And Let's not forget about the other Deplorables

[NotHardUp1]

Let's not forget a few of our own. The Gays for Trump were at the Capitol with their flags yesterday:
This guy:
https://twitter.com/DCElliotScott/status/1346847686687944704

Well, in fairness, there was a hot half-naked wolfman running around all horned or horny.

 

[KaraBulut]

Well, in fairness, there was a hot half-naked wolfman running around all horned or horny.

Bleh, I see that anytime I venture downtown... just without the confederate flags.

 

[NotHardUp1]

If you're wanting Confederate flags, the one over all media today is the only one I have seen in hours of coverage vs. hundreds of the American flag.

I hope he was a white supremacist so that all the boxes could be checked. Would be a pity to miss it.

The NE trope that all the throwbacks are Southerners is a fallacy. I guarantee you there were just as many terrorists there from Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania as from the South.

Your wolf-boy there was from Arizona, to be clear.

 

[gsdx]

^ Speaking of 'wolf-boy', he has what looks like the hilt of a sword on his left abdomen. Is that what it is and is the shaft tattooed down the front of his leg?

 

[KaraBulut]

If you're wanting Confederate flags, the one over all media today is the only one I have seen in hours of coverage vs. hundreds of the American flag.

I hope he was a white supremacist so that all the boxes could be checked. Would be a pity to miss it.

It's hard to tell. Trump flags were predominant but I saw lots of Confederate flags (including those on fashionable Duck Dynasty apparel), Jesus Saves flags, Don't Tread on Me flags and, embarrassingly, a few rainbow flags.

The rest have no right to carry an American flag. Traitors and insurrectionists don't have that right.

The NE trope that all the throwbacks are Southerners is a fallacy. I guarantee you there were just as many terrorists there from Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania as from the South.

I spend a lot of my time in cities that have State-owned psychiatric facilities. I see people in costumes all time time.

It's not about Southerners, although White Supremacists are as common as Waffle Houses there. In the COVID-19 thread, there was a discussion about the lunatic fringe in the Yooper, areas of Wisconsin and other places where racists and fringe alt-right elements like to live. We've just had 4 years of someone unsettling the rocks under where these homephobes, racists and white supremacists normally reside.

Your wolf-boy there was from Arizona, to be clear.

I'm not going to mention his name but yes, he is an unemployed QAnon loser who will have lots of time in Federal Prison to get more tattoos and ponder his lack of a future.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/us/insurrection-capitol-extremist-groups-invs/index.html

 

[gsdx]

I'm not going to mention his name but yes, he is an unemployed QAnon loser who will have lots of time in Federal Prison to get more tattoos and ponder his lack of a future.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/us/insurrection-capitol-extremist-groups-invs/index.html

You certainly don't need facial recognition software to identify him. (By the way, from the look of his arms, we know where Trump's wall was built.)

 

[KaraBulut]

You certainly don't need facial recognition software to identify him. (By the way, from the look of his arms, we know where Trump's wall was built.)

It did help Twitter find that picture of him with Rudy at one of the looney [strike]voter fraud[/strike] Kraken roadshows in Arizona.

 

[KaraBulut]

Gee.

Hopefully she doesn't try to become a psychic or anything.

Someone point Tomi to that chair next to KellyAnne over in the Deplorable Section.

 

[KaraBulut]

Ooops.

 

[KaraBulut]

Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and neo-nazi loser Baked Alaska both live-streamed from Pelosi's office after storming the capitol. Neither have been arrested.

That's Doug Mastriano, Pennsylvania State Senator.

That's Richard Barnett Gravette, Arkansas man identified as Trump anti fraud supporter who stormed Capitol D.C building and photographing sitting at Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk and then taking her mail.

 

[NotHardUp1]

It's not about Southerners, although White Supremacists are as common as Waffle Houses there.

I believe that's an accurate statement. Most towns only have one Waffle House, and about as many white supremacists.

The intangible threat that every town in the South has a sizable population of white supremacists is a lie. I've lived and worked in the South, and racism is racism, but that's not the same as white supremacy.

As long as far left propaganda continues to attempt to impugn everyone not an urbanite, or an east or west coaster, it will create its own reactionary opposition merely from the slander.

 

[Alistair]

That's Doug Mastriano, Pennsylvania State Senator.

And Pennsylvania lawmakers have asked for him to resign just a day after being sworn in.

 

[KaraBulut]

The 121 Republican deplorables who voted against democracy on the Arizona certification:

The 138 Republican deplorables who voted against democracy on the Pennsylvania certification:

 

[NotHardUp1]

It's hard to tell. Trump flags were predominant but I saw lots of Confederate flags (including those on fashionable Duck Dynasty apparel), Jesus Saves flags, Don't Tread on Me flags and, embarrassingly, a few rainbow flags.

The rest have no right to carry an American flag. Traitors and insurrectionists don't have that right.

I don't think you did see lots of Confederate flags. I think you saw the same one over and over because it sells the story many want to tell, that this was about white supremacy instead of militia-mentality and rebellious spirits who always reject government.

This pic is typical of every one I saw on every media outlet as it aired pics of the rally and then the assault:

And, whether you like it or not, traitors and rebels have the right to carry the American flag just as much as gay activists, Communist Party members, Baptists, Boy Scouts, Veterans and anyone else who IS an American, as well as those who aren't. It's not a right or a privilege even. Just like the "artists" who put crucifies in urine or desecrate flags, it's an action.

People are always going on about this man isn't a real gay. Or "America is better than this."

No, it isn't. This IS America. It's full of wackos who voted for Trump and others who voted for Biden.

Wanting the ones we agree with to be "the REAL Americans" is folly. This very forum loves to post that this or that view should be run out. That's nothing more than political rhetoric.

Criminals should be punished, and as we're told repeatedly on this same forum, they are still Americans too, and shouldn't be punished for their crimes after their sentences.

Punish the vandals and terrorists, but stop all the spin about who the miscreants are. They are a broad swath of gullible stupid Americans who bought a shameful con from the president that the GOP enabled, period. It had little to do with white supremacy.

 

[NotHardUp1]

The media doesn't like to mention that the Oklahoma City bombing was orchestrated and executed by a New Yorker (and a veteran), a Michigander, and a Maine terrorist.

In the popular mind, white supremacy is sloppily left in the South as a vestige of the antebellum world and the Jim Crow world after Reconstruction. It certainly was, emphasis on was.

Whereas there is still a lot of segregated lives in the South, interracial couples are probably as common here as any other part of the country, and they are not harassed, eat in the same restaurants, etc.

White supremacists are the extreme of the extreme and are statistically rare. Just because they are talked about, falsely equated with racists of any kind, and the obsession of some media, doesn't make them any more common. They are a convenient bogey man. The media also obsesses with serial killers, transgender people, and billionaires, yet they are all pretty rare.

Modern people fail to learn the incidence of much of anything. It doesn't matter. It's all talking points.

The South justly has to live down its past, but that isn't the same as claiming its past is its present. It is not.

Making the attack on the Capitol an extension of Confederate flag-waving masses, which it wasn't, is as lazy as it is inaccurate thinking and journalism.

Showing a pic of the rally with many confederate flags or even four of them, would be a great surprise. Almost all the pics I have seen in all the major outlets have clearly shown more American flags than anything, followed by Trump messages, and little else.

Anyone have pics to the contrary?

One man wearing bullhorns. One confederate flag. Hundreds of American flags. They were still terrorists, but they identified themselves as Americans, not Confederate wannabes.

 

[KaraBulut]

If you're stupid enough to try sedition, don't wear your employee ID to the riot.

Navistar has announced that the guy to QAnon Brunhilda's left has been fired.

Rick Saccone, former Pennsylvania state representative, has been given the opportunity to resign from his professor position at Saint Vincent College after he posted selfies from the Capitol on Facebook.

 

[Alistair]

 

[TX-Beau]

I wonder what would happen if she took back that apology?

Hillary has had so much being right, I bet she's tired of being right.

 

[KaraBulut]

Senator Hawley [R-Mo] is having a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week.

He lost his little book deal because of his seditious acts and his festering pus of lies over the past few days.

So sad.

Simon & Schuster Cancels Plans for Senator Hawley’s Book [NY Times]

Simon & Schuster said on Thursday that it would cancel the publication of an upcoming book by Senator Josh Hawley, one of several members of Congress who tried to overturn the results of the presidential election.

Mr. Hawley, a Missouri Republican and Trump ally, has been criticized for challenging the results and accused of helping incite the mob that stormed the Capitol on Wednesday. His book, “The Tyranny of Big Tech,” was scheduled to be published in June.

“We did not come to this decision lightly,” Simon & Schuster said in a statement. “As a publisher it will always be our mission to amplify a variety of voices and viewpoints: At the same time we take seriously our larger public responsibility as citizens, and cannot support Senator Hawley after his role in what became a dangerous threat.”

And in other news, his mentor and the guy who helped get him elected has dumped him.

Messenger: Danforth calls his support of Hawley the ‘worst mistake’ of his life [St Louis Post-Dispatch]

Former U.S. Sen. John C. Danforth saw a mob of rioters take over the Senate chamber where he had spent much of his professional life. The dean of the Missouri Republican Party was a member of the Senate between 1976 and 1995....

“Supporting Josh and trying so hard to get him elected to the Senate was the worst mistake I ever made in my life,” Danforth said in a phone interview Thursday afternoon. “Yesterday was the physical culmination of the long attempt (by Hawley and others) to foment a lack of public confidence in our democratic system. It is very dangerous to America to continue pushing this idea that government doesn’t work and that voting was fraudulent.”

So much ambition. So few accomplishments.

 

[gsdx]

^ I just finished reading an article about this:

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blasted Sen. Josh Hawley on Thursday evening after he fussed over a canceled book deal, and repeated calls for his expulsion from the Senate.

"You fist-pumped insurrectionists and baselessly attacked our elections. Your actions fueled a riot and you fundraised in the chaos. Five people are dead," the New York congresswoman tweeted. "Even your GOP colleagues have distanced from your acts."

"Yet here you are crying over a book deal," she added. "You should be expelled."

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/expelled-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-mocks-155031089.html