May You Live in Interesting Times – 8/30/2023

Oh, boo hoo.  She fucked around and found out, as the kids say today.  What did she expect, trying to break into a barricaded area with a mob behind her shouting “hang Mike Pence!”  and “Kill Nancy Pelosi!”?
 
Let’s try some common sense here, shall we?  If this woman and hundreds of people behind her were trying to bust into your house, wouldn’t you have tried to shoot her silly ass?  I certainly would have and if you say you wouldn’t, then you are lying.  I would have had not an ounce of remorse.
 
Every action comes with a consequence.  Every single one.  If you scratch an itch, the itch is gone.  Be part of a violent mob attempting to break into a secure area of Congress with the intent to hang the Vice President?  Someone is going to get shot.  If you were expecting some sort of a Kumbaya moment, then you are a gullible idiot — there is no softer way of putting it.
 
Why was this outcome surprising to you people? Did you suddenly NOT believe in “Standing your Ground”?
 
I wish y’all would at least be somewhat consistent.
 

While Byrd was officially cleared of wrongdoing in Babbitt’s death, a use-of-force expert has condemned his actions.

 
The use-of-force expert has an opinion.  One opinion.  The board that cleared Byrd didn’t buy that opinion, and instead, relied on other opinions, from other experts.  It’s a consensus of experts, not a one-man band.  Apparently, your expert didn’t give a convincing argument, and other arguments prevailed.  This is how it’s done.
 

Months earlier, the DC medical examiner established that Ms. Babbitt’s death was a homicide. In the investigation of a homicide, committed by a known person, isn’t the normal focus on whether or not the homicide was justified or not?

Like most laymen, you are confused by the term ‘homicide’.
 
Homicide is death by another person.  “Homo” meaning ‘man’ or ‘human’, “cide” meaning death.  All murders are homicides.  Not all homicides are murder.  If you want a further explanation, read the wiki link.
 
So yeah, Ms. Babbitt’s death was always going to be ruled a ‘homicide’.  She was killed by another person.  I could argue that it was ‘suicidal’ for anyone to think they wouldn’t get injured or killed if they managed to get into that barricaded  area.  I wouldn’t be right in my argument, but you would still have to admit a person would have to be a bit crazy to try and not expect any kind of negative consequences.
 
But to call it a ‘murder’? 
 
The answer I give you will be of a surprise to you, but yes, if prosecutors really wanted to shaft someone with a murder charge — they can charge each and every person who unlawfully entered and remained inside that occupied building with the intent to commit another crime therein, (the definition of a burglary in the First Degree) with the death of Ashley Babbitt.
 
Wait, what, you ask?  Any time, in the commission of a crime, a person gets killed either intentionally or unintentionally, the people who perpetrated the crime is on the hook for the murder of that person.
 
Imagine four people decide to rob a bank. Three go into the bank, while one stays in the car to act as the ‘get away driver’.  Now say, in the act of robbing the bank, either one of the robbers gets killed, or a bank employee or customer gets killed.  Every surviving robber, including the guy in the car is going to get hit with a murder charge.  EVERY TIME.
 
The officer who killed Ashley Babbitt wasn’t the one committing the crime(s) that day.  He was operating under ‘color of law’ and was charged with the duty of protecting the Congresscritters who were hiding from the mob.  The crimes were being committed by Ashley Babbitt and the rest of the mob behind her, and whatever happened to her was all ON HER.
 
Think of it this way:  If Ashley Babbitt hadn’t illegally been there that day, she’d still be alive.
 
You still don’t want to talk about the elephant in the room?
 

 
I mean, it’s this elephant who got Ashley Babbitt killed, after all.  If she hadn’t bought into his lies, she’d still be alive today.  It’s really that simple.
 
NONE of this would have happened if the Elephant in the Room couldn’t bring himself around to admit that he had lost something — even when he knew he had.  [source]  [source]  [source]
 
This isn’t Democrats, or Joe Biden doing this to the elephant.  This is all the ‘very best people’ around him who are the witnesses against him.
 
In case you haven’t paid that close attention to all the prosecutions that have been going on since the events of January 6, 2021, but almost every one of those prosecutions have ended up in convictions either by plea or by verdict.  Some people are going away for a VERY long time.  If you had paid close enough attention, every one of them are part of the greater conspiracy for which Donald J. Trump was indicted as the ‘leader/organizer’ of that conspiracy.
 
If you don’t want to talk about that elephant in the room now, that’s alright.  You will certainly be talking about it in about six months or so, when this all becomes very real to you.  Until then, the elephant will be sitting here waiting…