6 Reasons the ‘No Kings’ Riots Are Far Worse Than January 6 — But the Media Still Calls Them ‘Mostly Peaceful’
June 16, 2025
Late last week, we came across a commentary video by the gamer Asmongold on YouTube. The topic of course was the unrest surrounding the LA ICE raids. The commentary triggered some back-and-forth with users in his chat one of whom tried to dismiss what was going on in LA by comparing it to the protest on January 6, 2021. This prompted another user to comment that the Left “Always brings up Jan 6.”
To which, Asmongold responded, “Because they don’t have any other examples.”
From the very start of the January 6 saga, it’s been a constant struggle to get the truth out over the mountain of lies spread by the media and the Biden administration about what actually happened that day. The frustration is compounded by the fact that even among those on the Right who are distrustful of the media, many continue to believe the lies. As a result, demonstrable untruths about the protests on January 6 remain unchallenged.
I wish I could challenge all of them here and now, but that’s an exercise that must unfold over time because the lies are so many and the propagandized are so recalcitrant.
As a start, highlighting key differences between what’s been going on (for days now) in Los Angeles and what happened that day in DC over four years ago illustrates just how malevolently deceitful the stories about January 6 are.
From the perspective of someone who was actually present at the Capitol on January 6th and who suffered under the Biden regime’s boot heel–culminating in 18 months of incarceration–the differences in the media’s reaction to J6 and the LA riots is infuriating.
The images of unrest in Los Angeles playing out as the media tells us that it is completely peaceful behavior to attack officers, burn cars, and be kitted out with glossy signage and tactical gear alone are easily mocked. Attempts to compare the two are laughably nonsensical.
It’s not even close as even a cursory examination of the evidence proves.
Let’s take a look at the key differences.
1. Flags
It’s been the topic of many commentators on social media that there’s something extremely off-putting about the fact that the protesters in LA aren’t waving American flags but flags of Mexico, Palestine, and other countries. Though it may seem trivial to some, the flags tell you everything you need to know about what the protesters in both situations hold as guiding ideals.
For January 6, the flags were a mix of American flags along with Trump flags. This underscores the fact that the intent of the protesters was to protest in the name of our own country.
Yes, the protest was directed at elements of the government, but that’s what every protest is ostensibly — a chance to bring and express your grievances to the government in order that those grievances may be addressed.
The LA protesters, on other hand, are clearly not interested in promoting American values or calling on their fellow citizens to uphold American ideals.
No, these are self-identified foreigners resisting a government to which they hold no allegiance in a country whose culture for all intents and purposes they hold in open disdain. All while flying the flags of the nations they so desperately seek to avoid.
On January 6, the media claimed it was the end of democracy because Americans waving American flags were protesting, while this week we have seen them glorify self-identified illegal immigrants saying the laws of America do not apply to them because they are stealing back what amounts to stolen goods, namely the land we call home.
As the protestors in Dallas proclaimed, “Chinga la migra” (F-ck the immigration authorities) and “No one is illegal on stolen land.”
2. Funding
When I booked my flight and hotel to Washington DC, exactly zero tax payer dollars were spent. Neither the Trump speech at the Ellipse nor the protest at the Capitol building saw any protesters provided with food or protest supplies like signs, protective gear, or flags.
Many people have been shocked to discover that the LA rioters are actually being funded, much of it by we the American taxpayers.
Among the non-governmental organizations connected with the street actions over the past weekend are CHIRLA (Coalition of Humane Immigration Rights – LA), PSL (Party for Socialism and Liberation — a Communist organization), and the Million Voters Project.
These organizations share resources and collaborate in numerous ways. The first has received upwards to $34 million in government grants while the other two have benefited from millions of dollars in funding from pro-China Communism billionaire Neville Singham.
And, as we’ll see below, America isn’t the only country providing financial or moral support to the rioters.
None of the protesters on January 6 benefited from this kind of government support. Nor were we flush with millions of dollars paid by billionaires and think tanks.
Because there were over 1,500 of us, the legal fees alone would have easily exceeded $100 million–an amount that already dwarfs the government money received by CHIRLA.
Any donations we received were from individual supporters, many of them anonymously contributing small sums ranging from a few dollars to maybe a couple hundred.
Additionally, these donations were sent to political prisoners’ commissary accounts after they were imprisoned, not before the protest. J6ers were already behind bars when they received any money.
If this iteration of the Summer of Love is anything like the prior 2020 debacle, we can expect most of the LA rioters to have their charges dropped, if any are brought at all.
