Posted on 11/19/2021 12:23:42 PM PST by Red Badger
The verdict is in and the trial is over. Kyle Rittenhouse has been judged not guilty on all counts in connection to the shooting in Kenosha, WI. As you might have expected, the left wasn’t too happy about the jury’s decision.
At this very moment, the Twitterverse is full of hot takes from aggrieved, virtue-signaling leftists whining about how America is such a racist nation because it did not convict a man who clearly defended himself from three aggressors. Here are some gems for your viewing pleasure.
Voto Latino, a left-wing activist organization ostensibly dedicated to “empowering a new generation of Latinx voters,” tweeted:
Kyle Rittenhouse has been found “not guilty” on all charges.
We all saw this coming but this is another reminder that white supremacy is alive and well in America.
Kyle Rittenhouse has been found "not guilty" on all charges.
We all saw this coming but this is another reminder that white supremacy is alive and well in America.https://t.co/LvUllqYxQk
— Voto Latino (@votolatino) November 19, 2021
Far-left progressive group Democracy Now also chimed in, claiming that Rittenhouse’s verdict was the result of “white supremacy.” They tweeted:
The Nation’s @ElieNYC predicted weeks ago that Rittenhouse would likely go free. “I don’t have a crystal ball,” he said. “What I know is the law, and what I know is what white people are willing to do to defend white supremacy.”
The Nation's @ElieNYC predicted weeks ago that Rittenhouse would likely go free. "I don’t have a crystal ball," he said. "What I know is the law, and what I know is what white people are willing to do to defend white supremacy." https://t.co/AHU9YkOi9R
— Democracy Now! (@democracynow) November 19, 2021
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio defended the men who attacked Rittenhouse, calling them “victims”:
Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum are victims. They should be alive today.
The only reason they’re not is because a violent, dangerous man chose to take a gun across state lines and start shooting people.
To call this a miscarriage of justice is an understatement.
Anthony Huber and Joseph Rosenbaum are victims. They should be alive today.
The only reason they’re not is because a violent, dangerous man chose to take a gun across state lines and start shooting people.
To call this a miscarriage of justice is an understatement. https://t.co/TwaI2ghgM5
— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) November 19, 2021
Leftist activist and grifter Shaun King, also known as Martin Luther Cream, takes issue with gun laws that are supposedly used against black Americans. He wrote:
BREAKING: Kyle Rittenhouse was just found NOT GUILTY on ALL charges. Yeah, all of them.
Ultimately, gun laws were imagined, written, and are enforced in America to protect white boys and men.
Those same laws are primarily used punitively against Black people.
America.
BREAKING: Kyle Rittenhouse was just found NOT GUILTY on ALL charges. Yeah, all of them.
Ultimately, gun laws were imagined, written, and are enforced in America to protect white boys and men.
Those same laws are primarily used punitively against Black people.
America.
— Shaun King (@shaunking) November 19, 2021
MSNBC’s Joy Reid also weighed in:
We knew, but it’s sometimes helpful to remind ourselves how America was designed to work. It continues to work as designed. We have learned again what is considered legal for *some* people to do in America. It’s helpful to know where you stand in your country. Be safe out there.
We knew, but it’s sometimes helpful to remind ourselves how America was designed to work. It continues to work as designed. We have learned again what is considered legal for *some* people to do in America. It’s helpful to know where you stand in your country. Be safe out there.
— Joy-Ann (Pro-Democracy) Reid 😷 (@JoyAnnReid) November 19, 2021
California state Sen. Scott Wiener brought the shooting of Tamir Rice into the situation:
-12 year old Tamir Rice is killed for looking like a “threat” while playing.
-17 year old vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse — who shot & killed 2 people — is acquitted.
Our racist justice system has once again profoundly failed the American people.
White supremacy in America:
-12 year old Tamir Rice is killed for looking like a “threat” while playing.
-17 year old vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse — who shot & killed 2 people — is acquitted.
Our racist justice system has once again profoundly failed the American people.
— Senator Scott Wiener (@Scott_Wiener) November 19, 2021
Rashad Robinson, President of Color of Change, also claimed the acquittal was due to white supremacy:
It’s not that Rittenhouse’s acquittal is a win for white supremacy. It’s that Rittenhouse was acquitted BECAUSE white supremacy still controls the entire process.
It’s not that Rittenhouse’s acquittal is a win for white supremacy. It’s that Rittenhouse was acquitted BECAUSE white supremacy still controls the entire process.
— Rashad Robinson (@rashadrobinson) November 19, 2021
The left has been promoting the white supremacy narrative ever since this story was brought to national attention. Left-leaning politicians and media activists insisted Rittenhouse was a virulent white supremacist who was looking for blood in Kenosha on that day.
However, not a single one of these individuals found a shred of evidence showing that the young man holds racist views – and there can be no doubt that they scoured his social media, desperately looking for any post that could be construed as bigoted. Unfortunately, they will continue using this story to push their “everyone is racist” narrative. The question is: Will America buy it?
