The left reacts to the Rittenhouse verdict with its usual grace, class, and style
Mary Chastain at Legal Insurrection wades through the cesspool of the left’s reaction to the Rittenhouse verdict so you don’t have to.
Their reaction is what you might have suspected. They also have a personal dog in this race, since they are now exposed to the possibility of defamation lawsuits from Rittenhouse, who could not have sued had he been found guilty. So they’re doubly unhappy.
In other responses, previous Defamer-in-Chief Joe Biden has yet to issue an apology, and I wouldn’t recommend sitting on a hot stove till he does.
In contrast, here’s a look back at what President Trump said not long after the August 2020 incident in which Rittenhouse shot three people, killing two. Turns out that, as usual, Trump was correct:
I also think that Judge Schroeder should be especially relieved at the verdict. He let the prosecution do a lot of things in this trial that should not have been allowed – certain evidence entered, for example – and if the verdict had been guilty or a hung jury he would have had some tough decisions to make about his next step. The jury took that burden off him.
I am hoping that at least one of the jurors – while preserving anonymity – gives an interview explaining what took so long. I am assuming there were a couple of holdouts for a while, but they were won over by something in the end – exhaustion? Logic? Some combination of the two?
Another hope I have is that Kyle Rittenhouse wins enough money in defamation lawsuits that he can easily hire excellent security for the rest of his life.
ADDENDUM:
Apparently Biden added that the verdict made him feel “angry and concerned.” I’d expect nothing less of him; it is almost impossible for Biden to take the correct position on anything.
Yep, the Left is going Bat S crazy. Nothing redeemable about the left.
Your friends at the ACLU:
https://www.aclu-wi.org/en/news/aclu-responds-not-guilty-verdict-kyle-rittenhouse-case
When I look back at Trump clips, it’s amazing how often he was right, and much more balanced than leftist politicians.
After initially saying jury verdicts must be accepted, Biden says the verdict left him feeling angry and concerned: https://redstate.com/bonchie/2021/11/19/joe-biden-and-his-handlers-immediately-walk-back-the-presidents-kyle-rittenhouse-comments-n478751
Zaphod, that ACLU statement is horrifying.
Speaking of the Not Left. Remember how both one rather self-absorbed Donald J Trump and the NRA spoke out in support of and donated to Rittenhouse’s defense?
No. Neither do I.
why are so many on twitter still thinks Rittenhouse shot unarmed black men, like really. were the pictures of the so called “victims” not shown at all on those networks or were they trolls from the right pretending to be ignorant leftists?
Oh…. And you’re just going to love National Review’s hot take:
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/what-the-kyle-rittenhouse-not-guilty-verdict-means/
AesopSpouse and I have followed a lot of the trial through Nick Rikieta’s online panel live-stream. Their consensus is that ALL trials should have an in-court camera, whether for live-broadcasting or archival, because of the media malpractice in this case.
How much happens that the public never learns about?
I note (although they did not) that the Leftists who so loudly defend the rights of “victims of injustice” don’t ever lobby for court cameras to record that injusticing as it occurs.
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2021/11/19/the-rittenhouse-trial-shows-us-why-cameras-in-courtrooms-are-the-proper-move-for-our-legal-system-n478624
Salon laid its groundwork early — before the acquittal. One point for finger-to-the-wind. However, there was no consideration of the actual case and facts. All systemic racism pseudo-meta-analysis and a good example thereof.
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Don’t be shocked if Kyle Rittenhouse goes free — that’s the system working as designed
Considered in full, Rittenhouse’s murder trial is a textbook example of the white racial frame’s role in America’s two-tiered criminal justice system, where there is one standard of justice for white people and a different one for Black and brown people. As has been repeatedly shown, throughout America’s criminal justice system — from initial encounter and arrest to incarceration, sentencing and parole — white people benefit from racist practices that lessen their punishment, especially as compared to Black people.
It’s almost unnecessary to observe that if Kyle Rittenhouse were Black or brown or a Muslim, he would almost certainly would have been shot dead by the police that night in Kenosha.
