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"President Donald Trump engaged in insurrection by inciting a violent mob to attack our Capitol and disenfranchise over 80 million people who voted against him."
"It was a straight-up insurrection, armed insurrection that resulted in people dying."
"It's funny seeing people act like this was an unfathomable reaction. Like, bro, you guys are occupying the capital city and have very explicitly said that you want to do a coup."
"It's disorder, it's chaos, it borders on sedition, and it must end now."
"This was no tranquil land with shepherds standing their flock and wise men following stars. This was a land riddled by political unrest and violence."
"Every single person in that crowd thinks that the January 6 quote insurrectionists ought to have been arrested as they were rounded up and thrown in prison."
"The proud boys and the oath keepers had a plan to stop the vote by breaching the capital."
"January 6 was just a dress rehearsal for some of these folks."
"Do you think this Riot has anything to do with this?"
"Hong Kong is in serious trouble while a deadly pandemic spreads, authorities are cracking down hard on protesters in Hong Kong becoming a police state."
"What if this is not the insurrection? What does the insurrection look like?"
"Violently trying to intimidate and use violence to shut someone down from being able to exercise their rights, their right to peaceful protest, their right to open carry."
"When you have leaders that come and abuse the faithfulness of that group to violent ends, as we saw on January 6th, we would be naive to think it's not possible here."
"Putting Vice President Pence's life in danger during the Capitol riot when he refused to go along."
"On January 6, 2021, the world bore witness to what can only be described as one of the dumbest days in American history."
"If you're going to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power in a democracy, that's an insurrection."
"Those people who injured or killed other people, those people who pilfered and deployed government property, those people who attacked federal officers, all of them must be held to account under the law."
"This did unfold more quickly than we had anticipated... Afghanistan political leaders gave up and fled the country."
"My point is this: nobody should be violent. January 6th should have never happened."
"These protests soon became no different from a total Uprising against the Putin regime."
"These people are already many of them committed to the concept of overthrowing American democracy and inciting civil war."
"It isn't necessarily the Nazi years that should be the warning to us, it's the years of discontent leading up to the Third Reich."
"The Silence of the CCP mouthpieces coupled with internet blackouts and martial law in a small County Town suggest the coming of a revolution."
"If this gets to the point where we're going to make vaccinations mandatory, you're going to have a real revolution in this country."
"It's just a matter of what will be done to stop it if anything."
"Mitt Romney, what happened today was an insurrection incited by the president of the United States."
"They're chanting 'hang Mike Pence'... this is happening while it's all going down."
"There'll be riots in the streets if there's a prosecution of Donald Trump for mishandling classified information."
"I sincerely hope that this is the last video I have to make about the threats we face in such a contentious political season."
"There's no doubt people came here on January 6 to cause trouble."
"England is about to become a hotbed of sedition and rebellion."
"The idea that democracy was ever in serious threat because of drunks and idiots breaking into the Capitol building is nonsense."
"Our democracy is under unprecedented assault."
"There is unrest brewing among our people, lord, and we know you have something to do with it."
"This was an insurrection, you know, let's call it what it was."
"A new era of U.S. unrest." - The Supreme Court's coming abortion ruling may spark a new era of U.S. unrest.
"White people are losing their damn mind, an angry pro-Trump mob storms the US Capitol."
"The real divide of what happened at the Capitol is chaos versus order."
"Our Capitol building was attacked and invaded. The mob was summoned to Washington by President Trump."
"The Insurrection is not dead, it's not even over."
"The possibility of a situation resembling the cultural revolution becoming clearly observable in the near future highlights worries about the return of a time characterized by intense political zeal and broad social unrest."
"Russian economy in crisis as protests erupt."
"The violence of January 6 was an extension of Trump's Reckless lies."
"All hell will break loose... there will be a revolt." - Steve Bannon
"That's the reason we saw the January 6 insurrection... it's not going away any time too soon."
"We are chilled to our bones at the thought of a coup succeeding."
"Donald Trump quite clearly and almost explicitly painted a Target on his vice president's back on January 6."
"By many accounts, members of antifa and related far-left groups engaged in worse conduct and, in fact, instigated much of the violence."
"It was a mob that was there to overturn the result of a democratic election."
"Enough! Shock out of China! Zero tolerance shall turn on the government as people rise up."
"1880s France was a tinderbox of monarchists, republicans, bonapartists, and communards."
"The stock market continues to hit new records, even after the violence at the U.S. Capitol."
"I'd also be looking very carefully at the causes and the instigators of that Insurrection."
"People in Russia, where protests and rioting are on the rise, want Putin to step down."
"It was a violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power."
"Elections are not due till 2025, so one can see that there is a lot of commotion going on."
"But if history has taught us anything, it's that Alberta will remain ungovernable."
"This was a seditious conspiracy to stop the peaceful transfer of power."
"These people are insurrectionists, they'll call themselves revolutionaries."
"The violence at the capitol that day was wrong."
"They are going to use these militias to cause mayhem in this country. These folks do not want to share power, they do not want black people to use their power."
"We are a failed State and it demands a revolution."
"When the president of the United States cannot travel abroad or to any major city at home without fear of a hostile demonstration, then it's time for new leadership for the United States of America."
"It's a sad time in our nation's history with antifa activists hijacking black lives matter protests in cities across the country attacking the police and engaging in violence."
"This was an attempted coup, and I wish we could say we couldn't see it coming. But that isn't true."
"We cannot have presidents inciting and mobilizing mob violence against our government and our institutions because they refuse to accept the will of the people."
"That's not democracy, we're seeing really a mockery out of this whole revolution."
"One in three Americans believe that it might be time for violence against the government."
"They want a communist revolution or a French revolution, whatever kind you might think, a Cuban revolution, they want that in America right now."
"I'm afraid that these actions are going to wake a sleeping giant, i.e., the American people. I think what is gonna happen if this continues is we're gonna see bloodshed in the streets."
"We cannot let the country just move on from this... the attackers aren't just moving on from it."
"He dreamed of being a police officer, then was killed by a pro-Trump mob."
"There's probably there's definitely some domestic terrorists right in our own government making a fraudulent election right now."
"This is not just trespassing, you can't just charge these people with trespassing. They had absolutely every intention to harm and would have harmed lawmakers if they found them or if the directive from their overlord had come in in time."
"and you know this comes at a time when you know political social upheaval is climaxing you know we seem to reach a new height every time but it's just chaos"
"For nearly two years, Greece erupted into a near revolution in response to the rising debt crisis and major cuts to services by the then government."
"If Law and Order are not promptly restored, the final outcome may be the election of Marie Le Pen as the new president."
"The truth is, if this is true, that's an insurrection. That's not a rally got out of control with bad actors."
"I think you would see massive violence from the left if Trump were to win re-election."
"The legislative leaders of the American government were evacuated to a military base to secure their lives against a mob attacking the US Capitol. That's extraordinary that happened and we just witnessed it happen."
"90% of those who stormed the Capitol are more disturbing than the 10% we have focused on."
"The regime is shaking right now because the Cuban people... are on the brink of collapse."
"Popular uprisings tend to be things that autocrats don’t have a lot of sympathy for."
"Don't be distracted by politics; this is serious. We cannot let America become a nation of conspiracy theories and thug violence."
"Amidst the turmoil, there were plans and discussions of a coup to depose Tsar Nicholas II."
"They're talking about a coup now."
"Alive, Edward the fourth's sons would always be the focus of possible discontent and rebellion."
"She is politically turbulent; there's warfare, there's conflict."
"The whispers of discontent in Athens weren't limited to the Parthenon as Pericles continued to expand Athens' domination."