Yup. That’s a *spectacular* sign. Just shove something in front of him, he’ll sign it. But it opens some possibilities. Perhaps someone could slip in a confession or three? Or an executive order disbanding the BATFE, transfering all their funds to Space Force?
It’s an interesting read. More than 20,000 Guardsmen were uselessly sent to protect the Capital from phantom insurgents; they were meant to play guards, but were unarmed, vetted, insulted and name-called by their political masters… then once their utility in an episode of political theater was over, they were sent to be packed neck-deep in a parking garage with vastly insufficient facilities.
Good job.
So majestic. So regal. So many feels.
To protect Biden? Bring Out The Army. To protect cities when they were being burned by thousands of armed insurrectionists and domestic terrorists all through the incessant Moron Riots of 2020? Naw, let it burn.
The absolute unconquerable ignorance of those who would rule over us is an evergreen source of dark amusement. Behold the 2014-vintage performance of one Kevin De Leon, politician extraordinaire.
An Oscar award for the cop in the background. Managed to act like he wasn’t in the presence of a world-class ass.
And let us not forget intellectual vacuum collapse Sheila Jackson Lee, who reminds us that an AR-15 weighs as much as ten boxes and fires 50 caliber bullets:
Oy.
It’s well known that the incoming administration wants to ban standard capacity magazines for the Little People. But it seems they’re getting a jump on that by making sure that the National Guard is issued Zero Capacity Magazines:
Today, it was my honor to join @chefjoseandres and @WCKitchen to provide meals to our heroic National Guard troops who are keeping our Congressional community safe during this difficult time. pic.twitter.com/aqJ1JEwumA
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) January 16, 2021
Of course, it may be that disarming the National Guard troops is due to the new administration not actually trusting the troops. Which should do wonders for morale and unit cohesion:
So the House voted to impeach Trump. Again.
Meh.
I *tried* to listen to the speeches in the House today. I really did. But the histrionics, the hyperbole, the outright whackjob insanity of some of those overpowered goons squealing about “hundreds of domestic terrorists” was just too damn much.
Feh.
Anyway, on to other matters. Here is a useful chart (from an apparently legit mental health organization) to tell if you are in an abusive relationship. Any similarity to an authoritarian government or an ideological media near you is entirely coincidental. It’s available in a high-rez PDF form, perfect for printing off poster size and hanging up at your place of employment. Or your nearest government office, if you are insurrectionist enough to get within touching distance of such a place.
What’s stranger is that she said it out loud on Twitter, and Twitter has not only allowed the post to stay up, it hasn’t even slapped a “this is disputed” warning label on it.
Our election was hijacked. There is no question. Congress has a duty to #ProtectOurDemocracy & #FollowTheFacts.
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) May 16, 2017
So for the last 24+ hours I’ve been listening to news outlets such as NPR and the Bbc hyperventilating about the events in Washington. It seems the talking points memos got out, as there has been incessant repetition of phrases like “armed insurrectionists” and “domestic terrorism.” The action of people walking up to and then into a building is inevitably referred to as “storming” the building.
And then today, the pervy corrupt scumbag nice old gentleman who will be the next President said:
what we witnessed yesterday was not dissent, it was not disorder, it was not protest. It was chaos. They weren’t protesters — don’t dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob of insurrectionists, domestic terrorists.
Now, to be fair Biden *did* actually say something true, though I suspect he didn’t mean it the way reality interprets it:
No one can tell me that if it had been a group of Black Lives Matter protesting yesterday, they wouldn’t have been treated very, very differently than the mob of thugs that stormed the Capitol. We all know that’s true, and it is unacceptable. Totally unacceptable. The American people saw it in plain view. And I hope it’s sensitized them to what we have to do.
Yes, the American people saw it. The American people saw the better part of a year where “Black Lives Matter” protests turned into cities on fire. Government buildings utterly trashed, police cars set ablaze, sizable sections of cities simply ceded to *actual* insurrectionists. The American people saw this chaos being lauded by the press and many in government. We saw the gaslighting on a scale not seen since the Commies and the Nazis.
FLOYD PROTESTS: Damage from looting and arson amid mostly peaceful protests over the police killing of George Floyd will cost $1-2 billion in claims, according to the Insurance Information Institute. pic.twitter.com/uaNPwwnUEQ
— CBS Evening News (@CBSEveningNews) September 16, 2020
So what will the American people take from this? Compare and contrast protestors who set cities on fire, who continued their hijinks for weeks and months, and were praised and rewarded for it, with protestors who broke a few windows, wandered around a building for a few *hours,* and THEN LEFT, all without starting *any* fires, and are getting called domestic terrorists by the press and the next President. Cities set on fire by the left are, at worst, attributed to ‘a few bad apples among mostly peaceful protestors.” There is no such attribution of “only a few are bad” for the right wingers actions.
The lesson to learn here is that one side really is allowed to do pretty much whatever they want without a whole lot of official pushback. The other side finds that any protest at all will get them called domestic terrorists by the media and the government. One side is allowed to behave as badly as they like. The other side is being pushed into a corner.
Yeah. This will end well.
At least we’ll get some good memes before the end.
She was a veteran, a QAnon conspiracy weirdo, and shot in the throat or chest by – reportedly – a plain clothes Capitol police officer not because she was waving a gun around or carrying a karambit, but because she was going through a window.
You can see her get shot at about 0:41 in this video (at least until it gets memory holed):
After a year of being told that arson and murder are just the way change is made, and perfectly acceptable ways for people to express their political views, I remain unconvinced that the government executing someone for trespassing is entirely a good thing. Were the police working under Castle Doctrine? Is there a duty to retreat in D.C.?
Also: Get ready for a whole lot of this sort of thing:
And let’s see if this stays up:
The whole point of protesting is to make ppl uncomfortable.
Activists take that discomfort w/ the status quo & advocate for concrete policy changes. Popular support often starts small & grows.
To folks who complain protest demands make others uncomfortable… that’s the point.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) December 2, 2020
Remember *all* through 2020, when “mostly peaceful protestors” were allowed to trash business districts and government offices with AT MOST a harsh talking to by the police? Yeah… that’s leftist privilege. If you are a right winger and you want to do something vaguely similar, but with a whole lot less of looting and arson, the police will shot you in the neck.
WARNING. GRAPHIC FOOTAGE:pic.twitter.com/Y9HdhjJn9H
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) January 6, 2021
“We want to petition our government.” Government response:
Those sure do look like “high capacity magazines” those fellers have. As well:
Not only “high-cap” magazines but a “hell yes we’ll take your AR-15.” The government gets to have those. Not you or me, though. The likes of us will be restricted to clubs and Molotov cocktails, so long as we pass certain ideological tests. “Want to burn down a book store to protest western civilization and Enlightenment values? Go right ahead. Annoyed about voting irregularities? Here, have a flash-bang.”
Yeah, 2021 is gonna be one hell of a year.
