Biden, Harris take heat

[disciple Clint]

https://nypost.com/2021/01/07/biden-harris-blasted-for-claiming-double-standard-by-dc-cops/
President-elect Joe Biden and future VP Kamala Harris are being accused of “gaslighting” for claiming a double standard by cops in how they handled the US Capitol protest.

Biden and Harris said Thursday that police would have been more aggressive in quelling Wednesday’s unrest had it been a Black Lives Matter protest instead of supporters of President Trump.

Biden went so far as to call it “totally unacceptable” that DC cops used kid gloves, allowing the rioters to breach the Capitol.

“This is complete nonsense,” conservative writer AG Hamilton said of the claim on Twitter.

“It’s gaslighting that requires ignoring what we actually witnessed on a nightly basis last summer.,” Hamilton said, referring to widespread anti-police protests last year.

Podcast host Allie Beth Stuckey tweeted that the comments by the incoming president and vice president only further inflame racial tensions in the country.

 

[GreatLakes4Ever]

Top pictures shows the Capitol during the Black Lives Matter protests. Bottom is from Wednesday. Biden and Harris are correct.

 

[Triumvirate]

https://nypost.com/2021/01/07/biden-harris-blasted-for-claiming-double-standard-by-dc-cops/
President-elect Joe Biden and future VP Kamala Harris are being accused of “gaslighting” for claiming a double standard by cops in how they handled the US Capitol protest.

Biden and Harris said Thursday that police would have been more aggressive in quelling Wednesday’s unrest had it been a Black Lives Matter protest instead of supporters of President Trump.

Biden went so far as to call it “totally unacceptable” that DC cops used kid gloves, allowing the rioters to breach the Capitol.

“This is complete nonsense,” conservative writer AG Hamilton said of the claim on Twitter.

“It’s gaslighting that requires ignoring what we actually witnessed on a nightly basis last summer.,” Hamilton said, referring to widespread anti-police protests last year.

Podcast host Allie Beth Stuckey tweeted that the comments by the incoming president and vice president only further inflame racial tensions in the country.

Lol we didn't see BLM breaching the Capitol during their DC protests though

 

[Yttrium]

Well... I actually tend to agree with the OP. The big problem was the lack of a quick response by the national guard, thanks to Trump. It took Pence's involvement to finally bring them in. I consider Biden's comments on BLM to be pandering, without taking time to learn the whole story first.

 

[Triumvirate]

And we also had curiously not-insignia'd paramilitary types deployed at the mere whiff of pro-black protest in cities, whereas Pence had to call the DC National Guard in because President Manchild wouldn't do it.

 

[disciple Clint]

Top pictures shows the Capitol during the Black Lives Matter protests. Bottom is from Wednesday. Biden and Harris are correct.

Did you want to include all the other BLM "protests" such as Portland Ore, and Seattle Wa. where people were killed and several more, how about some photos of businesses burning down, or looting or assaults day after day on innocent citizens and on police. There is nothing correct about talking about reuniting this nation and then going right out and accelerating the fire of racial tensions. I watched this exact type of race division for 8 years of the Obama administration, Biden is not even in office yet and here we go again.

 

[Triumvirate]

Honestly, the more apt comparison between the Capitol invasion to previous protests is the anti-lockdown protests because the brave 1776! fighters couldn't go to Arby's or MASK HURT FACEY or whatever

So obviously the reasonable thing to do is to enter your seat of local government loaded for bear, e.g. in Michigan

 

[GreatLakes4Ever]

Did you want to include all the other BLM "protests" such as Portland Ore, and Seattle Wa. where people were killed and several more, how about some photos of businesses burning down, or looting or assaults day after day on innocent citizens and on police. There is nothing correct about talking about reuniting this nation and then going right out and accelerating the fire of racial tensions. I watched this exact type of race division for 8 years of the Obama administration, Biden is not even in office yet and here we go again.

Racial tensions is one of the things tearing this country apart and ignoring it is like ignoring a cancerous tumor on your body. It’s not going to get better by just pretending it doesn’t exist.

 

[Triumvirate]

The bottom line is this

BLM are protesting over something real and that exists
The people who invaded the Capitol are upset over something that didn't happen

There can be no double standard between two very different things, and it is certainly noteworthy to see how lax the security was when it was known in the public domain that a large and very angry protest was headed to DC that day.

 

[wing2000]

Biden went so far as to call it “totally unacceptable” that DC cops used kid gloves, allowing the rioters to breach the Capitol.

Do you approve of the way the Capital Police handled this situation?

 

[Larniavc]

https://nypost.com/2021/01/07/biden-harris-blasted-for-claiming-double-standard-by-dc-cops/
President-elect Joe Biden and future VP Kamala Harris are being accused of “gaslighting” for claiming a double standard by cops in how they handled the US Capitol protest.

Biden and Harris said Thursday that police would have been more aggressive in quelling Wednesday’s unrest had it been a Black Lives Matter protest instead of supporters of President Trump.

Biden went so far as to call it “totally unacceptable” that DC cops used kid gloves, allowing the rioters to breach the Capitol.

“This is complete nonsense,” conservative writer AG Hamilton said of the claim on Twitter.

“It’s gaslighting that requires ignoring what we actually witnessed on a nightly basis last summer.,” Hamilton said, referring to widespread anti-police protests last year.

Podcast host Allie Beth Stuckey tweeted that the comments by the incoming president and vice president only further inflame racial tensions in the country.

The cops let the seditionists past the barriers.

