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RJ_MacReady

(448 posts)
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 06:17 AM Nov 2024

The election reinforces my Jan 6th opinion

We went way to soft on them. In fact the police treated them with kids gloves. The insurrection should have been put down by force.

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The election reinforces my Jan 6th opinion (Original Post) RJ_MacReady Nov 2024 OP
True, but the riot gear was locked up as I understand it. GreenWave Nov 2024 #1
I agree RandiFan1290 Nov 2024 #2
They should have been gunned down without prejudice. BlueTsunami2018 Nov 2024 #3
I agree RJ_MacReady Nov 2024 #4
In hindsight you are correct malaise Nov 2024 #9
I Said As Much In Real Time That Very Day nt SoCalDavidS Nov 2024 #26
We were complaining for over a year...I know you Bluethroughu Nov 2024 #36
To partially quote Col. Jessup, "YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT!!!!" Montauk6 Nov 2024 #10
Crowd control HappyH Nov 2024 #23
They needed to be put down. Point blank. Period. TheKentuckian Nov 2024 #29
None of the higher ups were charged. Irish_Dem Nov 2024 #5
Good questions, but unless that info surfaces or is leaked before Jan 6, we'll probably never know the answers. TheRickles Nov 2024 #7
We know who some of the planners and funders were. Irish_Dem Nov 2024 #8
Might be time for some of the johnnyfins Nov 2024 #13
Don't forget Ginny Thomas. Are all the fake electors in various states now free to keep criming? Feels like Evolve Dammit Nov 2024 #21
Any other group BigMin28 Nov 2024 #6
BLM protesters singing and sitting maced and beat. Bluethroughu Nov 2024 #15
...and grabbed off the street by "security agents".... lastlib Nov 2024 #16
I have been saying that since J6th the first person that jumped through that doc03 Nov 2024 #11
(um, Garland wasn't in office yet.....) lastlib Nov 2024 #17
the AG that sucessfully arrested and prosecuted over 1200 rioters and riot leaders bigtree Nov 2024 #18
And Now The One Who Incited It Will NEVER Be Held Accountable, And Will Pardon All Of Them SoCalDavidS Nov 2024 #28
I've said many times that a lot more machine guns were needed. Lucky Luciano Nov 2024 #12
I said from that day, lock them all up for 20 years. Bluethroughu Nov 2024 #14
Wouldn't it be terrible ChazInAz Nov 2024 #20
Everybody knows who they are, public record. Bluethroughu Nov 2024 #35
Now I fear they will become heroes Tickle Nov 2024 #19
I think that would have been worse. yardwork Nov 2024 #22
Oh noes!!! TheKentuckian Nov 2024 #30
You're saying Trump should've attacked his attack militia? live love laugh Nov 2024 #24
It was a coup.attempt... literally should have been JCMach1 Nov 2024 #25
And they just took a little longer than they thought. Bluethroughu Nov 2024 #37
No worries - that is about to change Ruby the Liberal Nov 2024 #27
Yup, they will move quick and on manufactured nonsense too. TheKentuckian Nov 2024 #31
Bundy Ranch Ibapah Nov 2024 #32
Far too soft in those knuckle draggers Dem4life1234 Nov 2024 #33
GarPologist bet not say shit ... not a damn thang uponit7771 Nov 2024 #34

GreenWave

(12,316 posts)
1. True, but the riot gear was locked up as I understand it.
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 06:20 AM
Nov 2024

And Trump would have capitalized on that making them martyrs. The guy who needed to be captured and charged with treason was Trump. But no way they would do that.

RandiFan1290

(6,666 posts)
2. I agree
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 06:20 AM
Nov 2024

Don't forget the gentle treatment of the the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge terrorists in 2014.

BlueTsunami2018

(4,849 posts)
3. They should have been gunned down without prejudice.
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 06:36 AM
Nov 2024

Once they breached the building and were beating and crushing police in the hallways.


I’ll always maintain that if what occurred on January 6th was done by a BLM protest, the Capitol would have been littered with corpses.

Garland fucked us all. They should have gone right after the top guys.

Montauk6

(9,304 posts)
10. To partially quote Col. Jessup, "YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT!!!!"
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 07:33 AM
Nov 2024

I mean, is ol' Merrick just the Federalist Society's answer to Alan Colmes or what?

HappyH

(175 posts)
23. Crowd control
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 09:25 AM
Nov 2024

Was woefully inadequate by design. The authorities knew there was going to be a large unruly mob in DC and “storming” the Capital had been discussed publicly. I think a few water cannons would have been very effective at preventing the breech of the Capital.
I am very non-violent and loath the idea of bloody conflict with our MAGA countrymen. However, Mike Roger’s recent comments have me reconsidering my stand.

Irish_Dem

(79,734 posts)
5. None of the higher ups were charged.
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 07:04 AM
Nov 2024

The organizers, the planners, the funders.

