Category: WTF?

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You know, This seems a little “Off”

I caught this in Reuters today.

The top GOP Gubernatorial Candidate against, Gretchen Whitmer in MI, Ryan Kelley was arrested today by The FBI in connection with the Jan 6th Riot.

I thought, “Okay, what are the charges? Gotta be something BIG if The freakin FBI is involved.”

Nope, it’s all misdemeanor charges.

Misdemeanor???

What the fuck? I suppose it’s an FBI matter since it’s federal. But surely the freakin FBI has better things to do with their time!

How about hunting down ANTIFA or BLM protesters who firebombed the Federal Building in Portland? That seems far more worthy of the FBI’s time.

An FBI agent’s sworn testimony says Mr. Kelley was seen in a video, standing in a crowd of people who were “assaulting and pushing past law enforcement officers”.

Note, that this testimony does not say Mr. Kelly was “assaulting and pushing past law enforcement officers,” only that he was standing in the crowd.

The criminal complaint charges Kelley with, “…knowingly entering restricted grounds without lawful authority, disorderly conduct, knowingly engaging in acts of physical violence against property on restricted grounds and willfully injuring U.S. property.”

You know, this seems pretty damn thin… Wonder how they’re going to prove it in court. I could see the Restricted Grounds charge. But the others, they better have video, fingerprints, and DNA.

There are other images alleged, (I added alleged. Reuters and the FBI statement, said it as fact,) to show Kelly climbing a feature near the northwest stairs of the building. The FBI Statement further says, “He then can be seen in video footage waving his hand to encourage the crowd to move toward the stairs.”

Again, they missed the word alleged. The FBI, the courts, and the jury, won’t actually know if Mr. Kelly was waving to an individual, with whom he may have been traveling, who was separated from Kelly in the melee, until the trial.

I find it so interesting, that a dude drives an SUV through a crowd injuring a bunch of people, and he’s always referred to as the alleged driver. Or that a carjacker in LA seen running from the carjacked vehicle and is caught by the police is always referred to as the Alleged criminal. Even if every single TV station has video of the entire carjacking and the perpetrator exiting the vehicle. But in cases where it’s someone who could be deemed an enemy of the state, Alleged is often forgotten.

Further in the article, reference is made to a confidential tip coming into the FBI.

Hmmm, You mean like all the confidential tips about angry parents at school board meetings?

Here’s a link to the actual article.

Michigan Republican governor candidate Ryan Kelley arrested for Capitol riot role

I suppose I’m just super skeptical… This sounds more like dirty tricks than anything else.

I wonder if he’ll take it all to court and demand a full public trial by jury?

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Oh… This is getting So out of hand.

The other half got a haircut yesterday.

You’d think something as mundane as that wouldn’t be fraught with controversy…

You’d be wrong

We live in a mad mad world.

The stylist was talking with another stylist about a customer she’d had the day before.

The customer in question, was apparently transitioning from one gender to the other. “Okay, this is probably going to go off the rails,” I think.

As the story unfolds, apparently the stylist referred to the customer as a “She”. OMG! The horror!

The customer corrected the stylist’s use of pronoun defiantly proclaiming the proper pronoun was “IT”.

At this point in the story I’ve got my “What The Fuck” face on. The other half ignored me and continued the story.

The stylist, of course apologized explaining that she meant no offense. This wasn’t good enough for the mortally aggrieved customer. (He/She/It… whatever) Continued to manufacture outrage over this insignificant incident, turning everyone’s trip to the hair place into a crazed social justice nightmare.

A) How was the stylist to know “It” was the preferred pronoun?
B) The Stylist did the professional thing by apologizing.
C) The aggrieved customer had all the social decorum of a turd in a punchbowl.

The other half was laughing and said to me, “All I could picture as this story was being told was YOU sitting in a chair during the actual incident.”

Good Point!

I wouldn’t have been able to let it pass. I hate shitty behavior and the shitty people exhibiting it.

The first thing that popped into my head was that since “IT” didn’t have their pronoun tattooed on ITS forehead how was anyone to know? I’m sure that my expressing that thought would have added fuel to the fire.

The second thing that popped into my head is that “IT” usually refers to an object. Then I remembered being a boy in the Deep South.

The first word I ever learned to describe a Black person was the “N-Word”. But the context was that one went to get the “N-Word” to clean up a mess.

For Example: “Bill, please go get the broom to sweep up this mess on the floor.”