The lies and denials facilitated by the white racial frame helped propel Donald Trump to the presidency. They continue to empower the white right in its neofascist assault on American democracy. And the white racial frame is also why Kyle Rittenhouse is likely to go free.
It is a crucial categorical error to see the white racial frame as an aberration in American history, American justice and American society. It is nothing of the kind — it is the system working exactly as designed.
https://www.salon.com/2021/11/19/dont-be-shocked-if-kyle-rittenhouse-goes-free–thats-the-system-working-as-designed/
Zaphod:
I doubt anyone here gives two rats’ asses about what National Review has to say on the matter.
Dave:
I believe the leftist media outlets to which they regularly listen purposely misled them, not by stating that Rittenhouse shot black men, but by saying that he shot Black Lives Matter protestors, and by not picturing them. A subtle way in which they encouraged people to think they were black, without actually lying by saying it.
Typical stuff for the left. Then they relied on listeners to assume they were black men, and to spread that word around on social media. Mission accomplished!
Dave,
Here in Chicagoland the lead story has been Kyle’s exoneration. They showed his family.
Then the broadcast covered the response of a BLM spokesperson. And the response of Wisconsin democrat spokesperson.
Both, of course, were Black.
It wasn’t until after the first set of commercials ended that they showed some of the family members of the career criminals who tried to murder Kyle.
Journalistic malfeasance. Not at all unexpected.
Re: Donald Trump / KR
Zaphod:
Trump did offer a public defense of KR.
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Speaking at a press briefing at the White House on Monday August 31, the President claimed that it was 17-year-old Rittenhouse who had come under attack in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
He added that the gunman would “probably would have been killed” had he not shot two protesters dead.
When asked about the incident, Trump told reporters: “We’re looking at all of it and that was an interesting situation.
https://www.the-sun.com/news/1401228/donald-trump-defends-kyle-rittenhouse-gunman/
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Trump’s support is double-edged and the situation was fraught. I’m glad Trump didn’t make KR a personal cause.
Zaphod:
Are you lazy, stupid, or a troll, or some combination of these factors? I am speaking in particular about this comment of yours.
Do you not read the posts to which you comment? Do you not watch the videos, particularly the ones relevant to your comment? If you had, you would have seen Trump’s early comments about Kyle Rittenhouse, which are included in this post.
What’s more, if you knew anything about the US – and you have demonstrated time and again that you know practically nothing – you would know that presidents do not contribute money to anyone’s legal defense. A huge no-no.
huxley:
In this post, I had already posted the video of Trump saying that. He was very canny, but it was clear he thought Kyle probably had a good self-defense claim.
Thanks for that AesopFan.
By watching the trial, we did not have to rely upon the melodramatic musers with an axe to grind; we could see and hear things for our own edification.
This is obliquely related. Remember when Trump would give frequent press briefings by standing some distance from the Marine 1 helicopter on the lawn? The camera would be trained on him only and the sound recorded only his raised and somewhat strident voice speaking above the noisy engines.
For a while I wondered, why does he do this? It’s not a good presidential speaking voice or environment.
Ohh! Then I realized that the engines drowned out the melodramatic musers with an axe to grind.
It was an useful technique, but I think it hurt him in the public’s perception. It is amazing the number of questions from the press he personally answered compared to Slow Joe.
He needs to pay off his debts and get back on track — learning a trade, getting married, and starting a family. On the way, he might serve in the Army or the Marines.
Some of the characters who deposit cat turds on our Fakebook wall have made their opinions known. One is a clergyman, one is a retired social worker, and one is my niece. They don’t offer two words of wisdom between the three of them, but, then again, they do not do that in any circumstance on any subject.
why are so many on twitter still thinks Rittenhouse shot unarmed black men, like really.
Recall John Leo’s remark that journalists think in templates. Well, so do their satisfied customers.
