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Republicans Are Blurring the Faces of Capitol Rioters so They Won't Get Arrested
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Maybe he hasn't found his face yet? , or all of his donors?
this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2023
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I think we already drew our own conclusions the day it happened. Our conclusions became firmer and firmer as the months carried on, when we learned that select Republicans actually cheered on for the Jan 6th riot to happen because they wanted the rioters to overrun their political opponents.
And blurring the faces really won't do much because we've had many clips to look at, we've had many tips, leads and everything about that riot to where we have a good idea as to who was there. Doesn't help that the idiots who participated are some of the loudest mouths, so they've drawn their own attention.
Horrifying. Anti-American. Should tell you everything you need to know about voting republican, at this time in history
Republicans are just telling their base they’re doing this so that the base feels like they’re owning the libs.
The cops have already seen this shit. Where the fuck do they think capital camera footage goes? MTG’s Ring account?
I mean.. The other part about internet sleuths is that it can help get these insurrectionists fired from their jobs.
Unmasking someone (showing that they were at Jan 6) is different from doxxing them (their private deets).
They should absolutely face consequences from multiple levels of society: legally, at work, online...
These aren't fine people to protect and encourage, they're people who should be embarrassed
Oh, they'll probably just say it's because of defamation risk-
Johnson added that the party is going “through a methodical process of releasing them as quickly as we can” and that they “have to blur some of the faces of the persons who participated in the events of that day because we don’t want them to be retaliated against, and to be charged by the DOJ and to have other, you know, concerns and problems.”
Oh, right, sorry. Forgot this is the timeline where Republicans take it as a point of pride that their motive is to be fascists. Carry on.