August 23, 2023
"A stolen traffic sign that someone had painted over with the slogan 'Stop the Steal 2020' and the image of a grinning skull with Donald Trump’s hair, smoking a cigarette..."
"... had an undeniable flair, even if its iconography was hard to parse. More poignant was a strip of blue fabric with the word 'pence' in white letters that had seemingly been torn—in anger? sorrow?—from a 'trump pence' flag. A white poster board was stencilled with... 'time to cross the rubicon.'... [Photographs of] graffiti... such as 'power to the people!' and 'where are you thomas jefferson?!,' along with—easy to parse—an S.S. symbol.... [A] photojournalist, Madeleine Kelly, donated the protective vest she was wearing when she was kidney-punched by a female protester who shouted, 'That bitch is photographing us!' When Kelly returned home, she found a slit in the vest; she’d been the victim of an attempted stabbing.
For the record, no one at the museum seems much interested in acquiring the furry Viking-style headpiece famously worn by Jacob Chansley, the so-called QAnon Shaman (not that he’s offering it)...."
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Great. Now do all the various signs from the George Floyd/BLM summer of love…
Meanwhile, the original signed slates of fake Republican electors will also be on display.
Directly across the Mall from the Smithsonian, at the E. Barrett Prettyman U.S. Courthouse. Prosecution Exhibits P-113, P-114, P-115, P-116 and P-117. That display opens in mid-2024.
Nice of the FBI to loan out their collection.
Leftists are going to mark Jan 6th 2020 along with August 28, 1955 as days of memorial, where moving speeches are made and eternal meaning found. How long will they do this? Forever, that's how long.
"Great. Now do all the various signs from the George Floyd/BLM summer of love…"
I know the Smithsonian gathered artifacts of the 2011 Wisconsin uprising, which was left wing, and also of the "occupy" movement.
And here: "Smithsonian to collect signs, other materials from George Floyd protests."
I've been watching the quality of this "scholarship" from down the road at the Library of Congress for near 20 years. Note the framing to indict Republicans and avoid associating Wilson with Democrats.
Trust nothing at the LoC or Smithsonian
A Letter to President Woodrow Wilson
"In 1913 President Woodrow Wilson introduced segregation into federal government agencies. Black employees were separated from other workers in offices, restrooms, and cafeterias. Some were also downgraded; others discharged on fictitious grounds. Oswald Garrison Villard met privately with President Wilson to recommend the appointment of a National Race Commission to counter the new discriminatory policies. When President Wilson refused, the NAACP released this open letter of protest to the press. Segregation in the federal government persisted through the next three Republican administrations."
Bookmark this item: //www.loc.gov/exhibits/naacp/founding-and-early-years.html#obj20
The irony of coining “Stop the Steel” as the slogan for Donald Trump’s attempt to steal the election does merit a place in the museum.
“ along with—easy to parse—an S.S. symbol”
Easy to parse because the “election” was a fascist power grab? Nah….
"Smithsonian to collect signs, other materials from George Floyd protests."
"Protests" v. "Insurrection" and, now, "Uprising." The modern Left has the means to use speech to shape opinion on a scale unseen in U.S. history.
Ann Althouse said...
"I know the Smithsonian gathered artifacts of the 2011 Wisconsin uprising, which was left wing, and also of the "occupy" movement."
Fair enough, though I wonder about how fairly the materials from various protests will be presented.
I happened to visit Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (one of the greatest buildings in the country and worth a visit if you pass through New Haven) on a day when it was featuring an exhibit of materials collected from various anti-Trump protests. Just steps away from a Gutenberg Bible and a stunning Audubon folio, it looked like someone had emptied a garbage dumpster into the display cases. Of course, the labels and explanatory placards exalted the protests and their place in the American democratic tradition. I doubt that the curators would be so generous with materials from conservative protests.
Leftists are going to mark Jan 6th 2020 along with August 28, 1955 as days of memorial, where moving speeches are made and eternal meaning found.
So are you implying that Emmett Till got what he deserved and we shouldn't memorialize, or try to learn anything from, this horrific crime and the miscarriage of justice that let the murderers be found not guilty?
I know the Smithsonian gathered artifacts of the 2011 Wisconsin uprising
Does anybody else see a feedback loop??.....and the curators are in charge.
I assumed that they would at least have a photograph of the artifacts at the link.
Alas.....none!!
has this been ever done? switching prosecutors/special counsel/attorneys look-into-it-ers?
to quell questions of double standards : use this brilliant loop-hole hack - why not switch ?
- plea-bargain-deal-soft-serve David Weiss to prosecute Donald Trump and
- super meanie Jack Smith into re-probing Hunter Biden?
