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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 130 points 4 days ago (4 children)

So the trump administration is fully admitting that the insurrection attempting to block the certification of the Presidential election 2021 on Jan 6 was open rebellion?

[–] AngrySquirrel@lemm.ee 49 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Holly shit. I hadn't seen that last image you posted before. I didn't realize the Jan 6 insurrectionist brought flexcuffs. That is quite disturbing. Who the fuck were they planing to kidnap or take hostage with those flexcuffs?

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 42 points 3 days ago

Nancy Pelosi, AOC, Mike Pence, and really anyone who they deemed to have offended their god-emperor and who happened to still be in the building.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 38 points 4 days ago

They were probably associated with the ones that built the gallows outside on the lawn. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-gallows-construction-new-video/

[–] Zess@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's just part of their cosplay.

[–] AngrySquirrel@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean, I could believe that if they were just on his gear or with him, but he has them in his hand, ready to use to take hostages/kidnap people. I am genuinely curious as to what his intentions were for the hostages he was planning to take.

[–] tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago

It was common rhetoric among the supporters at the time to hang the Democratic officials that were certifying the count and then Mike Pence when he didn't go along with their plans, they had even built a makeshift gallows out front before the assault.

[–] CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 38 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I know this is sarcasm but, sadly, they don't. I have talked to a few of them. Some either say it is patriot8c and others said it didn't happen.

You can't win

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago (1 children)

others said it didn’t happen.

Who is it they acknowledge trump pardoned when he got into office? If it didn't happen, then there as no one to pardon. Yet trump came out and gleefully pardoned the lot of them. If it was "antifa" that did it, why did trump pardon antifa?

Keep in mind I'm not questioning you on this but them, and I know the mind of a MAGAt is finely tuned to support cognitive dissonance.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

He was just correcting a witch hunt of patriots sightseeing by the former administration./s

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 39 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They admit no such thing.

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” - Frank Wilhoit (not the political scientist who passed away in 2010, a younger one who is alive still).

[–] Ghostbanjo1949@lemmy.mengsk.org 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago

Heh. No a younger guy with the same name, totally unrelated who coined it in 2018 on a political science blog. I knew my wording was clumsy but was too tired to think of something better.

Here's an interview with him by Slate if anyone's curious.

https://slate.com/business/2022/06/wilhoits-law-conservatives-frank-wilhoit.html

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You know they would say that it was stolen, don't you?

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You know they would say that it was stolen, don’t you?

Sure, so they would be saying that if the government arrives at an answer that they believes violates the law, then a violent riot is permissible.

Wouldn't that same opinion then justify a violent riot in LA (if there actually was one) if the protesters believed due process law was being violated?

They can't logically or rationally say one is right and the other wrong.

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 1 points 1 day ago

Wouldn't that same opinion then justify a violent riot in LA (if there actually was one)

No, in their opinion it wouldn't because cops were protecting America from criminals.

if the protesters believed due process law was being violated?

Those among them who don't know what the rule of law is can't care, those who know don't

They can't logically or rationally say one is right and the other wrong.

They don't have to be logical or rational, deciding what makes an exception is exactly why they're in power.