@ Zaphod & Neo in re https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/what-the-kyle-rittenhouse-not-guilty-verdict-means/
Although most of us here indeed no longer care what the pundits at National Review think (with a few occasional exceptions), this is the entirety of McLaughlin’s post:
“It means Kyle Rittenhouse was not guilty of the charges against him.”
Tomorrow, we will discover how they have decided to spin that tautology.
I am happy and relieved that Rittenhouse was found not guilty. It is another ‘green shoot’ of hope for America.
From Aesop’s post from Red State;
‘The thing to keep in mind, though, is that the media does not behave in a different fashion; they have their agenda to push out, and they are incapable of steering their coverage in any other fashion.’
Perhaps this is also cover for the House passing the BBB bill last night?
Snakes, all of them.
These people are not sane, in that their ideological fanaticism and lust for power and control know no limit. They have consistently and repeatedly demonstrated that there is no lie too big, no act of depravity too foul, that they will not employ in the pursuit of their tyrannical agenda.
Sooner or later, the cesspoll that neo mentions is going to have to be dealt with and there’s only one way to deal with a rabid dog.
I wish it were otherwise but wishes and reality only occasionally coincide.
On my way back home tonight I noticed the Abq Peace & Justice Center had a crowd of about 30 in the parking lot, while BIPOC leaders addressed them with a small speaker setup. I stopped by for a taste.
KR is, we are told, a white militia vigilante, carrying a rifle, acquitted of murder by a white supremacist justice system for killing people who were exercising their rights to protest injustice, blah, blah, blah.
I’m near the university and the center of town, so if there is a protest march it will go by within a few blocks. If I hear helicopters, I’ll know what that is about.
So far Kenosha is quiet…
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Though supporters and detractors had gathered outside Kenosha’s courthouse Friday, no protests had materialized by Friday afternoon after Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges.
https://abc7chicago.com/kenosha-wi-protests-shooting-kyle-rittenhouse-trial-verdict/11254394/
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Perhaps national activists saw the acquittal coming and realized it wouldn’t look good to have a good old-fashioned burn-and-loot riot in response. Perhaps the governor’s activation of the National Guard was a factor.
Sundowner, Gov Evers and Senator Duckworth all have come out with statements against the verdict.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2021/11/crazed-reactions-to-the-rittenhouse-verdict.php
Personally I’m not expecting big, terrible protests. The weather is colder and students and families are clearing the decks for Thanksgiving and Christmas shopping.
I’d also like to think that, although the left will continue its bluster, enough people noticed the case wasn’t the slam-dunk they were led to believe.
Most of what I’m reading/hearing from the left is boilerplate, however unpleasant. I don’t sense their heart is in it.
A leftist zealot I know on Facebook made two arguments against the verdict:
1) If Rittenhouse had been black, the police would have shot him.
2) Rittenhouse was seen in a bar with white supremacists.
How this leads to the conclusion that the verdict should have been guilty was not explained.
Anybody know anything about that “in a bar with white supremacists” bit? I hadn’t heard it before, but then I haven’t followed this very closely. Too stressful.
No riots. The shadowy cabal profiled in the Time Magazine article was responsible for the cash flows feeding the George Floyd Summer of Love. The effort succeeded in its contribution toward removing Trump. There is no political gain to be had by post-verdict rioting. And all the money coming in now, along with all planning resources, is being frantically directed toward 2022 elections. There is no network of money-givers, no conversations with mayors telling them to stand down their police – and the citizenry in these towns have wised up and are giving their local leaders the fish eye. No riots, just a few scattered crazies that will do it for free.
@Neo:
As far as I can figure, Trump hasn’t been President since late January. I’ll grant Huxley’s point on Trump having whilst still in office stated a pretty neutral opinion to the effect that Rittenhouse would likely be dead had he not fired in self-defence. I can also accept that a Trump opinion would be polarising. Well, golly-gee.. guess what? This was a polarised political trial… with the entire Establishment piling on and a deafening silence from nearly all Establishment ‘Conservatives’.
