It appears that Kyle Rittenhouse was NOT defending his grandfather’s gas station. I repeated a meme without fact checking it. On his account, he was asked to defend a car dealership. The owners deny it, but it is plausible. It’s obvious why they would want to get out of this news cycle completely.
What makes me sad about all this, is that while it is possible that meme was created by some well meaning but misinformed conservative, it is AT LEAST as probable that meme was created by a Leftist at roughly the same time as somebody on their team was figuring out how to create the “fact check”.
The way the Left works, is if there is smallest possible objection to any story, that is all they focus on, then throw away the rest, no matter how unfair, and how impossible that is to square with an honest, human, humane, search for the truth.
It makes me sad that these people exist. They wake up every day trying to rip shit apart, trying to erode trust between people, trying to inspire hatred for that days chose Other, and trying to prevent the palliative effects of undirected and sincere dialogue working for peace and understanding.
Now, I have no idea if this is what happened in this particular case, and it remains true that Rittenhouse CLEARLY acted in self defense, after being attacked by idiots who should have been intimidated by the rifle he was carrying–I suspect it never occurred to him that he would be attacked–but this is definitely a possibility.
It’s every day, and it is everywhere. If moderates within the Democrat party don’t start putting out fires they started, it is hard to see how all this ends well. Every week they try and push just a little farther. Unhinged means unconnected, and unconnected means slippery ice and a steep slope.