Speaking of "gallows" on the Capitol mall, at 0600A hrs on Insurrection Day, 6th Jan 2021, a pickup truck arrived with a very nicely constructed prefab wooden gallows—replete with drop and noose. A well-rehearsed team of a half dozen clean-cut young Dudley Do-Right clones smartly unloaded and re-assembled this supposed infernal device of…
Speaking of "gallows" on the Capitol mall, at 0600A hrs on Insurrection Day, 6th Jan 2021, a pickup truck arrived with a very nicely constructed prefab wooden gallows—replete with drop and noose. A well-rehearsed team of a half dozen clean-cut young Dudley Do-Right clones smartly unloaded and re-assembled this supposed infernal device of the Trumpista crazies intended for the righteous public execution of VP Mike Pence for refusing to question the obvious monkey-business entailed in the electoral vote counting.
Then the fine young Dudleys climbed back into their truck and drove away, leaving the gallows in full sight for the whole day: specifically contrary to the laws and regs regarding such things. Presumably, the entire project was multiply videoed by the Blob's surveillence hardware.
Some prog jerk fellow traveller soon published an account, still available from Amazon books, describing the whole thing: not as what it so transparently was —an Op by, e.g., the Fubbies— but as documented evidence of the Far Right's boundless evil and subversion. The Fubbie's infamous DNC pipe bomb drop was small potatoes by comparison; but also no doubt extensively and multiply archived by the local surveillence infrastructure.
Those "gallows" were a complete farce, banged together by someone with limited woodworking skills and zero knotsmanship. That was not a real noose, it was an embarrassment. It looked like someone wrapped the rope around a beer can and glued it in place. Cheap stage prop that would have blown over in a stiff breeze.
Contrast the phony J6 gallows with the real, fully functional guillotine set up by BLM in front of the White House during their multi-day siege with which they lopped the head off of an effigy of Trump while the crowd demanded the heads of the president and his family.
Yes, life imprisonment probably without parole. In the UK the worst murderers and serial killers usually get a 'whole life' sentence. One example was Dr Harold Shipman, who murdered 100s of his elderly patients, mostly by lethal injection .
How strange ... lethal injections. Mmm, sounds familiar to me.
Anyway he killed himself after a few years. Apparently he couldn't bear the thought of decades more confined to his cell.
Trump is betraying his base. But at the victory speech he said, We going to deport a lot of people and bring a lot of people in. Few heard that part. I did though. And here we are.
What Trump might have meant/said and immigrant visas/sociopolitical engineering nuance aside, it's also about economic growth or, in the face of economic/energy decline (and the wars abroad about it), a kind of 'Red Queen' running and progressive increases in the speed, just to stay in one place.
Ron Anselmo mentioned to me in a previous thread the 'classic' 'immigrants living 8 to a one-bedroom apartment/flat', though neither of us mentioned the monied ones who also immigrate. Our bad.
Money's energy; energy's money. The MIC helps ensure that 'Am-a gonna git me some.'. Petrodollar; BRICS+.
Over here, we had a small relatively-run-down district not too many years ago that's now all spit-and-polish and full of cafes and restos and immigrants owning, running and frequenting them. That's taxes and fees, etc., in the governments' eyes/pockets-- who cares about the quasi-original, in part so-called 'White' or 'Black', locals. They proved their 'worth' by in part falling off the wagon and onto the streets to remain for a time.
Tokens aside, the Musk, Trump, Vivek, etc. clique are about maintaining, for as long as possible, the status-quo that they benefit from, being 'elite businessmen/parasites' and all that.
Ultimately, the MAGA crowd may find that they're at odds with that, with the status-quo-- itself now beginning to hit the rocks against the new incoming surf.
Oh ya, one other thing, maybe more: I looked up, maybe 10 or so years ago, what the deal was with Elon and found that he simply lucked-out with Dad giving him about $27 000; Compaq (before disappearing) buying his biz for an insane amount and then government-- you know, The People?-- giving him yet much more for much of what he's now generally known for. (Maybe a similar story with Trump.)
But he has relatively very little skin in the game per se, or boots on the ground. (That's why he can dick around on X.) That belongs to those who work/slave for him...
Which, naturally, feeds back into what I just started with in this comment...
And, too, as you write, here we are.
The People own most everything that Musk is known and takes the credit for, they just don't realize it.
