Right Wing False Equivalence Fail 101.

[Tommy Carcetti]

Link to tweet

I admit I really don't know who Ian Miles Cheong is, but apparently he's verified, so....

"Angry leftists react by storming the state capitol."

1. There are less than a dozen people here.
2. They almost certainly gained entrance to the capitol building by entering through the proper security gates, as opposed to breaking windows and doors.
3. Nobody is decked out wearing the hats, shirts or flags of an individual candidate.
4. Nobody is carrying sticks, tasers, bear spray or zip ties.
5. I'm not aware of any reports of them breaking into the offices of officials and stealing various items, or urinating or defecating in the premises.
5. No one is demanding the kidnapping or death of any public officials.
6. While they might not be happy by being confronted by capitol police officers, none of them respond by spraying them, hitting them with any blunt objects or attempting to squeeze them to death between glass doors.
7. Their reason for being in the Capitol appears to be to peacefully protest an unnecessary and oppressive voter ID law as opposed to forcibly interrupting the peaceful transfer of power after a free and fair democratic election.

"Storming"...Yeah, okay.

[gratuitous]

1. Hundreds of white people storming the Capitol is just free speech

But some of those people in the Georgia footage look . . . well, you know. Not white.

[TheBlackAdder]

2. That twitter link is a cesspool of shitheads.

[Claire Oh Nette]

3. Hasn't the voter ID been adjudicated?

I fill out my voter application form, complete with ID information.
Form submitted to County Registrar of Voters, who performs the necessary check and issues a voter registration card that i have in a drawer somewhere.
I show up to vote at my precinct--usually a school cafeteria or a local church. I give my name and address.
Poll workers verify the name and address I give them, then ask me to sign.

Is the GOP suggesting every one of these people is incompetent and not doing their jobs? Some counties must have Republicans who are Registrars of voters. Are they calling their own people incompetent?

Before Covid, we requested Absentee Ballots. We filled out a form, and the information verified before we received our ballots. There is no difference between Absentee and Mail in. It's like the difference between the ACA and Obama care. Zero difference, but the low info rubes don't know that. This ties up the courts and impedes real justice.

They waste time on this instead of focusing on economic issues, or the pandemic. Abortion and Voter suppression 24/7. Grievance over loss of "freedom."

What "freedoms" have these people lost? WHat are they denied?


I don't want to, but I think I hate them.