Shame on the voters who elect people like Louie Gohmert.Texas GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert gave an American flag that flew over the Capitol as a gift to a Jan. 6 rioter after her release from federal prison
Not moral, not American, not Christian, not human. He only deserves any courtesy or deference to save one's own peace and soul
This is ridiculous. She’ll continue to be known for what she did. Whether that harms her prospects or not depends a lot on where she was before. Louis has always been an idiot, but now he’s trying to distinguish himself amongst a much deeper field of idiots.
you have to admire him for even trying such an undertaking. It won’t be easy. It’s going to take nights, werkends, storyboards, scripts, rewrites … There’s going to attempts that, no matter how hard he tries, simply won’t be stupid enough. But he’s going to keep trying. You’ve got to give him credit for that.. he’s going to keep trying.
Well, to be fair what Gohmert did wasn’t a whole lot different than Democratic Congressmen and other leaders posting bail for those arrested during the “peaceful” demonstrations and riots two years ago.
It doesn’t matter if it happened. The problem is trying to create equivalency Between black social justice protesters and January 6 protesters trying to overturn the United States government to preserve white supremacy.
Examples please and they should be of individuals accused of committing acts such as vandalism or looting.
It did happen. Kamala Harris for one, used social media to encourage donations to pay bail for protesters and rioters in Minnesota after Floyd was killed. Granted, it was never disclosed whether Harris actually donated but nor was it ever said that she didn’t. However, it was disclosed that Joe Biden’s campaign staff did donate money to a Minneapolis “bail relief” fund in 2020. And I’m pretty sure good ole Maxine Waters (the gift that keeps giving) encouraged protesters “to get more confrontational” back in 2020 and other Democrats sent out similar messages at that time. And Tampagtr, I condemn what happened on January 6 and those who participated deserve whatever punishment is handed out. But unlike you, I also condemn the many violent protests and riots the occurred in 2020 and 2021. Those who harmed innocent people and damaged Federal Buildings and other properties throughout this country have should have faced the same consequences. Protesting is fine but no one, and no matter the circumstances, should ever have license to perform criminal acts just because they are angry.
Those acts are all "justified" because it wasnt their businesses burned, broken or driven to ruin. Its easy to say when you weren't hurt. Have we ever had one business owner hurt by these things saying it was worth it? No. Its always those sitting at a comfortable distance. It's all wrong. It's all evil.
They are NOT equivalent. The distinction is easy. BLM protests were legitimate protests, intended to communicate dissent, and were intended to be nonviolent (I attended some, that was drilled into everyone many times before each). To the extent criminality occurred adjacent to BLM protests, it was one of three things; 1) some looters, no doubt, but not as part of the official protest, indeed acting against the "official" instruction; 2) Black Bloc and related Anarchists, whose destructive tactics predate BLM (at least back to the Battle of Seattle in 1999), attempting to disrupt WTO meetings; these anarchists are organized, train a bit, and are destructive, and; 3) cops being cops, with immunity. I understand that consumers of right-wing media think that was rampant destruction from BLM protesters. They play loops of some limited destruction by protesters not associated with black lives matter, and they play tons of loops of anarchists dressed all in black being highly destructive, just to try to foment racial hatred, because that is what Fox and the right-wing media does. They deliberately conflate the two and try to convince people that one was the other. It wasn't. The left-leaning politicians that were trying to organize bail for protesters that were arrested for things like "unlawful assembly" and were often kettled and otherwise abused by law enforcement. Local law enforcement is still steaming because Andrew Warren wouldn't prosecute as felonies those that they arrested for nothing more than unlawful assembly. Blocking roads to excess is a bit more problematic, but that was the exception rather than the rule, notwithstanding the fact that DeSantis played into the fantasy of running over and killing protesters. I've got nothing wrong with prosecutions for those that destroy or steal, and I would want vigorous enforcement, meaning force against force, for the anarchists who wanted nothing more than to use the opportunity to create chaos and destruction as part of an overall accelerationist mindset that closely tracks the right wingers. Fox and other networks use the rampant underlying racism in their viewers and in most of the country to try to create the false impression. And it's become a very tiring talking point try to equate BLM protests with what happened on January 6. The problem from the perspective of those watch Fox is the exact message that black lives "matter". They want to say the black lives don't matter. In contrast, even those that merely trespassed on January 6 came with the explicit purpose of trying to disrupt official government proceedings. And many of them came ready for violence, premeditated and organized and intentional. There is no equivalent to that in Black Lives Matter protests, no matter how often repeated
Sometimes I wonder what people like you would have said about our founding fathers if we had lost the Revolutionary War fighting against the British... And NO, Jan. 6th WAS NOT A RESURRECTION.
You should be careful inaccurately answering your own questions. For example: Minneapolis businesses, including some that were damaged, are standing in solidarity with protesters | CNN Multiple business owners that were vandalized that stated that they supported the protests because they are able to recognize the issues that led to what happened. Perhaps you are sitting at too much of a comfortable distance from where this happened to state what you know so definitively.
