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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWashington Examiner writer: "(I)t wasn't a real gallows", in reference to the 1/06 insurrection
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Ok, Mr. "Trump Insurrectionist Mob Defender" York, since I am no expert on gallows, you might be correct.
Who gives a big ugly s***t ? It was the SYMBOLISM that really mattered more. And, by the way, there was a noose in that photo. If they had stuck Pence's head in that noose and kicked his feet out from under him... well...my elementary knowledge of human physiology tells me that, within X seconds, Pence would have died from either strangulation, a broken neck, or both.
AleksS
(1,665 posts)A noose hanging from a crossbeam from a real gallows?
Trees arent real gallows either, but that never stopped a lynch mob before.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)PatSeg
(47,496 posts)the murderous intent was very real. I have little doubt that if the mob had found Pelosi, Pence, Ocasio-Cortez, etc., someone(s) would have tried to kill them.
multigraincracker
(32,688 posts)Mr York?
Girard442
(6,075 posts)...holding something that could be mistaken for a gun, but it's innocuous to put up a noose that actually could be used to execute someone.
malaise
(269,040 posts)Fuck Byron York
Igel
(35,317 posts)malaise
(269,040 posts)They're all functioning gallows
ProfessorGAC
(65,061 posts)Of course, it's a real gallows.
The lack of a trap door means it's not a highly engineered gallows.
But, it's a gallows, and since there are pictures showing it to be a real thing, it's a real gallows.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,021 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,823 posts)It took planning and logistics to get it there.
It was not spontaneous.
louis-t
(23,295 posts)It only encourages them.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,504 posts)The point was obvious to those that are not financially benefiting from RW media money.
Walleye
(31,028 posts)Mysterian
(4,587 posts)The wood structure and the rope are sufficient to support a human body and the noose is ready for use. Stick your head in that and step (or get pushed) off the deck and you're going to die.
struggle4progress
(118,291 posts)Mad_Machine76
(24,414 posts)and reported it. Don't know if Twitter will take it down, but this was disturbing as hell.
Emrys
(7,242 posts)would have probably been long dead before they even reached the gallows.
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LuckyCharms
(17,444 posts)walls of the Capitol either then.
Must be that everything that the whole world saw wasn't real.
Wasn't "real gallows"?
OK. Maybe it did not follow the Better Homes and Gardens recommendations when it comes to constructing gallows, but it would have worked.
raccoon
(31,111 posts)Tree, it isnt a real hanging.
Iggo
(47,558 posts)Do not awaken the beast.