From the New York Post:
Activists swarm Joe Manchin’s Maserati as he tries to leave parking garage
By Samuel Chamberlain | November 4, 2021 | 7:38pm Updated
A gaggle of far-left environmental activists followed Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) from his DC houseboat to his car Thursday morning and attempted to prevent him from leaving a parking garage — the latest fit of progressive pique over Manchin’s current opposition to the multitrillion-dollar Democratic social spending bill.
Video tweeted by John Paul Mejia, a spokesperson for the Sunrise Movement, showed Manchin walking from his houseboat on the Potomac River — where the senator rests his head when not in his home state — to the garage.
As he strolled, Manchin was serenaded by chants of “We want to live!” while individual activists yelled at him to “Fight for us!”
There’s more at the original, but the post then included this tweet:
That is an actual assault on a sitting United States Senator, but Twitter is just fine with that. But Twitter sure didn’t like my response:
So, it’s perfectly acceptable to publish a tweet showing an actual assault, but it’s not OK to say that, if the Senator had actually done what hey claimed he was trying to do, run them over — which he did not — they would have deserved it.
Of course I appealed, but I know that it will be rejected, and I’ll have to dump the tweet — which I most certainly meant! — or dump Twitter.
I realize that Twitter can be a major source of info for your blog but I do hope you are investing some time in the newer pro Free Speech platforms so some time in the future you can transition. I never saw the attraction of Twits, or the rest of that “social media” crap which I found quite un-social just reading some of the Crap. It’s like looking deep into the minds of a million Elwoods and can be quite disconcerting.