Maybe the enormous amount of trouble Rittenhouse clearly went to in order to insert himself into this crowd carrying a semiautomatic weapon suggests that he wasn’t exactly “minding his own business” when the guy with the skateboard viewed him as a threat
Rittenhouse’s defenders focus on how THREATENED he felt, while deliberately yadda-yaddaing over the fact that he was not licensed to carry a gun & was openly carrying an AR-15 in a crowd 40 miles from his home.

I know these things aren’t important to them, but context matters.
Mind you, the NRA would love nothing more than to eliminate any and all restrictions on age, and what kind of weapon you’re allowed carry in public. If Rittenhouse manages to get away with this, I’m sure they will be watching this case very closely for precedent.
It is a mainstream Republican belief that they should be allowed to carry any kind of guns anywhere they want and shoot anyone who tries to take them.

That’s pretty much the literal translation of “ΜΟΛON ΛΑΒΕ.”
Probing further, the implication of “ΜΟΛON ΛΑΒΕ” is actually more aggressive: “Come and take it…… so I can have an excuse to shoot you.”

They WANT to use their guns. They are inviting the world to give them an excuse. They would have us believe they are primed for battle.

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14 Nov
Republicans everywhere are insisting that liberal school boards are brainwashing our children with Critical Race Theory.

This is a lie. Many of them know this. But it wins them elections.

When truth & power are at cross purposes, the GOP will choose power.
A report was released yesterday where the 1/6 insurrectionists insisted they were “force fed” CRT in jail. (My gut reaction featured many intemperate words.)

“CRT indoctrination” was never a grievance that could be a legitimately addressed. It was always a political dog whistle.
You can’t tell Democrats to “Stop forcing Critical Race Theory on us” when Democrats were never doing that in the first place.

But politics is far less about what is really happening than what people BELIEVE is happening.

The grievance, not the resolution, was always the goal.
Read 4 tweets
14 Nov
1. Oh, the fuck they were
2. How fucking stupid do they think we are
3. Does anybody fucking care anymore what CRT actually is
4. They don’t teach it in the fucking jails
5. I fucking promise
6. Enough with this overused fucking dog whistle
7.
8.
9.
10. weasels fucking weasels
I will concede that they are teaching Critical Race Theory in jail EVERY BIT AS MUCH as they are teaching it in the public schools, which all but the stupidest motherfuckers on Planet Earth understand is “not at all”.

GOP 2022: We Are the Stupidest Motherfuckers on Planet Earth
This is how Team MAGA is going to gin up sympathy for the insurrectionists:

“They’re being force-fed Critical Race Theory! In prison! OH, THE HUMANITY!”

To them, CRT is forced Deep State indoctrination. It’s every bit as threatening as Dr. Fauci & the COVID vaccines.
Read 4 tweets
10 Nov
R: Schools are teaching our kids CRT
D: Show one example

R: Well, they’re forcing it on teachers
D: Name one school that does this

R: Well, it’s clearly infecting the curriculum
D: Be specific

NYT: Democrats Take CRT Literally But Not Seriously

R: WE WIN AGAIN 😂
D: There have been multiple court hearings & thousands of pages of documentation demonstrating that Trump covertly sought Russia’s help in getting elected

R: You have no evidence LOL

FOX: There’s a nationwide plot to shame white children for being racist

R: YOU HAD ME AT HELLO
CNN: The Coronavirus death toll continues to rise among the unvaccinated

R: Ehh, CNN and the Democrats are just trying to scare us

FOX: A teacher somewhere in California used the words “white people” & “racist” in the same sentence

R: MAN THE BATTLESTATIONS, PATRIOTS!
Read 6 tweets
9 Nov
While I do not entirely dismiss your goal, I regret to inform you that there is no way to “talk about race” that will not alienate the segment of the voting population that adamantly takes offense at any suggestion that racism remains a thing
The last six months of CRT-related discussion has hammered home the point that there is literally nothing you can say about racial inequality that won’t disturb the Princess-and-the-Pea-level sensitivity of a MAGA conservative: “STOP ACCUSING MY WHITE CHILDREN OF BEING RACIST!”
So although I am certainly open to a realpolitik solution that would incentivize white voters to embrace racial progress, I struggle to consider exactly how such a thing could be done outside of “slip it into the background without really talking about it.”
Read 4 tweets
8 Nov
R: How dare Sesame Street advocate vaccination when it has become such a partisan and divisive issue

D: How do you suppose it “became” partisan

R: Clearly Dr. Fauci, the CDC, and all pro-vaccine scientists are involved in a major Deep State conspiracy

D: That sounds reasonable
R: Besides, the safety of the vaccine has not been settled

D: You say that about any issue where you don’t like the results

R: That’s ridiculous

D: Like climate change

R: Needs more study

D: Or the 2020 election

R: Voter fraud

D: Or the Mueller Report

R: No collusion
D: Your resistance says more about you than it does the vaccine

R: What’s wrong with my body, my choice? HUH?

D: Because eradication of a disease requires—

R: HYPOCRITES!

D: Your allegation of hypocrisy does not make the situations analagous

R: I distinctly said “hypocrites”
Read 4 tweets
7 Nov
R: BLM thugs are rioting in the streets! The woke mob is destroying America! Stop Sharia Law! There’s a crisis at the border! Build the Wall!

FOX: A schoolteacher in Poughkeepsie told her class about institutional racism

R: But teaching our kids about that will divide us
R: I’m just concerned that suggesting nonwhites get a raw deal will destroy the colorblind utopia where America would otherwise be headed

D: I see

R: And furthermore, Pants Up Don’t Loot Free Kyle Rittenhouse Blue Lives Matter Boycott the NFL Go Woke Go Broke Pocahontas LOL
R: Why haven’t you wokesters figured out that the most racist thing you can do is accuse white people of being racist

D: Are you sure about that

R: Yes, because that makes nonracists angry & resentful, which makes them WANT to act racist

D: So how exactly would we be wrong
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