This is speculation, but I do suspect that one reason Ashli Babbitt died was because of the way her mother raised her. Like mother, like daughter.
I went through school with a someone teasible name, but at least I wasn't named "Ashli," spelled in a demented fashion, added to the last name "Babbitt." Names shouldn't matter, but in school they are a favorite tool of bullies. They also add to the first impression that people get when introduced to a stranger. Again, it shouldn't matter, but it does. Note that the Repubs did to "Barack Obama" what the mean kids do in school.
Oh, come on. This kind of thing happens to half the kids in grade school. All the way through third and fourth grades I got, "What's the beef, Stu?" Funny once, maybe, but kids like Blair and Ricky never figured out that it wasn't funny a hundred times. But it wasn't really bullying; it was just 9- and 10-year olds figuring out what is witty.
Excuse me, Barack HUSSEIN Obama, they always emphasise the fuck out of his middle name, and snigger about it among themselves. Who says wingnuts have no senses of humor? That one grade school witticism no doubt came from some mute inglorious Goober, even the God-Emperor of the Trolls regularly pops that out like an owl regurgitating mouse bones.
I insisted at the time and have maintained ever since that the Capital should have been defended with machine guns and hand grenades. There wouldn't have been any broken windows or reactionary jerk offs vandalizing the Congressional offices and smearing forced on the walls. With any luck that clown doing shaman cosplay might have caught a bullet and ceased to trouble. Give the seditious assholes something to REALLY cry about. Or at least they should have been armed like the cops who attacked peaceful BLM protesters. Let the Nazis have a taste of teargas and rubber bullets at the very least, since they're fine with "law enforcement" so-called using those weapons and tactics to suppress people who simply wanted to suggest that the cops ought to be reined in a trifle and kill rather fewer persons of color who are obviously no threat to the big, burly and armed police.
Having clearly been fed a diet of right wing bullshit and grievance like her traitor daughter, sheβs already decided what happened and who the enemy is. Nothing else will dissuade her. She is now playing the role of righteously grieving mother and her daughter is a blameless Christian martyr. Confirmation bias is a hell of a drug.
This dipstick should be behind bars and charged with threatening the former (and soon, present) Speaker of the House, a current sitting member of the US House of Reps.
Threatening the government officials of the United States is a felony under federal law.
Isn't that always the wingnuts' argument excusing a pig who shoots someone who was running for his life, he should have trusted the system and allowed them to arrest him. Never mind that arrest is all too often tantamount to a death sentence ( Baltimore has been notorious for taking people away in paddy wagons that might as well have had Zyclon B coming out the vents.)
And so are all the angry crackers who believe she was only doing what's right and the Capital police ought to have just ushered the inflamed assholes in, instead of defending Congress. After all, the rioters had been assured that they were just righting a great wrong, the national election had been rigged and stolen to deny their Savior uninterrupted rule. He said so Himself.
They always do, and become highly indignant when they are resisted by those sworn to defend and uphold the Constitution. Who do they think they are, defending themselves and their appointed posts?
I shudder in horror when I think about this. What if they had gotten to Pelosi? She's small and elderly, and they (or even one reasonably strong guy) could have easily overtaken and killed her in a number of ways. It makes me sick that this bitch can make these threats (yes, they are threats) and escape any consequences.
Am I? I just followed a link in a current article to another I don't remember having read. One of the few good things about getting old is that a fading memory can make old reading new again.
Well, they know what the concepts are. I doubt they understand the words. "Stow-whatnow? Yew tryin ta call me stupid, boy? I'll show yew some fuckin terrorism!"
Yew thank yer better'n me with yer fancy words, doncha. They never get told "I know I am you illiterate goon.". Because that would be elitism. Any evidence of education beyond grade school is also elitism, and so is being able to read silently without sounding out the words.
I guess we know where her daughter learned to be an ignorant, fascistic POS, then. I'd guess her Mom is one of those people who says "Well, they should have complied/ shouldn't have broken the law" whenever unarmed Black and Indigenous people (complying or not) get killed by cops.
Yep, when I see this person's irrational, confrontational, belligerent attitude, I assume that's where her daughter learned the same. Maybe she's so out there because she knows she's partially to blame for her daughter's death.
