Political Weirdos

The face of a man who has had his privilege card revoked.

Probably soon pardoned by the Oval Office.

Study those facial expressions very closely. Look at what's happening here, because this is so indicative of the mindset of racists.

You look at most criminals at their sentencing, you tend to see either resignation, or remorse. There is neither here.

This is shock. This is disbelief. They did monstrous, horrifying things to innocent people, while fully believing that they had an absolute and unquestionable right to do those things.

When a guy robs a gas station, he knows it's a crime. He's simply reasoning that committing this crime is better for him than the alternatives. He knows it's a risk. He knows he will be punished if he is caught.

But these people saw no risk in what they were doing. They believed that the world protect them and celebrate their actions. They believed that it was their right and their imperative to terrorize people of colour.

Video of the flag convoy https://youtu.be/lu1GjHAiHZg

From https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/georgia-couple-gets-prison-time-racist-threats-childs-birthday-party

For two days, the couple and the nearly dozen others waved the flags while aboard pickup trucks and targeted their slurs and threats at black families in counties outside Atlanta.

In Douglasville, the couple, among others, reportedly yelled racial slurs at the birthday party’s attendees as they drove by. Torres also threatened to kill the people at the party with a shotgun Norton had loaded and retrieved from his truck, the district attorney’s office said in a statement on Facebook.

😢 But I just wanted to be racist...
😭 The woke won't let me be racist!!!

they are crying because they got caught, not because they felt guilty. its literally like how BRIAN "apologizes" to stewie

Don't give this too much attention or Trump will pardon them.

I honestly can't imagine thinking this is what one wants to do with their time. Like, I accept that I can't understand this sort of racism and such, but like, even if I was a bigot I can't imagine deciding that what I'm going to do with one of my afternoons is drive around threatening a child's birthday party.

But also, it amazes me that white Americans manage to feel aggrieved by black Americans even today. We're the ones who keep fucking them over not the other way around.

“Armed and threatening to kill”

That adds an entirely worse facet to it than the initial text lets on.

it's a shame they weren't tried as terrorists.

And this is why they want to defund NPR, poison Wikipedia, and enshrine Twitter in its place.

Can’t manufacture outrage with so many pesky fact checkers.

Those pictures show frustration with the punishment in the same way a toddler does. These people are messed up.

They will be pardoned shortly.

That's disgusting and all, but 15 and 20 years is a little excessive, no? I'm from a country without mass incarceration or private prisons, but you don't need nearly that much for people to learn their lesson

I assume this is a historic post and not anything that's happened recently.

Given that the OOP obviously isn't trying to paint them in a sympathetic light or anything (last sentence makes that crystal clear), why on Earth did they leave out the armed threats, the by-far-most-damning aspect of what those two did?

Good job by the community note.

The big tough alpha MAGA cries when faced with the legal repercussions of his crimes.

Classic. I savor the Schadenfreude as I would the finest steak and lobster.