Nearly 1 in 5 Charged in Trump Riot Have Military History

Friday, January 22, 2021

Nearly 1 in 5 people charged in connection to the violent Jan. 6 raid on the U.S. Capitol has some form of a military history, according to an NPR analysis.

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Well, if figures that someone who's been trained to follow orders without question would be susceptible to Qanon and speak and understand dog-whistle. Wink, wink, say no more, say no more.

#1 | Posted by madscientist at 2021-01-22 05:26 AM | Reply

Immediate loss of military retirement and medical benefits should be an immediate consequence for these Seditionists.

In the past, Seditionists and Insurgents were stripped of all their possessions.

That would be a great start, and a potentially effective disincentive for the hate-based rabble, in their quest for the Big Boogaloo.

#2 | Posted by oldwhiskeysour at 2021-01-22 09:50 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Ok liberals, you better stop with your military bashing.

Ok, we get it, you won. You better not start trying to "punish" people. Your time is coming. You wont be in power forever.

#3 | Posted by boaz at 2021-01-22 10:57 AM | Reply | Funny: 5 | Newsworthy 1

Insurrectionist traitors. Are in the military. Please don't bash them!

#4 | Posted by hamburglar at 2021-01-22 11:11 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

You better not start trying to "punish" people.

Isn't that usually what happens to criminals that get caught?

#5 | Posted by REDIAL at 2021-01-22 11:18 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 6

Ok, we get it, you won. You better not start trying to "punish" people. Your time is coming. You wont be in power forever.

#3 | POSTED BY BOAZ

Oh whaaaa! And Blah blah blah. Are you threatening us? If you don't want to do the time then don't do the crime. Don't want to be "punished"? Don't commit sedition or insurrection. Your threats of continued terrorism don't scare us. Maybe I should "report" your threats. For your own safety.

If you participated in the insurrection or supported it in any way then you might as well turn yourself in and turn your cohorts in too if you want to reduce your "punishment ".

Because will be held accountable. The FBI is coming for you and I hope they throw the book at you and charge you with every crime you committed.

But meanwhile we are going for the rot at the top of the stinking fish and you get to watch us hold Trumpy accountable for his crimes.

Because no man is above the law.

#6 | Posted by donnerboy at 2021-01-22 11:35 AM | Reply

You better not start trying to "punish" people.

There's the champion of the "law and order" party telling people that laws don't apply to their criminals.

Anyone else not surprised by this after the last four years of Dear Leader openly committing crimes and being let off the hook?

#7 | Posted by Nixon at 2021-01-22 11:48 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 5

Gosh you mean people who are stupid enough to sign up to be a mercenary for exxon are also stupid enough to fall for trump and Q?

Shockerrrrrrr.

#8 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2021-01-22 12:19 PM | Reply

Ok, we get it, you won. You better not start trying to "punish" people. Your time is coming. You wont be in power forever.

#3 | Posted by boaz

What are you going to do? Storm the capitol?

If you don't want punishment, don't hurt people. If you hurt people, don't whine when you get punished snowflake.

#9 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2021-01-22 12:20 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Ever since the GOP took hypocrisy off the table, there will never be shame in double standards again.

It's called "strategy," ACB codified into Cannon

#10 | Posted by bocaink at 2021-01-22 12:21 PM | Reply

#3 Boaz, that's the exact attitude that is tearing our country apart. The President, whoever he/she might be has a #1 priority to protect this Federal Republic w/strong Democratic ways by any means necessary. That's what Lincoln faced. He had to keep the US together as a Federal Republic at all costs. Eight hundred thousand to one million people were killed because of this Constitutional edict. A President has no choice. If states start making waves about seceding from the US, expect a can of whoop-ass to be opened this country hasn't seen in 160 years.

