"In turning Babbitt into a martyr, Trump and his followers are creating their own-stabbed-in-the-back myth of the events January 6. The day is now being recast as innocent patriots, arrested and killed for spurious reasons. Babbitt is being mythologized as a figure like Horst Wessel, the young stormtrooper killed by communists in 1930 whose death served as a rallying cry for Nazis. "
The cop shot a Republican and that's horrifying. A cop shooting a 'Democrat' be it a black dude in Minnesota or a white kid working on his truck in Arkansas - well, isn't that what we pay the police for? To murder the uppity disrespectful people?
Overthrowing the government was the point and the cop helped prevent that.
"For better or worse, the interpretative battle over January 6 is likely to play out in the 2022 midterms. One might prefer, as I do, for Democrats to run on the economy. But Trump seems set on vindicating his actions and his followers."
Trump's looking uphill at indictments rolling his way - so he emerged to try and rally the troops to attack the government again. Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema have been buying time for them to regroup and attempt another assault. The argument is the same old argument - is the country a haven for rich white power freaks using their control of the South to dominate the government and society or is it a normal democratic country located in the 21st century?
The discourse tends to focus on the petit bourgeoisie (people 'out there') and overlooks the temptations for your average narcissistic billionaire (people 'in here').
She was a person with family and friends and their loss should not be politically tossed around! It is hard to read how heartless some comments are. The tragedy is using a person’s death to ramp up a cause!
What exactly is the conspiracy I'm offering? I'm saying that Babbitt is being turned into a martyr (and provided quotes and links to back up that). And I'm drawing out the likely political consequences of casting her as a martyr.
Were you all triggered that day? Did you even watch it live? So silly and stupid. Waste of time. Nothing wrong with being a hack, but to think this is something, this Liz Cheney love, that will help Dems! Delusional!
Um, I've been pretty explicitly critical of the idea that Liz Cheney is worth celebrating and that this will help the Democrats (in fact in this very piece I said that I'd prefer Dems to run on economy). I'll confess I do think it's bad for a president to incite a riot and even worse for that to be normalized.
I should add that I find it frustrating to argue with someone who boasts about not reading anything more than the title and who imputes on me things I don't believe and have never said.
Dude's trollin' you, Jeet. Not used to a comment section are ya? (As opposed to twitter replies.) As soon as the dude said 'you think I read beyond the title?' it's an auto-nuke.
"In turning Babbitt into a martyr, Trump and his followers are creating their own-stabbed-in-the-back myth of the events January 6. The day is now being recast as innocent patriots, arrested and killed for spurious reasons. Babbitt is being mythologized as a figure like Horst Wessel, the young stormtrooper killed by communists in 1930 whose death served as a rallying cry for Nazis. "
The cop shot a Republican and that's horrifying. A cop shooting a 'Democrat' be it a black dude in Minnesota or a white kid working on his truck in Arkansas - well, isn't that what we pay the police for? To murder the uppity disrespectful people?
Overthrowing the government was the point and the cop helped prevent that.
"For better or worse, the interpretative battle over January 6 is likely to play out in the 2022 midterms. One might prefer, as I do, for Democrats to run on the economy. But Trump seems set on vindicating his actions and his followers."
Trump's looking uphill at indictments rolling his way - so he emerged to try and rally the troops to attack the government again. Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema have been buying time for them to regroup and attempt another assault. The argument is the same old argument - is the country a haven for rich white power freaks using their control of the South to dominate the government and society or is it a normal democratic country located in the 21st century?
The discourse tends to focus on the petit bourgeoisie (people 'out there') and overlooks the temptations for your average narcissistic billionaire (people 'in here').
elm
see also John McAfee
She was a person with family and friends and their loss should not be politically tossed around! It is hard to read how heartless some comments are. The tragedy is using a person’s death to ramp up a cause!
She died doing a politically motivated thing. Don’t give me this “should not be politically tossed around” bs.
This is some serious conspiracy terrain that you are footing. Is this all you think about?
What exactly is the conspiracy I'm offering? I'm saying that Babbitt is being turned into a martyr (and provided quotes and links to back up that). And I'm drawing out the likely political consequences of casting her as a martyr.
You think I read beyond the title?
Micah Sifry too, same crap yesterday.
Were you all triggered that day? Did you even watch it live? So silly and stupid. Waste of time. Nothing wrong with being a hack, but to think this is something, this Liz Cheney love, that will help Dems! Delusional!
Um, I've been pretty explicitly critical of the idea that Liz Cheney is worth celebrating and that this will help the Democrats (in fact in this very piece I said that I'd prefer Dems to run on economy). I'll confess I do think it's bad for a president to incite a riot and even worse for that to be normalized.
I should add that I find it frustrating to argue with someone who boasts about not reading anything more than the title and who imputes on me things I don't believe and have never said.
Welcome to the Internet!
Dude's trollin' you, Jeet. Not used to a comment section are ya? (As opposed to twitter replies.) As soon as the dude said 'you think I read beyond the title?' it's an auto-nuke.
elm
insert miniature mushroom cloud