Are the immigrants, Musk et al. and their wage-slaves helping to pay our monthly benefits and/or proto-Universal Basic Incomes? And do we have enough to purchase all their gizmos to boot (never mind a patch of poor land and a humble house)?
I had to look up the Dos Equis reference, since we don't appear to have or have had those cute commercials up here. At the same time, however, I am unsure what you mean by 4-d chess. Then again, if I'm like that guy in the commercials, I suppose I could be playing it and not realize it and chalk any 'wins' up to a kind of Peewee Hermanesque 'I meant to do that.'.
Ron, if we make an internal case to hack/question reality as often as we can, if only intellectually/perceptually, though ideally, practically (so the 'movers-and-shakers' get less leg-ups on our asses), we can be like Neo of The Matrix who finally manages to unplug from the manufactured society whose allegory is/was the Matrix. It's my favourite film because of that.
5:00 pm 2025 and I'm still drinking... but unlike our Dos Equis cherry-poppin' daddy's (apparently of course), it's one of those 'faggy' drinks that our late-teen hood used to call them as friendly jabs. I like to think I balance it out, though, by the fact that I can do my own cider and moonshine-- and wine or mead if I tried. So I like to think I've earned my 'faggy' drinks dammit...
But here's a thought: Where would a Long Island Iced Tea be on the drink-gender-preference spectrum? Harvey Wallbanger? Rusty Nail? Margarita? Salt on her rim or sugar? 'Who/What you be bangin' with that rusty nail?' And therein, too, lies an example of the gist of the reality-hack...
If you think it's a good idea to discuss these kinds of things over a crackling fire beyond a certain latitude, how about if it's just one 'node'-- in that case, the allergorical cafe/teahouse-- of a growing string of nodes all around the world that hoover up increasing and willing participants and slowly eat the State like a beneficial cancer?
Zazzy - I know I told you a while back, some of your stuff is funny AF, some flows for me, and some melts my brain.
The above is funny AF - the drinking at 5:00 (not starting, because "It's 5:00 somewhere!"), but "still drinking" at 5:00, making you a confessed "day drinker", and the "faggy" drinks and the inquiry into drink-gender preference spectrum are classic. But seriously worth deeper discussion at the cafe.
But your post in it's entirety, is my the brain-melt spectrum - low end though - so I think I get your larger thesis.
I'm definitely down with the cafe/teahouse's being nodes to eat the State. More enjoyable and not nearly as kinetic as my usual preference. I'm open to site suggestions.
After being "cancelled" by our local newspaper and being personally set up and attacked by them on what was then Twitter, after having 25+ letters published (the paper took a hard left turn after being bought out by USA Today (Gannett)), my last public forum for exercising my First Amendment rights in written form, is my back windshield.
It currently states, "Free the J6 Political Prisoners". However, my thinking for the next installment is, "Break the State". So, we're on the same page, I'm just defaulting to my more kinetic roots.
We live in a small town here - half the people think I'm crazy - and the other half are certain of it. And yes, The Matrix is instructive - a favorite of mine as well.
I sent you a private Substack message. Be sure to select the button to open one or more of more of the messages since part of them may be automatically concealed, to save loading-time perhaps.
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"We live in a small town here - half the people think I'm crazy - and the other half are certain of it." ~ Ron Anselmo
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I think there's something to be said about where/when someone finds out about things not normally within the normal sphere/scope of knowledge and understanding, it can affect their behavior and/or perceived behavior, perhaps almost by necessity.
Like unplugging from the Matrix and sort of freaking out about the 'new' reality that always was, and then on top of that, having to jack back into the unreality for one reason or another.
The folks 'trapped' in it and going along with it almost like they're sleepwalking might see you quite differently, as they should perhaps. Certainly, expressing one's freedoms in those sorts of contexts can take courage and fortitude.
Lastly, if you know engineering, then you likely know the math that if you're crazy in a crazy society, then the two cancel out and you're left with you being likely sane. IOW, crazy ÷ crazy = sane.
We'll see how many of the J6ers still in prison are pardoned by executive order when Trump assumes office on 1-20. It may not be as many as many people think. Will Trump even pardon any before his new AG is confirmed?
One reporter got into their cellblock. Conditions ware appalling. One guy had a black thumb and the rest of hand was a deep purple. He probably ending up losing at least his thumb. Denied medical care. Someone should go down hard for that in and of itself.
