Jan. 6 rioter with 'I heart TRUMP' hat and a Confederate flag gets prison for assaults on officers
Jan. 6 rioter with 'I heart TRUMP' hat and a Confederate flag gets prison for assaults on officers
'Isreal Easterday'
Isreal or istypo?
Fourth generation homeschooled with a bloodline as pure as the driven snow.
Fitting I think for dumb religious nuts to misspell Israel when naming their kids.
It's going to be so surreal looking back at this in a few decades:
A crowd of phone-waving overweight cosplay nitwits from the internet taking over the headquarters of the most powerful nation on earth...
It makes me think of the vast numbers of brutal and battle-hardened rebels with AKs and rocket launchers, who have failed to storm their respective third-world governments, and the look that must have been on their faces when they saw this.
I mean usually the government doesn't basically invite the rebels in, unless they are loyal to the old guy, and want him back in power.
Took it over just as the vote counts were being ratified by the senate (right place, right time), and all went down some time after Trump had asked Pence to go along with his phony elector counts plan (and Pence had said no).
Word has it they got just a few hallways away from where the votes were being transported.
Seems like it was a sort of back up plan to bring the chain of custody of the votes into question before they could be officially recorded by the senate.
Flying the loser flag but still won a free place to stay an three meals a day.
They said that Easterday was home-schooled and that "everything he knew was filtered through the lens of his parents" when he went to the Capitol. Easterday, they said, "plainly did not fully understand what the Confederate flag signified" and even Googled “what does the rebel flag represent” on the afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021.
Home-schooling is abuse.
That seems like a pretty big omission. Hell, I'm from the South and I had a better idea of it in middle school.
A topic that hits close to home for me as I and my 3 siblings were homeschooled until college. 3 out of 4 of us turned into bleeding-heart libtards. All are doing well now.
Just to flip things around a bit, I perceive public schools who often look like prisons in my area and whose 1:15-25 teacher-student ratio and where peer-pressure and blind-leading-the-blind rules tends to be a bit abusive in itself. To that end, I'm willing to bed by proportionality there are less "school shooters" or suicides produced from homeschooling than there are from public school.
But ultimately I think it comes down to pointing the finger at the wrong thing; you see, it's not homeschooling, it's religious extremism. Partition out secular homeschooling and there's quite a difference. Even that said, my mom placed such a high importance on empathy and critical-thinking that my entire family reasoned ourselves out of the religious indoctrination bubble and even my parents flipped from right to left.
And if academics are of concern, it should be noted that homeschooled tend to either meet or out-pace the median publicly-schooled student.
Confirmation bias is also at play, here. Since most people can't relate to homeschooling and only know of public school, it's easy to point to it as a problem — similarly to how out of touch parents point to violent video-games. The bad apples are thus often highlighted in news articles, but nobody ever points to the fact that 9/10 of the other Jan 6'ers were most assuredly public schooled.
My daughter is in online school, which is like homeschooling, except it's an actual accredited state school with real teachers giving live video lessons during the day, although I still have to stay home with her to help her with assignments and keep her on track. She is not religious, we are anything but right-wing. We took her out of school because she's a unique sort of kid and those sorts of kids get bullied. She was so severely bullied that even the bullied kids bullied her. She was having thoughts of self-harm.
Now she has much more self-esteem, her grades are better than they have ever been, and she actually has more friends now than she did when she was in public school. We even have a teen homeschool/online school social group that meets once or twice a week.
There are still bad days, but overall, she's doing really well and this has been a life-changer for her.
I wouldn't recommend it for every kid out there, but if I had the option when I was her age, I would have jumped at the chance.
You make a lot of blanket statements without having any actual data to back any of it up. Home schooling CAN be a very positive experience, but it can also be a dumpster fire with little or no oversight. The truth is that we have very little data about the academic performance or even welfare of home-schooled children in the US because in many states they aren't required to meet even basic curriculum or assessment goals. The only information we do have is largely coming from providers of home schooling curriculums who are motivated to show positive outcomes.
I'm glad it worked out well for you, but if you haven't watched the Shiny Happy People documentary series about the Duggar family and the IBLP (who have millions of families following their curriculum), you ought to check it out.
You're right, it's more nuanced and I jumped on the majority who (I perceive) conduct home schooling because they're religious nuts. Glad you all turned out all right. Find some further left spaces. I bet you'll want to push even further.
He should have just followed the law!
before he temporarily blinded two officers with chemical spray
Oh, those poor, poor piggies... enduring what they themselves regularly perpetrate on people with complete impunity! Oh, the humanity!
Hold on while I dig out the world's smallest violin for them!
Thank you.
Nice. It's too bad he won't get to meet his love in prison though. If they were to both go there, it definitely wouldn't be in the same place...
Awesome parenting.
Imagine doing an insurrection, looking at the flags waving next to you, and wondering what the fuck ideology it is that you're attacking cops over.
Future history students will spend many hours studying and evaluating this only to conclude that it meant almost nothing at all.
Which in itself will be an insight into how vacuous and pointless our culture was.
And people wonder why liberals look at Trump supporters like they are idiots. It's because they are. Legit never met a Trump supporter I could use a word with more than three syllables in it.
Feeling cute, might overthrow democracy later.
I think this is the majority of trump supporters. Just completely ignorant to what is happening and what the person they're supporting stands for. All it took was a few lies for them to start an insurrection and they didn't even bother fact checking before attacking the nation they claim to love.
So can we run the neglect lawsuits here like the Michigan parents? /s kinda