Posted on 01/08/2021 6:39:52 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Eddie Emerson worked his fly fishing pole back and forth, tossing his line into a pond in West Texas, searching for stocked trout and an answer to questions on how he felt about the storming of the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters.
A backer of President Donald Trump, Emerson said he disliked the violence he saw on TV on Wednesday: people overturning barricades, clashing with police and swarming the building in Washington that houses the Senate and House of Representatives. Emerson expressed frustration with what he called the hypocrisy of those who condemned the riots but turned a blind eye to violence at Black Lives Matter protests last summer.
“What about Portland?” he asked, pointing to the months of protest and mayhem in Oregon’s largest city. “When it’s the left behind the violence, then it’s just them expressing their voice, their creativity.”
In two dozen interviews with Trump backers, they condemned Wednesday’s violence, but at the same time did not hold the president responsible.
They blamed the violence on left wing protesters - without any evidence - and expressed little hope that the deeply divided country would unify anytime soon.
For supporters like Paul Sanchez, a 50-year-old plumber who had a Trump flag flying above the American flag in front of his house in Lamesa, it was hard to fathom that ordinary Trump voters would engage in violence.
“Antifa and Black Lives Matter and that whole bunch tore up shit in cities across the country for months, and the Democrats didn’t really condemn it, not really,” Sanchez said. “I’m really pissed - but I’m not going to go out and destroy somebody’s house, I’m not going to burn down any business.”
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
“...as there were already multiple armed police around her ..”
There are pictures of cops of some sort in soft clothes pointing their guns at people. Lucky that more of them didn’t get shot by these doofus gumshoes.
Communists don’t even condemn violence.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/shock-leftists-flip-memorials-victims-communism-hank-berrien
They blamed the violence on left wing protesters - without any evidence - and expressed little hope that the deeply divided country would unify anytime soon.
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It’s amazing how often they use the words “baseless” and “without any evidence” when discussing conservatives.
Even though I think it was mostly Trump supporters who were at the capital, I’ve seen plenty of evidence that provocateurs were there too.
The Legacy Media is as much to blame for the current state of our nation as anyone.
0bama called for blacks to fight back, and what blame did he get?
“Trump’s fans condemn violence, but they aren’t about to blame him..”
I wonder if George Washington’s fans condemned violence?
It is about us, US Patriots. The Cabal wants us dead. Period.
“Stalin’s fans feel bad about the death of 10,000,000 Soviets but aren’t about to blame him.”
Didn’t Stalin say that the death of one person is a tragedy but the death of millions is a statistic?
A couple busloads of ANTIFA infiltrators paid for by the Democrats and supported by the media were there to disrupt the efforts of a million peaceful Trump supporters who made the trip to Washington DC to try and stop the Steal.
For weeks I never did anything in return for all of this assault, and when I brought it up with the assistant principal he did nothing but talk with the bully, which earned me yet another shove to the ground after school.
But finally one day I got fed up and I swung at him and then we got into what was basically a wrestling match.
As a result, I got a three day suspension. Here I was, victim to all of this punishment for weeks on end, my tormenter receiving no consequences at all for his actions, yet I get suspended for one punch.
That's how I feel today with what happened at the Capitol on Wednesday.
Exactly. I’ve been arguing on forums with these leftists since 2006. They are very dangerous if they get any REAL political power. Without it, they are mostly a bunch of whimps.
How do these sycophants sleep at night? They are probably all zoned out on Ambien.
Of course it is. They want us dead.
‘Blame’ belongs to crime or violence. Did anyone prove THAT was planned.
Blame should be place with the SUPREME COURT who refused to listen to cries of injustice from citizens who watched their election stolen.
Secondary person to blame is Pontius Pence.
Totally a setup , well funded and paid for by big money.....to take down Trump!
Set up and was “Mostly Peaceful” anyway.
This does not bode well for the GOPE, the Democrats and the deep state. They didn’t take Trump down in the eyes of his supporters. The left will attempt to arrest him on some false charges in the near future which will only further enrage his supporters against them and the deep state. The GOPE still thinks they can go back to the normal screwing of the base. A few might get it but most are stuck in an echo chamber.
My guess is that they wanted to invoke the 25th, but saw that Trump’s base is still pretty much intact, so they backed off on it.
Why should he be blamed for what happened? He asked people to come to D.C. That’s a perfectly normal and legal activity. He didn’t ask anyone to force themselves into the building.
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