While I was parenting 4 young kids, "peaceful" meant I felt that I could safely turn my attention elsewhere for a few minutes with minimal risk the kids would cause property damage or inflict bodily injury on one another. That's still pretty much it for me :-)

The press consistently calls the riots "peaceful". Just how stupid do they think their listeners are? And just how naive would you have to be to actually believe that? I shudder to think.

• If I can't safely walk down the street in a MAGA hat, it's not a peaceful anything. Period. 
• If things are being set on fire - much less BUILDINGS - it is not a peaceful anything. Period.
• If people are being injured - it is not a peaceful anything. Period.
• If anyone is killed, regardless of their politics - it is not a peaceful anything. Period.

When ALL of these things are happening, it's a flat out riot. Period.

Surrounding a group of rioters with a few hundred people who do not happen to be exhibiting these behaviors does not transform the event into a peaceful protest. It is, at best, a riot surrounded by protesters. Realistically, of course, it's a riot surrounded by sympathizers, but that's a pretty fine distinction for someone who can't recognize a riot when they're standing in it, so I'll let that one go.

This drivel is being shuffled into people's eyes and ears nonstop. What frightens me just as much as the out of control violence are the facts that:

1. The majority of the press is so fully "in the bag" for the Democrat party - even at the cost of life threatening violence -  that they have completely abandoned any pretense of objectivity and
2. There's mounting evidence the "Big Lie" principle may be correct:

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

-- Often attributed to Goebbels