Nov222021

Episode 451 – The Reactions Are In

This is the fun part. With Kyle Rittenhouse being found not guilty on all accounts, we get to see the gnashing of teeth and bloodlust from the Left.

And we are seeing it. So are Rittenhouse’s lawyers.

 

Friday Night Lights

We celebrated the big victory on Friday over on Rumble. If you haven’t seen my video, here it is:

https://rumble.com/vphww8-episode-5-its-over-thank-goodness.html?mref=iesjt&mc=ahjle

I’m not going to go over the verdict here. I’m sure you heard and saw the drama.

As far as unrest goes, there were moments of it in Los Angeles and New York. None in Kenosha. Everything was rather quiet.

This was great news for 2nd Amendment advocated and equality under the law and that’s what I was most concerned about. I saw the videos and everything was quite clear: Kyle Rittenhouse defended himself from some very bad people who were trying to kill him. There was no doubt about that. I was worried that the media and BLM had intimidated this jury enough to either hang or say he was guilty on some of the charges. They weren’t able to manipulate the jury and that’s a great thing.

Let’s be clear on one thing: I do not see Kyle Rittenhouse as a hero. I see him as an innocent and naïve kid that was some place he shouldn’t have been. He put himself in a very dangerous position. That does not mean he didn’t have a right to be out there. It just means it was not the best place for a 17-year-old to be that night. I don’t think Rosenbaum or Huber belonged out there either. And that does not change whether he is innocent or not. He was definitely defending himself and those who attacked him were some bad hombres.

By the way, nobody but Rittenhouse faced charges? Why didn’t Gage and “jump kick man” face assaults charges?

Before you start screaming at me, Rittenhouse did do some courageous and virtuous things that night. He was cleaning up graffiti off the walls. He was putting out fires. He was giving medical aid to the rioters who got hurt. He was guarding a business from the rioters. Yes, he didn’t belong out there at his age but he was doing good things while he was out there.

Now, the media has some problems. Either they take the “L” and admit Rittenhouse was innocent, change the narrative to something more palatable to the citizens and viewers or they double-down and call Rittenhouse a racist white supremacist that eats puppies and pees on orphans. His lawyers are hoping for the last (and they won’t be disappointed).

 

The New Narrative

I turned to MSNBC because I knew there would be a lot of whining. And there was. But I think they were in some shock when the verdicts went down. There was not a lot about Rittenhouse himself. They needed a few hours to warm up.

Their lawyers talked about the up hill battle of the prosecution and even mentioned their incompetence a couple of times. But one thing they tried to do was craft a new narrative. Some them included:

  • The need for stricter gun control.
  • The need to get rid of the 2nd Amendment.
  • The need to change “right to defense” in the criminal law code.
  • The failure of the jury system in the United States.

I was surprised to hear some outlets defend Rittenhouse and the verdict. CNN said that justice was done even if “we” didn’t like it. The Washington Post and New York Times put out opinion pieces about how the system did work. The writers said that it works for both sides and the case was very weak.

But, as usual, when the shock had waned, they went right back to the narrative. Kyle Rittenhouse is a racist and white supremacist and he a representative of all white men.

Let’s look at some examples.

 

Reaction

The Media

Though Chris Cuomo on CNN said that the verdict was just, Van Jones and Anderson Cooper didn’t think so:

Couple of things with this:

  • Kyle Rittenhouse is being compared to Bernard Goetz and George Zimmerman as a vigilante. This is not the case. In fact all three cases are different.
    • Goetz was a vigilante and faced charges and was convicted because of it.
    • Zimmerman was a neighborhood watch guy. He saw someone suspicious and reported it and was then attacked. He shot only after he suffered injuries. He is a dumb guy but he defended himself, none the less.
    • Kyle Rittenhouse only shot those who attacked him. All this is on video. No one got shot that wasn’t attacking him. He defended himself.
    • I still have yet to see this white supremacy thing the media is talking about. To them, white supremacy is anyone who is a white man.
  • None of the cases he mentioned have anything to do with each other. All were unrelated and the circumstances were unrelated.
  • I love that they bring up January 6th but never talk of the destruction the BLM riots caused.
  • He says there is one section of society that is walking out of the house carrying guns. Hello, all of these guys that Rittenhouse shot were expected to be armed. Even Rosenbaum was was suspected to be armed with some sort of liquid, be it bleach, gas or lighter fluid. He threw the bag at Rittenhouse. One hit Rittenhouse twice with a skateboard. One had a gun.
  • Here are some questions:
    • Where were the cops?
    • Why did Kyle Rittenhouse feel he needed a gun?
    • What were those guys doing while Rittenhouse was out there?
    • What about the violence in Kenosha? Should that just be ignore?

But then there’s Tiffany Cross of MSNBC:

Some things:

  • I’m glad people at MSNBA can’t contain themselves. More money for Rittenhouse. He’s no white supremacist.
  • Blacks actually did vote before the Civil Rights Act. They voted Republican.
    • Lyndon Johnson pushed it through to change that. He even said, “N-words will be voting Democrat for the next 200 years.”
    • Martin Luther King was a liberal Republican.
    • Democrats instituted and enforced Jim Crowe laws. Republicans ended slavery and condemned Jim Crowe laws.

