I meant from a numbers perspective. More or less people? An honest question. I’m not getting at anything. Just asking the typically informed auditor
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My guess would be the Jan 6th rally was larger than most of the demonstrations over the summer with a higher percentage of violent extremists than a "typical" event.
Though, the atypical events over the summer were more violent.
Granted, I don't have numbers. But it sure looks like huge numbers perhaps most if not all the people at the rally stormed the Capitol. I am not talking a 1000. There were tens of thousands of people storming the building. The building was engulfed and that is a huge building. So when you say the overwhelming majority didn't make a move to the Capitol, what is that based on? You don't know. From the looks of the crowd in front of the Capitol, sure looks like the vast majority of th rally marched and stormed the Capitol. And those that did not enter the Capitol was because they could not get close enough.
Again, I am the first person to condemn the riots in the summer. The video of that chant of wanting dead cops was like a small group of maybe 20 people outside of that hospital. Disgraceful and wrong. No excuses. This is not the case here during the Trump Riot. It was not a few people tainting a peaceful protest. It wasn't 100 or a 1000. It was tens of thousands Perhaps a hundred thousand. I don't know the numbers. But the whole point was to storm that building.
Finally, I have talked to too many people that are were in favor of the riot. That the Capitol should have been burned down, civil war etc. There are far too many people like that.
That's true, but only true because there was one protest in Washington DC this time. All summer there were hundreds of protests all over the country. Had they centralized in one location that city would've had real problems.
You're an idiot. Sorry I don't mean to name call. you ask me what mine is based on and you tell me I don't know so my opinion is worthless. But prior to that you say granted I don't have numbers but it looks to me. So "it looks to you" is a good basis. How stupid is that?
Curious how many people do you think stormed the Capitol? 40,000 maybe 50,000. How many people do you think were at the protest 60,000? My guess is somewhere in that number stormed up to the Capitol. I also guess there was over 500,000 people that went down to DC. Overwhelming majority did not storm. Now if you think 300,000 people stormed the Capitol I seriously disagree.
I like the way you try to minimize the vial hate mongering and millions of dollars in damage done by the "mostly peaceful" BLM events over the summer. Portland, Minneapolis, New York just called to disagree with you. Rember the retired blacek officer that was bludgeoned to death by looters?
I don't know how DC wasn't prepared for this, but let's face it. The Trump summer rallies were primarily parties with no violence, property destruction and were basically a drunkfest. I was on LBI this summer the weekend of one of the goofy regattas. It looked like a Jets tailgate. The big rally Trump had in Wildwood was a big party. Did the DC law enforcement underestimate what might happen? Did they think that it was one final farewell party? But the fact remains that the riot in the capital was not the norm for a Trump rally.
You are free to use andy comparison you would like. Any violence, destruction, anyone beaten or killed at the Michigan protest? (My disclaimer is that anyone who brought a gun to that was an idiot and the threats to Whitmer were dispicable.)
With regard to the numbers there....if as large a crowd as described IMO we should thank goodness there was not a military response although that’s what it would’ve taken. It’s one thing to tear gas a few hundred looters to protect private businesses. It’s another to stop thousands of people converging on a government building. Don’t twist my words to say I supported the Capitol riot; I’m just saying that if the government responded with the forces required to quell the riot we’d be in a worse off place as a country. I’m looking for Biden to unite us right now but he too seems to be doubling down, the risk of which will be that the crowd at the Capitol will grow and grow, based on polls/stats.
Or perhaps there's a higher agenda. One hand washes the other. You ban Trump, we'll take care of you later as we own the House, the Senate, and the Presidency. Isn't that kind of how Washington works. Favors and lobbyists everywhere.
Well, how about this. https://heavy.com/news/maga-march-trump-dc-rally-crowd-photos/
Permits stated that the crowds would be 50,000 people. I don’t believe that crowd had 500,000. Much less. At most 150,000. I would say that there were 75,000 to 100,000 people who marched on the Capitol. It that’s a large portion of that crowd that stormed the Capitol. So, you want to downplay the amount? Your own estimates are ridiculously high. I can’t find any estimates. I am going off pictures. What are ur guesstimates going off of? I would also suggest u lay off the name calling. Does not make u look too good.
And? You think that’s 500k? you think that is 6 times the amount of people in giants stadium? I don’t. That area on the south side of the White House. I will stick to about 150,00.
I think that would fill it up 3-4 times and it clearly doesn’t capture everyone. You don’t see any space opening up at the top, bottom, left or right of the page.
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The first hand accounts from Friends I know who went was that the majority of the people were walking around and talking and it was a minority that actually went to the capital.
All the people that I spoke to never got anywhere near the capital.
twitter isnt facebook. their data monetization efforts are abysmal. theyve been terribly run for years. which also why theyve been avoiding any heat related to modern social media. theyre not in need of a govt back scratch.
Out of curiosity, how do they view what happened? Have their opinions of Trump changes since then?
They viewed the people who stormed the Capitol building as extremist nut jobs and a very small minority. Some were suggesting the stormers were non-Trump supporters who were planted there to cause disruption
None of them were Trump ideologues. they weren't down there for Trump. They had varying degrees of opinions as to the severity of election missteps and general deep state convictions. They worry their freedom, fortunes, and property are at risk.
None of them were Trump ideologues. they weren't down there for Trump. They had varying degrees of opinions as to the severity of election missteps and general deep state convictions. They worry their freedom, fortunes, and property are at risk.
Very common sentiment.
I liken it to the women’s march plus all of the protests this summer rolled into a day, with seemingly wildness and illegality widespread including felony murder(horrific)
President Biden (to be) won on being the guy able to unite everyone (and not being named Donald Trump).
Curious as to people’s thoughts as to how he’s doing thus far....I get it’s early but we had final judgements re our current President well before he took the oath.
