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Politico: The Real Reason Washington Ignored Kavanaugh’s Would-Be Killer (archive.ph)
posted 3 years ago by Ahaus667 3 years ago by Ahaus667 +23 / -0
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– AntonioOfVenice 21 points 3 years ago +21 / -0

you won’t likely find anyone in official Washington saying anything positive about the gunman.

For Trump, they demanded that he condemn everything, and when he did, they said that he didn't condemn it quickly enough.

For their own, it's... "eh... but we haven't openly expressed support for the gunman!!!"

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– Ahaus667 [S] 10 points 3 years ago +10 / -0

Very fine people anyone?

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– current_horror 7 points 3 years ago +7 / -0

They didn’t condemn the gunman who literally shot their conservative colleagues.

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– deleted 3 points 3 years ago +3 / -0
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– Ahaus667 [S] 10 points 3 years ago +10 / -0

In fact, the incident was swiftly condemned by any public figure with a megaphone. In short order, legislators passed a bill to offer new protection to judges. Notwithstanding Hannity’s urge to portray a feckless liberal establishment countenancing mob rule, you won’t likely find anyone in official Washington saying anything positive about the gunman.

So they dispersed the protestors that were already there illegally? No? So they did literally nothing.

At a nearby police station, he agreed to speak with federal agents, allegedly telling them he was upset about the leaked Supreme Court decision undoing the right to abortion and worried that gun control would be further rolled back. He said he’d found Kavanaugh’s address on the internet. In a second interview, he told the FBI that he had planned to kill himself after murdering the justice. He’s now facing federal charges. He has pled not guilty.

He brought the family rape and murder kit and a gun to save gun control and abortion?

Why didn’t Washington get obsessed with the would-be Kavanaugh assassin? I’d bet the answer is more prosaic than the media-bias critics would believe. For one thing, in a city that has long drawn disturbed people with crazy schemes, Roske’s story was not especially hair-raising: His gun was unloaded, he called the cops on himself, he took a cab to the justice’s house (had he not heard of Uber?). There’s nothing less compelling to us media types, in all of our faux world-weariness than an insufficiently freaky freak of the week.

True there’s no narrative to spin to make you look good. The fact the writer thought this was a good addition shows the complete disconnect from reality

I was struck by one particular thing Ripley told me about research into de-escalation: Don’t trust your gut. “In any high conflict like this, your intuition is going to make things worse.” She was referring to, say, the urge to go protest at a judge’s house to show how righteously furious you are. “That’s going to have an effect on other people and it might not help the cause.” As a journalist, of course, my gut says to expose just who is responsible for this new climate of jeopardy, the asymmetric era of political wretchedness that has brought Washington to this point. But in the spirit of peace, I’ll ignore that intuition.

I just can’t even…..

This change is dangerous, whether or not the Kavanaugh gunman was.

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– Assassin47 12 points 3 years ago +12 / -0

There’s nothing less compelling to us media types, in all of our faux world-weariness than an insufficiently freaky freak of the week.

Except Biden's son's adventures with children, his shell companies in foreign countries, and "10% for the big guy".

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– Smith1980 8 points 3 years ago +8 / -0

Problem with these articles is that they they have been clutching pearls about Jan 6 despite the people being arrested. No need to point out the reaction if a liberal justice had been threatened

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– Ahaus667 [S] 10 points 3 years ago +10 / -0

There were reactions when one of the justices didn’t wear a mask next to senora fatfuck.

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– deleted 8 points 3 years ago +8 / -0
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– NoEyesNoGroin 8 points 3 years ago +8 / -0

But on the right, it’s become an article of faith that the story is being ignored by biased media.

Next time the propagandists in the MSM put out a story about something they'd rather not talk about, late, and in a way that's as whitewashey as possible - this is why. It's so later they can say "see? it's just a right-wing conspiracy theory that us propagandist scum are not upstanding journalists!"

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– Benevolentdictator 6 points 3 years ago +6 / -0

So what's their excuse for Waukesha?

Or the NYC subway shooter?

Or the black Texas school shooter before Uvalde that was released on bail same day?

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– Bitswitch 6 points 3 years ago +6 / -0

Wow. Politico running cover for a would be assassin. Way to go fuckwads.

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– deleted 4 points 3 years ago +4 / -0

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