And what is this thing about "Liberals?" I've read enough of far-right Republican posts to know exactly what their problem is. It's unsolvable. It's going to take generations to weed the problem out. The Statue of Liberty says: "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore." First it was only white Northern Europeans, then the Irish, then the Italians and Greeks, then the Eastern Europeans. Then, because of war, we took in Koreans, Vietnamese, Filipinos, and of course the Chinese and Japanese were allowed to come over to build the railroads. Whether any of us likes it or not, the United States is becoming a melting pot of people from all over the world. God help us if we ever elect a true Fascist as President along the likes of Mussolini or Hitler. That's what it sounds like you want. No debates, no committees, no trying t0 figure out the potential "ifs" in a piece of legislation. Just a dictatorial strong man. The 5 forms of government according to Socrates were in order of best to worst were: Aristocracy, Military Honor, Oligarchy/Plutocracy, Democracy, and Anarchy. He went on to say that all countries cycle through these five forms of government, usually generation after generation. We're primed and ready for Anarchy if we don't take care to step away from that ledge.

I've typed too much again. But I'm trying to learn to have a discussion without malice and simply use common sense and patience. So forgive me for another TL/DR post.

#11 | Posted by madscientist at 2021-01-22 12:35 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Everyone here knows this piece from Smedley Butler, but I'll reprint it:

"War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small 'inside' group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."

--Smedley Butler, USMC Major General, and two-time Medal of Honor recipient, Military Governor of Haiti

#12 | Posted by madscientist at 2021-01-22 12:48 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The military isn't enlisting our best people.

- paraphrasing a twice impeached, soon to be convicted draft dodger.

#13 | Posted by bored at 2021-01-22 01:05 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Boaz seems to demonstrate that he has n interest in maintaining a Constitutional Republic. He's only interested in pushing his view of conservatism and Trumpism. By force if necessary. Unfortunately he's right about one thing. I doubt if this is anywhere near finished.

#14 | Posted by Whatsleft at 2021-01-22 01:07 PM | Reply

After a while of studying serial killers I noticed a strange number of them served in the military.

It took me a while to realize that for many it's the last stop on their way to the bottom.

#15 | Posted by Tor at 2021-01-22 01:15 PM | Reply

I was going to respond to Boaz' idiotic post. Then I remembered it is Boaz. Gratuitously bashing a moron is mean.

#16 | Posted by moder8 at 2021-01-22 01:22 PM | Reply

Does Boaz really think noone should be punished for storming The Capitol?

Boaz, what's that oath you swore?

#17 | Posted by snoofy at 2021-01-22 01:25 PM | Reply

"There's the champion of the "law and order" party telling people that laws don't apply to their criminals."

No surprise; he's the same guy who believes in democracy...unless the majority of the voters choose the other side.

#18 | Posted by Danforth at 2021-01-22 01:34 PM | Reply

Wow one short message from Boaz and the plodders are all riled up. LOL
~ccp do the crime, do the time~ *swipe

#19 | Posted by phesterOBoyle at 2021-01-22 01:52 PM | Reply

"Ok, we get it, you won. You better not start trying to "punish" people. Your time is coming. You wont be in power forever.
#3 | Posted by boaz"

Yeah cuz Boaz would be fine if Democrats attempted a coup.

#20 | Posted by danni at 2021-01-22 01:58 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Ok liberals, you better stop with your military bashing.
Ok, we get it, you won. You better not start trying to "punish" people. Your time is coming. You wont be in power forever.
#3 | POSTED BY BOAZ

I didn't realize that oath you took to defend the Constitution had a clause that excludes Article III Section 3. You should inform your commanding officer that we should not punish the people involved in trying to overthrow the US Government who plotted the kidnapping and murder of members of congress and the vice president.

#21 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2021-01-22 02:10 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

BOAZ, why should the nation pay military benefits to those who attacked our Capitol, and raved about their intent to rape, torture, and murder our Elected Officials?

We all saw their message boards. You think we owe them something? We owe them nothing more than a well run prison to house and feed them, Bozo.

Let the Brown kids out, and replace that prison population with seditionists and insurrectionists.

We all witnessed the crimes. We all want to see the traitors do the time, BOAZ.

