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d_r's JournalIf you want a view of the crazy stuff
these people that raided the Capital believe in, look at the twitter of the woman who was shot during the invasion. I looked at it last night and was really disturbed. I knew that Lin Wood was spreading crazy stuff but had no idea of bizarre. They believe that the evil cabal has forced politicians and others to make videos of them raping a child and then murdering the child. People like Pence and John Roberts. They believe that these videos are used to blackmail these people. And so much more down this rabbit hole. This is a person who was a 14-year veteran of the armed forces who believed and passed along these bizarre theories and ideas. I don't really like looking at twitter myself, just personally, but I am putting the link to her twitter account here.
After that link I will put a link to a business insider page story about it, just for those that don't like clicking on twitters or want a summary-
https://twitter.com/Ashli_Babbitt
NOTE - it looks like twitter has removed the Lin Wood tweets
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https://www.businessinsider.com/ashli-babbitt-tweeted-qanon-and-trump-conspiracies-before-capitol-death-2021-1
Babbitt regularly expressed support for Trump on social media. While she didn't tweet much herself, she was an ardent retweeter of conservative and right-wing figures, including Michael Flynn and Jack Posobiec, and conservative news sites like Right Side Broadcast News.
On January 5, Babbitt responded to a tweet that read, "A lot of flights into DC are being canceled with no bad weather. The entire world is corrupt."
"Nothing will stop us," she responded. "They can try and try and try but the storm is here and it is descending upon DC in less than 24 hours….dark to light!"
She also regularly endorsed QAnon conspiracy theories on Twitter. In a series of photos posted in early September, Babbitt attended a Trump Boat Parade in San Diego, sporting a QAnon t-shirt, and included the group's slogan in the caption.
Video of Nashville explosion
You can hear the warning message on the beginning. Warning there is an explosion.
The Curse of the Buried Treasure
A good read
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/16/the-curse-of-the-buried-treasure/amp
Leominster, in the West Midland area of England, is an ancient market town where the past and the present are jumbled together like coins in a change purse. Shops housed in half-timbered sixteenth-century Tudor buildings face the main square, offering cream teas and antiques. The town’s most lurid attraction is a well-preserved ducking stool, a mode of punishment in which an offender was strapped to a seat and dunked into a pond or a river while neighbors jeered; the device, last employed in 1809, is now on incongruous display inside the Priory Church, which dates to the thirteenth century. Christianity has even older roots in Leominster: a monastery was established around 660 by a recent convert, the Saxon leader Merewalh, who is thought to have been a son of Penda, the King of Mercia. For much of the early Middle Ages, Mercia was the most powerful of the four main Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, the others being Wessex, East Anglia, and Northumberland. In the tenth century, these realms were unified to become the Kingdom of England. Although the region surrounding Leominster (pronounced “Lemster”) is no longer officially known as Mercia, this legacy is preserved in the name of the local constabulary: the West Mercia Police.
On June 2, 2015, two metal-detector hobbyists aware of the area’s heritage, George Powell and Layton Davies, drove ninety minutes north of their homes, in South Wales, to the hamlet of Eye, about four miles outside Leominster. The farmland there is picturesque: narrow, hedgerow-lined lanes wend among pastures dotted with spreading trees and undulating crop fields. Anyone fascinated by the layered accretions of British history—or eager to learn what might be buried within those layers—would find it an attractive spot. English place-names, most of which date back to Anglo-Saxon times, are often repositories of meaning: the name Eye, for example, derives from Old English, and translates as “dry ground in a marsh.” Just outside the hamlet was a rise in the landscape, identified on maps by the tantalizing appellation of King’s Hall Hill.
I would like to see video from Miami
after seeing the trump street dance from there on election night
Stand by... but
I tell you what, somebody has got to do something about antifa and the left
Mitch Mcconnell statement
Feb 1999
"Time after time, the President came to a fork in the road. Time after time, he had the opportunity to choose the noble and honorable path. Time after time, he chose the path of lies and lawlessness—for the simple reason that he did not want to endanger his hold on public office."
"The President would seek to win at any cost. If it meant lying to the American people. If it meant lying to his Cabinet," he continued. "The name of the game was winning. Winning at any cost."
"He took an oath to faithfully execute the laws of this nation, and he violated that oath," the senator said. "He pledged to be the nation's chief law enforcement officer, and he violated that pledge. He took an oath to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and he willfully and repeatedly violated that oath."
"I think that the United States Senate has a clear choice," McConnell said at the time. "Do we want to retain President Clinton in office, or do we want to retain our honor, our principle, and our moral authority?"
"For me, and for many members in my impeachment-fatigued party, I choose honor," he said.
FU Mr. Gibbs
Said that it was wrong to have this testimony while trump was on the other side of the world.
That bastard is in VIETNAM surrendering to freaking NORTH KOREA!
Thank you so much for the heart
and for your support of DU. That was very kind and I appreciate being thought of, thank you.
why GOP wins sometimes, imho
It is sort of amazing that republicans win at all, they are constantly exposing themselves as either idiots or awful mean people or both.
I think they reason they win sometimes is that they will all stick together and toe the line and agree to anything even if they know it isn't true. They will stick to it.
We, on the other hand, will argue about any damn thing. Look at DU. People are constantly looking for nuance of some story and trying to communicate different points of view. Republicans, man, they think what they are supposed to think.
I know I am over simplifying. I also know that by posting this to a bunch of democrats that most people will disagree with something about it.
I think that it is more healthy to have different opinions and hash them out rather than fall in line like a bunch of authoritarians, but I think it helps them "win." Like most of you, I learn more from people I don't agree with than from people I already agree with. I learn more from listening than from talking most of the time. But I don't think "they" are interested in "learning."
We should have like a safe word. A like "time to circle the wagons" signal.
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