It was many thousands. How do I know?
Because over a thousand were arrested
You're assuming of course that because a thousand were arrested that there had to be two thousand or more there.
But in either case, my point stands: a right wing mob gets out of control, assaults officers and causes damage and the left wants to put them away and throw away the key. But when a left wing mob gets out of control, assaults and even murders people and causes billions in damage, the left screeches about free speech when anyone complains.
The left has been protesting and rioting virtually non-stop since the Ferguson riots in 2014 with the occasional lull here and there. The reasons ran the gamut of police shootings to Trump (No Kings) to Israel to ICE.
Nothing wrong with speaking your piece and protesting what are perceived as injustices but violence and destruction has become the rule rather than the exception. Murders and assassinations have become accepted and even encouraged (Luigi Mangione and Tyler Robinson) and the victims are blamed for their own murders.
In the news right now is the case of three women posing as "journalists" and calling themselves "Mangionistas" who manage to get press passes to the Mangione hearing on Thursday. Being questioned outside before the hearing one of them says that Brian Thompson deserved what he got and that his children are better off without him.
What makes this doubly disturbing is not just the hateful rhetoric but the fact that Mangione didn't murder Thompson for anything Thompson did; he murdered him simply for being a health insurance CEO.
When Mangione set out, he had no clear idea who the victim would be. He did research online about these CEOs and learned Thompson would be in NYC for an investor's meeting on December 4, 2024. In other words, Thompson was merely a target of opportunity who committed the heinous sin of being a health insurance company CEO. Mangione didn't even have a policy with United Healthcare for f***'s sake. His policy was with Aetna.
Do these stupid b****es even know this? I doubt it. And if they do, that makes it that much more reprehensible.
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