Rifle-Toting Militia Men Rail Against Mitch McConnell In Kentucky, Hail D.C. Rioters

[TomCADem]

Source: Huffington Post

Dozens of heavily armed self-described militia members dressed in camouflage descended on Kentucky’s statehouse Saturday to loudly bash Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and praise the Donald Trump-supporting rioters who stormed the nation’s Capitol.

The men, toting rifles and zip ties, also railed against socialism, communism, and Kentucky’s 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 Speaker’s 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

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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

'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]

1. Flex cuffs will appear now at every one of these stupid events

Watch them show up when Trump blabs in texas next week.

[Harker]

6. Yep.

They're an offensive weapon and, especially in quantity, a big symbolic threat.

[bullimiami]

2. There you go Mitch. You appease him 999 times and then made the mistake of standing on your own.

[Curbside]

14. Now, where have I seen this before?

[sandensea]

35. Perfect metaphor. That thing should be the GOP's new mascot.

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]

3. What did they have to say about the cop that was beaten to death, the woman that was trampled,

and the shit that was smeared on the walls?

[captain queeg]

4. It's about time. Mitch and others think they can play both sides

Ultimately it’s going to come back on them. And as Lyndsey said they’ll deserve it. I wonder if he remembers that now as they turn on him.

[soothsayer]

5. How you like your monster now, Dr Frankenstein?

[orangecrush]

8. +1

[empedocles]

7. Perhaps moscow mitch will be more sensitive to personal security issues?

[orangecrush]

9. Flex cuff laws

Passed in 3... 2. 1..

Instrument of crime.

[PSPS]

10. Moscow mitch doesn't care. Job 1 to him is to keep packing the courts in his waning days.

[Bayard]

11. Well, they can have Mitch

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]

13. At Least One, From What I've Read

Died of a heart attack after the Taser in his pocket discharged. Sort of the modern-day equivalent of blowing your balls off.

[csziggy]

16. Ms Boyland was seen before the Capitol invasion carrying a "Don't Tread on Me" flag

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]

36. I'm sure the irony has been noticed that she was carrying the Gadsden flag

while she was trampled to death. By her own kind.

[csziggy]

37. Oh, yes

But I am trying hard to not be amused at the poor deluded woman's death.

[lagomorph777]

38. OMG you are MEAN!

[Corgigal]

12. Leave Gov Andy Beshear alone.

His approval ratings are in the high 60s, and he tries to keep up safe.

Mitch, well, no loss.

[in2herbs]

15. The irony. It's reported that "At one point they took a knee to honor Air Force veteran Ashli

Babbit. . ."

Didn't trump supporters go crazy when Colin "took a knee?"

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

17. This is the sort of shit sown by Moscow Mitch and others

[llashram]

18. for the foreseeable future

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]

19. Separating patriots from insurrectionists is a major problem going forward

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]

20. How about law enforcement doing their job?

[kacekwl]

21. Aren't they claiming Ms. Babbit

was a spy for "Antifa" ?

[ProfessorGAC]

29. That Was Yesterday

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]

22. "self-described militia members"

Translation: Bloated imbeciles playing War who would shit their collective pants if any real soldiers showed up!

[Marthe48]

23. Here's another bunch of traitors ready to lock up

Hope there are plenty of selfies and video

[David__77]

24. Video of this.

Link to tweet

[IsItJustMe]

28. Thanks for the video. Makes it a hell of a lot more real than just reading about it.

[Iggo]

25. That's your people, Mitch. Deal with it.

[samsingh]

26. they took a knee? these hypocrites, at least, are not eating moscow mitch

[IsItJustMe]

27. You helped create the beast Mitch, now karma is coming back to bite you in the ass.

[still_one]

30. Perhaps this might motivate McConnell to accelerate the Senate trail before Joe takes office

[Evolve Dammit]

31. Good Luck Moscow Mitch. The "base" is coming for you, you stupid shit. Good Luck. nt

[iluvtennis]

32. Nothing but a bunch of cowards. Take away the big guns from them and they will snivel away. nt

[usajumpedtheshark]

33. Dear media, these are terrorists, not militias.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

34. Lol, that's what happens from creating intolerant cults.

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.