This woman feels zero blame, I can promise you that. She is among the sadly large percentage of the population who cannot understand that their actions have consequences, and thus always have a scapegoat. For ease of future reference, we can call that percentage of the population "Republicans".
Being belligerent is very popular on the right. Just look at the gun nuts saying "come and take it"about their precious guns. Because their backs are always against the wall because of the evil gummint trying to take away their freedoms. I wish they would grow into responsible adults, but I know that ain't happening.
I keep wondering where all that "don't tread on me" crap that they used to justify their weapons stockpiles went? Here we have at last the over reaching Federal tyranny that they used to get so they up about, masked thugs in unmarked vehicles terrorizing ordinary citizens, just like they were SURE that Clinton, Obama and then OHJB (to the unprejudiced eye, three mild centrists, not the bloodthirsty Lenins of their dim imaginations.
Still trying to understand why they are so pissed of at Pelosi for not stopping a totally peaceful protest of peaceful people peacefully touring the Capitol peacefully lamenting an obviously stolen election.
Well, at least we know how Ashli got that way.
The deranged terrorist daughter has a deranged, violent, mother who supports terrorism.
Pretty much what one would expect.
This is speculation, but I do suspect that one reason Ashli Babbitt died was because of the way her mother raised her. Like mother, like daughter.
I went through school with a someone teasible name, but at least I wasn't named "Ashli," spelled in a demented fashion, added to the last name "Babbitt." Names shouldn't matter, but in school they are a favorite tool of bullies. They also add to the first impression that people get when introduced to a stranger. Again, it shouldn't matter, but it does. Note that the Repubs did to "Barack Obama" what the mean kids do in school.
Oh, come on. This kind of thing happens to half the kids in grade school. All the way through third and fourth grades I got, "What's the beef, Stu?" Funny once, maybe, but kids like Blair and Ricky never figured out that it wasn't funny a hundred times. But it wasn't really bullying; it was just 9- and 10-year olds figuring out what is witty.
Excuse me, Barack HUSSEIN Obama, they always emphasise the fuck out of his middle name, and snigger about it among themselves. Who says wingnuts have no senses of humor? That one grade school witticism no doubt came from some mute inglorious Goober, even the God-Emperor of the Trolls regularly pops that out like an owl regurgitating mouse bones.
SAINT ASHLIII OF THE SACRED WINDOW?????
I thought she was dead.
????
Aren't most Saints? I thought it was required.
Ashli Babbitt committed suicide (by cop). How many times do you think the cop shouted "Stop or I'll shoot"?
So many stupid assholes in the world, so little time to make them all shut the fuck up.
I insisted at the time and have maintained ever since that the Capital should have been defended with machine guns and hand grenades. There wouldn't have been any broken windows or reactionary jerk offs vandalizing the Congressional offices and smearing forced on the walls. With any luck that clown doing shaman cosplay might have caught a bullet and ceased to trouble. Give the seditious assholes something to REALLY cry about. Or at least they should have been armed like the cops who attacked peaceful BLM protesters. Let the Nazis have a taste of teargas and rubber bullets at the very least, since they're fine with "law enforcement" so-called using those weapons and tactics to suppress people who simply wanted to suggest that the cops ought to be reined in a trifle and kill rather fewer persons of color who are obviously no threat to the big, burly and armed police.
Witthoeft? Is that Dutch?
Fuck Ted Cruz.
Must be.
Having clearly been fed a diet of right wing bullshit and grievance like her traitor daughter, sheβs already decided what happened and who the enemy is. Nothing else will dissuade her. She is now playing the role of righteously grieving mother and her daughter is a blameless Christian martyr. Confirmation bias is a hell of a drug.
Nothing like raising all that sweet, sweet moneyβ¦
This dipstick should be behind bars and charged with threatening the former (and soon, present) Speaker of the House, a current sitting member of the US House of Reps.
Threatening the government officials of the United States is a felony under federal law.
If only Ashli had listened to the copsβ¦
Isn't that always the wingnuts' argument excusing a pig who shoots someone who was running for his life, he should have trusted the system and allowed them to arrest him. Never mind that arrest is all too often tantamount to a death sentence ( Baltimore has been notorious for taking people away in paddy wagons that might as well have had Zyclon B coming out the vents.)
