How to Talk Your Way Out of a Hostage Situation: Practical Skills

Trump was done as soon as he got caught bailing out terrorists and rioters trying to start a civil war.

That's a six-degrees-of-separation story if I've ever seen one.

But go ahead, throw it on the incoming GOP House's investigatory calendar. It's filling up fast!

Oh wait, that was your guys too. Nevermind. Carry on. 👍

Indeed. House Republicans will shutter every ongoing investigation into anything conceivably damaging to Trump, rev up their own, and get their own turn to air all the Democrats' dirty laundry, whatever it may be. And then, the voters will be the ultimate judge of Who Was Worse.

Gotta say - the Jan. 6 panel was pretty good TV though! High bar to clear!

Let's do this!

Just reminding you that for anyone to believe you actually gave a shoot about 6 hours of right wing riots, you'd have to travel back in time and pretend to give a shoot about 6 months of left wing riots.
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
The Biden family gets caught taking millions in bribes from Ukraine. Trump gets impeached for trying to investigate it...
Democrats cheer bloody DC race riots and Anquifa thugs trying to storm the White House and kill the president [we're still waiting for Biden to condemn that BTW...]. Trump gets impeached for taking 4 hours to condemn Jan 6th...

I’m not mad at anyone who’s mad about this. Matter of fact: I’m mad about it too!

Get rid of the underlying police brutality and the police brutality-related riots will go away, I guarantee it.

And to get rid of Jan. 6-like events? What would we have to do away with? What’s the underlying cause there?

You already know my low opinion of House Republicans. But even I and my massive cynicism will be shocked if this incoming Congress determines that a single tweet in support of a criminal justice charity, a tweet she posted before even becoming Vice-President, is impeachment-worthy.

I’ll be shocked if this side-quest in George Floyd-era right-wing memelandia even gets a single hearing.

That said. If they do, then the full circle of the modern-day Republican project of turning impeachment proceedings under the U.S. Constitution into a massive farce will have been completed.

Can’t wait!

In the meantime, here’s conclusive proof Kamala is a member of Antifa

So you fell for it and went from:
"Left wing violence was only because of our righteous anger over current thing" to "Left wing violence had nothing to George Floyd. It was because Donny might get elected."
Congratulations. You played yourself.
Feel free to buy a time machine and go back in time and condemn 6 months of left wing violence with the same vigor you have 6 hours of right wing violence. 👍

Well, you didn't ask me about election-related riots when we started talking - until you referenced some of them above in an effort to claim they were George Floyd riots.

You're lumping groups of "the Left" that don't necessarily belong together.

I would say there's a difference between the black community getting upset about a man who looks like them having the life choked out of him by the police in broad daylight (a clear and present danger) vs. a group of idiots mad about an election.

I feel the same way about those left-wing election-related rioters that I feel about the Jan. 6 rioters - minus the fact that the former group's activity was spontaneous, not nearly as planned and coordinated as the Jan. 6'ers, and they didn't sack the U.S. Capitol, weren't acting as foot-soldiers in an overall scheme orchestrated by a sitting President to reverse an election, and didn't place literally every Congressperson's and Senator's + the Vice-President's life in direct danger.

But, yes, they're idiots as well.

Some of these far-far-Left idiots in Portland even got mad and broke some windows on *Biden's* inauguration day. They are so far-Left that they don't belong in the Democratic camp. They're the types who vote Green Party, or write in Kim Jong-Un's name on their ballots, or simply refuse to vote because "all parties are capitalist scum." And they rioted to protest Biden's inauguration for a whole mishmash of reasons.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/portland-rioting-against-biden-inauguration-leads-to-charges-for-4-more-likely-to-follow

No. The George Floyd riots did not last for 6 months. Far-far-Left agitation in West Coast cities (mostly Portland) for eccentric reasons, and on a diminished/local scale, on the other hand, has had a longer shelf-life.

The latter story is, really, a local one that Fox News & Co. has made every effort to blow up into one of national importance, especially to counteract the Jan. 6 story, but as a "no u," it doesn't hold water.

Nice try.
You went from "mostly peaceful," to "ONLY 2 weeks of left wing violence," to "ok it was six months, but it was because of elections not black lives" all the way back to: "it's ok when we do it."
You're only confirming that the left really believes that one day of rioting they can blame on trump is a get out of jail free card for months of leftist violence.

And once again you can't have your cake and eat it too. You cannot support 6 months of left wing looting and burning while pretending to give a crap about 6 hours of right wing rioting.
If you only hold an "opinion" when it fits the narrative... you don't hold an opinion.
And this is across the board. Everything the left ever accused Trump of doing, they'd already been caught doing. Regardless of the fact you can never get anything to stick, the fact that you didn't care when your side got caught doing it first proves you don't actually believe what you claim.
●Storing secret documents in questionable locations? Clinton got caught doing it long before the FBI tried to pin it on Trump.
●Colluding with Russian spies to sway an election? Oh wait... Clinton bought and paid for the Russian "dossier" to start the "investigation." There's your collusion...
●Supporting political riots? Democrats had the better part of a year of claiming Biden Riots were "firey but mostly peaceful."
●refusing the accept the results of an election? You mean Hillary claiming she actually won for 6 years?
●Having dinner with kanye west who may or may not be an anti semite? Shall we get a list of Democrats that ate with Ilhan Omar who's DEFINENTLY a proud anti semite?
Shall I go on?
The fact that the left only accuses Trump of stuff they themselves have got caught doing, and yet somehow never get anything to stick tells you everything you need to know. The entire left vs Trump is simply deflection.

