I think you're onto something with that thought.

You know, this sparked a thought. You know what historical figure this reminds me of more than either of those?

John Brown.

His trial. Maybe that's what is coming soon, that sort of national mini-explosion of violence, argued over by all the prominent figures of the time...

Sorry, it was just a thought...

-CW

Is anyone saying John Wilkes Booth and Robert E Lee are roughly equivalent because they both tried to defeat Lincoln?

I know, right!? Excellent point.

So Admiral Mike Franken basically makes a tweet in January 2021 (!) more than four years after Rand Paul gets attacked by his neighbor of 17 years for likely being a perpetual consummate dick of a neighbor, and somehow that's supposed to represent the condoning of violence that occurred in 2017!?

This newly-minted and long-after-the-fact false equivalency coming from those who support Donald Trump, the living embodiment of a tweeter condoning/inciting political violence, is stunning in its sheer ignorance and false equivalency.

Poor Righties and Poor Rand Paul: I pray that none of them injured their tiny little hands from clutching their pearls so tightly.

Is anyone saying John Wilkes Booth and Robert E Lee are roughly equivalent because they both tried to defeat Lincoln?

Great point!

Was it an attempted assassination of Justice Kavanaugh? The assassin called the police on himself. Not a very good "assassin"...gives real assassins a bad name, actually. He was no assassin, he was just suicidal. He hoped for a suicide by cop ending. Nothing has been produced to suggest that he actually intended to harm Kavanaugh or anyone else. He believed that threatening to kill a Supreme Court Justice was a great way to get the police to respond to him with deadly force. They were able to talk him out of it.

So it was not political violence... it was a sad suicide attempt by a sick individual.

So how many dozens of police officers were killed during riots? Two dozen? Three? Four? You failed to give us an actual number, so I am just curious to know how many died. And are you saying that tens of thousands of police were injured?

And you keep overlooking the 28 years (collectively) of Republican supported right-wing militia groups violence that gave us the Waco tragedy and the Oklahoma City bombing (combined 244 killed, 44 of them children) and most recently the attempted and failed insurrection on January 6.

Trump and Republican groups paid for the buses that a large number of those that were part of the insurrection used to get them to DC on Jan 6. They were following Trump's instructions when they fought their way into the Capitol. Trump is a traitor and so is anyone who supports him.

Nowhere was this more obvious and blatant than they two diametrically opposed reactions between a single Right Wing riot in a single building at a single location over the span of a few hours and twenty two years (collectively) of Left Wing BLM & AntiFa riots and attacks on hundreds of government buildings at hundreds of locations all over the country...

Which riots were attacks on the Right? Police aren't Republican... ya'll proved that one on Jan. 6! Protesting police shootings isn't a political protest against Republicans! You are always pointing out that Democrat run big city crime rates is the Dem's responsibility. So if that is true, protests against the police in big cities is a protest against the Dem's... not the Republicans!!! You do not get to have it both ways.

And let's be very clear... January 6 was not an attack on Liberals... it was an attack on our nation! It was an attempt to overthrow our government and overturn our democratic elections. Republicans lost. But Trump couldn't handle everyone knowing that he was a loser. Your traitorous cult leader went after both Republicans and Democrats that day! The fact that you are claiming to be on the side of those that attacked the capitol on Jan 6 shows us what a kind of "patriot" you truly are!

And let's also compare the hammered Paul Pelosi to the brutally attacked and assaulted Rand Paul..

Okay, let's compare.

“Wasn’t Rand’s neighbor more than a little in the right?”
-Democrat Mike Franken, 21 JAN 2021

*
I had to look this up because I had never heard of this tweet. Turns out, Mike Franken is "Admiral Mike Franken" who spent 40 years defending his country in the Navy. His tweet was in response to another tweet that quoted Rand Paul criticizing President Biden's inauguration speech:

Ryan Struyk
@ryanstruyk

Sen. Rand Paul on Fox News: "If you read his speech and listen to it carefully, much of it is thinly-veiled innuendo calling us White supremacists, calling us racists, calling us every name in the book, calling us people who don't tell the truth."

