please you've got more from your
fascinating focus groups of democrat and
republican voters in georgia and this
morning their takes on the january 6th
attack on the capitol so what did they
tell you well what you just said was so
interesting those who want to forget
yeah and republican voters a lot of them
would really like to forget what
happened on january 6 because it does
bother them because it's not okay that
the capital was stormed and that this
behavior so they just want to forget it
they want to focus on uh you know what
happened any incidents during the black
lives matter protest and then you talk
to democratic voters who see a complete
double standard how if they had got if
black lives matter had behaved that way
and stormed the
what would have happened so let's listen
to those voters now starting with
democratic voters in georgia on how they
see january 6th
one of the biggest things i saw what was
kind of hypocritical
was how they attacked the police
you know when they were always talking
about blue lives matter this and while
we were doing black lives matter they
were doing blue lives matter but for
them to attack police is like
you you're hypocritical you know you're
hypocrite and they were patriots though
they were attacking police on are you
talking about the january 6th
not only did they attack the police they
stormed the capitol they threatened
members of congress they did all of
those things black lives matter did not
step foot on a step and they had the
army that they caught in every resource
they remained non-violent
there were no sort of assaults that took
place but you have these
people who are not people of color show
up
and
just act a plum fool so you think it
would have been different if it had been
a bunch of muslim people showing up
absolutely
terrorist kent state yes
the 2020 protests i feel like the people
that were the real protesters i don't
think any of those people should be
punished for anything because they were
getting the word out they were being
peaceful and that's another thing the
news chooses what they want to display
there is so much that i wouldn't know
all channels
exactly
you know but they don't they don't i
feel like they
always shine an eye on the things that
are so negative when it comes to people
of color always negative even with the
insurrection you would have thought we'd
have been talking about we talked about
george floyd trayvon you know what he
did because he was the victim we talked
about brianna taylor she was the victim
but we may demean them and make them
something less than they are and then
you have these insurrectionists that's
what they are you you hear about them
two seconds and boom on to the next
we're going to talk about this man who
was shot in the driveway but he had a
criminal past and this that other it's
just it's ridiculous
how is it any different than what what
happened per se right here on the
streets of atlanta with those riots how
is that different
but you all didn't like those riots
that's what i'm that's my point it
shouldn't be treated any differently
right
the people that participated
should be should be held accountable
yeah we felt accountable for what they
did so many of those people that
participated in the riots were not held
accountable right right exactly
recognized absolutely but the republican
party released a statement saying that
that was legitimate political discourse
does anyone think that was legitimate
political discourse january 6
sure until they
trespass but once they trespassed what
did they do they walked up the stairway
they went into rotunda and they walked
back out so now they're in the gulag for
two years in prison yeah um
that entered the building or 2000 or
whatever there were only 100 bad actors
the rest of the people were largely
respectful from what i've seen from what
i've read and do you not think they were
being serious the mob when they were
yelling hanging mike pence that was a
scary day i thought you know i was
freaked out and for people who were at
the capitol
sounded horrifying someone had to clean
up the mess
there was a lot of bad stuff that
happened that day i agree but i believe
that the portion of people that were
trouble makers is very small number two
how many of those troublemakers were
actually antifa or intentional exactly
troublemakers there's just a whole
series of questions that don't add up
and
you got to go through this much
boilerplate and crap to find the three
little nuggets of truth or heart factor
information that really matters
and
i'm just so frustrated with the entire
thing i want to forget about it but
i looked at every photograph in the ajc
there were about 20 pictures in that
newspaper that day
and all of the ones that were smashing
and bashing and crashing
25 28 years old skinny jeans with the
beards
and i said to myself
that's not the normal republican i mean
look at us here i mean
maybe maybe he was paid to do that
none of it makes any sense
and when you read
about
you know ray epps being at the one
gate that fell first when you read about
the molotov cocktails that were left at
the dnc the night before with only a
mechanical kitchen timer not a telephone
that can be remotely triggered kitchen
time so after 60 minutes and 60 minutes
the timer can be activated so the bomb
is inactive
camilla harris went to the dnc
the bombs were found by her advance crew
at 11 50 12 50 within five minutes of
ray epps giving his orders to crash the
first barrier and then the riot started
because the police had to withdraw from
that area and investigate the molotov
cocktails there is so much going on
when you bore down into the facts well
let's take a step let's take a step so
if this was happening and it was antifa
then why didn't president trump
whip into action and stop it
he didn't tweet he didn't call off the
dogs
why was that
yeah so you know elise um
i've got
a lot of people that are watching this
and saying how could
these educated people um
come to the conclusions that they come
to that go against what what
i'll just say that go against logic like
for instance
antifa no it wasn't antifa you have
republican members you have kevin
mccarthy screaming in the phone to
donald trump while it's going down this
isn't antifa these are your people mr
president you have other republicans
that were scared to death that day for
their lives
it wasn't just people kind of soldering
through there uh you you uh there
there's so many things um
and yeah
you know cops being beaten up
being beaten up with a an inch of their
their their lives
you had so many trump supporters so many
people
again
just an effort to minimize this and i
think elise what this shows us is not
that there are two realities because
there's not
we haven't moved into a post-truth world
i know that's what donald trump has
tried
to move us to but we haven't moved into
a post-trump
post-truth
world what we've moved into is a world
where
a lot of people that you talk to
a lot of my good lifelong friends
a lot of really educated people
they don't look at images like this
they don't want to see images like this
they live in their own bubble
and they look at their own conspiracy
websites
uh you know whether it's a chinese
religious cult
uh the epic times
uh that that spreads disinformation to
try to attract
followers to their website their chinese
religious cult or whether it's some of
these other uh other conspiracy websites
q and on stories it's just two different
realities and
you know it's so interesting he said
well it just doesn't make sense the
gentleman said well it just that's
that's what that's what my friends and
family members say when you confront
them with this basic facts basic truth
they just think well i don't know
it just doesn't make sense it doesn't
make sense because they don't want it to
make sense
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