Ground Zero

 

As the House impeachment managers pour gasoline onto the dumpster fire of rage over the Capitol riot, there are some things that are going unnoticed in the White House Assisted Living facility.

Watching the video of the January 6 riot at the Capitol, I was reminded of the silence from Democrats as Antifa and BLM ran wild in the streets of American cities. Portland suffered through over 100 nights of insurrection, and it isn’t over yet.

When the violence came for them in Washington DC, they were traumatized. That is perfectly understandable but it begs the question: did it lead to an epiphany of empathy for the victims of a summer of violence that plagued residents of American cities across the nation? The answer is no.

A Capitol police officer who lost his life lay at rest in the Capitol Rotunda. This was a photo-op for Dems, who months earlier called police officers stormtroopers, Gestapo, and racists. Did any of them bend a knee for him?

There was a lot of collateral damage in the United States during this last year, and it continues with the ritual signing of executive orders. Loss of jobs on the Keystone pipeline, increasing fuel prices, unemployment, and open borders will increase the pain of the American middle class. Soros prosecutors that refuse to prosecute criminals are eliminating bail while violent crime is rising.

Please spare me the healing and unity nonsense. I don’t have a private jet, beautiful Chinese spies aren’t attracted to me, I don’t have any shares in companies that use China slave labor. I don’t need a kidney from a Chinese political prisoner.

I’m blessed because I’m 3,000 miles away from ground zero, the center of the vortex of shallow, vain, and faceless self-seekers.

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  1. Dbroussa Coolidge
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    Winston Churchill said something to the effect that nothing focuses the mind other than being shot at and missed.  The politicians and elites of both parties watched the violence that consumed the US over the summer and blamed the police.  They told the regular people who’s shops, homes, and dreams were smashed and burned that the destruction was understandable and that they should make an insurance claim.  Then, suddenly that same energy was directed at them in THEIR place of business and then, at long last, was violence in pursuit of politics a bad thing.  If it weren’t so disgusting it would be funny.

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  2. ape2ag Member
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    According to the Molly Ball Time article, Antifa and BLM are just fake Soros rent-a-mobs. This is in contrast to the January 6 mob that stormed the Capitol. There’s a lot of weirdness about the characters at the forefront of that effort. But that is what real political violence looks like. Disorganized. Enthusiastic rather than angry. And vulnerable to ruthless crackdowns. 

    There are some implications of this:

    The January 6 mob grew out of a couple of things. MAGA rallies were organized at low levels and represented real grass roots enthusiasm. These same people looked at the Summer of Floyd violence and saw a successful political technique. The January 6 mob was rife with conspiracy mongers who, nevertheless, naively bought the Cathedral framing of left wing violence as spontaneous expressions of popular discontent rather than orchestrated theater choreographed by powerful interests.

    The left wing mobs may be fake, but the deaths they cause and property destruction are all too real. It’s obviously shameful that is directed by our leftist political and economic elites against ordinary citizens for financial and electoral gain.

    Republicans and establishment conservatives play along, too. They fund raise off these left wing riots and they campaign to turn the left wing riots in to short term political advantage. Then they will not spend the political capitol necessary to end the violence.

    One thing about uncoordinated grass roots violence is that you don’t know where it’s going to go. The Capitol invaders broke through police lines then wandered around the building taking selfies and then went home. With maybe few exceptions none of them had aspirations of hurting anyone. But at the time, the authorities and politicians didn’t know that. They had no idea that the events wouldn’t really spin out of control. The problem wasn’t that Trump incited the riot, the problem was that he didn’t. No one was directing the violence and no one could order it to stand down. The rioters went off script and our political leaders were genuinely shaken by this.

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  3. Instugator Thatcher
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    Doug Watt: beautiful Chinese spies aren’t attracted to me,

    I doubt she was attracted to him either. 

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  4. Percival Thatcher
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    Instugator (View Comment):

    Doug Watt: beautiful Chinese spies aren’t attracted to me,

    I doubt she was attracted to him either.

    Fang Fang did it, but they had to pay her extra.

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