OT: Prigozhin didn't shoot down his own plane!!
Bruce Handy was editing Spy in the eighties, where Donald was pegged as the 'short-fingered vulgarian'. Handy made quite a bit of sales/money dissing Trump. Still at it.
The handmade tales that will forever progress in infamy.
There sure is a lot of incuriousness about what actually happened that day, given that it was an attempt to overthrow the government of the United States, and all. I guess there was not a lot of inquiry into who actually burned down the Reichstag, either, given that the Nazis had already found a convenient scapegoat, and were able to use the events to shut down freedom of assembly, freedom of speech, and the rights of the accused.
How many people here knew that the Gestapo, along with the complete abrogation of the rights of the accused, rose out of a burning down of the parliament building in Berlin by person or persons still unknown to this day. These kinds of events have been used throughout history for tyrants to consolidate power, and by "tyrants," I mean the people keeping protesters in jail for over a year without trial, in deplorable conditions, and who are trying to put their political opponents in prison for engaging in political speech.
Any chance there is an exhibit of Hillary's destroyed servers or the fake Russian Collusion dossier?
After all those were much more relevant to the decline of our republic than the FBI-instigated riot on January 6.
Oh brother
I'm very skeptical of this attempted stabbing.
Remember 1876, when dual slates of electors were sent to the House, and as per the explicit wording of the Constitution, the House acted as judge, and decided the winner of the presidential election?
I guess we should dig up the bodies and hang them for 'insurrection,' along with the bodies of whoever wrote those words into the Constitution.
No Freder, he wasn’t. Are you too stupid to read plain sentences?
If we can’t attack the Capitol, is this really America anymore? ~ MAGA
A historian's job is to describe what happened; when it happened; and why it happened. Whether what happened is good or bad is a moralist's question, and tends to vary with fashion.
along with—easy to parse—an S.S. symbol....
Very easy to parse - false flag, likely by the feds but possibly the BLM/Antifa contingent.
""Insurrectionabilia at the Smithsonian/In 2026, we will celebrate the nation’s semiquincentennial, and also the fifth anniversary of the January 6th uprising. Curators diligently preserved detritus from the Capitol attack, including photos of a wooden gallows" (The New Yorker)."
So was J/6 an insurrection or an uprising?
Historians will want to know how Democrats stole 2020. All the evidence erased, yet we’re supposed to believe everyone voted for ‘that guy’? With the distance and objectivity come clarity.
"So are you implying that Emmett Till got what he deserved and we shouldn't memorialize, or try to learn anything from, this horrific crime and the miscarriage of justice that let the murderers be found not guilty?"
Certainly he should not have been tortured and murdered, but I have never doubted the assertion that he hit on the woman, which today, would at the very least get him cancelled. If we're going to look at history through the lens of modern mores, then we have to look through that lens at every facet of the past, not just at what's politically expedient.
Rich: "If we can’t attack the Capitol, is this really America anymore? ~ MAGA"
Thats about on par with all the other fake quotes the lefties/LLR-lefties have been generating for several decades now.
“curators diligently preserved”… oh, I bet they did.
Fuck these people!
donald: "No Freder, he wasn’t. Are you too stupid to read plain sentences?"
Field Marshall Freder's comments are even funnier in context when you recall the entire left shifting their assessment of who the bad guy is in "To Kill A Mockingbird" when the lefties needed the "Believe All Women" schtick to stick against Trump.
Spoiler: In New Soviet Democratical Land Atticus Finch is the bad guy for defending Tom Robinson.
A historian's job is to describe what happened; when it happened; and why it happened.
One of these things is not like the others. Do you see that?
"How many people here knew that the Gestapo, along with the complete abrogation of the rights of the accused, rose out of a burning down of the parliament building in Berlin by person or persons still unknown to this day. These kinds of events have been used throughout history for tyrants to consolidate power, and by "tyrants," I mean the people keeping protesters in jail for over a year without trial, in deplorable conditions, and who are trying to put their political opponents in prison for engaging in political speech."
Actually we know who probably set the Reichstag fire. A Dutch anarchist, who was mentally unstable.It's not like Europe didn't have violent communists at the time, either.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinus_van_der_Lubbe
I think J6 was a riot.
I also think Feds sorta pushed it much like the Whitmer attack.
OTOH, some real people also went bananas...much like we let people let off steam after George Floyd and Covid lockdowns...but for the right.
We probably underestimate covid effect. Iran had riots. China had riots.
Funny how all reports simultaneously mislabeled the Jan. 6 event as an insurrection. Almost as if it had all been pre-planned. It did have a Clintonesque flair to it.
Pelosi's parting gift to America?
Leftists are going to mark Jan 6th 2020 along with August 28, 1955 as days of memorial, where moving speeches are made and eternal meaning found.
