Trump supporters on the Mall
“Trump Supporters” who stormed the Capitol.
We’ve seen the horned-hat guy before:
Wasn’t there a famous incident a centuray ago, a fire blamed on innocent people which gave a certain politician the excuse to seize power?
Are we absolutely certain the troublmakers were ordinary Trump supporters, same as the rest of the crowd outside, and not infiltrators hoping to cause a backlash against President Trump and his supporters protesting the stolen election
Joe Doakes
Whether the riot was launched by provocateurs or not, plenty of Trump supporters did participate with great glee. There’s a dilemma, of course – if there’s one thing we learned during the Tea Party, at gun rights and pro life and tax-protest rallies, it’s that conservatives need to behave impeccably, because the media and the Dems oppo research staff (pardon the redundancy) will pick over every utterance, visual and thought for wrongthink).
(If there’s another thing we learned it’s that the left’s slander machine and control of the administrative state makes perfect behavior irrelevant. Lefty social media today is awash in claims that the Tea Party was racist, violent, and a tool of the Koch Brothers, who (we’re told) bought all of American politics for a few years).
But whoever turned the demonstration into a riot, and whatever the reasons, the left is responding to last week’s events with a technique they’ve mastered; not wasting a crisis. Whoever did what, it will be spun relentlessly to their advantage.
I just booked a flight out of MSP on the morning of the 20th.
Do you think that there might be rampaging MAGA people at the airport?
Save me, governor Walz, please save me from the Cow Man!
Jake Angeli the “QAnon Shaman”, who’s legal name is Jacob Anthony Chansley is a QAnon supporting YouTuber. Chansley is also a Navy veteran.
‘QAnon Shaman’ charged with storming the Capitol is a Navy veteran
https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2021/01/12/qanon-shaman-charged-with-storming-the-capitol-is-a-navy-veteran/
Ashley Babbit was a veteran, too.
Clearly, we need to purge our military of . . . military veterans.
The QAnon Shaman, aka Jake Angeli, announced in his first court appearance that he could not eat jail food because it wasn’t all organic.
Shouldn’t this nut lose his right wing cred for eating like a liberal?
Ms Babbitt was also a QAnon adherent. Brainwashed by outrageous conspiracy theories culminating with her violent death.
Sorry, these are domestic terrorists, not goofy clowns.
“Ms Babbitt was also a QAnon adherent. Brainwashed by outrageous conspiracy theories culminating with her violent death. “
here he is folks! Emery the always dutiful apologist for murderers!
“Sorry, these are domestic terrorists, not goofy clowns.”
Emery, the cow-man is literally wearing face paint.
Thick as a whale omelette . . .
Yes, ‘There’s no accounting for taste’ ….
These clowns — what I call the WWE segment of Trump followers were not the only demographic in the Trump mob It’s simplistic to presume it to be so. There were many business owners and college educated there as well. A more nuanced analysis is needed and important questions asked about influencers, the angry, the manipulators and others.
Republicans could help defuse the situation: just come out and say loudly, clearly and repeatedly “I was wrong about fraud and election integrity. Those were all lies, for which I apologize. Biden won. Move on.”
Republicans could help defuse the situation: just come out and say loudly, clearly and repeatedly “I was wrong about fraud and election integrity. Those were all lies, for which I apologize. Biden won. Move on.”
Maybe start with Stacey Abrams?
Democrats have been whining about election fraud and election integrity, literally for decades.
Al Gore never lead in ANY of the recounts he demanded & got.
Remember the “Ohio voting machine” hoax of 2004? Or the attempt by Democrats in 2016 to subvert state electors?
Ashli Babbit, Say her name Emery.
Emery has no moral objection to people being murdered as long as it is the right people.
Liberals dislike being reminded of their own wickedness. It works against the idea that they aren’t just another ideologically driven political party, & not the saviors of mankind & the heralds of progress.
And, just to remind Emery, I am not aware of MBerg taking any stand on whether or not Trump lost the election due to ballot fraud. I have not either.
In May, 1970, students rioted at Kent State University during a Vietnam War protest. A group advanced on a line of National Guardsmen sent to control the situation. The Guardsmen, perhaps jumpy, perhaps hearing a shot fired, opened up. In a few seconds they killed four, wounded others. You’ve all seen the iconic photo. The narrative became history, accurate or not. Don’t take counsel of your fears but think about unintended consequences of actions.
Mark me down as someone who thinks that without those mail-in votes in the cities of Detroit, Milwaukee, Philadelphia and Atlanta, it would have been President Donald Trump Part 2.
Perhaps it is time to remind our liberal friends about the Bill of Rights, specifically the very first amendment in the Bill of Rights:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Which of these clauses are today’s “liberals” against? I am guessing the 2nd, 3rd,4th & 5th.
AllenS has it right. The mail in ballot scam worked as planned. Expect it to become standard practice, no way the reprobates will lose a scam like that once it’s been field tested.
Those three clowns in the picture are leftist reprobates. The people you see behind them are Trump supporters.
It’s like I said. Did Antifa incite or lead the break in? Dunno. Were they there? Absolutely.