You should also, Mr. Plastic Patriot.

#22 | Posted by oldwhiskeysour at 2021-01-22 02:11 PM | Reply

Wow one short message from Boaz and the plodders are all riled up. LOL
~ccp do the crime, do the time~ *swipe

#19 | Posted by phesterOBoyle

That's because he's the only trumper dumb enough to still show his face around here. Of course he's also too mentally weak to mount a proper defense of his cult leader. So he just posts and runs away.

If you want some, you can have some too, but you'll run away just like he does.

#23 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2021-01-22 02:18 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

I understand why veterans would be a far greater matter of concern but I'm also curious why so many women were there.

#24 | Posted by Tor at 2021-01-22 02:26 PM | Reply

"... I'm also curious why so many women were there."

Mom groups and anti-vax groups on Facebook mostly.

#25 | Posted by Hagbard_Celine at 2021-01-22 02:37 PM | Reply

I understand why veterans would be a far greater matter of concern but I'm also curious why so many women were there.

#24 | Posted by Tor

Unevolved women are attracted to criminal males who seem above the law.

#26 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2021-01-22 02:44 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

"Mom groups and anti-vax groups on Facebook mostly."

Q-anon insanity also swept through the new age/yoga community this year.

The brave one who openly worked together to combat it likely wept every evening that they had started sounding like the authority figures they hated in their childhood.

#27 | Posted by Tor at 2021-01-22 02:46 PM | Reply

"Q-anon insanity also swept through the new age/yoga community this year."

That makes sense. An ex-girlfriend is a anti-vaxxer, home-schooling, yoga instructor in Montana. She's a big Q person. Had to block her on social media because she kept sending me private messages about satanic child molesters in government.

#28 | Posted by Hagbard_Celine at 2021-01-22 02:51 PM | Reply

Dodged a bullet on that one, HC!

Kudos.

#29 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2021-01-22 02:54 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

"If you want some, you can have some too, but you'll run away just like he does.
#23 | POSTED BY SPEAKSOFTLY"

Tamp your whiskey muscles down, nobody runs from the likes of you.
Some of us get tossed out because we can't get away with a fraction of the bs you hangdowns toss around.

#30 | Posted by phesterOBoyle at 2021-01-22 02:56 PM | Reply

#26 That reminds me of a Jimmy Stewart line that went something like:: Women want to be protected and secure, but want to be around something dangerous from time to time..

#31 | Posted by madscientist at 2021-01-22 03:01 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Tamp your whiskey muscles down, nobody runs from the likes of you.
Some of us get tossed out because we can't get away with a fraction of the bs you hangdowns toss around.

#30 | Posted by phesterOBoyle

You don't get tossed out. You run away when you're confronted by things like this:

Remember when trump told you he'd drain the swamp? How did you feel when he filled his white house with bankers and lobbyists? If that didn't make you feel like a sucker, what about when one of his last acts was removing restriction on his staff becoming lobbyists immediately?

#32 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2021-01-22 03:13 PM | Reply

#28

Unfortunately, just about all of Montana except Missoula is majority Qtards. The yoga instructor part makes me guess she's in Bozeman.

#33 | Posted by horstngraben at 2021-01-22 03:14 PM | Reply

"Women want to be protected and secure, but want to be around something dangerous from time to time.."

I can see why that would be built into their DNA.

#34 | Posted by Tor at 2021-01-22 03:14 PM | Reply

Peasant thump? Jayzuz man.

#35 | Posted by phesterOBoyle at 2021-01-22 03:14 PM | Reply

Tamp your whiskey muscles down, nobody runs from the likes of you.
Some of us get tossed out because we can't get away with a fraction of the bs you hangdowns toss around.

#30 | POSTED BY PHESTEROBOYLE

Another weeping victim card, eh Pusster?

Poor, poor, Pusster. Hims is awwl picked on, doncha see?

Sad...

#36 | Posted by oldwhiskeysour at 2021-01-22 03:36 PM | Reply

"#26 That reminds me of a Jimmy Stewart line that went something like:: Women want to be protected and secure, but want to be around something dangerous from time to time.."

