The minute you call it a “violent terrorist attack on the capitol,” you lose most of your standing when complaining about the DOJ, Dems and Media because they have diff views than you how to handle a “violent terrorist attack on the capitol.”
He didn’t mention BLM or the insurrection at the WH last year that forced a POTUS into the bunker and wounded 60 USSS staff.
The GOP is a systemic clown show.
Cruz accepts the narrative that lawmakers were about to be lynched despite the fact that many hundreds calmly walked in the Capitol taking selfies and not moving rope lines. It was mostly calm where PD was not at hand.
Bloodthirsty terrorists leaving things mostly neat? Haha.
It’s very possible that Ted Cruz used this language to help bury Trump for 2024 since @tedcruz sees himself as next in line for the nomination. However, as 2008 and 2012 has shown, Dems always use former “bad” Republicans as a stick against current ones, for example:
Bush didn’t show up to the 2008 convention (due to a hurricane, sure, totally), and was not a factor at the 2012 convention, but Obama/Biden used Bush against Romney.
Disowning fellow GOPs with Dem narratives harms GOPs.
Besides, Cruz is blamed by many Dems for 1/6/21.
Video of @tedcruz today that the Jan 6th mass trespassing event violently cracked down by police was a “violent terrorist attack on the capitol.”
The game is over, folks.
Go home and get a life.
You are wasting your time with the GOP.
POLL:
In the summer of 2020, a POTUS was forced into the bunker (maybe the fiesta time since 9/11) due to political violence next to the White House that wounded more than 60 Secret Service Agents including 11 that were hospitalized.
If, again IF, @tedcruz were to win the 2024 nomination (the firestorm is just getting started BTW; he stepped in it deeper than what he knows), Dems will claim that he can’t be trusted because he helped cause - WHAT HE HIMSELF CALLED - a “violent terrorist attack” in 2021.
Here is the Secret Service’s description of the late May-into-June 2020 violent insurrection at the WW that wounded more than 60 officers and agents; hospitalized 11.
Corporate Media mocked this as BunkerTrump so the obedient GOP is also silent.
Then they whine about MEDIAAA.
🚨 Thread on political violence at the Capitol and surrounding areas:
The point above is that a mass trespassing event inflamed by trigger-happy cops doesn’t deserve any attention beyond understanding why PD was this brutal and why civil rights of political dissidents are getting crushed with impunity since then.
It was a joke when POTUS Trump was bunkered due to political violence in 2020 that left 60+ USSS agents/officers wounded. I am not adapting any crazy language about a mass trespassing event that had barricade pushers and some who instinctively reacted to a brutal crackdown by PD.
1/ Crazies told me 14 day lockdowns are insane. Current rule: 5 days are cool.
Crazies told me that asymptomatic people are not the main factor of spread. Current rule: Infected asymptomatic people can rock and roll
2/ Crazies told me there are false/immaterial positives with COVID-19. Current rule: No need for a negative test at the end of isolation because positives can show up as long as 12 weeks after infection.
3/ Crazies told me that we need to consider other factors of society during COVID-19. Current Fauci stance: Yes, that’s what we need to do which is why we cut the isolation time.
From Feb 2020 through Sept 2021 in the US among all ages there were 44,650 COVID cases per 100,000 people in the population and 280.7 deaths among those cases.
This is a death rate of 0.62% and is 6 times worse than the flu’s usual 0.1% fatality rate.
2/ COVID’s death rate is on an illness where people were told to wait it out at home except if they needed the hospital.
Do this for the flu and I doubt that its death rate will remain at 0.1% of cases.
Absent such COVID rules, who knows how lower COVID’s rate may have been.
3/ I am bringing this up because lockdowns were made in March 2020 with the assumption that COVID’s death rate is 1.0% - 3.0% of cases which would be 10-30 times worse than the flu. Yet the CDC’s data puts it at 6 x worse than the flu (despite the panicked changes to healthcare).
“Now we know that the vaccines work well enough that the virus STOPS with every vaccinated person.” - @maddow in late March of this year. (Source of this show is @NBCNews@MSNBC or whoever will try to get this shaming tweet down for “copyright.” It isn’t. I am giving due credit.)
“You are not gonna get COVID if you have these vaccinations.” - Biden in July.
(Source of this show is @CNN or whoever in that cooperation will try to get this shaming tweet down for “copyright.” It isn’t. I am giving due credit but real rules don’t matter around here.)
1/ Thread. I know I am talking here mostly to the 4 walls, but as an exercise I’ll tweet these thoughts and if you are one of the few to read it, thank you.
We are often told to “trust the science,” but the science of trust is to earn it; you can’t force people to trust you.
2. In recent years, however, little has been done to earn the public’s trust. For starters, there is no THE science as science is a developing thing. What’s more, to claim “the science is settled” is strange as science as a topic is about constant study.
How can it be settled?
3/ Besides, if you have the numbers, show it. Why do you need to ask for people to trust it? Furthermore, many people “trust” “the” science, but they just distrust your policy solutions to the science and your motives behind ths policies that you want to impose on the public.
There is data on ICU and COVID-19 deaths based on vaccination status. Why not another column on whether the person already had COVID per a PCR (and how long ago 6, 9, 12, 15 months)? Why the blackout on such critical data especially that the vaccines don’t hold like Polio, MMR?
If C19 shots stopped the spread (as Biden claimed in July 2021), and if the shots held long, you can perhaps argue everyone should get the shots for the greater good as done to other diseases. But cases R now worse than pre-vaxx and shots are not a dead end, so (next tweet)