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CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
Fri Nov 19, 2021, 12:50 PM Nov 2021

Here is my neighbor's comment on a Facebook pic of the guy with horns and face paint:

"Look at this picture - is this the face and outfit of an insurrectionist who was planning on killing somebody and overturning the federal government? Please. He shouldn't have faced any prosecution. This is all political theater."

I really don't know who he is talking to...

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underpants

(182,835 posts)
1. Yes he's clearly Antifa AND BLM posing (repeatedly) as as a Clustertrump cult member
Fri Nov 19, 2021, 12:53 PM
Nov 2021

Ooooldest trick in the book.

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
4. He was also deeply disturbed and disturbing on counting all the votes (remember that?).
Fri Nov 19, 2021, 01:00 PM
Nov 2021

He started in on that episode and got in deep. He said on Facebook that he actually saw a video filming "voters who voted more than once." That got such an uproar on Facebook that he got very quiet,l because he had his friends ask him, online, if he was "all right" and "we really need to talk..."

It makes me sad because he and his family are wonderful neighbors and take care of our trash pickup every week.

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
8. He and is family endured a home invasion some time back. It was terrifying what he and his family
Fri Nov 19, 2021, 01:08 PM
Nov 2021

had to go through. I think that had to have just made him a bit crazy. And also, years ago he and his wife lost a baby that was just born too soon, despite doctors best care trying to keep that tiny baby alive. I have started to make a yearly donation to a fund they started in her name for the premature babies unit at Yale-New Haven Hospital.

They are nice people who have had their share of grief and torment, and still are helpful to us. Oh well, maybe he is just blowing off steam...

SheilaAnn

(9,708 posts)
5. One of my trumper neighbors in talking about rittenhouse says she hopes he walks cause "he's a good
Fri Nov 19, 2021, 01:01 PM
Nov 2021

boy." I almost lost it.

Claire Oh Nette

(2,636 posts)
14. Good Boy?
Fri Nov 19, 2021, 02:38 PM
Nov 2021

So a lying murderer who took his AR out to hunt people, with a documented past including beating on a girl (who kicked his pasty ass) and wishing he could shoot people who shoplifted, who killed two actual people and maimed another with his big boy nerf gun is a Good Boy because???

He shot people whom he thought saw Black people as fully human? It's OK to shoot people who advocate against police brutality? It's OK to take the law into your own hands, just so long as you're white and "afraid for my life."

Think I'll go commandeer a Porsche. "But I was afraid for my life, so I hopped in the nearest roadster....."

Black Friday.

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
10. My neighbor also has the misfortune to look like Chris Christie.
Fri Nov 19, 2021, 01:50 PM
Nov 2021

Not quite as fat but gettin' there...

Ocelot II

(115,744 posts)
7. The rebuttal:
Fri Nov 19, 2021, 01:03 PM
Nov 2021

“‘Time’s up, motherfuckers’ is not peaceful, your honor,” the prosecutor argued, with respect to what he yelled in the Senate chamber. “That’s chilling.” She noted the letter he left on Pence’s desk ― “It’s only a matter of time. Justice is coming.” ― was “not peaceful,” but threatening. The prosecutor argued further: “The world watched the actions of this defendant and others on January 6, 2021 shake one of the foundations of our democracy ― the peaceful transfer of power after free and fair elections ― and has made us all question the safety and security of the country in which we live. “Those enormous harms, borne out of the acts of this defendant, must be deterred so that we never see a similar assault on our democracy again.”

The doofus actually received the minimum sentence under the sentencing guidelines.

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
9. I should tell him how I was crying off and on all day on Jan. 6, partly because I had a very painful
Fri Nov 19, 2021, 01:16 PM
Nov 2021

tooth and had to get an emergency appt. with my dentist who extracted the tooth. Mercifully, he gave me a scrip for pain medication. It helped blot out the pain.

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
12. Political theater? So is everything spouted on hate radio and FOX
Fri Nov 19, 2021, 01:54 PM
Nov 2021

And since it's the lifeblood of the right winger, they shouldn't be so dismissive of it.

CTyankee

(63,912 posts)
13. Perhaps I should have responded: "And isn't it terrible that Fox news eggs such individuals on thru
Fri Nov 19, 2021, 01:58 PM
Nov 2021

all of its hate and nastiness."

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