 

[disciple Clint]

Lol we didn't see BLM breaching the Capitol during their DC protests though

"President Trump was moved to the White House's underground bunker Friday evening as protesters clashed with police and Secret Service agents outside, according to multiple reports.

The New York Times on Sunday reported that the president was taken to the bunker as demonstrators pulled metal barricades away from the White House gates Friday evening. According to CNN, he remained there for about an hour before returning to his residence. It was not clear if first lady Melania Trump and their son Barron accompanied him.

White House officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment, while the Secret Service declined citing operational concerns. The president slammed Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) in a tweet Sunday morning following the protest, accusing her of not allowing D.C. police to assist Secret Service agents."
Trump taken to underground bunker during White House protests: reports

 

[Triumvirate]

"President Trump was moved to the White House's underground bunker Friday evening as protesters clashed with police and Secret Service agents outside, according to multiple reports.

The New York Times on Sunday reported that the president was taken to the bunker as demonstrators pulled metal barricades away from the White House gates Friday evening. According to CNN, he remained there for about an hour before returning to his residence. It was not clear if first lady Melania Trump and their son Barron accompanied him.

White House officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment, while the Secret Service declined citing operational concerns. The president slammed Washington, D.C., Mayor Muriel Bowser (D) in a tweet Sunday morning following the protest, accusing her of not allowing D.C. police to assist Secret Service agents."
Trump taken to underground bunker during White House protests: reports

Right, BLM had to dismantle a couple of barriers (as opposed to the cops letting the upset bros the other day waltz through the barricades), and the streets were blanketed in tear gas before they got any further. They didn't get even remotely as close to any seat of government or power.

This isn't helping your point at all

 

[Zoii]

https://nypost.com/2021/01/07/biden-harris-blasted-for-claiming-double-standard-by-dc-cops/
President-elect Joe Biden and future VP Kamala Harris are being accused of “gaslighting” for claiming a double standard by cops in how they handled the US Capitol protest.

Biden and Harris said Thursday that police would have been more aggressive in quelling Wednesday’s unrest had it been a Black Lives Matter protest instead of supporters of President Trump.

Biden went so far as to call it “totally unacceptable” that DC cops used kid gloves, allowing the rioters to breach the Capitol.

“This is complete nonsense,” conservative writer AG Hamilton said of the claim on Twitter.

“It’s gaslighting that requires ignoring what we actually witnessed on a nightly basis last summer.,” Hamilton said, referring to widespread anti-police protests last year.

Podcast host Allie Beth Stuckey tweeted that the comments by the incoming president and vice president only further inflame racial tensions in the country.

I think many were incensed about the numerous photos of Capitol hill police officers taking selfies with the rioters

 

[GoldenBoy89]

https://nypost.com/2021/01/07/biden-harris-blasted-for-claiming-double-standard-by-dc-cops/
President-elect Joe Biden and future VP Kamala Harris are being accused of “gaslighting” for claiming a double standard by cops in how they handled the US Capitol protest.

Biden and Harris said Thursday that police would have been more aggressive in quelling Wednesday’s unrest had it been a Black Lives Matter protest instead of supporters of President Trump.

Biden went so far as to call it “totally unacceptable” that DC cops used kid gloves, allowing the rioters to breach the Capitol.

“This is complete nonsense,” conservative writer AG Hamilton said of the claim on Twitter.

“It’s gaslighting that requires ignoring what we actually witnessed on a nightly basis last summer.,” Hamilton said, referring to widespread anti-police protests last year.

Podcast host Allie Beth Stuckey tweeted that the comments by the incoming president and vice president only further inflame racial tensions in the country.

One key difference is that the BLM marches and protests had a legitimate grievance while the losers that attacked the Capitol did so based on a flat out lie from the president and his enablers in Congress.

This whole thread reeks of trying to downplay and dismiss the severity of what transpired on Wednesday.

 

[Vylo]

Did you want to include all the other BLM "protests" such as Portland Ore, and Seattle Wa. where people were killed and several more, how about some photos of businesses burning down, or looting or assaults day after day on innocent citizens and on police. There is nothing correct about talking about reuniting this nation and then going right out and accelerating the fire of racial tensions. I watched this exact type of race division for 8 years of the Obama administration, Biden is not even in office yet and here we go again.

i must have missed when portland was made our capitol and BLM attacked congress there whiel trying to usurp our democracy for someone who lost the election.

 

[High Fidelity]

They let an armed mob violently gain access to the seat of government currently occupied by the Vice President and other senior officials. It could have easily been a massacre.

They have every right to be furious.

 

[98cwitr]

Black Panthers conducted an armed protest at the Capitol in 1967. Not a shot fired. This is pandering.

One group has a history of violence (arson/looting/rioting), the other doesn't. Is it possible that is why the Capitol police were so understaffed?

Granted, after the recent events...maybe they're finally both now equal.

 

[Triumvirate]

Black Panthers conducted an armed protested at the Capitol in 1967. Not a shot fired. This is pandering.

One group has a history of violence (arson/looting/rioting), the other doesn't. Is it possible that is why the Capitol police were so understaffed?

Granted, after the recent events...maybe they're finally both now equal.

It is not correct to say some of the groups represented at the invasion the other day don't have a history of violence. Please stop misinforming people.

 

[SilverBear]

Well... I actually tend to agree with the OP. The big problem was the lack of a quick response by the national guard, thanks to Trump. It took Pence's involvement to finally bring them in. I consider Biden's comments on BLM to be pandering, without taking time to learn the whole story first.

what part of the story did he not know?