The rise of Rittenhouse Republicans

[Michie]

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There was a telling moment, for the American Right, in Tucker Carlson’s interview with Kyle Rittenhouse. The 18-year-old had just been acquitted of murder charges for shooting three people, killing two, during riots last summer in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Carlson asked Rittenhouse whether he believed the government would protect him from threats he was receiving. “I hope so,” he said, “but we all know how the FBI works.”

You would expect that kind of statement from a “defund the police” advocate, but Rittenhouse is a former youth police cadet whose support for “Blue Lives Matter” was used to try and paint him as a racist and far-Right extremist. His world-weary cynicism about the FBI, expressed as Carlson nodded along approvingly, signals a major shift in a central axis of American politics.

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The rise of Rittenhouse Republicans

 

[Handmaid for Jesus]

The rise of vigilantism. I hope no one gives Rittenhouse a badge.

 

[Michie]

The rise of vigilantism. I hope no one gives Rittenhouse a badge.

I find it disturbing how quickly people latch on to a figurehead and run with it. Whether it be George Floyd or Rittenhouse.

 

[chevyontheriver]

I find it disturbing how quickly people latch on to a figurehead and run with it. Whether it be George Floyd or Rittenhouse.

Sorry. I just can't bring myself to do it. Not for Floyd. Not for Rittenhouse. Not even close. Joe Sixpack maybe. But even then, no.

 

[Handmaid for Jesus]

I find it disturbing how quickly people latch on to a figurehead and run with it. Whether it be George Floyd or Rittenhouse.

I find it disturbing that "christians" can support the unrestrained killing of human beings who need to be saved, yet they will fight to bring the unborn into the world.

 

[Michie]

I find it disturbing that "christians" can support the unrestrained killing of human beings will fight to bring the unborn into the world. yet they

Every Christian has a right to self defense. It is one of the teachings of the Catholic Church.

 

[chevyontheriver]

I find it disturbing that "christians" can support the unrestrained killing of human beings will fight to bring the unborn into the world. yet they

I find it disturbing that 'christians' can support the unrestrained killing of human beings in abortion but will fight to save sea turtle eggs. Saving sea turtle eggs is a worthy thing but there is a disconnect in not fighting to protect humans too. Of any age when they are put in peril.

 

[Handmaid for Jesus]

I find it disturbing that 'christians' can support the unrestrained killing of human beings in abortion but will fight to save sea turtle eggs. Saving sea turtle eggs is a worthy thing but there is a disconnect in not fighting to protect humans too. Of any age when they are put in peril.

The Bible says that those who have never been are better off than those who are alive. I agree, considering all of the perverts and traffickers in the world today. But those who are alive need redemption before they die. I agree with you about the sea turtles though.

 

[Taodeching]

I find it disturbing that "christians" can support the unrestrained killing of human beings who need to be saved, yet they will fight to bring the unborn into the world.

So the kid should have let them murder him then, because that was what was going to happen.

 

[Taodeching]

This Forum is a place for respectful discussion and debate of political issues, by Roman Catholics, in the context of the Roman Catholic Faith.


There was a telling moment, for the American Right, in Tucker Carlson’s interview with Kyle Rittenhouse. The 18-year-old had just been acquitted of murder charges for shooting three people, killing two, during riots last summer in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Carlson asked Rittenhouse whether he believed the government would protect him from threats he was receiving. “I hope so,” he said, “but we all know how the FBI works.”

You would expect that kind of statement from a “defund the police” advocate, but Rittenhouse is a former youth police cadet whose support for “Blue Lives Matter” was used to try and paint him as a racist and far-Right extremist. His world-weary cynicism about the FBI, expressed as Carlson nodded along approvingly, signals a major shift in a central axis of American politics.

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The rise of Rittenhouse Republicans

Great article, thank you

 

[Michie]

Great article, thank you

You are very welcome!

 

[chevyontheriver]

The Bible says that those who have never been are better off than those who are alive. I agree, considering all of the perverts and traffickers in the world today.

So it's better off for kids to be aborted? Is that a justification for abortion?

 

[Handmaid for Jesus]

So it's better off for kids to be aborted? Is that a justification for abortion?

Well, what do you think the Bible means?
Ecc. 4: 2 And I declared that the dead,
who had already died,
are happier than the living,
who are still alive.
3 But better than both
is the one who has never been born,
who has not seen the evil
that is done under the sun. (NIV)

 

[chevyontheriver]

Well, what do you think the Bible means?

Kill the babies? Herod would approve. That's Bible.

 

[Handmaid for Jesus]

Kill the babies? Herod would approve. That's Bible.

It did not say kill the babies. But it did say that they are better off if they had not been born.

 

[chevyontheriver]

It did not say kill the babies. But it did say that they are better off if they had not been born.

Well, we're killing them. And it's legal.

 

[chevyontheriver]

Well, we're killing them. And it's legal.

But it's sick and so so so wrong.

 

[Handmaid for Jesus]

But it's sick and so so so wrong.

Such is the nature of sinful mankind. Killing is killing in the womb or out of the womb in "self defense".

 

[chevyontheriver]

Such is the nature of sinful mankind. Killing is killing in the womb or out of the womb in "self defense".

Killing is killing. Agreed. But do you have any right to protect yourself? Or to protect others?

 

[Handmaid for Jesus]

Killing is killing. Agreed. But do you have any right to protect yourself? Or to protect others?

Jesus didn't.