Thread by @Dreamweasel

A lingering aftereffect of the Trump Presidency is that mindless nonsense like the Presidential Turkey Pardon while the country around us is virtually engulfed in flames and on the brink of civil war fills me with little besides white-hot rage

https://twitter.com/mindys4biden/status/1461801113724850176

I mean, I doubt I’m the only one who’s a bit more focused on what the Rittenhouse verdict is going to mean for the authoritarian Right & the vigilante jackofficers who feel entitled to peel off protesters and then cite the tried-&-true They’re Coming Right For Us defense in court

Hell of a job, Judge, for making it that much harder to enforce restrictions against minors carrying firearms, openly or otherwise. Aggressors now get to claim “self-defense” because of selective amnesia. Active shooters are cool as long as they’re white. Terrorism = patriotism.

If you think there’s any doubt in what the NRA means when they say “good guy with a gun” I invite you to consider how law enforcement treated Rittenhouse on the night of the attack & how the judge treated him during the trial.

Note: Rittenhouse killed 2 people, who remain dead.

BLM has spent years protesting the grotesque double standard between the way police treat black & white citizens who are potentially dangerous. One need only consider their kid-gloves treatment of Kyle Rittenhouse to irrefutably bolster such a conclusion.