You know, back when the protests were happening, I had opposed the idea of untrained civilians taking over police precincts, since they didn't have the training or expertise needed to operate the tools required to enforce the law and catch criminals. I'd like to not only defend that argument, but apply the same logic here to these MAGA nuts. They have no training or qualifications to... what was their end goal? Hand the government over to Mr. Trump? It's just inane. They're idiot fantics, and the cause is dubious at best, wrong at worst. Case closed. Lock 'em up, and don't bail them out, please. At least the mass riots had a more firm moral grounding. No question.
Yet I want to add as much as I have no love for either mass riots or chaos on Capitol Hill, I have more of a small smidgeon of respect for where they struck, even if not their cause (their cause is a joke, Mr. Trump is on his way out, just give up), in that they took the fight of their misguided movement right where it belongs, to the fat cats in Congress. I don't want them murdered or the MAGA fanatics massacred, but at the same time, I do hate that bigotry in all its forms is on the rise, which includes police bigotry. Like leftists giving renewed calls to "abolish police" due to "selfies taken with violent terrorists!" Like, you people are the same ones who support the idea of seizing government property with force! Or else you'd care that civilians have taken over police precincts. Seems more like you're just jealous the right wing was more organized here, more bold in their efforts. They beat you to the punch. Maybe you guys should take your fight to Congress next time. It's certainly a louder statement.
Because like it or not, police merely enforce the laws. They don't make them. Who does? Oh! The people in Congress who just got a firsthand taste of the social unrest in the USA right in their face. You blame centrists for enabling the right, yet when the hour to strike at our corrupt elites came, where were you? I just abhor something like these biased reports about police spending that don't take inflation into account, like, say, from '77 to '17. That smudges the numbers right there to push a political agenda. I mean, defunding police when many of these reform initiatives cost money.
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And seizing a police precinct and storming the halls of the capital building, in both cases being out for blood, is insurrection at best, or domestic terrorism at worst. Even treason. And I'd call it treason for both, absolutely indefensible. It's just contributing to the larger societal breakdown. Yet it's just misguided passion when you can't control the bad actors on your flanks, but it's vile satanic hatred when this happens? Like, GROW UP.
Make no mistake, this seems like just the beginning, race riots and violence in the halls of Congress. I expect it to get far worse in the coming decade. And the MSM still wants to blame Mr. Trump and push their own agendas rather than admitting he merely exploited the deep social rifts already there. If we had more faith in our leaders, our news reporters, and our institutions, then this wouldn't happen. We know at this stage thanks to the liberation of the internet that they don't give a f*** about us and they never did. Yet there is still one tiny thing to admire among this larger stupidity going on. It is that the elites will now be shaking in terror and see what life is really like on the streets of America RN. They doubtless are going to take the wrong lessons away from this, but they created this mess and though I don't want them dead, I can't feel sorry it's finally reaching them in their little ivory towers now. Don't you leftists claim otherwise, either! You have no love for Congress or the party you vote for and if this were the BLM crowds roaming in Congress after some white cop had shot a black person, would you honestly feel different? Since I don't doubt you would. Yet where's that concern when it's a white person shot by a black cop, for example? Do you even care? It's all b******* either way. Don't pretend to support authority when you rail against authority in your own way.
At least watching the double standards become more apparent is amusing as H. Like this.
Mr. Biden's empty campaign promises to "unite and heal us" ring entirely false, more than ever. Mr. Trump isn't the bogeyman who made the country fall apart. We did that all ourselves. And if we can't pull together and admit that, then not only expect this to repeat itself, but escalate, sadly.