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> Do you seriously not remember Jan 6th, I remember Trump telling people at a rally to "march over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make
by koolba 2y ago
> Do you seriously not remember Jan 6th,
I remember Trump telling people at a rally to "march over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.". I remember a minority of the people there rioting and entering the Capitol building. I remember the Biden Department of Justice mistreatment of them and the over prosecutions. And most of all I remember before the than 2024 election, Trump explicitly saying that he would pardon every single one of them on day one.
Having won both the electoral and popular vote, I think it's fair to say the American people are in agreement.
> ... or that he is literally firing everyone in the FBI who investigated the participants - after pardoning them?
Yes and it's good that he's doing it. He ran on a series of explicit promises and one of them was to remove from Washington DC the people on board with the policies of the prior administration. I don't see how anybody that was an active part of the efforts to try to imprison Trump himself or his allies in a direct effort to influence the 2024 election could expect to work for him. That's ridiculous.
I also don't think that society is going to fall apart or that we will somehow not have elections in four years. What I think we'll have is a return to normalcy, a respect for individual rights (including both freedom of speech and the right to bear arms), and a significant paring down of unaccountable bloated government programs.
- lazide 2y agoI watched Jan 6th live. If that capital guard hadn’t shot the woman, we would have been living in a dictatorship already. This entire post is just the same kind of delusion seeping everywhere in society right now. I’m not saying there isn’t bloat or plenty of crappy things that need to be addressed. But this is a deal with the devil, and it will come due. Quickly. Because like all his ‘helpers’ found out, they’re disposable and he doesn’t give a crap unless they’re useful to him at the moment.
- koolba 2y ago> I watched Jan 6th live. If that capital guard hadn’t shot the woman, we would have been living in a dictatorship already. Claiming that all of western democracies hangs on the killing of an unarmed woman is one hell of a hot take.
- lazide 2y agoOh that’s not what I’m claiming at all. I’m saying it would have happened 4 years earlier.
- greenie_beans 2y agoi'm curious to hear how the federal government has been infringing on your individual rights? especially your freedom of speech or right to bear arms since those seem like important issues to you