''It's as if they learned a word on January 6th for the first time and never figured out what it meant,' quipped ErinInTheMorn in response to Republicans' conflation of peaceful protest with 'insurrection.'
at the Oklahoma State Capitol against a ban on gender-affirming healthcare for transgender youth as an"insurrection."
"Tennessee. Oklahoma. Montana. The GOP seems to want to redefine the word 'insurrection' to include literally any peaceful protest they don't like,"independent journalist and transgender rights activist Erin Reed, who is also Zephyr's partner."It's as if they learned a word on January 6th for the first time and never figured out what it meant."
Noah Bookbinder, president of the watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington , asserted that"peaceful protest is not insurrection," and that such conflation"waters down the seriousness of the real insurrection we saw on Jan. 6, 2021.
;� if everything is an insurrection, nothing is, not even J6. Cynical af; false equivalence to both-sides attempted violent overthrow of government, essentially. Republicans are nihilists daring the rest of us to rescue America from them. Maybe they always were. Idk.;”
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