False equivalencies.
We have seen the tactic used over and over again by the Republicans. They launched an entire plan to steal the presidency. It involved fake electors, attempts to get fraudulent letters from DOJ, someone planted explosive devices on January 5th (And a lot of people believe that they know who that person is, see below, though there is no proof at all), they tried to pressure Mike Pence to the point that perhaps the Secret Service was in on the plot, and when all that failed, they stormed the Capitol, looking for Pence, and at least one group pledging to take care of Pence for good.
Republicans are looking for anything they can find to draw false equivalencies. We are used to them running out the “Summer of 2020” as Black Lives Matter largely peaceful protested, and at night some Antifa, Anarchists, boogaloo bois, and the young BLM protesters violently lashed out in protest. They were not and are not equivalent.
So now Marjorie needs a distraction and diversion because the information that has come out so far has been bad, that Marjorie was at a meeting on December 22, 2020, in which Scott Perry introduced Trump to Jeffery Clark, and therein hatched the plot. Oh, gosh. What to do?
How about big a bad guy and do a false equivalence? There ya’ go! Except, wait, look out! Don’t do it with the wrong person or you’ll get…
I will explain this to you slowly: exercising our right to protest is not obstruction of Congress nor an attempt to overturn democracy.
If one were a heinous enough person to do that, they’d likely seek a pardon for it too.
But only one of us here has done that. And it ain’t me pic.twitter.com/o4889FBFyF [1]
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 24, 2022 [2]
Yeah. That will happen when you play over your head. And that’s about all Marj does nowadays. This is the second time today alone that she’s been “owned.”
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[email protected], @JasonMiciak, with Nicole Hickman