@HmmSureJan
Some people don't agree that it was a coup
It wasn't an actual coup per se because it wasn't successful. But it was most certainly an attempted coup, and the intent was there.
and that the riots, burnings, attacks and deaths which were not strenuously criticised by democrat politicians over the summer and in fact were encouraged by many and are still going on in Portland I believe, were just as bad.
Ok, the comparisons to the Floyd protests is particularly distasteful because it ignores the reasons. But, first of all, I watched it all closely, no Democrat politicians encouraged it, indeed most actually came out straight away and denounced them. So saying they didn't and some encouraged them is dishonest. Not one single Democrat politician said anything to remotely encourage the riots and looting, not one single one.
Now, back onto the reasons.
In case one, African Americans started protesting because they were being killed simply for their race. It was all about SURVIVAL.
In the second case, it was simply because they couldn't stand that they lost an election. There was no fighting for their very lives or survival. There was no reason that justified the storming the Capitol, smearing faeces on the walls, the bombs hidden in trucks and around the capitol that were found. To compare a fight for their very lives to what happened in the Capitol is abhorrently ignorant as one African American said on Facebook. Insulting, abhorrently ignorant, and displays an appalling lack of understanding of the prime driver and motivator of the June protests. As the attached tweet from someone shows.
Many believe that there is evidence of vote tampering in the election and personally I think there probably was, though not nearly on the scale claimed or enough to make a real difference and I think Biden would have won anyway but I think some did what they thought they needed to to make sure of it.
It's like....how about we rig the election so Trump doesn't win?
What about the Senate? Hmmm nah....
Yeah, not sure how there is a valid argument that the Dems attempted to rig it, but completely forgot to 'rig' the Senate, where it actually counts, which is what they need to get the President's agenda through. Piss poor attempt at vote tampering if you omit what you most need to make a govt work. In fact, as I said above, the only person charged with electoral fraud, was a registered Republican voter in Pennsylvania who registered his dead mother, so he could vote for Trump twice.
And lets be honest; does anyone truly believe Trump got anywhere near 74 million votes, after the last 4 years of his behaviour and chaos? If there was any fraud or rigging it was (as it usually is; in 2016, 3 people in Tennessee were charged with voting twice - all registered Republicans, so it's vintage Republican M.O) in Trump's favour, but it wasn't enough. Don't forget that Trump deliberately laid the ground rules months before the election, talking about how mail-in ballots were wrong (despite many Defence service personnel using mail-in ballots), how the machines were tampered with; didn't people notice? He LAID THE GROUNDWORK to claim the election was 'rigged' when his polling was at it's lowest. He knew he was going to lose. Bannon and others were talking about storming the Capitol months before, they knew he was going to lose. So, sew a little - or a lot of doubt, talk down the election process months before, lay the groundwork so people start getting acquainted with the idea it may be 'rigged' - all before the election was held.
Trump was planning for his impending election loss for a long, long time. He sowed the seeds of doubt in the electoral process months before they went to the polls.
He has been planning this 'fraud'/'rigged' hoax for many, many months. Many of us noticed the background planning and rhetoric being set in motion, a lot of people though it seems didn't notice at all.