Please quit calling the Jan. 6 protests an "insurrection." It was not.

Well expressed. And correct.

You simply keep ignoring the fact - which you have been told again and again - that the leaders of the Confederacy were deemed insurrectionists without being charged or convicted as such. You continue to ignore what you cannot refute.

The presumption of innocence for Trump only applies to the actual offences he has been charged with. It does not apply to whether he was party to an insurrection - in the same way it didn't apply to Jeff Davis and co. There is no doubt Jan 6 was an insurrection - the House has even ruled so - and that Trump invited and aided it - which it also found. The events of Jan 6 were also described by the FBI as "acts of terrorism". But Republicans are ok with an insurrectionist and domestic terrorist (and rapist, fraudster and God knows what else) representing them. Still - the convictions keep rolling in and the creature will eventually have nowhere to hide. You and his supporters will then reel about like headless chickens.

Trump was not a spectator. There was no insurrection without him inciting it. That lawless mob of morons weren't capable of thinking for themselves. He told them to "fight like hell". So they assaulted the Capitol.

Seditious conspiracy not good enough for you? Still bitter they failed?

Insurrection is a petty weighty word to describe a bunch of gullible fools who, egged on by their president’s fraudulent election fraud claims, stormed the capital and monkeyed around before leaving on their own accord not knowing what else to do.

Some of them might’ve been genuinely hurting at the country’s and their own state of affairs while others were downright loons thirsting for chaos, but they all were without exception gullible fools.

They could have burned down a whole city, and would not have done nearly the damage as that tw*t trump did on j6 with his INSURRECTION or has done to the country in general.

This went right over your dumb head

Well seeing that this is a running site, what is 'your' 5km time, or do you not run either.

Have you never heard of Reddit, not a running site...check in there

You appear to have clicked on the wrong thread, twice.

If the protesters were all black would the US police have fired shots?

I think we all know the answer

Why do people equate being religious with being a good person?

I think there have been enough stories of proclaimed "religious" people acting anything but religious to see that isn't a truism.

Quit telling everyone to be religious, then doing an end-around in your own life.

This thread by a Trumper is now 7 pages long.

Do you think any of our diehard Trumpers understand yet that the term insurrection or coup embodies all of Trumps corrupt actions to commit felonies to stay in power despite losing the election? And not just what the protesters were doing as they tried to get into the capitol and stop the proceedings. When people say it was an insurrection they are viewing the totality of the Trump scheme.

Im going to guess the answer is no.

Hey Trumpers

So even if you were a M@ga supporter from Ottumwa Iowa that got into your Ford F150 with the little lady and donned yourself with all of your favorite Red Trump cosplay gear. And you drove to the capitol on Jan 5th. And you went to Trump's rally and heeded his call to fight for him and the country and marched to the capitol. Then at the capitol you got caught up with the mob mentality and worked into a frenzy with all the other people. And you broke through the doors and trespassed with everyone else and vandalized the capitol.

It is perfectly appropriate to call you an insurrectionist. Yes, you are an idiot. Yes, you were duped by very idiotic lies. Yes you did not have a tank. And yes you were not armed.

But, we can rightfully call you an insurrectionist because you were part of Trump's criminal plan to overthrow democracy and stay in power. It is not necessary for you to be in the know about what you were doing.

You also do not need to have been charged with insurrection for us to call you an insurrectionist.

From the Wall Street Journal: Stop calling Jan. 6 an "insurrection."
That’s a legal term that denotes much more than a sporadically violent riot or disturbance.

Read up on the French Revolution. Now, THAT was an insurrection! That began in 1789 and ended with with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate with the ascent of Napolean Bonaparte.

I will give you credit for one thing. You are not trying to claim that it was not an insurrection because Trump said to fight like hell for him and the country for one hour then at the end said "but be peaceful". That would make you extra dumb.

So, I am NOT extra dumb? THAT is a relief.

From this I gather that you think that anything short of Mike Pence's and Nancy Pelosi's, heads being lopped off doesn't qualify.

I suspect, you'd be quick with an apology, for that as well.

Jan. 6 was a ragtag group of Bozos, most carrying flags, and protesting at the Capitol. Most insurrections are not something that transpired over a few hours and then everyone went home.