The Right Wing Outrage Machine only works if you remove any and all context from whatever their outrage du jour is. It’s functioned like this for years. Remember when they got all mad about Obama saying “you didn’t build that”? The full context reveals that Obama was talking about roads and bridges and the public…

Only the people searching for something other than the fucking insurrection to be upset about.

So let me get this straight: Hannity thinks that it’s bad that Cooper suggested the insurrectionists eat at Olive Garden and is outraged that that was “Cooper’s takeaway”, but Hannity’s takeaway is that, counterpoint, Olive Garden is good.

In the fallout of Wednesday’s violence, we can see the schism between Pence and Trump. Trump stood by while his supporters stormed the building where Pence and his family were, while those same supporters were shouting “where’s Pence?”, because he, too has become a target because of his refusal to go along with the…

So, I wonder about the necessity of having declared a war to define an enemy - the “war on terror” has allowed for people determined to be “terrorists” to be treated as an enemy combatant, which seems to be a special designation of an individual intent on attacking the United States, even without a state sponsor. It…

I didn’t think the leopards would eat MY face!

He did issue orders to a violent group of fascists loyal to him over country...

The problem is that other Trump family members are in positions of authority within the GOP - DJTJ and Guilfoyle angling to run the party apparatus and essentially controlling fundraising, i.e., the lifeblood of the party. Additionally, they’ve openly talked about running primary opponents to any Republican that runs…

A lot of people have been talking about Trump possibly moving to Moscow and selling our state secrets. My response is always, the CIA/NSA whatever would whack him wherever in the world he was if he tried to do that. It’s not like we’re unacquainted with the notion of carrying out extrajudicial killings on foreign soil.

See also: Matt “I adopted a pool-boy that’s the same age as me” Gaetz.

I know I’m several days late here and, in the intervening days, a lot has happened. Five people have died because of the mob, including a Capitol Hill police officer who had been hit in the head with a fire extinguisher. Reporting indicates that off-duty cops and military personnel participated in the riot. According…

I get that looking for explanation isn’t the same as reaching for an excuse, but I do appreciate your last paragraph.

Get fucked with your “but both sides” bullshit.

Reporting indicates that some of those that stormed the Capitol were military and off-duty cops.

Reports are that Pence ordered the deployment of the National Guard when Trump wouldn’t do it. While Trump watched them storm the Capitol with glee, Pence was actually fearful. Pence is a villain, but Trump is a supervillain from like, early Spiderman comics.

After Ruby Ridge and Waco, though, we kinda do tolerate right wing terrorists. Why didn’t Cliven Bundy get shot or go to jail after fomenting a rebellion during which his supporters pointed guns at federal agents? Why didn’t his sons go to jail for occupying federal buildings?

I’m gonna go ahead and say he’s always been a piece of shit, but because of Trump and the greater MAGA sphere, he felt emboldened to wear that on the outside. Nobody just wakes up one day to find that they have these heinous beliefs.

I mean...the difference being that black people were killed in their own vehicles, on their own property, through no fault of their own, meanwhile Karen of the Revolution got killed trying to overthrow the government. Really, potato, po-tah-to.

If there’s only one lesson you ought to have learned over the past 4 years, it’s that both sides are NOT the same.

I appreciate your parenthetical there, but certainly didn’t take it as a slight to my cultural heritage. Cultural appropriation and symbol co-opting happens all the time (though not often in service of a genocidal regime), so I don’t feel that being offended at that appropriation is my property.