Eegore wrote on 06/17/21 at 08:07:11:"It's who they are. Same with a lot of these people; it's who they are."
I very specifically indicated the people who purchased the equipment for the purpose of stopping the election, by means of communicating by their own words on their own technology on their own online accounts and phones.
"They might not have known how, but they posted they were going for that reason, they texted saying it, so the spontaneity aspect is limited to the location and time but not intent."
"True. Hardly an armed insurrection."
This goes back to why, in this case, do there need to be firearms to be "armed" when in all other definitions a firearm is not required?
Much like covid could have never started in a lab theory, its becoming more real every day. Why don't you consider how many 'truths' were told, specifically about Trump, that turned out to be false.
Russiagate?
I never said any of that was true.
Bounties on troops that Trump ignored?
I never said any of that was true.
Peaceful protesters teargassed for a photo op?
I very specifically said that was very unlikely. The methods were not consistent with SS applications. The equipment, yes, methods, no.
And now the "evidence" is a armed insurrection organized and carried out by right wing dangerous militia groups?
Possible, yet we need to get past the moral evaluation process requirement in order to more accurately classify "right wing" to begin with. Also I do not think firearms are a requirement to legally define "armed".
No, you never said those things were true, but fully half or more of the public believes them to be true. That matters because it’s the implied mandate from that belief that motivates and justifies actions such as possibly using FBI agents to plan a fake insurrection in order to heavily damage an opposing political party. Frankly it’s what started this whole Trump thing to begin with. The “mandate” created by lies and partisanship allowed the FBI to spy on Trump’s campaign and to use false info provided by Hilary’s campaign to created the Russiagate lie to begin with.
The Washington bureaucracy protects itself by any means possible.