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A Study Shows VERY FEW Capitol Hill Rioters Were QAnon Red-Staters With Ties to 'Right-Wing' Groups
PJ Media ^ | March 15, 2021 | Victoria Taft

Posted on 03/16/2021 7:30:26 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat

A survey by the University of Chicago finds that most Capitol Hill rioters had no ties to any fringe right-wing groups and were merely engaged people outraged by what they believed was a rigged election.

While colorful weirdos with names such as QAnon Shaman and Baked Alaska stole the headlines, people who were arrested by federal officials during and after the riot were a “broader core of people” with a healthy skepticism about the veracity of the November 2020 election, according to the study.

There was plenty of reason for the skepticism, considering the collusion between Big Tech, unions, lawfare, and Democrats’ combined efforts to sway the election. Those efforts were at the very least unethical.

As Time Magazine enthused in an article entitled, “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election,” “there was a conspiracy unfolding behind the [election] scenes” of an “informal alliance between left-wing activists and business titans” to “save” the election from Donald Trump.

Rather than being ill-informed, it appears that the Capitol Building rioters may have been better informed than most on these moves to sway the election.

In a “working paper” that is considered to be a “novel approach” to “estimating community-level participation in mass protest events,” Asst. Prof. Austin Wright of the Harris School of Public Policy and David Van Dijcke of the University of Michigan found a surprising number of the people arrested at the Capitol Hill riot who were business owners and other professionals obviously upset over election fraud....

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: capitol; capitolriot; jan06; qanon
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To: Olog-hai

Quit being a sissy. This is in the public arena and the public is allowed to ax questions. This is just part of the election fraud which we are also not allowed to ax questions about.

I am the only one with the guts to ask why that video looks so phony.


41 posted on 03/17/2021 10:34:17 AM PDT by bray (Pray for fake President Biden)
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To: Olog-hai

You and your thought nazis are trying to shut down free speech.


42 posted on 03/17/2021 10:34:50 AM PDT by bray (Pray for fake President Biden)
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To: bray
No, you’re changing the subject. And now you’re changing it back.

Plus in your original post w.r.t. Babbitt, you asserted that it was faked rather than merely asked questions. Inconsistency is a liberal trait, remember.
43 posted on 03/17/2021 10:39:20 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: bray
By making inquiries as to your assertion?

Please go back to DU. Nobody’s forcing you off here or stifling your speech, but your ad hominems in response to merely being queried are getting tiresome.
44 posted on 03/17/2021 10:41:42 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Little thin skinned are we? Believe what you want, but she is still a fake and lots of people are figuring it out.


45 posted on 03/17/2021 11:57:14 AM PDT by bray (Pray for fake President Biden)
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To: freepersup
I get that reaction a lot from the ladies, but I never tire of hearing those words spoken in sincerity.

LOL! Ouch. Stealing this line.

46 posted on 03/17/2021 12:01:48 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: bray

I’m not saying it isn’t. However, if more evidence points that way, the efforts to cover it up are much greater than those employed to cover up the 2020 election fraud (and those are failing for the left). It won’t help to chide those seeking that evidence from you (as the one who propounds it at least on this thread) as being “thin skinned” when such behavior is unconvincing.


47 posted on 03/17/2021 12:02:15 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

No, you accused me of being a lib because I don’t march lockstep with you and your echo chamber. I have never marched lockstep and sure not going to on this fraud.


48 posted on 03/17/2021 12:23:34 PM PDT by bray (Pray for fake President Biden)
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To: bray
Actually, no; I implied you might be liberal because of your behavior on here with respect to using a number of logical fallacies, ad hominem among them. Also, it is typical of liberals to accuse conservatives of “march(ing) in lockstep”. And you are changing the subject again.

Please be a bit more gracious to those who have conspiracy theory burnout and regard anything that sounds like one to be one. I observed you yourself were hounded with ad hominems from others and absolutely do not condone that, but lashing out in kind at everyone who engages you in discourse over your assertion in Post #5 is simply unfair.
49 posted on 03/17/2021 12:30:49 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Olog-hai

Getting to the truth is not a conspiracy nut. Should we stop looking into the vote because you are tired of it? No, you are simply wanting people to sit down and shut up because she is labeled a conservative. What if we are right and she is Antifa and this entire play was to vilify Trump as a murderer?

Why is there no report on her so-called shooting? Why didn’t the SWAT team who are trained in emergency aid try to save her life?

The law states you have to begin CPR on a victim and continue it until a doctor pronounces her dead. Why did that SWAT team not do it? Because they were actors and not trained cops. Why is there no blood after a neck or chest wound? Was it neck or chest since it changes every day.

You are being fooled by Pelosi and Barak. I don’t care if you are fine with major holes in this story but don’t lecture me to fall in line.


50 posted on 03/17/2021 12:42:10 PM PDT by bray (Pray for fake President Biden)
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To: bray

Thanks for articulating your points more clearly. That’s all I wanted.

However, your accusations that I insist you “shut up” because Babbitt was “labeled a conservative” or that I “lecture(d)” you “to fall in line” are an attempt to put words in my mouth and simply not the case on my part; you made that up.


51 posted on 03/17/2021 1:18:46 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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