Note: written before violence
More insurrection-cheerleading, this time from the woman who is married to Clarence Thomas.
She did the cheerleading before the insurrectionists smashed their way into the Capitol, but that still entailed cheerleading a campaign to overturn an election and hand it to the murderous corrupt criminal who lost. She shares in the evil.
On Wednesday morning, Ginni Thomas—wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas—endorsed the rally in Washington demanding that Congress overturn the election. She then sent her “LOVE” to the demonstrators, who violently overtook the Capitol several hours later. Two days later, Thomas amended her post with the addendum: “[Note: written before violence in US Capitol].” By that point, five people involved in the insurrection, including a Capitol Police officer, had died.
It took her two days. So she didn’t do it while people were tweeting from inside the Chamber, or an hour or two later as all those photos and clips started to appear. She waited two days.
Thomas, a conservative lobbyist and zealous supporter of Donald Trump, has fervently defended the president over the last four years. On her Facebook page, she frequently promotes baseless conspiracy theories about a “coup” against Trump led by Jewish philanthropist George Soros, a frequent target of anti-Semitic hate. Thomas draws many of these theories from fringe corners of the internet, including an anti-vax Facebook group that claimed Bill Gates would use the COVID vaccine to kill people. In recent months, she also amplified unsubstantiated corruption claims against Joe Biden while insisting, falsely, that the Obama administration illegally spied on Trump’s 2016 campaign, then tried to rig the election against him.
Watergate seems almost cozy in comparison to these people.
H/t What a Maroon
Come on, Bill Gates couldn’t get Windows 95 to kill people.
Are you sure? I think it killed me.
Taking two days to put that addendum in would imply that it was not the result of a principled objection to the violence, but a realisation that there was growing public opposition to the events.
Our local paper reported about a prayer meeting in town yesterday for the country. The paper had to do the usual; it’s equally the fault of those who hate Trump as it is those who rioted! It’s both sides!
I am so sick of that. This is the fault of the people who acted…Trump. Cruz. The rioters. NO ONE ELSE. This is nothing more than blaming a rape victim for her rape. You hate Trump? You’re to blame when your fears come true! NO WE ARE NOT. We did not riot when Trump was elected. We moaned, we groaned, we staged a peaceful women’s march, we followed his administration with horror and urged our representatives to take action on impeachment when it was clear he had committed high crimes and misdemeanors, but we did not riot. We sulked. A lot. We shouted. But we did not riot.
This is the fault of the right wing media. The right wing Senators who encouraged it. The right wing President who incited it. The right wing rioters who rioted. And maybe somewhat the left wing media that refused to call Trump out for four years, refused to acknowledge this wasn’t an ordinary president, an ordinary presidency. But mostly it was the rioters, and Trump.
I don’t understand why Bill Gates couldn’t just let COVID kill people. Making a killer vaccine seems like an unnecessary faff.
@iknklast #2
I wouldn’t know. I only had Windows 95 for two weeks before I witched to Red Hat 5.0 (Linux)..