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Democrats express outrage at the Capitol building riots


I'm not condoning the rioting and all those involved should be arrested.But Where the hell was all this angry venomous outrage when when Antifa and BLM were throwing molotov cocktails and bricks at cops.When they were trying to burn down police stations with cops inside.When people were being murdered in the violent Portland takeover.When people were losing their livelihoods as business's were being burnt down.

Trump didn't convince me to vote Trump.Democrats did.They only seem to pull their heads out of their ass's and take notice when either it directly affects them or when they can use it to smear a Trump.

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I have to laugh when I hear their defense. "Oh, but those were PROTESTS. What happened in the Capitol was a RIOT." They even have news articles out there so we can "educate ourselves" as to the difference. The only difference I see is that when Democrats do it, it's called a protest by the media, and when Republicans do it, it's called a riot. And in protests, more things get set on fire.

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And in protests, more things get set on fire.


And more TVs and Nikes get stolen.

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The only time the Democrats and the rest of the career politicians get off their worthless old asses is when they can exploit something or someone to further their careers.

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Yeah, sure... just Democrats expressing outrage, nobody else. Nobody else at all, just Democrats. Keep repeating it to yourself.

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That wasn't the OP's point. He's saying that Democrats universally condemn the Capitol incident, while ignoring or even applauding last summer's BLM insurrections. Republicans who condemn these issues condemn both.

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Whether or not Democrats universally applauded every and all riots and protest as equally valid is debatable. The mayors of Portland and Seattle were pretty craven, and did immense damage to serious issues of police reform. No one should have applauded ANY riots, of course. I do not agree that an attack on the institutions of government (especially for something as dubious as the stated reason was) is the same, though. The Black Live Matter movement are foolish and always overplay their hand, just as they did in 2016. There are legitimate issues about police (that's not an entirely invented fiction) BUT they did shamelessly exaggerate and manipulate good will as they always do, and they refuse to acknowledge that many incidents have little or nothing to do with race. This should not be seen as justifying overthrowing the government based on something people in Trump's own camp don't really believe. If they had been out there saying "Stop the Wars" (or "Stop the Riots" for that matter) instead of "Stop the Steal" I might have had more sympathy for them. Trump's demagoguery was directed solely for his own political gain.

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BLM riots this summer were a definite political tool to strike at Trump. I notice that when the Kenosha police officer was cleared recently, NO rioting whatsoever occurred. The Guard was ready, but they went home. BLM's usefulness has been outlived now that Biden won.

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Democrap Elites tend to be cowards. They're more than happy to send others to do their dirty work, but when the shit hits the fan right near their own faces, they piss their pants and flee. I honestly don't understand why they would be surprised. That entire "attack" was coordinated by BLM and Antifa rioters dressed as Trump Supporters. The worst of them was "Buffalo Guy," a hired agitator who squarely is a leftist.

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Please explain why the left would storm the Capitol to postpone the confirmation of an election they won?

Also, if you are referring to Jake Angeli, where is your proof that he was hired? How long ago. That's a lot of effort to attend many rallies, make and upload videos, have all social media supporting Donald Trump.

If you want to play that game, why don't we just assume that BLM rioters and looters were actually under cover Trump supporters?

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Biden's election is a victory for the 1%, not the left.

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That still makes no sense. If BLM and antifa (what ever the hell that is) wanted Trump out, he's out. That's that. It makes absolutely no sense for them to be posing as Trump supporters and taking part in sedition. These people took so many pictures and are getting caught, it would come out if they were BLM.

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You're right.

BLM kicked Trump out by voting. There was nothing more for them to do after November 4th. The job was done.

Trump supporters reacted to it by going nuts.

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It’s very simple. Democratic politicians encouraged and supported rioting when it WASN’T happening to them. They did the EXACT same thing Trump did. 🤣 It’s completely wrong and borderline evil in both cases, but the irony is just too much to not laugh at.

Also, that was their voting base, and they had the guise of “fighting racism” for every person killed or beaten in the streets, and every law enforcement officer attacked, and every building burned, and every destroyed police car shit on over the summer. If they would have said rioting is wrong then, they might have lost the election.

Every damn thing in politics is one big hypocritical pile of bullshit spin.

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The BLM riots were good for their agenda that’s why they didn’t stand against it. And it didn’t matter a damn to them who was killed in the process

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And then discarded like used toilet paper once victory was certified.

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Which proves my point that Democrats couldn’t care less about black lives and that their claims of “white supremacy” and “systematic racism” are fabricated political talking points and unfortunately too many people in this country have been duped by their lies

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But you aren't interested in why either BLM or Trumpers rioted. You just want to excuse one by pointing at the other.

Democrats aren't just playing the blame game here. They want to get to the bottom of Trumper extremists and prevent it from happening.

Democrats also want to prevent BLM riots from happening.

Both are conversations repubs have zero interest in. The repub answer is to do nothing, and then whine when dems attempt to take some preventative measure.

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There's been months of rioting,deaths and violence.Democrats barely raised an eyebrow about it and instead spent all that time politicizing it to attack Trump.To feign outrage over the rioters and violence only when it's Trump supporters and they can politicize it to their advantage makes them look disingenuous and fake.

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Like I said, you aren't interested in the problem. You just want to excuse one by pointing at the other.

Dems whining about BLM, and repubs whining about stormtrumpers aren't things that need to happen. What needs to happen are preventative measures. Dems are impeaching Trump as a preventative measure so he cannot run again and create havoc again. That is why so many repubs are on board with it this time.

Dems do not have that same ability to prevent the BLM problem. That would require a restructuring of police tactics. However the argument can be made that increased bodycams is helping.

It seems you aren't pissed at dems as much as you are pissed at left-wing media's refusal to support your right-wing opinion. Too bad. You have right-wing media for that.

Since you're not willing to say "ring-wing media should accept left-wing opinions," left-wing media and right-wing media will continue doing what they do.

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