"Please stop using stale Democrat rhetoric like "insurrection.""-johnflippedout
Now johnforbes is calling Webster's Dictionary "stale Democrat rhetoric"
What occurred of Jan. 6th is the very definition of "insurrection" and how do I know? I looked it up, of course. johnforbes should try using a dictionary himself. But I will help the dimwit by doing his homeworl for him and cram some self-improvement down his throat:
insurrection- "a violent uprising against an authority or government."
Even johnforbes admits the riot that day was a"violent uprising" and that it was against "an authority or government".
But for some reason his cognitive dissonance won't allow him to make the leap to applying that clear definition to the rioters trying to keep Trump in office against the properly certified results of the 2020 election. He thinks that by calling it "rhetoric" the definition of "insurrection" that has been accepted for hundreds of years will miraculously change into something favorable to his bizarre partisan "Weltbild." It won't.
"If there had been any such lunatic notion, wouldn't said traitors have brought plans and weaponry?"-johnflubs
They DID, dimwit. They had organized plans, as proven by the two guilty pleas of two of those charged with "seditious conspiracy." (For the dimwitted, "seditious conspiracy" is the making of plans against a government.)
"If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both."
That's what the two men pleaded guilty to. And there are more to come. This is not merely a rhetorical use of the word. It is quite literal. The sooner johnforbes comes to that realization, the sooner he will stop making an ass of himself by regurgitating partisan propaganda from his handlers.
And the rioters DID have weaponry. There were Molotov cocktails. There were guns. There were sharpened flag poles. There were mace and bear spray. There were stun guns. There were baseball bats. There were collapsible batons. There was a "quick reaction team" just outside D.C.. There were also two pipe bombs that were discovered before they went off. Exactly what does johnforbes consider to be weaponry if those things are not weapons to him? Imagine the mental contortions johnforbes must perform each day to convince himself those things are not weapons. Yet somehow he achieves that grotesque feat each morning so that he doesn't have to be appalled at those whose politics are the same as his own, and so that he may continue to whine about how unfair all this is to the violent criminals who attacked our government. No one has any sympathy for your mealy-mouthed whining, johnny.
And just so you can no longer claim to have no knowledge of these things, read this story and watch the videos it contains:
https://www.npr.org/2021/03/19/97787958 ... -they-used
This was an armed insurrection--PERIOD. They even said they wanted to hang the Vice President and Speaker of the House and take hostages, as all the zip-tie handcuffs they brought attest. No partisan twisting of definitions on johnny's part can ever alter that fact.
"Of course, but no such thing happened,..."-johnfibs
Only it DID happen, johnny. Something EXACTLY like that happened. You no longer have any excuse for not knowing it happened. You have the evidence before you, as do the government entities prosecuting these criminals, getting hundreds of guilty pleas from them and many successful prosecutions already.
But at least johnbforbes has now called these Trump supporters "traitors" so that's something. In his case it's the first step to "knowing thyself." One day soon he may look in the mirror and be appalled at what he has become.
- By johnforbes