"So are you implying that Emmett Till got what he deserved"
No, but this is one lynching of some 6,500 so why does it get all the attention and why is it especially relevant 70 years after the fact? A small and diminishing fraction of our population, who were adults in 1955, are alive today.
"and we shouldn't memorialize, or try to learn anything from, this horrific crime and the miscarriage of justice that let the murderers be found not guilty?"
If we annually memorialized and tried to learn from every horrific crime in the last 70 years, that would fill every waking hour of every day. Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman's murderer walked free much more recently than the killers of Emmett Till, yet where is the effort to memorialize, or try to learn anything from, this horrific crime and the miscarriage of justice that let the murderer be found not guilty?
How about the cell phone Ray Epps used to text "I orchestrated it"?
And
"Bruce Handy was editing Spy in the eighties, where Donald was pegged as the 'short-fingered vulgarian'. Handy made quite a bit of sales/money dissing Trump. Still at it."
Why not? Trump remains the short-fingered vulgarian he was then and always will be.
There is a two-tier justice system: one for the rich and one for the poor. But if you try to overturn an election, you "find out".
Narayanan said...
" to quell questions of double standards : use this brilliant loop-hole hack - why not switch ?
- plea-bargain-deal-soft-serve David Weiss to prosecute Donald Trump and
- super meanie Jack Smith into re-probing Hunter Biden?"
Dems should just appoint John Durham to prosecute Hunter. That will insure that he will never be convicted of anything.
"Curators diligently preserved detritus from the Capitol attack..."
The police allowing people into the Capitol and actually escorting some of them around is an attack?
“Dems should just appoint John Durham to prosecute Hunter. That will insure that he will never be convicted of anything.”
Funny!
Birches: The alleged stabber somehow managed to attempt to stab only one person, who just happened to be wearing a protective vest. And the alleged stabber was apparently the only person who attempted to stab anybody during the riot and chaos that day.
Sure, I believe it.
Did the photojournalist take any photos of the woman who kidney punched her and attempted to stab her? Did she report her to the police for investigation and prosecution?
Not that I really need any of that. The vest is good enough for me. Bad people, those "insurrectionists."
"A historian's job is to describe what happened; when it happened; and why it happened. Whether what happened is good or bad is a moralist's question, and tends to vary with fashion."
Yes, the question of "fashion" touches on the fallacy or bias known as "presentism."
That said, a historian cannot describe what happened, or when and why it happened, if s/he doesn't have access to (1) primary sources (too often classified and, if released, redacted to the point of illegibility) and (2) objective journalism, the so-called first draft of history.
Regarding the second trove of material, as some wag said, "If the news is fake, what does that say about the history?"
Yeah, head in the shitehole of leftist thinking Rich, historians who label Jan6 an "insurrection" are propagandists, fellating the Democrats and the Legacy Media --- but I repeat myself.
I usually don't take people seriously who claim "global warming" is killing us, that white supremacy is the root of all the horrors of the world, that capitalize black and get offended if the word "negro" is not eliminated in books set in certain time frames -- but people that claim, without evidence (how do you like that, ignorant libs?), that the protests of Jan 6 were actually an "insurrection" have much more in mind that changing the vocabulary of the electorate and the low-information public. They are full out supporting the efforts to criminalize free speech, let the ghetto and soi boy population terrorize, loot and burn our cities, and trying to put the greatest president of my lifetime in jail for questioning what OBVIOUSLY was a fraudulent, stolen election. Everyone of them should hang, like the commies they are. The trouble is there is no opposition party now: the eGOP are ball-less thieves of taxpayer funds and I see DAs and leftist judges laughing at the patriots who try to assert their constitutional rights. I'm glad I don't have much time left here on Earth but I'd like to see civil unrest the likes of which would blow away the protests of the 60s. And when these traitors finally start to go down, I hope their final words will be a testament to St. George of Floyd: "I can't breathe!" as the noose tightens around their necks before the drop. I have nothing to lose unlike family men so "Give me liberty, or give me death!"
MarcusB. THEOLDMANRANTSON
Perhaps the J6 Committee should have asked these folks if they were interested in preserving the evidence the Committee ordered destroyed shortly after investigating the worst attack on “our democracy” in history?
From the article...
"[A] photojournalist, Madeleine Kelly, donated the protective vest she was wearing when she was kidney-punched by a female protester who shouted, 'That bitch is photographing us!' When Kelly returned home, she found a slit in the vest; she’d been the victim of an attempted stabbing."
I agree with Birches and boatbuilder that the story sounds suspicious and needs followup.
But even if the story is true, the M.O. sounds like Antifa, not MAGA.
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