The mob was primed to kidnap and murder our elected Representatives.

[dutch508]

kentuck (103,843 posts)
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100216188505

They were fleeing for their lives.
The mob was primed to kidnap and murder our elected Representatives. Both Democrats and Republicans were threatened. They wanted to hang Mike Pence. They wanted to kill Nancy Pelosi. What would have happened to Mitt Romney if he had not been directed away from the mob?

They were not protesting for some great cause. They were not protesting because they were denied any basic rights. They were not protesting for any just reason.

They were protesting for Donald Trump. They transferred his anger over losing the election to the attack upon our Capitol. Nothing more and nothing less.

Now, they want to cover it up. They want to portray it as something else. But it is what it is.

So, the question that remains is: Do we hold those responsible accountable for their actions? Or do we allow them to cover it up and to escape any accountability?

Can the country survive either of those responses?

 

Star Member Walleye (10,070 posts)

2. If they had located speaker Pelosi they would've torn her to pieces. Anyone doubt that?

 

Star Member OneGrassRoot (22,083 posts)

3. Can Democratic and anti-Trump politicians LITERALLY survive?

The crowd would have killed Pelosi, AOC and others that day, I have no doubt. They'd love to kill Liz Cheney now. If the PTB aren't held accountable, including those in Congress who aided and abetted the crimes of 1/6, I would literally be in fear for my life if I were them if Trumpism isn't squashed soon.

That's what drives me a bit crazy. This is life-and-death stuff for Democratic politicians and anti-Trump politicians. Why aren't they MUCH more aggressive and shouting from the rooftops about it and imploring Garland to do something?

But then I think that's what the 1/6 Commission is handling and they are serious AF about it because they know their lives are in danger from the mob and the criminals who inspire them if they don't do something, and maybe they're confident DOJ WILL do something at a certain point in their investigation as more facts are released to the public.

Idk. But I know this isn't remotely politics as usual and I feel like I'm in the Twilight Zone when people discuss it in that manner, especially those who are in most danger.

So, yes, democracy is in danger for sure, but so are many people on the left and even, or perhaps especially, vocal anti-Trump people.

 

Star Member bucolic_frolic (28,515 posts)

4. The financial backers and their foreign connections are the source of the problem

Trump was just a front man with an ego

 

[67 Rover]

I very much doubt they could have even found AOC who was a mile away. 

[Mr Mannn]

Sooooo, they were going to murder with what? There were NO weapons. The 'mob' was unarmed.
If ever there was an insurrection, it wouldn't look like Jan 6th.

[SVPete]

In what perpendicular universe's alternate parallel universe?

[ExGeeEye]

Sooooo, they were going to murder with what? There were NO weapons. The 'mob' was unarmed.
If ever there was an insurrection, it wouldn't look like Jan 6th.

Agreed.

I told someone in the immediate aftermath that an overthrow of the Fed.gov would not be unarmed, and would not start at the Capitol, but out in the States.

It might end at the Capitol.... just sayin'...

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

So many drama queens to rule a single kingdom.

[ADsOutburst]

Speaking of kidnapping, the plot to kidnap Whitmer is looking more and more like it was not only a set-up, but that the defendants repeatedly resisted the idea. Makes you wonder how much of what happened on 1/6 really happened organically.

[Ralph Wiggum]

In what perpendicular universe's alternate parallel universe?

It is eerily quite similar to the really big lie regarding "Russian Collusion".  Libs are banking all their hopes and wet dreams on yet another nothing burger.  Rather than feel sad for those loser clowns, I just laugh and mock them.

[DefiantSix]

Speaking of kidnapping, the plot to kidnap Whitmer is looking more and more like it was not only a set-up, but that the defendants repeatedly resisted the idea. Makes you wonder how much of what happened on 1/6 really happened organically.

I'll take "Who is Ray Epps for $1,000, Alex"...