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FBaggins

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17. Plenty to be concerned about from that Jan 6th - but IMO the "gallows" wasn't one of them.

Reply to LastLiberal in PalmSprings (Reply #15)

Mon Jan 6, 2025, 09:44 PM

Jan 6

No real issue on how it got there... it was basically a few 2x4s in the shape of a gallows. You couldn't do any more with it than you could have used the guillotine at a Trump White House protest a few years earlier. Participants who wanted their photo taken with their head in the noose had to kneel down.

IOW - it was a prop. A tasteless childish prop.

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