If this was “clearly an insurrection” then people (including Trump) would have been charged with insurrection. The reason they were not charged with insurrection is because prosecutors could have never proved that anyone engaged in insurrection. The reason they could not prove it is because there is no evidence of an insurrection. It’s a pretty simple calculation.
-- absolutely not true. I already explained it to you. It's like saying if it was clearly murder why did they charge manslaughter, the difficulty of proving the crime with the evidence obtained factors in. This is called nuance, you seem to think everything is a simple calculation. Trying to prove a discordant mob was planning out an insurrection is difficult, its a insanely hard charge to level period, again this doesn't mean it wasn't. OJ was clearly innocent, after all they couldn't prove he didn't do it! must mean it didnt happen. Life and actuality exceeds or is in excess of what facts/evidence one may have. Things are not black and white.
If it wasn't an attempt to overthrow the government via stopping the transfer of power under the guise of false claims - the claim that the election was stolen was laughed out of courts- what was it? Just a bunch of angry people attacking politicians under the behest of teh former president under the claim that the government stole the election and undercut their will?
And it’s easy to call this an “armed” insurrection in broad terms. But when you start looking at the actual facts, it falls apart. For example, what kind of weapons are we talking about? Hockey sticks. Rocks. Flag poles. Bike racks. So you have to conclude that people with those kinds of “weapons” were trying to overthrow the U.S. government and its military. You don’t really believe that.
-- the people were armed, the fact that you do not consider those weapons means little. I don't think these people were rational actors, so once you admit that then I think thats exactly what they thought they were doing. They literally thought the election was stolen and stormed the capital thinking it would make a difference. Only an absolute retard would do that, you have to be a low iq moron to do what they did. I think you have to be a low iq moron to believe anything trump says.
Also, no one was charged with using a weapon to try and overthrow the government and its military. Some people had actual weapons on them, but were not charged with using those weapons.
-- people were charged with carrying weapons and having weapons. Again it was a mob, they did not have to use weapons and they breached pretty easily to be fair.
A lot of those people were invited into the building.
-- ok
The worst offenders on January 6 (and there were definitely some bad actors) delayed the vote certification for a few hours. Worst insurrection ever. Lol
-- The outcome doesn't negate the intention. They were retards, the whole lot. They were an angry mob trying to stop the government from stealing the election. They didnt just randomly descend on the capitol for no reason. Proving actus reas and mens culpa on that group (to prove the crime of insurrection) would be nearly impossible- hence the other charges which are easier to prove. You are ignoring that insurrection is incredibly hard to prove, but what you can prove by law is not equal to what happened.
Regarding Covid, that entire situation was FUBAR. I put “vaccine” in quotation marks because it did not fit the typical definition of a vaccine. Do you recall that the CDC changed the definition in the middle of the pandemic, after they realized we were being lied to about the vaccine stopping the spread of Covid?
-- the situation was fubar. What did they change the definition from- do you have those definitions- Here is where we differ. Is it possible that they weren't lying? or possible that lying was the best option? You are oversimplefying the situation grossly. This is a virus that initially was pretty virulent and they had little to no data on it, how bad it would be what the secondary issues would be etc. they then do their best to combat it but can only vaccinate against the current strains, they have no data (unlike the flu vaccine) to base mutations or variations off of. So the vaccines prove partially effective. Keep in mind this isn't uncommon, even some folks with the vaccine for polio got polio. With modeling the worst case scenario (it also could mutate to be worse) indicates a global pandemic (also keep in mind there is data from other countries here)- they do whatever they can to solve the problem, fucking up all along the way (expected with a complex issue). However, you seem to believe it was a conspiracy the world over? that they purposely lied for nefarious reasons (money, power etc) not to gain what little control they could based on the models at the time (which they use for all diseases) and every country was in on it.
-- What would you expect in a situation like this? the vaccine being perfect regardless of mutation across the world? The general public is dumb, the dunning kruger effect is real, you have folks citing papers showing the vaccine doesn't work when the outcomes in that same paper indicate a worse outcome from the actual virus. Could there have been unsavory motivations, obviously, but scientists, phds etc that I know personally are pretty far removed from the power hungry, capitalist narcs that see the world as all or nothing. I think it sounds like bullshit when someone tries to explain nuance, complexity, stochasticity etc Like when people say they cant even predict the weather!! but they fail to understand chaotic systems, strange attractors and the fact that things simply don't work on binary, law of the excluded middle logic and things can be paraconsistent.
