Louie Gohmert has set the new (low) bar for downplaying the Jan. 6 riot

[Nevilledog]

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Philip Bump
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Remember how earlier this week you were like, wow could anyone be more obvious in trying to downplay what happened on Jan. 6?

[enter Louie Gohmert]

Analysis | Louie Gohmert has set the new (low) bar for downplaying the Jan. 6 riot
"There have been things worse than people without any firearms coming into a building," he said.
washingtonpost.com
11:45 AM · May 14, 2021

In a hearing Wednesday, for example, Rep. Andrew S. Clyde (R-Ga.) described the mob’s breaking through windows and assaulting police officers as looking like a “normal tourist visit” to the building, which is not a little bit like describing a wild pack of hyenas ripping apart a wildebeest as “a regular day at the zoo.” It leverages the idea that tourists walk through the Capitol in appreciation of their surroundings to center the actions of Jan. 6 on those few trespassers in the building who may similarly have stopped to appreciate the history around them. Before breaking it.

Happily for Clyde, his colleague Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Tex.) came along Friday to reset the bar for dishonestly downplaying the events of that day, during which multiple people died and scores of law enforcement offers were injured.

“I just want the president to understand,” he said: “there have been things worse than people without any firearms coming into a building.”

The context for his remarks were the attack on Pearl Harbor that brought America into World War II and the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 — both incidents in which, yes, thousands died and, yes, that manifested a significant threat to the United States. Compared with enemy aircraft bombing a naval fleet, or airplanes hitting skyscrapers, yes, the attack on the Capitol lacked a certain level of violence. But that does not mean that the attack on the Capitol wasn’t an attack on democracy or that the attack on the Capitol wasn’t itself dangerous.

Imagine that burglars smashed a window of your house while you were asleep, came inside, and took family heirlooms and expensive laptop computers. A friend of yours who is a cop shows up to take the report.

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[gratuitous]

1. Sure Louie

And as I recall, we didn't do jack-squat after Pearl Harbor or 9-11, so why should anyone get all jazzed about Jan. 6, right?

[kentuck]

2. Lizzie Border took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks...

She didn't have a gun either...

[Blue Owl]

3. Shut your Pyle-hole, Gomer

[bottomofthehill]

4. And still, the professionalism of the US Capitol Police shows through

They still come to work every day and protect the rights of boobs like this. They are elected members of Congress, they ran for their lives, they were kept from doing their jobs and still, the men and women of the USCP protect them. AMAZING.........

[bottomofthehill]

5. still waiting for the FOP and other Law Enforcement Unions to step up and call the Lie the Lie......

waiting



and waiting.......

[NotASurfer]

6. Maybe some of his constituents will do a normal tourist visit to his office

You know, rip the door off its hinges, visit the public urinal that is the office carpet, take a souvenir phone or laptop or folder of notes on closed-door committee meetings, and freshen the air with just a touch of bear mace and pepper spray. Normal tourist suing for people visiting the Capitol according to the QOP

No, not advocating violence there. Venting steam. I feel better now.

[Buns_of_Fire]

7. Is Gomer making his move to retake the title from Margie the Kook? nt

[demtenjeep]

8. and flung their shit

like monkeys