^
Apt description of Boaz, Willowby, and the rest of the DR Emotional Support Weapon crybabies.

#37 | Posted by snoofy at 2021-01-22 03:41 PM | Reply

Told ya.

We need to extract ourselves from Afghanistan and Iraq so the losing side can process it. There is no cultural catharsis for the current spate of veterans to experience. No Rambo movies or fancy statues to the losing side.

Right now we have a military machine that hasn't won a war in 75 years and yet we boast of it being the best in the world. It's the perfect narcissist's playground where it's all boasting without the chops to prove it. Is it any surprise they would follow a loser who won't admit he lost?

#38 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2021-01-22 04:23 PM | Reply

"we have a military machine that hasn't won a war in 75 years"

Gulf war was won hands down by America.

You don't hear about large scale conflicts because we've gotten to the point those usually don't happen unless something goes wrong.

#39 | Posted by Tor at 2021-01-22 04:31 PM | Reply

"There is no cultural catharsis for the current spate of veterans to experience. No Rambo movies or fancy statues to the losing side."

You mean waving flags on Veteran's Day, Memorial Day, and the Fourth of July doesn't cure PTSD, drug addiction, and homelessness?

This is all Colin Kaepernick's fault!

#40 | Posted by snoofy at 2021-01-22 04:31 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

"Gulf war was won hands down by America."

Militarily yes, politically not so much.

What were the spoils of our victory?

Why'd we have to launch an Iraq War just a dozen years later... against the same guy...

#41 | Posted by snoofy at 2021-01-22 04:39 PM | Reply

Gulf war was won hands down by America.
You don't hear about large scale conflicts because we've gotten to the point those usually don't happen unless something goes wrong.
#39 | POSTED BY TOR AT 2021-01-22 04:31 PM | REPLY | FLAG:EYE ROLL

BS. Bushturd 1 deliberately pulled out leaving Saddam Hussein in power rather than put into the "quagmire"... his word "quagmire" that his son Turd 2 would later reinsert us into Iraq to get that man who tried to kill his daddy and continue the longest conflict in US history.

At best the Gulf war ended in a stalemate just like North Korea... only more humiliating because even after a decade crippling economic sanctions and a month of "Shock and Awe" Hussein deposed and 18 years of occupation and still no cigar in Iraq We've mucked around there for 3 decades killing millions so stop lying about it.

30 years!
Stop lying.

#42 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2021-01-22 04:45 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

I believe we're still in Iraq and Afghanistan to surround Iran, and to keep troops at the ready if Iran does anything stupid. Like commandeering one of our oil tankers, or God forbid, actually getting an atom bomb.

#43 | Posted by madscientist at 2021-01-22 05:03 PM | Reply

LOL stalemate?

nation building isn't required to win a war.

We kicked their --- across kuwait and ripped Iraq a new one before leaving.

You're moving the goal posts rather than admit America does win wars and the less dead the better.

#44 | Posted by Tor at 2021-01-22 05:05 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

You're moving the goal posts rather than admit America does win wars and the less dead the better.

#44 | POSTED BY TOR AT 2021-01-22 05:05 PM | REPLY | FLAG:PPPFFFTTTT

Nonsense Bushturd 1 admitted it. He didn't want to get us into a quagmire and put an end to the "Vietnamization" of our military. Bushturd 2 saw things differently... he told us it was going to be a long hard slog but we had to stay the course... which is why he couldn't get together a decent coalition.

Talk about moving the goalposts republicl0wns are the worst.

North Korea was the first to call our bluff.

#45 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2021-01-22 05:28 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

We
won
the
gulf
war.

The more you deny it the more foolish you look.

#46 | Posted by Tor at 2021-01-22 05:30 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

The US let Saddam invade Kuwait... no ----... so Kuwait hires a New York public relations agency to drum up a media campaign complete with false claims in order to garner public sympathy and pressure the US to make Saddam leave. Then all that Desert Storm bruhaha Saddam retreats... not surrenders... and so did the US.

