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The Left's Many January 6ths
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The Left's Many January 6ths

A compendium: The left trying to hold January 6th as relative to the year(s) of lawless violence and destruction is the original “whataboutism.”

Dana Loesch
Jul 28, 2021
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The left loves police again — when they aren’t trying to defund them, paint the lot of them with the actions of the few, or accuse them all of being racist bigots. Their temporary appreciation was on display today for the first hearing on the January 6th riot wherein four officers described how they were treated like how Antifa and BLM usually treat cops at their riots and Adam Kinzinger used his airtime to audition for MSNBC.

It’s not enough to say that the violent rioters who broke away from the peaceful January 6th assembly should face charges for property damages or assault — you are required to accept without question the Democrat narrative that the break-away riot was an insurrection or you’re classified as a supporter of insurrections and a hater of law enforcement.

We are to believe that an unarmed troupe of “gravy seals” and a buffalo cosplayer living out “Red Dawn” fantasies and taking selfies in the chamber almost commandeered our nuclear subs and overthrew our government.

Bison man from Capitol riot changes jails to get a 'shaman' diet

The fellow in question cried while in jail and went on a hunger strike not for rights or election integrity, but because the jail didn’t have an organic option in its meal plan. His mother said that he will “literally will get physically sick” without organic food. You are supposed to believe that this brain trust was going to commandeer our republic.

Republicans should’ve held a press conferences and invited as speakers all of the the police officers from across the country who were forced to deal with with violent rioters that burned down city blocks, attacked federal buildings, and beat people in the streets for the past several years. They didn’t, because they’re wholly incompetent when it comes to messaging.

I and others have said more to condemn the violence perpetrated by those who broke away from the peaceful people on January 6th than the left has ever done regarding the YEAR LONG assaults, murders, and attacks by their violent fellow ideologues. We are consistent when we say violence isn’t a protected form of speech. The violent left is not.

Democrats trying to hold January 6th as relative to the year(s) of lawless violence and destruction is the original “whataboutism.”

Remember when Democrats labeled these leftists at the White House as “insurrectionists?” Me neither:

Twitter avatar for @dcexaminerWashington Examiner @dcexaminer
Clashes between @SecretService and protesters continue to escalate at the White House.
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May 30th 2020

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I’m glad that Democrats are demonstrating at lease some concern for those who wear the badge, even if it is just for the purpose of this political opera. Nothing from Democrats on the murder of retired police captain David Dorn, though? Dorn provided security for his friend’s store, Lee’s Pawn and Jewelry, and would check on the store whenever the burglar alarm sounded. He was doing so on the night of June 2nd, 2020, when riots, arson, and violence engulfed St. Louis City in the wake of George Floyd’s death. Dorn was shot in the stomach by looters and while he laid on the sidewalk bleeding out, only one person stayed with him pleading for him to hang on and screaming at rioters, telling them “that’s somebody’s grandaddy, over some TVs?!”

The left didn’t scream “SAY HIS NAME!” for Capt. Dorn. There was no moment of silence for him. There was no silence for the other officers killed or severely injured that same night at riots elsewhere in the country.

I don’t recall Democrats showing any concern for these officers:

Twitter avatar for @stillgrayIan Miles Cheong @ stillgray.substack.com @stillgray
Here's the initial siege from Antifa and Black Lives Matter rioters on the police position at the Columbus statue, from the perspective of the police.
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July 18th 2020

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Or these officers:

Twitter avatar for @stevennelson10Steven Nelson @stevennelson10
Molotov cocktail tossed at cops at H St and Connecticut near White House #dcprotest #protests2020
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June 1st 2020

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No concern for police officers shot or hit by cars during riots, either.

