Michael Fanone, the D.C. Metropolitan Police officer who was electroshocked with a Taser-like device during the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, didn’t disagree with his alleged attacker, Daniel Rodriguez, who tearfully called himself “stupid” and an “asshole” during an FBI interrogation.
It is amazing how having to face the consequences of their actions can have an impact on the opinions of some. He is actually probably smarter than a lot of MAGAT’s, who will never figure it out.
Fanone is a better person than I am.
“He was like many people looking for camaraderie, looking for something to belong to,” Fanone said.
"Believing you’re a patriot
In truth, you’re just an idiot."
— A line from my soon-to-be-released song of joy and mirth, entitled "(Welcome to the) Death Cult
“I do agree with his self-assessment,” Fanone told the Washington Post Wednesday
“…after all, he talked and confessed and didn’t even have a lawyer line up a plea deal first.”
The far right, wherever they are found, are by definition fucking morons, because if they weren’t, they wouldn’t be wingers.
"Fish flop around before they die." – David Jolly
Stupid in the sense as described by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
OT but perhaps of interest. I just watched the formal “farewell” for Angela Merkel, whose final term is actually over next week when Olaf Scholz becomes chancellor.
They did a “Grand Tattoo” for her, a ceremony which goes way back (origin in the Middle Ages but much of the current ceremony goes back to the 1850s) and is always done at night because they use torches (Fackel) as part of the ceremony.
She chose some interesting songs for the band to play (she could choose three) including one from the German Democratic Republic (East, where she grew up) – it was, by the way, from Nina Hagen. At the very end of the ceremony, just before the national anthem, they played a traditional hymn Ich bete an die Macht der Liebe (“I pray to the power of love”), which was a terrific choice.
Her short speech was also very good – she touched on truth, conspiracy theories, science, hit all the right notes.
As they drove her and her husband off at the end of the ceremony, she’s waving from the window of the limousine and grinning broadly. I thought she looked relieved.
Whether you agreed with her politically or not (hubby dislikes her) she defined an era and a style, and she was a smart enough lady to say, enough is enough and simply not keep running until she lost an election.
So now she will go back to living normally – although over the years there have been plenty of photos of her pushing a shopping cart in the supermarket around from her apartment a few miles from the official residence in the Chancellory.
Here’s a film of it for any of you history buffs who would like to see it.
Three additional tidbits:
Sorry for the long post, thought some of you might find it interesting.
Oh, yes, and they marched in to Beethoven’s Yorckscher Marsch
Lotta respect for Chancellor Merkel.
“He was like many people looking for camaraderie, looking for something to belong to,” Fanone said.
So was the Sturmabteilung.
“First they came for the stupid self-aware assholes …”
Thank you for this brief interruption. It serves to highlight how a peaceful transition of power can work when honest and intelligent adults are the participants. I don’t view it as “off-topic” in this discussion.
Well said, officer.
Actually, I don’t really either – that’s why I chose to place it here rather than elsewhere.
My most vivid memory of Angela Merkel is her firm but calm handling of a really really creepy situation.
We have consensus at last!
This is mine:
Some great history here, thanks for posting!
The Chancellor I grew up with was Adenauer, who I, as a kid, would associate with “Eisenhower” (for the sound of the last name).
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