Joe Biden and the Democrats want retribution, not reconciliation

[Counselor706]

Joe Biden ran on a promise to unify the nation. He missed an opportunity on Thursday.

Instead of calling on Americans to come together, he went on a partisan rant against President Donald Trump and even suggested that the Capitol Police were racist.

If Biden had wanted to heal the nation, he would have offered a hand of friendship to Trump supporters — and he would have acknowledged that the left has also used political violence.

Biden signaled that he and his party plan to use January 6 as a pretext for retribution, not an opportunity for reconciliation.

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[oggbashan]

The left did not try to storm the Capitol to stop the democratic process.

The leaders of the left did not encourage their supporters to commit violence - only Trump did that - multiple times.

BLM is NOT the left. Antifa is NOT the left. They are groups wanting change but neither are democratic party policies. The Trump supportere ARE the RIGHT, and are supported by a large number of Republican politicians. That is a big difference.

 

[coati]

Oh my. So, so many tears from the right-wing Breitbart about accountability for committing illegal acts of insurrection and about law enforcement being unprepared for these acts.

Thoughts and prayers to the poor right-wing "victims". You break the law, you suffer the consequences. You apply different standards in law enforcement at the Capitol, you get investigated.

Accountability always precedes reconciliation in a nation of laws.

 

[CornusKousa]

The left did not try to storm the Capitol to stop the democratic process.

The leaders of the left did not encourage their supporters to commit violence - only Trump did that - multiple times.

BLM is NOT the left. Antifa is NOT the left.

Ogg has gone loony leftist crazy.....full on denial of reality.

Accountability always precedes reconciliation in a nation of laws.

Remember that next time your not in charge 140,000 votes is hardly an insurmountable challenge.

Especially if the (D)'s metro/state level governance is any indication of how the next 2-4 years will go.

 

[phrodeau]

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Biden isn’t President yet, dumbass.

 

[FGB]

The Lib's took that track back in Obama's day and never left it.

They punish their own people if they don't strictly walk their line as they draw it.

It's either their way or you should die politically or as close as they can come to it in IRL although they are not bold enough to say so YET.

So why should you be surprised?

 

[AlexBailey]

Still using Breitbart as your quoted news source? Lol. Pathetic.


The GOP will benefit most by going after impeachment. Trump plans on running again in 2024. Which GOP hopefuls want Trump running and sapping all of the campaign funds?

History will judge Trump and his supporters. What is commonly remembered about Nixon? He was never impeached. He stepped down when he was faced by the reality that he would ultimately be voted out. He made a deal to have President Ford pardon him. That is probably Trumps best option now. Lucky for him Mike Pence is more emasculated than I am and has much less resolve. He will gladly pardon Trump daddy no matter how bad Donny scolds him or even though he did send a lynch mob after him.

 

[PaxNurgle]

If you storm the capital trying to violently overthrow a democratically elected government, you are guilty of treason and should suffer the consequences. And there should be consequences. It's a cause and effect type of thing. People compare it to black lives matter, and those who were looting and burning during those riots last summer should likewise suffer consequences. Some try to justify the actions of the traitorous acts of the extremist mob saying "But...but...Trump didnt really lose! We're just trying to set things right!" But you see... Trump DID lose! This is the problem, He was voted out of office, by several million votes (and would likely have been far more, had it not been for voter suppression in many poor/democratic leaning urban districts in many key cities.) Which makes these actions even more indefensible, since they were acting on a blatantly false premise.

So yes...there should be retribution. Whether you are conservative or liberal, people should be made to suffer the consequences for their actions. This applies both to Antifa radicals and pro-trump/anti-democracy extremists.

 

[YDB95]

The Lib's took that track back in Obama's day and never left it.

They punish their own people if they don't strictly walk their line as they draw it.

Projection 101...

 

[Lazaran]

Projection 101...

Nah,.... That's Advanced Projection at the very least.

 

[CornusKousa]

Projection 101...

YDB pretends cancel culture was a right wing phenomena....LOL

 

[Philthy_Phil]

The Lib's took that track back in Obama's day and never left it.

