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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThey're all absolutely fucking insane. (CPAC & MTG content)
DALLAS - As dozens of onlookers looked on, some with tears in their eyes, a barefoot man in an orange jumpsuit and red MAGA cap sobbed in a cage in a convention center in Dallas, Texas.
Attendees at CPAC, the massive annual conservative activist conference, were given bluetooth headphones, emblazoned with the word silence, where they were invited to listen to audio accounts from January 6 defendants who have been jailed due to the Capitol riot.
Some spectators wept. Some threw money into the cage. Others came up close to mutter words of comfort and support to the emotionally distraught man inside, who was alternating sitting on a bare cot with his head in his hands, and writing sad slogans on a blackboard like Where is Everyone? Among those in the audience was Zuny Duarte, mother of Enrique Tarrio, the jailed ex-chairman of the Proud Boys facing seditious conspiracy charges for his role in the Capitol. One man, wearing a T-shirt saying Correctional Officers for Trump 2020 pointed at his chest, making sure the jailed activist saw, and said I know how it works, man.
During Thursdays performance in the J6 cage, the man in the prison had been an actor. But on Friday, the man was none other than Brandon Straka, a self-proclaimed former liberal who founded #WalkAway, a social media campaign encouraging Democrats to ditch their party for the GOP. Straka was a vocal Stop the Steal proponent and activist, and landed in hot water with the feds when he filmed himself from the steps of the Capitol building on Jan. 6.
Attendees at CPAC, the massive annual conservative activist conference, were given bluetooth headphones, emblazoned with the word silence, where they were invited to listen to audio accounts from January 6 defendants who have been jailed due to the Capitol riot.
Some spectators wept. Some threw money into the cage. Others came up close to mutter words of comfort and support to the emotionally distraught man inside, who was alternating sitting on a bare cot with his head in his hands, and writing sad slogans on a blackboard like Where is Everyone? Among those in the audience was Zuny Duarte, mother of Enrique Tarrio, the jailed ex-chairman of the Proud Boys facing seditious conspiracy charges for his role in the Capitol. One man, wearing a T-shirt saying Correctional Officers for Trump 2020 pointed at his chest, making sure the jailed activist saw, and said I know how it works, man.
During Thursdays performance in the J6 cage, the man in the prison had been an actor. But on Friday, the man was none other than Brandon Straka, a self-proclaimed former liberal who founded #WalkAway, a social media campaign encouraging Democrats to ditch their party for the GOP. Straka was a vocal Stop the Steal proponent and activist, and landed in hot water with the feds when he filmed himself from the steps of the Capitol building on Jan. 6.
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They're all absolutely fucking insane. (CPAC & MTG content) (Original Post)
LudwigPastorius
Aug 2022
OP
Yeah, I was going to say that the crying was a little over the top, but...
LudwigPastorius
Aug 2022
#11
Surprised to see MAGAs showing so much compassion for Antifa-BLM agitators.
Midnight Writer
Aug 2022
#13
aeromanKC
(3,322 posts)1. They'll be speaking in tongues next.
LudwigPastorius
(9,139 posts)2. I'm thinking they'll skip straight to ritual human sacrifice.
rubbersole
(6,689 posts)3. That was tfg's covid response.
CrispyQ
(36,463 posts)5. She has the same craving for attention the Con has. -nt
The Unmitigated Gall
(3,809 posts)6. Here's a cooler full of rattlesnakes...
Pass em around, you know handle em
LudwigPastorius
(9,139 posts)7. Yeah, just tell them that rattlesnake venom contains Ivermectin.
Get a dose of the Holy Spirit and protect yourself from the Chinese COVID hoax at the same time!
Chainfire
(17,536 posts)8. They are writing political ads for is us 2024.
Chainfire
(17,536 posts)10. It would only take a tiny bit of photoshopping on that pic. ;)
Head MAGAT goes down on traitor.
spanone
(135,831 posts)9. What a load of bullshit. So they're victims? NO they're criminals.
Cry on you little traitors.
LudwigPastorius
(9,139 posts)11. Yeah, I was going to say that the crying was a little over the top, but...
those tough-guy insurrectionists do have a tendency to leak when they're brought to justice.
https://www.syracuse.com/news/2022/07/capitol-riots-2-upstate-ny-men-weep-during-sentencing-in-court.html
Efilroft Sul
(3,579 posts)12. Performative fascism
Midnight Writer
(21,760 posts)13. Surprised to see MAGAs showing so much compassion for Antifa-BLM agitators.
LudwigPastorius
(9,139 posts)14. LOL
EnergizedLib
(1,894 posts)15. This is creepy
It strikes me as some kind of role play or fantasy.
You have to love when bullies play the victims.
LudwigPastorius
(9,139 posts)16. Some of them are going to be really disappointed to find out that...
they won't be getting a blackboard and chalk, or a MAGA hat, in jail.
Tickle
(2,520 posts)17. These patriots are waiting for the big cheese
to get elected and pardon them with honors.
I shit you not
HAB911
(8,891 posts)18. There is money on the floor
who gets it?
LudwigPastorius
(9,139 posts)19. I think that's why Marjo is squatting down.
...and telling that guy to close his eyes "in prayer".
*YOINK!*