Jan 6th

Which reminds me that Kevin Sorbo tried pushing for the Jan 6 insurrection and after it failed, he deleted the posts and said it was an Antifa plot to frame Donald Trump.
Or this lol
- Reminder that QAnon Shaman is running for Congress in Arizona's 8th district as a Libertarian. That doesn't exactly describe a leftist agitator.
  
  It feels like he should be disqualified from holding office.
  
  Reminder that just because somebody runs as something doesn't mean that they are that thing. I can guarantee you that dipshit has no idea what the non-aggression principle is.
  Furthermore, libertarianism is not a left right spectrum ideology. There are left libertarians. There are centrist libertarians, and there are right libertarians.
  For reference, authoritarianism also bounds the spectrums of left to right.
  Left to right is economic theory authoritarian to libertarian is social theory. They are two separate axises.
  In my opinion, the shaman dude is definitely somewhere on the right side of the chart in the authoritarian section.
  Sincerely, a. Centrist and minarchist.
  
  Last thing I heard from him was he (or his mother?) were complaining about the lack of ~~vegan~~ organic food in prison or something? Do I remember this correctly?
- You have to wonder how much of this is Sorbo's conservative brainrot and how much is being a paid conservative influencer, because this is disinformation agent type shit.
  
  Probably equally both and given time he buys what he’s selling.
- Damn, Xena dominated the shittiest Hercules ever.
- The woman with Lawless in her name has more sense than the son of a god.
  
  No Gods No Masters Only Xena
  
  Well, she is a Warrior Princess.
- Lmao, took him a whole 45 minutes to flip flop. What a fuckin chode.
- Dude got fucking rekt by Xena lol.
  
  Ide still like to get rekt by Xena...
- Fuck, I really liked him in Hercules and Andromeda. So it turns out he's just another idiot.
  
  He's solely responsible for running Andromeda into the ground with his massive ego. It was never a terrific show in season one, but it had potential. By season four he had full control and it was utter shit.
- Is Kevin Sorbo a five star man?
- What a douche.
- Why is your comment so long?
  
  Using a mobile app like Android/iOS, or not recently updated like Memmy? It displays comments incorrectly at the moment.
  
  Looks fine to me. It is pretty long but there are two pictures in it, after all.

If you had asked me January 5th what would happen if a mob tried to storm the capital and attack congress, I would have said they would be mowed down by machine gun fire.
After January 6th, I remember thinking "well shit, if people had actually showed up we really could have stormed area 51."
- Y'all seem to be forgetting that the reason this was a coup attempt is because the national guard was never called in despite officials knowing of the attack.
  They literally paved the way for the magats to get inside.
  
  A lot of Capitol police fought like fucking lions and are responsible for the survival of most of congress.
  But there were also a few collaborators in there, make no mistake.
  
  Not only were they not called in, but we all knew it was coming in advance. I refuse to beleive people on reddit knew about it but the government didn't. They should have been set up in advance with at least a bit more than they had.
  But they didn't do that, and when people called for back up they were told "Lol no"
  Yet if people try to peacefully protest against cops killing black people they get demonized and assaulted
  
  Do you not think that was the right decision? What do you think the national response would have been if they had shot those people? They walked through the building, stole a lectern, and the US government wasn't overthrown. But if they'd been mowed down by the National Guard? Fuck me, if you didn't immediately have a literal civil war on your hands I'd be amazed.
- Yes, but also no regarding Area 51. Peoplr made facebook groups and associated on Twitter and the government would have been prepared for it explicitly because people were going to storm the capital
  
  That and because in the case of Area 51, the people who would be making the call to bring in troops and start shooting didn't stand to benefit from the actions of the crowd.

that only happens if you are a leftie
fascists get a pass
- It's high time the guillotine came back in fashion
- ...fascists get passes... That's got to be part of a song lyric. If not, it should be.

Storming the capitol will get you shot with overwhelming force... just not if you're a far-right extremist - that kind of treatment is historically reserved for the leftists and minorities fighting for equal treatment.

And Babbit has been made into a right-wing martyr. Secret Service took their job seriously and fired once the house chamber itself was being actively breached. Capitol Police were in a shit position without backup, and the backlash against the whistleblowers who called out the delayed National Guard response was disgusting

Not gonna lie, I was watching horrified that police were about to do the thing on live TV. The emotions jumping between "they're just letting this happen??" and "Omg this is about to be bad" with each corridor the insurrectionists entered was too much.
- Same. I was scared I was about to witness "doom" in real life.

imagine if the people storming were predominantly not white.

That's what should have happened.

Oh it still will... if you're not right wing.
- Correct. If this was a bunch of brown people or left-wingers they'd have been mowed down before they ever got up the steps.

Nancy Pelosi got her far left antifa friends to storm the capital wearing MAGA gear, plus the cops let them in because it was just a peaceful tour of the building.

It will but only if you're a leftist.

