I watched that video. Pretty solid points.
Just don’t read the comment section, for the love of Dog…
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hesitate to link this again—it sounds kinda racist now, which may illustrate how standards are changing—but it seems on topic and I don’t have any funny videos comparing Trump to Silvio Berlusconi
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I don’t understand your point, and this may be why. She wasn’t killed coming in an outside window, she was killed attempting to enter an area that was still secure via the broken open window of a door. An area that was probably part of the evacuation route for Congress, thus a reason for deadly force instead of retreating or standing aside. That they barricaded the doors also implies that this was not a position they could easily yield. And while the video in the MSNBC clip cuts out no more than a second after the shooting, I would assume it did slow down things, where “things” is limited to access to this one specific area… After all, no more people were shot trying to enter it.
Beyond that I can’t explain any better…
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I have a feeling Rep. Waters is gonna be calling for the Capitol Police chief to be fired before he can quit.
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And investigated to see if he was complicit in the sedition conspiracy, for that matter.
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She came to overthrow the government, but I guess she’s worth more than a Black kid shot for no reason… I mean, the end of democracy isn’t so bad, as long as the “white” people are in charge. /s
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Compare it with this article
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But he’s a brown guy with a muslim name, so automatically bad… /s
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I watched it on Roku which omits comments entirely and didn’t look when I grabbed the link from the web. But it figures the racist trollies are working overtime.
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No, that’s not what happened. Watch a longer clip of the video or a different clip, which I posted below.
There were, presumably, capital police on the inside and police in black tactical gear on the outside. At that door, the crush of the crowd was nothing like in the heave ho crowd crush video at the East entrance. At this entrance to the speakers chamber, the crowd was much lighter. They wanted to get in, and they busted through the glass, but that single shot when she climbed through the window caused a number of people to start shouting stop stop. The officer in tactical gear on the outside started communicating and gesturing through the open glass to whoever was on the inside, the other officer who fired the shot. That one shot essentially stopped the crowd from any further advancement into the speakers chamber, where I am guessing is the entrance to the underground.
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Comity returns!
Eschaton
Sunday, January 10, 2021
Good Journalism
It’s nice when journalism serves to explain to readers what is going on, instead of peforming some elaborate ritual shove it into some boTh sIdEs framework.
WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress are demanding “unity” after 147 of them voted to try to overturn the election, propping up the very lies that led a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters to violently attack the US Capitol on Wednesday.
The calls for unity came not in the immediate aftermath of the storming of the Capitol, or after the group — a majority of House Republicans plus eight of their Senate colleagues — spent seven more hours forcing votes to try to undo President-elect Joe Biden’s win and citing claims of election fraud that have been repeatedly rejected by the courts and for which there is no evidence. The calls came as Democrats began to consider imposing consequences.
Most political journalism has replaced “tell the reader concisely what is happening in the top two paragraphs” with “maybe in paragraph 23 you’ll slip the important part by your editor.”
(Note: not the New York Times)
And:
Sunday, January 10, 2021
Don’t Do Anything To Stop Us Or We’ll Try To Kill You Again
https://twitter.com/RepKevinBrady/status/1348070306536153088
That’s what all these Republicans are saying.
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Brady and Cruz (& the ~150 others) need to be recalled and barred from holding office. They are the stink that has stunk up the country.
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This is the part that is terrifying to me. So many, rather than recognizing these fascist insurrectionists for what they are, are using this as a lever to further their cause. “See what happens when you try to uphold democracy? You better just give them what they want or they will come back again!” Fuck every single one of them. Deepest, darkest pit where they will never be heard from again.
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Yes. Except that’s not gonna happen, right?* So where does that leave us?
*I mean take Cruz, for example. I really don’t see any serious effort coming to expel him from office. Probably not even Josh Hawley. I think they’ll remain in office. Stained, yes, but the stain will gradually fade.
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We will have to see what moves Beto makes in the next couple years. He might try again. But he is first a community activist and helper, and right now El Paso is blowing up with Covid. He is hunkered down like the rest of Texas With a Brain (about 45% of the state). Once Covid is over, he might try again to unseat him, or possibly run for Governor. Not sure yet. Cruz has big ambitions and is a very smooth talker, but I am not sure that he has that stable of a base. He’s not a true Texan, whatever that means, and I have a feeling that those chickens will eventually come home to roost, especially if the Republican party goes through the inevitable post-Trump metamorphosis that is happening now.
You are right about 150 recalls. That was just me complaining. But there will be a changeover.
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Ah, well I wasn’t thinking of voting them out when I said “expel.”
As with Tromp, these inciters (is that a word?) need to be punished, and removed from office, for their incitement. They too are insurrectionists. Examples need to be set.
But instead of that happening, I fear we’ll fall back into, yeah, just waiting for the next election in the hopes they can be voted away.
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“I just remember, like, the sense of shock and sorrow that somebody just died and did not need to die because she didn’t have a weapon and she was not violent,” Sullivan said.
I wish they’d stop painting her as a martyr. The crowd was violent and complicit even without arms. They forced open the outer security doors, and were trying to breach the barricaded inner doors. The people inside had a legitimate fear for life and safety.
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Yeah, they are off base with statements like that. “He was just pouring gasoline, that is his right, he wasn’t violent.” As the crosses burn on the lawns… I mean racists, fascists and their apologists always play the same old victim song. They are slick, but transparent.
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What floors me is that it’s not terrifying enough to Pence to support invoking the 25th Amendment. If I found out a high-ranking colleague encouraged multiple people to attempt to hurt me or have me killed, I would do everything possible to prevent them from trying again and protect myself from their minions. How can he not be concerned about saving himself?
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