Roundup
(1) Here’s the most ludicrous January 6th prosecution of them all. Not the worst, but the most ludicrous, and bad enough:
Antionne DeShaun Brodnax, who goes by the stage name “Bugzie the Don,” was charged with multiple misdemeanor counts after posing on top of a SWAT vehicle at the Capitol on the day of the now infamous events. He used the photo as the cover of his album, “The Capital.”…
Brodnax says he was in the area that day to shoot a video. As the rally intensified, the independent rapper decided to head towards the action in hopes of capturing video and photos…
The Justice Department asked for a sentencing enhancement that would have led to at least a 21-month sentence, asserting the artist deleted videos and photos from his phone after agreeing to forward them to federal authorities. They also pointed to Brodnax’s previous criminal history, one that includes charges for manufacturing a controlled substance, felony firearm possession, and probation violation. Federal authorities also claim he presented a litany of “disciplinary” issues while in custody.
Brodnax was sentenced to five months in prison and ordered to pay a $70 special assessment and $500 in restitution.
He’s probably sorry he didn’t burn down a building during the Floyd Antifa riots; he would have been A-okay.
The people in charge of these Jan 6 prosecutions are petty little tyrants drunk with vindictive power. They’re just toying with people.
(2) Pelosi had a major role in the inadequate security for January 6th.
(3) I haven’t yet covered the Biden Purple Heart tall tale, but here it is. Quite a whopper. And although the “fact-checking” sites all agree that it isn’t true, they are so delicate about the way they say it. Here’s a typical treatment [emphasis mine]:
U.S. President Joe Biden is an inveterate storyteller, but more than once has misstated the facts during the course of his stories and speeches, a pattern for which he has been criticized…
There are a number of inaccuracies in this story.
Good old Joe that great storyteller, just getting a few little details wrong. Like the entire story. Oh, but he did get one thing right: he had an uncle who served in the military during WWII.
(4) Here’s an article on rising “food insecurity” (how I hate this Newspeak!) due to inflation. I have no doubt it’s happening. I have enough money for food, but although I shop in the least expensive grocery store and have cut way back on big budget items like meat (I wasn’t a huge meat eater to begin with), my grocery bills are about twice what they used to be not long ago.
Twice.
(5) I recently got a clever scam email. It masqueraded as a note of Merry Christmas wishes, and came from the person’s real email address. But it was from a relative I pretty much never hear from, who didn’t greet me by name, and signed with her formal first name rather than the nickname she goes by. It also had a couple of odd misspellings uncharacteristic of this person, and the sentence right after the Christmas greetings was one that asked if I could do her a favor. I think the scam in this case involved having somehow gotten access to the email address, and then if the person targeted replied to the initial note, to follow up with a new email that contained some sort of suspicious link to click on, or a request for money. Needless to say, I didn’t reply.
On the topic of J6 (with endlessly mendacious coverage from the MSM as well as a likely indictment, in the future, of Trump), one might contrast the unspeakable conditions of numerous defendants in DC’s “Gitmo” (worse, by all accounts, than the Cuban home of Muslim terrorists) with the leniency just accorded to SBF, who will be enjoying the comforts of his rather nice parental abode near Stanford, having been granted a “personal recognizance bond” with almost no collateral and guaranteed by four persons (apparently including the signatures of two unnamed persons). The initial coverage in the MSM of such a deal to such a fraudster was nothing but a distraction from the truth.
He’s probably sorry he didn’t burn down a building during the Floyd Antifa riots; he would have been A-okay.
Exactly. A sad state of affairs.
(5) I just got an letter from CMS Medicare. They informed me that they lost ALL of my personal information to hackers including banking and routing numbers, if I gave that to them. I was still writing them paper checks, but they could still have recorded the routing number into their system. I’ll be getting my second new Medicare ID number soon. Thanks guys.
}}}} Here’s an article on rising “food insecurity”
The Food Banks were using that term back in 2016, which is why I stopped donating to them (prior to that, I used to blow about 50 bucks, usually @ BOGO prices, and drop it in my workplace collection bins). The problem is, it’s pretty hard to argue that people are in danger of “going hungry” when childhood obesity is a serious issue.
If read carefully between the weasel words (I did not read the article, mind you, I’ve just gotten so disgusted with them), there is always a way for them to be lying while “not exactly lying”.
An example of this is a commercial with a retardedly insane statement such as “1 in 4 children go to bed at night not knowing where their next meal will come from”.
