Trumper who attacked cops at Capitol riot microwaved his devices and tried to flee to Switzerland. He didn't get there.

Originally published at: Trumper who attacked cops at Capitol riot microwaved his devices and tried to flee to Switzerland. He didn't get there. | Boing Boing

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I’m guessing this is one of those fancy words for oil extraction specialist, eh?

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You and everyone else dude. Id.

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Yeesh, “Telltale Heart” much? His paranoia is what got him in the end.

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he seems awfully happy for someone with eight counts of sedition.

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So much for “blue collar workers motivated by economic anxiety” being those at the core of this attempted fascist insurrection. Instead it’s the usual bunch of privileged white exurbanites with college credentials who are shocked to discover that they have to face consequences for their actions.

I really hope that the authorities learn the lesson of history (narrator: they won’t) and give arseholes like this a couple of decades in prison to prevent them from further assaulting liberal democratic institutions.

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This guy could be the poster child for “just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.”

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That’s certainly the case for some geophysicists, but this guy’s job appeared to be extracting other types of bad stuff from the ground. Not sure of the about the accuracy but I saw this in another article:

For what it’s worth my wife is also a geophysicist that doesn’t work in oil extraction. She studies earthquakes.

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He doesn’t know about the government device scanners in the microwaves? Noob.

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Nuking his electronics was a lot of wasted effort when Bill Gates and George Soros already have him microchipped.

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To think he’d be enjoying the pistes if he’d just held it together at the airport.

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My apologies. I did not mean to dump on geophysicists in general; I just assumed because of the storming the Capitol part. It’s hard to believe that an actual proper scientist would get mixed up in all of that…

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Telltale heart: no peace, no pistes.

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I’ve seen enough people afflicted with “Engineer’s Disease” that it’s very easy for me to believe.

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Is that what they’re calling Libertarianism these days?

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How do most people book international flights?

Over the internet.

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He’s probably convinced that he’ll be able to buy his way out of this mess with expensive lawyers.

Oh for the confidence of a mediocre wealthy white man.

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Qnut Brain Trust Award goes to…

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When you’ve had hegemony, equality feels like oppression.

 —Matthew Sheffield
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Tell me when the bumper stickers are ready, I will buy one. :joy:

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