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Post by Village Idiot on Jan 7, 2021 18:41:47 GMT -5
In a way I do feel sorry for these guys. There are lots of pictures of them parading around the Capitol building, taking selfies, leisurely strolling around like tourists. I wonder how many didn't realize the impact of their actions because they were prompted by no one else than the president of the United States. I'm guessing that quite a few of them had no idea of the consequences which most likely will be coming to them soon.
They followed the directive of the president, and they'll be spending time in prison. I can't help but think that a lot of them will be surprised by the conclusion of their actions. It's a sad thing.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Jan 7, 2021 19:17:11 GMT -5
How about the shirtless guy with leather leggings and buffalo horns? Hmmm. I wonder where Peter was yesterday. Mike |
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Post by david on Jan 7, 2021 19:22:54 GMT -5
In a way I do feel sorry for these guys. There are lots of pictures of them parading around the Capitol building, taking selfies, leisurely strolling around like tourists. I wonder how many didn't realize the impact of their actions because they were prompted by no one else than the president of the United States. I'm guessing that quite a few of them had no idea of the consequences which most likely will be coming to them soon. They followed the directive of the president, and they'll be spending time in prison. I can't help but think that a lot of them will be surprised by the conclusion of their actions. It's a sad thing. Maybe if they are in prison they will not be contributing to the gene pool. |
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Post by Cornflake on Jan 7, 2021 19:28:34 GMT -5
"How about the shirtless guy with leather leggings and buffalo horns?"
I thought that was the guy David R. was describing. That's the one who is well known around here.
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Post by xyrn on Jan 7, 2021 20:44:51 GMT -5
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Post by dradtke on Jan 7, 2021 20:48:41 GMT -5
How about the shirtless guy with leather leggings and buffalo horns? epaul was there? |
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Post by majorminor on Jan 7, 2021 20:49:05 GMT -5
How about the shirtless guy with leather leggings and buffalo horns? Hmmm. I wonder where Peter was yesterday. Mike He’s a Lions fan not a Vikings fan. |
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Post by Village Idiot on Jan 7, 2021 22:24:35 GMT -5
How about the shirtless guy with leather leggings and buffalo horns? epaul was there? That would have been Tamarack. Do you pay any attention to our band at all? |
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Jan 8, 2021 0:50:51 GMT -5
On a much more somber note, NBC is reporting that a Capitol Police officer who was injured yesterday has died.
Mike
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Post by howard lee on Jan 8, 2021 9:12:08 GMT -5
Jake Angeli, a.k.a. the “QAnon Shaman." I think this guy is in deep doo-doo.
Here he is in civilian clothing, greeting one of his fans:
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Post by theevan on Jan 8, 2021 10:07:14 GMT -5
Jake Angeli, a.k.a. the “QAnon Shaman." I think this guy is in deep doo-doo. Here he is in civilian clothing, greeting one of his fans: The dodo is in doo doo |
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Post by james on Jan 8, 2021 18:47:13 GMT -5
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Post by howard lee on Jan 9, 2021 10:37:53 GMT -5
Let us not forget the Proud Girls, too. Here's an incredulous young revolutionary. What did she expect?
By the way, did anyone notice the half a peeled onion in the towel she keeps using to wipe her eyes? Talk about your fake news, mister.
Then someone made this:
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Post by billhammond on Jan 9, 2021 12:21:45 GMT -5
By Joe Soucheray / St. Paul Pioneer Press
As the mob scaled the walls of the United States Capitol, some of them expertly scaling, they were to be heard bellowing, “This is our house!”
Yes, most certainly, then why the attempt to scuttle our grand building with your heartless intrusion with intent to brutalize the place and theoretically hold the Senate in, what, your contempt? Because you didn’t accept the outcome of an election? Every four years there are quite a few of us who don’t like the outcome of the election.
What a dreadful and embarrassing scene it was. Embarrassing because we have always, until now, been spared such dangerous tantrums. The good fortune of our founding guaranteed that while we routinely witness such criminal behavior elsewhere in the world, we knew it could never happen to us. Our Constitution is too sacred. Our civil contract with each other is too explicit. Our boundaries are so perfectly defined.