Leftists see their war against justice, fairness, and honesty as a badge of honor. The left also thinks that the “right” sorts of racism should be proclaimed loud and wide. They’ve really turned all concepts of morality and ethics upside-down.
Of course, the lynch mob left doesn’t care at all about whether the people they want lynched are guilty or not. Everything is about political usefulness to them.
There was so much video of the events that it’s comical to read some of these tweets that completely miss what really happened. They are killing what little credibility they think they have.
“Or is there some software genii that magically replicates phrases “
Yes, the embedded Twitter at the source.
“I watched the clean copy of the videotapes and Rittenhouse appeared to be in full retreat while Rosenbaum chased him for almost a full city block. Rittenhouse did not shoot until he was cornered.”
Yes and also importantly not until after a gunshot went off.
“If you make red sauce yourself, you can add a few grounds of coffee to the pot while it is cooking (I literally mean a few granules). That will tame the acidity and should help with your heartburn. Also, you won’t taste the coffee flavor in the sauce at all. Another trick some people use is a tablespoon of grape jelly (again, this is to a pot of sauce, not a single serving).”
That is awesome advice. Thank you. I’ve never heard either of those.
Green peppers have never agreed with me. Even as a teenager, they gave me a stomach ache.
I get some heartburn, but both my wife and brother get it pretty bad from some things. Will certainly try both the coffee grounds and grape jelly tricks.
Do you know the difference between daylight saving time day and the Biden White house? It is always changing time at the White house.
I quickly acknowledge that this is only a (so far) single Congressman / apparatchik making this 'call' BUT dear Stalinist Jerry is just the kind of person that I was envisioning for my prior post.
I came to that conclusion a long time ago. They're basically insane, so you treat them as such.
Still waiting for the “weenie jerk reaction” from Jeffrey Toobin, the CNN “hands on” legal expert.
Personally I thought that though it was obvious to all of them that he was innocent, they were likely afraid of the mob reaction and to blunt it they would agree to find him guilty of the least charge. “Crying jury syndrome” when the jury members cry regretting that they felt that they were in some way forced to wrongfully convict an innocent person.
Agreed. I also felt in a fair election Trump would win but that didn’t happen and since then there are very few sure bets on anything.
I would not take that bet. Liberals don’t need no steenking facts!
But they are self loathing white people.
Leftists are already in a permanent state of mental breakdown. The Kyle acquittal is merely a whiter shade of pale.
yawn
at this point their cries are nothing but blah, blah, blah, blah
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yep Ignore the idiots.
My point illustrated:
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There’s nothing more frightening in America today than an angry White man
CNN Fake News ^ | 20 November 021 | John Blake
Posted on 11/20/2021, 8:12:15 AM by Magnatron
The Brute. The Buck. And, of course, the Thug.
Those are just some of the names for a racial stereotype that has haunted the collective imagination of White America since the nation’s inception. The specter of the angry Black man has been evoked in politics and popular culture to convince White folks that a big, bad Black man is coming to get them and their daughters.
I’ve seen viral videos of innocent Black men losing their lives because of this stereotype. I’ve watched White people lock their car doors or clutch their purses when men who look like me approach. I’ve been racially profiled.
It’s part of the psychological tax you pay for being a Black man in America — learning to accept that you are seen by many as Public Enemy No. 1. But as I’ve watched three separate trials about White male violence unfold across the US these past few weeks — the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, the Ahmaud Arbery death trial and the civil case against organizers of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville — I’ve come to a sobering conclusion:
There is nothing more frightening in America today than an angry White man.
Another article indirectly delivers the very same indictment.
He who fails to virtue signal when required to do so is guilty (in this case, of racism).
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Rittenhouse verdict was message to white youth: If you believe Black lives matter, your life means nothing
The Chicago Sun-Times ^ | November 19, 2021 | Dahleen Glanton
Posted on 11/20/2021, 9:42:14 AM by Oldeconomybuyer
Kyle Rittenhouse’s murder trial was never directly about race. Everyone involved in the shooting — the victims and the killer — were young white men.
Nor was it entirely about whether Rittenhouse killed 26-year-old Anthony Huber and 36-year-old Joseph Rosenbaum in self-defense, as the jury decided on Friday. It is easy to make this case all about vigilante justice, but it is much more complex.
Nothing in America is that simple anymore.
From the moment Rittenhouse was charged with killing two men and injuring another with his semi-automatic rifle during a protest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man, this case has been about sending a message.
This time, it was from the far-right wing to young white people who support the Black Lives Matter movement.
“Don’t get involved with social justice reform. Don’t protest senseless police killings. Just sit back and enjoy your white privilege. If you take to the streets with the Black Lives Matter crowd, you might end up dead. And we’re going to do everything possible to make sure your killer walks free.”
In other words, young white people, if you believe that Black lives matter, your life means nothing.
I hope it helps you out. Red sauce used to be a religious experience for me. Now I have to have the mood strike, but it usually comes with a bunch of meatballs too.
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