I've been watching the whole thing through. This is a miscarriage of the law in the highest order.
The prosecution are gaslighting the judge, and the defense are letting them.
Kyle's defense has basically abandoned him and wouldn't even object to the prosecution coming out and saying the sky is green and that's why Kyle Rittenhouse shot 90 black men in cold blood while blasting "let the bodies hit the floor."
The judge has numerous times said in statement things completely favorable to Rittenhouse and has even yelled at the prosecution for their bullshit and then immediately rules against HIS OWN LOGIC!
AND THE DEFENSE JUST LETS HIM!
Things are going very bad for Kyle, and I'm not overstating it.
It was the defense's case to lose, and they seem content with losing to the fantasy presented by the prosecution.
The largest affront to reality is how the prosecution is claiming Kyle provoked Rosenbaum by pointing his gun at Ziminski, which Rosenbaum didn't know nor has it been proven he realized that had happened.
They are creating this fantasy because they have drone footage that came in only last Friday that they have blown up and is so blurry it makes Kyle look left handed, but somehow that's good enough to show Kyle pointed his gun at Ziminski.
No one in their right mind could look at a video where Kyle is less than 10 pixels and decide he held his gun up for a fraction of a second, but that's where we are. The prosecution basically convinced the judge that a shit stain on some paper towel shows that it will rain tomorrow, and the defense just lets them do it.
This is a travesty, and it opens up the prosecution to gaslight the jury like they have gaslit the judge.
In a world that makes sense, this case would have been dismissed on day two.
The world doesn't make sense, though.
Go ahead.
If I had a chance of being wrong, I wouldn't have written the above.
After all that has been said and done, you still hold a grain of faith in the court system?
I've known how corrupt the court system was before going into this. Chauvin was the expected result, yet still people held out hope.
I'm optimistic everywhere else, except when it comes to the court system. They cannot and will not do the right or just thing anymore, and it is primarily due to how pathetically incompetent they have become.
Hmmmmmmmmmmm
I'm not sure if you're gloating but... don't count your chickens before they hatch.
The National Guard were called in.
There has yet to have been an instance where appropriate National Guard presence was asked in anticipation of an ANTIFA showing. If the NG is there, ANTIFA will not be.
Soros doesn't spend money paying rioters if he doesn't have to.
The NG is there for the "white supremacist" riots that the media is already trying to create. They are going full clown world insanity to get people angry enough to take to the streets for Kyle's freedom. Keep in mind, no Kyle supporters are gonna get angry enough to show, but that's where the paid actors dressed up as Trump supporters come in.
Oh, and I have some sympathies for Binger, despite how disgusting of a person he is. He has no clue that he's been set up. I'm starting to suspect his insanity is authentic, not a show to incite anything. He really did screw up that bad. Richards didn't object at all because it wasn't part of the plan and because he didn't have to -- the verdict has already been decided, he knows it, and he didn't expend any effort more than he had to in order to frame the narrative.
I've lost all trust in Richards. His closing argument was fantastic, and based on it alone Kyle should walk. Narrative built, flames fanned, cue the National Guard...
It won't work, though -- Patriots are too level-headed to take this desperate bait.
Poor Kyle...
Why tf are you writing a novel about antifa? Idgaf. Your whole shtick was dooming about the court.
Contradicting yourself.
So I'll say it again.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
You aren't getting it yet?
The rig is in.
Richards is working against Kyle.
Would you put out any effort if you knew the job was already done?
That's why he didn't object to ANYTHING. He knows Kyle is gonna get convicted. Hell, just take a look at his jury selection!
If I'm wrong on this point, it's because if he was out to screw Kyle over he wouldn't be doing anything different.
Filings for a mistrial with prejudice should have concluded last Friday during charges discussion, not on closing arguments Monday! That's standard procedure! It leaves absolutely no time to pursue that route because the jury deliberation is already ongoing.
If they really wanted to let Kyle walk, he would be out already, Binger gave them EVERYTHING for a mistrial with prejudice yet they are still leaving it up to the jury to decide on every damn thing!
And consider, putting Kyle on the stand introduced 2 new charges based on his own testimony. The defense risked everything putting him on the stand, but the boy aced it despite them. We can at least be thankful for that miracle, if purely for his own peace of mind.
The talk about the Judge being a good-old-boy is all fluff to make it look like Kyle has every advantage. Everything the judges says contradicts what he does. If he really wanted justice he would have sequestered the jury for their own protection and started confronting the threats being made against him and the jurors. Since he hasn't addressed these things, I can only assume it's because Kyle is getting convicted and he doesn't have to.
It doesn't even have to be a grand conspiracy either. They might be doing all this because in their minds it's the only way to avoid the ANTIFA riot. Instead, they are playing right into a new narrative where Patriots are the agitators and rioters.
We can't win with this.
It's a lose-lose situation. Nothing good can come of this case coming out now. Honestly, it should be standard that verdicts on highly publicized cases like these be released at a random date within a month of the actual end of the case, to avoid this very scenario. There is every incentive to convict Kyle and get him off at an appellate proceeding, and that's exactly what they've prepped to do. They wouldn't be doing anything differently, which suggests to me that's what is going on.
Tomorrow I will post a picture of my hat which I will chew on for 20 minutes if they let him off.
Getting this ahead of time, 5:47 Central right now for me, for the record.
Let's see how this goes.