Posted on 02/01/2021 5:14:15 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Nonvoters and registered Democrats were among those who were arrested at the January 6 Capitol protest, an analysis of voting records show.
The January 6 event, which has been overwhelmingly branded as a pro-Trump protest, sparked the second impeachment of former President Donald Trump as Democrats, primarily, blamed him for the incitement of insurrection after he delivered a speech to supporters earlier in the day. Not once during the speech did Trump encourage supporters to engage in acts of lawlessness or destruction.
Nevertheless, House lawmakers, some of whom indicated that they feared for their lives as protesters stormed the Capitol, voted to impeach him for the second time. The trial in the Senate is expected to begin next week. Meanwhile, some Democrats are offering Republicans an ultimatum, continuing to blame them and their supporters for the events that transpired on the day Congress convened to certify the electoral vote.
“The Republican Party has a fundamental decision to make. Will it be a conservative party functioning within a democratic society? Or will it be an authoritarian party built upon the Big Lie, conspiracy theories and violence?” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) asked on Monday, concluding that it “cannot be both”:
While the dominating narrative remains that Trump supporters and voters, specifically, rushed the Capitol that day to protest the election results, voting records show that some of the individuals involved in the riot were registered Democrats, and others did not even cast a ballot in the 2020 presidential election.
According to CNN, which analyzed the data of over 180 of those arrested, “at least eight of the people who are now facing criminal charges for their involvement in the events at the Capitol did not vote in the November 2020 presidential election,...
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Not information approved by the Ministry of Information. Algorithms are churning away at us like little buzz saws at this very moment. I pray there are a few thousand Julian Assanges within those matrix-like social credit agencies.
I guess now we can add 80 million Democrats and 80 million non-voters to the 80 million Trump supporters which make up the domestic terrorists in America.
That leaves 80 million Americans unaccounted for. They’re probably terrorists too.
LMFAO! Well, what diff does it all make now? The 1/6 fraud and lie has exceeded all expectations.
Ole Bernie may have accidently stumbled on the truth. Of course he meant it in the exact opposite way.
Well, there are only 250m adults so that about covers it. We are all terrorists now. Those camps are going to be huge.
It is huge. We’re already in it. From border to border and sea to shining sea!
What border? I thought President Xiden erased it?
Bernie, the Democrat Party is an “authoritarian party built upon the Big Lie, conspiracy theories and violence!”
We know it, you know it!
Lemme guess...they were all wearing their MAGA hats backward.
No, the Republican Party should not become an authoritarian party based on the Big Lie. We already have one of those in America and don’t need two.
What is the “Big Lie” anyway?
Bernie is projecting.
The term “Big Lie” is a reference to something Hitler coined about propaganda. In this case Sanders is suggesting “Trump won in 2020” or “there was election fraud & irregularities” is the “Big Lie” that must be rejected.
I guess I don't really know what Bernie meant by that, but probably he means that the stolen election is the "Big Lie".
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