Bushturd1 took advantage of the situation without a surrender.

We are still operating a continuum of that war... and now it's a circular firing squad where they keep us in a constant state of war and we buy oil and jet fuel we only need because we are at war as they decide which tribal squabble they want us to settle for them.

Stop deluding yourself. We are still at war because we didn't win... not only that... now we are fighting another war for poppy fields too... another circular firing squad. Right now the Taliban is killing an American every 17 minutes.

#47 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2021-01-22 05:52 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

You think that because people lied at it's start the war wasn't won???

I hear someone ran over a local cat in the 70's does that mean we didn't win as well?

27 February: President Bush announces that the Liberation of Kuwait has started and the cessation of hostilities will end that day at 04:00 GMT.
27 February: Coalition announces they have destroyed almost half of the all Iraqi divisions and 500,000 Iraqi troops has been taken as POWs.
28 February: President of the United States George H.W. Bush announces the ceasefire, declaring that Kuwait is free and the Iraqi Army is defeated.
28 February: Iraq announces that it will accept all UN resolutions.
1 March: A cease-fire plan is negotiated in Safwan, Iraq.
3 March: Iraq accepts the terms of a ceasefire from the U.N. Security Council.
11 April: Armistice is signed between the Coalition and Iraqi Army.

Do you not know what a Armistice is?

#48 | Posted by Tor at 2021-01-22 06:04 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

Bushturd 1 deliberately pulled out leaving Saddam Hussein in power rather than put into the "quagmire"... his word "quagmire"

Cheney in 1994 using that exact word regarding why we didn't invade Iraq at the end of the Gulf War:

www.youtube.com

Same ass**** did a 180, costing hundreds of thousands of lives and enriching himself and his fellow Halliburton buddies.

#49 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2021-01-22 06:35 PM | Reply

Oh, and before the 2002 invasion, Cheney had created offshore registrations for all but 1 of 64 Halliburton subsidiaries to a single office in the Cayman Islands, meaning they didn't pay U.S. taxes on the billions they made off of U.S. taxpayers.

#50 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2021-01-22 06:38 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Neither of your claims negate a massive coalition victory in the gulf war.

#51 | Posted by Tor at 2021-01-22 07:01 PM | Reply

"Dodged a bullet on that one, HC!"

Don't I know it. She was a lot of fun back in the day before the crazy kicked in. Her husband is a good guy. Was at least. I wonder if it's a family affliction with them or she's the only one. Feel bad for the kids though.

"The yoga instructor part makes me guess she's in Bozeman."

Bingo.

#52 | Posted by Hagbard_Celine at 2021-01-22 08:49 PM | Reply

"The yoga instructor part makes me guess she's in Bozeman."

I find that an odd comment. Not sure why. Did an overnight there a year or two back and something seemed a bit off.

Lot's of F-16s flitting about but could not find food. Was a strange vibe.

#53 | Posted by REDIAL at 2021-01-22 10:16 PM | Reply

I think I stayed in a motel in Bozeman when I was driving out of Yosemite. Definitely a weird vibe.

#54 | Posted by snoofy at 2021-01-22 11:18 PM | Reply

I'm sorry, Yellowstone. LOL that's a long way out of Yosemite.

#55 | Posted by snoofy at 2021-01-22 11:19 PM | Reply

I've mentioned before that I bartended at Yellowstone Lake in the Summer and Old Faithful in the winter for six years in the the 90s. Most of my friends that stuck around moved to Gardner, Livingston, Cooke City, Bozeman, and the places around there. Most working as tour guides, photographers, hospitality industry. A few made it to Missoula teaching at the university or working for the government. A few others migrated south to Jackson If I hadn't gotten together with my wife I'd still be out there. Of all those places Bozeman is the one that's changed the most, experiencing rapid growth. I was last there in 2016. If you say it had a weird vibe I'd say it's because Bozeman hasn't been able to settle in to a groove in decades. The town is a little schizo, with the constant rapid growth and a large transient population. Severity of the winters appeals to the weird folks too. If my wife divorces me and my daughter cuts ties that's where you'll find me, trying to turn Montana blue.