He's demonstrably the actual biggest loser in history, and he just got more loser-y folks... If any of you are starting to have your memories fade, here's a quick refresher to read this morning and then copy and send to your aunt karen in Missouri.
0 re-elections won
1 term president
2 times impeached
3 marriages
4 inch lifts in his shoes
5 kids, from 3 different mothers
6 bankruptcies
7 US Capitol police suing him for Jan 6 terrorist insurrection and murder of police
8 trillion + dollars added to the US debt in a single term
9 trump lawyers sanctioned by federal judge for lying in frivolous election fraud lawsuits and ordered to pay defendant's legal fees
10 years that trump paid $0 in income taxes between 2000 and 2015. ($0 to cops, teachers, roads, prisons, disaster relief, etc)
11 trump associates charged with serious crimes over the past 5 years
12 million votes (the big lie) - trump claims he won the 2020 election by 12 million votes when in reality, he lost by about 7 million votes.
13 of August, 2021 - one of multiple days that trump was supposed to magically become president again according to Qanon and a crack addicted pillow salesman (the two most respected information sources in the gop)
14 year old girl in a youth choir that trump approached in 1992 to say, "Wow! Just think - in a couple years I'll be dating you."
15 originally confirmed cases of COVID in the US trump said would soon be, “down to close to zero.” followed by, “like a miracle, it will disappear.” - over 1,000,000 Americans have since died of COVID and it continues to kill 4 years later.
16 years old - age of daughter ivanka when she hosted "miss teen" pageant and, according to long time trump associate Noel Casler, "trump called her over in the middle of a rehearsal and had her give him a lap dance while he leered at the crew."
17 known trump and russia investigations from local, state and federal prosecutors
18 gop senators that ignored trump threats / warnings and supported Biden admin's infrastructure bill.
19 as in COVID19 - trump was verified as the single largest source of disinformation on the virus, with a Cornell study claiming that 38% of the "misinformation conversation" originated with trump
20 the day in January, 2021, when Biden was sworn in despite trump inciting a violent insurrection to stop election verification at the US Capitol.
21 gun salute that trump ordered for himself when he left office after a humiliating defeat, even though he never served in the military, famously called military members "losers" and "suckers" and actively avoided the draft with a cowardly "bone spurs" excuse.
22 date in August, 2021, when Alabama hate rally crowd booed trump for finally saying people should get vaccinated, only after 700,000 Americans have died due mostly to his failure as president
23 as in wrestlemania 23 in 2007 where trump, a cartoon level failure with no other prospects, participated in a fake bet that a proxy wrestler would win a fake fight on his behalf or he would shave his wig and hair plugs off.
24 day in August, 2021, when trump actually filed a lawsuit in Florida court against YouTube, a private company, demanding that they reinstate his YouTube channel like a desperate, irrelevant embarrassment with no platforms left to abuse.
25 plus credible sexual assault allegations against trump, spanning decades and with accusers starting as young as 13 years old at time of assault.

Lol quaint
Lol Kilgore trout
Lol “on sight”

*naive

you should feel emboldened
- Now is the time to do extremely late term abortions on the jackasses that overturned Roe v Wade.

Can a person be quaint, I'm not sure.

claim: "violently storming in"
reality: police and security calmly opening doors for people to calmly walk in and take selfies.

Sometimes I wonder if I was watching a different set of events than everyone else that day.
I saw a bunch of people walking through the building like a crowded walking tour. I saw people holding posters and chanting outside. The news anchors were making jokes super lighthearted. I think this was CNN btw.
Then I went to work the next day and people were all freaking out, and everyone had the same term for it: "insurrection." None of us had heard that term before. I would have called it a protest, or a riot.
A mostly peaceful protest.
- Then I went to work the next day and people were all freaking out, and everyone had the same term for it: "insurrection." None of us had heard that term before.
  I can't stop laughing at this statement. Gonna bet you know what kind of person OP is just from this sentence alone.
  
  I would be willing to bet 85% of the living US population had never heard that word before, let alone used it, until the news told them to do so
- Sometimes I wonder if I was watching a different set of events than everyone else that day.
  The answer is yes
- Hello Mr ostrich, Would you please take your head out of the sand?
- Just a friendly tour group.
  
  Dang, changing a flag? That's pretty scary.
  I can think of a few other protests/riots that were a lot more violent and dangerous, that occured in a similar time period in the US, that seem to be all but forgotten...
  Burning down city centers, looting from small businesses. Murdering people indiscriminately. It's strange what the online community has fixated on.
- Yes it was different coverage. I saw dozens of people beating police and breaking open windows, doors, barricades, while chanting hang mike pence and similar slogans, all live in 1080p
- Funny isn't it. The further we get from the event, the more extreme it gets. Somebody on here a few days ago called it "the worst act of treason in history".
- Violent gun nuts brought no guns to over throw the government. That's enough for me to know the narrative is not reality.
  
  But there’s got to be a reason why Trump wanted to get rid of metal detectors at only this event and never one before it, right?
  Right?
  
  Guns would make the whole thing not work. If they started shooting the whole thing would be over. That would stop the plan. It would force the Congress people to go against trump. They would have no choice.
  
  Plausible deniability.