Thread by @YossiGestetner

Big controversy, apparently: @HawleyMO gives a fist for a peaceful crowd of thousands outside of the Capitol but then runs from a few dozen rowdy ones inside the Capitol.

Total clown show and @jaketapper is a partisan propaganda hack; not a "news anchor."

https://twitter.com/jaketapper/status/1550291054699626496

It's like saying 'if u favor BLM protests how can you oppose the riots that some of those protests descended into.?'

The diff is that all the unrest of Jan 6th has been less "fiery" than those riots.

We are subjects of an 18 month-and-counting propaganda campaign.

3/15 Rejecting election results has been done for decades including by some members of the @January6thCmte regarding Trump results; by @staceyabrams regarding #GAGov in 2018 and by @HillaryClinton who in 2019 said Trump knows that he is an illegitimate president. cc @MZHemingway

4/15 In Aug 2020, HRC said "Biden should not concede under any circumstances because I think this is gonna drag out and eventually I do believe he will win if we don't give an inch."

This was not an "attack on democracy" yet Trump's efforts pre-1/6 is?

5/15 In Dec 2020, @Mike_Pence said "we are gonna keep fighting... until EVERY ILLEGAL VOTE IS THROWN OUT! We are gonna win Georgia... We are never gonna stop fighting to MAGA."

His claim suggests mass voter fraud enough to flip a state. cc @jonkarl

6/15 "I share the concerns of millions of Americans about voting irregularities. I promise you, come this Wednesday, we’ll have our day in Congress. We’ll hear the objections. We’ll hear the evidence.” - @Mike_Pence 1/4/21

cc @jaketapper @brithume

7/15 Basically, @Mike_Pence was there all post-election talking about illegal votes; winning Georgia, and making promises as to what can be done on Jan 6th. Yet he is presented as a hero regarding all this and Trump the bad guy despite echoing the same points. Again: Propaganda.

8/15: Then there is talk about trying to "overturn the election results." Um, @algore tried this for 37 days.
Besides, if the results are flawed than the term is "trying to rectify the election results" which is a noble function of democracy; not an attack on it. cc @BretBaier

9/15: Trump tried using judicial, administrative and legislative action to double check and/or rectify the election results. If those peaceful, non-force tools had the legal/practical power to do it then those are tools of democracy; not an attack on it. cc @HawleyMO @jaketapper

10/15 A coup happens by physical force regardless the law, yet for the last eighteen months we have been propagandized that trying to use legislative, administrative and judicial steps to impact the vote count is a coup; an "overthrow of democracy." cc @AdamKinzinger @Liz_Cheney

11/20 When hacks need to concede the above points they circle to yelling that January 6th was bad, but this is a deflection because they claim that Trump's action pre-Jan 6th were corrupt; illegal and "attack on democracy."

But let's talk Jan 6th

cc @maggieNYT @brithume

12/20 Trump raising objections to the results, as noted above, is the norm. Trump had the right to call for a rally for a cause that he felt is important. As seen with BLM, rallies involving many people can have some at the edges pop off, yet those rallies are still called.

13/20 As a precaution, the Trump Administration offered added forces on the ground for Jan 6th, but the DC mayor who together with Pelosi - not Trump - oversees security at the Capitol - rejected the offer in a letter dated January 5th.

The tweet is still up as of NOW!

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14/20 It's Jan 6th. 500,000 people got here as a result of long-established democratic norms of rallying and protesting about policy and election. Trump tells the crowd to be lawful and peaceful, yet a few dozen people pop off as has happened at protests in the years before.

15/20 One such protest was in late May 2020 at the White House which turned into a violent insurrection that forced then-POTUS Trump into the bunker and wounded SIXTY federal agents including 11 who were hospitalized. Read the Secret Service press release:

cc @maggieNYT

16/25 So whether it's police policy protests that turned violent; Trump's inauguration that was violent after many Dems rejected Electors or whether the insurrection of late May 2020, there was never talk of criminal liability against politicos whose followers popped off.

17/25 There were no serious talk - at a congressional committee with subpoenas - that @BarackObama
@SpeakerPelosi needed to send tweets x amount of time into their followers popping off and how failure to do so within minutes of unrest means liability of the deadly violence.

18/25 There was never any talk of @BarackObama's liability for "failing" to do something hours into unrest on territory whose security is run by others (such as Pelosi the Capitol) and whose offer for assistance was rejected 24 hours before the unrest (DC mayor doing so Jan 5th).

19/25 Besides, the Trump WH was criticized for using "too much force" against the insurrection of late May 2020 which forced POTUS into the bunker; wounded 60 federal agents, yet the same people wanted WH-directed action 30 minutes into unrest on 1/6? Please. cc @MZHemingway

20/25 The above few tweets are not me whining about "double standard." This is me showing you how we have been propagandized into placing liability up to calling for criminal prosecution against a former POTUS in ways never done before. cc @GOPLeader @SteveScalise @RichardGrenell

21/28 "Yossi, no one was ever held this liable because no one wanted to overthrow democracy."

Exactly my point. We are propagandized about "overturning results," "overthrowing democracy," a "coup" a "subverting the constitution" to legitimize persecution and prosecution.

22/28 Back to Trump's "inaction" of January 6th (a standard not placed on Obama for worse violence by his followers): 25 minutes into the noise, Trump tweeted “Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement. They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!”

23/28 Trump called for peaceful action in his speech and tweeted "stay peaceful" 25 minutes into the rest; a speed not demanded from Obama/Pelosi. As for not mentioning lawmakers, the fights seen on TV at that point were with PD; not lawmakers. cc @kevinomccarthy

24/28 Besides, had Trump mentioned lawmakers at the time when no lawmaker was attacked, we would be propagandized the last 18 months that his tweet was a dog whistle for the attackers to target lawmakers... Besides, his tweet said "stay peaceful." That should mean on everyone.

25/30 Another point, when the Senate was stopped form its sacred, constitutional work of confirming a Justice due to Liberal insurrectionists trying to overthrow the government, nobody sane used the terms that I just used because it is, well, insane to speak this way.

26/30 The government is not "overthrown" when lawmakers need to delay their actions by hours or days while the rest of the federal government is in operation.

The closest we got to an "overthrow" was when POTUS Trump, the leader of the executive, was forced into the bunker!

27/30 However, because we were not propagandized that the late May 2020 violence at the White House was an insurrection, coup and an attempt to overthrow the government by Liberals driven into violence, few of see it as a serious incident. Feds didn't hunt down all those there!

28/30 I don't assume that a thread of thirty tweets that most of you won't even read (in full) will be enough to counter the endless, relentless, hyped up propaganda that you were subject to the last 18-months-and-counting. However, when you take item by item as this thread does,

29/30 you see that there is nothing there beyond the few dozen who popped off and who should be prosecuted in accordance to precedent. "But Yossi. There is no precedent. This has never happened!"

See what I mean, folks? You are helplessly propagandized and can't think straight.

30/30 Reaction by Trump Haters to this thread will be that "Yossi is downplaying 1/6," which means that not accepting the hyped up hyperbolic framing of events and insane terminology around it is in-itself controversial. That's how bad the propaganda has gotten.