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RJ-MacReady

(603 posts) Sat Feb 8, 2025, 12:47 AM Feb 2025

the failure to deal with Jan 6th lead to this [View all]

Lets face it we treated the insurrectionists with kid gloves. If it was anyone else it would have been put down before they even reached the steps. The capitol police should have opened fire on the mob the moment they start breaking into the building.

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the failure to deal with Jan 6th lead to this [View all] RJ-MacReady Feb 2025 OP

Failure to prosecute the insurrectionist-in-chief radius777 Feb 2025 #1

+1 dalton99a Feb 2025 #6

That's something I'll always believe down to my bones. dchill Feb 2025 #19

Get ready for a lot of pathetic excuse making which depends upon utterly delusional RockRaven Feb 2025 #2

I'm ready RJ-MacReady Feb 2025 #3

Any other country would have dealt with this much more seriously DSandra Feb 2025 #4

yup RJ-MacReady Feb 2025 #5

Brazil frequently evicts, then it evicts the person who did the evicting. LeftInTX Feb 2025 #7

I think this is what our establishment radius777 Feb 2025 #8

Right Baron2024 Feb 2025 #12

Democrats still are not with the game kansasobama Feb 2025 #31

its so frustrating! RJ-MacReady Feb 2025 #33

Yes... Even Trump's White House Counsel thought he would be immediately arrested afterwards... hlthe2b Feb 2025 #23

Been saying this for 4 years. The fact that only ONE of them was killed is absurd...and the subsequent refusal to hold Karasu Feb 2025 #9

exactly RJ-MacReady Feb 2025 #11

Yep Baron2024 Feb 2025 #10

Disagree iemanja Feb 2025 #13

The failure to deal DENVERPOPS Feb 2025 #14

100% (but) Nasruddin Feb 2025 #15

I don't think you mean Joe Biden!?! Right? AKwannabe Feb 2025 #17

Welcome to DU AKwannabe Feb 2025 #16

I would go so far as to say that not rolling back the Reagan tax cuts LiberalArkie Feb 2025 #18

Absolutely Eddie Haskell 60 Feb 2025 #20

I'm still keen to prosecute the Brooks Brothers Rioters from 2000 meadowlander Feb 2025 #21

Spain circa 1937 ... LITERALLY is worse at least there was a war for the country !!! uponit7771 Feb 2025 #22

Trump should be in prison, not the White House. Emile Feb 2025 #24

Absolutely FoxNewsSucks Feb 2025 #25

How would that change how people vote ? JI7 Feb 2025 #26

It doesn't matter what the far right thinks, radius777 Feb 2025 #34

The failures after the Civil War have led to this PJMcK Feb 2025 #27

"Our country has never erased the racist stain caused by slavery." Seeking Serenity Feb 2025 #35

I look at Trump with horror, the insurrectionists with horror, and now my neighbors that support Trump with horror. dem4decades Feb 2025 #28

An unpunished BigMin28 Feb 2025 #29

And they should have properly punished the Confederates Dem4life1234 Feb 2025 #30

They were emboldened when they saw the weak response to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge takeover in 2016. nt RandiFan1290 Feb 2025 #32

Not a lot is going on now either kansasobama Feb 2025 #36