3. Media Lies
It’s no mystery that the media played a major role in sensationalizing what happened on January 6th. By the end of the day pundits were seething over the “attempted insurrection” and took their fainting couches wailing that America would never recover unless we protesters were all rounded up and taken out of society and away from public discourse.
To enflame public outrage, there was no end to the lies told about January 6. First they said we murdered cops.
When it turned out that the sole deceased officer, Brian Sicknick, died of a heart attack not on January 6th but the next day, they still insisted against all logic and facts the cause of death was the protest.
Then came a slough of officer suicides/dubious deaths, some as late as six months after the original protest. The press claimed these men too were “killed” by J6ers.
As the push back against the counterfactual media claims became more vociferous, the press stopped calling us murderers and instead referred to January 6 as “the deadly protest.”
Why would they use such vague language? Because it was deadly. For us. Four protesters died as a result of police actions that day.
Not a single cop was killed. But to hear the media talk about it, we left the Capitol strewn with the bodies of officers all of whom died valiantly protecting “democracy” from the deadly scourge of popular dissent.
The insistence on characterizing Jan 6 as a “deadly protest” took a very real toll on J6ers.
Imagine being called a murderous insurrectionist by your family members because the government charged you with trespassing.
This was only a small portion of the media mischaracterization of January 6. In every detail, rhetorical language was amped up to provoke the maximum amount of disgust.
One photo of a Democrat picking up a small collection of items from the floor is described by the AP as “Rep. Andy Kim, D-N.J., cleans up debris and personal belongings strewn across the floor of the Rotunda in the early morning hours of Jan. 7, 2021, after rioters stormed the Capitol in Washington.” Yet the floors and walls in the background are pristine and unblemished. Where is the “debris” mentioned?
In another photo, Kim can be seen picking up discarded bottles of water. The floors are again immaculate.
I mention this because one of the biggest lies about Jan 6 is that protesters smeared blood and feces throughout the Capitol. In my own research and in my interactions with three separate AIs (all which conducted extremely long searches for such a simple question), no photographic or video evidence exists. This is best evidence of “feces smeared on the walls” I’ve been able to find: the-sun.com/news/2105149/trump-supporters-smeared-poo-capitol-building/
The original caption reads: “Remnants of feces was spotted on the floor as brown ‘foot-prints,’ a source said.” Not only are there no brown footprints, but the part of the floor untouched by chemical irritants appears so clean, it could have been newly mopped.
So the feces fantasy comes entirely word of mouth from anonymous staffers who were likely experiencing mud for the first time in their lives (it was wet outside) or deliberately fabricating this story in order to frame protesters in the worst possible light.
They promoted the narrative that J6ers were an animalistic rabble mindlessly desecrating the hallowed halls of our anointed government overlords.
Either that, or we are to believe that these same staffers, festooned with high tech gadgets all equipped with cameras didn’t once think to document their startling discovery.
The media lies in the other extreme when it comes the actual deadly riots fomented by the Left. As Real Clear politics has documented, damages from the BLM riots ran into the billions of dollars.
Yet the media insisted throughout 2020 that the columns of smoke were the product of “mostly peaceful protests” — a claim so ludicrous that the still image of the CNN reporter standing in front of a burning city block with those words emblazoned on the chyron at the bottom of screen became a symbol of media malfeasance. My based attorney Marina Medvin used that very still in one of my filings.
Today, the media continue to insist that the riots happening over the course of days in LA are also peaceful.
ABC7 Jory Rand argued on Sunday that the National Guard wasn’t needed on the scene because it was “just a bunch of people having fun watching cars burn.” The media insisted the problem wasn’t protesters’ violence, but that the presence of law enforcement provoked them.
Most people aren’t so demeaned that they would listen to such lies, but as I keep pointing out, they know people don’t believe them. They know they won’t change hearts or minds.
When Leftists speak, it’s to encourage their fellow Leftists to violence. And that’s exactly what’s happening in LA and now in other cities around the country as well.
But J6ers weren’t only faced with media lies.
4. Government Response
Before the sun set on January 6 2021, the word was out. The day was repeatedly labeled an attempted insurrection and this media furor gave the government the basis it needed to mobilize its full force in a political round-up campaign of “shock and awe” in response to a growing threat of domestic terror.
Even in its first few months, this nationwide police action was already described as the “largest investigation and prosecution” in the recent history of the Department of Justice.
Today, after a weekend-plus of constant street violence and destruction, the LA PD currently claim roughly 39 arrests with most of those being for failure to disperse while the rest are related to blocking highway 101.
Considering that protests have been out of hand for days on end now, that’s a distressingly low number of arrests for relatively minor crimes.