Choices. Decisions. Consequences. Ms. Babbitt should have noted those three words. Instead, sadly for her it was FAFO.
Why the fuck is she out on bail?
Two problems with cash bail:
1. letting out violent harmful dangerous people
2. keeping in harmless people
Parents are prolly all "You dun gud son. We're proud of ya. Them (expletives deleted) need to know their place."
On this particular week in September, I just want to state that 1/6 is way more devasting to me than 9/11.
9/11 is kinda like 12/7/41 - we were attacked.
1/6 belongs in a category with the Civil War.
We were fighting with ourselves and that's so much worse.
Ashli Babbitt is a traitor and un-American and her mom's just as bad or somehow possibly worse.
And so are all the angry crackers who believe she was only doing what's right and the Capital police ought to have just ushered the inflamed assholes in, instead of defending Congress. After all, the rioters had been assured that they were just righting a great wrong, the national election had been rigged and stolen to deny their Savior uninterrupted rule. He said so Himself.
And like that war, the South attacked first!
They always do, and become highly indignant when they are resisted by those sworn to defend and uphold the Constitution. Who do they think they are, defending themselves and their appointed posts?
I shudder in horror when I think about this. What if they had gotten to Pelosi? She's small and elderly, and they (or even one reasonably strong guy) could have easily overtaken and killed her in a number of ways. It makes me sick that this bitch can make these threats (yes, they are threats) and escape any consequences.
It's like people who say "No offense intended" right before they say something offensive.
And afterward they claim that "it's just a joke, you liberals have no sense of humor".
You're reading comments from 2 years ago?
Am I? I just followed a link in a current article to another I don't remember having read. One of the few good things about getting old is that a fading memory can make old reading new again.
THIS THIS THIS
EGGGG-ZACTLY! They are indeed threats.
Make no mistake about this. These people know exactly what stochastic terrorism & plausible denialability are.
Well, they know what the concepts are. I doubt they understand the words. "Stow-whatnow? Yew tryin ta call me stupid, boy? I'll show yew some fuckin terrorism!"
Yew thank yer better'n me with yer fancy words, doncha. They never get told "I know I am you illiterate goon.". Because that would be elitism. Any evidence of education beyond grade school is also elitism, and so is being able to read silently without sounding out the words.
I guess we know where her daughter learned to be an ignorant, fascistic POS, then. I'd guess her Mom is one of those people who says "Well, they should have complied/ shouldn't have broken the law" whenever unarmed Black and Indigenous people (complying or not) get killed by cops.
Yep, when I see this person's irrational, confrontational, belligerent attitude, I assume that's where her daughter learned the same. Maybe she's so out there because she knows she's partially to blame for her daughter's death.
This woman feels zero blame, I can promise you that. She is among the sadly large percentage of the population who cannot understand that their actions have consequences, and thus always have a scapegoat. For ease of future reference, we can call that percentage of the population "Republicans".
Being belligerent is very popular on the right. Just look at the gun nuts saying "come and take it"about their precious guns. Because their backs are always against the wall because of the evil gummint trying to take away their freedoms. I wish they would grow into responsible adults, but I know that ain't happening.
I keep wondering where all that "don't tread on me" crap that they used to justify their weapons stockpiles went? Here we have at last the over reaching Federal tyranny that they used to get so they up about, masked thugs in unmarked vehicles terrorizing ordinary citizens, just like they were SURE that Clinton, Obama and then OHJB (to the unprejudiced eye, three mild centrists, not the bloodthirsty Lenins of their dim imaginations.
Ashli Babbitt was held responsible. Instead of learning from that, the MAGAs just become more rabid.
She's probably mostly to blame, but hard to parse all the factors.
Also hard to tell if she's acting out because of guilt or she's just a nutjob.
Narrator: she's almost certainly a nutjob.
Why not both gif
Still trying to understand why they are so pissed of at Pelosi for not stopping a totally peaceful protest of peaceful people peacefully touring the Capitol peacefully lamenting an obviously stolen election.
Forget it MrPug, it's Crazytown.
'Zactically. "It wasn't a riot! And I was there rioting because Trump told me to."
Right? Is the Speaker of the House supposed to guide every group of tourists as they tour the Capitol?