Little triggers in your grip
Meet Kyle Rittenhouse — his hobbies include mass murder, Donald Trump rallies, and triggering the libs:
Kyle Rittenhouse loved cops, guns, President Trump, and “triggering the libs,” according to some of his former classmates at Lakes Community High School in Lake County, Illinois. His clothes were often branded with pro-police slogans, and he carried a Blue Lives Matter phone case, one student said.
Some of his classmates joked that he’d be a mass shooter one day. “I personally believe he went to Wisconsin with the intent to kill,” said one former classmate, who asked not to be identified out of fear for their safety.
Rittenhouse, 17, was arrested Wednesday and charged with murder in the killing of two Black Lives Matter protesters Tuesday night in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He’d traveled there, he claimed, to help “protect people,” during the ongoing protests over the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man. Blake’s family says he’s now partially paralyzed.
While Rittenhouse was only enrolled at Lakes Community High School for the 2017 to 2018 academic year, he left an impression. Students reached by VICE News described him as short-tempered and easily offended.
“When he got mad or offended he would always say he could ‘fuck me up,’ but everyone would just laugh because he was like a 5-foot-4 chubby freshman boy who we thought wasn’t capable of harm,” said Joe, who’s a minor and asked that his full name not be used.
How hard it is for meaner men without the lead to sell it.
Of course, TRIGGERING THE LIBS is a perpetual self-refreshing cycle, and what better way to do so than to generate bad faith defenses of the guy who drove to a protest to shoot people:
It’s cop logic. Doesn’t matter whether his life was actually threatened — no evidence thus far that it was — what matters is he can *say* he *feared* for his life, and therefore the use of lethal force is justified. https://t.co/cKAVEwfHvH— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) August 27, 2020
I put the over/under for overt celebrations of this shitbag at tonight’s Reichsparteitag at 7.