Compare that with the federal government’s treatment of people who walked harmlessly through our Capitol and the lengths through which the Department of Justice went to charge with insurrectiony-sounding crimes (“interference in official proceeding”) which didn’t even apply to their cases legally.
It doesn’t even come close in either scope or scale. When rounding up the small business owners and farmers of J6, the FBI employed wires, facial recognition software, financial tracking, and cell phone geofencing. For the ICE protests, the FBI is simply putting up old fashioned wanted posters with promises of rewards.
But even on the ground, there was a massive difference in response. The disturbance of January 6 lasted a mere few hours spanning from the time Trump’s speech ended around 1pm and the crowds dispersed in time to get back to their hotels by curfew, which was 6pm that day.
And speaking of curfew, that was the only push warning we protesters received on that day.
Despite the fact that the city (and certainly the federal government) had the ability to push out a notice to disperse, no such order was even given. Not by phone, nor by the Giant Voice System that had been operational in DC since 2015.
By the time the protest was called an illegal gathering, we protesters were already departing the West Terrace in an orderly fashion. I should know. I was the last person off the Western Terrace.
The ICE protesters on other hand, have been given numerous warnings to disperse. Not just one night but over the course of several consecutive days including June 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th.
For many of us at the Capitol on Jan 6th, the situation was chaotic and unfamiliar. Although there were conflicts with the police, the bulk of the protesters would have complied with official directions to disperse had any been given. None were. That’s not the case with the LA protesters. They can’t plead ignorance or confusion because the order to disperse and declaration of illegal gathering occurs every night in a ritualistic fashion.
5. Arson and Looting
There’s a very famous photo that the media likes to pull out to defame J6 protesters. It’s quite dramatic, although the truth behind utterly destroys the story it’s meant to push.
The photo shows a great cloud rising from a glowing light. I think most people looking at this would assume that the Capitol building itself had been set afire. It wasn’t. In fact, no fires whatsoever were set by the protesters.
What appears to be smoke in that photo is actually a massive cloud of chemical irritants such as, but not limited to, tear gas. The reason it looks like there’s a fire is because that cloud appears to be rising from a light source.
But the light source is actually a massive concussive blast from flash bang grenades. The photo either has perfect timing, or it’s a still frame taken from a longer video.
Nonetheless, the light coming from below the cloud is actually a bit of stagecraft to make it look like something is on fire when it isn’t.
So what you’re actually seeing is NOT a group of destructive protesters dancing in the flames they set in the nation’s Capitol. In reality it’s a large group of people kettled in on the West Terrace being mercilessly bombarded with munitions by police. The same police who provided no means of egress, no order to disperse, and no warning.
Compare this to the constant lighting of fires in LA — a practice that, again, has continued for many consecutive days now. In fact, many of the more iconic images from those protests feature the columns of black smoke and flaming cars deliberately torched by the LA rioters. It’s almost as if the Left accuses the Right for the very crimes they commit.
Another thing the J6 protesters refrained from doing that the LA rioters are keen on is looting. No stores in DC were touched, torched, broken into, or robbed that day. Like I said, we were in by 6pm. That didn’t leave a lot of time for mischief. Nevermind that the destruction of private property is not something conservatives condone.
Not the case with the invaders in LA. In fact, the looting situation remains so fluid that no dollar amounts have been calculated for the damage inflicted on local businesses. According to Grok on X, there have been approximately 15 LA businesses attacked thus far. These include an Apple Store, a T-Mobile, several shoe stores (Adidas, Nike, and a Shoe Palace), several jewelry stores, two dispensaries, and a sushi place.
Keep in mind, this is a running tally. Unless these riots are stopped, the looting and arson is likely to continue.
This is devastating for the citizens of Los Angeles. We know this because over four years after the George Floyd riots, Minneapolis has yet to recover. Many of the businesses destroyed never reopened. Property values cratered. Homelessness and crime spiked. And even the schools declined.
Looting does more than illegally transfer the goods held by the store into the hands of the looters. It ruins the social compact between local governments and businesses, causing them to flee areas where civic leaders are too incompetent to ensure a functioning social order.
That’s another way of saying that looting inflicts a permanent malaise in cities where it occurs. Those businesses are not going to come back.
And I can’t help but chuckle to myself at the fact that a box of DC jurors hated us much more than any potential box of LA jurors will hate the separatist rioters who caused substantially more damage to local businesses and personal property. We were hated not for what we did but for who we supported politically.
6. Purpose
The last big difference between the LA rioters and the J6 protesters lies in the reasons behind each protest.
J6ers marched to the People’s House that day to exercise our rights as citizens and protest a stolen election. It’s really telling that you can say this in mixed company these days and people generally at least acknowledge that the 2020 election was suspiciously anomalous to say the least.
