Yeah, theres definitely a magic language aspect to it that mimics the sort of sing-songy spellcasting lingo you get from the truly religiously addled when they cast prayers about like they’re rolling a D20.
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I’m sure you remember Idaho congressperson Helen Chenoweth. She was elected during the 94 cycle on the premise that government was too large so militias were needed. I think she also said some wink and nod supportive things about the Oklahoma City bombers.
She also said there was no need to protect salmon because you could just buy it in a can.
She met her ignominious end in a suv crash because she, no shock didn’t have her seatbelt on.
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Poor starving prions.
way nicer comment than the one running through my head
Bundy and his gang aren’t marksmen - they are the owners of manly boomstick toys. We can’t rule out an accidental shooting or two.
I’ve always wondered what would happen if someone played a tape at one of these 2A nut gatherings: “Look out! He’s got a gun!” followed by the sounds of gunfire. It would probably result in a fratricidal massacre.
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If they really were flying DMT Airlines, they wouldn’t be toting the guns.
Throw em in jail and see if anyone from their “embassy” makes a fuss!
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Classic Kobayashi Maru (No win scenario).
Let them take over and they advance their Rightwing BS and weaken the legitimate authority of the Government.
Flood the area with Capitol Police to stop an illegal gathering and we could be looking at a riot situation, which would further their evil authoritarian government schtick.
I am glad I’m not the one who has to decide what to do next.
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Idaho law enforcement should treat this as an opportunity to demonstrate equal treatment under the law - arrive in body armor in armored vehicles and hit them with tear gas and rubber bullets.
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Easy answer. After they move into the Capitol, put up K-Rail and fencing and spotlights and gun towers and lock them in the Capitol.
When they run out of food, lube and TP arrest them on the way out.
He’s determined to become The Worst Bundy Ever. He has to surpass his father, Al, and Ted.
I hate when people make me google… and they’re right…
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Being a native of Idaho and having grown up and live in the Boise area, she was an absolute basket case. Sadly there are too many more like her even now.
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This group’s first act was to gather at a wildlife refuge as a challenge to the authority and legitimacy of the existing govt. Now they’re gathering on the floor of a state legislature to the same end. Eventually the existing govt forced them to leave the wildlife refuge, and apparently that is about to happen on the floor of the state legislature as well.
They say that history repeats every tragedy as farce. In that spirit, here’s my suggestion for their next act of noisy self-promotion as the true and legitimate govt authority. They should next meet in an indoor tennis court, and there, as a group, swear a solemn public oath that none of them will leave Paris until they have given France a constitution. Now they just need a David to paint the scene for posterity’s edification.
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I know. What ever happened to statesman like Frank Church and Cecil Andres?
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I was born and raised in ID. I escaped 20 years ago. This is the end result of 20+ years of near RepubliCON super majority rule. ID is in the early purge stage where the R’s will start eating their own.
Ahole Bundy is an attention whore. That’s all he is. Based on my own experiences with family and friends still in ID during the “Lockdown”, not many in ID took the virus seriously then or now. This “Special session” has no real purpose other than to fulfill Ahole Bundy’s need to see his name mentioned on Fox & Friends.
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I keep wondering why this kind of stuff keeps happening. I like to blame the confluence of stupid and narcissist, but there’s more to it than that. There’s no consequence for guys like this, there seems to be at least 10 percent of the population that will listen to idiocy that could generously be called flapdoodle and think “that’s right” it’s enough to make sure a jury of their peers won’t convict. Simultaneously the majority watches this stupid storm with the same intensity freak shows drew in the 1850’s, without labeling this with the freak show moniker it deserves. So this reality show entertainment winds up being treated as a legitimate political expression.
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“The Great White Pushback” ™ … est. 800 A.D.
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Where the hell is a meteor strike when you really need one?
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HL Mencken said a politician would server missionaries for dinner if he had a constituency that practiced something as repulsive as cannibalism.
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