by Bill Cavanaugh, Corvallis
For those of you keeping score, contrary to Democrat lies, the number of capitol police officers killed on January 6 was zero. The only person killed that day at the hand of a reckless Capitol Police officer with a shotty record, was an unarmed U.S. Air Force Vet.
Joe Biden didn’t graduate first in his class (he was 79th out of 82), he didn’t fight for civil rights, get arrested and march in Selma, he didn’t grow up in Black, Jewish or Puerto Rican churches, inflation was 1.4% when he took office, not the 9% lie he pedals, his teacher was not drafted by the Green Bay Packers, he never drove an 18 wheeler, he hasn’t reduced the debt, he’s grown it massively, and Uncle Bosie wasn’t eaten by cannibals. I could go on all day with the lies he spews.
When he lies saying you can’t get water on Georgia voting lines, Trump called all at Charlottesville “fine people” (proven lie), Trump called military suckers and losers (proven lie), George Floyd was murdered (coroner’s report proves that wrong) and the subsequent protests were “peaceful” even though they made January 6 look like a family picnic. Oh, and there’s apparently some fictitious book ban even though he and Obama literally banned Dr. Seuss! Don’t buy it.
This is the guy who “never discussed his son’s business,” then he somehow was on the phone with Hunter’s “customers” but was “only discussing the weather,” then he was documented to be at multiple meetings with Hunter and business associates.
So while Biden is out blaming Frito Lay about the number of chips in his bag, even though the cost to produce a potato is affected by the 35% increase in cost of energy (among other inflationary increases under his watch), know this. The gross profit of these companies has gone down due to inflation, not up. Fewer chips in his bag is a direct result of his gross overspending and inflationary mistakes. He’s a disgrace to the likes of Harry Truman who said, “The buck stops here.” Someone should get a mirror for Biden so he can look at who is to fault for fewer chips, not to mention struggling families.
The guy’s a serial liar, angry old man, has nothing positive to run while driving this country into the ditch, and pedals lies and fear daily. That is no winning formula and not what this country needs.
WMA says
Mike, I thank you for your answer. Sincerely.
For what it’s worth, I too am 73.
WMA says
Mike,
This is a sincere question. Do you trust any news outlet, and if you don’t, how do you know what is happening in the world?
Mike Mercer says
WMA
You deserve a sincere answer so here it is.
I am 73 and I can tell you, nothing changes but the players and the locations, I don’t need the latest program. My opinion will not change anything but should it cause a moment of pause or even reflection for someone then I have done my part. I hope that answers your question.
I hope that didn’t’ come off as arrogant, just an old guy who has perhaps seen too much.
Take care
Gomez says
Mike. As far as I know, Fox News did not release a statement on the firing of Tucker Carlson. It is my calculated guess that the reason they fired him was because they did not want the liability of the lies that he would say on his show. They could not afford (or did not want to pay) the extra liability insurance..
So no, I still don’t think that Fox News is a good source for accurate information.
Mike Mercer says
Gomez
No one may ever know and that is the problem with all of this; as for me, I will trust my gut which tells me they all lie…its what they do best. Take care.
Gomez says
Mike. It’s good to be skeptical and to use good critical thinking skills. It’s bad when your personal confirmation bias won’t accept something that is demonstrably true simply because it makes you feel uncomfortable. The cognitive dissonance just gets to be too much.
That’s all, Time to put this one to bed.
Peace.
WMA says
Since neither Bill nor Mike will answer a very simple question, I will presume to do so. Officer Byrd had two choices: holster his weapon and step aside, letting the mob storm into the house chambers where dozens of lawmakers were trapped or do his job, stop the breach of the room and fire on the first rioter to enter through the broken door. We already dipped our toe into the pool of Greco-Roman literature so I will wade in a bit deeper. Officer Byrd was basically Horatius at the bridge, a lone fighter confronting terrifying odds with courage and determination, the one against the many. He did exactly what Ashli Babbitt forced him to do.
WMA says
Mike,
You are not politically homeless. You are a full-time resident of low-rent Casa Trump. You are much too poor to dwell in high-rent Trumpland. The only requirement to live at Casa Trump is to leave your common sense, bullcrap detector – and probably your spine elsewhere.
WMA says
Mike,
I guess you are chained in a cave.
Mike Mercer says
We can agree to disagree and I prefer “Politically Homeless” to cave dweller.
WMA says
Mike,
Get real. You are not chained in a cave, forced to see reality only by shadows dancing on the wall. Open your eyes. Did you read my post? The Jan. 6 violence my wife and I watched was broadcast live on CNN. Do you think the network staged the action? Maybe they hired “crisis actors” to fake the attacks? Ask dead-broke Alex Jones how spinning lies like that worked out for him.
By the way, I can’t help but notice you have avoided answering my simple question. Why is that?
Mike Mercer says
Live on CNN, well, I guess it must be true then, my sincere apologies.
Gomez says
Mike. The attack on the Capitol was broadcast live on Fox News, NewsMax and OAN as well.
Mike Mercer says
I know that, I refer to what Speaker McCarthy released and got Tucker Carlson fired. I don’t have a soft spot for FOX or any other media but some paid a price while others did not; an old tune I have grown tired of same goes for Trump/Biden and all their monkeys….so how ya been Gomez?
Gomez says
What got Tucker fired was not that he had some great expose’ of 1/6, it was that he was a liability to Fox News. They had just paid out almost a billion dollars for lying about voting machine fraud and I’m guessing that they didn’t feel like writing any more checks for lying.
Fox News, The Gateway Pundit, Alex Jones, Mike Lindell, all have had to write checks for lying to the public.
Mike Mercer says
Gomez
That is a plausible explanation, which I don’t buy, but are you saying you now believe FOX News…fascinating.
