No longer calling January 6th a "heinous attack," Trump commemorates "a truly incredible person," saying, "I offer my unwavering support to Ashli’s family."
Thanks for, as always, great journalism. It makes my stomach hurt when I read, "the worst act of political violence since the Civil War," having lived through the Timothy McVeigh Oklahoma City bombing. I didn't experience it but I was alive back then. If they think a riot at the Capitol is the worst violence they've seen, they don't remember the Summer of 2020. I guess they don't remember it because it wasn't shown to them. It was simply put in a blender and spun as "peaceful reckoning." But I think blowing up a Federal Building to protest the government, with children in day care dead, is something we all seem to have forgotten.
Should we mention all the lefty roaches that came out of the woodwork for George Floyd? Or the fact that the Democratic leadership knelt for 9 minutes in the rotunda with kente cloths around their necks to support a dangerous criminal, drug addict, drug dealer, car thief - talk about heinous; that was heinous.
I applaud Donald Trump for standing up for Ashli Babbitt. If he would have been president, that cop that shot her would have to pay. But instead we're living in a alternate universe where good is bad and lying is the norm, and the tyrants in the WH and Congress, with the help of the corporate media, are turning the screws on patriotic americans.
It is odd to think that a cop just smoked Babbitt and went on TV bragging about how he had no legal justification to shoot an unarmed veteran with no criminal record.
The same politicians who cheered cities being burned, including many mob beatings and murders, in the name of a multi-deadbeat dad who shoved a pistol in a fetus during a home invasion, then proceeded to drive around on a cocktail of drugs and COVID moments before his death, are silent.
The hypocrisy is appalling and noxious, whatever one's politics are.
The Jan 6th "insurrection" narrative is the most classist and autocratic bs I've heard. I have lost complete faith in every institution that even touches that narrative. There is nothing to it other than naked political gain. It's incredibly depressing to see that at the highest levels, people in the US ignore basic facts in order to maintain their partisanship. When the Chairman of the Joint Cheifs himself participates in this nonsense you know the entire federal government is rotten.
Most conservatives/Trump supporters would tell you that they don't approve of the Jan. 6 riot and it would have been best not to have happened
It wasn't really that much different in intent, though, than the Kavanaugh handmaids or Code Pink protests. It was larger and more disruptive but all the vast majority of those participating did was trespass.
The only real violence came from the bastard who shot Ashli. Well, I think there was also an incident were the cops caused a crushing death but I'm not 100% on that.
It was certainly a lot shorter and less scary than the leftist attacks on the White House & the GOP convention the summer before, not to mention the fed courthouse in Portland.
The bizarre overreaction has caused a change in thinking at least for me.
I will now refer to those protestors as the Martyrs of January 6.
The MSM coverage of the AB shooting was a disgusting debacle. Imagine if a white cop shot a black protester. PS - They knew dude's name for months, just wouldn't report it. #TGIF
Worst act of political violence since the civil war? John Berman should be fired for incurable stupidity for saying this. Kennedy's assassination, Pol Pot, Vietnam war, Afghanistan 'Action', and on and on. Then again, CNN's continued defense and employment of zombified humans like Stelter and Cuomo shows you how far below ground the bar has been buried.
Whatever your politics, Ashli Babbitt was murdered by the state and the state sanctioned it after the fact. This should disturb every citizen no matter there political beliefs. The government will deprive you of life, employment, the ability to put food on the table for your family and pay the heat bill--this is not a democratic republic. We are no longer citizens but subjects of the state.
If the 60's were on acid, and the 70's on pot ----> 80's/90's televangelical money making and high-fructose corn syrup, then our current milieu is the fetid internet media blob - distortion, fracture atomization brought to the doorsteps of billions with a whiff of dragon's breath cynicism which makes the corpse of Edward Bernays cringe. The pendulum of changing narratives as a means to confuse and disorient is just one sign of the sickness engulfing this society.
I was reporting on the ground on 1/6 and saw Babbitt's blood-drenched body being carted away inches away from my face.
It was a nightmare, but not for the reasons people think. It was that the media coverage was completely horseshit compared to what I witnessed in DC that day.
For one, nobody was "armed" in the "armed insurrection" with anything more than pepper spray or American flags. For another, I found evidence of a coordinated attack by 100-200 militiamen in black but NONE of the people involved in it have been grabbed up or charged by feds, just random trespassers caught up on mostly flimsy charges.
What was terrifying was hearing in real-time from police sources of a massive incoming crackdown by cops... which was only stopped because word got out that some white girl got shot. This happened as we all got text messages warning us that DC was effectively under martial law.
