(09-19-2023, 07:02 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(09-19-2023, 06:01 PM)copycat Wrote: Pretend for a moment there is no Trump.  Pretend you do not know party affiliation.  100% completely objective.  There are a lot of things that can be objectively questionable.  100% the conservative’s are reaching and 100% the never Trumper’s refuse to see oddities.  The truth lies somewhere in the middle.

LOL

The truth on this topic is very plain and clear. You apparently just want too convolute it. 

I'll lay it out for you:

• Rioters made up of several dozen actual domestic terrorists, a few freak show bad people, a large number of useful idiots who believed a lie and got really riled up by it, and a few hundred bystanders that got swept up in the moment,  assaulted American police officers in order to trespass into a federal building where our election was being certified
  
• 140 officers (80 cap police, 60 metro) experienced some degree of assault by the 3,500 or so rioters, roughly 2,000 of which actually entered the building. 
  
• When a group of them finally got close enough to lawmakers to inflict harm - lethal force was used after instructions failed
  
• The most organized among these rioters had plans in place for several days and all of this has been hashed out in dozens of articles and publicly available court records. 
  These group's goals included intent to kidnap lawmakers, make demands about the election results after taking hostages, and some even openly discussed killing certain lawmakers. The FBI didn't coerce them to do it. Antifa didn't trick them. They thought the election was stolen (when it wasn't) and they decided to attempt some crackpot insurrection. 
  

Now many of them are deservedly in jail. 

The end.

How am I convoluting anything?  I asked a very simple question because all I see from both sides is excusing the transgressions of their side while persecuting the other side for doing the exact same thing.  For the record, I agree that the knuckleheads breaking windows, assaulting officers and inciting violence should be prosecuted.  That’s not exactly what is happening here however.  Seems more like a selective enforcement.

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