2 hours ago, Reptoid Overlords said:

I think i remember reading that she was a member of QAnon. 

My thought was more about "what now" after they got in there.  Even if they accomplished their "mission" and there were several dead politicians scattered around, then what?  Occupy the Capitol building?

I lived in the Portland area when the same type of people "occupied" the Malheur Wildlife Refuge buildings.  All they did was camp out there for a little over a month, but accomplished nothing.  Same type of scenario, use their guns and take over a tiny spot on the face of the globe.  For what?

The wild west isn't wild anymore.  That stuff doesn't work now.

https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2017/02/oregon_standoff_timeline_41_da.html

 I think they're plan was the same as Trumps. No real plan but If you won't let me win, I'll fix it so no one can play the game.

Well, those morons at the BLM did accomplish a couple of things, both negative: trashing environmentally sensitive protected areas, and encouraging other freeloaders who don't want to pay their leasing fees for running stock on government land. It flabbergasts me that the feds didn't pursue the case against them more energetically. 

It wouldn't have been that difficult to oust them. Take a lesson from history. Lay siege to the compound. No one in or out. Cut off water and food. Three days after the water runs out their focus would change from their selfish Narcissism to I need water. No shots fired.

Edited January 18, 20214 yr by Mark Maras

20 minutes ago, Mark Maras said:

It wouldn't have been that difficult to oust them. Take a lesson from history. Lay siege to the compound. No one in or out. Cut off water and food. Three days after the water runs out their focus would change from their selfish Narcissism to I need water. No shots fired.

Agreed. Biggest mistake that the BLM made was not to treat this seriously. I would bet that with the change of atmosphere over the past four years, it would be handled differently today.

On 1/16/2021 at 6:38 PM, Pilgrim said:

Go, Pack Go!  Next stop, NFC Championship game!

Brady - Rodgers match up. Cannot wait.

The dental floss tycoon had it pretty close.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/jan/18/almost-30-of-covid-patients-in-england-re-admitted-to-hospital-after-discharge-study

Nearly a third of people who were discharged from hospitals in England after being treated for Covid-19 were readmitted within five months – and almost one in eight died, a study suggests.

3 hours ago, Reptoid Overlords said:

The dental floss tycoon had it pretty close.

Frank Zappa for President.

People are excited about the vaccine rollout but overall things are still getting not getting better yet.  A few weeks ago only Arizona was red in this States map.  For anyone planning that big celebration party.   Super Bowl weekend will probably start another wave, with variants included.

My daily PSA and dose of happy sunshine news. 

https://covidactnow.org/?s=1575515

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

 

Actually, cases are getting better.  But it looks like the risk is spreading across the country again.  Not so localized.

https://covidactnow.org/?s=1575515

One commentator made a point with which I agree. 

The most important aspect of trends is not the number of infections, but the the number of hospitalizations and deaths.  Being sick with CO-19 is no picnic, and it may have long term effects, but being dead is worse.

If the measures being taken reduce the severity of infections and result in fewer deaths, we are winning.