So for the last 24+ hours I’ve been listening to news outlets such as NPR and the Bbc hyperventilating about the events in Washington. It seems the talking points memos got out, as there has been incessant repetition of phrases like “armed insurrectionists” and “domestic terrorism.” The action of people walking up to and then into a building is inevitably referred to as “storming” the building.

And then today, the pervy corrupt scumbag nice old gentleman who will be the next President said:

what we witnessed yesterday was not dissent, it was not disorder, it was not protest. It was chaos. They weren’t protesters — don’t dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob of insurrectionists, domestic terrorists.

Now, to be fair Biden *did* actually say something true, though I suspect he didn’t mean it the way reality interprets it:

No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they wouldn’t have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol. We all know that’s true, and it is unacceptable. Totally unacceptable. The American people saw it in plain view. And I hope it’s sensitized them to what we have to do.

Yes, the American people saw it. The American people saw the  better part of a year where “Black Lives Matter” protests turned into cities on fire. Government buildings utterly trashed, police cars set ablaze, sizable sections of cities simply ceded to *actual* insurrectionists. The American people saw this chaos being lauded by the press and many in government. We saw the gaslighting on a scale not seen since the Commies and the Nazis.

FLOYD PROTESTS: Damage from looting and arson amid mostly peaceful protests over the police killing of George Floyd will cost $1-2 billion in claims, according to the Insurance Information Institute. pic.twitter.com/uaNPwwnUEQ

— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) September 16, 2020

So what will the American people take from this? Compare and contrast protestors who set cities on fire, who continued their hijinks for weeks and months, and were praised and rewarded for it, with protestors who broke a few windows, wandered around a building for a few *hours,* and THEN LEFT, all without starting *any* fires, and are getting called domestic terrorists by the press and the next President. Cities set on fire by the left are, at worst, attributed to ‘a few bad apples among mostly peaceful protestors.” There is no such attribution of “only a few are bad” for the right wingers actions.

The lesson to learn here is that one side really is allowed to do pretty much whatever they want without a whole lot of official pushback. The other side finds that any protest at all will get them called domestic terrorists by the media and the government. One side is allowed to behave as badly as they like. The other side is being pushed into a corner.

Yeah. This will end well.

At least we’ll get some good memes before the end.

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