FEBRUARY 11, 2021 By Tristan Justice
The Senate moved forward with day three of its second pointless impeachment trial Thursday, pursuing the conviction of a president already out of office over alleged “incitement of i**********n” regarding the attacks on the U.S. Capitol building in early January. House Democrats passed the snap impeachment within a week of the r**t, without one hearing or one witness, charging then-President Donald Trump with provoking the mob of his supporters to storm the Capitol building with a speech that encouraged them to protest peacefully. Despite the horde of his supporters beginning their assault before the president had even finished his speech, Democrats declared Trump was solely responsible anyway and have now kept the Senate’s top priority on punishing an ousted president as the nation faces crises on several fronts.Meanwhile, President Joe “Unity” Biden has a history of his own encouraging political violence against opponents, and the media remained virtually silent in what has become a routine double standard. Here are five examples of the now-president doing just that:
1. ‘High Threshold of Pain’
In 2018, Biden fantasized about hurting North Dakota Republican Sen. Kevin Cramer, who was then challenging a Democratic incumbent.
“I’d like to give him a high threshold of pain,” Biden said. “I’m serious. I’m really serious.”
2. ‘Threshold of Pain’ 2.0
Biden made the same remark at a campaign event for the state’s Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, encouraging the president of a trade union in attendance to “show [Cramer] a threshold of pain.”
3. ‘Go Outside with Me’
Campaigning for president in 2020, Biden told a Detroit factory worker “you’re full of sh-t” and challenged him “to go outside with me.”
4. Fight ‘Behind the Gym’
In the fall of 2016, Biden said he wanted to take Trump “behind the gym.”
5. ‘Beat the Hell out of Him’
In 2018, Biden doubled down on his 2016 remark, saying he wanted to take his future Republican opponent “behind the gym and beat the hell out of [Trump].”
The Democratic Party itself normalized political violence as the primary means for individuals to make their voices heard after spending all last year justifying militant Black L***s M****r r**ts that erupted in repeated outbursts across the country, because r****m.
Find 28 times Democrats and their progressive allies in legacy media excused or endorsed political violence here.
Tristan Justice is a staff writer at The Federalist focusing on the 2020 p**********l campaigns. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.
28 Times Media And Democrats Excused Or Endorsed Violence Committed By Left-Wing Activists
After excusing and ignoring r**ts from l*****ts all year, Democrats and their allies in the media are ready to condemn r**ts now that the turmoil has shifted to fit their narrative.
By Tristan Justice
JANUARY 7, 2021
Democrats and their allies in the media are ready to condemn r**ts now that the turmoil has shifted to fit their narrative.
On Wednesday, a mob of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol building. It was an astonishing display of anarchic protest that delayed c***********l c***********n of the E*******l College v**e formally handing former Vice President Joe Biden the keys to the White House.
The scenes from the dark day of disaster demonstrations illustrated a deteriorating country, repulsed millions, and traumatized a nation still recovering from the death, despair, and disruption that came to define the dystopian months of 2020. Above all, what happened Wednesday served as a grim reminder that the institutional stress test of 2020 has followed us into 2021.
For the left, however, the chaos at the Capitol has opened an opportunity to refute the perception they own the monopoly on widespread political violence. Democrats and left-wing media elites have already capitalized on the violent outbreak, where four people died, to characterize conservatives as the creatures of chaos.
At this point, it’s undeniable that the political far-right calls home to its own A****a-like anarchists. It is also undeniable, however, that reaction to the protests from conservative leaders roundly condemning the violence from their own side stands in remarkable contrast to the way Democrats and corporate media spent months going out of their way attempting to justify the deadly actions of militant l*****ts.
Not one prominent conservative pundit or politician with any significant platform was reported to have tried endorsing the mob of Trump supporters infiltrating the U.S. Capitol. To the contrary, conservatives spent months vilifying Democratic leaders for not doing enough in their own states and cities to crack down on the militant mobs of l*****ts taking streets under siege, normalizing the kind of political violence on track to appear routine in the nightmare 2020 decade.
It was only seven months ago that Washington D.C. was last on fire.
A trip down memory lane chronicling the left’s reaction to last year’s eruption of unrest claiming the lives of at least 30 people not only exposes the hypocrisy suffusing Democrats’ condemnation of political violence, but also illustrates a sobering reality that there’s plenty of blame to go around for the situation in which the United States now finds itself.
1. Kamala Harris Urges Followers to Cover R****rs’ Bail
Incoming Vice President Kamala Harris encouraged her supporters last summer to donate to the Minnesota Freedom Fund, which provided bail money to the militant anarchists facing charges for setting fire to Minneapolis.
2. Chris Cuomo: Who Said Protests Were Supposed To Be Peaceful?
CNN’s Chris Cuomo showcased his ignorance of the First Amendment in June when dismissing the idea that militant protests sweeping the nation in the aftermath of G****e F***d’s death were illegal.
“Please, show me where it says protesters are supposed to be polite and peaceful,” Cuomo demanded.
Here’s the text from the First Amendment, emphasis added:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
3. MSNBC Reporter Describes Fiery Scene ‘Mostly A Protest’
MSNBC’s Ali Velshi stood in front of a liquor store burning behind him in Minneapolis and called the r**ts surrounding the camera crew “mostly a protest” that is “not, generally speaking, unruly.”
“But fires have been started,” Velshi made clear to note.
4. CNN Labels Burning Protest ‘Fiery But Mostly Peaceful’
CNN continued to parody itself in August as a second wave of mass unrest swept the country with Kenosha, Wisconsin as its focal point. After the label “fiery but mostly peaceful” had become a trolling phrase online to describe legacy media’s coverage of the summer r**ts, the network literally adopted the words to describe events unfolding in Kenosha while a reporter stood in front of a several burning vehicles.
