This wasn’t a one and done deal; several of the snips were people that legit caught me off guard. It’s like a four year Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

I don’t know why you feel the need to keep bringing up a response that, aside from counting the number of paragraphs, you don’t seemed to have read, as I laid out my argument (and answers the issues you raise in this response) pretty clearly there. That being said, you’ve admitted that there were protesters behind…

They actually seem like their feelings were hurt. How dare the cops chase them out of the Capitol?

This feels like the functional end of the Republican Party. It’s going to be split between the extremists they let in to build their base, and the ones trying to keep to the old GOP. Hopefully, it will stay a split party and continually cannibalize itself, and not start seeping into the Democrats.

The schadenfreude begins:

Screw that. This was an attempt to halt legitimate government business: this WAS treason. Jail them all.

Mostly because I have the time to respond, and I enjoy debates. Sue me.

In truth, I don’t think it is who we are, because the majority of the people in the country still rejected Trump. And while these people are the most vocal and most dangerous, they don’t represent the majority of Americans. For the most part, while there’s a lot of people in the Trumposphere trying to make sense of…

Yup. It’s not even different cultures, it’s different realities. The loonies have taken charge of the asylum.

Thailand is a very nice country to be an expatriate in, for the most part. The dollar goes a long way there, it tends to be welcoming to foreign residents, the healthcare system is not bad, and it is a very awesome country to stay in.

I was thinking on this Ashli Babbitt thing, and the three other people who died at the Capitol, and it keeps bothering me for a lot of reasons (like how the MAGA crowd now has martyrs, which...greeeat). Not specifically the shoot itself (it will likely be classified as a justified shooting, and considering she was…

Personally, I’m opposed to the 25th Amendment, because it doesn’t preclude him from running again. Impeachment and removal, however, would. Unfortunately, even after yesterday, I think there’s still enough Senators who are ride or die with Trump that a conviction is still unlikely to happen. Still, twice impeached is…

I am eternally grateful that Giuliani is a blithering idiot. What are the over/under odds he gets charged with sedition for his role in yesterday’s riot? His whole ‘trial by combat’ line?

Iceland is nice. That’s my go-to flee-the-country location.

I have been pruning my Facebook feed of ‘friends’ and using that as a rubric. They keep saying it was POSSIBLE that Antifa infiltrated the crowd, and they’re just keeping an open mind, and I’m like...really? Most documented crime this year, with blatant evidence of long term, hard-right maniacs breaking into the…

Indeed: some of them wear fashionable work blouses.

You’re right: when operating in force, with an aligned posture, riot response can be devastating. And the heavy-handed response from many police agencies during the summer demonstrated this. In these circumstances, however, the CP were not in a riot response posture, and as compared to Washington in the summer, were…

Think of it this way: if the cops just, you know...bolted from this position to get to another one, what would the crowd do? When CP officers were forced to run from other barricades further out, the crowd ran after them right on their heels. So, you have a situation with a large group of fanatics sprinting full hilt…

This was after other gates were breached further out, and rather violently (with officer injuries). Trying to hold this gate, with the crowd surrounding them, after there were clearly violent attacks elsewhere (with no immediate support) doesn’t benefit these officers. The crowd can interpret it any way it wants (it’s…

Undermanned, for one thing. That was something observed by a Representative (I apologize, I cannot find his name at this time: it was buried in one of, like...twenty articles I read in the last day?) when he showed up for the session: he looked at the crowd, looked at the CP, and deduced rather quickly they had way…