Expect the reprobate press to turn the gaslight up to 11, and their mindless drones to repeat it like a scratched record.
See also: cheese whiz troll.
Reprobates could help defuse the situation: just come out and say loudly, clearly and repeatedly “We were covering up fraud and election theft. We were wrong to destroy ballots before they could be examined, as ordered by a federal judge. Our leadership is wrong to fan the flames by misusing the impeachment process to gain a political advantage, Constirution be damned.
We are all congenital liars, and mental deficients, for which we promise to seek treatment for. Biden cheated..”
Merg, I alluded to a point yesterday that the qualitative chasm between you and Ed Morissey’s insight is Grand Canyonesque. That shouldn’t be the case as a matter of ability, but it does obviously speak to temperament. Ed’s a political adult who writes as an adult.
Your editorial / expository construction here is to let Tard Joe ask the question, “are we sure these are Maga people?” This is an important question that has consumed a lot of thought the last few days, and it’s important to answer it. As a matter of civics, it’s important that civic people properly answer it and let it be settled. You set up the question here, know the answer, and don’t answer it. Instead, you use your editorial authority to coddle Tard Joe and also jack off for day 10000 on the question of whether there’s a lib / con double standard.
There is a double standard, alright, yes. But your framing of the double standard for this instance is total BS. The certification riot was not conservatives behaving a hair less than impeccably and getting called out where liberals wouldn’t. The organization on Parler and FB to coordinate the taking of the capital with a couple thousand people and bro-paramilitarians with the restraints and the lists is something a few orders of magnitude past that. You pick the word if you’ve got one you like better than coup or sedition. The left hasn’t actually done something like that.
Attacking and burning down a police station is no longer an act of sedition!
Nor is burning police cars, or coordinated attacks on police attempting to restore order!
I guess it is just an exercise of righteous anger.
Attacking and burning down a police station isn’t and never was sedition. Brush up on your language skills, MO.
Oh, my language skills are just fine, JK. You need to take a few calming breaths.
se·di·tion
/səˈdiSH(ə)n/
noun: sedition; plural noun: seditions
conduct or speech inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state or monarch.
I am not defending the January 6 rioters, whoever they were. I am attacking you and your authoritarian belief that the laws should be applied unequally.
Keith Ellison the Minneapolis BLM rioters:
“Martin Luther King said many years ago that riot is the way that the unheard get heard. He didn’t condone it, but he said to the nation as a person who always protested peacefully, that don’t just dismiss that and ignore it and relegate it to just criminality and bad behavior. Actually ask yourself what’s going on there. Is it something that we as a society absolutely must pay attention to?”
So, you see, the January 6th rioters were just following the advice of MLK & Keith Ellison. Why does Kraephammer hate Ellison? Racism, I suppose. Shame to see that in this year of 2021.
JK
” Brush up on your language skills”
that’s quite a Toobin you got there, be careful not to get any on your keyboard!
You’re making a category error – a precinct station is not “the state”. And you’re reflexively wallowing in notions of double standard cuz you cant get outside of righty identitarianism.
Here’s Ed Morrisey: https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2021/01/13/wsj-gop-since-moral-relativism-defense/
Um:
“incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authority”
I don’t think the Overlord is the one in need of language skills.
Pig, I’m not convinced you actually have the brainpower to read Pynchon. Show us something. Construct a couple multi-sentence, multiple clause paragraphs.
I’m happy that MBerg offers up his virtual Davenport of Love for his core fever swamp commenters. Perhaps he could offer a premium service for deprogramming his flock.
Troy, being a libturd means never having to say you are sorry, or wrong.
JK
“I’m not convinced you actually have the brainpower to read Pynchon. Show us something. “
I’m glad to see my evaluation of you is correct.
Your current mistake is believing that I’m trying to persuade you in any way.
I’m here to highlight and mock you for the arrogant self-indulgent narcissist you’ve proven yourself to be, but don’t let me ruin your Toobin for ya.
Man that incited violence claims prosecuting him for inciting violence could incite violence. And that he didn’t incite violence.
Very stable genius.
Mexico is now prepared to pay for the border. Canada wants a border too.
I’m almost 75 years old, and as long as I can remember, there has always been a border between the United States and Mexico, and a border between the United States and Canada.
Allen, that’s pure comedy gold right there! Thank you!
“The organization on Parler and FB to coordinate the taking of the capital…”
See there seditionists? You got nowhere to run. Faphammer has been monitoring your activities from the start.
Killing a cop is a capital offense federally and in every state. Its an anc so serious, death or life imprisionment without parole is warranted.
That is because killing a cop is not just murder, it’s an attack on the authority and stability of the state.
Mentally challenged reprobates will quibble (and dribble), but its an act of sedition.
ps. Guess which other crime is considered a capital offense by the feds…Counterfeiting. Which is what the drug addicted thug known as St. Floyd by tye reprobates was engaged in when he died of an overdose.
So, for reprobates, not only are some serious crimes forgivable, they qualify one for Hero of the Motherland status, complete with riots, looting, arson, assault, murder, and if you die, gold caskets, laying in state and swell murals and street namings.
