America prepares for more Black Lives Matter allied chaos as the show Vintrail ends,

and the media continue to make excuses for insurrection from the left.

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whether George Floyd died of excited delirium, whether he died of a drug overdose, whether he died

of his preexisting heart condition. There's serious question as to whether Derek Chauvin used a

level of force that was unjustified under the circumstances to the extent that he would be

prosecuted for manslaughter. All of that may be true, maybe not. There's certainly doubt. And so for a jury to find reasonable doubt, and all three of these charges would not be completely wild. It would be kind of wild to me if you were convicted of murder on these charges. The manslaughter charge is the one that seems like the most likely scenario would be a conviction. Andy McCarthy over at National Review has sort of a similar assessment of the evidence that if you were on the jury, he thinks maybe he might vote in favor of manslaughter, but probably not in terms of the actual murder charges. The judge is going to lay out the jury instructions, and those are going to make a large difference in terms of how the jury finds presumably, if the jury has listened to the case. If that is the case, then the defense is in trouble because the judge has been extraordinarily

biased toward the prosecution throughout this process, beginning with the judge's refusal

to move the venue of the trial, and then continuing with the judge's reinstatement of

the third-degree murder charge, which really doesn't apply, and then continuing with the judge

allowing a full week of testimony from onlookers, just talking about how disturbed they were by the entire event, which of course is not probative in any way and actually does not constitute any sort of evidence as to the guilt or innocence of the party involved. In any case, all of this is ancillary. And here's the problem in America, folks. All of this is ancillary. Now, normally in a criminal trial, the criminal trial is the central issue. Normally, in a criminal trial the criminal trial is the central

issue normally in a criminal trial what's happening in that courtroom is the central issue what

happens with the defendant is the central issue what happened to the victim is the central issue

in this trial that is not the case and this has been true in the united states for quite a while

it is completely ancillary the only thing that trial is is a wick okay Is the wick going to get lit or is the wick not going to get lit? If Chauvin is convicted, the wick presumably will not be lit. If chauvin is acquitted, the wick will be lit. And there will be a massive conflagration and everybody knows this, which means that we have been treated to the spectacle of the press running around since January 6th, saying that the largest scale threat to the American government, the largest scale threat to our way of life, is a bunch of tool bags running into the Capitol building wearing Vikings horns. Now, here's the thing. That was terrible. I talked about it extensively. I said that it was some of the worst imagery I'd seen in America since 9-11, the idea of rioters running into the Capitol building itself and occupying the Speaker's seat and threatening the Speaker of the House and threatening the Vice Presidents of the United States just after the President had spoken. And to be clear, that was a breakaway group. There were probably 100,000 people who were there to hear Trump speak, and then there was a small group of morons who decided that it would be a great idea to go take over the Capitol building. It was dangerous and it was vile. The notion that this provided some sort of large-scale threat to the republic was assinine, as proved by the fact that the minute that those people were cleared out, Congress went right back to its chamber and did exactly what it was going to do in the first place. There was never a true threat to overthrow the government of the United States on January 6th,

not in any practical, meaningful way. There's a true threat in the sense that these people were threatening to do so, but they didn't have the power to do so. What we are watching right now across the United States, however, is an attempt to overthrow, and we are looking at getting rid of systems in the United States, specifically on the

basis that they are all corrupted at their root and they must be torn out. And if it has to happen

through violence, it will happen through revolutionary aggression. Motor watching is the rise

of left-wing authoritarianism aided and abetted by the media and by the Democratic Party. It is

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