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Trump-Supporting Rioter Pictured Carrying Confederate Flag Inside U.S. Capitol
People ^ | January 6, 2020 | Laura Barcella

Posted on 01/07/2021 4:43:10 AM PST by C19fan

As a Trump-supporting mob descended on Washington, D.C., during Wednesday's unprecedented riots, a man was seen carrying a Confederate flag inside the U.S. Capitol.

Photos of an unmasked, unidentified man carrying a large Confederate flag on the second floor of the Capitol building were shared widely on Twitter by journalists on the ground during Wednesday's violent scene, with Stanford professor Sam Wineburg noting that it was the first time the flag had been publicly carried within the halls of the Capitol.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: mob; riot
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You can damn me to hell for all I care. But that is an absolute disgrace and spitting on the graves of the hundreds of thousands of Union soldiers who paid the ultimate price to preserve the Union.
1 posted on 01/07/2021 4:43:10 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan

How do you know it was a Trump supporter. Do you believe the MSM?


2 posted on 01/07/2021 4:49:16 AM PST by dforest (RATS are criminals and frauds. Hide anything that belongs to you. They will steal it.)
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To: dforest

Beware of provocations. The Left knows how to do this, and what signs and symbols will pull emotional levers.


3 posted on 01/07/2021 4:50:10 AM PST by CondorFlight
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To: C19fan

That war is long over. That flag represents something new now. I can play nice up until the point where they’re compelling me under penalty of imprisonment or worse to pay tens of thousands of dollars in taxes for property I have legally owned for decades. Once that happens, I’ll happily salute that flag as it flies over the Whitehouse.


4 posted on 01/07/2021 4:50:25 AM PST by RC one (Lying, cheating, deceiving & manipulating are as natural to Democrats as swimming is to fish.)
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To: C19fan

Omg!, The HORROR ,,,!!


5 posted on 01/07/2021 4:50:44 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat (#LeaveTheGOP. Pass it on Liberty Valance Time. The point of a gun is the only law they understan)
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To: C19fan

Who gives a damn, it suppose to be a free country.


6 posted on 01/07/2021 4:50:47 AM PST by Doofer ( )
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To: C19fan

I could care less about a confederate flag being carried. However, if you notice, the media is quick to use terms like mobs, rioters and so on in terms of describing Trump deplorables. Two standards here, one for the peaceful protesters and one for the mobs, but the world is upside down. It is time to be not so peaceful with the media and give them a lesson on what peace really feels like. They are the enemy and they need to be completely destroyed. Every single last one of them - bit-bleached, just like a hard drive.


7 posted on 01/07/2021 4:51:08 AM PST by ConservativeInPA (See Profile: I'm giving up.)
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"You can damn me to hell for all I care. But that is an absolute disgrace and spitting on the graves of the hundreds of thousands of Union soldiers who paid the ultimate price to preserve the Union."

Well, I got'a say, half of the Senators and Congressmen in DC do that very thing everyday of the week..!

8 posted on 01/07/2021 4:51:45 AM PST by unread (A REPUBLIC..! If you can keep it....)
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To: ConservativeInPA

Yeah. Screw em.


9 posted on 01/07/2021 4:52:41 AM PST by HighSierra5
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“Unprecedented”

Oh look, the switchboard is lighting up. City of Portland holding on line1, CHAZ on line 2, Kenosha on line 3. Minneapolis, line 4.


10 posted on 01/07/2021 4:52:50 AM PST by Hat-Trick (Do you trust a government that cannot trust you with guns?)
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I’ll bet money that Laura Barcella didn’t have a single problem with the blm - antifa riots this summer...


11 posted on 01/07/2021 4:53:16 AM PST by kiryandil (Chris Wallace: Because someone has to drive the Clown Car)
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To: dforest

Let’s see if the Left tries to dox them.


12 posted on 01/07/2021 4:54:01 AM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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To: C19fan

So, I guess they deserve to be shot.

Anyway, did this writer complain when US flags were being burned?


13 posted on 01/07/2021 4:56:11 AM PST by Fido969 (,i.)
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"You can damn me to hell for all I care." LOL! Did you just ask for abuse? That's a first on this forum and I've been here a long time.....

Was it bad taste to carry the old confederate battle flag? Yep....

However, in recent times that flag has less to do with the old confederacy and slavery and has changed more into a sign of defiance against overreaching federal authority.

14 posted on 01/07/2021 4:56:48 AM PST by nevergore (I have a terrible rash on my covfefe....)
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Your emotions got fooled.
That guy was an agent provocateur meant to make your blood boil.

They want you to lose your cool.


15 posted on 01/07/2021 4:57:25 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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"I could care less about a confederate flag being carried. However, if you notice, the media is quick to use terms like mobs, rioters and so on in terms of describing Trump deplorables." "Two standards here, one for the peaceful protesters and one for the mobs, but the world is upside down."

Saul Alinsky’s 12 Rules for Radicals…
RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”

16 posted on 01/07/2021 4:57:34 AM PST by unread (A REPUBLIC..! If you can keep it....)
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If it wasn’t for double standards the left would have no standards at all


17 posted on 01/07/2021 4:58:17 AM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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To: unread

Saul Alinsky’s 12 Rules for Radicals…
RULE 4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”


WE all should read that book, twice


18 posted on 01/07/2021 4:59:34 AM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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To: dforest

That was my first thought. Could it be a gaslighting ANTIFA Goon?


19 posted on 01/07/2021 5:01:26 AM PST by Shady (It is the rule of law vs tyranny, plain and simple, and it is the fight of our lives...DEFCON 5!)
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To: CondorFlight
Beware of provocations.
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This was a major PsyOp. A large portion of yesterday's events was a well run production to destroy Trump supporters. Everyone is instantly piling on. It was run by Antifa anarchists, facilitated by Capitol police, and propelled by media and endless useful idiots. The enemy has succeeded in vilifying Trump supporters to weak minded idiots. Now, they will claim to have all the proof they need to come after us.
20 posted on 01/07/2021 5:02:23 AM PST by iontheball
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