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Remember: There Was No ‘Insurrection’ on January 6, 2021
pjmedia.com ^ | 1/6/2023 | robert spencer

Posted on 01/07/2023 11:19:29 AM PST by bitt

Old Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, and the rest of the Democrat establishment spent Friday commemorating what the Left would have us believe was a greater threat to “our democracy” than the Pearl Harbor attack or 9/11. In the face of this Big Lie that keeps getting bigger, it’s important to remember: There was actually no “insurrection.” There was no plan, no leader, no weapons, and no casualties except among those who entered the Capitol after the police opened the doors. President Trump, who was supposed to be the ringleader of the “insurrection,” told the demonstrators to proceed “peacefully,” and two years of relentless investigations have turned up no evidence, despite breathless media reports to the contrary, that he ever wanted anyone to overthrow the government and install him as some kind of president-for-life.

In the face of a failed post-presidency impeachment attempt and a Jan. 6 committee that recommended that Trump be indicted despite the conspicuous lack of evidence that he did anything for which he should be indicted, the Leftist establishment is not backing off one bit. Instead, Old Joe and his henchmen are doubling, tripling, and quadrupling down, creating a mythology of what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, that resembles a hagiographical narrative more than a sober history.

On Friday, Biden even canonized saints for this new religion, awarding the Presidential Citizens Medal to twelve (twelve, just like the apostles!) people who supposedly held the line against the vicious “insurrectionists.” These twelve, he declared, “embody the best before, during and after January the 6, 2021.” He claimed that “history will remember your names. They’ll remember your courage. They’ll remember your bravery. They’ll remember your extraordinary commitment to your fellow Americans.”

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1 posted on 01/07/2023 11:19:29 AM PST by bitt
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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2 posted on 01/07/2023 11:19:42 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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You can take your democracy and shove it. democracy is the tyranny of the minority, we are actually a REPUBLIC. Nasty Piglosi started the riot at the capitol building. 100,000 to 2 million of the Trump rally were outside the capitol building. If they had rioted the area would have been totally destroyed.
3 posted on 01/07/2023 11:25:24 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well those that did not make it back.)
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To: bitt

It was a false flag operation of the Left, with members of the Democrat party working in cooperation with Antifa, and of course the alphabet channels.


4 posted on 01/07/2023 11:26:29 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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To: bitt
Insurrection? Not by a long shot.
The events of Jan 6 were a riot and nothing grander.
Riots are broken-up by police, as occurred in this case.
Serious civil disturbances are controlled by the militia, the National Guard.
Insurrections are suppressed by the army.
Lenin coined a description for events such as occurred on Jan 6: infantile Leftism.
5 posted on 01/07/2023 11:26:49 AM PST by quadrant (1o mercyflush)
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To: bitt

Talked to a guy at a gas station yesterday.

He’s absolutely convinced several people were killed by supporters of President Trump on January 6th.

When I told him only one person was killed that day, unarmed Ashli Babbitt he mentioned the cop.

Oy vey

Tucker Carlson had an excellent compilation of MSM lies last night.


6 posted on 01/07/2023 11:28:40 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: bitt

Among those receiving medals from Biden yesterday were Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, both of whom can be seen on video pulling hidden caches of ballots out from tables and repeatedly passing them through counting machines after observers had been dismissed from the Atlanta ballot counting center on the night of November 3, 2020.

They are rubbing our faces in their corruption...


7 posted on 01/07/2023 11:29:40 AM PST by Hetuck ("We will Barry you" - Nikita Khrushchev)
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To: bitt

And there were at least 200,000 of us there who had absolutely no idea we were supposed to be insurrecting. Not to mention the other 1.5 million who attended the speech and didn’t walk 1.6 miles to the Capitol.


8 posted on 01/07/2023 11:30:30 AM PST by cyclotic (Follow 1776rm.com. Fighting for our Constitution. @1776RM on Truth)
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It was a friggin' mob.

Never heard one inference from anyone that they were taking over the government.

Many of these folks were caught in the crowd...and had to go forward...against their wishes.

I'm trying to remember...there was a mob when patriots heard about the Jay Treaty...And of course a few years later we were again fighting the Brits in the War of 1812. So mob is not new.

9 posted on 01/07/2023 11:31:18 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Early, Pelosi called it an armed insurrection. Then she and her team dropped the armed part.


10 posted on 01/07/2023 11:33:30 AM PST by Texas resident (Who is running our country?)
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To: Sacajaweau

Glenn Greenwald on his “System Update” nightly episode on Friday, December 6, 2023, on the Rumble platform covered it from a centrist viewpoint, allowing that it was a “riot” that was never an insurrection.


11 posted on 01/07/2023 11:33:39 AM PST by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: SaveFerris
I think at least four civilians were killed that day: Ashli Babbitt, Rosanne Boyland (beaten by Capitol police in a tunnel under the Capitol), and Kevin Greeson and Benjamin Philips, who evidently suffered cardiac events after being struck by concussion grenades launched by Capitol police.
12 posted on 01/07/2023 11:35:01 AM PST by Hetuck ("We will Barry you" - Nikita Khrushchev)
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To: mountainlion; null and void; bagster; LucyT; Liz; Red Badger

Watching the lies by the MSM makes me believe there’s little hope for this country

Soooo many believe them

Tucker Carlson showed it - they repeat lies like Goebbels

https://youtu.be/-z1KGCPMrJo

Better watch this AND save it if you can - they often disappear

17 minutes or so


13 posted on 01/07/2023 11:38:49 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Hetuck

OK

This whole thing is just bizarre


14 posted on 01/07/2023 11:40:52 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Hetuck

Yep


15 posted on 01/07/2023 11:41:36 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Hetuck

bs


16 posted on 01/07/2023 11:41:56 AM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: Telepathic Intruder

And Nancy Pelosi.


17 posted on 01/07/2023 11:44:25 AM PST by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: Texas resident

We strongly suspect it was a Fedsurection.


18 posted on 01/07/2023 11:56:26 AM PST by Paladin2
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To: Sacajaweau

The only BS is that no has been held accountable for those four.


19 posted on 01/07/2023 11:59:09 AM PST by MileHi ((Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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To: quadrant

My sense of the difference between riot and insurrection is that a riot can be a totally unfocused bit of chaos, and that an insurrection must be focused on a purpose and at least have a non-zero probability of achieving that purpose. From the conduct of that riot, it was clearly no insurrection - there was no chance that it would attain the objective of overthrowing a government, and the event that it interrupted was resumed about 5 hours later (and completed that day).


20 posted on 01/07/2023 12:00:26 PM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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