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Trump’s phone call with the Georgia secretary of state? Fake electors scheme?

Those are far more legitimate criticisms of Trump and far more serious than January 6, but no one talks about those do they? All they want to talk about are a couple thousand gunless idiots committing property damage and trespassing at the capital. Oh the horror! Oh the Insurrection!

The phone call isn't what you'd call good. If you read the transcript it reeks of desperation, more than anything. 

The fake elector scheme is worse. The entire goal of that was to get the House not to accept real electors, which would cause Biden to not reach the 270 electoral votes in the certification of the vote, throwing the election to the HoR where Trump would win as each STATE gets one vote. 

As was the exhortations on his VP to abdicate his responsibility to certify the vote and to ensure that the electors from the states Trump had lost over and over in the courts wouldn't be counted... Throwing it to the HoR where he'd win. 

As was the pressure placed on Republican Congressmen to object to the certifications of those electors to try to stall/force votes where Republicans might band together and not certify the vote... Throwing it to the HoR where he'd win. 

These are IMHO serious efforts to undermine the democratic process, overturning the will of the people, to remain in power. 

But I'm sure you'll say they're somehow nothingburgers and "look at what Hillary said!" 

Mdot has a very credible point here.  Was J6 really overblown from the media ?  I personally know of several people who thought about going up there, but did not.  For what, they weren't really sure, but they just wanted to protest and march in support of Trump.  And as far as I know, none of the rioters used guns while in the capital, even though most of them assuredly own and possess many, many firearms.  Was it really simply a case of 99% of them getting caught up with the few that did intend to do real harm, but they really had no plan other than disruption.

that is correct, none of the "rioters" had firearms. none of them killed anyone. I believe the people that died that day were all "rioters" who died of heart attack, drug overdose, and one woman "rioter" was shot in the neck by Capitol police.

There are many questions. Why was security not beefed up? Why was the national guard not there? And one major question we will likely never get an answer to until 50-60 years down the line when we are all dead bc I'm sure everything they have on this is highly classified- is how involved was the FBI in all this? How much did they know? How many agents or CI did they have on the ground? Did they have any agent provocateurs riling up the crowd? The Director of the FBI refuses to answer a single question about it at all- the exchange in that committee hearing where he was asked a simple question about how many FBI agents were in the crowd and said "I can't answer that" and the Congressman asking the question goes..."IT SHOULD BE NONE"....absolutely beautiful.

Oh and for the record, the FBI does sh*t like that all the god damn time and have done so for YEARS where they straight up set people up, radicalize them, plot the entire thing out, swoop in make a bust and then say "oh look at the crime we're fighting!". Same FBI that lied to the FISA court SEVENTEEN times to gain a surveillance warrant to illegally spy on the 2016 Trump campaign. Pathetic joke of a "law enforcement" agency.

Why does every J6 convo argue over who died and didn't die?

A mob sacked the US Capitol!
HELLO?!?!

Let's presume Texas at some point goes purple and then blue.  I agree that would pretty much be the end of Republicanism on the national scale (unless countered by something else major), and this can happen.  California once voted Republican pretty often.

What I think would happen IF Texas went purple is Republican national candidates would become more ... purple.

Is Trumpism the future of Republicanism?  I think not.  Republicans once were the "liberal party" in a sense, Democrats once were a very conservative party, things change as demographics change and public sentiment changes.

Maybe in 40 years, Republicans will be screaming "TAX THE RICH!!!".

Why does every J6 convo argue over who died and didn't die?

A mob sacked the US Capitol!
HELLO?!?!

Um....cause that's KIND of important, is it not? 

Sacked? Like the Vandals sacked Rome? Damn. Are we being lead by barbarian overlords now? news to me.

Sacked?

Stormed it.
Gained entry.
Moved about the place with no resistance.
Stole things.
Vandalized it.
.
Yes, sacked.

He clearly TRIED a lot more things than just court cases.

One can argue none of those things was criminal, fine, that's a separate discussion.