Twitter avatar for @StephenMarthStephen Marth @StephenMarth
BREAKING: A trooper and an officer were hit by a car that blew through a line of officers at the protest on Bailey Avenue according to PBA President John Evans. They were taken to ECMC. Stay with @SPECNewsBuffalo for updates. #Buffalo
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June 2nd 2020

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No concern for this officer that Antifa tried to kill in Seattle:

Twitter avatar for @stillgrayIan Miles Cheong @ stillgray.substack.com @stillgray
Antifa in Seattle attempted to murder a police officer by hitting his head with a metal baseball bat as the Black Lives Matter mob surrounded him. This video was deleted.
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September 24th 2020

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No concern for the 150 law enforcement officers injured during one weekend of D.C. riots:

BARR: Well, the message is sometimes communicated by the media. I didn't see any video being played on the media of what was happening Friday, Saturday and Sunday--

MARGARET BRENNAN: But- but this confluence of events--

BARR: All I heard- all I heard was comments about how peaceful protesters were. I didn't hear about the fact that there were 150 law enforcement officers injured and many taken to the hospital with concussions. So it wasn't a peaceful protest. We had to get control over Lafayette Park, and we had to do it as soon as we were able to do that. 

None for these officers:

Antifa attacked a U.S. Marshal with a hammer at this Portland riot:

This officer was punched by a rioter:

Antifa racially slurs a black Portland police officer:

Twitter avatar for @TPostMillennialThe Post Millennial @TPostMillennial
Antifa taunting a black Portland police officer, calling him “Uncle Tom” and a “race traitor” #PortlandProtest
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August 17th 2019

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Here, too:

Twitter avatar for @robbystarbuckRobby Starbuck @robbystarbuck
Antifa attacks Black police officer. Black lives don’t matter to Antifa. They’re using the protests as cover to sow hate.
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June 6th 2020

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More racial abuse of black officers by Antifa:

Twitter avatar for @TPostMillennialThe Post Millennial @TPostMillennial
Portland Antifa protesters Simona Andrea Arteaga & Olivia Morgan Massey were arrested last week & are accused of trying to stop police responding to emergency calls at an apartment complex. Arteaga's live stream shows them making racist comments & threatening a black officer.
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July 8th 2021

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Still more racial abuse of police:

Twitter avatar for @TPostMillennialThe Post Millennial @TPostMillennial
The young Antifa woman who called the black Portland police officer a "c**n" was twerking in the middle of the street and got arrested. #PortlandProtest
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August 17th 2019

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More racial slurs of police from white Antifa:

Twitter avatar for @thornley_nancyNancy K. Thornley *🇺🇸* @thornley_nancy
Antifa hurling ethnic slurs at black Portland police officer
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August 18th 2019

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White BLM rioter slurs yet another black officer:

Twitter avatar for @FriendlyHombreSeñor José Campos @FriendlyHombre
#Portland #antifa goon who's protesting for #BlackLivesMatter calls a black police officer ni**a. He explains why it's OK to do this. According to him listening to rap music has something to do with it.
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July 27th 2021

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More Antifa racism:

Twitter avatar for @MatthewGalantyYour guy, your dude, YIKES! @MatthewGalanty
@MrAndyNgo yup. Antifa hurls racist abuse at black police officer, including using the N word
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July 25th 2018

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This Karen screamed at a black female police officer who was not having it. Kudos to that officer.

Twitter avatar for @DoniTheDon_𝐃𝐨𝐧𝐢 "𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐨𝐧"™ @DoniTheDon_
Listen to how this Antifa clown talks to a black female officer. P.S. I think that was a boy she took down 😂😂 #AntifaIsRacist
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November 2nd 2020

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This black officer put this whiny white protestor in her place:

Remember this?

Twitter avatar for @zhamiltoeZach @zhamiltoe
Rioters have lit the secret service guard shack on fire RIGHT OUTSIDE the White House. This is getting out of hand. 40 secret service agents are injured. #Riot2020
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June 1st 2020

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Remember these leftist lawyers arrested for throwing Molotov cocktails at police?

This peaceful protestor was attacked by Antifa:

This person and their dog were attacked by Antifa:

Twitter avatar for @Bubasa87Santiago Silva @Bubasa87
@patriottakes It's not like #BLM and #Antifa have a history of violence and intimidation... Oh, wait! They do.
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July 23rd 2021

Rioters almost murdered a child after they set fire to a Richmond home with a child inside and blocked first responders from getting to the residence. The police chief broke down when talking about it at the next day’s press conference:

What about these leftists that set fire to the church right by the White House?

