(06-18-2024, 09:01 PM)Sneakers Wrote:

(06-16-2024, 09:10 AM)mikesez Wrote: I'll play that game.
Name a person who instigated/started any dangerous riot in Minneapolis or Ferguson.
Name the government building and government function their unlawful riot disrupted.

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Nah dude.  

• "The President is commander in chief of the army and Navy if the United States and of the militia of the several states, when called into actual service of the United States".
  

I don't see anything in there about Congress being in charge of its own security.
Also, even if they were, it was Trump's mob.  They went out when he sent them and didn't go home until he told them to. Even if I forgive him for sending the mob, even if I give him the benefit of the doubt "Trump didn't realize they would get violent," I don't see a way to excuse how he waited three hours before telling them to go home.

The actual identity of the organizers of those events is irrelevant.  The point is that any rally/protest may be formed with only the best intentions, only to have the event erupt into violence through the actions of others.  Does that automatically make the original organizer culpable or part of a conspiracy?  That's the standard you're holding Trump to.

A disrupted government function?  What planet were you living on?  Here's a thousand words.



I don't excuse the delay in telling them to go home.  As previously stated, it was terrible leadership, but that is NOT a criminal offense.

You're smarter than this.
The street protest in the picture may have been instigated by people who had no intention of destroying a police car.  Or maybe they did.  

Key differences:

1) Trump obviously wanted to change the vote in Congress or, failing that, prevent Congress from voting. The delay, which you admit was wrong of him, reveals his motives.

2) Which government function is more important, the safe operation of a police car, or the official counting of electoral votes?

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