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Jan. 6 rioter who was a Princeton sophomore is sentenced to prison for role in attack
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“Attack” - people walking up in goofy costumes and putting their feet up on corrupt politicians’ desks. Attacked.
Yeah that happened.
Law enforcement was also beaten, crushed, feces smeared on walls and property destroyed. SWAT larpers ran through the facility with restraint zipties and a literal gallows was erected outside chanting for the death of the VP.
Attacked.
The gaslighting apologists for fascism can never really explain all the weapons, including, yes, guns. Or the zipties. Or the gallows.
Why do y'all still pretend none of us saw the footage?
I'm beginning to think right wingers actually didn't. Do you really know everything that happened that day besides the people milling around in the main lobbies? If not, I suggest you look.
If the GOP didn't lie they'd have nothing left to say
Yeah and the Holocaust was just Hitler attempting to cut juice from his diet
They were shouting "Kiss Mike Pence", right?
The apologists can never answer direct questions like: just WHAT were these people even DOING there in the first place? And just what were they going to do if they got their grubby paws on Pence or Pelosi?
Play pattycakes? Tea and crumpets?
The fly approves.
They illegally entered the legislature while it was in session calling for the death of the elected official leading that legislature. I’m not happy that pence was elected but I acknowledge that he was elected. He was certifying his own loss of power, and they brought a noose and chanted for his death. The legislature was evacuated to safe rooms and one of their guards had to shoot someone who refused to stay behind the barricades or respect an armed guard saying to stay back while pointing a gun.
Just because someone fails to get the money doesn’t mean they didn’t attempt to rob a bank
Man, I hope your house gets J6'd. Clearly it wasn't that bad, so you should be fine.
Attack, multiple deaths, massive damage, extreme violence. So attack is the right word.
I think most of causalitys were the rioters themselves looking into it one was shot one overdosed on drugs and 2 died of natural causes with a cop dying of natural causes aswell 138 poilce officers sustained some injuries with 5 being hospitalised on the day there were 4 cop suicides months after the riot which I think to be a little bit odd but that's probably just me
You can look into this yourself
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack
Attack multiple deaths massive damage and extreme violence can apply for pretty much most riots
This was not a riot.
Like this?
I don't know what's more pathetic, the failure of LEO's to stop the mob, the outrage over the costumes, or the gross rioters themselves. Either way, this isn't an attack. A riot sure, but not an attack. This was the outrage of Walmart white trash marching on officers who didn't want to end up in trouble for spraying the crowd with assault rifles.
For all the people calling this an attack though, it's pathetic. I don't want to see a real attack, but I disagree with this being called one.
It was planned. There was an objective.
Denying that it was an attack is ignoring reality.
It's just more gaslighting. It was an attack, we all saw it. And this was planned, and it went hand-in-glove with their coup attempt via the fake elector scheme.
In another time many of those guilty might already have been lined up against a wall or be marched to the gallows. They hate democracy, and they wanted to overturn the will of the people.
What’s really pathetic is your z-tier attempt at trolling.
You fail.
Here we see parts 2 and 6 of the narcissist prayer:
Yeah, that's not what happened.