Rittenhouse acquittal tightens the political vise for Biden

Tony Branco

Yahoo  "A difficult political atmosphere for President Joe Biden may have become even more treacherous with the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse.

Biden was already facing sliding poll numbers with an electorate worn down by the coronavirus pandemic and increasing inflation. Now, the president finds himself caught between outraged Democrats — some of whom were already stewing over Biden’s inability to land police reform and voting rights legislation — and Republicans looking to use the Rittenhouse case to exploit the national divide over matters of grievance and race.

“This is one of the last things Biden wants to be engaging in at this moment as he tries to finish up the big Build Back Better bill and get that across the finish line through the Senate,” said Christopher Borick, director of the Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion. “Race and Kyle Rittenhouse is not the space where he wants or needs to be going deep right now.” . . .

"Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel are among party officials who have called on Biden to apologize.

"“He smeared a teenager to score political points and spread lies about this case,” McDaniel wrote on Twitter. “What Biden did was dangerous and inflammatory.”. . .

UPDATE: Rittenhouse vs. Biden, the next thriller  "Back in August 2020, then-candidate Joe Biden compared Kyle Rittenhouse to a "white supremacist."  Why?  Does Mr. Biden know Kyle personally?  The answer is no, but that's what many did in the summer of peaceful protests.

"On Friday, Kyle Rittenhouse was found not guilty, and President Biden could not control himself again.  On the one hand, he said that we should respect the jury's decision, but then he expressed anger and concern over the verdict.

"First, why is the president of the U.S. getting involved in a trial?  Yes, it received national attention, but why does the president have to say something about everything?

"Second, what impact will all of this have on people who may get violent?  Won't they conclude that the trial was rigged because the president and others are concerned about it?

"Third, concerned about what?  What specifically is he concerned about?  Shouldn't he explain that to the nation?  I would like to know why he is concerned.  How exactly did the system fail us?" . . .

A Special Kind Of Stupid: Media And The Kyle Rittenhouse Case

...Not to be outdone in the stupid and racist, MSNBC convened a panel of 5 black pundits, each more racist than the last, to talk about what’s wrong with white people. The dean of race-baiting, Al Sharpton, led the woke-off by getting literally everything about the case wrong and not a single member of the Dumbass Brady Bunch screen said a word, either because the truth doesn’t matter or they’re too uninformed to know the truth themselves. . .

Joy Reid says Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal traces back to 'slave catchers,' BLM activists should be 'afraid'

The MSNBC host compared Rosenbaum, Huber to allies in the Civil Rights Movement 

Joseph A. Wulfsohn | Fox News

"The "ReidOut" host urged viewers to think about the families of "those who died," hailing Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber for "defending Black lives," saying they "paid for it with their lives" and comparing them to White allies who helped Black Americans in the Civil Rights Movement." . . .

Why We’ve Decided to Tell You the Criminal Records of the Men Shot in Kenosha "The jurors have not learned details of these histories. These are the criminal histories of Joseph Rosenbaum, Anthony Huber, and Gaige Grosskreutz:" . . .

Joseph Don Rosenbaum

Joseph Rosenbaum "Court documents obtained by Wisconsin Right Now from the Pima County (Arizona) Clerk of Courts confirm Rosenbaum was charged by a grand jury with 11 counts of child molestation and inappropriate sexual activity with children, including anal rape, masturbation, oral sex, and showing minors pornography. The victims were five boys ranging in age from nine to 11 years old. He was convicted of two amended counts as part of a plea deal. See those documents here."...  Much more on the late Mr. Rosenbaum

Anthony M. Huber  . . . “ '[Anthony] Huber told his brother that if he didn’t start cleaning a room in his house he was going to gut him like a pig,” Rittenhouse’s lawyer Corey Chirafisi said in court adding, according to The New York Post that Huber “did this while holding a 6-inch butcher’s knife to the brother’s stomach.”

“Huber grabbed his brother by the neck, dug his nails in and choked him for approximately ten seconds,” Chirafisi said. “He put a knife to his brother’s left ear and his brother felt it cut.”

" 'He said: “I’m going to burn the house down with all you f—kers in it,' ”

 Grosskreutz (below) was moving toward Rittenhouse when shot and holding a handgun, the complaint says.

For all of these reasons, we decided not to censor the men’s criminal histories. You can decide how relevant you think they are.