Twitter avatar for @stevennelson10Steven Nelson @stevennelson10
From earlier: American flag stolen from church and burned outside White House on H St #protests2020 #dcprotest
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June 1st 2020

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Twitter avatar for @stevennelson10Steven Nelson @stevennelson10
Significant smashing begins: Teamsters union HQ and hotel smashed in view of US Capitol Around 500 here violating @MayorBowser curfew after Trump vowed enforcement #WashingtonDCProtest #protests2020
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June 2nd 2020

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Did Democrats have a word to spare for veterans after the World War II memorial was vandalized during “protests?”

Democrats raised money for violent rioters jailed for their destructive crimes but not a dime was raised by the left to help businesses — particularly the mom and pop businesses in minority communities (Rosas’s full thread is here).

Twitter avatar for @Julio_Rosas11Julio Rosas @Julio_Rosas11
On the ground in Philadelphia for @townhallcom and I surveyed the damage from last night’s riot after police shot Walter Wallace, who was armed with a knife. This is the aftermath of the looting at the Foot Locker.
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October 27th 2020

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Who could forget the “peaceful protests” that caused some mayors to evacuate their homes completely for temporary residences after rioters showed up outside their homes.

“But January 6th was at a federal building” hiss leftists that forget about this federal building:

Of course there is video (not all are same occasion or city):

Twitter avatar for @MrAndyNgoAndy Ngô @MrAndyNgo
Antifa in Portland started multiple fires and tried to break into the federal courthouse again to burn it down. #PortlandRiots
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January 1st 2021

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“Again.”

Twitter avatar for @ElectionWizElection Wizard @ElectionWiz
Antifa setting fire to the federal courthouse in downtown Portland. Reportedly, there are people inside.
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March 12th 2021

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Twitter avatar for @KaliPatriotKaliPatriot @KaliPatriot
@mtgreenee where was the FBI when portland antifa/blm attacked and destroyed the federal courthouse?
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July 20th 2021

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Twitter avatar for @DrAutismMum1DrAutismMum @DrAutismMum1
@AmericaInTheMi1 @swapmeetlouis13 BLM & Antifa - The Militant Wing of the DemocRat Mafia, DemocRats insurrectionist, Burned Oakland courthouse, Vandalism and shoot fireworks at police. Why they are not in Jail? Why they are not charged? Why they didn't pay for damages? Because: #LiberalismIsTheRealPandemic
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July 20th 2021

Wait, they’re not done:

Twitter avatar for @MrAndyNgoAndy Ngô @MrAndyNgo
Rioters try and fail to stop police from making an arrest at the antifa riot in downtown Portland. They’ve been throwing explosives at the federal courthouse and starting fires all over the street and buildings. #PortlandRiots #antifa
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August 13th 2020

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Twitter avatar for @KatieDaviscourtKatie Daviscourt🇺🇸 @KatieDaviscourt
PORTLAND IS A WARZONE! Antifa violence continues for the 51st straight day. Antifa tried to barricade Federal Police inside the courthouse with fencing they removed that was put in place to deescalate tensions earlier in the day. //Thread
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July 19th 2020

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They forgot about this federal building, too: remember when the Sunrise Movement stormed Nancy Pelosi’s office? Neither do Democrats, apparently (even when some of them took part).

Remember when violent, leftist rioters attacked a Ronald McDonald House? The families and sick children staying there do.

Twitter avatar for @stevennelson10Steven Nelson @stevennelson10
Activists swoop in for coins on 18th St after breaking a store's cash register #dcprotest #protests2020
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June 1st 2020

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This man was pulled from his truck and beaten by rioters:

Adam Haner speaks out (Fox News screengrab)

He had stopped to help a person who said they were robbed.

