Posted on 01/09/2021 1:01:53 AM PST by Zhang Fei
Definitely didn't expect to be donning a smoke-inhalation hood and having to get down under some chairs because there were concerns that they might start shooting into the House chambers, getting evacuated from the House chambers and running around corridors to try to find a secure location, not knowing what was going on, who was where, and what was happening. So obviously it was chaotic on that front, and then just the fact that finding pipe bombs all over the place—I think there were several of those at the DNC, RNC, I think one on the Capitol grounds. Dudes breaking in with zip ties—you bring zip ties to take hostages, right?
I spent three years in between Iraq in the military and in Afghanistan, where my job was to basically be paranoid about all the ways that humanitarian aid workers could die, and try to protect them from those worst-case scenarios. So I tend to have a pretty dark imagination in terms of the possibilities that could occur. But that's not how I wanted my first week to be as a member of the House of Representatives.
We saw some real leaders step up in that moment. There were some folks who stayed on the floor and helped the Capitol Police barricade the doors. A couple of my colleagues actually from the freshman class—Pat Fallon, Troy Nehls, Tony Gonzales—were all kind of down there, all former military. I think having been in chaotic situations before—and I did disaster relief work as well, and was doing search and rescue and other missions in Hurricane Sandy as the storm was coming in—and the thing you have to always do is [realize] that freaking out doesn't help anything. And to be the calm, cool, and collected voice,
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The sheer terror of being on the receiving end of an atomic wedgie obviously put a dent in Little Peter’s typical unshakeable calm.
Drama Queen.
Compare these “leaders” to the medieval aristocrats who killed each other in duels, personally lead their armies into battle and lived and died with their armed retainers, instead of hiding while others fought for them.
They may have been ignorant, brutal tyrants, but they were not cowardly cretins.
These assh@le politicians expect the Capitol Police to fight and die for them, carry out Maidan Massacres to protect them.
At the same time, if there is a political backlash against excessive force, these cretins whill be the first to throw the police who protect them under the bus, to save themselves from the most minute political discomfort.
He’s got the seditionist Stalinazi-Satanist coup plotters media propagandist talking points down flat.
Thanks, Petey, for letting us know which side you’re on.
[At the same time, if there is a political backlash against excessive force, these cretins whill be the first to throw the police who protect them under the bus, to save themselves from the most minute political discomfort.]
>> We saw some real leaders step up in that moment
An unarmed female vet was your greatest threat. And one of your cowardly bitches murdered her.
FU, asshole.
What a pussy. Shows one thing. These pukes will shit their pants when the real action starts. Coup by fags.
let the wedgie fly
I think “hero” Peter has just had the warmup.
The combination of a second Trump impeachment plus all the Social Media bans is liable to provoke another, much larger, must less well behaved crowd converging on the Capitol. There seems to have been a lot of people who were moving on from Trump and election 2020, who have been radicalized.
With unpredictable consequences.
Even biblical era Kings knew that large crowds were potentially dangerous. Even if they were just for a religious festival.
How much more dangerous is a large, politically hostile crowd.
And these politician cretins smear the Capitol police as whie supremacists, yet expect them to fight and die to save them ?
https://twitter.com/RepBowman/status/1347612452159160330
I expect that many will desert like Baghdad Green Zone guards, and leave them to the mob.
Thanks
btw, I am showing my age, but I had a pre downsizing Delta 88.
[Thanks
btw, I am showing my age, but I had a pre downsizing Delta 88.]
Excellent wheels, except for all the reliability problems. If only GM had figured out a way to make a car last, before Japan got into the act. Built-in obsolescence worked well - to drive GM’s market share to nothing for all too many marques.
Long ago, I had a ‘67 Plymouth Fury II, black enamel with red interior. Real looker, 318 2bbl, no guts but ran forever. Took me everywhere and never broke. $400 car in 1972.
The guy - Meijer - is an idiot.
Is “rankly” a word?
“After his fifth bottle of Thunderbird, John flatulated rankly.”
[Is “rankly” a word?
“After his fifth bottle of Thunderbird, John flatulated rankly.”]
I called for the cop who murdered George Floyd to be arrested while everyone was still sitting on their hands wondering what to do...
It's the same here... an unarmed woman was executed.
But the press doesn't care - because she was 'murdered while conservative'...which is OK with the brownshirts who run the democrat party - and their buttboys in the press.
Damn, looks like we traded in Amash for Amash-lite. What happened to the ACTUAL conservative in that district who was going to primary Amash and vowed to keep running after Amash dropped out? Did he lose the primary to Congressman Supermarket Chain?
Lynn Afendoulis ? That was the woman. Lost 2-to-1. If MI had runoffs, Meijer would’ve cleared it because he did get 50%.
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