My childhood memory has the statement from my Grandfather telling me, “Hey boy, go get the “N-word” to clean up that mess.”

In my experience the “N-Word” was used to reduce a kind thoughtful human being, (Eddie would tell me jokes and ride me around on his shoulders and we’d laugh the whole time,) to nothing more than an object on par with a mop or broom. (For the sake of clarity, Eddie was an employee of my Grandfather, and I probably wasn’t more than 5.)

As I thought about the implications of a human being demanding to be called “IT” I couldn’t help but notice the similarity.

What completely astounds me, is that any human being would willingly demean & diminish their own humanity in this way.

People like the aforementioned customer, would loose their shit if I, a white CIS male, were to refer to an African American as “IT”. They’d be saying I was racist or any number of other ugly things. (Then again, most of the ugly words they’d call me have lost much of their former impact and meanings.)

Then they’d turn around and make a spectacle of themselves in a public place demanding to be called “IT”.

All the while annoying the rest of us “normal” people who use pronouns based in history and languages dating back 5 thousand years or more.

The other half is right…

It’s a good thing I wasn’t there for the incident itself.

Depending on how screeching they were, I could easily see myself leading off with,

“Nobody gives a fuck about your pronouns! Now sit the fuck down and shut the hell up. There are actual humans in this business, trust me they do not consider themselves the equivalent of a dildo or pocket pussy. Both of which, by the way, are ITS.”

No, I don’t think it would have ended well at all…

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OH! For Gods Sake! Again with this?

Saturday at a commencement speech Our Chief Moron in charge once again outright lied!

Either that or he’s demonstrating that he’s not fit to hold office again.

During his speech he again referenced the Jan 6th riot as an insurrection. He said;

“A mob of insurrectionists stormed the Capitol, the very citadel of democracy. Imagine what you’d be thinking today if you had heard this morning before you got here that a group of a thousand people broke down the doors of the parliament of Great Britain, killed two police officers, smashed and ransacked the office of members of the British Parliament or any other, what would you think? What would you think?”

He said something similar back on March 3;

“Again, we’re not perfect — we’re not even close — but we never have walked away. And Vladimir Putin was counting on being able to split up the United States.

Look, how would you feel if you saw crowds storm and break down the doors of the British Parliament, kill five cops, injure 145 — or the German Bundestag, or the Italian Parliament? I think you’d wonder.

Well, that’s what the rest of the world saw. It’s not who we are. And now, we’re proving, under pressure, that we are not that country. We’re united.”

The problem is, no officers were killed during the riot. One U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick died the next day from a Stroke in his brainstem.

Several other officers committed suicide in the following weeks.

The people who died that day were Ashli Babbitt, there are reports of another woman being killed that day but some reports say she died in the vicinity of the Capitol riot due to a drug overdose and others say she was beaten to death.

The only confirmed death that day due to the Capitol riot was Babbitt’s and she was shot by a Capitol Police officer.

Can we just get him to stop spreading misinformation?

Oh and of course we had to hear about Beau dying of brain cancer again.

Yes Joe, we all know Beau died of brain cancer. You’ve repeated yourself on the matter again and again.

Biden said this according to Delaware Online;

“Biden recalled how after his son Beau died from brain cancer in 2015, he had no interest in running for president in 2016. He said the following year, when white supremacists marched through Charlottesville, Virginia, with torches, uttering Nazi phrases from decades earlier, he decided he needed to do something.”

Really? Does Biden or his handlers really expect anyone in America to swallow this line of horse shit?

He didn’t run in 2016 because Hillary was supposed to win. His handlers probably knew that against Trump and the mood of the country then he’d loose and split the Democratic ticket in the process.

America was tired of Biden and former President Obama. That is why he didn’t run in 2016. Hillary was supposed to win and give the country 12 years of loving Democratic Party rule.

Well Joe that’s not how it turned out.

Although had he run against Hillary and Trump, the odds are he wouldn’t be President now. Folks would have seen him for what he is then, and he’d be in a rest home eating pudding or ice cream.

Biden was in Uvalde, Texas, on Sunday. The claim is that he’s to be meeting with the families of the victims of the Robb Elementary School shooting.

I can hardly wait to read what he says to those grieving people.

I truly hope one or more of them verbally take Biden to task over the border, defunding police, and his attempt to make their tragedy, his political gain.

Since he’s going to be that close to the border, does anyone think he’ll actually see the disaster his policies have wrought?

Nah, I don’t think so either.