All this makes perfect sense if you’re sporting a room temperature IQ, or get 1/2 your brain sucked out with a straw.
It’s a minor point, and very tangential, and not additive to this conversation, but… The MPD cops didn’t respond to Floyd at Cups Foods because of counterfeiting. City beat cops don’t literally ‘police’ counterfeiting.
Though yes, the claim is it was a fake $20 bill, the cops’ authority there was to interdict a kinda drunk man shoplifting, essentially.
Though yes, the claim is it was a fake $20 bill, the cops’ authority there was to interdict a kinda drunk man shoplifting, essentially.
Using counterfeit currency = shoplifting. Lmao.
Friends, is this reprobate displaying utterly epic stupidity, congenital lying, sociopathic self delusion, jailhouse lawyering or little bit of all four?
Your guess is as good as mine.
👆To you your fellow travelers who have turned Washington DC into an armed camp instead of a public gathering space. If you wanted to be heard and remembered, you’ve succeeded: The shame will never be forgotten and the stink of what you’ve done will never wear off.
Racist Tom, you should be capable of following along. Take another adderall.
“The shame will never be forgotten and the stink of what you’ve done will never wear off.”
ah looks like Emery is competing with kraephandle to see who has the biggest Toobin. Way to go all Brokeback Mountain on us!
“But muh victimhood” is the battlecry of pig.
Suck it up, buttercup. I thought you all were the tough guys?
Take another adderall.
Ah yes. To a reprobate, the answer to any problem is drugs or degenerate sex. So predictable, so devoid of self respect.
It’s….breathtaking….to see someone not only holding up Thomas Pynchon as some model of erudition (cue “eat s**t” scene from Gravity’s Rainbow), but is also arguing that attacking police stations does not constitute an attack on the authority of the state while claiming that the police will not be called when someone is caught trying to pass counterfeit. Yes, John, that’s called “shoplifting”, and yes, in civilized cities, this is routinely dealt with by the police.
If indeed passing counterfeit / shoplifting is not dealt with by the police in Minneapolis, it’s amazing anybody bothers to do business there. And really, if those on the left cannot clue in to basic facts about crime like this, I have to wonder if we can sustain a society anymore.
the claim is
See friends, reprobates love conspiracies too. Is that what Q told you, Faphammer? Lol.
By the way, just how many of you are in there between your ears? I know these lots of empty space…got any more special friends you’d like to bring into your struggle session?
Is it me, or does the appearance of trollbots adds nothing to the discussion? It just exposes the hypocrisy, lack of comprehension and cognitive skills? Is is simply not possible to have an intelligent conversation the minute they show up.
Since they insist on coming here and crapping all over the place, is it possible to have a standing thread where they can post their inane ramblings for all to see (or not), while leaving main posts to the adults? Or at the very least limit their crap-and-run musings to one. I guess that would involve a higher level of moderation, but the benefits!
I have to wonder if we can sustain a society anymore.
Do you think we are sustaining one?
(Takes peek into what “The Hill” is reporting) Yikes. That shitshow doesn’t look like Kansas anymore.
To you your fellow travelers who have turned Washington DC into an armed camp instead of a public gathering space. If you wanted to be heard and remembered, you’ve succeeded: The shame will never be forgotten and the stink of what you’ve done will never wear off.
Nasty way to talk about the country’s leaders, but there ya’ go.
It wasn’t that long ago that Dems were cussing out Trump because he visited the church across from the White House that Dem protesters had burned down. DC was still on fire from the many peaceful protests of the Democrats.
BB – the Pynchon observation re SiTD commenter isn’t made or broken by the relative quality of Pynchon’s work. It’s that these are fairly significant works, and commenter Pig Bodine, who chooses a Pynchon inspired handle, can’t compose a paragraph.
But, if you have to explain the joke, ya know…. that’s on you. Which is to say its on me.
Yeah, I stand on that. The counterfeiting aspect of the Floyd thing is just popular narrative, it has no legal materiality. If you cant get, you’re the dumb one. Don’t make it more complicated than it is.
The counterfeiting aspect of the Floyd thing is just popular narrative, it has no legal materiality
See, the cops planted that fake $20, paid the clerk to identify it in order to hold a drug addicted thug on the run from child support payments, down on the pavement until he succumbed to the lethal dose of Fentanyl they injected him with.
And the video of those reprobates pulling boxes of fake ballots from hiding when the coast was clear? What boxes? What video?
Y’all are just door too heads.
We’re knee deep in Qtards, lads. The 4chan boys are rotflmao.
And Faphammer sees himself as a towering intellect…hahahahaha!
He’s the Curly Howard show.
That’s not what I said at all, racist Tom.
justplainangry said:
“Is it me, or does the appearance of trollbots adds nothing to the discussion?”
I’m a high school graduate (1964) that maintained a grade average of C to C minus. That was the last schoolin’ that I had, and the trollboats make me feel far superior in overall knowledge.
Now Faphammer is arguing with his new friend. Wonder if the whole crew ever weighs in at the same time.
Pity SITD doesn’t have a psychiatrist in the audience.