#56 | Posted by Hagbard_Celine at 2021-01-22 11:54 PM | Reply

#50 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY

I should have added:

A one room office shared with other companies also paying no U.S. taxes.

#57 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2021-01-23 01:20 AM | Reply

#56

Cooke City is one of my favorite places in the US, or rather close to two of my favorite places. It's just south of the Boulder River canyon that heads up towards Gig Timber, and a half-hour's drive from Sunlight Basin.

It may have changed, but Cooke City was always interesting because you had a strange mix of local-ishers and Park tourists from all over the world. The locals were all armed. Even if you left your gun in the car, you kept the holster on. The tourists out of the park always appeared a bit nervous and not sure of what to make of all it.

#58 | Posted by madbomber at 2021-01-23 07:59 AM | Reply

"I was last there in 2016. If you say it had a weird vibe I'd say it's because Bozeman hasn't been able to settle in to a groove in decades."

That's increasingly Montana in general.

I hung out with my dad a few weekends ago. He was telling me about a trip he took last fall up into Montana and Idaho in his plane. He wanted to go fly over a lot of the places we used to camp when I was a kid. He landed in Darby to spend the night. He wasn't aware of "Yellowstone."

#59 | Posted by madbomber at 2021-01-23 08:02 AM | Reply

#46 | Posted by Tor

We didn't win jack ----, you moron.

We made a fuggin' mess and then left.

#60 | Posted by Angrydad at 2021-01-23 09:17 AM | Reply

You keep telling yourself Angry Dad maybe you should call yourself angry half-wit because by any definition Iraq's military was decisively defeated in the Gulf War.

#61 | Posted by Tor at 2021-01-23 09:24 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

"He wasn't aware of "Yellowstone.""

So the lack of awareness is hereditary. Raw deal.

J/K

#62 | Posted by Hagbard_Celine at 2021-01-23 10:15 AM | Reply | Funny: 1 | Newsworthy 1

Ok, we get it, you won. You better not start trying to "punish" people. Your time is coming. You wont be in power forever.

#3 | POSTED BY BOAZ

GFY.

#63 | Posted by jpw at 2021-01-23 10:31 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

#61 | Posted by Tor

Yer funny and stupid.

We defeated a complete joke of an Iraqi military, destroyed the country's infrastructure, and left them to suffer with the mess.

We didn't "win" a goddam thing.

#64 | Posted by Angrydad at 2021-01-23 10:52 AM | Reply

I stopped by to see what Boaz posted. Did not disappoint.

#65 | Posted by SunTzuMeow at 2021-01-23 11:52 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

" We didn't "win" a goddam thing."

Sure we did. We won responsibility for a million dead Iraqi children. A bill that years later both Democrats and Republicans would argue was totally worth it. American exceptionalism at its finest.

#66 | Posted by Hagbard_Celine at 2021-01-23 12:07 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Angry child no matter how hard you scream America was Victorious in the Gulf War.

It did end with Iraq coming to the table and signing paperwork declaring the conflict over and they lost the entire country they had invaded and then some.

Get a life..you too Bad Kitty.

#67 | Posted by Tor at 2021-01-23 01:08 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

What's with this dead kids goalpost moving crap?

#68 | Posted by Tor at 2021-01-23 01:09 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

The million dead kids is part of our win, Tor.

#69 | Posted by snoofy at 2021-01-23 01:28 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Speakloudly,

"If you don't want punishment, don't hurt people. If you hurt people, don't whine when you get punished snowflake."

Punishment is one thing.

Let the punishment fit the crime.

However, liberals have shown they are more inclined to inflict revenge.

Biden's first round of executive orders show a deliberate intent on provoking conservatives.

I would guess Biden's hoping they will act out so liberals can use their power to enact revenge.

