They got a lucky break. Yesterday they were just two German clerks. Today they're the "Honored Dead".
From the AP:
The U.S. government is offering military funeral honors for Ashli Babbitt, the rioter who was killed at 35 by an officer in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Babbitt was a U.S. Air Force veteran from California who was shot dead wearing a Trump campaign flag wrapped around her shoulders while attempting to climb through the broken window of a barricaded door leading to the Speaker’s Lobby inside the Capitol.
Offering military honors to one of the Capitol rioters is part of President Donald Trump’s attempts to rewrite that chapter after the 2020 election as a patriotic stand, given he still denies he lost that election. Babbitt has gained martyr status among Republicans, and the Trump administration agreed to pay just under $5 million to settle a wrongful-death lawsuit that her family filed over her shooting.
In other traitor-reputation-rehab news, from The New York Times:
Pentagon Is Reinstalling Portrait of Confederate General at West Point Library
The Pentagon is putting back up a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee at the military academy, as the Trump administration seeks to restore honors for American figures who fought to preserve slavery.
The Pentagon is restoring a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee, which includes a slave guiding the Confederate general’s horse in the background, to the West Point library three years after a congressionally mandated commission ordered it removed, officials said.
The 20-foot-tall painting, which hung at the United States Military Academy for 70 years, was taken down in response to a 2020 law that stripped the names of Confederate leaders from military bases.
That legislation also created a commission to come up with new base names. In 2022, the commission ordered West Point to take down all displays that “commemorate or memorialize the Confederacy.” A few weeks later, the portrait of General Lee with his slave in the background was placed in storage.
It was not clear how West Point could return General Lee’s portrait to the library without violating the law, which emerged from the protests that followed George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police officers in 2020.
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It's all the MAGAGOP of fascists have left since Donald Trump, who did not changed the republican party but instead revealed what it has long been - An observation by ex-R Stuart Stephens. Racism. That's it. Fomenting racist fear-mongering and white grievance-pandering turned up to 11.
Lee Atwater was far more sophisticated at it (and his version wasn't the least bit sophisticated in reality). Nowadays with Donald atop the ticket, the GOP has spiraled down to a MAGA level of stupid and incompetence that today's Donor Class "lure" of racism, with vague promises of white supremacy to the GOP voter base has zero sophistication. Zero subtlety. Hence, zero allure, down to a downright negative/repulsive factor to all but the most rabid of R-voters.
Perhaps the latest Dem win in Iowa, and several 22 point special election reversals before that is something that the msm / legacy media maybe ought to take an interest in reporting - And Why (?) (hints; again Racism and fascism of the stupid kind) Stupid fascism. Stupid Racism)
The msm could produce news reports telling of the Stupid fascism of the MAGA GOP. And the Stupid stupid racism of the GOP, and why the republican politicians deserve and should lose in a massive defeat come midterms. But they probably won't do any of that kind of reporting. Even if it's true.
Or that Ashli Babbett, was of the rioters attempting to break in and overthrow the U.S. government and in doing so the bloodthirsty MAGA mob had set of a gallows to "hang Mike Pence", the VP of the U.S. Or that Ashley had left the Capital police little choice but to use lethal force to protect the government officials that the MAGA Mob were screeching that they need to "kill Nancy Pelosi" and regarding the Capital Police the Mob was recording squealing "KILL THEM!! Kill THEM ALL!!" - and the MAGA who squealed "Kill Them ALL!" threat is now a part of Donald Trump's DoJ - Jared Wise - Yes Donald hired the goon
This is the worst timeline
And people will still try to tell you that Trump isn't racist.
Lee Atwater was far more sophisticated at it (and his version wasn't the least bit sophisticated in reality). Nowadays with Donald atop the ticket, the GOP has spiraled down to a MAGA level of stupid and incompetence that today's Donor Class "lure" of racism, with vague promises of white supremacy to the GOP voter base has zero sophistication. Zero subtlety. Hence, zero allure, down to a downright negative/repulsive factor to all but the most rabid of R-voters.
"As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence."
-- Frank Wilhoit, 2018
But they probably won't do any of that kind of reporting. Even if it's true.
"But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in reality. And reality has a well-known liberal bias."
-- Stephen Colbert in character as Stephen Colbert, 2006
This is the worst timeline
"This is a fact."
-- Tenel Ka Chume Ta Djo, 23 ABY
They actually HAD a portrait of that traitor??? And a 20-foot tall one at that? Even in 1952 there was no one in a position of authority to say, "Waitaminute...."
Imagine being a person of color at West Point today and witnessing that. Good, luck, Commandant!
Lee had long ago been turned into an American hero. The issue isn't what they should have thought in 1952, the issue is that only in 2020 did they do something about it.
The cowardly incels who pushed Babbit through that glass hole in the door thought they understood—like Babbit did—that no one would have the guts to shoot a "patriot." You can bet her last earthly thought was, "That asshole Trump fucked me over . . . "
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