More severe police injuries and deaths on that one day of rampaging Trumpers than in five years of Anti-Police protests.
Nearly 140 officers were injured during pro-Trump extremists' Capitol siege \u2014 including officers who sustained brain injuries, smashed spinal discs, one who'll likely lose an eye, and another stabbed with a metal fence stake, the Capitol Police union said.https://t.co/D9jFSkKtJm
— NPR (@NPR) January 28, 2021
But they came to resist police.
Which is completely different.
Because one group is literally arguing for human dignity and the other glorifies violence.
Once you accept that... WHO is standing opposed to you doesn't matter much.
This stark difference in approaches to violence is not trivial.
This is different than violent rage consuming anything in its path.
The clashes are characterized by protesters attempting to stand ground against police assault.
Physical contact is generally unarmed
They came with an intent to intimidate, to kidnap, to kill, to destroy and to use violence to force a specific political outcome during a governmental process.
This is nothing like anti-Brutality protest.
They TOTALLY would.
But once inside, they'd sit around singing and making speeches until someone in Congress agreed to come and speak to them and hear them out.
They're two wholly different ideologies with completely different core values.
You have to do a lot of cynical acrobatics to say they're the same.
This doesn't pan out.
Anti-police protestors and BlueLivesMatter people aren't mirror images. They don't use the same tactics to reach different goals.
Similarly, Antifascism is seen as the mirror image of fascism, but none of this makes sense.
It's illogical and ridiculous.
But comforting.
People who are anti-Police brutality do not want citizens to be able to shoot cops at will.
They want nobody shooting people.
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I love a good cover story.......
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And Trump came out of AF1 and gave ol' Rod a big thumbs up!
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Note the conflicting stories about 'Rosenstein cancelled meeting with Congress on Oct 11!"
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He's STILL in charge of the Mueller investigation.
He's STILL refusing to hand over the McCabe memos.
He's STILL holding up the declassification of the #SpyGate documents & their release to the public.
I love a good cover story.......
The guy had a face-to-face with El Grande Trumpo himself on Air Force One just 2 days ago. Inside just about the most secure SCIF in the world.
And Trump came out of AF1 and gave ol' Rod a big thumbs up!
And so we're right back to 'that dirty rat Rosenstein!' 2 days later.
At this point it's clear some members of Congress are either in on this and helping the cover story or they haven't got a clue and are out in the cold.
Note the conflicting stories about 'Rosenstein cancelled meeting with Congress on Oct 11!"
First, rumors surfaced of a scheduled meeting on Oct. 11 between Rosenstein & members of Congress, and Rosenstein just cancelled it.
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Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x
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Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x
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