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Denzil_DC

(9,205 posts)
Wed Jan 27, 2016, 11:47 PM Jan 2016

Why the remaining refuge occupiers think SEALs are going to come to rescue them

From Forbes writer J.J. MacNab's Twitter feed:


JJ MacNab
@jjmacnab

About those Navy Seals.. Now that I have a few minutes to explain why the militants thinks Seals are on the way..


JJ MacNab ‏@jjmacnab 40m40 minutes ago

Around midnight last night, new arrival/militant Todd Bethell was manning the entrance to the Refuge.


JJ MacNab ‏@jjmacnab 38m38 minutes ago

A large number of militants had decided to take up the FBI's kind offer to run away.


JJ MacNab ‏@jjmacnab 37m37 minutes ago

However, the group had blocked the road out with a truck and no one could find the keys to move it out of the way. Hilarity ensued.


JJ MacNab ‏@jjmacnab 33m33 minutes ago

A guy named Dillon wandered into the Refuge."I've been coming around" was enough to get him though this highly protected perimeter.


JJ MacNab ‏@jjmacnab 28m28 minutes ago

Keys were found. Truck was moved. Blaine Cooper & 2 others left for Idaho at that point, while militants that performed a "perimeter check"


JJ MacNab ‏@jjmacnab 27m27 minutes ago

Bethell expressed concern about letting everyone in because he was new, and didn't know who anyone was.


JJ MacNab ‏@jjmacnab 30m30 minutes ago

A Vietnam vet guy with long hair, beard, big voice, and bigger ego arrived with a truck filled with guns and powder. <-- Navy Seal


JJ MacNab ‏@jjmacnab 28m28 minutes ago

When asked how he got through the FBI road closure, he he scoffed and reminded Bethell that he was a Navy Seal. Bethell expressed doubt.


JJ MacNab ‏@jjmacnab 27m27 minutes ago

Doubt was no barrier to this heavily guarded fortress so the Navy Seal and his truck moved into the Refuge.


JJ MacNab ‏@jjmacnab 21m21 minutes ago

The Navy Seal promised to return to save the day with 13 fellow Seals (a pod? a herd?)


JJ MacNab ‏@jjmacnab 19m19 minutes ago

The Navy Seal's truck, it turned out, carried wood, not guns/powder but the militants remain steadfast in their belief that help is imminent


JJ MacNab ‏@jjmacnab 17m17 minutes ago

I didn't didn't live tweet this last night in case if was an FBI ruse. Feds love ruses.

The end.
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Why the remaining refuge occupiers think SEALs are going to come to rescue them (Original Post) Denzil_DC Jan 2016 OP
LMAO nadinbrzezinski Jan 2016 #1
Latest from J.J.: Denzil_DC Jan 2016 #2
They are providing the evening's entertainment. nadinbrzezinski Jan 2016 #4
Do you think the Tarp Man? hollowdweller Jan 2016 #9
SEAL. Right. Marr Jan 2016 #3
In my experience the "real" warriors truebluegreen Jan 2016 #5
This is hilarious. Thanks Hekate Jan 2016 #6
What a bunch of wannabe cowards... Last_Stand Jan 2016 #7
It's twue, it's twue! pinboy3niner Jan 2016 #8
 

nadinbrzezinski

(154,021 posts)
1. LMAO
Wed Jan 27, 2016, 11:50 PM
Jan 2016


These guys need to do the improv... at this point they have a bunch of us laughing AT THEM!

Denzil_DC

(9,205 posts)
2. Latest from J.J.:
Wed Jan 27, 2016, 11:55 PM
Jan 2016
Harold Cook ‏@HCookAustin 20m20 minutes ago

Just in case you're keeping score at home, the remaining #OregonStandoff rocket surgeons are now smoking dope and drunk on their lifestream.


JJ MacNab
‏@jjmacnab


.@HCookAustin With easy access to guns and explosives. What could go wrong?



Livestream in question here (intermittently) in case anyone's not seen it: http://www.nothiefsallowed.org/
 

Marr

(20,317 posts)
3. SEAL. Right.
Wed Jan 27, 2016, 11:57 PM
Jan 2016

There's a guy who has a blog devoted to nothing but outing fake SEALs. Seems like every third loudmouth is a "former SEAL".

I knew a couple of actual former combat special forces guys, and both were very low key. I worked with one of them for years before I found out, and he wasn't the one who told me. He'd reenlisted in Vietnam-- done multiple tours there. Never brought it up.

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