c_hawkbob wrote:That's the most republican answer in the world "tie it to the other riots" ... a total load of crap, nothin but a false equivalence.
News flash: They didn't attempt an insurrection in response to the BLM movement! It was purely in response to Trump losing the election and hoping to overthrow the freakin' government!
And the answer to your other questions is yes, it will at least help accomplish that. But you're ignoring the most important thing it would accomplish in taking away the false narrative that any investigation at all is a Democrat plot to influence the next election.
They did in Seattle and Oregon. I don't think it was BLM people doing it so much as anarchists glomming on to those protests. You don't seem to acknowledge state level behavior of that kind, which is why it's hard for me to accept what you're pushing when you don't want to acknowledge what I literally lived through.
I watched a bunch of supposed BLM protesters take over a police precinct, declare a section of Seattle as an Autonomous Zone, and deny entry to emergency and police services. Was it a national insurrection? No. Was it a state or city insurrection? Yes, it was.
Then all the stuff in Oregon with trying to trap police in a precinct and firebomb the place.
It got pretty ridiculous here. But the local government is supposed to handle that, not the national government.
You don't live here, so you don't seem have a grasp of how bad it was. I have never seen Seattle boarded up due to the vandalism that occurred on a continuous basis. The daily protests for weeks. The constant breaking of windows and attacking of buildings and businesses. It was terrible.
But your claiming false equivalence even though it negatively affected people over a longer period of time leading to more deaths, more property destruction, and the like than the Capitol Riot, as in one day.
And you think that is why we're headed for Civil war when people like yourself want to call false equivalence because what? You don't live in areas where other types of protests occur with equally violent and crazy people doing property damage, harassing people, and tearing crap up?
You're in denial about what happened in other parts of the nation during the BLM protests. I don't blame the BLM protesters because the majority of them were fine. But there are these anarchist whatever movements that are anti-police, anti-government, and generally chaotic and violent just waiting for these opportunities to do damage.
And yet Democratic supporters don't acknowledge them, focus it all on White Supremacists, and make only the right wing actors in these situations as the bad guy. It's why people like
Riverdog and myself are left to wonder how you fix this when even what is considered acceptable protest behavior and what you can protest is bipartisan. The media just takes up the case of those they side with and pushes it.
But you're right, we're headed for Civil War at some point, the commission you think will fix it will only make it worse as the Democrats push it as a weapon to attack those who disagree with them. But you're ready for that c-bob, or you need to be, because I can tell you right now there is never going to be an agreeable compromise to where the Democrats want to take us right now and where the Republican's want America to go. There is zero path to compromise. Even moderate Republicans don't agree with what Democrats like AOC and her ilk are doing. They don't agree with Pelosi. They don't want all these taxes and other rubbish the Democrats are pushing.
Right now, all I hear from Republicans I know is how the Democrats are trying to attack them and make America worse. They will gladly organize the around the right leader for a fight. Be glad it wasn't Trump, but there won't be any compromise. The Democrats are hoping the military and police they're screwing over stay with them when that time comes.