Buddy Christ

McConnell on board after January 20th

In 6 days we'll have a new President, one who didn't just stoke an armed rebellion on Congress.

Wanna unite around someone? Unite around him.

Who was armed again? Flags, fire extinguishers, furry horned hats, and lecterns don't count.

Surely there's some pictures of someone carrying a gun. Maybe you could post one or two here?

There was the one guy who got caught outside with jars of home-made Napalm. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election-2020/trump-riot-arrests-capitol-truck-napalm-b1784701.html

Some rioters were indeed armed with firearms which isn't surprising given the rabid pro-2A nature of right-wingers. Sample of firearms discovered on rioters: 9mm handguns with high-capacity magazines, semiautomatics, .22 caliber handguns loaded and with extra ammunition. A truck full of rifles, shotguns, and bomb-making supplies was found nearby.

Others carried Molotov cocktails.

There were pipe bombs discovered at strategic locations including the DNC and RNC buildings, and it's been speculated those were intended to distract law enforcement away from the true objective: a highly professional terrorist tactic.

In addition to those obvious weapons, if you know anything about warfare, then you know anything can be a weapon.

Fire extinguishers do count as a lethal weapon if you bop someone on the head hard enough, which happened.

Metal pipes and chemical irritants were used by rioters.

There was that American flag you already mentioned.

Some rioters came equipped with bulletproof vests and other military-style gear (helmets, armor, black masks), climbing gear, and insignia. Some moved with military precision as though they had been trained: which they probably had, as right-wing "militia groups" are wont to do.

The rioter who has come to be known as "zip tie guy" was actually carrying equipment known as Flexicuffs which are more professional and suitable to the purpose of taking hostages.

Rioters installed makeshift gallows outside and chanted about hanging Mike Pence. What do you think they would have done if they'd gotten their hands on Pelosi or any Democrat, really?

"Only" 5 died thanks to some deft maneuvering by (some of the) hopelessly outnumbered Capitol police (the ones who didn't take down the barriers and take selfies with the rioters, anyway), but it could have been much worse.

Viking helmet guy with his costume spear stole the show but that's rather unfortunate image given everything else that was going on.

Nice story bro. A lot of what you say is true, but still doesn't answer the question that was posed to you. Talk about a "highly professional terrorist tactic".

So, all of the cameras in the area and everything available on the internet and all you can show me is a guy with zip ties? I'm not buying it.

I'm talking strictly about the people that went into the capitol. If they'd had been armed (by the legal definition of the word) then things would have been much, much worse.

"if you know anything about warfare, then you know anything can be a weapon." Yes, I was trained in the Marine Corps that I can kill someone with a canteen cup. So, if one of these guys had a coffee mug on them, by your definition, they were "armed", right? C'mon man!

"A truck full of rifles, shotguns, and bomb-making supplies was found nearby." - doesn't count

Neither does this - "Some rioters came equipped with bulletproof vests and other military-style gear (helmets, armor, black masks), climbing gear, and insignia. Some moved with military precision as though they had been trained: which they probably had, as right-wing "militia groups" are wont to do."

"The rioter who has come to be known as "zip tie guy" was actually carrying equipment known as Flexicuffs which are more professional and suitable to the purpose of taking hostages." - More professional and suitable than what? I hate to poke fun at your writing style, but when you set up a comparison, you have to finish it. Regardless, anyone can buy them at any Home Depot, Lowe's, Ace Hardware, or any hardware store.

So, again, if you reply, please, I'm challenging you to just post a single picture of an armed (in the legal definition of armed) rioter in the building. Either that or recant your statement that there was an "armed rebellion".

There is no good reason to draw a distinction between the weaponry found on those who entered the Capitol and those who remained outside, or indeed the related bombs found at RNC and DNC HQ. I decline your silly challenge. My statement stands; it was an armed rebellion.

There will be prosecutions and more investigations and ultimately, one hopes, a 9/11-style truth commission to run down every aspect of the multiple system failures that caused this to happen -- but the record already establishes this was an orgy of both organized and disorganized politically-motivated mayhem, chiefly stoked by a defeated President and his grievances. The U.S. Capitol was breached, which hasn't been done since the war of 1812, but this time by Americans themselves.

Evidence is emerging that GOP lawmakers themselves met with the rioters and gave them tours through the halls on Jan. 5, which would help explain how they rapidly reached key and not necessarily easy to find checkpoints within the labyrinthine building like the House Majority Whip's office.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-majority-whip-wants-investigation-into-how-rioters-found-his-office/ar-BB1cBNl2?ocid=uxbndlbing

The heroes of Flight 93 are rolling over in their graves: not to mention any number of other true patriots down through the years of our country's history who have defended our nation and its democracy from enemies foreign and domestic.

But you don't want to face that so instead choose to nitpick at my language implying that I'm exaggerating what happened here.

Words can't exaggerate it enough.

And I am a Trump supporter all the way.

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Pretty soon the entire Republican party will be "RINOs" and Trump and his followers will be the only "real" Republicans left.

So far we got:
Speaker of the House Mitch Mcconnell
Former Speaker Paul Ryan
Chris Christie
Vice President Mike Pence
obviously Mitt Romney
to be continued...

Being a "real republican" has nothing to do whether you support Trump or not. It's whether or not they follow the Republican ideals and most of them do not.

"Republican ideals" in this case being ........?

Reeeeee
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nothing says unity like storming the capitol because you didn't get your Putin wannabe in office for another 4 years -_-

What does that have to do with the left who called for unity after the election, then continue to push harder than ever to silence their opponents? The right wasn't calling for unity, your leftist cock sucker President elect in cheat did, remember?

Did Biden tell Twitter to block trump? Facebook?

BrUh
Republicans get one small victory and you B*ch about it for weeks on end

true (please don't reply to this comment with hate comments)

I hate it when I stub my toe, does that count?

no lol