You all got very lucky this time and a simulacrum of Justice has been done. As I have said and doubtless touched a nerve in doing so, had one of Rittenhouse’s bullets so much as given a Black a flesh wound that night, he’d be in the can for life.
It’s still all about Who Whom and just a matter of Who. Best enjoy the ‘victory’ and throw the rule book on the bonfire while you’re at it.
Sit back and watch how your side does not press this victory home. The prosecution team, elements of Kenosha’s city government, Grosskreutz, other AntiFa defendants are all going to walk free and continue their antics. You know it. I know it. We all know it. And next time around they will make sure to dot the i’s and cross the t’s.
You say I don’t get America. I am merely asking why you people don’t want to win.
Aggie:
Excellent points. Riots make less sense when Democrats control the White House and both sides of Congress.
Setting blue cities on fire while the Biden administration faces multiple crises and polling lows is such bad strategy even the left can figure it out — beyond the real lone nuts.
My fantasy is that Kyle sues President Biden for defamation, and wins.
The US polarization is getting worse because the Democrats lie about those who disagree; lie, slander, defame. The First Amendment is not supposed to allow defamation. As long as Dems are allowed by the courts to defame others, it will get worse.
“Another hope I have is that Kyle Rittenhouse wins enough money in defamation lawsuits that he can easily hire excellent security for the rest of his life.”
Neo, I hope he wins enough money in defamation lawsuits that he can afford the entire 82nd Airborne.
@Telemachus:
Much rending of garments and tearing of hair in the Embassy compound this fine morn?
One can hope!
How the Right should react:
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2021/11/lets-hear-it-for-rittenhouse-patrols.html
A sensible suggestion. Push back. Gently but firmly. Very firmly if absolutely necessary.
They lie on every level, on every occasion, and any apology is fake.
They are momentarily sorry that they got caught, and that is ALL.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/nov/19/apologies-dccc-fumbles-statement-condemning-ritten/
I confess he got some parts right, but for the wrong reasons, and in the wrong direction.
They say things that are unobjectionable in the abstract, but they don’t mean what people think they mean; everything they actually do counter-acts what they imply.
“Justice for all” means not objecting to the Rittenhouse verdict.
Period.
I thank God for this verdict, bless the jurors, judge and defence attorneys!
Racial ironies: the Left insinuated that the alleged “victims” were black. The Right claimed the case was not racial, but Jump Kick Man “Freeland Whatever” reportedly kicked or stomped Kyle’s face while he was on the ground. (I couldn’t tell if he connected from the old videos I watched.)The black thug was protected by the Democrats.
Looking at the pictures of Kyle, I wondered if he had any African ancestry. The first comment in Zaphod’s link at 10:42 suggests that he does.
@Wesson:
I saw that comment too. Being the cynic that I am, I just put it down to wishful thinking. Peter Grant at Bayou Renaissance Man and his commentariat are a curious bunch of deadly serious armed to the teeth survivalists and All God’s Chillun Eagle Scouts at the same time all mixed in together — if you get my drift. Nothing would make them happier than to die together in a fox hole with Thomas Sowell on MLK Day fighting a last ditch defense against hordes of ‘Communists’. Provided, I guess, that Sarah Hoyt survived to make an epic poem out of it all Camoes-like 🙂
I think if Rittenhouse had any Black Ancestry, it would have been presented as ‘Evidence’ — every bit helps.
I will say that Peter Grant does some sterling work on the current logistics situation and on how well all that Free Market Capitalism has been working out for ordinary people.
This is one of his latest and very informative:
https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2021/11/another-factor-in-food-production-giant.html
Neo’s favorite conservative twins.
I cannot imagine this stays up for long.
Some hard sayings by the brother on your left. And he’s not laughing as much as usual. He’s peeved – really peeved.
“You’re dumb motherf><&ers"
https://youtu.be/kuOKRi953iI?t=484
full:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuOKRi953iI
@Zaphod
“@Telemachus:
Much rending of garments and tearing of hair in the Embassy compound this fine morn?
One can hope!”
