Posted on 02/11/2021 3:59:41 AM PST by Kaslin
So, I was out at dinner with my old battalion commander – literally outside, because dining inside apparently is super deadly if you live under blue tyranny – and we were laughing at this whole “Muh Insurrekshun” nonsense. What happened January 6 was no “insurrection” in any meaningful sense of the word, especially not to those who survived the riots of 2020, and not to us either. See, I was my old battalion commander’s assistant operations officer and I was riding with him in his HUMVEE driving through Los Angeles as it burned in April 1992.
That was a riot. What happened on Capitol Hill was a few dudes dressed like Conan the Fauxbarian acting like fools and occasionally fighting with the cops while a few hundred other dudes took selfies in the Rotunda.
We were in the 3rd Battalion, 160th Infantry, the first combat arms unit on the street during the LA Riot, a riot brought to you by Maxine Waters and other idiots, by the way. There was burning and looting and dozens we can say with absolute certainty were murdered by the LA rioters, unlike at the Capitol. It lasted for days. You wouldn’t know it from Rep. Stolen Cower, who seems to claim she suffered PTSD from being at the far end of the same ZIP code as the bruhaha, but what happened on January 6 was no “insurrection,” and Republicans need to stop playing along with the Establishment talking point that it was.
The idea of an “insurrection” is to delegitimize all resistance to the garbage Establishment’s reign of error, and to play along is to give credence to its lie and to empower its propaganda. You have done nothing wrong by rejecting the Establishment narrative. You have done nothing wrong by protesting what you see as a flawed election and a corrupt ruling class. You have a right to protest anything you want, and you don’t need their permission.
Dissent is patriotic. Or did that end when it became inconvenient?
They hype the happening because they want to make you afraid to speak up. They want to try to make it impossible for you to live in this society if you do not parrot the party line. They won’t say it that way. They will try to wrap themselves in the same flag they were calling a symbol of white supremacy last year to try to seize some sort of moral high ground and shut you up. Like they give a damn about the Constitution. This tiresome “insurrection” and “sedition” palaver is just a ham-handed attempt to turn 74 million Americans – almost none of whom wear Thor drag – into enemies of mom and apple pie, which is weird because they usually hate traditional family structures and non-kale foods.
This kind of baloney is par for the course for the Democrats. They’re going to call you an “insurrectionist” today and a “racist” tomorrow and some other hogwash after that, so who cares what they say? But what does grate are the Republicans who go along with this bogus framing, and it’s sometimes unclear how much of the reason is just the usual GOPe pol stupidity and how much is the usual GOPe contempt for the GOP base.
Yeah, we get that it was scary to have knuckleheads running rampant through the Capitol. Blame the knuckleheads. Don’t blame the other 74 million people who supported President Trump. And quit playing along with the ridiculous idea that January 6 was Fort Sumpter x 9/11 to the Pearl Harborth power.
It was not. This foaming-mouthed performative overreaction is all cynical performance art, and this goofy impeachment is just a senatorial Toobin Zoomin’.
Now, I also had the chance to see the wreckage of a real insurrection when I was in Kosovo with the Army after the fighting ended. An insurrection means ruins and mass graves, not some dude in a horn hat wandering around the House as a police officer asks him to chill. Don’t let them define insurrection down to mean “Anything conservatives do.”
Nor was this incident some sort of “attack on Our Democracy where our freedom hung on by a thread.” The drama queenery might play on MSNBCNN, but it just makes the base despise the Republican Party even more – which is hard – when that crap comes from our own people. You are not downplaying what actually happened by characterizing it accurately and without the kind of breathless exaggeration the Democrat demagogues delight in. The Democrats’ cat’s paws spent six months burning down the cities and this overwrought handwringing only draws attention to the discrepancy in elite caring between when the pols were vaguely threatened and when the proles were losing everything.
Did the GOPe call Jeb! to have him nominate a council of experienced losers to come up with the worst possible way to handle this situation? If they want a rebellion within the party heading into 2022, they should just keep it up, because the base is tired of them not having its collective back. Schumer and Pelosi are cackling right now. President * would be too, except "Matlock’s" on and he’s busy.
