The PR Wing Of The GOP

[Rev. Rye]

It was all an emergency....


There was no one who was just there to protest ....

They were there to commit violence or cheer the violence on.

There were a lot of people there. Clearly not all of them were organized. Some of them had a plan. Others did not. If they were there to protest Biden being falsely elected, they had that right, and it's free speech to believe that Biden should not become President. That belief doesn't automatically entail an intention to overthrow the duly elected government. These are two separate things, although I know you like to conflate and pretend everything is the same. Many people have admitted they went into the building to stop the vote. Others have not admitted that, and many were there to protest and got caught up in the moment and stupidly went into the building. I don't think they need to be locked up for the rest of their lives.

Frankly, the second one of the people at the rally notices that things are starting to get violent (e.g.: once they find out people went into the Capitol and are rioting, or hears the crowd chanting “Hang Mike Pence,” or sees that they’ve erected a fucking gallows [or sees the mob destroy an AP cameraman’s equipment and turn the cables into a noose]), and decides to do nothing, that distinction between normal protester and rioter ceases to exist for them. Some may draw the line earlier, but that’s the longest time I’m willing to accept that there might be some legit innocent people there.