The Admiral wasn't the only one taking issue with Rand Paul's take on Biden's speech:

https://www.newsweek.com/rand-paul-joe-biden-liars-racists-fox-news-1563331

So Biden didn't even get past Day 1 of his presidency before the butthurt insurrectionist Righties had already began trashing him on Fox News, and that tweet was the Admiral's response to Rand Paul's total mischaracterization of Biden's speech.

So, as a reminder, Rand Paul was attacked in November 2017, and the Righties knickers are just now suddenly in a twist because no one condemned a tweet made by Admiral Mike Franken in January 2021 -- more than 4 years after Paul was attacked by his neighbor of 17 years -- and in response to Paul's drivel and spew the same day Biden was sworn in.

We commenters here on this blog were perhaps most likely definitely probably still busy condemning the Trump tweet wherein he actually directly endangered the life of his own vice president, you know, "hang Mike Pence." Or maybe we were likely still discussing Trump's tweet wherein he expressed his "love" for a group of people who some of them had earlier in the day attacked the Capitol and injured a shit-ton of police officers while Trump sat on his fat ass gleefully watching and doing nothing about it.

In conclusion: It's pathetic to watch the pearl-clutching Righties have a newly minted hissy fit over such a "tragic attack tweet" (sarcasm) toward Poor Rand Paul. Meanwhile, in January 2021, I didn't see any of them condemning Trump for his tweets in January 2021... oh, wait... yes, I did, but that was only for days before they started licking his ass again because they're a bona fide bunch of pathetic cowards and perpetually grieving snowflakes of the Grand Old Puss Party.

So, to recap: This whining false equivalency bollocks is a prime example of why (almost) no one here takes your perpetual regurgitated right-wing bullshit seriously.

-CW

“Wasn’t Rand’s neighbor more than a little in the right?”
-Democrat Mike Franken, 21 JAN 2021

I don't recall any of ya'all condemning Franken at the time, eh??

A review of Weigantian Commentaries and comments from 21 Jan thru 29 Jan shows there are NO mentions of Mike Fraken.. Not even a DISHONORABLE MENTION in 2 FTP MDDOTW awards... :^/

Let's face reality, people...

There are MANY acts of political violence committed against Republicans.. And no one here condemns those attacks with ANYWHERE near the passion and intensity that ya'all have condemned the hammer attack on Paul Pelosi..

If these Left On Right political violence attacks are mentioned at all, it's a milquetoast "Now, Now.. That's not nice" one off and then it's forgotten.. Or a generic "yea Democrats do it to and that's not good" and then it's forgotten.. But even such lame non-condemnations condemnations hardly ever materialize..

Why is that??

It's because attacks against Republicans are perfectly acceptable to Democrats..

Democrats don't mind political violence at all, as long as it's against the RIGHT people..

The facts that prove this are as plentiful as they are conclusive...

5/20

"When they bring a knife to the fight, we'll bring a gun."
-Barack Hussein Odumbo

I'm just sayin' :^/

4/20

Now do Brazil.

How about a crazy story that multiple of Donald Trump's Big Liars in America are going ape-shit crazy about Trump-backed candidate Jair Bolsonaro losing Brazil's recent election and the MAGA cult publicly urging him not to concede, pushing unsubstantiated claims that the election was stolen, there were issues with voting machines, and that the election was rigged. Oh, wait... that's actually happening.

Tune in next week when Bannon et alia and the grifting MAGA righties make the same baseless accusations here in America for some of the midterm races that don't go their way. Lather, rinse, repeat.

Attacks against GOP'ers are treated as "one offs" and not attributed to any culture or ideology or group..

No where has this been more apparent than the Justice Kavanaugh attempted assassination or the James Hodgkinson attempted assassinations of several Republicans...

In the eyes of Democrats and leftist media (I know, redundant) those are just lone wolf attacks and no ideology or group was associated with those blatant attacks of political violence..

Compare and contrast that with attacks against Democrats, which are ALWAYS attributed to right wing groups, even when absolutely NO CONNECTION exists...

Once again, the blatant hypocrisy is obvious to anyone with more than 2 brain cells to rub together..