There simply were not six months of rioting and looting. I know, because I live in one of those cities that supposedly burned to the ground. The white-hot anger lasted a couple weekends, tops, followed by a longer period of peaceful protests. We didn't burn to the ground. We spent a few nights at home under a public-safety curfew that didn't meaningfully impact us at all, because this was peak pre-vaccine Covid season, and there was nowhere to go anyway.

(By the way, these weren't "BLM riots." These were Rodney King-style riots: eruptions of anger that existed long before Black Lives Matter, and which will always keep happening regardless of what happens to Black Lives Matter as an organization, so long as America keeps producing images and video of shocking police brutality. BLM had nothing to do with the organization and planning of said riots, because there simply was no organization and planning. You can't plan and coordinate events like this any more than you can plan and coordinate an avalanche. There's always a chance of civil unrest whenever the police beat the crap out of someone, let alone murder them. Which is exactly why we should do our best to reform police practices if we have any interest in actually stopping riots before they start. See: The MLK quote on race riots which you've probably seen, because I posted it a lot, because it's still hands-down the best statement on the subject.)

Anyway. Back to the six months thing.

What we *did* have was six months in between May 2020 and Election Day 2020. That's six months of Fox News primetime slots to fill, and six months to keep stirring the pot, in an effort to get "tough-on-crime" Republican voters to the polls.

If you're under the impression these George Floyd-related riots lasted for six months because they were splashed across your screen for six months, I'm sorry, you've been misinformed.

It's a right-wing media playbook that's decades old now. Play up "urban crime," queue the latest highlight reel of black and brown mugshots, rinse, repeat.

Fox News ran this play again in the run-up to the 2022 midterms. (See: meme). And when it's time to gin up conservative angst for the 2024 elections, they'll do it again.

Whew. And that's just your first talking-point. Your entire paragraph is shot through with exaggerations and false equivalencies - debunking all the outright falsehoods and re-framing all the semi-truths in the proper context would require me to be here all day. But good talk.

Don't worry. I promise not to cross reference all the different cities you've claimed to be from or events you've claimed to be apart of...

Probably not since [the left] now define "peaceful protests" as setting police stations on fire...

The articles discuss events that are either:

(1) Election-related, not George Floyd-related, or
(2) Peaceful protests, not riots.

Thanks for doing my research for me.

"The riots only lasted 2 weeks" is an objective and obvese falsehood. Adding a long drawn out personal antidote to an obvious lie doesn't change that it's revisonist history. "I know I was there!" Is kinda meaningless on the internet. There were only two weeks of riots at your house? What does that have to do with anything? What about it? The left still supported six months of rioting whether it was literally at their doorstep or not.
The BLM rioting continued until after the election. We can find CNN or international news coverage of them for those who want to believe leftist revisionist history. "Fox news lies", doesn't fly. Like anyone would have to watch fox news to find out about BLM riots in the modern era.
Your BLM riots were so unplanned and righteous that when a democrat criminal got killed by a Democrat run police force with a Democrat chief of police and a Democrat mayor, the protesters screamed "$%&@ trump" & burned American flags. You'll note no one was screaming "$%&@ Minneapolis Democrats" and burning Minnesota flags...
The left's "unplanned" political riots continued until they got what they wanted. Not less Democrat on Democrat violence. Not less drug crime. Not less death. Not less corrupt Minneapolis Democrats who've been running the city [into the ground?] For the last 50 years. No.
More Democrats and more crime 👍
But all that doesn't change the fact that "the left" will continue to use trump as their get out of jail free card until people wise up and start ignoring them.
Next year, If ww3 doesn't break out by then, we'll be discussing how Don Jr's Addis track suit really IS EVIDENCE of Russian collusion 3.0. This time we really got him!

There were not six months of riots. There were six months of breathless Fox News coverage of riots that lasted two weekends, max.

I offer a personal anecdote from the heart of a "Democrat-run city" to make the point that the people out there on the internet claiming the riots lasted six months typically live in the backwoods of Montana, and wouldn't know a BLM protest if they saw one, though they'll sure claim they saw one right just outside their house the other day as they were plink-shooting empty cans of Natty Light off their porch.

Anyway. Please furnish evidence of a *riot* (i.e. not a peaceful protest) that was:
A. Related to George Floyd;
B. Occurred as late as Nov. 2020.

Can you do it?

Oops that went sideways pretty quick...