Joy Reid said:

Jeez! Some things:

  • Gun control.
  • The system is flawed and racist.
  • This was not a protest, it was a riot.
  • Rittenhouse did not shoot any black people.
  • The lies: Rittenhouse’s father lived in the state and he worked in the state.

I want to bring up a couple of things here:

  • I love that the media is doing this now. Before the verdict, it’s only opinion. After the not guilty verdict, it’s slander.
  • Rittenhouse is going to win a lot of money through lawsuits.
  • I want to ask a couple of questions:
    • When are we going to talk about black supremacy?
    • When are we going to talk about black nationalism?
    • When are we going to start condemning Van Jones, Joy Reid, Ibram X. Kendi or Tiffany Cross as racists? If I said the same thing but reversed the races, that would be considered, rightly, racist.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/msnbc-host-disgusted-by-kenosha-verdict-calls-rittenhouse-a-little-murderous-white-supremacist
https://www.dailywire.com/news/white-vigilante-violence-cnns-anderson-cooper-and-van-jones-discuss-rittenhouse-verdict
https://www.dailywire.com/news/msnbc-host-disgusted-by-kenosha-verdict-calls-rittenhouse-a-little-murderous-white-supremacist

 

Politicians

Doesn’t just end there. Politicians went off. Here’s Joe Biden’s response:

“While the verdict in Kenosha will leave many Americans feeling angry and concerned, myself included, we must acknowledge that the jury has spoken. I ran on a promise to bring Americans together, because I believe that what unites us is far greater than what divides us. I know that we’re not going to heal our country’s wounds overnight, but I remain steadfast in my commitment to do everything in my power to ensure that every American is treated equally, with fairness and dignity, under the law.”

Mr. Unity. He even admitted he didn’t know anything about the case. This is a guy who spent his entire campaign calling Rittenhouse a militia member and a white supremacist. I hope Rittenhouse can sue the President.

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA): “America today: you can break the law, carry around weapons built for a military, shoot and kill people, and get away with it. That’s the message we’ve just sent to armed vigilantes across the nation.”

In San Francisco, the shout down a Louis Vitton and about ten Walgreens because people who steal under $100 don’t get arrested so I don’t want to hear about breaking the law from him.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D-IL): “Carrying a loaded gun into a community 20 miles from your home and shooting unarmed citizens is fundamentally wrong.”

Congressional Black Caucus: “It is unconscionable our justice system would allow an armed vigilante — who traveled to Kenosha, Wisconsin and killed Joseph Rosenbaum, Anthony Huber, and wounded Gaige Grosskreutz — to go free.”

Rep Cori Bush (D-MO): “The judge. The jury. The defendant. It’s white supremacy in action. This system isn’t built to hold white supremacists accountable. It’s why Black and brown folks are brutalized and put in cages while white supremacist murderers walk free. I’m hurt. I’m angry. I’m heartbroken.”

Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA): “Racism & white supremacy remain the bedrock of our legal system. My heart breaks for the family & loved ones of those whose lives were stolen, and the trauma our communities face today and every day.”

Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI): “Our justice system is broken. It protects white supremacy. The two people who were killed deserved justice and so did our communities who continue to be targeted with violence like this.”

 

Sports

Colin Kaepernick: “We just witnessed a system built on white supremacy validate the terroristic acts of a white supremacist. This only further validates the need to abolish our current system. White supremacy cannot be reformed.”

NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace: “Ha, let the boy be black and it would’ve been life…hell he would’ve had his life taken before the bullshit trial. Sad.”

NBA: “Our thoughts are with the families of those whose lives were taken in this tragedy. The right to peacefully protest is a bedrock of our democracy and the National Basketball Social Justice Coalition remains committed to preserving that right for all. Any forms of vigilantism in our society are unacceptable.”

 

Culture

Nikole Hannah-Jones: “In this country, you can even kill white people and get away with it if those white people are fighting for Black lives. This is the legacy of 1619.”

“But Trayvon Martin deserved to die because he fought back against an aggressor with no weapon. This is the legacy of white supremacy in action.”

Ibram X. Kendi: “They are fighting to maintain white male supremacy,” Kendi quoted from an article he wrote last year. “Which is to say, they are defending law and order. Defending their America — where white men can rule and brutalize without consequence.”

George Takei: “Justice denied is a body blow to our national psyche. On trial was not only a killer, but a system that continues to kill. Today that system defeated true justice, once again. But mark these words: We will never stop fighting for what is right and just.”

Jemele Hill: “The Kyle Rittenhouse verdict, that several states have enacted laws that allow motorists immunity if they hit protestors with their cars, is about this country’s addiction to maintaining white supremacy at all costs. It’s on brand, and in line with who America always has been.”

MoveOn: “Our judicial system upholds white supremacy. The entire trial and the verdict today is just another example of that. For us all to truly be safe, it must be reimagined and transformed.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/famously-woke-nba-releases-statement-on-rittenhouse-verdict-claims-rittenhouses-attackers-were-peacefully-protesting
https://www.dailywire.com/news/here-are-the-most-insane-leftist-responses-to-the-kyle-rittenhouse-verdict