They punish their own people if they don't strictly walk their line as they draw it.

It's either their way or you should die politically or as close as they can come to it in IRL although they are not bold enough to say so YET.

So why should you be surprised?

Uh...lol... Never mind, I forgot that you're an idiot.

 

[Philthy_Phil]

YDB pretends cancel culture was a right wing phenomena....LOL

Can you say Dixie Chicks?

 

[Champakian]

"Joe Biden and the Democrats want retribution, not reconciliation"


I concur. They seek revenge and the criminalization of conservatism.

 

[oggbashan]

"Joe Biden and the Democrats want retribution, not reconciliation"


I concur. They seek revenge and the criminalization of conservatism.

The whole US should want retribution. That was an attempt to overthrow the government and the democratic process and has damaged the US in the eyes of the whole world.

It ios NOT conservatism. It is a few extermists that have made the Republkican party very embarrassed.

 

[Champakian]

Funny how that is supposed to work, extremism is embarrassment to "Republicans"
but openly embraced by "Democrats" as a feature of their inclusiveness...

 

[phrodeau]

“Law and order.”

“When the looting starts...”

Not Biden.

 

[oggbashan]

Funny how that is supposed to work, extremism is embarrassment to "Republicans"
but openly embraced by "Democrats" as a feature of their inclusiveness...

Bullshit. Republicans and Trumpo own the capitol rioters. 'We love you'. You're special'.

 

[Champakian]

If you remember this summer, the Democrats were not held to the same standard
when their supporters rampaged for days upon end and the Democrat leaders
just sat back and let the mobs rule the streets, so you see, the reaction
always depends on the nature of the protesters, and by that, I don't
even reference violence, just political inclination.

The Left is expected to spoil property, they always do.
This one was more the nature of a one-off...

I don't condone it, but I simply cannot allow
the double standard to pass without comment.

 

[oggbashan]

Funny how that is supposed to work, extremism is embarrassment to "Republicans"
but openly embraced by "Democrats" as a feature of their inclusiveness...

If you remember this summer, the Democrats were not held to the same standard
when their supporters rampaged for days upon end and the Democrat leaders
just sat back and let the mobs rule the streets, so you see, the reaction
always depends on the nature of the protesters, and by that, I don't
even reference violence, just political inclination.

The Left is expected to spoil property, they always do.
This one was more the nature of a one-off...

I don't condone it, but I simply cannot allow
the double standard to pass without comment.

Your first post quoted above is contradicted by your second.

You cannot have it both ways.

 

[Champakian]

The first was sarcasm and they are completely complimentary
as the second is the outline of what actually occurs in media.

 

[Champakian]

And if anyone doesn't think that the Left wants retribution,
just a sampling here of their posts and how they deal with victory
clearly highlights the lie in the idea that they want to have anything
to do with the idea of reconciliation. They were nasty when Obama was President,
they were nasty while Trump was President and they will continue to be nasty in the future.

It's who they are.

 

[oggbashan]

It still isn't true that the Democrats embraced BLM in the same way as Trump supported the attack on the Capitol.

BLM started with a reasonable complaint that blacks were unfairly treated by the police. The capitol attackers were supporting A LIE that The election had been 'stolen' from Trump.

Both have been perverted from their original view but the Capitol protesters were protesting a repeated LIE.

 

[Champakian]

Maybe that's what it looks like from where you are,
but yes, they have fully embraced it by refusing
to condemn or criticize it since they have
defined such criticism as racism.

Pay attention to the posters here.
The only violence that is condemned is the violence of the right
whereas the violence of the Left is framed as "just a tiny vocal minority,"
or even worse is the claim that the violence is caused by right-wing infiltrators and agitators
with the goal of making the peaceful and beautiful Left look bad.

It's a hypocrisy writ large for political gain.

And it works.

 

[Champakian]

PS - It's not a new "lie." I refer you to the outrageous claims after Gore lost, for example.

Remember the anguish of the "majority" done in by the Electoral College?

Don't be naive and act as if this something new.