5. Democratic National Convention Refuses To Condemn R**ts
Democrats went through their entire online convention without condemning the epidemic of left-wing violence that engulfed the nation in the preceding months.
6. Pulitzer Prize-Winning New York Times Writer: Destroying Property Isn’t Violence
The New York Times’ architect of the “1619 Project,” Nikole Hannah-Jones, explicitly rejected the idea that destroying property fits the definition of “violence.”
“Destroying property, which can be replaced, is not violence,” Hannah-Jones said on CBS, to which the anchors offered no challenge.
“It’s a great point that you make, Nikole,” CBS’s Vladimir Duthiers replied.
Hannah-Jones also said it would be “an honor” for 2020 r**ts be deemed the “1619 R**ts” despite destroying minority businesses.
7. Government-Funded PBS Reporter Denies Anarchists Are ‘Anarchists’
PBS White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor tried and failed to fact-check President Donald Trump in May, apparently faulting the president for not providing any evidence when calling the anarchists terrorizing cities “anarchists.”
8. CNN’s Don Lemon Compares L*****t R**ts to Boston Tea Party
CNN prime time anchor Don Lemon celebrated the Floyd r**ts as a 21st-century version of the Boston Tea Party.
“And let’s not forget if anyone is judging this, I’m not judging this,” Lemon said as CNN cameras rolled with footage of r**ts in Washington D.C. and Los Angeles. “This is how this country was started.”
9. CNN’s Chris Cillizza Complains About the Term ‘R**t’
10. New York Times Columnist Finds Portland Anarchists In Piece Titled, ‘Help Me Find Trump’s ‘Anarchists’ In Portland’
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof penned an op-ed in July headlined, “Help Me Find Trump’s ‘Anarchists’ In Portland,” in which he actually appears to find them.
11. MSNBS’s Joy Reid: B*M R**ts Are Really Just Undercover White Nationalists Causing Trouble
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/1300114584859299841?s=2012. Huffington Post Releases Video Outlining ‘How R**ts Built America’
The Huffington Post published a brief four-minute mini-documentary outlining “How R**ts Built America” to draw parallels between the 2020 r**ts against police with periods of unrest throughout American history.
13. NBC News Allegedly Instructed Staff to Avoid the Term ‘R**t’
14. Seattle Mayor On Anarchists Taking Control of Downtown: Don’t Be Afraid of Democracy
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan returned fire on Trump in June when the president demanded an end to the city’s partial occupation by socialist protestors.
“Seattle is fine,” Durkan wrote on Twitter despite the insurgency. “Don’t be so afraid of democracy.”
15. Washington Governor Unaware of Seattle Occupation
Washington Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee was caught being completely oblivious to the anarchist i**********n taking over his state’s largest city when he was asked about the rogue m*****a during a c****av***s press briefing.
16. Pelosi When Mobs Tore Down Statues: ‘People Will Do What They Do’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi just shrugged when asked about a militant mob tearing down the statue of legendary explorer Christopher Columbus in Baltimore in June 2020.
“People will do what they do,” Pelosi said.
The Democratic leader likely had a different reaction Wednesday at the sight of a random Trump anarchists lounging around in her own office.
17. Rolling Stone Re-Publishes Article to ‘Rethink Property Destruction’
Rolling Stone Magazine re-published a 2014 article first out following the Ferguson, Mo. r**ts in 2104 titled, “9 Historical Triumphs To Make You Rethink Property Destruction,” promoting the devastation as progress in May last year. The “historical pedigree of property destruction as a tactic of resistance is long and frequently effective,” the authors wrote.
18. GQ Magazine: Violent Protests Work
GQ Magazine published a lengthy feature in June amid the Floyd r**ts headlined, “Why Violent Protests Work.”
19. Slate: R**ts Are A ‘Proportionate Response’
Slate Magazine ran a piece amid the Floyd r**ts justifying the chaos ripping the nation’s cities apart titled, “Proportionate Response.”
20. Mother Jones: ‘R**ts Aren’t Irrational’
Mother Jones joined the crowd in mid-June with a piece titled, “R**ts Aren’t Irrational.”
21. TIME Magazine: The Term ‘R**t’ Is ‘Loaded’
Time Magazine published a piece in June headlined, ‘A War of Words.’ Why Describing the G****e F***d Protests as ‘R**ts’ Is So Loaded.”
22. Vox: Woke R**ts Are Scary But Productive. Capitol R**ts Were Devastating
23. New York Times Has Sympathy For B*M R**ts, While Blaming Trump As Sole Perpetrator For Wednesday Mob
24. Jacobin Magazine: L**ting Is Justified Only For Social Justice
The left-wing publication also published a piece headlined, “When R**ting Works,” in June.
25. AOC: The Whole Point of Protesting Is to Make People Uncomfortable
This is what Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said about r**ting in December 2020. Her staff began trying to get Twitter to stop people from retweeting images of this in the wake of the Wednesday r**ts.
26. Author Writes Book Titled, ‘In Defense Of L**ting’
Writer Vicky Osterweil published a book late last summer titled, “In Defense Of L**ting,” and earned a feature in National Propaganda Radio (NPR) for the work.
27. NPR Guest: Floyd Demonstrations Are Acts Of R*******n, Not R**ts
Temple University Professor Marc Lamont Hill went on NPR complaining that dismissing protestors as r****rs “dehumanizes” them, impeding political progress.
28. NPR Makes Up Right-Wing Violence
Tristan Justice is a staff writer at The Federalist focusing on the 2020 p**********l campaigns. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.