They’re trying to get reactions wherever they can, like spoiled children.
Well, that’s certainly one way to look at it.
Another is that what they are doing parallels what the commies do when ever they take over a country, which is to attack, if not kill, the former leaders, criminalize anything their opponents do and eventually kill off or reeducate their opponents.
We could very well be in the process of becoming a new Venezuela or worse yet, a new Soviet Union or CCP.
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