The men Rittenhouse shot were capable of murder; typical of those burning down America's cities for whom we all need protection against. Shame on their supporters and the vicious Joy Reid types in our media. TD

Bill Maher the Messaging Czar

 Bill Maher 

Why has the Democratic Party that supports so many issues that benefit the middle class still considered "out of touch" by 62% of Americans?

"Bill dons his "Coach" hat and attempts to guide the Democrats away from a devastating loss in the upcoming midterm elections."

Language advisory.

Crazed Reactions to the Rittenhouse Verdict

Rittenhouse took the law into his own hands? No, the law provides a right of self-defense. It was the rioters who attacked Rittenhouse who took the law into their own hands.

Maurice Freeland, 39, has admitted that he was the one who kicked Rittenhouse in the head

Power Line  "Joe Biden, having groundlessly denounced Kyle Rittenhouse as a “white supremacist” last year, says he is “angry” over Rittenhouse’s acquittal:

While the verdict in Kenosha will leave many Americans feeling angry and concerned, myself included, we must acknowledge that the jury has spoken.

"What is Biden angry about? That the jury, which saw the evidence, didn’t agree with his view of the case, not having seen the evidence? These are highly irresponsible words from the President of the United States, particularly in a climate where mobs have threatened reprisals against the jurors.

"Then we have the Governor of Wisconsin, Tony Evers. He isn’t happy about the verdict, either:" . . .

"Evers says he is opposed to violence, but he doesn’t seem to have a problem with the violent acts of those who attacked Rittenhouse. And somehow the Rittenhouse case is bound up with matters of race and “equity,” even though no such concepts had any role in the trial.

"Wisconsin Senator Tammy Duckworth also doesn’t like the verdict:" . . .

"Rittenhouse took the law into his own hands? No, the law provides a right of self-defense. It was the rioters who attacked Rittenhouse who took the law into their own hands. And did Rittenhouse “walk free from any accountability”? Not at all. He was prosecuted and held to account before a jury, which, based on the evidence, acquitted him."

Joe Biden and His Handlers Immediately Walk Back the President's Kyle Rittenhouse Comments  . . . "Of course, the hysterical responses came in hot and heavy, with many on the left having an absolute meltdown. They truly wanted to see an innocent man thrown in prison for life in order to feed their racial narrative, which ironically doesn’t even apply to this case given it involved a white teenager shooting three white men that were attacking him.". . .

. . ."Further, that outcome had nothing to do with “healing our country’s wounds.” What wounds is he even talking about in this case? Rittenhouse was a white guy who shot other white guys in self-defense. No social justice narrative applies in any context. This faux show of anger and care by Biden falls flat because it’s so absurd in its presentation. Do facts matter at all? Or does stoking racial divisions in the country always take priority?"

Are the social justice thugs unaware that everyone in the Rittenhouse incident is white? 

 Here’s one thing the three guys who were shot were not: They weren’t black.Nonetheless, the media and the social justice warrior thugs who periodically burn Democrat-controlled cities frame this as three blacks getting shot by a white supremacist. How can that be?

 In a New Statement Biden Smears Kyle Rittenhouse, Again

"Moments before issuing the official statement, Biden claimed he accepted the jury's decision. Now, he's smearing Rittenhouse again by saying he's "angry" about the decision, implying the jury came to the wrong conclusion. 

"Missing from the statement is an apology for smearing Rittenhouse as a white supremacist in a campaign advertisement in September 2020."

Are CNN and MSNBC About to Make Kyle Rittenhouse Rich?  . . ."The idea started gaining steam earlier this week when Nicholas Sandmann — another victim of vicious media malpractice — wrote a column published in the Daily Mail. "The attacks on Kyle came from the national news media, just as they came for me," Sandmann wrote before encouraging Rittenhouse to give defamation lawsuits "a shot" and "hold the media accountable.". . . 

We need to start with the media coverage that framed this case in the public mind.
To the press, Rittenhouse was as good as guilty when the news broke. So naturally, to @CNN, the people he shot in self defense were heroes & those defending him had “justified murder.” pic.twitter.com/jsMxd4547N

— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) November 19, 2021

. . ." The damning thread indicts the core of today's flawed mainstream media including CNN, MSNBC, and The New York Times. And that's just from the initial round of smears launched by these outlets before basic facts were even known. A parade of blue-check lib media personalities piled on too, implicating themselves individually in the scam.". . .

Rad the above and see the many well-known media people who slandered and demeaned Rittenhouse. Not a word against those who destroyed businesses and livelihoods. TD

RITTENHOUSE VERDICT: NOT GUILTY ALL COUNTS!