#70 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2021-01-23 01:32 PM | Reply | Funny: 3

Then it's lucky the search for a vice president was headed by Cheney himself.

" We didn't "win" a goddam thing."
Sure we did. We won responsibility for a million dead Iraqi children. A bill that years later both Democrats and Republicans would argue was totally worth it. American exceptionalism at its finest.
#66 | POSTED BY HAGBARD_CELINE AT 2021-01-23 12:07 PM

Military do whatever they are told to.

Command does whatever they are paid to.

#71 | Posted by redlightrobot at 2021-01-23 01:39 PM | Reply

" Biden's first round of executive orders show a deliberate intent on provoking conservatives."

Simply ridiculous. I don't have enough alts to flag this post funny to come close to giving it its due.

#72 | Posted by Hagbard_Celine at 2021-01-23 01:49 PM | Reply

We kicked their --- across kuwait and ripped Iraq a new one before leaving.
You're moving the goal posts rather than admit America does win wars and the less dead the better.

#44 | POSTED BY TOR

And the grateful SAWEDIS rewarded us with 9/11.
Gulf 1 was a draw,like Korea. That's the best Republican Presidents can do.
Gulf2 ended up with handing Iraq to Iran. Again, aiding Iran is what Republican Presidents do-Reagan armed the mad ayatollahs,Bush1 defanged Iraq and Bush2 handed them Iraq.

The sad part of the whole Gulf 1 and 2 wars is Bush1 told Saddam it was okay to invade Kuwait-he just forgot to tell him to stick to taking the "black diamond" oilfields.

#73 | Posted by northguy3 at 2021-01-23 01:50 PM | Reply

"Biden's first round of executive orders show a deliberate intent on provoking conservatives."

Give us some examples please.

#74 | Posted by snoofy at 2021-01-23 01:50 PM | Reply

Biden's first round of executive orders show a deliberate intent on provoking conservatives.

As compared to tRump's entire legacy of doing whatever just to stick it to the "libs"? Yes Biden is erasing the last 4 years - as any right thinking person would do.Petty much what happened in Germany in 1945.

#75 | Posted by northguy3 at 2021-01-23 01:52 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

It did end with Iraq coming to the table and signing paperwork declaring the conflict over and they lost the entire country they had invaded and then some.

Sounds like Nixon and tRump's Peace with Honorable Mentions.

#76 | Posted by northguy3 at 2021-01-23 01:56 PM | Reply

Don't Whataboutism on Biden's EOs.
I want to know which ones troll the cons.

#77 | Posted by snoofy at 2021-01-23 01:57 PM | Reply

America was Victorious in the Gulf War.

I guess if you consider spending our blood and treasure to defend a couple of brutal monarchies supporting religious fanaticism and winning an attack on 9/11 a"victory".

#78 | Posted by northguy3 at 2021-01-23 01:59 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

I think you're trying to be funny but you're moving the goalposts.

I'm just going to pretend like you didn't mean to do that.

#79 | Posted by Tor at 2021-01-23 02:01 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

That's one massive victory.

#80 | Posted by Tor at 2021-01-23 02:02 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

she kept sending me private messages about satanic child molesters in government.

You probably heard enough about Dirty Donny and his family from other sources.

#81 | Posted by northguy3 at 2021-01-23 02:02 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

I want to know which ones troll the cons.

Probably the ones that reversed the ones Lewzer did to reverse President Obama's.

#82 | Posted by REDIAL at 2021-01-23 02:03 PM | Reply

TOR, 500,000 POWs or did they just go home?

#83 | Posted by bruceaz at 2021-01-23 02:18 PM | Reply

Pows.

#84 | Posted by Tor at 2021-01-23 02:21 PM | Reply

Snoofy,

Not all conservatives think alike or are conservative for the same reasons.

Conservatives vary in what is important to them.

Different types of conservatives will strongly dislike one or more orders while other conservatives will dislike different ones.

All in all, it looks like Biden successfully found a good mix that is sure to stick in the craw of most conservatives for one reason other another.

