The Pentagon is telling us that if Trump won the election and the left staged a protest, and then broke into the Capitol building, they wouldn’t have geared up or done anything because of the optics?
Okay. If that’s what they’re going with, good luck with it.
I can’t…
Between these last two posts and the earlier post showing Trump et al listening to “Gloria” in the tent, I feel when future filmmakers try to portray this piece of history, no one will believe it could’ve been this ridiculous and still scary.
All I keep seeing in that photo is the saddest Christmas 
ever. It looks like the tree is scared of the guns and is trying to shrink away.
LOL, that tree does look scared!
Thanks for the chuckle, I feel in desperate need of that kind of relief today.
Right?
Now what in hell do you suppose someone named Gloria had to do with that day’s massive shitshow?
It totally does! Like it’s backed up against the wall during an armed robbery. 
I think she had my number.
I might have an answer for that. According to Wikipedia:
The NHL’s St. Louis Blues began using Laura Branigan’s cover version of “Gloria” as its unofficial victory song when they went on a franchise-record 11-game winning streak during the 2018–19 season.
The Blues went on to win the Stanley Cup.
And Branigan’s legacy manager is angry at having the late singer’s work connected to Trump.
Thanks, interesting! Hockey and the Tromp family isn’t a connection I’ve ever seen made before, but since Donald used to fart around with professional wrestling, why the hell not? 
The West Virginia legislator that was filmed breaking into the Capitol has been arrested by the FBI.
Awesome.
I feel more than ever that Tromp MUST be evicted stat, in part to prevent him from pardoning these shitweasles.
I think they’ll find the addresses… that the mob was living under…
Good.
But that video really made me feel for his grandmother. These asshats are not only hurting themselves. Just like with the COVID stuff, this Trump/QAnon insanity hurts everyone near them.
Evidence Of Sedition?
By David Kurtz January 8, 2021 1:02 p.m.
If you haven’t seen Don Jr.’s pre-riot video from backstage, you REALLY must watch it. (Getting your Laura Branigan fix is just icing.)
One of the elements of the Trump era I struggle with the most is how to explain to future generations that the threat to democracy arrived in a such a tawdry, low brow, gaudy and comical way. You can’t separate the genuine threat to democracy from the reality TV theatrics. The Capitol Police officer taking a fire extinguisher to the head and the horned fur cap are part of the same surreal tableau.
So is Kim Guilfoyle proclaiming “Fight!” and dancing to Gloria.
Is it craptastic theater or evidence of sedition? It is both. How to explain that.
I hate to say it, but I think the answer is that if it wasn’t “tawdry, low brow, gaudy and comical” the New York Times this morning would be sagely telling us that, although they are deeply saddened by President-General for Life Trump’s abolition of Congress, it is very important for us to not respond with violence or even tangible resistance lest something, something.
No sympathy for her either; not if she’s thanking 45 for inciting a riot.
I interpreted that as sarcasm, as in “thanks for getting us into this mess and making me go downtown to bail out my grandson, you asshole.”
Could be wrong, of course.
My Murican ear didn’t hear any sarcasm in that. She sounded to me entirely devoted to Tromp when she said that.
