silverscreenselect wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 8:07 am
flockofseagulls104 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 01, 2024 7:45 am
You want contrast? Jonathan Diller. Say his name. No one at the $26 million extravaganza did. Laken Riley. Say her name. biden almost did, not voluntarily.
I'm not sure what relevance Diller's tragic death has to do with anything other than to give Trump another cheap photo op. Over $2 million has been raised for Diller's family, exactly zero of which comes from Trump or any organization affiliated with him or the Republican party. And violent crime in New York City is down substantially in the last year and below 2019 levels. Sadly, reducing violent crime never equals eliminating it. If only we could do something about the flood of illegal firearms on the streets...
And if you want to start saying names, mention the hundreds of jailed insurrectionists who assaulted Diller's fellow police officers on January 6 and whom Trump now calls hostages and wants to pardon.
Never, oh never, address the main point of anything. Whether you consider them photo opportunities or not, these events DID happen. They are real-life tragedies, and by completely ignoring them, the biden admin shows that they mean nothing to them. To Hochul and the others, the Diller funeral was a photo opportunity. And the people involved consider these politicians partly responsible for what happened. So do the 10,000 people lining the street outside the funeral. That's why they asked her to leave. They did not mass protest her, they did not threaten her with violence. They did not go out and riot in the streets. That's what YOUR people do, trollboy. Not us.
So do the thousands of people who attended Reilly's memorial service. The bidens think NOTHING of these people. Neither do you.
All these politicians cry out that they receive death threats on their social media. So do the conservative ones. Anyone can send a death threat or claim to have gotten one. But name me one actual event of a mass, destructive riot by conservatives. Other than Charlottesville, which was done by nazis who are NOT part of mainstream conservatism, and who trump specifically condemned. And Jan 6, which was not especially violent. I can cite many by your mainstream coalitions, starting with the nationwide George Floyd riots.
I've seen a lot of the Jan 6th video. I did not see many, if any, specific incidents of assaults of police officers among those videos. (I'm sure you will enlighten me with one.) Inside the capitol, I saw police officers standing aside and letting it happen, and the protesters pretty much wandering around. I know there were a few incidents of vandalism by a few bad actors. But pretty much everyone there seemed to behave like they were on a tour, not like they were overthrowing anything. And the police officers pretty much stood by and let it happen. Outside, it was more complicated, not helped by police firing grenades into the crowd and a few inciters, who may or may not have been planted to do just that. Not to excuse it by any means, but it was not an 'Insurrection', and no one has ever been charged with that. The ONLY person killed in direct consequence of Jan 6 was Ashley Babbit. She was unarmed, and though not where she was supposed to be, posed no direct threat to anyone.
I, and millions of others, do not buy the Insurrection narrative. Put that in your pipe and smoke it.