This Is Not An Accident

Monday 8 February 2021 - Filed under Authoritarianism + Dumbassery + election + Government + Journalism + Terrorism + War on Terror

More than a month after the alleged InSuRrEcTiOn, featuring the totally super scary Buffalo Man, and we still don’t have basic information about the supposed Attack On The Capitol™️. Byron York at the Washington Examiner:

Information about the actions, or alleged actions, of individual rioters is becoming public in bits and pieces as prosecutors file charges against them. Some facts about the injuries sustained by police are also available in filings in those cases and in statements from the Capitol Police union. And anyone can get a partial picture of what happened through dozens of videos on the internet. But that is just stitching together information from here and there. Capitol Police officials, whose officers were the main force that tried to keep the rioters from breaching the Capitol, have not made any sort of comprehensive statement about what happened.

And this absence of information that would normally be almost instantly available hasn’t gone unnoticed. Chris Haynes, an anchor at MSNBC made a similar observation on Twitter.

And yet despite weeks having passed, we still have virtually no verifiable information about what happened. We can’t even get an accurate count of the numbers at the protest. What, exactly, caused the death of those who died? We know the “hit over the head with a fire extinguisher” story was nothing but wishful thinking bullshit on the part of Democrats, but we don’t know what actually happened. What sorts of physical damage were actually caused? Do we have anything more than vapid, exasperated “re-tellings” of “lived experience” from those who weren’t even in the capitol building when it happened?

Apparently not anything that fits the narrative enough to put out, or it would have been put out, which is a key tell that the narrative is bullshit.

And not solidifying the story with verifiable facts is not an accident. It’s the whole fucking point. “Truth outweighs fact”, apparently, in which truth is some function of “remembered trauma” or facts mixed with feelings. It’s no coincidence that we have virtually no verifiable information on the riot at the capitol. This obfuscation is by design. This way the event itself becomes the canvas, and they can project whatever narrative they wish on it without worry that their story can be contradicted or questioned. If there is no “official” story with facts, the narrative cannot be challenged, and that’s what matters. What actually happened, be damned.

For instance, the “fact” is that during the riot AOC was in a completely separate building across and down the street where not a single protestor entered, and was never in any danger for even a single second. The “truth” according to the narrative is that AOC was almost murdered, and they’re sticking to it, despite admitting the fact that she wasn’t in the capitol and was never in any danger. Not only is the narrative glossing over facts, things that actually did or did not happen, but the narrative is emphasizing “truths” that NEVER happened.

This sort of misinformation is exactly the sort of underhanded shit Democrats pulled throughout the election season while rigging fortifying the election, and the very sort that they claim undermines reality and wrongly steeps the proles in fiction when those on the right engage in it. But they’re somehow above that, or something.

The narrative unsupported by fact is bullshit. Always has been bullshit, and always will be bullshit.

2021-02-08  »  madlibertarianguy