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These motherfuckers track down BLM by their goddamn etsy receipts, but can't go on Parler and TikTok and take attendance of the folks saying "I was there and I did x y and z crimes and it was awesome." https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1347203346659225602
Protesting for health care? Against police shootings? Just walking through the neighborhood?
Better kettle every one, keep them from leaving, and then arrest everyone. Knock some heads together. Hold em for 24 hours while you try to find anything to charge them with.
Better kettle every one, keep them from leaving, and then arrest everyone. Knock some heads together. Hold em for 24 hours while you try to find anything to charge them with.
But plan openly on social media for months to seize the capitol, make it clear that your goal is insurrection, and show up armed to achieve that goal -
Well of course you can go back to your hotel room, how could we possibly have been ready.
Well of course you can go back to your hotel room, how could we possibly have been ready.
Having had an hour, some coffee, and rage-cleaning the toaster oven, an addendum:
I am of course fine with collecting information.
Had this been a vast secret conspiracy that was only revealed yesterday, that'd be good detective work.
This, however, was planned in the open.
I am of course fine with collecting information.
Had this been a vast secret conspiracy that was only revealed yesterday, that'd be good detective work.
This, however, was planned in the open.
It was planned and organized by the same people we've been saying are bad actors for years. It was incited by people who we've been warning have been doing so.
Their opsec is fucking terrible, after all.
They don't need it to be better because they're rarely focused on by LEOs.
Their opsec is fucking terrible, after all.
They don't need it to be better because they're rarely focused on by LEOs.
It is infuriating, that law enforcement be caught so unprepared for this, given how ready they are to use overwhelming force when the targets are poor, or black, or on the left.
They break up vigils with batons and gas grenades, for fuck's sakes.
They break up vigils with batons and gas grenades, for fuck's sakes.
"We had to de-escalate, to let them through, because there just weren't enough cops!"
Why?
Y'all have all hands on deck every time a cop who shot someone gets off with no charges.
How could there possibly have not been enough cops?
Why?
Y'all have all hands on deck every time a cop who shot someone gets off with no charges.
How could there possibly have not been enough cops?
For an event that had been planned for months, defending a building with clearly defined choke points, part of what is supposed to be one of the most secure facilities in America.
Not even any shutters on the Windows? Doors you can't reinforce?
Not even any shutters on the Windows? Doors you can't reinforce?
In a city that regularly sees tens or hundreds of thousands of people coming to yell about shit, on top of just regular tourists and residents?
It was a bumbling fucking response, thrown in sharp contrast by how brutal other responses have been.
It was a bumbling fucking response, thrown in sharp contrast by how brutal other responses have been.
You Barney Fife motherfuckers.
That's not even fair to Barney Fife, he was just incompetent, but even he understood that you've got to nip it in the bud. It's his fucking catchphrase.
He doesn't deserve comparison to this slap-dick nonsense.
He doesn't deserve comparison to this slap-dick nonsense.
Fair. Say rather, it was a response with the appearance of being bumbling. https://twitter.com/CassRMorris/status/1347228007052808194?s=20
Here is the most charitable interpretation I have, the one that assumes the least malice:
They knew there was a chance that shit would pop off, but worried that a harsh response would lead to a lot of death and injury (and for some reason, they care about this now). /
They knew there was a chance that shit would pop off, but worried that a harsh response would lead to a lot of death and injury (and for some reason, they care about this now). /
So they trusted on a combination of a series of delaying actions, good evacuation protocols, and defensible hard points to keep the staff safe, and simply let folks through like water.
Which is reasonable, if the only goal is to protect the congresspeople and their staff.
Which is reasonable, if the only goal is to protect the congresspeople and their staff.
Maybe, and I'm extending massive credit here, they're counting on a wave of arrests that are coming as the FBI/Secret Service/Capitol Police track down these individuals.
Even given that as true,
Even living in that world, extending them the most possible credit,
Even given that as true,
Even living in that world, extending them the most possible credit,
That means that protecting buildings, or property, or norms, or laws, has never been the goal.
If that is true, then "graffiti on a federal building means the troops can black-van you" is thrown into even harsher contrast.
It shows what matters.
If that is true, then "graffiti on a federal building means the troops can black-van you" is thrown into even harsher contrast.
It shows what matters.
If that is true, then that means this is how this should ALWAYS HAPPEN.
If that's in their capacity and those are strategies they use, then no city has any excuse for the riot gear they're stockpiling.
No precinct can justify half of the force they've used these past ten years.
If that's in their capacity and those are strategies they use, then no city has any excuse for the riot gear they're stockpiling.
No precinct can justify half of the force they've used these past ten years.
It is an indictment of the troops on that day, or it is an indictment of every law enforcement agency in America.
Or, as is my personal opinion,
It is both.
Or, as is my personal opinion,
It is both.
By the most charitable interpretation I can give their actions, the institution of American Policing must be demolished and rebuilt.
My least charitable interpretations descend into incoherent rage.
So that's where I'm at.
My least charitable interpretations descend into incoherent rage.
So that's where I'm at.
Under that most charitable interpretation, everyone who entered the capitol will soon be subject to fines and three years in prison, and everyone who brought a weapon or did substantial damage will have an extra ten on top of that. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/live-blog/electoral-college-certification-updates-n1252864/ncrd1253128
If that doesn't happen, then we're on to some of my less charitable thoughts.
Anyone wanna place bets on how likely that is?
