Posted on 02/16/2021 12:23:30 PM PST by RandFan
MSNBC host Joe Scarborough dismissed comparisons between the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters and protests for racial justice last summer.
"I know there are idiots on other cable news channels that will say, 'Well, this mom-and-pop store that was vandalized during the summer riots and that's just as bad as the United States Capitol being vandalized,'" Scarborough said on his morning program Tuesday. "No. No, actually jackass, it's not. The Capitol of the United States of America is the center of American democracy."
Scarborough said he remains a "fierce believer" in "people's right to defend their private property" but said any comparison between the destruction of small businesses during civil unrest in cities across the country and the Jan. 6 riot is irrelevant.
"I'm not going to confuse a taco stand with the United States Capitol," Scarborough said. "I'm not going to confuse the selling of tacos with actually moving through a constitutional process that is laid out in the United States Constitution."
Scarborough called for Trump and several of his closest allies to be arrested after a mob stormed the Capitol, leaving dozens injured and several people dead.
Trump was impeached last month by House Democrats and 10 members of the House GOP on an article of inciting insurrection following the attack. He was acquitted by the Senate over the weekend.
During impeachment proceedings in the House, a number of Republicans attempted to tie protests for racial justice in the wake of George Floyd's death, some of which deteriorated into widespread looting and rioting, to what they said were Democrats' partisan view on political violence.
"For months, our cities burned," said Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) during impeachment hearings on the House floor. "And they said nothing or they cheerlead for it. ... Now some have cited the metaphor that the president lit the flame. Well, they lit actual flames! Actual fires!"
Some leading conservative pundits have also pointed to what they characterize as selective outrage on the political left.
"No jackass," Scarborough said in response to a tweet in reference to his comments highlighting the story of a small-business owner whose furniture store burned during rioting in Kenosha, Wis., following the police shooting of Jacob Blake. "It was a furniture store. And the freaks who burned it down should rot in jail until they pay him back."
Joe S is irrelevant...
Do people still watch this idiot?
Lol. Scarborough Joe called someone else a jackass.
Whatta dork.
A better comparison is when the Dems and their teacher union allies took control of the Wisconsin Capitol 10 years ago and trashed it with no consequences.
“Moanin Joek”
Yes, because the little mom and pop store, probably started by some immigrant or minority, who saved and self-sacrificed EVERYTHING HE OWNED trying to build the American Dream....that ISN’T DEMOCRACY!
If the mom and pop lacks a saloon, a brothel or a betting parlor in the back, I’d say it’s more the center of American democracy than the Capitol.
I remember when the occupy movement took over the capital in Wisconsin...
was THAT different too Joe?
yeah.. face it, it’s only “different” this time because it was republicans!
Wow, just wow. These weren't taco venders on the curb. Many established businesses were looted, vandalized, and even burnt to the ground. Jobs were lost, long-time family businesses were lost, livelihoods were lost. Apparently, this guy didn't watch the same videos as me. How does this idiot still have a job? Sheesh.
Because in the summer it was only peasants being terrorized, murdered, and burned out of the businesses and homes for several months in a row. On Jan 6 it was the elites that were made a tiny but uncomfortable for a short time. Much bigger deal.
It is irrelevant when you compare the minor damage at the Capitol to the entire sections of cities destroyed during the riots.
Scarborough = Distortion Specialist
Scarborough’s argument calls those who he disagrees with, “idiots” and “jackas.” Name calling is the sure indication they have no objective reasoning to support their argument. The only objective is to fuel hate, which is what we are seeing from the audience he is exploiting.
Yes, because the little mom and pop store, probably started by some immigrant or minority, who saved and self-sacrificed EVERYTHING HE OWNED trying to build the American Dream....that ISN’T DEMOCRACY!
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Can you believe the audacity? The little people don’t count. Their businesses are just “taco stands.”
Those comparisons might be irrelevant, to his fact-less narrative, but not to America’s future. If we continue to have summers like 2020, Civil War II will be a reality, not a conspiracy theory. And you can thank idiots like Scar Bureau.
Yet not one Congress member was even so much as scratched. Hmmm
Well lookey here, another liberal trying to ignore what the terrorist wing of the democrat party has been up to for the last few years.
Right now in Medford Oregon they are going through the court process of the DEMOCRAT ANTIFA TERRORISTS who were caught red handed starting wild fires last year.
But the left does not want to hear that. These moron ANTIFA DEMOCRAT TERRORISTS were caught on video starting some of those fires.
The left wing media lied their asses off to hide it from most of the country but they are not going to get away with it in this neck of the woods. The trials are coming up and it will be well publicized.
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