Twitter avatar for @XerilandTim Xeriland @Xeriland
GRAPHIC: BLM mob beat white man unconscious after making him crash truck. The man delivering the brutal kick is Kesse Love, an armed security guard who works at Portland International Airport.
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August 18th 2020

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These elderly women were attacked by rioters for trying to stop a mob from attacking a police precinct:

Twitter avatar for @DannyJPetersonDanny Peterson @DannyJPeterson
Woman standing in way of people splashing paint, gets splashed herself
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August 7th 2020

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They mocked this elderly women who tried to put out a fire with her little extinguisher:

Twitter avatar for @DannyJPetersonDanny Peterson @DannyJPeterson
Local resident woman attempts to put fire out with extinguisher
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August 7th 2020

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Remember when rioters threatened a woman who was simply eating dinner because she wouldn’t raise a fist in “solidarity?”

Activists shout into the face of a woman who won't raise her fist

What about these rioters beating a woman with 2x4s as she tried to protect her business:

This elderly man’s Kenosha business was set on fire by rioters over Jacob Blake and they viciously attacked him as he tried to put it out:

Twitter avatar for @WebsterGladwinConcerned Citizen.☄️ @WebsterGladwin
Peaceful #BLM protesters peacfully beat an older man trying to extinguish the peaceful fire they set in his business.
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August 25th 2020

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Rioters attacked a Columbus, Ohio man with cerebral palsy when he stopped for protestors (never stop):

Twitter avatar for @demonhunter023draco1124 @demonhunter023
@MaureenONeill_ @CountDMonet @Concept211 @ronzheimer This was Columbus from BLM. So peaceful they beat a elderly man for not running them down in the middle of the road.
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August 23rd 2020

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Heavily armed Antifa and BLM members stopped traffic to intimidate and assault drivers in Portland:

This also happened in Indianapolis. Remember when armed Antifa members violently took over a hotel?

A teenager lost his life at the lawless CHAZ/CHOP zone:

The closest Democrats got to condemning any of this violence was to say that it didn’t exist and was just a myth”:

or claim that the protests were “mostly peaceful,” a buzzphrase still repeated today:

Twitter avatar for @townhallcomTownhall.com @townhallcom
“Fiery but mostly peaceful” Who did it better? CNN’s Omar Jimenez or MSNBC’s Ali Velshi?
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August 27th 2020

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“Mostly a protest …”

Twitter avatar for @dcexaminerWashington Examiner @dcexaminer
"This mostly a protest. It is not, generally speaking, unruly. But fires have been started." MSNBC reporter says protests in Minneapolis are not "generally speaking, unruly" as buildings burn in the background.
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May 29th 2020

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Except that the BLM/Antifa riots were anything but “peaceful protests,” according to a study from Princeton:

Twitter avatar for @ByronYorkByron York @ByronYork
Princeton University group studies 3 months of Black Lives Matter protests. Intent is to show they are 'overwhelmingly peaceful.' But report reveals nearly 570 violent demonstrations--riots--in nearly 220 locations spread all across country.
ow.ly/wY4u50BiSDg
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September 5th 2020

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The George Floyd riots are said to have cost 66 times more than the Capitol riot.

You can simultaneously condemn the acts of violence perpetrated by those who broke away from the peaceful gathering on January 6th and also with full confidence state that Democrats are hyping up that afternoon as a way to absolve themselves of the years of leftist violence that they not only encourage, but promote bail funds for, and use as a GOTV mechanism. Democrats have zero moral authority or consistency here.

When they and the left at large acknowledge the violence of their fellow ideologues in their left-run cities, when the media can stop lionizing, defending, ignoring (and more ignoring), the violence, stop blaming Trump for the attacks on the journalists covering the riots, when Big Tech can stop enabling the violence of the left, when the entirety of the left can match just one percent of the consistency we’ve had towards violence as protest, then can they speak on January 6th. Unfortunately, without their doing to, we are left to assume they don’t know actual violence when they see it, thus their silence, and because of this, their remarks are without legitimacy.

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William Lee
Jul 28, 2021

If Jan 6th was so bad? Tell me, Democrats, why people caused billions of dollars of destruction in Portland, OR. Or MN, GA, to name a few... Way before Jan 6th. 80 % of the people were peaceful.

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