(01-08-2022, 09:38 AM)mikesez Wrote: (01-07-2022, 10:12 PM)Sneakers Wrote: LOL. You interpret Article II to mean the president should directly oversee and participate in law enforcement at the local level? WOW!
Please provide his quote directing anyone to specifically disrupt the Jan. 6th session.
You're missing a great deal, but that isn't exactly breaking news. Biden was President during the rioting in 2021. Regardless of timing, when has he ever denounced violent protest (other than Jan. 6th)?
Washington DC, specifically the Capitol building, is under federal authority. Article 1 Section 8. In the fullness of time, Congress and the president have delegated some of their authority over DC to locally elected officials. Which means they no longer have to directly appoint the people who respond to each incident. However this does not mean that Congress or the President should go around deliberately creating or inciting riots.
As for MN, I didn't realize MN also had riots in 2021, but that's only important to the residents of MN. Riots in DC affect all of us. Even if I granted you the point that Biden needed to give a speech condemning these riots, that would not absolve Trump from what he did on January 6th. All you would have done there is create a tu-quoque argument
Trump said, "We're going to the Capitol" to the huge crowd he had assembled. He also condemned Mike Pence on Twitter. He incited that riot. The riot only died down when Trump finally put out a video telling people to go home. 3 hours too late. Many of his supporters, in the news media, and in Congress, are quoted, during the event, as saying that Trump was to blame, and only Trump could send them away. You're willfully blind if you don't see it.
How many levels of authority do you think exist between the Oval Office and a Capitol police officer? The President does not give rudder orders.
Your indifference to violence and destruction that does not directly affect you is a sad testimony to the wave of self-absorption spreading throughout the liberal mindset.
The riot at the capitol had no significant effect on the operation of Congress, it only delayed the process for a few hours. Activating the sprinkler system could have caused the same delay. The Capitol building itself is not government, nor is it essential for the function thereof. The meetings and actions of Congress are governing, irrespective of the physical location in which they occur.
You want to find him guilty of insurrection for saying,
"We're going to the Capitol"? WOW!!!
When you get into the endzone, act like you've been there before.
