Dem and Media Hypocrisy on Protests Is Stunning. Do They Think Their Followers are Stupid?

Somehow entirely peaceful lockdown protests are "dangerous, ugly" by "domestic terrorists" but riots and looting and mass anti-police protests are just fine!

Remember the protest outside the Virginia State Capitol in Virginia in January? All the usual left wing media suspects said it represented extremists and feared violence.

2nd Amendment protest at Virginia Capital in January. Despite media warnings, no one was harmed. No property destroyed. 

But there were no riots. No property was vandalized. No one was injured. Contrast that with what we have seen the past few weeks in one large city after another. Many people killed, businesses destroyed. Even children outside a hospital terrorized.

A few months later anti-lockdown protesters, some of them carrying firearms protested at the Michigan State Capitol. They were called domestic terrorists, white supremacists, NAZIS, and extremists. Again, no property was damage. No police assaulted. No one was harmed. Yet if you watched the hate Trump news it was the worst thing ever. Especially as they might spread the COVID-19 virus.

Then weeks later this happened:

Mass violence, huge property damage. Many people injured and killed. The same people who were horrified that anyone would dare to protest for their second Amendment rights or against the lockdown suddenly said that these protests, just these, were imperative.

This video clip would be laughable if these clowns didn't take themselves so seriously. Watch as they try to paint the entirely peaceful pro-freedom protests as not peaceful then watch as CNN's Chris Cuomo flips on a dime and says "show me where it says protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful?" Did you watch your own channel the week before Chris?

SUPERCUT!

The media's super consistent messaging on protesting during Covid19 pic.twitter.com/Iq5hTJKcPO

— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) June 8, 2020

Liz Harrington: Destroying a business is tolerated, reopening one forbidden. Democrats are bailing out rioters, and sending salon owners to prison. Going to church is worse than trying to burn it down. Protesting is a threat to public health, until experts declare your cause worthy enough.

These are the new, ever-changing rules of Democrats’ America. We’ll forgive you if you have a hard time keeping up – but they won’t.

After months shaming Americans who had the audacity to want to reopen their businesses safely as COVID-19 cases waned, social distancing is suddenly less important than “social justice,” according to the media’s health “experts.”

It was an “ugly and dangerous scene.” Rioters hijacking protests? Cops murdered? Minority communities devastated? No, this was CNN’s description of Americans packed into Michigan’s Capitol in opposition to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s unconstitutional decree that made abortion clinics essential during the stay-at-home order, but barbershops not. “Protests are supposed to be peaceful,” CNN sneered, as Michiganders – some armed – peacefully gathered to demand their rights back. Now, when streets are filled with George Floyd marchers and rioters, Chris Cuomo wonders since when protests had to be “peaceful,” anyway? The answer: 1791.

Gov. Whitmer’s tune on the right to assemble has transformed, too. She was appalled to see people without masks and parents “handing things to children, bare-handed” six weeks ago. The horror. “This kind of activity flies in the face of all of the best science,” she scoffed, threatening to punish the protesting plebeians with a shutdown extension. She expected their obedience.

The supposed science took a back seat last week when Whitmer kneeled in the street, shoulder to shoulder with activists, in violation of her own rules. But that’s nothing new. Her husband can non-essentially travel to their second home, and name-drop his wife to try to cut to the front of the line and get their boat launched before Memorial Day weekend. The Democratic mayor of Chicago can get a haircut, but you can’t -- you’re not on TV. The Democratic governor of Virginia can go to the beach without his mask, not even painted on. It’s “dangerous” to protest, Nancy Pelosi says, until she joins in.

President Trump supports peaceful protests, then and now. Democrats only called one “illegal activity.” Anti-lockdown groups were banned by Facebook for defying “government’s guidance on social distancing,” while left-wing Black Lives Matter demonstrators were given free rein. People enjoying a stroll on a beach were derided as “morons,” despite studies showing the virus dies quickly in sunlight, and little documented evidence of virus transmission outdoors.

Now, instead of just covering protests, the media is letting reporters join them. After accusing protesters who wanted to work or attend church of having a “twisted conception of liberty,” exactly one month later The New York Times opinion page declared protesting the “only hope for our collective liberation.” Some protesters are more equal than others.

Meanwhile, left wing radicals have seized a portion of the city of Seattle and erected borders and fences. Gun weilding vigilantes patrol the area. Anyone, who doesn't express the proper thoughts are quickly ejected. Again, the media hails the insurrection. Can you imagine what would happen if Trump supporters took over a city center?