Those months and months did less damage than 1 day in the Capitol.

Really? Did the capitol protests cause more than 3 billion in damages?

This whataboutism is unreal. Criminals taking advantage of chaos is not the same as an attempted coup.

That's why there are 20,000 national guard troops ringing the nation's capital right now, quartered in the Capitol Building for the first time since the Civil War. That's why corporations with trillions of dollars in market cap shut down communications. We are only at the beginning of an FBI investigation that may last years.

Maybe you won't believe any of it until you see some famous figures perp walked for sedition. I guess we'll find out.

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A tweet versus an FBI press briefing[1] where they discuss charging hundreds of people with federal crimes, including conspiracy to commit sedition.

A tweet versus a statement from the Joint Chiefs of Staff that said, "The violent riot in Washington, D.C., on January 6, 2021, was a direct assault on the U.S. Congress, the Capitol building, and our Constitutional process."[2]

The whataboutism continues to be unreal.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-and-fbi-lead...

[2] https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/01/12/unprecedented...

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Weird. I thought nicoffeine and I were having a pretty calm reasonable discussion there. I took no offense to anything that was said. I simply felt it was necessary to point out information that nicoffeine didn't seem aware of... like people do in normal discussions.

I didn't realize merely posting affidavits from the DoJ was considered political flamewars by anyone. It's a dry read, but it's unadulterated first party sourcing of fact.