Yeah, how many kids in America, in the last 50-odd years, ACTUALLY HAVE EVER WORRIED about “where their next meal will come from”? I’m betting it’s about 75-80% or better. That’s mommy and daddy’s job. So — probably 80% of them “go to bed not knowing where their next meal is coming from”, FFS.
I am serious. My own financial background is lower-middle class at the best, and I didn’t worry a whit about suchlike even 60 years ago.
OTOH, my mother, growing up in Iowa end of Depression and WWII told the story (this is probably ca. 1945-48) of a schoolmate whose house she stayed at — breakfast was pancakes with last night’s beef gravy. YUCK (that was her wording). She ate it to be polite, but did not stay over at that schoolmate’s house ever again. And THAT is what true “food insecurity” is, when you don’t even dare waste *gravy*.
Could this have changed in the last 5y? Maybe, but more than likely, there are plenty of safety net programs for the poor.
As usual, it’s the middle class that winds up tightening its belt in times like these. And they aren’t going hungry yet, just buying cheaper and lower grades of stuff — less meat and eggs, for example, more cereals.
And this is why they switched from “going hungry” to “food insecurity”. The former has a real, legitimate, and hard meaning. The latter is like “Climate Change”, it means whatever the eph they want it to mean.
Re 3): The NY Post is tougher on Biden’s fabrications, listing other whoppers going back to his plagiarism of term papers and speeches during his law school days. Biden also falsely claimed in 1987 that he “graduated with three degrees from college,” was named “the outstanding student in the political science department,” “went to law school on a full academic scholarship — the only one in my class to have a full academic scholarship” and ”ended up in the top half” of his class. None of those claims were true.
Photo of Frank Biden’s grave marker at the link: https://nypost.com/2022/12/16/biden-claims-his-uncle-frank-won-purple-heart-but-story-doesnt-add-up/
Brandon’s latest lie particularly infuriates me because my dad was in the Battle of the Bulge, serving in a very tough sector along the northern shoulder of the Bulge. He wasn’t wounded, thankfully, so wasn’t eligible for a Purple Heart, but he served honorably and well, and he and his comrades in arms deserve better than to be used as the backdrop for another Biden tall tale.
Speaking of Dem fairy tales, does anyone else remember John Kerry’s legendary Cambodian magic hat? According to a 2003 article in the WaPo, “There’s a secret compartment in Kerry’s briefcase. He carries the black attaché everywhere. Asked about it on several occasions, Kerry brushed it aside. Finally, trapped in an interview, he exhaled and clicked open his case. ‘Who told you?’ he demanded as he reached inside. ‘My friends don’t know about this.’ The hat was a little mildewy. The green camouflage was fading, the seams fraying. ‘My good luck hat,’ Kerry said, happy to see it. ‘Given to me by a CIA guy as we went in for a special mission in Cambodia.'”
https://beldar.blogs.com/beldarblog/2004/08/john_kerrys_cam.html
Re 4) About “food insecurity”: My grocery bills have doubled too since 2021, and I shop as carefully as I can. And it isn’t just human food: the cost of cat food is way up too, though I’m not about to skimp on the quality of the kitties’ meals. I was reminded of news items from just three years ago about older adults on fixed incomes eating cat food to survive because of the high cost of their medications:
https://www.abc4.com/news/some-seniors-on-social-security-eat-cat-food-to-survive/
Once again, I hope all of Neo’s readers are coping with Joe-flation as well as with Winter Storm Elliott. Here’s hoping 2023 brings some relief.
The petty little tyrants couldn’t get away with it if our vile judiciary weren’t complicit.
Obamas grandfather was said to have liberated auschwitz if memory served
How about the veteran who was prosecuted for a lego set of the capitol
Sadly beldar went orange man mad its a terrible degenerative disease of the mind
One of the links to broadnaxs charge, contained the lie about sicknick that was in may!
RELATED news: The latest Trillion or two omnibus 4,000 page spending monstrosity includes over $200 million more for Cap Hill Gestapo to round up more J6 “Insurrectionists.”
Never mind that out of 28,000 screened by the SS at Trump’s speech confiscated like 270 knives and similar assorted non- “tools of Insurrection” like gas masks and bear repellant and similar. No guns.
WRT to Biden’s tall tale, aka lie, one fact that is never amplified, and I have been unable to find, is whether “Joey’s” uncle was even at the Battle of the Bulge, or in an army combat unit, for that matter. The various sites that list WWII vets have come up empty. Interestingly, I have no trouble finding my Dad’s service record; or that of an older cousin who was in the 8th Air Force. (Off topic, but I found the story of my cousin’s B-17, by its name (Winnie C), being hit by bombs dropped from a plane above and ahead in the formation, with the resultant loss of all hands. This little tragedy–within the giant tragedy—happened shortly after he rotated home.)