Trump beckoned them to "stand back and stand by" - they did. He asked them to "peacefully protest" - they did until fired upon. If he lets them twist, I'm off the Trump Train.
Terrio (head of the Proud Boys) wasn't even there! The judges who gave such unbelievably harsh sentences should be removed from their position and disbarred!
Agreed, it was simply a show trial, gross abuse of due process, and a shot across the bow for anyone else contemplating acting up. I've followed the Proud Boys since their early days in Portland, OR.
There was a group called Patriot Prayer, that used to publicly and peaceably assemble - as is their constitutional right - and hold prayer vigils for certain people or causes.
Invariably, they would be violently set upon by Antifa thugs, preying upon the weak and defenseless, as all cowards do. That is until the Proud Boys started showing up to protect them, because Portland PD was ordered to "stand down", by their Marxist Mayor.
Thus began, the animosity between the two. The Proud Boys were simply bouncers for free speech, and they kicked ass. Every. Single. Time. Check out some old videos - there are plenty of the street skirmishes in Portland.
In one, Ethan Nordean threw about four one-punch knockouts in a 3-minute span. He's a BAMF - a flat-out brawler and he doesn't play. Not for a second.
In the chaotic time after the night of the 2020 election, when it was obvious the election was being stolen, Trump implored people to go to their State Capitols and push back. I dropped everything, and much to my wife's dismay, and drove straight to the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee - a 3-hour drive.
You had people - patriots, every age, race, color and creed, exercising their constitutional right to peaceably assemble and seek a redress of grievances, many holding signs saying, "Stop the Steal".
Antifa/BLM were there but so were the local chapter of the Proud Boys. Here's what I saw - not what I heard, what I saw: The Trump supporters held the Capitol. Across a 4-lane street Antifa/BLM was assembled. Many of the Trump supporters, unfamiliar with the area, had parked beyond and behind Antifa "lines".
As an older couple - maybe in their late 80's - was attempting to cross the street, they were escorted across the street, one Proud Boy on each side - an almost solemn march, as a father gives away his daughter - as Antifa closed in, spitting on them, one of the Proud Boys knocked him the fuck out, and the crowd parted. The couple was safely escorted to their car.
Next up was what appeared to be a single Hispanic mother with two little children in tow, holding a "Latinos for Trump" sign. Another supporter courageous enough to do the right thing and show up. Same thing, they escorted her and her children through the Antifa cowards - with a much wider berth this time as they parted.
So it went, late into the night until everyone was escorted to safety. So, there were the "violent, terrorist, white supremacists". It was a beautiful thing to behold, glad I went. I still get chills thinking about watching them.
I have family from the Left Coast - who suffer from Liberal mental illness, and trash talk the Proud Boys. Them and anyone else who has anything to say about them, I tell them to STFU, they don't know what they are talking about. Typical for liberal Marxists - talk without thinking, because they can't think for themselves.
Whew, sorry folks. Jim, thanks for the outlet, you are invaluable, my friend. Happy New Year to everyone at CFN!
Thanks. Didn't know the original story. I did live in Portland and saw the hatred. And the widespread support the antifa have among the citizens. It's a madhouse. Thirty to forty percent of the people have no representation whatsoever.
Oh very sorry for so wrongfully overstating the fine joinery and knotology skillset of the lean, mean, well-groomed and bodily-fit Dudley contingent; but kindly inform us here as how that undermines ID-ing this as a Blob Op?
It doesn't. It just means it was a fake gallows frame and noose and that the builders had no intention of actually using it, therefore, it supports your contention of being a Blob Op -- at least that element of the day.
Speaking of "gallows" on the Capitol mall, at 0600A hrs on Insurrection Day, 6th Jan 2021, a pickup truck arrived with a very nicely constructed prefab wooden gallows—replete with drop and noose. A well-rehearsed team of a half dozen clean-cut young Dudley Do-Right clones smartly unloaded and re-assembled this supposed infernal device of the Trumpista crazies intended for the righteous public execution of VP Mike Pence for refusing to question the obvious monkey-business entailed in the electoral vote counting.
Then the fine young Dudleys climbed back into their truck and drove away, leaving the gallows in full sight for the whole day: specifically contrary to the laws and regs regarding such things. Presumably, the entire project was multiply videoed by the Blob's surveillence hardware.
