(September 5, 2021 at 12:25 pm)Mermaid Wrote:(September 5, 2021 at 10:31 am)Irreligious Atheist Wrote: I did not defend what the Trumpers did on January 6. It was a shitty thing to do. My point was that no laws should have been changed because of the death of one cop. Trump was exercising his free speech. He said be peaceful. Pelosi did the impeachment as a virtue signal, and they knew it would mean nothing as Trump was already leaving office. Pelosi could have used that prescious time they wasted on the sham virtue signalling impeachment to get people stimulus cheques earlier.
TRUMP was the FUCKING PRESIDENT.
You're gross.
How am I gross? The President is allowed to speak freely, and while being extremely careless with his rhetoric, he did tell the people watching him to be peaceful. This is a fact. Not meant to be an endorsement of the shit head Trump. He acted like a complete jackass that day.
My issue is with this being treated like another 9/11, when one measley cop died. The sky is falling, right? We need to change the terrorism laws to take more rights away from the citizens and to grow the police and surviellance states, right? Wrong. None of this is necessary, which is why the news has to treat this like another 9/11 and blow January 6th 100 times out of proportion. People broke the law that day. They should be held accountable for breaking those laws. New terrorism legislation is indefensible to anyone who cares about civil liberties even a little bit.