As far as Jan 6th is concerned, I hope that someday justice comes to everyone who has used the power of government to abuse peaceful protestors; to the man who killed Ashli Babbitt; and to everyone who uses the word “insurrection” in speech or print. It is a faint hope on all accounts.
A certain percentage of the left’s leadership has to want a real insurrection and is doing all they can to foment one.
The more astute and crafty of the left’s leadership realize that once Digital IDs are universal, a Social Credit System fully
imposed and a Digital Currency System replaces cash and all other forms of monetary exchange, tyranny can rule unchallenged. Troublemakers will be easily identified with their assets seized and sources of income frozen. Trudeau and the trucker protesters was a trail run.
Stealing a formulation from Instapundit: I’m so old I can remember when Biden’s type of storytelling, misstating of facts, and frequent inaccuracies would simply be called by their real name – lies.
}}} A certain percentage of the left’s leadership has to want a real insurrection and is doing all they can to foment one.
That’s because they think they’ll win it.
Worse part of the monstrosity Omnibill is the DOJ Marxists are getting over $200M to hunt down Jan6 Ralliers. Thousand citizens will be destroyed in legal wrangling.
Sorry, but not buying your reasonable explanations of GOP or anything else, Neo.
This show is over.
This is a replay of Russia c. 1905, with the wildly wealthy Whites sending their coddled, intellectually truncated puppies to Reds radical schools, to have their children return and kill them.
It isn’t just sort-of similar, it is exactly the same.
Show’s over.
That is what is happening here.
Brodnax may be the only J6 defendant who had a criminal record. Every other person I have read about was a law abiding taxpaying citizen. You know, they were deplorables
Regarding the email scam, I hope you notified your relative. Some of these scams are quite sophisticated and the perps highly intelligent. I’ve seen this with professional colleagues, where their Yahoo or gmail accounts are hacked. The first thing the perps do is change the password to lock the owner out. Then they read through the older emails and learn as much as they can about the victim’s past and associates. I had one send me some very reasonable and believable information, with (of course) a request for emergency cash. It even mimicked his style of email communication, but not perfectly. I followed up with a couple of technical questions about past collaborations while I contacted the victim’s office – we had worked together many times, worldwide. It turned out (a) he didn’t know his Yahoo account had been hacked and (b) instead of being stuck offshore with a family emergency back home requiring immediate cash, he was in actually Houston, teaching a course.
LenNeal read more than my fair share of Russian history
Absolutely agree, we are reliving the Russian Revolution
Well the peoples will were much like one of them killed alexander 2nd lenins brother was peoples will, the social revolutionaries were similar minded
LenNeal:
If you don’t buy any of Neo’s reasonable explainations why do you read what neo writes?
Re: Food costs, we have shopped at Costco as soon as it opened here (Anchorage AK). When shopping, a close estimate of how much your groceries would be was to count the items and multiply by ten. Now we multiply by twenty. It’s much worse at the “regular” grocery stores.
Belys st petersburg did have a social revol whose father was a oprichnik ironically he discovered his superior worked for the okrana there was some minor member of the weathermen whose father was a lbj official of some note
ObloodyHell on December 23, 2022 at 5:28 pm
Exactly. Nailed it.
The lies are scary. They slander Americans. All lefty talking points are about slandering Americans. It’s how lefties feel good about themselves — lying about others.
I first heard the “1 in 4 kids in our area go to bed hungry” years ago. The moment you stop and think about it you know it’s a monstrous lie. I remember thinking that if it were true, every preacher, every news outlet, every politician and SJW in the area would be making it the focus of their daily lives. It’s all we would ever hear about.
And when you look into it, it’s standard lefty lie SOP. Today, food insecurity is the weasel word. They simply assume that every person living in a household below the bizarrely derived govt stat known as the poverty line is automatically considered at risk. You can live in a 10 million dollar mansion with 50 million in the bank and still qualify as below the poverty line.
These lies have a political impact. Some day we need to start caring about the truth. I doubt it will be in my lifetime.
Ironically, the only person on captured on video aggressively inciting people to enter the Capitol on January 6, 2021, somehow escapes attention in the J6 Committee Final Report.
The one person on film telling people to go into the Capitol (multiple times) disappears from FBI list and is not even mentioned in the 845 page final report.
How odd. Will we ever get an explanation?
