Wednesday, March 03, 2021

Okay, so when I stumbled upon the day’s weird COVID data earlier, this was the story I was looking to see if the Times was reporting also:

Capitol Police Warn of March 4 Threat Amid New QAnon Conspiracy Theories

A story by another very reputable outlet, NPR, or AP, downplayed it and cast doubt on it with federal officials saying that it was “aspirational” and that there was no actionable intel. 

I don’t think the Capitol Police are real capable and I have previously written that I did not think that a warning on that earlier occasion was credible.

Now the Times lede titles today’s warning from the Capitol Police as coming from QAnon. I don’t believe QAnon is capable of doing any such thing. They were described as particularly demoralized about PoJoe’s inauguration. “We were allowed to believe”—that Satan-worshipping deep-state child molesters...Pizza place...That was really iDJiT being sworn in not Biden, they had a face transplant (I swear to God!). QAnon is that, the most bizarre conspiracies ever concocted by damaged brains, rather than at the ready fascist minutemen. QAnon is fat cops on message boards, they are not a militia, they are not organized. 

On the other hand, the date March 4 has had significance for supporters of 46-1 in previous years. There was the March4Trump starring Ann Marie Cosgrove in Saint Paul on March 4, 2017. March 4 was the original date of the inauguration set by the Framers. 
Dates (“Black September”, 9/11, astrology) and numbers (666, 13) have special meaning to deranged wackos whether Muslim, Christian or Retard as “signs” so particular attention should be paid to any threat on these special days to the special ed, but “signs” are no substitute for credibility and capability.

On the same hand, 

Representative Michael McCaul of Texas, a senior Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee, pleaded on CNN on Wednesday: “President Trump has a responsibility to tell them to stand down. This threat is credible. It’s real. It’s a right-wing militia group.”

I don’t know McCaul by reputation but that is an unambiguous statement made by a person in a position to know, who has enhanced credibility as a Republican with me.

On the first, non-credible hand:

Two federal law enforcement officials said broad concerns about potential violence were warranted, given the online chatter around the QAnon conspiracy and talk of an attack. But they said they had not seen or been briefed on any specific, credible threat of an attack on politicians, the Capitol or other symbols of government.

That is what I was saying, “broad concern,” no specific, credible. Homeland Security is the feds though. That’s Rep. McCaul’s committee. 

I don’t believe it. I will say in addition that I find it impossible to believe that the feds are asleep at the switch again on this one. I have the same thinking as one of my best friends who deliberately flew to Las Vegas on Sept. 12, 2001. “There is no safer time to fly,” he said, and he was right. My thinking about tomorrow is that the Capitol will be one of the safest places in America. I hope I’m right.