Man Arrested After Being Photographed With Confederate Flag In Capitol Riots | Talking Points Memo

[lastroth]

Yeah, but has @rucleare or @rascal_crone caught you with the confederate flag, especially during last weeks riot?

[radicalcentrist]

OT: From the not surprised file. Trump welches on another promise…

Officials: Trump's promised $200 drug-discount cards won't happen

[spacesaver]

“Taking back my capitol like a patriot” – Dumbest insurrectionist ever. Missed the Richmond stop on the bus.

[txlawyer]

Josiah Colt, surrendered himself in his home state of Idaho.

[littlegirlblue]

Clearly Jarvanka’s shit doesn’t stink.

The $3,000-a-month toilet for the Ivanka Trump/Jared Kushner Secret Service...

[tena]

Half Thorpe. Don’t restore them eventually.

[littlegirlblue]

So we have a new official Mr. Potato Head

[castor_troy]

All Section orders come with unique cover identities and appropriate attire.

For example, @rucleare is the one on the left.

[bunnyvelour]

How about: it’s time to recognize exactly what these flags represent, and the attitudes and intent of those waving them.

[bentonf]

Failed POS traitor carries failed POS-traitor flag during failed coup d’état.

ESAD, failed POS traitor. Enjoy federal prison, boy.

[rollinnolan]

@mattinpa

The upshot is that if you carried your phone into the building there’s a record of your having been there, and no matter how long it takes for your turn to come you can expect to be contacted by the FBI.

Thanks for that good news. I don’t want any of those assholes slipping through the net.

[tena]

I don’t think they’re gonna. hahahahaha

[thunderclapnewman]

Can’t be done.

Political speech is the most protected speech under the First Amendment.
Carrying that flag, or the Nazi flag, or the Gadsden flag are all examples of protected political speech.

That we find it repulsive and morally wrong doesn’t allow us to prohibit it in defiance of the Constitution.

[Volvo_Birkenstock]

Let’s say that your phone uses AT&T. Let’s say that you don’t have WiFi turned on. Let’s say that you’re in a basement corridor around DC which AT&T services. Then it is possible that when your phone is on without WiFi, the AT&T wireless routers are in contact with your phone and your location is associated with the below ground wireless router. I very strongly suspect the same holds true for every major wireless service.

If WiFi services are also provided and your phone has WiFi enabled, then the wireless transmitter is aware of your phone, even when you are not connected to the wireless router. At least that’s how I understand it.

The moral of the story: If you’re going to commit a crime, turn off your phone.

[tena]

They’ll get him for being in the building.

[hoagie]

Looks like one to me. That’s their uniform and he looks to have some holster on his right hip. Cap Police have a long and ugly record of racism in their ranks.

[thunderclapnewman]

OF course, but I was responding to calls to ban the flag.

[lastroth]

Or bring a burner.

[trustywoods]

So you don’t mind if I burn a cross in your neighborhood then?

[zenicetus]

@libthinker

For me, the picture of the MAGA with the confederate flag over his shoulder is the iconic image of this day, rather like the Kent State picture of the young woman bent over the man who was shot.

Agreed. I got angry at many of the images, but that one has the most resonance. It won’t stop yahoos in Red states from flying confederate flags on their pickup trucks, but it should help to further delegitimize the symbol in the US population at large. Maybe remind more people that it’s the flag of insurrection, and not some cute self-identification badge for rednecks.