Legal Insurrection

First count Rosenbaum: NOT GUILTY

Second count: McGinnis: NOT GUILTY

Third count: Unknown male NOT GUILTY

Fourth count: Huber: NOT GUILTY

Fifth count: Grosskreutz: NOT GUILTY

Leftist national leaders foment anger, hoping to stir riots  Pray for the jurors! America's national leaders have become Maxine Waters.

The Daily Beast 

@thedailybeast

  

BREAKING: Kyle Rittenhouse, the notorious, gun-toting white teenager accused of murdering two people and trying to kill a third during a police-violence protest last August, has been found not guilty of all the charges against him

Reports of brick piles stashed in Kenosha discounted

. . ."Though the poor sound quality makes it difficult to decipher the full conversation, it appears that officers are responding to at least two complaints about "stacks of bricks." The operator is heard telling officers that the person reporting had corrected the supposed location of the bricks twice.

"In their response, an officer mentions that "some guys were doing some work on a building, I talked to them, they seem alright." Another officer then reports "no stacks of bricks found on the road," but goes on to say he "rode down an alley," where someone is "down" resulting in "bricks everywhere." The operator then replies "ok.' ". . .

If the Senate ever returns to the old-fashioned Senate filibuster, McCarthy will be the indispensable man

Watch for CNN and MSNBC to call it a "rant"

Power Line  "The slight Democratic majority in the House of Representatives was poised to pass the current iteration of the Bummer Beyond Belief spending blowout last night when House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy took the floor at 8:38 p.m. (Eastern). McCarthy turned in the longest speech in House history — 8 hours and 32 minutes — to delay the vote until a few minutes after 5:00 a.m. this morning. He has just wound it up.

"Congratulations are in order, and not just because McCarthy set the House record in a good cause. You can feel the heartburn in the New York Times story posted at 5:32 a.m. (Eastern) about McCarthy’s performance. You can feel the heartburn in the AP story with the headline deriding McCathy’s speech as a “rant.” Anything that makes mainstream media political reporters feel so bad must be good.

"If the Senate ever returns to the old-fashioned Senate filibuster, McCarthy will be the indispensable man. He rightly cited “Mr. Smith” in the course of his remarks. McCarthy even looks a little like Jimmy Stewart. That must cause heartburn among the bien-pensants as well.

"How was McCarthy able to speak at such length under House rules and the heavy hand of the Speaker of the House, a/k/a she who must be obeyed? The Times story offers this brief explanation:" . . .Read more on this...

McCarthy speaks...and speaks

Democrats are headed to bed for the night, but I'm not talking to them.

I'm talking directly to the American people. https://t.co/OCJJ0XaXzU

— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) November 19, 2021

Kyle Rittenhouse found not guilty on all counts in Kenosha trial

Angry, bitter Joy Reid begins angry, bitter accusations of white racism in three...two...

 Fox News

Rittenhouse would have faced a mandatory life sentence if found guilty

"Jurors in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Friday declared Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty on all counts, capping off an intense trial surrounding the deadly unrest in that city last summer. 

"Rittenhouse, 18, would have faced a mandatory life sentence if found guilty and convicted of first-degree intentional homicide.

"The verdict came on the fourth day of deliberations and 15th day of the trial."

Bill-signing incident shows that 'Creepy Joe' is more than just a mean tweet

Biden does what he does because he always gets away with it. Trump got gentlemanly because he understood his presidential legacy was on the line.

Monica Showalter  "With so many other crises and failures emanating from the Joe Biden White House, here's something just a little creepy and disgusting from Joe that didn't get the attention it deserved:

Biden chatting with a child during bill signing
"Meet me after this, I can show you around the White House.” pic.twitter.com/ZjDOacyI9H

— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) November 18, 2021

. . ." How does one explain this kind of disgusting behavior from Joe? He's been called out repeatedly for it in the past -- handsiness, grabbiness, paws on unwilling women and kids, and if he had any sense, he'd stop it even with his record of doing this stuff in the past. President Trump, who engaged in some boorish and uncouth behavior around women in his pre-presidential days, never brought his past persona into the White House, not ever. In person, Trump was always a perfect gentleman." . . .

Unlike JFK and Bill Clinton, to name just two.

MSNBC Producer Quits, Pens Letter Calling Network A ‘Cancer’ That Stokes ‘Racial Division’

Staff at MSNBC are panicking over network’s direction under Rashida Jones

. . ."Most alarming to some, Jones appears to be re-examining the mission of MSNBC, signaling she wants to battle CNN on breaking news rather than focus on its “personality-driven, opinion programming with big stars,” a source said." . . .