Some prog jerk fellow traveller soon published an account, still available from Amazon books, describing the whole thing: not as what it so transparently was —an Op by, e.g., the Fubbies— but as documented evidence of the Far Right's boundless evil and subversion. The Fubbie's infamous DNC pipe bomb drop was small potatoes by comparison; but also no doubt extensively and multiply archived by the local surveillence infrastructure.
Those "gallows" were a complete farce, banged together by someone with limited woodworking skills and zero knotsmanship. That was not a real noose, it was an embarrassment. It looked like someone wrapped the rope around a beer can and glued it in place. Cheap stage prop that would have blown over in a stiff breeze.
Contrast the phony J6 gallows with the real, fully functional guillotine set up by BLM in front of the White House during their multi-day siege with which they lopped the head off of an effigy of Trump while the crowd demanded the heads of the president and his family.
Nobody asks where they got the guillotine.
Sounds like a bunch of so-called progressives slapped this J6 contraption together.
Yes, all of J6 was an entrapment operation by Pelosi and the FBI.
https://patrick.net/post/1378157/2023-01-01-january-6th-should-be-a-national
We now need to make it into a national holiday in honor of the political prisoners still being held for protesting the obvious election fraud of 2020.
And Pelosi and her FBI henchman need to be put into those same prison cells, for life.
Yes, life imprisonment probably without parole. In the UK the worst murderers and serial killers usually get a 'whole life' sentence. One example was Dr Harold Shipman, who murdered 100s of his elderly patients, mostly by lethal injection .
How strange ... lethal injections. Mmm, sounds familiar to me.
Anyway he killed himself after a few years. Apparently he couldn't bear the thought of decades more confined to his cell.
Elon Musk
Replying to @stevenmackeyman
4h
The reason I'm in America along with so many critical people
who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that
made America strong is because of HI B.
Take a big step back and FUCK YOURSELF in the face. I will go
to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly
comprehend.
Dec 28, 2024 4:22 AM UTC
Elon is threatening White America just like Biden did. And the Orange Retard is going along with it. We are betrayed.
Did the US just import over the past 4 years an excess of immigrants as Trump ran his campaign in part on sending many back?
Trump is betraying his base. But at the victory speech he said, We going to deport a lot of people and bring a lot of people in. Few heard that part. I did though. And here we are.
~ Surf-'N'-Turf ~
What Trump might have meant/said and immigrant visas/sociopolitical engineering nuance aside, it's also about economic growth or, in the face of economic/energy decline (and the wars abroad about it), a kind of 'Red Queen' running and progressive increases in the speed, just to stay in one place.
Ron Anselmo mentioned to me in a previous thread the 'classic' 'immigrants living 8 to a one-bedroom apartment/flat', though neither of us mentioned the monied ones who also immigrate. Our bad.
Money's energy; energy's money. The MIC helps ensure that 'Am-a gonna git me some.'. Petrodollar; BRICS+.
Over here, we had a small relatively-run-down district not too many years ago that's now all spit-and-polish and full of cafes and restos and immigrants owning, running and frequenting them. That's taxes and fees, etc., in the governments' eyes/pockets-- who cares about the quasi-original, in part so-called 'White' or 'Black', locals. They proved their 'worth' by in part falling off the wagon and onto the streets to remain for a time.
Tokens aside, the Musk, Trump, Vivek, etc. clique are about maintaining, for as long as possible, the status-quo that they benefit from, being 'elite businessmen/parasites' and all that.
Ultimately, the MAGA crowd may find that they're at odds with that, with the status-quo-- itself now beginning to hit the rocks against the new incoming surf.
Oh ya, one other thing, maybe more: I looked up, maybe 10 or so years ago, what the deal was with Elon and found that he simply lucked-out with Dad giving him about $27 000; Compaq (before disappearing) buying his biz for an insane amount and then government-- you know, The People?-- giving him yet much more for much of what he's now generally known for. (Maybe a similar story with Trump.)
But he has relatively very little skin in the game per se, or boots on the ground. (That's why he can dick around on X.) That belongs to those who work/slave for him...
Which, naturally, feeds back into what I just started with in this comment...
And, too, as you write, here we are.
The People own most everything that Musk is known and takes the credit for, they just don't realize it.