That's about as much as I'm going to say. I'm not interested in supporting my opinion.

It is what it is.

Bravo Biden...."working towards a united America"

#85 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2021-01-23 03:02 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

However, liberals have shown they are more inclined to inflict revenge.
Biden's first round of executive orders show a deliberate intent on provoking conservatives.
I would guess Biden's hoping they will act out so liberals can use their power to enact revenge.
#70 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

Ummm no moron.

It was predicted that governing by executive order would result in this sort of back and forth.

This whining about "revenge" and "provoking conservatives" is just the right being the spineless ------- we know them to be. Unity isn't "do what we want or we react violently" you f---ed up moron.

#86 | Posted by jpw at 2021-01-23 03:12 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Posted by BillJohnson

This bonehead's stupidity is just friggin' appalling.

"I'm not interested in supporting my opinion."

LOL!!!

#87 | Posted by Angrydad at 2021-01-23 03:12 PM | Reply

Bravo Biden...."working towards a united America"

#85 | POSTED BY BILLJOHNSON

---- you.

#88 | Posted by jpw at 2021-01-23 03:16 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

- I'm not interested in supporting my opinion.
It is what it is.

Unsupportable? Yep.

#89 | Posted by Corky at 2021-01-23 03:29 PM | Reply

I'm not interested in supporting my opinion.

Because you can't.

But. I get what you're saying. Conservatives do not know why they hate Biden. They just do.

They've proven themselves to be sore losers.

Attacking the capitol building in hopes of overturning an election.

That's who today's conservatives are. A bunch of traitors to the nation.

Biden's greatest failure will be his attempts to work with Republicans.

#90 | Posted by ClownShack at 2021-01-23 03:36 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

I hope Biden doesn't go for the okie-doke like Obama did on the Bushturd2 tax compromise. Slowed the recovery down.

#91 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2021-01-23 04:38 PM | Reply

"All in all, it looks like Biden successfully found a good mix that is sure to stick in the craw of most conservatives for one reason other another.
That's about as much as I'm going to say. I'm not interested in supporting my opinion."

Well then.

You're not worth listening to, BillJohnson.

#92 | Posted by snoofy at 2021-01-23 05:11 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

Five out of five are incompetents.

#93 | Posted by Jaspar at 2021-01-23 10:13 PM | Reply

"Ok, we get it, you won. You better not start trying to "punish" people. Your time is coming. You wont be in power forever." - #3 | Posted by boaz at 2021-01-22 10:57 AM

What a difference a day makes:

November 7, 2018: Democrats Take House

"...you wont win another election for 100 years." - #30 | Posted by boaz at 2018-08-16 03:17 PM
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"Republicans will win for the next 20 generations." - #2 | Posted by boaz at 2018-07-21 11:01 PM
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"And you liberal, progressive loonies wont win another election for a generation." - #4 | Posted by boaz at 2018-02-28 07:40 AM
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"You are the reason the democrats wont win another election for 20 years, even with candidates like Trump." - #10 | Posted by boaz at 2017-08-31 03:08 PM
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"And exactly why democrats will be losing for the next 20 years." - #1 | Posted by boaz at 2017-09-04 10:04 AM
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"You people are delusional if you think you are going to get the house." - #3 | Posted by boaz at 2017-10-15 08:38 PM
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"And it's this extremist behavior that's going to ensure the Democrats cant get a dog catcher elected for generations to come." - #27 | Posted by boaz at 2018-07-16 12:25 PM

I wonder how Democratic candidates for dog catcher fared last week.

#94 | Posted by Hans at 2021-01-24 07:09 PM | Reply

#94 | POSTED BY HANS

BOAZ' interpretation of eating crow is about as useless as a screen door on a submarine.

#95 | Posted by rstybeach11 at 2021-01-24 07:16 PM | Reply

#94

Hans. You're not around enough. You're the Stucknut of the retort.

#96 | Posted by willowby at 2021-01-24 07:31 PM | Reply