Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) is still out here faithfully defending ex-President Donald Trump’s honor, and apparently part of that means pretending the deadly insurrection Trump incited was maybe not such a big deal after all.
This was nothing like Benghazi!
“didn’t seem like an armed insurrection to me…after all, didn’t they all have arms? Hold on, wait a sec. Nevermind. Why does play-doh taste salty?”
But Tamir Rice, a 12-year old with a toy gun, was armed enough for police to kill him.
Ron Johnson is a right wing extremist, a fascist. How else can you explain such a revolting and disturbing assessment of the events of 1/6.
As Wisconsin is a swing state, and polls show an overwhelming percent of Americans disturbed by the insurrection and holding Trump responsible, I just don’t see how he can win re-election there by tying himself ever more tightly to him.
ETA:
Mr. Johnson spent his Fourth of July in Moscow and knows exactly what he is doing.
Biden throws his support behind a 9/11 type commission to investigate 1/6.
Ron Johnson should be tazed until he recants.
Dumbest man in the Senate says dumb thing.
Meh, he’s just comparing it to the average protest back home in Moscow, so he’s got a point, was much more peaceful than ones over there.
So, if I show up at a RoJo campaign event with an axe handle, would I be allowed in?
So I guess this is the fallback position after “It was Antifa.”
The Many Shades of Wisconsin:
From Robert La Folette, Emil Seidel, and Russ Feingold…
To Joe McCarthy, Tommy Thompson and Ron Johnson.
See, maybe the WI Democratic Party can start running ads on the radio, and sending out flyers to the people of Wisconsin.
“Mr. Johnson says it didn’t seem like an armed insurrection to me, maybe they should ask the officer getting squished in the doors, or the officer getting dragged down the steps and getting beaten with a crutch and a flagpole and fists and feet, or those officers that were getting shoved across the floor into a hallway by the mob if it felt like an armed insurrection to them.”
“Mr. Johnson says it didn’t seem like an armed insurrection to me, maybe they can show all the weapons that were confiscated, or the people in the Michigan Statehouse waving their AR-15’s that were also at our Capitol, or maybe talk about Tamir Rice, and how his toy gun seemed like a big enough threat for that cop to blow him away just like that. Maybe ask Mitt what it felt like to him, or the Congressfolks stuck on the balcony what it felt like to them.”
And yeah, compare their reaction to this unparalleled invasion of the Capitol of the United States of America with their outrage and years of investigations of the Benghazi tragedy in a hostile and foreign country. Because they claim that Secretary of State Clinton didn’t do enough to protect the embassy staff and Ambassador, but the total failure of Trump to do anything to protect the United States Capitol goes unquestioned?
Name one thing Trump did to protect the Capitol. One.
This bit of Fun with Connotations seems like the kind of thing you’d get from brainstorming with your wingnut communications staff. I don’t know how many firearms they had that day, but they were armed. Those four-inch-thick flagpoles weren’t to show how they’re extra patriotic.
If not longer.
Bipolar vortex.
…an estimated 2,000+ rounds of ammunition - enough to shoot every member of Congress five (5) times.
Except in those cases, RoJo is on the side of OMON against the protestors.
Wisconsin also sent us Joe McCarthy.