Federally prosecute every single Q-nut who vandalized Congress. But if cops had fatally shot an unarmed BLM rioter, her name would be on NFL helmets, there would be weeklong nationwide riots, and we’d be seeing the video for months. (Even Jacob Blake is treated as a martyr.)
I’m just disgusted at the double standard, and worse, the gaslighting and amnesia that somehow BLM rioters were treated worse than the Q rioters. Leftists tried to breach the courthouse in Portland last night and not a one will be prosecuted.
Don’t want violent reaction by political losers? (I don’t!) Then the media shouldn’t celebrate violent reaction by the politically privileged. And I use “privilege” intentionally here.
And the kid-glove treatment of BLM rioters by the press and politicians—and the rapid ostracism and adverse career consequences to anyone who was sloppy criticizing rioting—shows where “privilege” really resides in 2021 America.
The Q-nuts should be prosecuted. Trump should be impeached. But if you’re complaining Capitol Police underreacted defending Congress in the course of killing a woman, have more mercy for the police who shot criminal Jacob Blake while defending the children he was kidnapping.
As if to prove my point, some idiot I’ve since blocked is falsely accusing me of racism because I’m saying “All rioters, regardless of the justice of their putative cause, are bad and should be prosecuted rather than celebrated.” https://twitter.com/tedfrank/status/1347185657429549058
Michael Brown was commemorated on an NFL helmet even though the Obama Department of Justice investigation found that a police officer’s killing was legally justified self-defense because Brown was attacking him and trying to take his gun. So who’s being delusional? https://twitter.com/sportsmasterdan/status/1347189373528383488
No political side has a monopoly on stupid delusional responses in this thread.
No political side has a monopoly on stupid delusional responses in this thread.
No political side has a monopoly on stupid delusional responses in this thread.
And kind of remarkable that some idiots are insulting me as a Q supporter and some idiots are insulting me as a leftist. Twitter is a hellscape.
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