Then I made it back to the hotel room and all I saw was what looked like rehearsed hostage videos of Republican politicians condemning a "violent coup attempt" that didn't actually happen. There was a small group of a couple hundred militia members who roped another couple thousand idiots into attacking the cops after an initially overly-aggressive police response - all in the context of an extremely-tame marijuana-reeking boomer fest with half a million peaceful demonstrators. That retard show moved on into the Capitol Building after the cops - who'd gotten their asses kicked - were ordered to retreat and funnel protesters into already-evacuated sections of the building.
It was horrifying waking up to a world where a cop caps an unarmed woman with apparently no warning and EVERYONE in media is automatically convinced that the shooter was the real victim.
I just thought: America is fucked, guys. There's no way we can continue to function as a country when our media and government is this violently opposed to reality.
I think the left screwed the pooch on this one. They gave the right someone to rally around, showed their blatant hypocrisy re police violence, and exposed all the lies they had been telling themselves about being of the people and not a new aristocracy.
One of the few things mentioned about this protest is that a large minority of people who were involved had had businesses and livelihoods destroyed by lockdowns and the insane societal response to Covid, and by the summer and fall of 2020 Trump was one of the few people who was realistically criticizing the blanket hysteria. I think many of the protesters saw Biden's "win" as another step toward health authoritarianism--and indeed it was. We have Fauci basically still running our country in many important ways, an 80 year old blowhard megalomaniac, the left's version of an authoritarian asshole who plays in his own shit in the morning and thinks it is pure gold. As someone who has felt this rage as well, who's life, work and family has been totally blown apart by the Covid mania, I wish that side of the story would be addressed.
That being said, I take no part in the frantic machinations on both sides and have become, for better or for worse, a staunch proponent of the American libertarian movement. I plan on popping a lot of popcorn in 2022 and 2024. Both sides of the aisle are rotten to their core.
There is rank activism involving the people arrested on misdemeanor tresspass charges, just not on the part of Trump. If you believe that makes me a Trump supporter, that's your problem. I am a US Constitution supporter, and equal treatment under law is sacred to me. Another instance where you let the mask slip to reveal the face of knee jerk partisan Democrat. Shame on you.
Thanks for, as always, great journalism. It makes my stomach hurt when I read, "the worst act of political violence since the Civil War," having lived through the Timothy McVeigh Oklahoma City bombing. I didn't experience it but I was alive back then. If they think a riot at the Capitol is the worst violence they've seen, they don't remember the Summer of 2020. I guess they don't remember it because it wasn't shown to them. It was simply put in a blender and spun as "peaceful reckoning." But I think blowing up a Federal Building to protest the government, with children in day care dead, is something we all seem to have forgotten.
Should we mention all the lefty roaches that came out of the woodwork for George Floyd? Or the fact that the Democratic leadership knelt for 9 minutes in the rotunda with kente cloths around their necks to support a dangerous criminal, drug addict, drug dealer, car thief - talk about heinous; that was heinous.
I applaud Donald Trump for standing up for Ashli Babbitt. If he would have been president, that cop that shot her would have to pay. But instead we're living in a alternate universe where good is bad and lying is the norm, and the tyrants in the WH and Congress, with the help of the corporate media, are turning the screws on patriotic americans.
I'm just glad the media handles all police shootings exactly the same. Race doesn't figure into it at all.
It is odd to think that a cop just smoked Babbitt and went on TV bragging about how he had no legal justification to shoot an unarmed veteran with no criminal record.
The same politicians who cheered cities being burned, including many mob beatings and murders, in the name of a multi-deadbeat dad who shoved a pistol in a fetus during a home invasion, then proceeded to drive around on a cocktail of drugs and COVID moments before his death, are silent.
The hypocrisy is appalling and noxious, whatever one's politics are.
The Jan 6th "insurrection" narrative is the most classist and autocratic bs I've heard. I have lost complete faith in every institution that even touches that narrative. There is nothing to it other than naked political gain. It's incredibly depressing to see that at the highest levels, people in the US ignore basic facts in order to maintain their partisanship. When the Chairman of the Joint Cheifs himself participates in this nonsense you know the entire federal government is rotten.
Most conservatives/Trump supporters would tell you that they don't approve of the Jan. 6 riot and it would have been best not to have happened
It wasn't really that much different in intent, though, than the Kavanaugh handmaids or Code Pink protests. It was larger and more disruptive but all the vast majority of those participating did was trespass.
The only real violence came from the bastard who shot Ashli. Well, I think there was also an incident were the cops caused a crushing death but I'm not 100% on that.
It was certainly a lot shorter and less scary than the leftist attacks on the White House & the GOP convention the summer before, not to mention the fed courthouse in Portland.
The bizarre overreaction has caused a change in thinking at least for me.
I will now refer to those protestors as the Martyrs of January 6.
