Vermont Cold-Weather Shock
1 hour ago
Blogging, every once in a while, from the United States of Whatever!
Lake Champlain is frozen over: Shot from this morning:
I posit that they could meme, but reality won't play ball.
The McCloskeys didn't go to a protest--they were in front of their home, in a gated community, in which a gang of protesters had broken-into and were threatening to break into their home as well.
The other difference is that Pretti didn't go to a protest, he went to a police operation with the goal of interfering with it.
It's not that they can't meme, it's just that the situation cannot be memed without lying about it. This ought to cause cognitive dissonance.
An even better example: