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7/14/2022
An Observation on the Nature of Extremist Fucknuts at the January 6 Committee Hearing
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Elaborating on a statement about the country being "lucky" shit hasn't gotten more violent, Van Tatenhove told the congressional committee and the rest of the country, "I think as far as the luck goes, we've had the potential from Bundy Ranch on, I mean, being boots on the ground at these standoffs and they were standoffs where there were firearms pointed across lines at federal law enforcement agencies, you know, whatever it may be with that particular standoff. But I do -- I think we've gotten exceedingly lucky that more bloodshed did not happen because the potential has been there from the start."
Bundy and his shitty family and the assorted extremist dickheads refused to recognize the authority of the Bureau of Land Management and the federal government. He owed the country a million bucks in unpaid fees and penalties. When the BLM decided to say, "Fuck this shit," they let, as then-Nevada Senator Harry Reid said, "domestic terrorists" off the hook. "They had sniper rifles on the freeway. They had assault weapons. They had automatic weapons," Reid said, all in service of someone who didn't wanna pay for his shit. They were ready to murder BLM agents and others. They should have all been rounded up and dragged off to jail. But it was fear of violence and escalation that caused the retreat by the BLM. And the end result of that retreat was more violence and escalation, including at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge two years later. One could also argue that the failure to arrest the violent thugs in Nevada led directly to the Las Vegas mass shooting a month later. The shooter had been at Bundy's ranch, inspired by the way the dickheads faced down the feds and won. And, obviously, January 6 can be tied to the sense of empowerment the Bundy ranch "victory" gave the dickheads.
Tattooed, denim jacket and Descendants t-shirt-wearing Van Tatenhove said he fully believes that there will be violence in 2024: "I do fear for this next election cycle because who knows what that might bring if a president that's willing to try to instill and encourage to whip up a Civil War amongst his followers using lies and deceit and snake oil, regardless of the human impact, what else is he going to do if he gets elected again. All bets are off at that point. And that's a scary notion." Of course, he's talking about armed dickheads, but he's also talking about Trump and other leaders of this extremist bullshit. He offered clear advice: "I have three daughters. I have a granddaughter, and I fear for the world that they will inherit if we do not start holding these people to account."
When motherfuckers wanna fuck mothers, you gotta shut that shit down or motherfuckers will just think they can keep fucking mothers without consequences. They'll fuck more mothers because there is no price to pay for motherfucking. You don't coddle insurrectionists.
We are long past time where those in charge need to be punished. We're running out of time to be able to do that. Don't walk away from the goddamn standoff again.
gab13by13
(25,416 posts)I have been trying to sound the alarm bell.
We have people here who believe that Trump is planning to run away, flee the country, meanwhile he is continuing to hold rallies to push the Big Lie, making plans to run for president.
There was a prosecutor on TV last night who said it was mistake by DOJ to investigate from the bottom up, he said that DOJ should be investigating just like the select committee is doing it, looking at the big picture. As Frank Figliusi said, good news, bad news. Good news that DOJ is expanding to the fake electors, bad news that DOJ was surprised at Ms. Hutchinson's testimony, bad news that Fani Willis and the select committee are further along in their investigations than DOJ.
calimary
(84,612 posts)Or Merrick Van Winkle. Not sure which I like better. But hes earned both versions.
3Hotdogs
(13,571 posts)might have committed.
What lesson do you suppose the Orange Anus took away from that pardon?
gab13by13
(25,416 posts)that Nixon didn't go to trial.
Roy Rolling
(7,208 posts)These fuckwads use loopholes in the gray areas of the 1st Amendment to spread their message.
Run them off of mass media. They (fuckwad propagandists) dont fear that because they know the pushback will come from the extremes of liberals and not conservatives.
News media that parrots the words of insurrectionists and terrorists are partners in crime. Knock it off. Stop broadcasting their shit for free, just because its a shitshow.
Even broadcast networks refuse to air morons who run on baseball fields to get attentionthey deliberately turn the cameras off so nobody sees and the demonstrators dont get attention.
Nobody screams 1st Amendment then, lets do the same for political morons seeking attention for illegal and traitorous acts of sedition.
#1 actstop broadcasting messages from TFG truthed from his latest scam because he was booted off of Twitter. Let the social network go bankrupt like all of his ventures.
gab13by13
(25,416 posts)is owned and managed by right wing domestic oligarchs, including MSNBC.
mountain grammy
(27,379 posts)Evolve Dammit
(19,076 posts)is becoming a joke, and letting folks like the Bundys and 45's inner circle skate shows it. Hell, Biden meeting with MBS today shows it. U.S. let Russia skate in the takeover of Crimea emboldened Putin to invade all of Ukraine and commit war crimes daily with no accountability. Oh, sanctions. That will show them. A million dead here, a coup attempt, stolen archives, conspiracy, sedition and Orange Julius is ready to announce running again.
claudette
(4,672 posts)I just cannot read his posts no matter how true they may be. The language is just too much. Sorry
Farmer-Rick
(11,538 posts)Not the other way around.
If you look at history, most of the time the right tries to kill liberals. Liberals like progress, change, egalitarianism and power for all people. Just the opposite of what the right wants.
The right is funded by capitalism's handful of filthy rich. They abuse the population to make their wealth, then to keep their stolen loot, they must prevent progress, prevent democracy, prevent change and target liberals to keep their dirty money.
Our government once dropped bombs on its own people because they were on strike and wanted a union. They never bombed factories that cut off little children's arms or hands.
It's a war and the filthy rich use the right and their organizations, including religion, to crush the left with violence or propaganda. They use cons or manipulation or starvation or homelessness or economic crashes or austerity or Laissez-faire economics or free trade or Ayan Rand or Milton Friedman or the Proud boys or Nazis.
The right has the money and power. The left has the numbers.
Glaisne
(546 posts)Sums it up nicely.
CrispyQ
(38,598 posts)An excellent post, Farmer!
uponit7771
(92,027 posts)LiberalFighter
(53,520 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,643 posts)paramilitary terrorist sympathizers, then his cowardice becomes the equivalent of the Uvalde police department multiplied by 1000.
babylonsister
(171,684 posts)not prosecute mf45 with all this evidence out there. He's waiting for his moment, I think, or until he gets that final duck in that row.
Joinfortmill
(16,635 posts)Novara
(6,115 posts)Sigh.
The BLM should have gone all Ruby Ridge on those motherfuckers.
niyad
(120,685 posts)kacekwl
(7,650 posts)have a serious problem with law enforcement in this country from police, judges, district attorneys all the way up to the FBI, Secret Service and of course congress and the Supreme Court. I remember being so freaking angry when the whole Bundy take over happened with no consequences for the law breakers. You can give me all the excuses you want but if the DOJ and Merrick Garland does not act soon, very soon the fascists will never stop. There also needs to be a concerted effort to clear the traitors from the organizations who are supposed to protect the country not overthrow it.
gab13by13
(25,416 posts)I look at Garland allowing a pro-Trump Cyber Ninja fake company have access to ballots, voter information, and election material and equipment. By not stopping the Cyber Ninjas the fraudits spread throughout other states.
Federal election law, Title 52.
kacekwl
(7,650 posts)are so many other examples to mention.
CrispyQ
(38,598 posts)It eroded my faith in the Garland more than anything else he hasn't done.
Ford_Prefect
(8,218 posts)several back-door links to Koch enterprises. ALEC is another hidden connection providing money, connections and direction through 3rd party outreach to the militia terror groups in the west going back to the so-called Sagebrush Rebellion of Reagan's era. There is much more than mere funding. It is a cult in the neo-confederate form preaching a disturbing version of "state's rights" and hang those in federal authority.
Those links and sources need to be exposed and arrested. The same cadre of ultra-rich religious nuts and industrial owners are behind the plot to eliminate Democratic voting so recently popular in Republican dominated legislatures. They funded and coordinated behind the scenes much of the Cyber-Ninja-Monkeys mess in Arizona.
It is the core of the vast, right-wing conspiracy which Hillary, Bernie, Eric, Christopher Steele, and others have spoken of.
Maraya1969
(23,025 posts)And thank God it happened as an adult. But I figured out that if you don't do something back they will continue the same behavior.
One person was an in-law who didn't like me and would say nasty things about me in front of me and others. I finally got fed up and said something similar - that I knew she was very self conscious about right back, out loud and in front of others. And it ended. Right then and there; she never said another mean word to me.
I didn't feel right about what I said because that is not my nature but I was just trying to stop someone from hurting me and that is the only way I could figure out to do it