We’re Allowed to Be Here
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2024
- There are a few names closely associated with the aftermath of January 6. Donald Trump, of course. The “QAnon Shaman,” for obvious reasons. And Ashli Babbitt. She was the only person shot by a Capitol Police officer that day, after she climbed through a broken glass panel. Almost immediately, rioters who witnessed her shooting recognized its symbolism. Myths began to spring up about her life. Trump began to mention her at rallies, and raised suspicion around the circumstances of her death.
Two years later, this mythologizing crashed into our mundane domestic reality when we, two journalists who are also partners, went on a dog walk and got into a verbal altercation with some neighbors. We soon realized that one of these neighbors was Babbitt’s mother. Her name is Micki Witthoeft, and she moved to Washington, D.C., in an attempt to restore her daughter’s reputation, and to help rewrite the history of January 6.
In this new six-part podcast series (www.theatlanti...) , we get to know Witthoeft and her mission. She is many things to many people-“Mama Micki” to the January 6 perpetrators, mother of a dead domestic terrorist to others. But to us, she’s something else; she’s our neighbor.
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Justice for J6! Yes absolutely! Send them all to jail for long terms, that would be Justice for J6!
yeah life without parole for them all!
Who owns this house and who is funding Micki and the others to live there? I don't imagine these people are holding down 9-5 jobs in DC.
Yep. Regular people don't have the means to just camp out every night anywhere. Follow the money. Probably the same CHUDs who pulled the "drive gas-guzzling cars to protest gas prices" stunt around 95 & 495.
Patrick Byrne pays for the house. They live off donations from their livestream viewers and a phony Chinese church with no actual location based out of Round Hill VA. Proud Boy con artist Randy Ireland helped them get started but stole over $10k from them on his way out. Their funding isn't what it once was. Let's see if the authors of this puff piece get into their funding, but I'm doubtful.
how do three women with no jobs rent a house in DC?
I remember when an auto factory worker in the USA was arrested for Nazi war crimes. None of his assimilation negated his acts during war. Never Again!
I recall US army officer, War Criminal, and Mass murderer William Calley served 3 years under house arrest.
I hope local authorities are well aware of this militia safe house for the post-/election season.
Listening to Mickey's lungs? She won't be a neighbor much longer😉
Don't get me wrong, the Jan 6 attackers are very lucky that I was not responsible for security that day. I have no problem with admitting that nobody would have made it out of that building alive. It is one thing to commit a crime, its a totally different thing to think you can attach my nation from the inside and think you should be provided due process. I would have made sure that anyone who even attempted coming up the steps never made if off the grass without a hole in their body of some type. That aside, I feel for the family of Ashley and anyone who would have lost a family member that day, I understand the feelings of loyalty to those you love even when they do what could be considered wrong. I do not have a lot of sympathy for those incarcerated as again I consider them lucky but again, that aside, I do feel for the families of those caught in limbo waiting for that loved one to get discharged or meet their final disposition and even when those who are grieving may seem deplorable themselves, we have to be civil and try to set the best example of what it is to respect them as people and try to empathize with them because if all we do is give them a hard edge, we give them a reason to hold that grief which will turn to anger.
Never during the Civil War did the flag of the Confederacy fly at the Capitol. Not until January 6th did that occur. While the force was thankfully small, disorganized and impotent, it was nonetheless a planned and sponsored attack aimed at killing our democracy. Other western democracies would not have treated the insurrectionists- and their congressional supporters- nearly so lightly. It's frankly insane, looking back, that congresspeople reconvened just hours later with insurrectionist supporters, inciters and sympathizers among them. Many political careers would have permanently ended that day, in other democracies. And historically, the congress of Lincoln and Johnson wouldn't have put up with it for a moment.
Everytime I watch that video of Ashli whateverhernamewas holding her neck I literally lol. 😂
This is such a fascinating story. Humanizing, yes, but not sympathizing, which is the crucial balance to strike in a story like this. Micki seems first and foremost animated as a mother who lost her daughter, which is an immensely powerful animating force. She's a radical who's also depoliticized. Lines like, "Well maybe they kill babies and drink their blood. Maybe not. I don't know what they're capable of." are what you get when the world has stopped making sense to you, and it clearly has for Micki as it has for millions of Americans. As you underscore, this is deeply dangerous. Even her project to- understandably- venerate her daughter is primarily the project of someone who needs something to keep herself going, but it's also an anti-democratic revisionist project with potentially real ramifications.
Sounds like Justice Alito's wife? Listening to find out 😂
They are all the same amount of hateful and miserable
Confederacy is back
This podcast nicely illustrates that one's political and ideological foes are also people that otherwise may not be that different from oneself. Kudos to the reporter for having the intellectual maturity to realize and admit that her instinctive actions and words were not quite right, and for apologizing for them.
what is the thesis here, exactly?
I think it's more of a "Curb Your Enthusiasm" vibe story. Daily life is full of small contradiction, ambivalence, and amusement, even though the context around it is serious.
@@QuantumWalnut thank you for responding -- That is a great comparison, and makes sense to me!
that even our enemies - criminals - have a backstory and are not the caricatures that we make them out to be. that we will remain divided until we take the time to get to know each other as people with thoughts, feelings, hopes, and tragedies.
Both sides ... don't be Doomer Boomers. 😂
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