It's not an "INSURRECTION!" when we do it

[Catsnmeters]

So "brave" that they rammed through the electoral count without any further objection, debate, or consideration of the lawful requests from three states to review their certifications.


Sooooooooo brave!

If you mean "rammed" is carrying out their constitutional duty, then yes.

The states had already chosen their electors. That's it. You can't defer a counting of the electorial votes indefinitely just because you object, want to debate or consider things.

That was done in the months leading to the counting.

And yes it was brave. Nobody knew if any further attacks were planned and who knows if a Trump traitor could have been hiding out somewhere.

 

[Pappadave1]

I don't recall any recent declared riot that disrupted any proceedings? Got a link for that?

Trivializing the Jan 6th riot and attempted overturning of the elections, is essential to the herds mentality. The Neo-GOP/Faux Not News Cabal must never allow the herd to feel any undue cognitive dissonance when confronted with reality. They just flit their heads and say in unison, There all insurrections, uh huh! And the heads bobble up and down throughout the heard

The January 6 event did degenerate into a "riot" of sorts, but NOWHERE near the riotous behavior of the Democrats throughout 2020 prior to the election. It was NEVER an "insurrection." NOBODY stages an insurrection by having several dozen people invade the Capitol building and wander around taking selfies armed with nothing more lethal than a few flagpoles.

 

[LibertyKid]

Just because it was an inept failure doesn't mean it wasn't an attempt at an insurrection. When you rob a bank and your handgun malfunctions so the 62 year old retired crippled bank guard can get the drop on him doesn't mean he isn't guilty of Bank Robbery.

I think the other question is "Intent". I highly doubt the intent was "insurrection". That's not how you over throw a gov't LOL.

 

[LibertyKid]

It wasn't that bad of an attempt actually. If Congress would not have had the courage to reconvene, or if pence had gotten into that car and was whisked away (or hung), had pence violated his constitutional duty and followed through on Trump's request, had the seditionists gotten to say Pelosi or AOC, the false electors considered instead of the actual ones....things could have gone way different.

It's my opinion that if the election wasn't certified that evening, we would be having a much different discussion.

Would have just happened the next day.
Actually, what "Place" would we be in?

 

[Richard-H]

"1984" was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual....Make Orwell fiction again!


In an interesting turn of events, the Associated Press no longer appears to believe that staging a riot at a capitol building with the intention of disrupting and diverting legislative proceedings is an insurrection.

Janaury 14, 2021 saw the AP publicly hashing out what to call the Capitol riot of January 6. In an article entitled "Riot? Insurrection? Words matter in describing Capitol siege," the AP ran through a list of potential words to describe the events in Washington, DC on that day.

Apparently words still matter—but only when convenient to the left.

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The AP states that despite the arrests, those little protests in Montana and Tennessee "didn’t involve violence or any real attempts to dismantle or replace a government," and quote the Harvard professor again to say that "it's wrong to call them insurrections."

Another "keen" legal mind, UNC law prof Michael Gerhardy, told the AP that "Disrupting things is a far cry from insurrection. It’s just a protest, and protesters are not insurrectionists."


In 2021, however, the AP sang a very different tune, saying that the term protest for January 6 was too mild. At that time, they quoted a CBS News exec who said that January 6 "was a lot more sinister than it first appeared," by way of explaining that this is why–at first–terms like protest and protesters were used, though they changed, at the AP's urging, to be more incendiary.

LIBBY EMMONS: Associated Press—who used capitol riot to redefine ‘insurrection’—now OUTRAGED by GOP calling state capitol riots ‘insurrections’

“Words still matter”—but only when convenient to the left.

humanevents.com

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Keep on grasping!

Someday you may get that straw! (but I doubt it)

 

[easyt65]

Do you think this somehow justifies the Trump traitors?

Socialist Democrat extremism has brainwashed you into believing challenging the outcomes of elections makes one a 'traitor'.



The J6 Committee was run by a 'traitor', and there were several others on the committee. By your standards Hillary Clinton was / is a traitor, as is Al Gore.

 

[BlindBoo]

The January 6 event did degenerate into a "riot" of sorts, but NOWHERE near the riotous behavior of the Democrats throughout 2020 prior to the election. It was NEVER an "insurrection." NOBODY stages an insurrection by having several dozen people invade the Capitol building and wander around taking selfies armed with nothing more lethal than a few flagpoles.

Democrats? Those were not democrats rioting in the wake of Floyd's murder. Those were US citizens who protests the killing. While thugs and opportunist used the event to riot, pillage, and cause menham in the streets. Democrats, especially the Candidate for president denounced the riots as unAmerican.

 

[Oddball]

Keep on grasping!

Someday you may get that straw! (but I doubt it)

Keep on being a good little tool of your party...."Stooge" fits you well.

 

[Catsnmeters]

Would have just happened the next day.
Actually, what "Place" would we be in?

Not necessarily. They could have put more pressure on pence to count fake electors or pressured him to recuse himself and allow senate pro temp (or whatever the hell it is called) Grassley to carry out the unconstitutional counting of fake electors.

 

[Oddball]

Democrats, especially the Candidate for president denounced the riots as unAmerican..

Yet not a single democrat Governor lifted a finger to stop them.

Un-American indeed.

 

[Oddball]

If you mean "rammed" is carrying out their constitutional duty, then yes.

The states had already chosen their electors. That's it. You can't defer a counting of the electorial votes indefinitely just because you object, want to debate or consider things.

That was done in the months leading to the counting.

And yes it was brave. Nobody knew if any further attacks were planned and who knows if a Trump traitor could have been hiding out somewhere.

There's a "constitutional duty" to a fair hearing of objections and petitions, none of which happened after the fake "insurrection"....All such hearings were suspended and disregarded.

That would qualify as rammed through.

 

[Catsnmeters]

There's a "constitutional duty" to a fair hearing of objections and petitions, none of which happened after the fake "insurrection"....All such hearings were suspended and disregarded.

Yeah. Cause the election was over. Their were dozens of hearings before Jan 6.

That would qualify as rammed through.

No it wouldn't. Their was no constitutional reason to forestall the election.

Trump and Eastman are Traitors for even considering the Eastman memo.

 

[BlindBoo]

Yet not a single democrat Governor lifted a finger to stop them.

Un-American indeed.

That's too is just contrary to known reality.

Minnesota governor activates National Guard as Minneapolis braces for more violence

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz called in the National Guard as a wounded Minneapolis braced for more violence Thursday, one day after rioting over the death of a handcuffed black man in police custody.

www.militarytimes.com

 

[BlindBoo]

There's a "constitutional duty" to a fair hearing of objections and petitions, none of which happened after the fake "insurrection"....All such hearings were suspended and disregarded.

That would qualify as rammed through.

Those measures were voted on weren't they?