"Personalities? Such as the below-mentioned Joy Reid? And Ali "Not, generally speaking, unruly." Velshi

MSNBC Producer Quits, Pens Letter Calling Network A ‘Cancer’ That Stokes ‘Racial Division’ 

 A former MSNBC producer wrote an open letter on Monday explaining why she left the far-left network a little over a week ago, saying that they are a “cancer” that is “stoking national division” by amplifying “fringe voices” and forcing “journalists to make bad decisions on a daily basis.”

 MSNBC Racist Joy Reid Whines About ‘Male White Tears’ Of Rittenhouse And Kavanaugh

"Some people just don’t belong on television." 

MSNBC Host Makes Unbelievably Racist Comment While Accusing Republicans of Being Racist-   "MSNBC is at it again, perpetuating fake outrage and infecting the world with liberal propaganda. It’s amazing liberals are so entranced by such a dangerous network that is happy to infect the population with bogus ideologies. 

"What’s worse is they pretend like what they’re saying doesn’t cause irreparable harm to the nation because you see the same issues MSNBC (and CNN for that matter) anchors toxically debate regurgitated on all social platforms. What’s worse is that some of them spread what they heard on MSNBC or CNN and self-righteously pawn if off as if they thought of it first. We all see it though." . . .

MSNBC host slams truckers; too white, MAGA, and old – over 55, ‘aggressive’ on the road  "An MSNBC host seems to be playing the race car in the process of generalizing about “unwelcoming’ and “aggressive” commercial truck drivers who are supposedly too white, male, and MAGA. Ageism may also be in play.

"Tiffany Cross, who noted that her brother is a truck driver and that she is concerned for his safety, began the segment on the “The Cross Connection” show by pointing out that a shortage of thousands of long-haul operators is exacerbating the supply chain crisis.

"She then steered the conversation in a different direction when she claimed that after speaking to a number of drivers in preparation for the interview, “they talked about, you know, hearing some of the racism over the CB [radio].' ”. . . 

Perhaps they were listening to MSNBC.. Maybe those weren't truckers spouting racism but MSNBC anchors..

MSNBC Slammed Over ‘Disgusting Racist Rant’ Attacking Black Republican: ‘Unbelievably Insidious’

"MSNBC host Joy Reid and frequent guest Michael Eric Dyson faced backlash online late on Thursday evening after a video clip went viral from Reid’s show that was widely panned as blatantly racist." . . .

. . ."Some of the most notable responses to Dyson’s remarks included:

• Colin Wright, evolutionary biologist: “This is one of the more disgusting racist rants I’ve heard in a while. The ideology producing this is unbelievably insidious. I just can’t fathom how so many self-proclaimed “anti-racists” are unable to see this rant as the epitome of what they claim to be against.”
• Becket Adams, commentator: “It’s a scandal of its own that not a single on-air personality at MSNBC has the balls even to suggest this stuff may be out of line.”

MSNBC host Joy Reid compares Kyle Rittenhouse and Brett Kavanaugh to the male “Karens.”

'Why bring race into it?': MSNBC's Joy Reid sparks fury after calling Kyle Rittenhouse a 'Karen' who uses 'male, white tears' to defend himself after 'getting caught' and compares teen to Justice Kavanaugh

MSNBC Mocked for Election Night Meltdown on Live TV

MSNBC and CNN will not air the 1st black woman to serve as lieutenant gov. in VA because they don’t want people to see a black Republican & hear her message. Let’s make this go viral! pic.twitter.com/0HhhRb7u00

— Melissa Tate (@TheRightMelissa) November 3, 2021

MSNBC’s Joy Reid stirs up anger over Gabby Petito case, says public only cares because of ‘missing white woman syndrome’

“Just say you hate white women already,” conservative reporter Cassandra Fairbanks tweeted. “The people who spammed us with wall to wall George Floyd are seriously angry that people care about a murdered woman.”

Joy Reid Again Faces Defamation Claim Over Social Media Posts 

Tony Branco

. . . "Cartoon of the Day: Joyless Agenda.  Joy Reid basically says Black Americans should think and vote monolithically with no free will. Political cartoon by A.F. Branco ©2021.  Used with permission.

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• MSNBC’s Joy Reid Goes on Anti-White Rant, Compares Trump to Osama Bin Laden, Supporters to Al Qaeda (Video)
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MSNBC Writer Says “Let’s Go Brandon” Is Worse Than The Nazi Salute

 Trending Politics  "If you have ever said the words “Let’s Go Brandon”, MSNBC thinks you’re worse than an actual Nazi. Yes, really." . . .

