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One more on that January 6 protest

Journal by khallow
Once more, we have journals about the alleged insurrection of January 6. My take on that is that even if you're a US poster, the US is a free country and thus, you are free to be idiots. I'm also free to tell you that.

But you miss the real story. I quite agree that Trump riled up a bunch of loyal supporters and pointed them at the Capitol. I quite agree that he and his lackeys then dragged their feet on defending the Capitol from a riot that he caused. Those are shitty moves, but genuine politics - meaning any supporter who put up with his shenanigans (he's done worse) to that point isn't going to be concerned about some more shenanigans. Maybe it even rises to the level of insurrection though I'd like to see more there than some impotent whining that Trump didn't sign a confession.

The nasty move is near instantly throwing those supporters under the bus. This is the real Trump. They did what Trump wanted them to do and now they're fucked without a word of encouragement or any other support from Trump. Same goes for the people who filed all those useless lawsuits.

He's over it.

Here, we have naked betrayal of his most loyal followers - rewarded for their efforts with prison time and huge fines. If Trump's critics can't run with that, then we need a new batch.
 

Reply to: Re:Insurrectionist, and here's why

    (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday August 02 2022, @06:56PM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday August 02 2022, @06:56PM (#1264634)

    As usual you do not say it directly

    In other words, I didn't say it. Not good starting with these dishonest games.

    then just babble on after someone suggests you view the public footage of the speech and insurrection.

    I have since seen a lot of both the Trump speech and protest videos. My observations confirm the vacuousness of the above demands.

    We get it, you conservatives were super pissed about the BLM protests that turned into riots occasionally and could not separate support for protests with condemnation of the riots.

    I'm not conservative and I didn't get super pissed about BLM protests. I treat the BLM protests and the January 6 protest similarly.

    Yes you khallow, with your transparent attempts at defending the traitors. It saddens me that the most vocal supporters of freedom are so easily brainwashed into being fascists. What happened? Did a black man get elected POTUS or something? At least they'd never try and put a WOMAN in charge amirite????/s

    It's the unpopular and the nasty that taste tyranny first. They are the canaries in the coal mine.

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