GOP pols, listen up. You are not defending the buffoons of January 6 by accurately characterizing their actions. Stop playing along with the false narrative that unjustly trashes your own people. Stop minimizing what happened in the murderous Democrat-abetted riots in LA in 1991 and throughout our country in 2020 by not just lumping this incident in with them but by pretending it was a zillion times worse.
Just stop.
GOP pols in Washington are much more interested in what the Washington Post says about them than they are interested in what their base thinks about them.
This is a great article. Thanks so much for posting it, Kaslin.
As always, a good choice of opinion to post on your part.
bmp
Going way back … they used to say that when they were attacking George W. Bush. I had a Lefty neighbor who cornered me after Obama was elected -- "Ha!" she said. "Ha! Obama won! What do you think about that??"
I said, "Dissent is patriotic."
Oh, if looks could kill ...
I think it is even worse than that.
If it were cowardice, it would be human weakness and a lack of backbone, which is one thing.
I think it is their desire, once in office on the GOP side, to not upset the Gravy Train so they can continue to ride on it.
I believe it is greed, I think in some cases, it is connections to the Communist Chinese money via industry they don't want a spotlight shined on.
In either case, their constituency and the Republic that are in last place.
And that realization fills me with more anger and angst than any cowardice or desire to be invited to the right parties, which is, after all, part of the Gravy Train too.
The fascist government of the United States is afraid that America will rise against them.
These fascists are now calling the little spat on the hill they themselves organized as a false flag honey trap, an Insurrection.
Now the REAL insurrection will come.
Americans will not tolerate a fascist federal government.
America will rise against them.Which is why every Congress Critter now has a bolt bag, and a fast boat exit via the Potomoc.
The 6200 National Guard are in Washington are there to slow down the real Insurrection about to come because of continued Congressional felonious activity against the Constitution.
Soon there will be thousands of pipe line workers, ICE officers, Border patrol Officers, recently politically discharged military ,and Trump supporters coming to Washington to call for an interim election and a replacement of this fascist government.
It will begin in the Spring, have no doubt.
OK, who’s got the pic of the flag-waving granny?
The corruption up there is total and complete which points to China paying people off. It can not be anything else.
Good article. There was some violence and tear gas and stuff, but from what I saw and knowing human nature a lot of people in that crowd were like “Hey we got in the building, let’s bring our protest in there”.
If that many people wanted to tear down the government, they wouldn’t have succeeded but they could have done injury and damage on a massive scale.
And I’ve been in DC and seen them defend the Capitol with a virtual army when maybe 300 people were protesting.
Those steps are massive. How the hell did they even let a crowd get up those steps and anywhere near the entrances?
It was also obvious the police reaction was hey these people are in the building let’s keep things cool and let them do their protest until we can get them to leave.
Best I can tell most of them just left they weren’t violently expelled from the building.
Rules for Me but not for Thee.
They are always on the defensive. They accept the left’s narrative at every turn. What have Conservatives in Washington actually conserved?
Kurt Schlichter is a national treasure.
I say the same to people in person who will listen. It was a very few boisterous citizens who went a bit too far. What they did vs what demonrats/Antifa/blm did is comparing you kid writing on the wall with a crayon vs them playing with matches and burning down your house because you won’t let them watch cartoons.
Im thinking the desire is really the need to, because they have been compromised in most cases with pedophilia extortion and their exposure to the public
As insurrections go, if you were rating things in DC....this would be like a group of 5th-graders throwing eggs on Halloween at 6th-graders.
It’s just one more word used to hide the true definition of what happened: A tourguideless stroll thru the chamber.
The Left has a plethora of words that it uses to try and cover up it’s gross activities; why the squawk about this one?
Outstanding article!
Excellent line: “And quit playing along with the ridiculous idea that January 6 was Fort Sumpter x 9/11 to the Pearl Harborth power.”
If we really wanted to take over the Capitol ,it would have already happened. These Commierats haven’t seen nothin yet.
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