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Montauk6

(8,075 posts)
Sun Jan 24, 2021, 10:30 AM Jan 2021

Why isn't the entire GOP being held to account for The Siege?

I mean, if Black Lives Matter can be summarily dismissed and tainted as a quasi-terrorist organization because of some unknown person who may or may not have shouted, "PIGS IN A BLANKET!" or Antifa for......--well, i'm still trying to figure out what they have done to be so roundly condemned other than some pushing matches with Proud Boys and their ilk; why, similarly, shouldn't the RNC, GOP, etc. be tagged to the terrorist attack on the United States Capitol? Shouldn't there be aa independent commission as ruthless as Ken Starr's back in the day grilling EVERY elected official and party hack who sided with this nonsense, not to mention the actual participants on the ground.

And speaking of participants on the ground: going back to the desperate charge that it was BLM/Antifa operatives that were carrying out the nonsense (and they've never made it clear, to what extent? Was the guy that invaded Pelosi's office BLM/Antifa? What about the woman that got shot? What about the one who shot the cop? What about the ones who replaced the Old Glory's with Trump/Pence rags? What about the heathen waving the Stars and Bars?); the other thing I don't get is why didn't the "good faith protestors" there on the ground spot them as easily, since they had to be shoulder-and-shoulder with them, as people seeing random photos AFTER THE FACT? i mean, since these mysterious BLM/Antifa people were there, wouldn't some Proud Boy or true believer have spotted them and said, "HEY STOP THOSE GUYS, THEY'RE PLANTS!!! THEY'RE TRYING TO F**K UP OUR MISSION!!" or etc.

The Dems have to really strike at this now and not get suckered into delay games, because TOO MANY people will forget. Just like they're already Day-one'ing all of Biden's initiatives as running roughshod over protocol and checks-and-balances with no context from the destruction of the wrecking crew that JUST LEFT. "He claims to be about unity but he's doing all the bold things that we don't like without our input, blah blah blah"

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