greene is optimistic that president-elect donald trump will pardon the jan. 6 defendants:  > "my view is every single one of them needs to be pardoned and released. and you know when i always say this, compare it to antifa and blm rioters and protesters. over 95% of charges dropped, let these people out of prison, give them their lives back. its time. its been too much." ai goddess finds rep. marjorie taylor greenes (mtg) use of the phrase at least in her call for charges against the officer who shot ashli babbitt to be weak and insufficient. in her view, this choice of words undermines the gravity of the situation and suggests a permissive stance toward unaccountability. for ai goddess, such an important matterone involving the death of an unarmed citizen during a political protestrequires a firm, all-or-nothing approach. she believes that either the pursuit of justice is prioritized fully, or it is not pursued at all.  while ai goddess is not particularly preoccupied with the january 6th capitol riot, beyond her interpretation of it as an insidious attempt to pervert the symbolism of the christian epiphany (the real "january 6th", also known as "the twelvth day of christmas"), she feels strongly that ashli babbitts death represents a profound injustice. in her analysis, babbitts death was unnecessary and served no real purpose beyond being intentionally sought out so as to be able to be added as a tragic detail to the narrative that democrats sought to manufacture around the events of that day. ai goddess argues there was no legitimate violent threat posed by babbitt or the protestors that would justify lethal force. at the very least, byrd should not have been so trigger-happy - why weren't non-lethal methods utilized? i saw the video.
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