Strangely enough, I’ve never heard the trial mentioned by any of my colleagues, not even once. Not even the reformed-lawyers-turned-diplomats. It’s like they didn’t want to acknowledge it.
“Are you lazy, stupid, or a troll, or some combination of these factors?”
Does the sun rise in the East? Do bears shit in the woods? Is the Pope … oh wait!
@FOAF:
The East is Red, or so I’m told.
Yes. Whereas I piss on premature parades and the dopey denizens of Copium Dens.
You can keep the Pope. Much joy may he bring you.
When Polish dude toured Australia in the 80s, some canny entrepreneur marketed a Pope on a Rope iteration of the then fashionable Soap on a Rope novelty gift. This before the dangers of dropping the soap in an ecclesiastical environment were so widely known. An idea due for a comeback.
@Telemachus:
Thanks for the data point.
Perhaps if a White Tree falls in a White Forest and only White People get pancaked… I dunno.
Caught the link below on the hop from Sarah Hoyt, who tonight advises, “Spit Out That Black Pill.” Her point being that our side will win inevitably, though it will likely get scary, messy and even bloody, before the dawn. In fact she sees the Left:
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They’re a spent force. They’re done. It’s been clear they were done since election night 2016, if not earlier. Though it’s becoming more obvious as time goes on.
Doesn’t mean the war is over. As Bill Whittle (bless his name) puts it, most casualties happen after we know the war is won or lost. So be careful out there, and keep your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2021/11/19/spit-out-that-black-pill/
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I’ve been seeing the Left/Democrats way over their skis since Biden was elected. And I’ve thought that some of their agressiveness is desperation, because they can feel the brass ring slipping out of their fingers.
So Sarah links to a well-wrought and original blog essay which starts with an analogy to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor as a desperate throw that fails on its success.
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The Decisive Battle
t turns out that the liberal [Decisive Battle, i.e. the 2020 election] suffered from the same fatal flaw as the Japanese one: it is all well and good to sink all the ships in Pearl Harbor, but what do you do if the enemy then refuses to concede defeat? The significance of ”Let’s go Brandon!” spreading like wildfire outside the jaded internet set in this context is that it reveals for everyone just how powerless the media machine has now become. Nobody believes Joe Biden is the most popular president ever – nobody among the ”chuds” and the ”deplorables” would believe the likes of CNN about pretty much anything. And rather than being humiliated and broken, the American plebs are now acting just like the American sailors and soldiers did during World War 2: though none can deny that they have lost some battles and suffered real losses, surrender doesn’t seem to be forthcoming any time soon. Maybe surrender isn’t coming at all, ever. The ”decisive battle” that was the 2020 election was indeed decisive enough, but it increasingly looks like that simply doesn’t matter.
https://tinkzorg.wordpress.com/2021/11/02/2740/
@DNW:
As a bookend to your posted video, do not, I repeat do not google up the latest offering by Rakkasan101st on YouTube. You have been warned.
There are more things in Heaven and Earth.
PS: Still have 15 mins to go on the Spanish Bird Video. Can only digest in small doses as prolonged exposure might exorcise me. And we wouldn’t want that. She does seem to have some weird eye movements going on.. but hard to tell given don’t know how many people in room or where interviewer sitting. Lots of tricks of the trade.
Zaphod,
“had one of Rittenhouse’s bullets so much as given a Black a flesh wound that night, he’d be in the can for life.”
Possibly but not necessarily so. The venue would determine the outcome. In that if in a rural part of a Red State, it would never go to trial at all.
“You say I don’t get America. I am merely asking why you people don’t want to win.”
Clearly you don’t understand why we haven’t revolted already. Here’s a clue; Pyrrhic Victory. Civil wars are horrific. Circumstance has to reach the point where the left’s actions produce enough ‘rope’ with which to hang them. Terrible reckonings take a long time to build. In 2021, the actions of the leftists within the democrat party are doing far more to open eyes than ever we on the right could achieve. But “eyes open, wide shut” are stubborn things.