WMA says
Read this Mike:
Previously unseen footage showing the harrowing battles waged by Capitol Police officers to keep the rioters at bay left viewers with a sickening vision of American society’s extremist underbelly, which Trump cultivated and unleashed.
“It was carnage. It was chaos,” said Caroline Edwards, a Capitol Police officer whose testimony was interspersed with footage of her being knocked unconscious by members of Trump’s mob, and who described slipping on the spilled blood of her colleagues.
“I am not combat trained, and on that day it was just hours of hand-to-hand combat,” said Edwards of a day when she defended the citadel of US representative democracy against fellow Americans.
Mike: Jan. 6, 2021 was the first day of my wife’s retirement, and we watched the violence on CNN live as it happened. We watched until the rioters left late in the day. If you think the day was lacking in blood, rage and injuries, you are delusional.
Mike Mercer says
WMA
I was an Infantryman in the 70’s and grew up with cops, guns and motorcycles so my. Idea of delusional and who it applies to may vary from yours; or as Candice Owens put it “Life’s tough, get a helmet.” Keep in mind, some people have lost their jobs for showing video that contradicts CNN’s take on this and you are still okay with “WMA”. No disrespect.
WMA says
Chaotic but not hostile toward Byrd and other officers?
Please tell me you are joking.
Mike Mercer says
Not joking…watched the videos many times. Do yourself a favor and take Party out of it, think like an American only. We all know Trump is a 13 year old bully but if he can clean up the school yard for the next guy, let him at it. Unless of course, you like it the way it is.
WMA says
Well then, Mike, since Bill can’t answer my very simple question, perhaps you can:
Instead of shooting Babbitt, what should the officer have done?
Mike Mercer says
The mood of that day was chaotic but not hostile towards Byrd or other Capitol cops; just review the video with an honest eye. If a man “Under Color” cannot physically control a young woman without deadly force he needs to find a different profession…no excuse’s.
WMA says
Let me clarify. Reports have said the medical examiner found a single-blade lockback folder in her pocket. Others say she was unarmed. Truth is we will never know for sure. The undeniable fact is that she and the other rioters were a mortal threat to members of Congress and the police officer did his duty to protect them.
WMA says
Bill,
Not a hard question. Let me rephrase.
What do you think would have happened if the officer had not stopped Babbitt, who was armed, by the way?
Gomez says
It is especially rich coming from a crowd that is big on the 2nd Amendment, “stand your ground”, and “shoot first, ask questions later.”
Mike Mercer says
Even the cop who shot her, Byrd was his name, said she was unarmed.
Gomez says
Mike. If an angry mob is trying to break into your house at night, do you care whether the first person who is trying to squirm their way into your door is armed or not?
Mike Mercer says
Shooting a woman awkwardly climbing through my window would not be my first reaction…certainly as a trained responder, however, we are talking about a “Capitol” cop here so point taken.
Gomez says
I didn’t ask about a single person coming through the window. I asked about an angry mob trying to break down the door and enter your house. She just happened to be the first one to try & squirm through the breech. Dozens, perhaps hundreds would have been sure to follow.
I’m going to leave it at that.
Mike Mercer says
This one requires a little homework for the curious. Try reading a short story, maybe 5 pages called the “Allegory of the cave” aka “Platos Cave” just for fun and thoughts…humor me.
WMA says
OK Bill, stop sticking pins in your Biden voodoo doll long enough to answer a simple question:
What should that Capitol police officer have done instead of shooting Ashli Babbitt?
WMS says
Please Bill, stop clutching your pearls for just one second and tell us what the Capitol police officer should have done when rioter Ashli Babbitt broke through that door planning to attack US congress members?
WMA says
“The guy’s a serial liar, angry old man, has nothing positive to run while driving this country into the ditch, and pedals lies and fear daily. That is no winning formula and not what this country needs.”
I agree completely with the final paragraph, but it certainly does not refer to President Biden.
Tracy says
Guess you dont comprehend the facts placed forth in the rest of the letter.
Gomez says
This says much more about your critical thinking skills and your media literacy than you’ll ever know. It is also the very definition of a “Gish gallop.” type of argument.
Bill Cavanaugh says
Waiting around to Troll the latest opinion posts on the Bitterroot Star and actually trying to be relevant at 1:55 A.M., says much more about the life you must lead than you’ll ever know.
Thanks for chiming in Gomez, but as usual, you’ve not offered one fact that refutes my facts.
Gomez says
“The guy’s a serial liar, angry old man.”
“Projection is the process of displacing one’s feelings onto a different person, animal, or object. The term is most commonly used to describe defensive projection—attributing one’s own unacceptable urges to another. For example, if someone continuously bullies and ridicules a peer about his insecurities, the bully might be projecting his own struggle with self-esteem onto the other person.”
Tracy says
Your kind of messed up in the head dude.
Gomez says
Bill. I am less concerned with whether a candidate’s relatives were eaten by cannibals or that their teacher played for the Packers than I am whether they are a convicted felon, attempted to steal an election and orchestrated an insurrection at the US Capitol.
Your priorities are questionable at best, but you continue to focus on what is important to you.
Mike Mercer says
“No Gish Gallop” sounds like a good t-shirt.
Bill Cavanaugh says
Still…… wating on those facts Gomez. I’m confident I will never see one.
Everything you just spewed is a lie as usual other than a highly coordinated, sham trial that I can say with 1,000% certainty will be overturned by any reasonable court. Slimy Dems got what they wanted, to put another false label on Trump and a shiny object to attempt to have voters look away from the Damage this administration and their party does to out country daily.
Mike Miller says
Gomez’ post you refer to as “1:55 am”, clearly shows a time stamp of “1:55 PM”.
Past that, what difference does the time of a post make?