Trump never had a Parler account plus a few other inconvenient facts.

Posting a few reminders to this island of sanity. Use as you will and feel free to add / correct as needed.

1. The Jan 6 "stop the steal" protest was promoted by users on twitter, parler, facebook, reddit, and many other places, as political rallies always are. There is nothing unique to Parler, and Trump and his family don't even have Parler accounts.

2. Trump's speech that supposedly incited violence had the line: "I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard. " This is the opposite of a call to violence.

3. Like many protests this past summer, the vast majority of participants were peaceful. An estimated 200-300 people of the 100,000 that were there got into or tried to get into the Capitol.

4. Unlike the protests this past summer, the violence did not escalate, continue after dark, target the same place or a nearby place the next day, etc. Participants didn't cover their faces, bring improvised weapons and shields, etc. Those arrested weren't bailed out of jail by Hollywood celebrities or just let go and had the charges dropped by prosecutors in left-wing cities.

5. Approximately 100 arrests have been made among the violent protests, and the charges are what you would expect: vandalism, illegal entry, theft, assaulting an officer, etc. Despite claims that this was terrorism, treason, sedition, a coup, none of the protestors used weapons against the police or people inside the capitol, at least based on the charges filed so far.

6. The most visible protestors were associated with Qanon. 99% of Trump supporters had never heard of Qanon or the 4chan board it originates from and it is not affiliated with Trump or Republicans in any way. Qanon has been organizing on both Facebook and Twitter, according to the services themselves, who both banned accounts yesterday, and yet nobody has discussed removing Twitter or Facebook from the Apple or Google store.

7. The deaths associated with this protests are the real tragedy, but were they caused by the protestors or by police? We don't know, and won't know until an investigation is complete and any wrongful death lawsuits are adjudicated.

8. Of course, when protestors are killed in left-wing protests, they take the law into their own hands and burn down police stations (Minneapolis) or take reprisals (police assassinations in Los Angeles, the attempted murder of Rittenhouse). That hasn't happened and won't happen.

9. According to Julian Rosas, who was there and wrote up his account, when the capitol police finally regrouped, they were pushing people out of the capitol via a small doorway as people continued to stream in, and those caught in the crush, like he was, were fighting for their lives. This is potential evidence that the police were putting protestors lives at risk either deliberately or through incompetence and will, I predict, lead to three wrongful death lawsuits.

10. If you support the Constitution, you should agree with these two statements: a) political disagreements should be resolved via fair elections and the political process, not through coercion, violence, and fraud, and b) authoritarian government is a greater danger then crime, violent protests, or even terrorism. Most people on the right agree with the above, and most on the left do not. This alone is reason to dismiss any criticism from the left and reject any of their "solutions" to save America.

from u-IanArcad