Lots of the folks rioting in protest over Floyd’s death were arrested and imprisoned. If you have to lie to make your point A) you have no point B) you’re just a liar
https://apnews.com/article/records-rebut-claims-jan-6-rioters-55adf4d46aff57b91af2fdd3345dace8
Paul J:
Before you call a person a liar you should do three things you didn’t do here. The first is to pay attention to what that person actually wrote. The second is to understand the point that person was making. And the third is to get your facts straight.
I never said that no one was arrested who burned things down in the Floyd riots. Of course some were. But it was very few compared to how many caused property destruction and damage. So it is a very good bet that Brodnax almost certainly would have gone free had he burned property during the Floyd riots. The numbers in that article you linked are ludicrously low compared to the number of people who should have been arrested, charged, and convicted of arson and other property destruction all around the country.
In contrast, even the most minor offenders on January 6th – or this poor guy I wrote about in the post, who did virtually nothing – were chased down, arrested, often imprisoned for long periods of time without bail, and some of them were convicted of offenses that are virtually never charged otherwise.
I also could have contrasted the treatment of the January 6th protesters with the treatment given to those who rioted in protest of Trump’s inauguration. Over two hundred of the latter group were arrested and six police officers were injured. But many of them couldn’t be convicted because “most protesters wore similar black clothing and covered their faces.” They had thrown rocks and bottles at police, but their disguises were very highly coordinated, apparently. The final 39 Trump inauguration rioters who had been arrested had their charges dropped also.
You can read more about those rioters here, including the fact that almost all of them initially arrested were also released quickly (some the next day) without having to post any bail. A big contrast with many of the January 6th protesters.
The point I was making is that it is ironic that Brodnax – who didn’t damage anything or hurt anyone, and wasn’t even part of the protests – was sentenced to 5 months when most of those who did so much more damage in other riots went free.
In that article you linked, it mentions that 120 defendants participating in the Floyd riots received some sort of federal sentences. That is a very very small number compared to the destruction involved. For example, in Minneapolis/StPaul alone, in just a 3-day riot period after Floyd’s death, 164 buildings were set on fire, and one death occurred.
Repercussions for most of these arsonists? Very few or none:
That’s just a small portion of what happened around the US. The George Floyd riots affected 140 cities in 20 states and caused 2 billion dollars worth of damage. It is apparent that the number of people successfully prosecuted and found guilty for this extraordinary amount of destruction was small compared to the number of offenders who never saw any consequences.
The Jan 6 riot was a few hours and the damage sustained in the entire thing totaled approximately 2 and three quarter million dollars (not billion as in the Floyd riots) – and that includes expenses incurred by the Capitol police in addition to any property damage. No officer died, despite early reports, and most of the people arrested and being tried did no property damage and were not violent. Many of them didn’t even enter the building. And yet the DOJ has pursued and arrested 900 people in nearly 50 states and DC. There are other numbers at that link.
114 Capitol Police reported sustaining some sort of injury on January 6th. In contrast, about 2,000 officers were injured in the Floyd riots between May 25 and July 31 alone. During that period there were many peaceful protests, but there were 574 that were not peaceful and in fact were declared riots with violence and other criminal acts.
And it went on and on in Portland, Oregon:
Also:
Ultimately, although many people were initially arrested all around the country, a great many who might have been prosecuted were not:
Huge numbers were simply let off, despite easily proven guilt and plenty of damage to both people and property.
“Pelosi…”
For whatever reason, the “Pelosi” link is broken.
Here’s the link:
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/house-gop-locates-emails-texts-showing-pelosi-office-directly-involved-failed
Anyway, let’s try again…
“Pelosi…”
Compare and contrast:
Here’s the Zerohedge “version” similar to, or even based on, the above:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/pelosis-office-was-directly-involved-failed-jan-6-security-texts-and-emails-reveal
…to be compared with:
“Jan 6 Committee Unveils 845-Page Report Damning Trump & His Supporters One Last Time”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/jan-6-committee-releases-full-report-probe-capitol-breach
The writing is on the wall…for anyone bothering to see it…
(Has been for some time now…)
Demanding accountability, honesty and responsibility will soon indicate “beyond the shadow of a doubt” that one is a Deplorable Trumpist Insurrectionist…i.e., if it doesn’t already….
“‘Twitter Files’ expose coordination with CIA, State Department, Pentagon”—
https://justthenews.com/government/federal-agencies/twitter-files-show-coordination-cia-state-department-pentagon
Turley: “When the FBI attacks its critics as ‘conspiracy theorists,’ it’s time to reform the bureau”—
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3787443-when-the-fbi-attacks-its-critics-as-conspiracy-theorists-its-time-to-reform-the-bureau/
H/T Powerline blog.