The first time I heard of Ashli Babbitt was when videos that she had posted on social media made their way on to Twitter where she was recording herself driving in her car and roid-raging about her love for Drumpf and evil liberals this, evil liberals that, and how she and her MAGA friends were heading to Washington D.C. to take care of business at Drumpf's request after he had made his call to arms for MAGAs to show up at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Ashli Babbit is dead for two principal reasons. First, she was radicalized by the lies of Donald Trump and a bunch of MAGA Republicans and right-wing media (Fox "news") into believing that the 2020 election was stolen by Joe Biden.
It's sad we have to continue re-litigating this shit but for the millionth time - to date, after 65+ LOST court cases in US courts across this country, even all the way to the US Supreme Court and before Drumpf appointed judges, Drumpf and his minions are to this day still peddling lies about the 2020 election being stolen from him. Millions of Americans, Ashli Babbitt being one of them, refused to accept the outcome of those court cases and willingly bought into Drumpf's lies.
The second principal reason Ashli Babbitt is no longer with us is because she made a conscious choice to join a violent mob of MAGA thugs on January 6th, 2021 leading a charge to violently smash through windows and doors to the inner chamber of the US House where US Capitol Police with guns drawn were situated and ordering the mob to stand down. Ignoring a lawful police order to stand down, Ashli Babbitt was the first one to breach the shattered door window into the chamber and was shot as she tried to clamber through to the other side.
So - two reasons Ashli Babbitt is dead. Trump's lies, and her own poor decision making to believe those lies and commit the unlawful acts she committed that fateful day. There is nothing honorable in any of that.
Link: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-ashli-babbitt-dishonors-military-january-6-funeral
Clearly, nothing is sacred to Drumpf and his MAGA toadies if the honor of our military is nothing more than a cheap political prop to them.
I agree 1000% with General Mark Hertling that it's a disgrace that Drumpf is forcing his military lackeys to provide Ashli Babbitt with full military funeral honors, honors that she neither earned or deserves. It's insulting to the real heroes in our armed forces who have earned those honors on both the battlefield and in their post-service lives.
And in the event anyone is wondering who General Mark Hertling is and why I put significantly more stock in his opinion on this matter than I do that of Drumpf or any of the yes-men eunuchs in his execrable administration:
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Hertling
Any questions?
---TFG
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