2/20

It is unquestionable that the assault on the Pelosi home has caused more waves and fury among the media elites than the mercifully thwarted attempted assassination of Kavanaugh did. The Kavanaugh incident swiftly faded from public consciousness. One observer wrote of the media’s ‘eerie silence’ on Kavanaugh. It was pointed out that the ‘attempted assassination of Brett Kavanaugh’ was being downplayed by the New York Times the very day after it happened. On the NYT’s homepage, the Kavanaugh story was 16th in order of importance, behind stories about the new Jurassic Park movie and Kelly Clarkson’s singing skills. In that day’s paper, it was on page 20. Nate Silver said it was ‘crazy’ that the targeting of Kavanaugh was not ‘treated as a bigger story’. ‘There’s often more bias in which stories are deemed to be salient than how they’re written about it’, he said.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/10/31/paul-pelosi-and-the-violence-we-care-about/

It's undeniable that the Leftist media virtually ignores violence against the Right while hysterically aggrandizing violence against the Left..

This is an undeniable fact..

The Left then turn around and elitist'ly sneers at the "what-aboutism" when in fact, it's a reasonable and logical acceptance of the facts..

The Left ignores the violence committed against the Right..

Nowhere was this more obvious and blatant than they two diametrically opposed reactions between a single Right Wing riot in a single building at a single location over the span of a few hours and twenty two years (collectively) of Left Wing BLM & AntiFa riots and attacks on hundreds of government buildings at hundreds of locations all over the country...

And how did the media describe these 22 years (collectively) of Left Wing BLM & AntiFa riots where DOZENS of cops were killed, TENS OF THOUSANDS were injured and TENS OF BILLIONS of dollars in damages???

"Mostly peaceful protests" :eyeroll:

This same exact juxtaposition of reality is, once again, blatantly obvious with the attempted assassination of a Republican SCOTUS Justice versus an assault on the Democrat husband of the House Speaker...

One is a horrendous CRIME OF THE CENTURY and the other is relegated to a backpage news story blurb in the media..

To deny the blatant hypocrisy is simply to deny the facts.. To deny reality...

Something that Democrats have increasingly excelled at the last couple years.. :^/

And let's look at the perpetrator of the Paul Pelosi assault..

A GREEN PARTY moron and an illegal immigrant who has absolutely NO TIES to any right wing group or organization..

THIS obvious mental case is the Democrat Party's boogey man?? :eyeroll:

1/20

One of our major political parties either openly encourages or mocks and makes fun of violence directed against politicians of the other party -- all while insisting on their "both-sides-ism" view that both parties are equally responsible.

My response today to (multiple) Trump supporters making jokes about this:

Them: [stupid joke]

Me: I know, right!? Know what would've been even funnier?

Them: What?

Me: If some perp had actually done that to citizen Trump; then you'd be standing here laughing it up and telling me jokes about smashing pumpkins.

Them: Ooh... no. Why would you think that'd be funny?

Me: That's the point; I wouldn't. You're actually the one standing here making jokes about it, while I'm the one making analogies to prove to you how incredibly pathetic you sound.

*
There will always be impressionable unstable people -- or people full of hatred, which is not a mental illness -- who will act on the violent rhetoric, and what does absolutely nothing to stop the cycle is the downplaying of the physical violence (January 6) and making jokes about situations like this one. It is disgusting.

As for the "both-sides-ism" and false equivalency, it doesn't take a rocket science to see from which "side" the vast majority of the violence is coming from and why: Donald Trump's ego is so pathetically fragile that he couldn't concede an election he knows he lost and meanwhile a subset of Republican voters believe the most asinine conspiracy theories that include the idiotic beliefs that Donald Trump is still president and working behind the scenes with the FBI to round up Democrats and (any day now) kill them in the public square. Couple that with the Confederate flag-waving white supremacist morons prolific on the Right and the Nazi flag-waving white supremacist fascists, and then turn a blind eye and downplay the crimes perpetrated by Donald Trump. That's the Republican Party... and there is no bottom.

Oh, I think she'd be wasting her time on that itinerary. Ahem.