The only good thing is that these people are so fucking stupid they are easy to catch. Like stink bugs.
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Exactly, James1. Well said. I was extremely moved reading this article, and I thank Alec MacGillis for writing from this perspective. One of the most frustrating things about the last 4 years for me is not being able to understand the far right. This shows me that many of the people in the insurrection are not fascists or intentional terrorists - like Boogaloo Bois. Many are people like the people who live down the street who have been crippled by the echo chamber of Fox News. They are not deserving of hate, and maybe, in the more sane world of a Biden-Harris admin, they will return to the mainstream. That said, we do need to deal with the people who went there with the idea of hurting people and overthrowing the government. Thanks, Alec, for helping me understand better.
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Toward the end of the article when authors typically try to cement their impressions.
“I got pepper-sprayed,” he tells the man, proudly. “Not me, but the people in front of me in the crowd, and the wind came and hit me. Dude, you got to check out this video I got.” He reaches around to his back pocket for his phone, but the older man breaks in.
“They said a girl got killed in the House,” he says, somberly.
“How?” asks the young man.
“In the House. She went in the House and they told her to stop three times and they shot her in the neck.”
The news of this death doesn’t faze the young man at all. Still smiling coolly, he wants to pick right back up with the story of his adventure storming the Capitol. “See, I went all the way up there underneath the scaffolding. … I climbed up it. … Everyone was like push-push-push and the cops started pepper-spraying. … You got to look at this — ”
“They killed an American girl,” the older man says, trying to get him to focus on that fact. But it’s no use. The young man keeps trying to show him his video clip of the pepper spray."
You must have read a different article.
The other thug, Gieswein, is a patron of Lauren Boebert’s bar in Colorado and taken pics outside it. I’m wondering if he was part of the Jan 5 special Capitol tour.
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I occasionally listen to the wingnuts on AM radio to see what they are saying to motivate their prey. I listened to an evangelical radio broadcast last Saturday morning, and they were interviewing Michele Bachmann. The theme was that the country and Christianity would be under increasing attack under a Biden presidency as opposed to the righteous Trump who was a wonderful president for the Christians. We’re heading for perdition. She said that the people who showed up for the Save America rally before the insurrection were just there to show support for Trump whose election was being stolen and to pray. The evil Left needed to discredit these righteous Trump supporters, so they sent in Black Lives Matter protestors and Democrats to steal the identities of the Trump supporters and to commit violence in their name. She explained that identity theft is wrong, but didn’t offer any evidence to support her theory that it was a false flag operation. She concluded that the listeners should not watch main stream news because it is all fake. They should instead listen to these religious broadcasts to get the true story.
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It’s just a lot of outrage porn made by morons, mental defectives, and tire-lickers. I’m past the point of caring until the ERs are jammed with them … and the morgues. That’s the only way it ends.
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So it appears the tour was on Jan 3.
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Well, we have 36 hours left in his term to find out if Trump is going to commit one final outrage to end all outrages by pardoning all these violent, racist insurrectionists, traitors, and murderers.
Supposedly, a flood of pardons for his cronies and others who bribed him are coming tomorrow — will he also actually go completely to the bottom and pardon these thugs? I fear he will. Why? Because every time you think Trump can’t possibly sink any lower or do something any more despicable, he does it rather easily.
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Wow! I don’t know how you keep your sanity. You know a lot of stupid people.
It used to be for me that Nixon was the worst ever. But now Nixon looks pretty damn good by comparison.
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The churning stupidity and blind hatred of Christian Nationalism seems to be the secret ingredient of Trumpism.
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Ahhh, good old reality bites you in the ass again. And you didn’t even see it coming did you?
You can actually read some of these brainwashed Trumpers talking themselves closer to reality as the horrific events around them unfolded.
This is an eerie sort of plumb line into the depths of mob and cult behavior.
The imprinted imagery of “city after city burning” can only come from exclusively FOX viewers, it points a perfect finger at the source of so many of the current misconceptions leading people into doubt over election integrity.
They also made the mystical evil “LEFT” something worth hating, and the confluence of those two sewer flows gave Trump’s election lies fertile ground to grow in.
And here we are.
I still blame FOX, in every possible way.
Whatever they become, to poli-sci historians and students of the future they will always be identified and acknowledged as the fake entertainment media that drove half of America into bitter resentment and nameless, privileged outrage due to watching their grossly slanted daily “news.”
Whenever FOX told those comfortable middle class, superstitious Americans to be outraged, they obeyed. And they did it a hundred times a day throughout Obama’s tenure, over issues like tan sportcoats
So in spite their easy American Dream life, they suffered because of it, aggrieved in ways no one seems to be capable of articulating other than with the word “socialism” wedged into some meaningless half-witted expression.
These people were lulled into perpetual outrage and cry-baby grievance by FOX, not by life itself.
Never has there been a more privileged class of imaginary victims.
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It’s an open secret.
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I wonder if that’s why the comms chief resigned? She would have needed someone who had been there a while to actually show them around.
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So what is the correct term for Christian Jihadist?
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Crusader.
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