The president should have stopped it. No, better, of course, a president would never have incited such violence in the first place, but Donald Trump did and for those among us who still believe in Trump, he cost you the House, the Senate and God knows what else as this plays out. Such petulance he displays, such darkness. He has blood on his hands. This failed coup resulted in deaths.
We have gone to a dark place. Trump’s appeal, presumably, was his coming into the world of politics as an outsider, that he was one of us, which was preposterous on the face of it. Most of us don’t own golf courses and hotels. If he was the messenger to shake up a permanent political class and the savior bent on preserving American convention and stability, he was the wrong one.
He has left us a terrible mess, precisely because our American conventions — the peaceful transfer of power! — and our stability have been traumatized in ways we have never experienced.
We need to face this darkness. There is no getting around it. This is exactly who we are now. Onlookers watching the attack on the Capitol kept saying, as though to reassure themselves over the sound of breaking glass, “This is not who we are.” Yes, it is. This is who we are now, hopelessly divided, adrift and confused.
The center has not held. This is who we are now, a people hollowed out in the middle. These are not the Republicans of Eisenhower. These are not the Democrats of JFK. The left has gone too far left and the right has gone too far right.
If our republic is to survive, then the most urgent political challenge of the 21st century is to claw back to that middle ground which has sustained us for so long. Most of us don’t want a Green New Deal and most of us certainly don’t want a Confederate flag walked through the Capitol.
And for the love of God and our nation, most of us would never storm our Capitol.
Who will hear us, the so-called silent majority? Who will acknowledge us and act on our behalf? Trump was most certainly not the answer.
It’s now Joe Biden’s turn and God help him.
The vast center built this country and continues to. The vast center wants out of this darkness. We don’t want extremes.
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Post by epaul on Jan 9, 2021 12:29:12 GMT -5
Let us not forget the Proud Girls, too. Here's an incredulous young revolutionary. What did she expect?
By the way, did anyone notice the half a peeled onion in the towel she keeps using to wipe her eyes? Talk about your fake news, mister.
Kind of looks like a lime to me, but it could be an onion. In lieu of anything that will actually work, rubbing your face with a towel soaked with lime/lemon juice, anything vinegary, might help some if you are maced. Rubbing your eyes with a cut onion helps promote extra tear activity which might help with washing out the chemical. Don't ask me how I know this, but everyone in the Hobo Haus does. We never go to any of our spring festivities without a pickled egg or two in our pockets. www.primalsurvivor.net/what-to-do-get-tear-gassed/ |
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Jan 9, 2021 12:39:33 GMT -5
How to avoid the effects of tear gas.
Don’t go to riots.
Mike
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Post by howard lee on Jan 9, 2021 12:52:00 GMT -5
By the way, did anyone notice the half a peeled onion in the towel she keeps using to wipe her eyes? Talk about your fake news, mister.
Kind of looks like a lime to me, but it could be an onion. In lieu of anything that will actually work, rubbing your face with a towel soaked with lime/lemon juice, anything vinegary, might help some if you are maced. Rubbing your eyes with a cut onion helps promote extra tear activity which might help with washing out the chemical. Don't ask me how I know this, but everyone in the Hobo Haus does. We never go to any of our spring festivities without a pickled egg or two in our pockets. www.primalsurvivor.net/what-to-do-get-tear-gassed/
Whatever it was, it smells fishy to me. And she wasn't sniffing the onion, she was wiping it directly on her eyes. Her motivation is what I found questionable.
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Post by epaul on Jan 9, 2021 13:03:00 GMT -5
What, you don't think she was an idiot? She believes in Trump, she believes in onions.
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Post by Russell Letson on Jan 9, 2021 13:34:35 GMT -5
How to avoid the effects of tear gas. Don’t go to riots. In 1970 I think I discovered that the sound-pressure wave from the explosion of a tear-gas cannister set off across town can carry enough of the gas to cause sneezing and watery eyes. |
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Post by james on Jan 9, 2021 15:26:41 GMT -5
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