The MSM coverage of the AB shooting was a disgusting debacle. Imagine if a white cop shot a black protester. PS - They knew dude's name for months, just wouldn't report it. #TGIF
Worst act of political violence since the civil war? John Berman should be fired for incurable stupidity for saying this. Kennedy's assassination, Pol Pot, Vietnam war, Afghanistan 'Action', and on and on. Then again, CNN's continued defense and employment of zombified humans like Stelter and Cuomo shows you how far below ground the bar has been buried.
I've said it before, I will repeat it here and no doubt will have to do so in the future: Jan 6 was NOT an insurrection. It was political theater with trespass. Ya want an "insurrection"? Check those photos of the Taliban in the Afghan President's office after they took over: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/15/taliban-continues-advances-captures-key-city-of-jalalabad
Whatever your politics, Ashli Babbitt was murdered by the state and the state sanctioned it after the fact. This should disturb every citizen no matter there political beliefs. The government will deprive you of life, employment, the ability to put food on the table for your family and pay the heat bill--this is not a democratic republic. We are no longer citizens but subjects of the state.
Arm yourself accordingly.
If the 60's were on acid, and the 70's on pot ----> 80's/90's televangelical money making and high-fructose corn syrup, then our current milieu is the fetid internet media blob - distortion, fracture atomization brought to the doorsteps of billions with a whiff of dragon's breath cynicism which makes the corpse of Edward Bernays cringe. The pendulum of changing narratives as a means to confuse and disorient is just one sign of the sickness engulfing this society.
This piece feels unfinished, like the last 2/3 is missing.
I was reporting on the ground on 1/6 and saw Babbitt's blood-drenched body being carted away inches away from my face.
It was a nightmare, but not for the reasons people think. It was that the media coverage was completely horseshit compared to what I witnessed in DC that day.
For one, nobody was "armed" in the "armed insurrection" with anything more than pepper spray or American flags. For another, I found evidence of a coordinated attack by 100-200 militiamen in black but NONE of the people involved in it have been grabbed up or charged by feds, just random trespassers caught up on mostly flimsy charges.
What was terrifying was hearing in real-time from police sources of a massive incoming crackdown by cops... which was only stopped because word got out that some white girl got shot. This happened as we all got text messages warning us that DC was effectively under martial law.
Then I made it back to the hotel room and all I saw was what looked like rehearsed hostage videos of Republican politicians condemning a "violent coup attempt" that didn't actually happen. There was a small group of a couple hundred militia members who roped another couple thousand idiots into attacking the cops after an initially overly-aggressive police response - all in the context of an extremely-tame marijuana-reeking boomer fest with half a million peaceful demonstrators. That retard show moved on into the Capitol Building after the cops - who'd gotten their asses kicked - were ordered to retreat and funnel protesters into already-evacuated sections of the building.
It was horrifying waking up to a world where a cop caps an unarmed woman with apparently no warning and EVERYONE in media is automatically convinced that the shooter was the real victim.
I just thought: America is fucked, guys. There's no way we can continue to function as a country when our media and government is this violently opposed to reality.
I think the left screwed the pooch on this one. They gave the right someone to rally around, showed their blatant hypocrisy re police violence, and exposed all the lies they had been telling themselves about being of the people and not a new aristocracy.
The center isn't holding anymore.
One of the few things mentioned about this protest is that a large minority of people who were involved had had businesses and livelihoods destroyed by lockdowns and the insane societal response to Covid, and by the summer and fall of 2020 Trump was one of the few people who was realistically criticizing the blanket hysteria. I think many of the protesters saw Biden's "win" as another step toward health authoritarianism--and indeed it was. We have Fauci basically still running our country in many important ways, an 80 year old blowhard megalomaniac, the left's version of an authoritarian asshole who plays in his own shit in the morning and thinks it is pure gold. As someone who has felt this rage as well, who's life, work and family has been totally blown apart by the Covid mania, I wish that side of the story would be addressed.
That being said, I take no part in the frantic machinations on both sides and have become, for better or for worse, a staunch proponent of the American libertarian movement. I plan on popping a lot of popcorn in 2022 and 2024. Both sides of the aisle are rotten to their core.
As of this week, it appears that at least 70 people were still being detained without bond on misdemeanor trespassing charges. See https://www.npr.org/2021/10/13/1045696978/judge-holds-washington-d-c-jail-officials-in-contempt-in-a-jan-6-riot-case.
Historically, DC courts have released 90% of defendants in misdemeanor cases pending trial. See https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/when-it-comes-to-pretrial-release-few-other-jurisdictions-do-it-dcs-way/2016/07/04/8eb52134-e7d3-11e5-b0fd-073d5930a7b7_story.html
There is rank activism involving the people arrested on misdemeanor tresspass charges, just not on the part of Trump. If you believe that makes me a Trump supporter, that's your problem. I am a US Constitution supporter, and equal treatment under law is sacred to me. Another instance where you let the mask slip to reveal the face of knee jerk partisan Democrat. Shame on you.