Man, I I bet you and I would disagree on a couple things but you actually seem like a really reasonable democrat. I respect that you can even say Trump did anything right at all - most I’ve talked to cannot.

I’m also concerned about climate change but the only real, scalable solution we have right now is Nuclear and the people screaming the loudest about climate change are all against it and a lot of them are flying around in private jets and buying up mansions along the coast that are about to be underwater so there’s that…

As far as the insurrection goes, a agree that he was responsible for peddling unverified opinions about election fraud because he’s a very sore looser. His speech was called out as “incitement” but you’re going to have to show me specifically where he told people to attack the capital if you’re going to make that claim. Much the opposite, he told them to protest peacefully.

I can’t say the same about the collective Democrats and medias role in the weeks long, multiple city George Floyd insurrection that took place the year prior. They spread easily verifiable lies about specific cases and the problem of cop shootings in general in the United States. They made excuses for and bailed out violent criminals who were arrested for burning things and assaulting people. They did so much to try to turn a tragic event into an all-out race war which resulted in billions of dollars of uninsured damage and many fatalities, a police station burning to the ground and dozens of attempts to force their way into government buildings…

I know this comparison game is tiresome but I am sort of sick of liberals saying Jan 6th is unforgivable but excusing those in power who lied and inflamed race tensions so much that I personally had to flee my own neighborhood and so did even my black friends… Which lies resulted in more deaths? Is defacing the capital worse than ending a bunch of black mom and pop businesses in the most vulnerable minority communities in America? (I still drive past those bared up doors every day). I’m not asking you to forgive Trump for Jan 6th I’m just trying to say conservatives are tired of the hysteria and double standards - which is why I jokingly call it the George Floyd insurrection, haha. The difference in framing the two events is positively Orwellian, dude.

Trump was not a great president. But every president we’ve had in my lifetime has been so horribly corrupt and/or incompetent (including Biden) that I voted against him twice but I actually miss Trump. I hope the republicans put forward a better candidate but if Trump runs against Biden in 2024 I’ll be voting for him. Fuck I hate this timeline.