I’m waiting for one of these goofballs to start mainstreaming the qtarded Bircher Society stuff about how capitalized names are not your “real” names and how it’s not a “real” court if there is a flag with fringes on it (cuz something something Maritime Law, lol), etc…

Isn’t that one of the tools of fascism? And the kind of thing Bannon talks about - “flood the zone with shit”.

That’s a fair point. I’ve seen how concerned the rabid right wing was for property (over life) during the BLM protests; imagine if that property was attached to tiny d.

Is that material at all?

Property rights uber alles.

Carrying around that weapon in a place he had no need to be in is not provoking anyone?

What liberal media is this?

Hide all the plastic bags.

What reason did he have for being there?

He put himself into harm’s way, intentionally, because of right-wing feels, and then claims “self defense”. Carrying around a brandished weapon. What was he even doing there?

It so happens that I do think self-defense is a valid defense. Under the right circumstances, of course. If, for instance, someone breaks into my house and I shoot them on the spot, I won’t exactly be jumping up and down that I was pushed to kill someone (the manly macho posturing on this kind of scenario is one I always find curious; the fact of the matter is that any normal human being would not - and should not - come away mentally unscathed from ending another human being’s life. If I were forced to end someone’s life because they broke into my house, I imagine that is something I’d wrestle with for the rest of my days), but I don’t think I should be charged with anything. However, if I go to a protest, waving around a firearm, and then feel “threatened” by someone throwing a plastic bag at me…

I would say that a very vocal, but hopefully tiny, minority on the left are very much caught up in that. Not all of us are. Unfortunately, in some venues/platforms they have utterly captured the mods, and in some cases, have completely destroyed any reasonable discussion (an example I’ve mentioned before is Boing Boing’s comment section - it’s reached cartoonish levels, and I’ve mostly stopped reading Boing Boing in recent years as a result. It’s almost a self-parody, not even joking.). I think the impression is that there are many more of these types of leftists than there really are.

I’d love to see it. The amount of butthurt he, as well as many of his sympathizers, had when the feds showed up to - checks notes - retrieve classified documents that he stole - was epic and I cannot imagine how much weeping and wailing there will be if tiny d starts getting assets seized.

Thing is, tiny d would have to have his mic cut to trade barbs in a fair way. He has a habit of interrupting everyone and dumbasses tend to think he’s doing Sick Burns just because of his Gish Gallops…

Even the Crocs.

I guess tiny d needs to sell more gaudy golden sneakers and pictures of him with muscles.

Yeah, it is wild how the anti-BLM types will quote the supposed “the country’s cities were burned to the ground” (really, when was this again?) and some ginned-up numbers of total dollars of damages done, usually with great amount of hand-wringing about damage done to businesses.

They tip their hands without even realizing it, I think.

I almost feel sorry for how this kid is going to be forever type-cast as a stupid gun-nut culture warrior type. Before his brain has even fully developed. What a disaster. What he did was gawdawful but it’s likely he will NEVER learn from his mistake and become a whole human being. Not when being a total dumbass for the RW elitists willing to fund such things pays a lot better than the alternative, I bet.

And when people talk about how what he did was in “self defense”…I always ask, what fuck was he even doing there in the first place? He had zero reason to be there.

Mike Johnson is suuuuuch a creepy weirdo that even the magats are getting the willies from him.

Cruelty is the point and it is nearly inevitable they are going to turn some of that on each other.

This is one of the least surprising outcomes. How many mean girls get along?