Are the immigrants, Musk et al. and their wage-slaves helping to pay our monthly benefits and/or proto-Universal Basic Incomes? And do we have enough to purchase all their gizmos to boot (never mind a patch of poor land and a humble house)?
Then life is good. Carry on, peon.
Zazzy - playing that 4-D Chess again, are you? Interesting thought, not surprising, you're an interesting man, do you drink Dos Equis?
~ Hacking Reality With Brother Ron ~
I had to look up the Dos Equis reference, since we don't appear to have or have had those cute commercials up here. At the same time, however, I am unsure what you mean by 4-d chess. Then again, if I'm like that guy in the commercials, I suppose I could be playing it and not realize it and chalk any 'wins' up to a kind of Peewee Hermanesque 'I meant to do that.'.
Ron, if we make an internal case to hack/question reality as often as we can, if only intellectually/perceptually, though ideally, practically (so the 'movers-and-shakers' get less leg-ups on our asses), we can be like Neo of The Matrix who finally manages to unplug from the manufactured society whose allegory is/was the Matrix. It's my favourite film because of that.
5:00 pm 2025 and I'm still drinking... but unlike our Dos Equis cherry-poppin' daddy's (apparently of course), it's one of those 'faggy' drinks that our late-teen hood used to call them as friendly jabs. I like to think I balance it out, though, by the fact that I can do my own cider and moonshine-- and wine or mead if I tried. So I like to think I've earned my 'faggy' drinks dammit...
But here's a thought: Where would a Long Island Iced Tea be on the drink-gender-preference spectrum? Harvey Wallbanger? Rusty Nail? Margarita? Salt on her rim or sugar? 'Who/What you be bangin' with that rusty nail?' And therein, too, lies an example of the gist of the reality-hack...
If you think it's a good idea to discuss these kinds of things over a crackling fire beyond a certain latitude, how about if it's just one 'node'-- in that case, the allergorical cafe/teahouse-- of a growing string of nodes all around the world that hoover up increasing and willing participants and slowly eat the State like a beneficial cancer?
youtu.be/yyrhikYaRrk?si=r7aRNgL9Kyzy-vrY
Stay tuned...
Zazzy - I know I told you a while back, some of your stuff is funny AF, some flows for me, and some melts my brain.
The above is funny AF - the drinking at 5:00 (not starting, because "It's 5:00 somewhere!"), but "still drinking" at 5:00, making you a confessed "day drinker", and the "faggy" drinks and the inquiry into drink-gender preference spectrum are classic. But seriously worth deeper discussion at the cafe.
But your post in it's entirety, is my the brain-melt spectrum - low end though - so I think I get your larger thesis.
I'm definitely down with the cafe/teahouse's being nodes to eat the State. More enjoyable and not nearly as kinetic as my usual preference. I'm open to site suggestions.
After being "cancelled" by our local newspaper and being personally set up and attacked by them on what was then Twitter, after having 25+ letters published (the paper took a hard left turn after being bought out by USA Today (Gannett)), my last public forum for exercising my First Amendment rights in written form, is my back windshield.
It currently states, "Free the J6 Political Prisoners". However, my thinking for the next installment is, "Break the State". So, we're on the same page, I'm just defaulting to my more kinetic roots.
We live in a small town here - half the people think I'm crazy - and the other half are certain of it. And yes, The Matrix is instructive - a favorite of mine as well.
I sent you a private Substack message. Be sure to select the button to open one or more of more of the messages since part of them may be automatically concealed, to save loading-time perhaps.
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"We live in a small town here - half the people think I'm crazy - and the other half are certain of it." ~ Ron Anselmo
---
I think there's something to be said about where/when someone finds out about things not normally within the normal sphere/scope of knowledge and understanding, it can affect their behavior and/or perceived behavior, perhaps almost by necessity.
Like unplugging from the Matrix and sort of freaking out about the 'new' reality that always was, and then on top of that, having to jack back into the unreality for one reason or another.
The folks 'trapped' in it and going along with it almost like they're sleepwalking might see you quite differently, as they should perhaps. Certainly, expressing one's freedoms in those sorts of contexts can take courage and fortitude.
Lastly, if you know engineering, then you likely know the math that if you're crazy in a crazy society, then the two cancel out and you're left with you being likely sane. IOW, crazy ÷ crazy = sane.
Change your panties and take a Xanax.
