Rifle-Toting Militia Men Rail Against Mitch McConnell In Kentucky, Hail D.C. Rioters
Source: Huffington Post
Dozens of heavily armed self-described militia members dressed in camouflage descended on Kentuckys statehouse Saturday to loudly bash Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and praise the Donald Trump-supporting rioters who stormed the nations Capitol.
The men, toting rifles and zip ties, also railed against socialism, communism, and Kentuckys Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear, the Lexington Herald-Leader reported. They were there to demand the democratic election for president be overturned.
At one point they took a knee to honor Air Force veteran Ashli Babbit, who was fatally shot inside the Capitol Wednesday as she climbed through a window to the Speakers Lobby after a mob of Trump supporters had stormed the building.
The brother-in-law of another victim in the attack, Roseanne Boyland, blamed Trump on Sunday for inciting the violence. Boyland, 34, reportedly died of crushing injuries as the mob surged into the Capitol.
Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kentucky-militia-mitch-mcconnell-capitol-rioters_n_5ffa806ac5b6c77d85e7796c
This is what happens when Republicans spew the craziest BS into a extreme right wing media channels. If a Republican is told by sources that you consider to be trustworthy that the election was stolen, then you will have people who are willing to engage in violence based on these false conspiracies.
It is like taking the pizzagate conspiracies, then amplifying it a thousand-fold with the President taking the lead in spreading these conspiracies.
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/06/22/533941689/pizzagate-gunman-sentenced-to-4-years-in-prison
A North Carolina man who fired an AR-15 rifle inside a pizza restaurant in Washington, D.C., last year as he was "investigating" a baseless conspiracy theory has been sentenced to four years in prison.
Edgar Maddison Welch pleaded guilty in March to federal charges of assault with a dangerous weapon and transporting a firearm over state lines. The case is seen as a clear example of the potential real-world consequences of fake news stories.
During the sentencing hearing Thursday, U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson stressed that Welch's actions "literally left psychological wreckage," The Associated Press reported.
The unfounded "Pizzagate" Internet rumor at the center of this case accused the Comet Ping Pong pizzeria of being the home of a Satanic child sex abuse ring involving top Democrats such as Hillary Clinton. "Speculation and fabrications tied to the bizarre conspiracy theory have been relentlessly circulated by politically motivated fringe sites," as The Two-Way has reported.
Watchfoxheadexplodes
(3,496 posts)Watch them show up when Trump blabs in texas next week.
Harker
(13,956 posts)They're an offensive weapon and, especially in quantity, a big symbolic threat.
bullimiami
(13,073 posts)Curbside
(54 posts)sandensea
(21,593 posts)That said, Welcome to DU Curbside!
Hope you'll enjoy sharing your thoughts as much as most of us here. Never a dull moment!
Squinch
(50,901 posts)and the shit that was smeared on the walls?
captain queeg
(10,080 posts)Ultimately its going to come back on them. And as Lyndsey said theyll deserve it. I wonder if he remembers that now as they turn on him.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)orangecrush
(19,382 posts)Passed in 3... 2. 1..
Instrument of crime.
PSPS
(13,576 posts)Bayard
(21,991 posts)We won't miss him a bit.
First I've heard of this one though:
Roseanne Boyland, 34, reportedly died of crushing injuries as the mob surged into the Capitol.
I've been wondering how the other 3 died--not just, "medical emergencies".
COL Mustard
(5,865 posts)Died of a heart attack after the Taser in his pocket discharged. Sort of the modern-day equivalent of blowing your balls off.
csziggy
(34,131 posts)And was killed during the surge into the Capitol when she fell and was trampled to death.
Rosanne Boyland at the 'Save America Rally' on Wednesday in Washington, D.C. The Kennesaw resident would later die as rioters stormed the Capitol building.
More: https://www.cbs46.com/news/kennesaw-woman-among-people-who-died-at-d-c-riot/article_1a7950a8-5112-11eb-bbe7-37a8f7f03703.html
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)while she was trampled to death. By her own kind.
csziggy
(34,131 posts)But I am trying hard to not be amused at the poor deluded woman's death.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)His approval ratings are in the high 60s, and he tries to keep up safe.
Mitch, well, no loss.
in2herbs
(2,944 posts)Babbit. . ."
Didn't trump supporters go crazy when Colin "took a knee?"
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,693 posts)llashram
(6,265 posts)these so-called RW terrorist groups will be part of the domestic threat to the democratic governance we still enjoy. Problems in our political system? Sure. Yet domestic American terrorists following a leader as unhinged as Hitler was in his last days in his bunker tells me they are as unhinged. Only our love for our country and democracy will always stand in their way.
bucolic_frolic
(43,023 posts)I really don't like the term insurrectionists, but they're not conservatives by any definition, they're revolutionaries. no matter.
But weeding these people out of positions of power and authority and enforcement seems daunting. They say Czarist Russia fell when the interim government lost support in the military and workers.
marble falls
(56,974 posts)kacekwl
(7,010 posts)was a spy for "Antifa" ?
ProfessorGAC
(64,807 posts)Today, it's more convenient for her to be a martyr.
Now that a bunch of the chief morons are bragging about being patriots, that "she was a plant" story doesn't work.
Swamp Country Po Boy
(73 posts)Translation: Bloated imbeciles playing War who would shit their collective pants if any real soldiers showed up!
Marthe48
(16,891 posts)Hope there are plenty of selfies and video
David__77
(23,311 posts)IsItJustMe
(7,012 posts)Iggo
(47,534 posts)samsingh
(17,590 posts)IsItJustMe
(7,012 posts)still_one
(92,058 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,689 posts)iluvtennis
(19,821 posts)usajumpedtheshark
(672 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,852 posts)Their intolerant ideas of "purity" keep narrowing until they destroy "their own".
And it's worse to be viewed as a Benedict Arnold, to be hanged if caught, than someone who was deemed the opposition from the beginning. The long-time combatants are often released later.