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Convicted Capitol Rioter Announces He's Running For Congress (Original Post)
GoLeft TV
Jan 2023
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Skittles
(153,211 posts)1. because that's who we want in government
people who literally do not believe in America
we have enough of them already
peppertree
(21,677 posts)4. Sad but true - at least as far as many in the elites
That's why this Derrick Evans will probably win - maybe on the second try - and will before long be in the Repug leadership. who knows? Maybe even Speaker someday.
(picture, if you will, a left-winger being caught doing the same thing)
Skittles
(153,211 posts)5. try to imagine a woman / POC behaving like these thugs
OMFG
peppertree
(21,677 posts)6. Exactly.
They'd lock them up and throw away the room.
onecaliberal
(32,916 posts)2. Why is this even a possibility?
peppertree
(21,677 posts)3. Because - unlike in Brazil - our courts waste time with slaps on the wrist, w/ many skating outright
Wall Street and the CEOcracy wanted the coup - so the rest of us are expected be permissive about it.
With permisssiveness, little by little, yielding to outright coddling.