Hard Times is very obviously a Republican who realizes his side has overstepped from "fun and games cruelty against brown people" to "oh shit they're going to want vengeance for the evil we've done and they outnumber us about 10,000 to 1" and is trying to defuse our anger. And his best idea of how to do so is to equate the woman who was murdered in her own neighborhood by the masked gestapo he's supported to a woman who traveled more than 2,600 miles to commit insurrection. If the average MAGA dipshit him himself in the head with the hammer, it'd probably make him smarter.
Several comprehensive analyses of the various videos prove that she didn't swipe the agent. She hit the gas after she'd been shot in the fucking face and her foot fell on it. Ashley Babbit was trying to murder elected representatives to prevent them from certifying the results of a Democratic election.
There have always been people who would do shit like this. But when it's an entire political party embracing those people and specifically this type of behavior, and it's specifically enabled and encouraged by the richest men on the planet, it's really hard to imagine a future in which we can all live together peacefully. These people need to be scared back into their basements and anybody with any wealth or power who even considers enabling or supporting this sort of behavior should be launched into the goddamned sun.
The thing is that yesterday is yet more proof that that isn't enough to protect you, even if you're a white woman who couldn't look less threatening if you tried. ICE will scream contradictory (and illegal) commands at you and then murder you for failing to immediately comply because they get off on it.
When the NYPD doesn’t like a NYC mayor what they do is kidnap and doxx someone the mayor cares about. He has no control over the NYPD unless and until something can be done about their union.
This same party spent the last 10 years passing laws in several states to make it legal for (conservative) people to ram (liberal) protesters with their cars.
I think Trump thinks the oil was a reason to do it, and I doubt any O&G execs told him they wouldn't be interested, but it's not very economical for them (absent tons of taxpayer subsidies). His primary motivation was he thinks it makes him look like a badass.