after all that he called for them to leave peacefully.
Maybe because he really thought they ought to, maybe because he realized how bad this looked for him, maybe to avoid exactly what's happening right now with the hearing. Whatever the case, he gets no credit for backpedaling after winding up his followers, pointing them towards the capitol building and watching them go.
So you're telling me if Biden had said those words and his followers had broken into the capitol building to stop Biden being deposed...you'd be content to let it go?
@Pikachu Trump said to the protesters before marching to the Capitol: "“We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated, lawfully slated. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."
Because riling up a group of emotional people by telling them they're being robbed, that the enemy is taking away your democracy, that you have to fight and be strong or you'll end up with an illegitimate government, churning them into a frothing frenzy, pointing them at the capitol building and then adding "peaceful" in at the end is way too little way too late.
