I figured there'd be protests, clash with police, and some rowdiness.

I did not expect them to breach the capitol and disrupt the proceedings. I especially didn't expect there to be pipe bombs and stuff lol

But walls stop people!

You're deliberately deflecting from the essence of Romney's argument. Yes, everyone will pay taxes when he tanks up his car or buys a pack of chewing gums - but these types of taxes do not make you a net tax payer, which is what this argument really comes down to. The group of people who pay no income tax is almost entirely contained within the group of people who receive more in government services and benefits than they pay in taxes, i.e. net transfer recipients. And this group obviously has no economic self-interest in reducing taxes and government redistribution.

Likewise, it's an incredibly dishonest argument to say that "the majority of welfare benefits go to lower income white people" - yeah, no shit, whites still are by far the largest ethnic group in the country, so in raw numbers, the majority of welfare recipients will be white. What's relevant here, however, is clearly the rate of dependency on government benefits/assistance, and this rate is higher among blacks and latinos, who are both a Dem-leaning demographic.

Agreed.




That's a really timid description of what happened. It omits the fact that the storming of the Capitol was not just illegal, but above all violent. It also omits the fact that these people were not just there to "protest" Joe Biden's victory, but to pull off a coup by overthrowing the election results.


"Storm the Capitol to protest lawmakers doing XYZ" is an appropriate description of what happened during the Kavanaugh hearing - but not of Wednesday's events, where pipe bombs were used and 5 people died. So yes, the way this survey question was worded downplays the events significantly, which skews up the approval for this statement.

This post was edited by Black XistenZ on Jan 8 2021 10:46pm

Stopped reading because I couldn't have picked a better choice of words to illustrate the exact thing I was saying.

When Republicans say something you go out of your way to pick out "the essence". When Democrats do something you actively interpret it in the worst possible light.

This post was edited by Thor123422 on Jan 8 2021 10:50pm

No the wording is actually really important.

Trespassing is illegal. Destruction of property is illegal. Storming is a vague verb considering there were several different sects of the protest. 98% of the protestors never went inside the capital building. Its purposefully vague because the person asking the question is a quack like you.

This post was edited by EndlessSky on Jan 8 2021 10:50pm

really hard to say this and be a trump supporter

Yeah because when I hear we're gonna "storm something" I think we're gonna assemble for a peaceful protest where nothing violent happens.

DC Security decreased their ground presence because they were accused of being racist against BLM. Of course it was gunna fucking happen.

The out of state arrests have begun.

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