From Nobel Prize winning Blue Checkmark Paul Krugman:
So, what happened to the insurrection? Maybe I’m jinxing it, but the wave of violence many expected didn’t materialize before or on Inauguration Day; there were hardly any demonstrators. Where did all the rage go? 1/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 21, 2021
So, what happened to the insurrection? Maybe I’m jinxing it, but the wave of violence many expected didn’t materialize before or on Inauguration Day; there were hardly any demonstrators. Where did all the rage go? 1/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 21, 2021
Big contrast with BLM demonstrations, which persisted despite far more police violence than the Trumpists ever faced. That tells you a lot 3/
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 21, 2021
Paul Krugman is a dumbass.
The issue with BLM and Antifa is that there were no serious repercussions.
The burning from CS gas goes away in a few hours.
Charges were almost universally dropped against BLM and Antifa activists, and the ones that weren’t were seriously reduced. You could throw a Molotov Cocktail at a cop and plead down to littering by Leftist prosecutors in Portland and Seattle. The St. Louis district attorney dropped all charges against all protesters.
The Capitol rioters were hit with federal felonies that are not going away.
If every protester arrested in Portland and Seattle was staring down 10 years in state prison instead of being released without bail, it would be different.
It’s not the actions of the cops, it’s the actions of the whole judicial system that matter.
Two other points:
Where did the rage go? Underground. It’s still there, the reaction by big tech just drove it off social media. Trust me, when that boil pops, it will be much worse the next time.
Lastly, you can almost feel the disappointment in his Tweet. He’s sad that they put 25,000 troops in DC and not one mob of Trump supporters was cut down with machinegun fire.
Shit like this makes you wonder how a guy like Paul Krugman won a Nobel Prize.
All it does is convince me that I’ll never be really successful because I work very hard at understanding things, which means I will never fail upwards like this dipshit.
“Trust me, when that boil pops, it will be much worse the next time.”
“When you make peaceful revolution impossible, you make violent revolution inevitable.” –J.F.Kennedy
(I’ve seen that quote with “protest” substituted for “revolution,” but I think the latter is what he actually said.)
Unfortunately, the left probably imagines that they’ll be able to suppress whatever comes, as, so far, Maduro has been able to do to our south. I suppose it remains to be seen whether or not they are correct.
YMMV….
I was going to chime in about where the rage went, but you hit the nail on the head.
I’m reminded of a pseudo proverb of war: never surround your enemy with no room to retreat. If you corner a dog with nowhere to go, you know what happens. People… are not much different in that regard, just smarter at it.
With the censorship, ballot fraud, and refusal of the courts even to hear any of the cases, there’s only one box left….
I hope good sense prevails on the left before this country goes there, but I’m not optimistic, given, as they like to say, the “arc of history.”
YMMV….
“there were hardly any demonstrators. Where did all the rage go?”
Well you’d have to be very stupid to attempt a siege on the capital with nothing to gain and 25,000 armed guards stationed around the city. Turns out most conservatives are not.
Krugman stopped being an economist when the NYTs started paying him to write opinion columns. He did win the Nobel prize, but it was for work in international money markets, not politics.
A definite case of assuming an expert in one field has any knowledge whatsoever in another field.
As to “where did the rage go?”
What rage? Seriously, the Capitol “riot” was the calmest, most well behaved riot in human history. And, the media and democrats (sorry, I repeat myself) used it as an excuse to demonize anyone even remotely to the right side of the political aisle.
Unlike the toddlers that make up the bulk of folks on the left, conservatives understand that any image or words will be taken out of context to make conservatives look worse. Any kind of protest, whatsoever, would just reinforce the leftists resolve to crack down on conservatives.
Just ask Nick Sandmann about that.
Best, and smartest thing conservatives have done was to stay the F away from DC on the 20th. Let the think our spirit is broken.
I have been told repeatedly January 6th was “bloodstained” and the Capitol was “sacked”. All in the midst of the “deadliest pandemic in history”, and all over the “president who got the most votes in history”.
So, what happened to the insurrection?
The insurrectionists got sworn into power in various ceremonies, culminating in their leader, Joe Biden.
“dumbass” is far too gentle a description of Krugman. The one I would use is “mental defective”.
For years he has demonstrated that nothing, absolutely nothing, that he says has any connection to reality or reason.
Re “how did he win the Nobel prize” — remember that Yasser Arafat won one too. And “economics” isn’t a science any more than “peace” is.