Riddle me this... How do you make your voice heard to a group of people who have demonstrated that they couldn't care less what you have to say because they just finished stealing your voice from you?
Maybe write or something. Who knows. This is weird and out of context.
No, it is the context. Let me slow it down.
Even before the election was called Trump already declared that he won the election and that democrats were in the process of stealing it. Complete bullshit, but all part of Trump's plan.
He then spent the next two months telling his supporters that the democrats were stealing their voice by installing their own candidate into power against their will.
Then when all of Trump's attempts to overturn the election failed, he called his supporters to the US Capitol to protest telling them it "will be wild". Please tell me something... When the hell has a peaceful protest ever been described as "wild"? Answer: never, because that's not how English works. This was a very clear elusion to violence, so by the time J6 came around, his supporters had already been primed for it.
So now it's J6 and all these people are there at the elipse, after multiple speeches by Trump lackies saying things like "let's have trial by combat", Trump takes the stage. He then proceeds to give a 13k word speech that includes the word fight over 20 times and once, in the middle of the speech surrounded by no supporting context he utters the words "peacefully and patriotically" make their voices heard.
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to understand that those two words uttered with absolutely no emphasis whatsoever doesn't match anything you've heard from Trump over the prior to months.
The idea that these two words should have been your take away is absurd and incoherent. This guy has been telling you that your country is being literally stolen from you for two months, and after rallying you up over it now you're supposed to think what he wants you to do about it is yell very loud on the Capitol lawn while the people who couldn't give a shit less about what you want finish stealing it? That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
And since we're here, let's explore this narrative further. Trump on multiple occasions claimed that he offered Nancy Pelosi 10k troops... Why would he have done this? There is only one coherent answer... Because he understood there was a real threat of violence. So how does a president who's concerned about violence proceed? Answer: By calling off the protest he was the orchastrator of. You know what a president who was actually concerned about violence would not have done? Finished his rally speech by telling the crowd to fight like hell or their not going to have a country anymore.
And here's another question for you... If Trump really didn't want violence what would he have been doing for three hours while the US Capitol was under attack? Hint: not watching the attack unfold in the WH dining room. Not one single phone call to anyone, no authorization to send in the national guard. Why? Because it's fucking obvious; he wanted the attack and all of the evidence for what he was doing during those three hours only further proves that.
This shit is not the same as it was yesterday double r. This rhetoric that Trump is literally Hitler and about to set up concentration camps or that Republicans want to their supporters to invade congress and start murdering politicians isn't going to be tolerated
This is absolutely absurd. When someone tried to assassinate the democratic speaker of the house and ended up within inches of killing her husband, Trump stood on stage to a crowd of laughing supporters joking about it. When the Democratic governor of Michigan was saved by the FBI from a plot to kidnap her Trump joked about it. When people defied Trump's wishes while he was president he routinely called for them to be executed. When protestors were getting out of hand at his rallies Trump told his followers to knock the crap out of them. When Trump supporters rode around with an image of Joe Biden hog tied to the back of a pick up truck Trump reposted it.
We've been warning about the temperature and violent rhetoric for years, but now that it almost came for Trump, now you're concerned about it? Are you fucking kidding me?
You say this rhetoric isn't the same. You say that calling Trump a fascist is some kind of call for violence. Did anyone say we should assassinate Trump, or is that just the conclusion you came to regarding what the logical way to respond to that would be? Ok then, now use that exact same logic towards January 6th.
I oppose Trump so passionately in large part because I want our politics to have nothing to do with violence like this. But blaming the people who are acknowledging the objective reality that Trump is the one cultivating this environment is the height of stupidity.
