Under that mask could be any number of Republican Congresspersons |
And you will be unsurprised to find out that far from demanding Robertson simply comply with lawful orders and not resist arrest. Conservative are lionizing the wannabe Presidential assassin as a MAGA Martyr.
It's not difficult to understand why. Conservatives believe the Government exists to to specifically target, harass, arrest, and kill minorities, the poor, women, and liberals. Namely everyone rightwingers hate. The Government and Law Enforcement are expressly forbidden from punishing rightwingers for unethical actions, crimes, or terrorism.
Rightwing domestic terrorism is coddled and encouraged in America. This is demonstrated time and time and time again by the number of Republicans who feel absolutely free to pose with guns, the amount of on-line death threats conservatives routinely make, and most vividly by the January 6th terrorists exited the Capitol building whooping and hollering, arms raised in triumph. Since, then Republicans have decried the arrests and convictions of over 1000 of the criminals involved in the attack.
Jan6th, was of course, simply one avenue of attack Republicans took against the US Government. Another was the Fake Electors scheme in various states like Wisconsin, Arizona and Michigan.
“If the government continues to weaponize these departments against conservatives and the citizens that are then the taxpayers, you know what's going to happen to this country,” Michigan State Representative Matt Maddock asks, according to the audio obtained by The Messenger. After attendees at the event shout possibilities, Maddock answers his own question: “Someone's going to get so pissed off, they're going to shoot someone. That's what's going to happen. Or we're going have a civil war or some sort of revolution. That's where this is, where this is going.”
Matt Maddock's wife is Meshawn Maddock, is one of the 16 fake electors from Michigan and was recently indicted herself. And as we've seen "weaponizing the government" means conservatives facing the consequences of their actions.
Taylor Taranto, 37, claimed he had been living in his van and participating with demonstrators supporting Jan. 6 defendants outside the D.C. jail. The protesters kicked him out late last month after they said he acted erratically and tried to play a video that showed the death of Ashli Babbitt in front of her mother. The QAnon conspiracy theorist showed up near Obama’s home shortly after Donald Trump posted on his social media platform what he claimed was Obama’s address. Taranto was armed, dangerous and in the grip of delusional thinking, prosecutors said, and had successfully eluded law enforcement for nearly a day before his arrest June 29 in a wooded area near Washington’s exclusive Kalorama neighborhood.
We're at an inflection point in this Nation. It's the 6 year anniversary of Heather Heyer's murder in Charlottesville. For whatever reason we've been saved some of the violence of the 1960's but, as Trump continues to attack Judges, Prosecutors, innocent election officials, more rightwing "lone wolves" will comprehend the clarion call for stochastic terrorism...
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