There’s a trope on the Left that the courts somehow weighed in on the validity of our concerns and issued definitive judgments based on dispassionate and thorough investigations. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The courts then, like now, operated in defense of the Washington Beast. Instead of judging the cases on their merits, complaints were dismissed on standing — a consideration that has nothing to do with validity of the arguments of those who challenged the case.
In the highly rare and exceptional instances where the arguments were considered, the election skeptics were actually vindicated.
But then came the research by the Caesar Rodney Institute into the enormous web of billionaire-backed organizations dedicated to tipping the election in Biden’s favor. That was followed by the movie 2000 Mules which showed how the steal was pulled off.
But beyond these examples and other research, there was always something extremely off about the Biden administration.
It’s very important to understand that no matter what you think about the Jan 6 protest, Biden was the ultimate winner of that debate when it came to the certification of the election. Biden’s presidency was not derailed.
Though he came into the White House under a cloud of suspicion, a very similar cloud of “Russian collusion” dogged the first Trump administration. Yet the manner in which the two presidents treated their detractors could not be more different.
Trump was continually and publicly harangued, yet he remained magnanimous. He didn’t send police into the countryside to pull apart families for the crime of having a different political opinion.
Biden did. Not only did he constantly hound us and our families and our supporters and anyone who so much as questioned his election online (as well as traditional Catholics and prolifers)—he also labored at various points throughout his administration to stoke extreme hatred and fear against the country for questioning his legitimacy.
Call me crazy, but that seems like a major indictment of the 2020 election. From the start, Biden acted like a man desperate to keep the truth from coming to light and willing to use any government tool to suppress that truth.
Revelations since Biden departed from ofice have only underscored the degree to which his entire presidency seemed a carefully orchestrated and deliberately staged deception. The advent of the autopen scandal has for the first time in the history of American politics left the voting public perplexed as to who was actually running the country for those four dark years.
Contrast this with the LA rioters. Waving flags of the very countries they allegedly fled from, they fight for a right no true American citizen can claim: immunity from federal law.
This despite the fact the reason they’re protesting is because they aren’t even citizens to begin with and the specific law they demand immunity from happen to be the very laws we the people established to control who does and does not become an American.
This is no petition of grievances. They’re protesting for a permanent change in how immigration law is applied. If granted, this proposition nullifies laws essential for how we American citizens control our land, our culture, and our government. If we choose to listen to the rioters’ pleas for sympathy, it would lead to the total annihilation of the American nation state as we know it.
Which, frankly, is their explicit aim. It’s no secret. The protesters are openly saying this is their goal: to wrench our country away from us. The invaders frequently refer to our country as “stolen land” which must be subject to “reconquista” or reconquest. One of the groups supporting the rioters is the Communist organization Centro CSO, which claims the entire American Southwest is actually a separate Chicano nation, called Aztlan.
So if you were wondering why the protesters are waving flags of countries they never want to return to, there’s your most logical answer: they aren’t going back to Mexico because they’re bringing Mexico to us.
It seems we have a name for when you go to a country to establish a territory for your home country: invasion.
As if that’s not damning enough, none other than the president of Mexico, upon discovering the existence of a remittance tax in the upcoming budget bill, warned America that she would “mobilize” against our country in response. Within two weeks LA protesters were pushing to create an autonomous zone where American federal immigration law would not apply. This is naked aggression.
There’s a real poetic justice in the fact that media talking heads like to compare Jan 6 with what’s going on with the ICE riots. As I’ve pointed out, they seemed to have a vested interest in protecting the DC system by convincing our fellow citizens that Jan 6 was an insurrection.
Yet the most unbiased assessment of the facts around the ICE riots, which they relentlessly downplay, reveal that the rioters’ focus and goal are nothing short of insurrection itself.
And this major difference is the most important distinguishing characteristic between the two events: that Jan 6ers were intent on saving our great nation through lawful political dissent, while the ICE rioters want nothing more than to tear the country apart as their continued lawlessness mindlessly refashions LA in the image of the nations they fled.
Matt da Silva once worked at the highest levels of government trust as a Japanese and Mandarin Navy linguist. In addition to working at the tip of the intel spear, he also has the distinction of having served 18 months in federal prison for his involvement in Jan 6. Now he’s pardoned and using his intel analysis and writing skills in defense of the 21st century civil rights movement known as the MAGA movement. You can find more of his writings at his substack (which is free). You may also want to give him a follow on X and TruthSocial or watch his videos on his Rumble channel, J6 Matt Cast. Please subscribe!
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