              @TristanSnell “Let’s Go Brandon” has become the MAGA version of “Sieg Heil.”

. . . 

Kathy Griffin posed with the likeness of Trump’s severed head. It was merely called an outward display of frustration.

Meanwhile, an airline pilot said “Let’s go Brandon,” which means he has anger management issues or a drug problem. For safety’s sake, he should be terminated. https://t.co/I7u610QBC8 pic.twitter.com/qDsJBdaegi

— Ian McKelvey (@ian_mckelvey) October 31, 2021

Bill Maher Went on CNN and Triggered the Entire Audience Last Night

 Townhall  "Bill Maher is just asking to be canceled, but he doesn't care. This isn't the first time he's duked it out with people of the "woke" mindset. He has slapped down guests who have been apologists for radical Islam. He's pro-free speech. He's not a political correctness junkie either. He's still a classical liberal, just not insane. It's quite an evolutionary tale. In less than a generation, the Democratic base has become so insane that Bill Maher looks conservative. There are others like him. Data scientist David Shor, a self-described progressive, knows that some of his own views simply do not sit well with most voters. He has warned Democrats for months about how they need to expand their messaging strategies beyond the professional elites that dominate the party brass nowadays."

Bill Maher speaks with Chris "Fredo" Cuomo about how "wokeness" is killing the Democratic Party. "I keep saying this to the Democratic Party. The reason why you're so toxic is because you have become the party of no common sense." pic.twitter.com/tLC528MNVS

— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) November 18, 2021

Bill Maher Blasts MSNBC For Calling Youngkin’s Virginia Victory ‘White Ignorance’  On Friday, HBO’s Bill Maher slammed left-wing criticism of Republican Glenn Youngkin’s recent gubernatorial race victory over Terry McAuliffe in Virginia, saying that progressives are contradicting traditional liberal beliefs and endorsing the idea of “resegregation,” a belief that “you’re either a racist or you don’t know you’re a racist.”

"Maher made his comments on his program “Real Time” on Friday evening." . . .

"Bill Maher: ‘I’m an old-school liberal. I believe in a colorblind society. That’s not where woke is, okay’

Bill Maher slams MSNBC for pinning Youngkin win on 'White ignorance': 'I don't think that helps'https://t.co/7siJlLZHkm

— Fox News (@FoxNews) November 13, 2021

"Later Maher focused on how the contemporary left is betraying liberal principles by viewing everything through a racial lens, including the recent Virginia gubernatorial election. 

"Maher said, “After the governor of Virginia — the new governor won, MSNBC headline was, ‘Glenn Youngkin’s Victory Proves White Ignorance is a Powerful Weapon.”

"“I don’t think that helps,” Maher said. “I don’t think some of this — I’m an old-school liberal. I believe in a colorblind society. That’s not where woke is, okay.”

" 'There’s a lot of resegregation going on,” Bill Maher claimed. “There’s a lot of you’re either a racist or you don’t know you’re a racist.' ”

Anti-Trump ‘Lincoln Project’ Advisor Calls Critical Race Theory ‘New N-Word For Republicans’

Political Insider  "A senior adviser for the Lincoln Project recently said that critical race theory was now the “new n-word” for Republicans.

"The advisor, Tara Setmayer, made the comments on “The View.”  . . .

. . ."The View’ Goes Off The Rails

“So Democrats are very bad at arguing and Republicans are very good at fueling and manufacturing outrage,” explained Setmayer, discussing the GOP’s criticism of CRT.

“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin chimed in, “So it’s the new southern strategy.” 

“Absolutely!” Setmayer replied.

“So it’s all based on race,” Hostin asked." . . .

Joy Reid and White Male Tears  "MSNBC host Joy Reid is the only minority host on her network from noon to midnight, so it's only natural she would be most expected to lecture on the evils of whiteness, especially white maleness. It can even happen on her social media accounts." . . .

. . ."Reid's rant continued: "But in America, there's a thing about both white vigilantism and white tears, particularly male white tears. Really, white tears in general because that's what Karens are, right? They Karen-out, and as soon as they get caught, they bring waterworks. White men can get away with that, too, and it has the same effect.". . . 

For her part, Reid is best remembered for exclaiming how Clinton was just about

the most qualified contender ever in 2016: "My God, since the Founding Fathers, has anyone tried to run for president with more on their resume?"