Discourse shouldn't involve pepper spray...

I don't have to say it, right? Like, I don't have to-you know what? I'm going to go ahead and say it. I mean, it's the internet. What the hell? Ok, here goes: "It's only legitimate political discourse when Republicans do it." 

Pictured: legitimate public discourse.

(source: people guilty of treason trying

to cover their own collective ass)

"How dare they investigate these fine Americans
for this alleged coup we all saw unfold, live on TV?"

-McDaniels, unable to hear 

herself speak, evidently 

I'm referring, of course, to Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel's preposterous claim that the insurrection was a lively exchange of ideas and not an attempted coup:

"We've had two members engage in a Democrat-led persecution of ordinary citizens who engaged in legitimate political discourse. This has gone beyond their original intent. They are not sticking up for hard working Republicans..."

-the other 'rona we're all sick of,

on how accountable the GOP isn't

So this, but instead of Klingons, a political
party that's cool with voter suppression and
bounties on women who seek abortions.

The members in question, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, are the only Republicans who didn't boycott the committee whose function is to investigate that time the reality TV host the GOP let hijack the party of Lincoln incited a bunch of white people with persecution complexes to storm the Capitol Building in an attempt to overturn the election results. And look, I don't, you know, agree with them. Really, about most things, they're still Republicans, but Cheney and Kinzinger are the closest thing the Republican Party has right now to a conscience and they've just been booted for daring to suggest that maybe there should be consequences for crimes.

I'm saying it's not a witch hunt if we all
watched the witches witch and then go
after everyone who calls them witches.

Because that's what innocent people do when accused of wrongdoing, right? Attack the mechanisms and people put in place to investigate crimes? I'm bringing this up because when January 6th went down, House Republicans seemed to fall somewhere on the spectrum between "say nothing and wait to see how this shakes out" to cheering the rioters on. And I think Capitol police are still looking into the claim that Republican House members gave tours to these people days before the attack. But sure, let's all take them seriously when they condemn the investigation as a partisan witch hunt. 

Pictured: white people heroically
standing up for...uh, themselves.

And you know, I don't think I'm alone when--you know what? No, I'm definitely not alone in saying that the thought occurred, as I watched January sixth go down, that if this had been a Black Lives Matter demonstration or even The Women's March, Donald Trump would have called out the National Guard immediately. Like, immediately and with orders to go in guns blazing. But it wasn't and they weren't and here we are arguing with the people actively trying to dismantle democracy over how they're the real victims here.

Because, and I think I'm summing up the GOP's stance pretty well here: nation-wide peaceful demonstrations against institutional racism and police murder of Black people, is lawlessness. But violent good'ol boys storming the Capitol and clubbing police because they're butthurt about Donald Trump's election loss is legitimate political discourse.

Hey, you don't suppose that the Republican Party has some kind
of racially-motivated bias against people who aren't white, do you?