Oh, absolutely without any possibility of parole.
We'll see how many of the J6ers still in prison are pardoned by executive order when Trump assumes office on 1-20. It may not be as many as many people think. Will Trump even pardon any before his new AG is confirmed?
One reporter got into their cellblock. Conditions ware appalling. One guy had a black thumb and the rest of hand was a deep purple. He probably ending up losing at least his thumb. Denied medical care. Someone should go down hard for that in and of itself.
Political Prisoners:
Enrique Tarrio - 22 Years
Ethan Nordean - 18 Years
Joe Biggs - 17 Years
Zach Rehl - 15 Years
Trump beckoned them to "stand back and stand by" - they did. He asked them to "peacefully protest" - they did until fired upon. If he lets them twist, I'm off the Trump Train.
Terrio (head of the Proud Boys) wasn't even there! The judges who gave such unbelievably harsh sentences should be removed from their position and disbarred!
Agreed, it was simply a show trial, gross abuse of due process, and a shot across the bow for anyone else contemplating acting up. I've followed the Proud Boys since their early days in Portland, OR.
There was a group called Patriot Prayer, that used to publicly and peaceably assemble - as is their constitutional right - and hold prayer vigils for certain people or causes.
Invariably, they would be violently set upon by Antifa thugs, preying upon the weak and defenseless, as all cowards do. That is until the Proud Boys started showing up to protect them, because Portland PD was ordered to "stand down", by their Marxist Mayor.
Thus began, the animosity between the two. The Proud Boys were simply bouncers for free speech, and they kicked ass. Every. Single. Time. Check out some old videos - there are plenty of the street skirmishes in Portland.
In one, Ethan Nordean threw about four one-punch knockouts in a 3-minute span. He's a BAMF - a flat-out brawler and he doesn't play. Not for a second.
In the chaotic time after the night of the 2020 election, when it was obvious the election was being stolen, Trump implored people to go to their State Capitols and push back. I dropped everything, and much to my wife's dismay, and drove straight to the Florida Capitol in Tallahassee - a 3-hour drive.
You had people - patriots, every age, race, color and creed, exercising their constitutional right to peaceably assemble and seek a redress of grievances, many holding signs saying, "Stop the Steal".
Antifa/BLM were there but so were the local chapter of the Proud Boys. Here's what I saw - not what I heard, what I saw: The Trump supporters held the Capitol. Across a 4-lane street Antifa/BLM was assembled. Many of the Trump supporters, unfamiliar with the area, had parked beyond and behind Antifa "lines".
As an older couple - maybe in their late 80's - was attempting to cross the street, they were escorted across the street, one Proud Boy on each side - an almost solemn march, as a father gives away his daughter - as Antifa closed in, spitting on them, one of the Proud Boys knocked him the fuck out, and the crowd parted. The couple was safely escorted to their car.
Next up was what appeared to be a single Hispanic mother with two little children in tow, holding a "Latinos for Trump" sign. Another supporter courageous enough to do the right thing and show up. Same thing, they escorted her and her children through the Antifa cowards - with a much wider berth this time as they parted.
So it went, late into the night until everyone was escorted to safety. So, there were the "violent, terrorist, white supremacists". It was a beautiful thing to behold, glad I went. I still get chills thinking about watching them.
I have family from the Left Coast - who suffer from Liberal mental illness, and trash talk the Proud Boys. Them and anyone else who has anything to say about them, I tell them to STFU, they don't know what they are talking about. Typical for liberal Marxists - talk without thinking, because they can't think for themselves.
Whew, sorry folks. Jim, thanks for the outlet, you are invaluable, my friend. Happy New Year to everyone at CFN!
Thanks. Didn't know the original story. I did live in Portland and saw the hatred. And the widespread support the antifa have among the citizens. It's a madhouse. Thirty to forty percent of the people have no representation whatsoever.
Every man must stand behind the men behind the wire.
Old Irish fight song.
Agree 100%, provided they are unjustly behind the wire.
Oh very sorry for so wrongfully overstating the fine joinery and knotology skillset of the lean, mean, well-groomed and bodily-fit Dudley contingent; but kindly inform us here as how that undermines ID-ing this as a Blob Op?
It doesn't. It just means it was a fake gallows frame and noose and that the builders had no intention of actually using it, therefore, it supports your contention of being a Blob Op -- at least that element of the day.