GOP congressman says calling the Capitol attack an insurrection is 'a bold-faced lie' and compares

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

the rioters to tourists



GOP Rep. Andrew Clyde said calling the January 6 insurrection an insurrection is a "bald-faced lie" and likened the rioters to tourists during a House Oversight Committee hearing on the riots.

Members of the committee heard testimony about the riots from former Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen, former Acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller, and Chief Robert J. Contee of the Metropolitan Police Department.

"This hearing is called the Capitol insurrection. Let's be honest with the American people: it was not an insurrection, and we cannot call it that and be truthful," Clyde said.

Clyde then quoted from two dictionaries including the Cambridge English Dictionary, which defines an insurrection as "an organized attempt by a group of people to defeat their government and take control of their country usually by violence."

But by that very definition, the events constituted an insurrection. The rioters attempted to overtake the Capitol to stop Congress from formally counting the slates of electoral votes to affirm President Joe Biden's win over former President Donald Trump in the Electoral College, a process taking place on January 6.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-congressman-says-calling-the-capitol-attack-an-insurrection-is-a-bold-faced-lie-and-compares-the-rioters-to-tourists/ar-BB1gFwmq

In addition to being stupid it looks like he's unfamiliar with a comb plus soap and water

[PortTack]

1. More of the big lie!!

[magicarpet]

6. The BIGGER,... Big Lie.

Yeah,... a cherry blossom tour,...

(Just four months early.)

There ya go,....

[magicarpet]

7. A festive moment,... where tourists frolic and play,...

Smashing LEO heads with heavy fire extinguishers,...

... oh yes,... let us not forget the delightful cherry blossom tours that day too.

[Deuxcents]

2. All the videos are make believe?

He is the farce..not the events on January 6.

[Hekate]

18. No doubt they are "deep fake"

Oy.

[gratuitous]

21. Who are you going to believe?

Your own eyes or Snarly McSnarlface?

[Funtatlaguy]

3. When I visit places I often bring a noose and a battering ram.

[uponit7771]

10. lol

[Hekate]

19. I myself find zip-tie handcuffs indispensible

[Tanuki]

4. ...if tourists slammed police officers in the head with fire extinguishers

and skateboards.

[dalton99a]

5. All the violence you saw on TV didn't happen.

Fucking scumbag

[bdamomma]

12. the mantra

here with the filthy GQP, move along you did not see what you thought you saw. Bastards. They were all involved.

[WVreaper]

8. Benedict Arnold Clyde

Please, as soon as possible remove your head from Trumps ass.

[Elwood P Dowd]

15. Or Roscoe P. Clyde remove your head from Boss Hog Trump's ass. (nt)

[Enter stage left]

9. CON...emphases on the "con"...GRATULATIONS...

You've just been voted one of the "TOP TEN" stupid MF'ers to ever be elected to public office.

Be warned...the competition is REALLY stiff, and you"ll constantly be challenged by really stupid MF'ers to replace you in the top ten.

The saving grace is they are all members of YOUR party...maybe party favors, like "dunce hats" or wazoos could help you keep your current ranking.

I have no doubt you'll be able to maintain your level of stupidity, but if you have any problems, call 1-800-dum-fuck.

[Takket]

11. this sac of crap probably also believes slaves were "happy and better off"

and that the Holocaust was a myth. rethugs love rewriting history their racist/bigoted view of the world.

[madaboutharry]

13. I wonder what other historical events he whitewashes and denies.

Slavery and Jim Crow, The Holocaust, The genocide of Native Americans...the list could be long.

[Johonny]

14. Do most tourists want to also hang Mike Pence?

[Volaris]

16. Its pence. U sure you want that question answered lol?

[Hekate]

20. Wellllllll

The fly on his head might

[dalton99a]

22. .

[Frasier Balzov]

17. I'm just glad we can still find Democrats to run

in Georgia's 9th congressional district.

[SwannieK]

23. The real bald-faced lie

Uh, no, Clod (um, I mean Clyde) you blithering idiot...the only bald-faced lie is your attempt to persuade the country that you are a rational, intelligent human being...

[lpbk2713]

24. It was an overt act of treason.

Made worse by certain elected officials who chose not to
stop the frenzy but rather to throw fuel on the fire.