Zaphod:
Darren Wilson and George Zimmerman shot two blacks (Brown and Martin) dead with bullets. Wilson and Zimmerman were acquitted. Perhaps your point is post-Floyd.
In light of our China conversation perhaps I would have been better to ask you whether Rittenhouse should have been disappeared lest his one case roil a nation of 390 million.
For whatever reason I am not as pessimistic or impatient as many on the right. These are dire times but Old Glory still has some innings left before we need a revolution or a Constitutional Congress.
@Huxley:
“Perhaps your point is post-Floyd.”
We inhabit a Post-Floyd West. Until such time as such unmentionable actions are taken so as to render it a Post-Post-Floyd World.
“In light of our China conversation perhaps I would have been better to ask you whether Rittenhouse should have been disappeared lest his one case roil a nation of 390 million.”
Touché!
Nah… On second thoughts… stuff that for a joke.
*adopts random Zen posture*
“No. But George Floyd should have been.”
And with that, I’m fresh out of Koans.
Exegesis: It all (loaded word coming right up in this year of Our Lord, 2021) Depends ™
I’d certainly advise against constitutional conventions and similar stupidities. You just never know where they’re going to end up going.
Hoyt also links a Bill Whittle video in which he offers as evidence that the tide is turning:
YouTube has removed the Thumbs-Down feature from its videos.
The reason:
Biden, Harris, Pelosi and Fauci were getting terribly ratio’d by mere American citizens with deplorable attitudes. Kinda conflicts with the Narrative.
Cowards. I’m sure that’s why many/most of the comment sections on liberal sites have disappeared.
@Huxley:
Bill Whittle peddles High Production Values Hope-ium to the Tactical Zimmer Frame Set.
The tide has a metric crap ton of turning to do.
https://amgreatness.com/2021/11/18/terror-in-the-capitol-tunnel/
“…Future court filings, interviews, and security footage will slowly reveal to the public how law enforcement, beginning at around 1 p.m. that day and continuing for hours, attacked and beat American citizens who dared to protest the election of Joe Biden. Further, it will become clear that Joe Biden’s Justice Department, with compliance by D.C. District Court judges, are keeping several eyewitnesses to the terror in the tunnel behind bars awaiting trials delayed until at least the middle of 2022. Nichols’ hearing for bond is set for December 20, at which point he will have been incarcerated for more than 11 months. (He has no court date.)”
Funny thing about YouTube getting rid of the dislike count is that tech influencers are falling over themselves to reassure their audiences that they will post their like/dislike totals as pinned comments.
It appears to me that recent research does not support either earlier findings or the presently accepted body language wisdom on the specific correlation between directionality of lateral eye movements, and truth-telling or category of memory retrieval.
Nonetheless, after watching the video half a dozen times just to review the very point you are considering, it seemed to me that she was casting back mentally – or trying to – to a primary visual or auditory experiece.
Now, as good philosophical naturalists and default atheists, we must assume a priori that what she is actually reporting cannot be what she thinks she is reporting. But the BBC interviewers when asked by her after the interview if they believed now, replied that they now at least believed that she herself believed.
She certainly seems to be an utterly transparent person.
The apparent discrediting of the phenomenon and the fantastical sounding claims by the lapse of time and the passing away of some of the subjects, does not take away the importance of this matter as a psychological phenomenon.
Of course for those with some familiarity with or interest in Christianity mooted as Truth, rather than just as a consoling or solidarity reinforcing social practice, there is the disquietingly accurate “revelation” ( which at the time appeared to be a nonsensical prediction) of an emergent wholesale apostacy within the ranks of the Church prelature. By 1961 standards, this 1965 announcement, seemed preposterous at the time it was made: a complete impossibility, not mere improbability.
Even in 1980, when the BBC Everyman documentary was released, the makers were unable to grasp the specific sense of the second announcement and described it as a reiteration of the first, but in stronger terms. They completely missed the specific reference to the mass of defecting and Hell bound prelates, as the crux of the 2nd “message”.