The members of congress who obviously knew about it and assisted with J6.
In fact some of them keep getting elected to congress over and over as a reward.

Who planted the bomb in the DNC?
Who detached the panic buttons in Dem leader offices?

FBI has some ideas.
There are no secrets in Washington DC.

TheRickles

(3,152 posts)
7. Good questions, but unless that info surfaces or is leaked before Jan 6, we'll probably never know the answers.
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 07:16 AM
Nov 2024

Irish_Dem

(79,734 posts)
8. We know who some of the planners and funders were.
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 07:22 AM
Nov 2024

There were meetings, pictures, reports, texts.

johnnyfins

(3,430 posts)
13. Might be time for some of the
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 07:57 AM
Nov 2024

"Career Officials", who TSF will fire, to spill some tea. Just sayin...

Evolve Dammit

(21,488 posts)
21. Don't forget Ginny Thomas. Are all the fake electors in various states now free to keep criming? Feels like
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 08:37 AM
Nov 2024

we are shifting into a Russia style country or Hungary anyhow.

BigMin28

(1,821 posts)
6. Any other group
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 07:14 AM
Nov 2024

If that had been any other group of people attacking the Capitol in the same way, January 6th would have been a bloodbath. Nothing and nobody will ever convince me otherwise.

lastlib

(27,528 posts)
16. ...and grabbed off the street by "security agents"....
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 08:31 AM
Nov 2024

I will never forget or forgive that.

doc03

(38,820 posts)
11. I have been saying that since J6th the first person that jumped through that
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 07:40 AM
Nov 2024

window entering the capital should have been shot. Once the first person was shot trying to get
in the House chambers their attack fell apart quickly. Instead of escorting them out of the building like a
bunch of rowdy teenagers they all should have been zip tied at the door. I don't buy that shit it wasn't possible.
If they would have been BLM it would have gone down like I just described or worse. P.S. that pos
Garland should have been fired the next day.

bigtree

(93,336 posts)
18. the AG that sucessfully arrested and prosecuted over 1200 rioters and riot leaders
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 08:33 AM
Nov 2024

...on charges up to the rarely used and rarely successful crime of Sedition?

The stuff that gets said...

 

SoCalDavidS

(10,599 posts)
28. And Now The One Who Incited It Will NEVER Be Held Accountable, And Will Pardon All Of Them
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 06:06 PM
Nov 2024

But let's not be too harsh on Garland.

Lucky Luciano

(11,813 posts)
12. I've said many times that a lot more machine guns were needed.
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 07:43 AM
Nov 2024

Should have been 500 dead MAGAts.

Bluethroughu

(7,215 posts)
14. I said from that day, lock them all up for 20 years.
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 07:59 AM
Nov 2024

The maximum for sedition. They knew they were there to overturn and take over the government. It was never about a protest.

They will all be pardoned, let out of prison and most likely given JOBS OF AUTHORITY.

ChazInAz

(2,993 posts)
20. Wouldn't it be terrible
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 08:37 AM
Nov 2024

If, upon their release, their photos, names and addresses were doxed?

 

Tickle

(4,131 posts)
19. Now I fear they will become heroes
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 08:35 AM
Nov 2024

or some kind of martyr. This is getting interesting to say the least

yardwork

(68,960 posts)
22. I think that would have been worse.
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 08:40 AM
Nov 2024

I know some law and order types who still think Jan 6 was all Nancy Pelosi's fault, and the protesters were just patriots who were fed up with something something BLM something crime something something mumble glare...

So if more people had been killed that day those MAGAT idiots would get even angrier and more committed to putting Trump back in charge.

live love laugh

(16,186 posts)
24. You're saying Trump should've attacked his attack militia?
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 05:47 PM
Nov 2024

Because he had the reins to the necessary force.

JCMach1

(29,082 posts)
25. It was a coup.attempt... literally should have been
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 06:02 PM
Nov 2024

Taken to Guantanamo at that point.

Legalism gave them political cover for the magnitude of their crime...

The equivalent of charging a 9/11.highjacker with illegal use of a weapon.

Or Timothy McVeigh for illegal possession of explosives.

The fuckers tried to kill democracy.

Ruby the Liberal

(26,599 posts)
27. No worries - that is about to change
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 06:05 PM
Nov 2024

so fast our heads will spin.

Gone will be the days of an AG Garland sitting on shit for years to preemptively dot all of the i's and cross all of the t's.

The pendulum swing from DOJ will be breathtaking.

Ibapah

(8 posts)
32. Bundy Ranch
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 06:36 PM
Nov 2024

I always thought this goes back to the standoff at the Bundy Ranch. No consequences for training weapons on Federal agents trying to enforce the law. Those people should have been taken out.

Dem4life1234

(2,533 posts)
33. Far too soft in those knuckle draggers
Fri Nov 8, 2024, 06:49 PM
Nov 2024

More authorities should have come through and you know exactly what I will say.

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