I don't think it's fair to presume that all of the COVID-related violence is coming from Republicans. It could be, no doubt, as the right wing seems to be the primary protestors, but we don't know the details of any of these shootings, etc.
A fair complaint. Still, if those who buy into right-wing propaganda and lies make up the overwhelming portion of crime and "bad behavior" of certain types that the right-wing propaganda and lies are directly or indirectly supporting, it's not wrong to presume that any particular crime or bad behavior along those lines is almost certainly related to such until there's good evidence to the contrary.
The reason for calling them Republican crimes is to trigger the Cons. As we have learned, that is very important. At least when the other side is doing it.
Sorry, no. "Triggering the Cons" has nothing to do with it.
I'd say the reason for calling them Republican crimes is that we're done being charitable with these scumbags. We've spent years now giving them the benefit of the doubt, only to see them get worse and worse.
So far, every gun-toting thug we've seen protesting the lockdowns and the requirements of social distancing, like face masks and closed seating areas in restaurants, has been a Republican. I've seen no images and heard no reports of any left-wing people running around with guns, complaining about having to be nice to people during a pandemic. Even the "Antifa" bogeyman has been entirely absent, even from the right-wing blathersphere.
So yeah, these are Republican Crimes until they are absolutely proven not to be. Any Republican who doesn't like that can either **** right off, or start voting Democrat.
Not quite my feelings on the matter, but pretty close.
Still, to poke at Republican badness from a repeat troublemaker...
Wohl's back! This time, with an attempt to frame Dr. Fauci for sexual assault. It failed horrendously, of course, given that Wohl's a serial offender, but with the added twist that the girl that he worked to involve had a bit of conscience and told the actual truth to a reporter. Wohl's co-conspirator, Jack Burkman, also managed to say some pretty telling lines, though.
"Let me tell you something, Diana," says Burkman. "This guy shut the country down. He put 40 million people out of work. In a situation like that, you have to make up whatever you have to make up to stop that train and that's the way life works, OK? That's the way it goes." [...]
"Mother Nature has to clean the barn every so often," Burkman counters. "How real is it? Who knows? So what if 1 percent of the population goes? So what if you lose 400,000 people? Two hundred thousand were elderly, the other 200,000 are the bottom of society. You got to clean out the barn. If it's real, it's a positive thing, for God's sake."
I don't think that I really need to dissect that idiocy, of course, so moving on.
A more poignant bit of Republican badness, though is...
Colorado GOP Chair Ken Buck pressured local official to submit incorrect election results
Fellow Republican says congressman tried to bully him into committing a crime
If you want to get more technical about it, of course, about 200 members of the Republican committee voted and the side that deemed that someone who had received 24% of the vote should be included on coming ballots won, when the cutoff was 30% or higher, if one went by the established rules. The local official in question refused to commit perjury in the paperwork when he was being asked to report 24% as 30% as the result of the vote by the 200 Republicans in the committee.
In my opinion, a healthy democracy needs people on both sides of the spectrum to prevent the other side from going crazy. And right now the Republicans in the US need to get their party out of the insane asylum.
I feel much the same, really. For that matter, the Republican politicians frequently are not being driven by the actual desires and wants of their constituents, though. There really still are plenty of (mostly) sane Republicans left, I think, though, though they tend to be far less politically involved and attention-grabbing than the insane ones.