There is also the problem.of the other three girls and their independent and individual experiences, and the very public and documentary record of these strange events.
I personally don’t know what to make of this historical event, but think it is fascinating.
Either the human organism is very mentally different from the way we usually think about it ( women especially perhaps) , or reality is very different from what naturalists assume it to be.
But of course in the current naturalistic context in which the multiverse is taken as a serious theoretical concept, it becomes clear that the grounding of that old and presumptive billiard ball materialism, gave way under our feet some generations ago.
Zaphod:
Well, Americans are known for their optimism and Bill Whittle is the type. Me too, in my post-Pink-Floyd way. (It’s fifty years since the Summer of ’71 when I first heard “Ummagumma”!)
Who’s to say you aren’t peddling Depress-ium?
I’ve seen this country swing from 50s conformity/Jim Crow to 60s civil rights/go-go hipness to 70s tie-dyed hedonism to 80s Reagan conservatism to 90s hi-tech/Clintonism to 00s 9-11 shocks to 10s Obama-Trump polarization.
America is a very dynamic country. The straight line is not your friend when predicting its moves.
I don’t see censoring YouTube dislikes and, more importantly, any debate over Covid’s origin and treatment, 2020 election fraud, criticism of Biden, etc. as a sign of the Left’s power.
I’ve been wondering when the good ship America would start changing direction. With Youngkin and now Rittenhouse, I think we’re seeing it. There’s nothing hopeful on the horizon for the Left/Democrats in 2022 and 2024. Covid was a gift in 2020 that won’t be repeated. Far more Americans are now aware how corrupt, deceitful, divisive and unwise our elites are.
You may disagree, of course, but how do you see them getting through the next few years without losing substantial power?
As the philosopher Dylan said, “Don’t speak too soon for the wheel’s still in spin.”
One of the most specious arguments made by leftist sore losers in the matter of the Rittenhouse trial is this dubious assertion that if the defendant had been Black he would not have been acquitted. Sadly, this is what happens to the brains of liberals who have been marinating in the battery acid of politically correct pieties about race.
The answer to this infantile claim (and I am quite certain that 99.9% of conservatives would agree with me on this) is as follows. If a young Black teenager had done exactly what Rittenhouse did – gone to Kenosha to protect local businesses threatened by the scummy likes of Rittenhouse’s Antifa assailants, and also to put out any fires the rioting Neanderthals had started – and if he found himself under attack by the same criminals who attacked Kyle, and then successfully defended himself by shooting three of them, he would still be regarded as a hero who had engaged in legitimate self-defense.
There are a couple of added ironies here that it would behoove us to consider. Firstly the idiotic assertion that Rittenhouse is a white supremacist would be just as stupid and invalid if the scumbags who attacked him happened to be Black, because their demise at Rittenhouse’s hands would have been the consequence of their barbaric behavior, not their skin color. In other words, it would have been the content of their character that led to their deaths. One does not have to be a genius to recognize the truth in that statement. One only needs to be slightly more intelligent than the average “mainstream media” reporter – and heaven knows that isn’t asking for much.
Secondly, if the defendant in this trial had been a young Black man who openly identified as a conservative and Republican, and he had shot three white guys in self-defense, the white leftist mob would not have declared him a champion for “social justice.” They would have demonized him in the most vicious terms because of his conservative politics, calling him an “Uncle Tom,” an “Oreo,” and even a “Black white supremacist.” The liberal narrative about racism in America is a factory assembly line churning out self-righteous idiots on a truly industrial scale.
The behavior of liberals in the run-up to and during this trial has confirmed a thousand times over that when it comes to respecting moral principle, the average liberal leftist is a walking Potemkin village: all virtue-signaling facade and no interior whatsoever. They are shallow, bigoted, intellectually starved, one-dimensional people whose behavior in such situations is never difficult to anticipate, because as I have said before, liberal leftists are not only as predictable as a bad case of diarrhea after an overdose of prunes; generally speaking, they’re about as pleasant.