New Jan 6th video of them constructing the hangman's gallows.

[Laniakea]

Boy, did they fail then!

If they wanted to peacefully protest and chant slogans in people's faces with a fake gallows, they probably shouldn't have made it look somewhat functional, forced their way into and through the Capitol injuring security, and shouting threats.

Also, they probably shouldn't have trusted a known shyster politician telling them the election is being stolen from him without proof when he had all the time and resources to do so.

Your question was about what the protesters might have done if they had gotten to the lawmakers. Remember?

 

[fantome profane]

And yet more than a thousand people have been arrested who were there.

And the people who built the gallows might be among them, I don't know.

Seems like the ability of the FBI to go after people is rather selective. Cops who removed barricades aren't known, the pipe bomber isn't known, and now the people who took the time to construct a gallows managed to do it without being known.

Does not speak well of the competence of law enforcement, I agree.

I hope they have learned from this experience and are preparing for the next time something like this happens.

 

[Laniakea]

And the people who built the gallows might be among them, I don't know.

Does not speak well of the competence of law enforcement, I agree.

I hope they have learned from this experience and are preparing for the next time something like this happens.

The next time will no doubt be in January of 2025 after Trump wins.
It will be referred to as "defense of democracy" and "mostly peaceful", so law enforcement won't have to do much.

 

[Pogo]

And yet more than a thousand people have been arrested who were there.
Seems like the ability of the FBI to go after people is rather selective. Cops who removed barricades aren't known, the pipe bomber isn't known, and now the people who took the time to construct a gallows managed to do it without being known.

Yeah that is sort of a quirk of our justice system. We don't just get to charge people just because they are someplace, we have to identify them and find evidence of specific crimes in advance. I know it is simpler under your hero Putin, but we have a tradition in this country.

 

[Laniakea]

Yeah that is sort of a quirk of our justice system. We don't just get to charge people just because they are someplace, we have to identify them and find evidence of specific crimes in advance. I know it is simpler under your hero Putin, but we have a tradition in this country.

Are you sure about that? People who were walking around in the Capitol taking selfies were charged because they were someplace. Even a journalist was charged for being there and simply doing his job. Granted, he is a conservative, so that might explain why he was arrested and charged, even though plenty of liberal journalists were in the same place doing the same thing, and were never arrested.
Wow, some tradition!

 

[SkepticThinker]

The next time will no doubt be in January of 2025 after Trump wins.
It will be referred to as "defense of democracy" and "mostly peaceful", so law enforcement won't have to do much.

Why do people who do terrible things always imagine that other people would do the same terrible things they do?


I had a boss like that once. He always assumed everyone was screwing him over because he spent all his time screwing other people over.

 

[SkepticThinker]

Are you sure about that? People who were walking around in the Capitol taking selfies were charged because they were someplace. Even a journalist was charged for being there and simply doing his job. Granted, he is a conservative, so that might explain why he was arrested and charged, even though plenty of liberal journalists were in the same place doing the same thing, and were never arrested.
Wow, some tradition!

Yes, they were inside a building that had just been violently broken into by a violent mob, of which they were a part of.

 

[Laniakea]

Why do people who do terrible things always imagine that other people would do the same terrible things they do?


I had a boss like that once. He always assumed everyone was screwing him over because he spent all his time screwing other people over.

What terrible thing did I do?

 

[SkepticThinker]

What terrible thing did I do?

You seem to be under the impression that Democrats are going to violently storm the Capitol building a la MAGA on January 6th if Biden loses.
You've mentioned it several times now.

 

[Laniakea]

Yes, they were inside a building that had just been violently broken into by a violent mob, of which they were a part of.

Taking selfies doesn't make someone part of a violent mob.
Then why weren't the liberal journalists arrested, even though conservative ones were?

 

[Laniakea]

You seem to be under the impression that Democrats are going to violently storm the Capitol building a la MAGA on January 6th if Biden loses.
You've mentioned it several times now.

Judging from the violent behavior of liberals when Trump was president before, and seeing how those actions didn't result in anything other than for them to be rewarded for it, there's no reason to believe they wouldn't do a Jan. 6th of their own, knowing it would be labeled as something justified, because "reasons".

 

[SkepticThinker]

Taking selfies doesn't make someone part of a violent mob.

It doesn't when your part of a mob that just violently broke into a building. Also, I suspect there is a bit more to the story than that.

Then why weren't the liberal journalists arrested, even though conservative ones were?

I have no idea what you're referring to.

 

[SkepticThinker]

Judging from the violent behavior of liberals when Trump was president before, and seeing how those actions didn't result in anything other than for them to be rewarded for it, there's no reason to believe they wouldn't do a Jan. 6th of their own, knowing it would be labeled as something justified, because "reasons".

When did any "Liberals" violently overtake a government building in an attempt to obstruct the peaceful transfer of power to a duly elected President?

There is zero reason to believe that "Liberals" will do something similar to what MAGA did on January 6th.

 

[Pogo]

Are you sure about that? People who were walking around in the Capitol taking selfies were charged because they were someplace. Even a journalist was charged for being there and simply doing his job. Granted, he is a conservative, so that might explain why he was arrested and charged, even though plenty of liberal journalists were in the same place doing the same thing, and were never arrested.
Wow, some tradition!

Evidence please, I don't see a press jacket or other identification on him and disorderly conduct is not excused.

 

[Laniakea]

When did any "Liberals" violently overtake a government building in an attempt to obstruct the peaceful transfer of power to a duly elected President?

When did conservatives kill 25 people and burn down small businesses and set police precincts on fire because they were mad about something?

There is zero reason to believe that "Liberals" will do something similar to what MAGA did on January 6th.

I hope you'll be reminding them of that when the time comes for most of them to start justifying their violence once again.

 

[Laniakea]

Evidence please, I don't see a press jacket or other identification on him and disorderly conduct is not excused.

Setting up a camera and standing in a corner isn't disorderly conduct.

 

[Revoltingest]

They chanted "Hang Mike Pence!"

That was a metaphor taken out of context.

 

[Laniakea]

That was a metaphor taken out of context.

Liberals use metaphors all the time, and we're supposed to think nothing of it, even when they're meant to threaten certain individuals:

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/03/04/schumer-gorsuch-kavanaugh-supreme-court-abortion-lead-vpx.cnn

 

[Pogo]

Setting up a camera and standing in a corner isn't disorderly conduct.

If that was all he did, you might be right, but that is not the general understanding.
Anyhow, I really want to see your justification for special treatment for Trump.

 

[SkepticThinker]

When did conservatives kill 25 people and burn down small businesses and set police precincts on fire because they were mad about something?

Oops you gave me a whataboutism instead of answering the question.

Those people have been arrested and charged. Long ago.

I hope you'll be reminding them of that when the time comes for most of them to start justifying their violence once again.

I have no reason to believe they will do what MAGA did on January 6th.
I have good reasons to believe MAGA will do what they did again, should Trump lose again.