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=== American Violence ===
"Trump's rioters openly planned attack on Capitol for weeks, but FBI and other federal agencies did little" @ Boing Boing
Buzzfeed News has a good article about federal law enforcement's astonishing lack of preparation for the violent Capitol insurrection yesterday that resulted in an evacuation of the building and a halt to the election certification. The rioters have been planning the attack for weeks on public websites:
On forums like TheDonald, a niche website formed after Reddit banned the subreddit of the same name, they promised violence against lawmakers, police, and journalists if Congress did not reject the results of the 2020 election.
In one interaction four days ago, a person on TheDonald asked, "What if Congress ignores the evidence?""Storm the Capitol," one replied, which received more than 500 upvotes."You're fucking right we do," another said.
Why was D.C. teeming with National Guard troops in advance of relatively peaceful Black Lives Matter protests, but nowhere to been seen when white nationalist violence broke out yesterday?
"Extremists have for weeks repeatedly expressed their intentions to attend the January 6 protests, and unabashedly voiced their desire for chaos and violence online," said Jared Holt, a visiting research fellow with DFRLab. "What we've witnessed is the manifestation of that violent online rhetoric into real-life danger."
"The earliest call we got on our radar for today specifically was a militia movement chatroom talking about being 'ready for blood' if things didn't start changing for Trump," Holt said.
Law enforcement, however, appeared unprepared for the scale of the violence on Wednesday. Capitol police were quickly overwhelmed, dramatically outnumbered by Trump supporters.
While thousands of National Guard troops were posted throughout Washington, DC, during Black Lives Matter protests, the DC National Guard was not deployed Wednesday until well after the Capitol's perimeters had been breached.
Boing Boing:
https://boingboing.net/2021/01/07/trumps-rioters-openly-planned-attack-on-capitol-for-weeks-but-fbi-and-other-federal-agencies-did-little.html
BuzzFeed:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/trump-rioters-planned-online
#AmericanViolence


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Revision as of 14:43, 7 January 2021

Online diary of Karl Jones for Thursday January 7, 2021.

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American Violence

"Trump's rioters openly planned attack on Capitol for weeks, but FBI and other federal agencies did little" @ Boing Boing

Buzzfeed News has a good article about federal law enforcement's astonishing lack of preparation for the violent Capitol insurrection yesterday that resulted in an evacuation of the building and a halt to the election certification. The rioters have been planning the attack for weeks on public websites:

On forums like TheDonald, a niche website formed after Reddit banned the subreddit of the same name, they promised violence against lawmakers, police, and journalists if Congress did not reject the results of the 2020 election.

In one interaction four days ago, a person on TheDonald asked, "What if Congress ignores the evidence?""Storm the Capitol," one replied, which received more than 500 upvotes."You're fucking right we do," another said.

Why was D.C. teeming with National Guard troops in advance of relatively peaceful Black Lives Matter protests, but nowhere to been seen when white nationalist violence broke out yesterday?

"Extremists have for weeks repeatedly expressed their intentions to attend the January 6 protests, and unabashedly voiced their desire for chaos and violence online," said Jared Holt, a visiting research fellow with DFRLab. "What we've witnessed is the manifestation of that violent online rhetoric into real-life danger."

"The earliest call we got on our radar for today specifically was a militia movement chatroom talking about being 'ready for blood' if things didn't start changing for Trump," Holt said.

Law enforcement, however, appeared unprepared for the scale of the violence on Wednesday. Capitol police were quickly overwhelmed, dramatically outnumbered by Trump supporters.

While thousands of National Guard troops were posted throughout Washington, DC, during Black Lives Matter protests, the DC National Guard was not deployed Wednesday until well after the Capitol's perimeters had been breached.

Boing Boing:

https://boingboing.net/2021/01/07/trumps-rioters-openly-planned-attack-on-capitol-for-weeks-but-fbi-and-other-federal-agencies-did-little.html

BuzzFeed:

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/janelytvynenko/trump-rioters-planned-online

  1. AmericanViolence

Boxing Pajamas

Boxing Pajamas

No Farm simile

No Farm, No Howl

No Form, No Feral

Lecherostomy

Lecherostomy

Like a fish

"Gut that pig like a fish."

Egon Rhodomunde (attributed, TO_DO ; investigate)

Paleomax

Paleomax transdimensional news service

Luminous Urine Wayfinder

Luminous Urine Wayfinder

Rugged Mutton

Rugged Mutton

Apex parasite

Apex parasite

Crabs on the Kraken

Oh,
The crabs on the Kraken and the iron harpoon
Captain Ahab to the Devil will schoon ... [TO_DO - translation?]

Crabs on the Kraken

"Crabs on the Kraken, shrimp on the barbie — whatever it takes." —Fell Swoop

Cheese Too Flat for Me Polka

Oh,
Idempotent ewe cadaver
Cheese too flat for me
Cheese too flat for me
Cheese too flat for me
Oh, idempotent ewe cadaver
Cheese too flat for me
Cheese — too flat — for —me.

Cheese Too Flat for Me Polka

Delusional elite

Trump is hugely delusional, from his rich narcissist boyhood through, his narcissist career (during which he posed as wealthy while accruing global debts, presumably organized crime money both foreign and domestic), until he his the Presidency.

Then the Presidency — notoriously a job which wears down the strongest of men — broke his physical and mental health.

It matter what Trump is because he is President.

What Rudy is, is chump change lost and promptly forgotten.

Hashtag: #DonaldTrumpIsASickOldMan

Aberrant this and that

Parthenogenesis is to Lysistrata

Parthenogenesis is to Lysistrata

as

x is to sociobiology.

Solve for x.

Source: Journal of Aberrant Sociobiology

Parthenogenesis is to Lysistrata

Alligator Caddy

Alligator Caddy

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