What I linked to from Cruz was from May 2021, which is about 3000 hours later, not less than 72. Still up on his website today, I just checked. (Don’t take my word for it, click the link and check it yourself, keep me honest.)

Checking neo’s posts on J6 I found lots of stuff questioning that narrative dating from well before Cruz’s statement of May 28, 2021. Either at that time Cruz knew less than neo was able to find out–or he knew more, which I think is a bit more likely. If by May his information was less complete, that was his choice, considering his position.

More than one person here besides myself has said it, a lot happened on J6 and some protesters were definitely violent that day, even if as the Left says about their own violence it was “mostly peaceful”. But we in the online world have a lot of people applying binary logic to a complex event.

Trump 2016 or Trump 2024?
Remember: Trump dissed both of them severely in the 2016 primary.
I don’t remember what Rubio did after the election, but Cruz swallowed his pride and buckled down to support the MAGA agenda in 2016-2020, and IIRC commended Trump when he earned it.
So, neither of them was really FOND of Trump in January 2021, but Cruz was still working on his side to present some of the arguments for pausing the election certification.

NOW, they are both sold on MAGA, which means working to push Trump’s agenda, and perforce their POV on things has changed, leading to different “shading” of their words in re Trump himself.

However, as I said on another thread, I think both of them (and many others) gave a knee-jerk response the day of and shortly after J6, based on the videos being broadcast, because the Senators did not personally see anything while in the building and then being evacuated.

I would have preferred a little more “Let’s wait and see all the evidence before drawing conclusions about anything.”
But that sounds “weaselly”, doesn’t it?

The seventy-two hour rule is good for bloggers & commenters, but high officials and news “stars” usually have to produce a response sooner than that.

Sometimes they get it wrong.

did the tear gas cause the stroke, what trauma did they face, that caused them to commit suicide, thats still dubious to me, then you have the provocateurs, name escapes me, which kinzinger and co, came to the defense of, even though he urged them to enter the capital, the day before,

January 6th, proved for many, that the rule of law went dorment, if not died under this combination, not only for the ones killed that day, but those that committed suicide, in the years after, because of the draconian charges,

for all of Tucker’s recent catastrophic choices recently, one cannot deny, that he really went the extra mile in pursuing this case, when most everyone else had given up the ghosr, same for julie kelly, who should have received multiple pulitzers for her research, and the johnnie come latelies, now attack her, for this or that perceived flaw

the fact that neither rubio nor cruz, my paisans, cannot reflect on their errors as other have done, is not a credit to them, others have thought things through

Contra Trump and his sycophants, there was a riot on J6. There was violence against law enforcement on J6. That was deeply, deeply wrong and remains a stain on the right and the GOP. Pretending that there was no riot or that the rioters were somehow justified is silly, wrong, and terrible politics.

Contra the sycophants on the left, it was abusive and wrong for the Biden administration to prosecute every individual who so much as set foot in the capital.

Contra the sycophants on the left, there are still legitimate questions about why there wasn’t adequate security at the capital and the extent of the FBI activities in the crowd.

Cruz comes off as a little more weaselly than Rubio, but it seems to me that they’re both (mostly) consistent and just dealing with a complicated, nuanced situation where no one else appears willing to see shades of gray.

The videos that someone selected to publish and you happened to see shows that there were some people doing some rioting at that time, and the same can be said for J6. But was the “rioting” around the ICE raids unusual for that area, or the kind of thing you see after a ball game?

LA Rams fans LOOT and RIOT after team’s Super Bowl victory: Fan is shot and troublemakers destroy their own city

That’s where we get into “what are people calling it”. For J6 there’s tons of “riot” video. There’s also video of people walking quietly within the velvet ropes. Which is representative of what “really” happened? I can’t say of my personal knowledge, I wasn’t there, and even if I had been I might have seen the wrong things.

I can’t tell you of my own knowledge how much or less worse the 2022 Superbowl “rioting” in LA was compared to the ICE “rioting”. All I can tell is how much people online are talking about it and what they are calling it. This is an ongoing problem in trying to figure out what of what we see in the news and online is even “real” in the sense of matching how important it is and what kind of thing it is.