Your media masters have spoken, telling us that we should be shocked, saddened, sickened and otherwise dismayed by what transpired today in Washington, D.C. I am none of the above.
My take is you’d better get used to it because millions of conservative and libertarian people in this country feel wronged, and frustrated that no one in a position of authority seems willing to address their concerns.
Rest assured, these unhappy souls aren’t going away quietly; not when the stakes – our country’s future – are this huge.
I don’t watch CNN, but I’m sure their footage of the events today had “mostly peaceful protests” running beneath it, as was their stock description of Antifa or Black Lives Matter riot video showing notable property damage.
What? They didn’t try to justify the events in Washington today? They were hypercritical?
Color me shocked.
A local news hack in my small town described it as a “day which will live in American infamy,” fittingly cadging the words used by American socialist icon, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in describing the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
This media bias and inconsistency speaks to one reason for the frustration among the masses.
Those on the political right have spent the past four years seeing their duly elected president harassed by the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives and the supposedly nonpartisan FBI.
They have witnessed the media eager to run with discredited stories of Russian influence on Trump and Russian interference in the outcome of the election that put him in the Oval Office. That same media got into bed with Joe Biden early and suppressed any stories that would have harmed the candidacy of the walking cadaver.
The aggrieved of the political right have seen big business and big tech align to put their thumb on the electoral scales.
They’ve seen sham election recounts that didn’t address the matter of ballot legality. They’ve seen courts duck cases or throw them out entirely, based on Catch-22 rulings regarding standing or timing.
They’ve seen video of questionable election conduct, affidavits detailing misdeeds, and technical explanations of why what happened was virtually statistically impossible, all ignored summarily. Nothing to see here. Keep moving.
They’ve seen four years of screeching Democratic lawmakers and their operatives taking every opportunity to blast Trump and his supporters, while praising the people burning down and/or looting businesses, purportedly in pursuit of justice.
We’ve seem images from today of an interloper in Queen Nancy Pelosi’s office (sure hope he didn’t eat any of her overpriced ice cream, which could push things into the grand theft territory). We’ve seen windows broken at the U.S. Capitol.
Tear gas was used. Shots were fired, reportedly with one death, a woman who succumbed to gunshot wounds.
I wonder if the Pink Pussy Hat brigade, whose headgear supposedly is a “symbol of support and solidarity for women’s rights and political resistance,” will come out in droves to protest the death of a woman, who was killed likely while resisting a political outcome.
Don’t hold your breath. It’s the same way women’s organizations typically hold their fire when men accused of sexual misconduct are on the political left.
The events of this day and night will, of course, be portrayed as being the fault of Trump and any others who have refused to accept silently the results of the tainted election.
Don’t buy that explanation. This is the fault of the news media, big tech, and two-faced politicians who preach reconciliation but can’t wait for their next chance to denigrate the opposition.
Don’t forget Obama’s labeling of his opponents as bitter people clinging to guns and religion.
Don’t forget Hillary Clinton’s blanket condemnation of Trump supporters as deplorables.
Remember all the faceless bureaucrats deciding to resist Trump from their taxpayer-paid jobs in the government, and being lionized by other public officials.
In coming days we should learn whether these were, indeed, Trump supporters doing the property damage today, or rather whether they were false-flag actors from the likes of Antifa planted as part of disinformation campaigns.
Whichever way the facts fall this time, it likely was merely the first battle in what figures to be a long-running war. There will be Trump supporters and other marginalized people willing to act out in violent ways in coming days, weeks, months and years.
It long has been my belief that if the left pushed hard enough, they would motivate the more unstable elements in the far right and might find themselves biting off more than they could chew.
The combination of biased media coverage and blatant failure of states and their election officials to follow laws regarding election procedures, seasoned with some in-your-face gloating by the likes of Senator Chuck Schumer, have made for an offensive mix.
Coverage of this D.C. protest is more fodder for those feeling disaffected by the way this country is being manipulated.
Autonomous zones are tolerated, as long as they are instituted by the leftist anarchists. Centrist bar owners in New York City are arrested when they declare an anonymous zone.
Similarly, riots, violence, personal injury and property destruction are characterized as fair means of expression as long as they advance leftist agendas.
I await with mock interest calls to defund the D.C. police for putting down this so-called Trump demonstration.
Can the maskholes be far behind with their citations for protesters who were caught without COVID-19 protection?
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