What? Some of the Insurrectionist 'Stop the Steal' folks didn't vote?

[Siwsan]

Group of 'Stop the Steal' rioters who were charged with storming the US Capitol didn't even vote in the election, records show

Some of the MAGA mob rioters who violently stormed the US Capitol to protest Joe Biden becoming president never even voted in the 2020 election.

At least eight of the protesters who have been charged over the Capitol riots did not cast ballots in November's election, a CNN analysis of voting records has shown.

The mob, who declared themselves patriots, stormed the Capitol building after attending Donald Trump's 'Stop the Steal' rally in Washington DC back on January 6.

(The names are scattered through the article so if you aren't too averse to 'The Daily Mail', here's the link to the article. I can't find any article on the CNN site.)

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9210599/Some-Capitol-rioters-didnt-vote-election.html

[Drum]

1. So, they stole the election from Trump*

[Siwsan]

2. That's a pretty good way of looking at it!

[brewens]

4. That and Trump and his collaborators squandering a lot of the money donated to his campaign.

Hard to say what difference it could have made in some state if he'd put every available dime into it.

I bet a lot of those people thought it was going to be a blowout for Trump and didn't think it mattered. At the same time, we're running around in a panic ( at least I was ) saying don't believe the polls!

[turtleblossom]

3. What for? They never believed in democracy anyway.

They gain power by force, not votes.

[Collimator]

5. There was some noise made after the 2016 election, if you recall.

I heard news reports that many of those protestors did not vote or were not even registered to vote. And there was at least one sign suggesting a violent act be done to Melania.

I am not trying to be a rabid "both sider". There is no honest, accurate equation between the insurrection of January 6, 2021 and the occasionally unlawful post-election protests of 2016. My point is that there are hypocrites and fools that run the range of ideologies. I myself have been a hypocrite on occasion and a fool many more times. My further point is that anyone who can vote in this country must do so. Dissent is patriotic but voting is a hell of lot more direct. No matter how discouraged you feel about the state of the larger world or your narrow community, if you can vote, do so. You may not get exactly what you want exactly when you want it, but you must declare what you want in the ballot box or you cannot possibly obtain it.

If nothing else, voting earns you the right to complain. If you want to run your mouth about what goes on in this country and you don't vote, you are not just a hypocrite. You are full of shit.

[Siwsan]

6. Someone complaining about a vote they didn't cast being stolen is just beyond hypocritical.

These are people with far deeper issues than many of us can even imagine.

[Collimator]

7. One cannot disagree with that.

Complaining about a stolen vote that was never actually cast is right up there with thinking that there are lasers in space that take time out from setting fire to forests so that they can observe the Sabbath. . . oh, wait. . .

[Siwsan]

8. Strange times we are living though, my friend.

Strange times with far too many really, really, REALLY strange people.