Protest Insurrection
On January 21, 2017 at least 470,000 people, all races, all genders, gathered in Washington D.C. to protest the election of President Trump.

Janelle Monae led a chant: “Sandra Bland! Say her name!” Ashley Judd noted that her pussy wasn’t for grabbing, but “for birthing new generations of filthy, vulgar, nasty, proud, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Sikh, you name it, for new generations of nasty women.” Michael Moore encouraged people to run for office.

Then they went home and went to work. They began organizing, forming committees, becoming more politically active, following reality based news and, challenging Mao’s claim that “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun,” running for office.

This is called a protest.

What did they want? To change the political direction of the country. They did this by financing and supporting the 2018 “Blue Wave” which led to Democrats gaining the House majority. This allowed investigations of political corruption by the Trump administration and his eventual impeachment for encouraging foreign interference in the 2018 election.

That is called democracy.

On January 6, 2021, “thousands” of mostly white, mostly males gathered in Washington D.C. to stop the certification of the electoral college vote.

Rudy Guiliani told them to engage in “trial by combat” and President Trump repeated his usual lies about voter fraud (rejected 62 times in court, and by various Republican officials), urged them to march on the capital to “take back our country,” and exhorted them to “walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.”

Then he went home to the White House while his co-conspirators unlawfully entered federal buildings leading to several deaths (including a Capital Police officer) many acts of vandalism, and the forced evacuation of a dual session of congress.

This is called an insurrection.

What did they want? To overturn the votes of over 81 million people by force. “Joe” from Ohio wanted “The people in this House who stole this election from us hanging from a gallow out here in this lawn for the whole world to see so it never happens again – that’s what needs to happen, four by four by four hanging from a rope out here for treason.”

That is called sedition.



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