Liberals Started Rioting Right After Trump’s Election, Even During His Inuaguration
They’ve done nothing to quell the violence and unrest on their side, which started right after Trump won the presidency.
Trump Inauguration
Six police officers were injured and 217 protesters arrested Friday after a morning of peaceful protests and coordinated disruptions of Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony gave way to ugly street clashes in downtown Washington.
At least two DC police officers and one other person were taken to the hospital after run-ins with protesters, DC Fire Spokesman Vito Maggiolo told CNN. Acting DC Police Chief Peter Newsham said the officers’ injuries were considered minor and not life threatening.
Bursts of chaos erupted on 12th and K streets as black-clad “antifascist” protesters smashed storefronts and bus stops, hammered out the windows of a limousine and eventually launched rocks at a phalanx of police lined up in an eastbound crosswalk. Officers responded by launching smoke and flash-bang devices, which could be heard from blocks away, into the street to disperse the crowds.
And Right After Trump Was Elected
The media won’t bring this up, but in the aftermath of Trump’s election in November 2016, the left began protesting—and those protests typically ended in violence.
“For the third night in a row, anti-Donald Trump demonstrators took to the streets in several big cities and on college campuses across the United States, including an outburst of smashed windows and a dumpster fire in Portland that police countered with pepper spray and flash-bang devices,” reported USA Today just days after Trump’s upset victory over Hillary Clinton.
Roughly 4,000 protesters gathered in downtown Portland the Thursday following the election, chanting “We reject the president-elect!” before heading over to Portland’s Pearl District, “where the windows of several businesses were smashed.” A local news station said, “The protest was mostly peaceful until demonstrators met with an anarchist group, after which demonstrators vandalized buildings, kicked cars and knocked out power.”
In Los Angeles, protesters burned an effigy of Trump, blocked traffic on a busy highway, and vandalized property. In Oakland, rioters started fires, threw rocks and Molotov cocktails, and vandalized police cars. One police car was even graffitied with the message “Time to riot.”
Similar stories were reported in New York, Denver, San Francisco, and Philadelphia.
Did the left get over it? Did they ever accept the election? Nope. They promised to resist and the rioting didn’t stop.
Originally Posted by AdolfOliverBush:
Good response.
The rioting over the summer, no matter how you feel about it, is not relevant to the current situation. Connecting the two for the sake of argument was predictable, but one does not actually affect the other.
The connection is that they're both examples of civil disobedience. [Reply]
Originally Posted by AdolfOliverBush:
Good response.
The rioting over the summer, no matter how you feel about it, is not relevant to the current situation. Connecting the two for the sake of argument was predictable, but one does not actually affect the other.
What? Really? If you actually believe what you just typed, you really have no idea how the world works. [Reply]
Originally Posted by AdolfOliverBush:
Good response.
The rioting over the summer, no matter how you feel about it, is not relevant to the current situation. Connecting the two for the sake of argument was predictable, but one does not actually affect the other.
No offense, but it's that kind of dismissive attitude that started all our problems. I'm really not trying to be a dick, but if you can't see why many are pissed off at that hypocrisy, then we're at an impass. [Reply]
Originally Posted by InChiefsHeaven:
Indeed. I'm a conservative and I say it happens on both sides. The left is simply louder and has a bigger voice in the media, but we all do this shit.
The difference is that no President encouraged any BLM riots. This President encouraged this followers to go to the Capitol, to "fight" for him, and to overturn an election for him. He watched the invasion of the Capitol on live TV, and he refused to send the National Guard in to stop it. He even refused to tell them to stand down.
If Obama had encouraged BLM riots in order to overturn an election back when he was President, I'd want to see him impeached too. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Lex Luthor:
The difference is that no President encouraged any BLM riots. This President encouraged this followers to go to the Capitol, to "fight" for him, and to overturn an election for him. He watched the invasion of the Capitol on live TV, and he refused to send the National Guard in to stop it. He even refused to tell them to stand down.
If Obama had encouraged BLM riots in order to overturn an election back when he was President, I'd want to see him impeached too.
See, that's the thing. I read the transcript, and he in my mind does the exact opposite. He specifically says to march and protest peacefully. The "fight like hell" in my mind does not mean "riot, break shit, kill people". The fact that your side WANTS to see it that way is another reason we just can't understand each other. [Reply]
Originally Posted by InChiefsHeaven:
See, that's the thing. I read the transcript, and he in my mind does the exact opposite. He specifically says to march and protest peacefully. The "fight like hell" in my mind does not mean "riot, break shit, kill people". The fact that your side WANTS to see it that way is another reason we just can't understand each other.
Good point.....
The tards like Lex, and he is one of many here, will always find a way to blame OMB.
They will twist anything to fit their narrative.
They have been doing it for 4 years and will continue to do it after he is out of office.
Originally Posted by InChiefsHeaven:
No offense, but it's that kind of dismissive attitude that started all our problems. I'm really not trying to be a dick, but if you can't see why many are pissed off at that hypocrisy, then we're at an impass.
This so called hypocrisy is a pathetic attempt by Trumpers to deflect and avoid accountability. [Reply]
Originally Posted by InChiefsHeaven:
See, that's the thing. I read the transcript, and he in my mind does the exact opposite. He specifically says to march and protest peacefully. The "fight like hell" in my mind does not mean "riot, break shit, kill people". The fact that your side WANTS to see it that way is another reason we just can't understand each other.
Trumpers listen to Trump, than march to the capitol in an insurrection attempt.
You idiots: "Its the left that see's Trump's words as inciteful. Not the Trumpers who immediately acted after his speech."
Originally Posted by InChiefsHeaven:
No offense, but it's that kind of dismissive attitude that started all our problems. I'm really not trying to be a dick, but if you can't see why many are pissed off at that hypocrisy, then we're at an impass.
It's not a dismissive attitude, it's a simple statement of fact: The summer riots had no effect on the riots last week.
Whether or not reactions to either have been hypocritical is another matter. As Bugeater said, the only connection between the two is that both are examples of civil disobedience. [Reply]
