Mollie Hemingway is triggering all the right people with this mini-thread on the “people who call a few-hour riot at the Capitol by unarmed protesters an ‘insurrection.”
They are “bad people who are harming the country,” she argues. “PARTICULARLY so if they don’t use term for the months-long violent, coordinated attacks on White House, federal courthouses, small businesses, etc.”:
People who call the few-hour riot at the Capitol by unarmed protesters an "insurrection" are bad people who are harming the country. PARTICULARLY so if they don't use term for the months-long violent, coordinated attacks on White House, federal courthouses, small businesses, etc.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) July 7, 2021
She’s “infinitely more terrified of powerful people calling the riot an “insurrection” and rewriting reality as a ploy to seize unlimited/unaccountable power and brutally oppress their political opponents than I am of Mr. Buffalo Head or Grandma-in-the-Rotunda, or Mr. Feet on Desk”:
I'm infinitely more terrified of powerful people calling the riot an "insurrection" and rewriting reality as a ploy to seize unlimited/unaccountable power and brutally oppress their political opponents than I am of Mr. Buffalo Head or Grandma-in-the-Rotunda, or Mr. Feet on Desk.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) July 7, 2021
And, “to call it “deadly” after spending months brazenly lying that protesters killed a cop while downplaying the fact that the only killing was of an unarmed protester by a still-anonymous cop is … peak propaganda”:
Also, to call it "deadly" after spending months brazenly lying that protesters killed a cop while downplaying the fact that the only killing was of an unarmed protester by a still-anonymous cop is … peak propaganda.
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) July 7, 2021
Yes, Brian, she was talking about you:
"bad people who are harming the country" pic.twitter.com/S2tU4DLfCD
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) July 7, 2021
Keep it up, Mollie:
this checks out
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) July 7, 2021
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