GOP petrified of 1/6 commission — surprise!!!!!!

You fellas seem to say it all the time— what are they hiding?

The truth shall set us free,

https://www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...-peaceful-riot

Column: Why the GOP is terrified of a Jan. 6 commission
By Jonah GoldbergColumnist May 25, 2021 3:10 AM PT

Last summer, after months of protests and riots in response to the murder of George Floyd, the phrase “mostly peaceful,” often used by the media and Democrats to describe the protests, achieved parody status, thanks to a CNN clip.

It showed a reporter in Kenosha, Wis., standing in front of a burning building and cars ablaze. CNN’s chyron read, “FIERY BUT MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS AFTER POLICE SHOOTING.”

Conservatives loved it — me included. It summed up a long, hot, pandemic summer of being told not to believe our lying eyes when it came to the violence we saw either on our TVs or in our communities. Thousands of properties and businesses around the country had been burned, damaged or looted, costing billions.

Still, the reality was a bit more complicated. The “mostly peaceful” thing was mostly true. A study by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project found that 93% of protests were, in fact, peaceful. Part of the problem, according to the authors, was that the media couldn’t resist showing images of violence (duh!), which created a misperception about the protests.

Conservative critics of the finding rightly noted that focusing on the peaceful protests, some of which became violent, missed the point. First, violence is always committed by a small avant-garde. Downplaying the violence, even making apologies for it, ignores the way in which the rhetoric of protesters can foment violence.

Fast forward to 2021. In the wake of the siege of the U.S. Capitol by a mob supporting Donald Trump, the right now clings to the “mostly peaceful” canard.

In March, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) insisted on a radio show that he wasn’t scared of the Jan. 6 mob, but he would have been if they were from Black Lives Matter. Responding to the backlash to his comments, he wrote in the Wall Street Journal: “Leftists who want to memory hole last summer’s political violence immediately started lecturing me that the 2020 protests were mostly peaceful.” He cited the ACLED study as proof.

In April, he told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that the Jan. 6 crowd was “mostly peaceful.” And last week, Johnson tweeted: “More than 20,000 Americans exercised 1st Amendment rights to march peacefully Jan. 6. USCP says 800 entered the Capitol illegally …. that’s not an armed insurrection and it was, by-and-large, peaceful.” According to this thinking, if a few hundred of the attackers fighting the police on the Capitol steps with bear spray and flagpoles never actually made it inside the building, then the Jan. 6 mob was about 93% peaceful, too.

Johnson, like most congressional Republicans, opposes a commission to study the Jan. 6 siege. He claims it’s just a partisan Democratic effort to push a “false narrative” about Trump. Johnson sounds reasonable compared to other Republicans who’ve claimed, variously, that Jan. 6 looked no different than a “normal tourist visit” or that the siege was a false flag operation conducted by Antifa or Black Lives Matter. Trump describes the mob that eventually chanted “Hang Mike Pence” as a “love fest.”

All of this has had an effect. Some 55% of Republicans recently told Ipsos/Reuters that they strongly or somewhat agree that the riot at the Capitol was led by “violent left-wing protesters trying to make Trump look bad.” Nearly the same number believe the protesters were “mostly peaceful.” And 53% think Trump is the actual president while 60% strongly or somewhat believe that the election was stolen from Trump.

Those last two findings are crucial because the violence was motivated by these false beliefs. It’s amazing how easily Republicans can see how the rhetoric of BLM activists can create a permission structure for violence, but become utterly blind to the same point when it comes to violence at the seat of our government.

There are many legitimate arguments against a special commission to study Jan. 6. Congress has the power to investigate already — and is doing so. Many Democrats surely want to use the commission to score partisan points. There are hundreds of criminal cases underway and Congress should be reluctant to muck with them.

The problem with all of such arguments, often made in good faith by conservative writers, is that they have nothing to do with why elected Republicans don’t want a commission. It’s all pretext designed to distract from the fact that most of the GOP is terrified of contradicting the false narratives still being peddled by Trump and embraced by his core supporters.

It’s absolutely true that his supporters are mostly peaceful. But that misses the point entirely — and deliberately.

blm/antheifa shout burn it down. And do.

At no time did Trump ever say to storm the Capitol!

blm/antheifa shout burn it down. And do.

At no time did Trump ever say to storm the Capitol! Originally Posted by winn dixie

Bullshit.



But thanks for being there...always!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHSH!!!

Nice try! Does march mean storm the Capitol? Where does he say that? eh'?
Bless your heart

Misinformation at best for distorted censorship No "commission in the past 50 years has every found anything they were not told

the problem with congress setting up a commission to look into jan 6th

is found in how the dimocrats cast their opposition as terrorists and in their attempts at purging conservatives from American life, even the military

its also found in how they tried to lynch president trump and in how they talk about the event as an insurrection when not one person has been charged with insurrection

their goal is to keep it in the publics eye and to try to burn the word "insurrection" into the belief system of American kids and trump and conservatism and white supremacy into it as well

they are not honest participants, which has been proved time and time again, even putting aside the awfulness and unfettered lying of shiff and the rest of the rogues gallery concerning president trump

remember how they treated brett kavanaugh?

blm/antheifa shout burn it down. And do.

At no time did Trump ever say to storm the Capitol! Originally Posted by winn dixie

Thirteen minutes

He also didn’t specifically say the words “stick your head in the fire.”

But his followers did. And they followed his orders to attack the Capitol. I’d say they followed him, but the corpulent coward didn’t have the balls to lead his army against Congress.

Your argument isn’t an argument. It’s semantic niggling. As we all know, there was never any nuance in Trump’s rhetoric.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKBN29B24S

Didnt know i had such a follower! You do know members can post anytime anywhere? Same could be said about you! Stop playing a victim.

Who is playing semantics here? Trump never incited any violence and even condemned it!

Where and when; point blank! Did Trump say ATTACK THE CAPITOL?

Nothing else. Where and when! No play on words just straight up! You lost!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:Using the LA Times as a source for his article, what could possibly be the truth more than that? .....

Bullshit.



But thanks for being there...always!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHSH!!! Originally Posted by Yssup Rider

Hahahaha...........You didn't hear Trump say storm the capital in that video. Maybe you heard the little man in your head say it though, lol.

More shit posting by a multihandled poster. He's got to make up the banned time.

As several posters have pointed out, Trump is no longer President. The Democratic Socialists can't govern.

Dems and Deep State are petrified at what Trump and Durham are going to do.

Dems and Deep State are petrified at what Trump and Durham are going to do. Originally Posted by bambino

They ought to get a hold of Schwarzenegger he's got a Tank show'em what storming the Capital means, lol.

Dems and Deep State are petrified at what Trump and Durham are going to do. Originally Posted by bambino

No he didn't say any of that shit.

The peaceful protesters simply toured the CapitOl.

Can't attack the post. Can't argue reality. You're simply playing ECCIE games.

GOT IT!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

(Yes, he is no longer president. Tell that to your mates.)