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| Steyn: Performance Art with No Performers |
| 2021-08-28 |
| [SteynOnline] On the day that twelve US Marines and some 150 civilians were blown apart by suicide bombers, it was heartening to learn what real heroism is. Until January 6th, the highlight of Michael Byrd's "law-enforcement" career was leaving his loaded Glock in a congressional men's room and paying no price. He "serves" with the grotesquely misnamed "Capitol Police", which is not a police department but a praetorian guard - a personal security team for the praetors of Congress. Lieutenant Byrd shot and killed Ashli Babbitt, a 5'2" unarmed woman, because "she was posing a threat to the US House of Representatives". All that has been known for months by anyone who wanted to know. The only real news in NBC's Byrd exclusive was the level of his self-congratulation: I believe I showed the utmost courage on January 6. His interviewer, Lester Holt, did not respond: "Er, hang on, isn't that the kind of thing you're meant to leave for someone else to say about you?" And did he have to say "utmost"? Even in as unutterably vulgar an age as ours, is even Michael Byrd incapable of imagining any "courage" greater than his own? Ah, well, don't over-think it; it's just one of those phrases, half-remembered by Byrd from some Rose Garden medal ceremony he caught on TV: "utmost" goes with "courage" like "white" goes with "supremacist" and "domestic" goes with "terrorist". America is a land that tends to the utmost in all things. At the end of the nineteenth century, Bernard Shaw popularized the term "chocolate soldier" - the dashing hussar who is useless in battle but looks good in a uniform. We have the tutti-frutti generals: Thoroughly Modern Milley and his chums, whose diversity ribbons from shoulder to scrotum advertise their own utmostness even as they explain why everything going wrong merely demonstrates how everything is going right. The tutti-frutti generals report to the ice-cream commander-in-chief melting all over the lectern every afternoon. His predecessor was on telly all day every day; Mr Biden was sold to head-in-the-sand Americans as the quiet-life guy who wouldn't be in your face. Unfortunately, when your countrymen get blown up by government blunders, the citizenry expects him to be in their faces at least every now and then. Across the Atlantic, Boris and the EU chaps were on the screen responding to an all too predictable atrocity. But in the White House Joe Biden's meds hadn't yet kicked in - or, conversely, they'd shot him the juice too early and it had worn off. So, as has become familiar, the melting waffle cone was hours late in tottering across the room, squinting into the camera and reading with woozy and wooden defiance. This time he gave it the full Corn Pop: Read the rest at the link |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #7 The Clownshow Republic |
| Posted by: Ebbaitch Clunk5165 2021-08-28 14:29 |
| #6 #4 CL, good to hear from you again. Dron is our poet laureate. From the Steyn article: Our Senators are over-entouraged "Emirs of Incumbistan". I am totally stealing that. |
| Posted by: Matt 2021-08-28 13:27 |
| #5 Arigato gozaimasu. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2021-08-28 12:57 |
| #4 I have been away for awhile. I am glad to see some things never change. Hand clap for the command performance, Dron66046. |
| Posted by: Classical_Liberal 2021-08-28 12:44 |
| #3 Please do not roast a 70% cocoa milquetoast, over his loud and cowardly boast. For all you know, he has cousins patrolling, and outside strolling... yep, all ex-ivory coast. So say it's an honor to be shot like Afrikaner and leave this land to gentry deserving of the utmost. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2021-08-28 05:01 |
| #2 As a general rule, if people have to tell you how awesome and amazing they are, they are not. Mr Byrd appears to be in the final stages of Dunning-Kruger Syndrome. I still want to know who he works for. Yeah, the Capitol Police, but dollars to donuts, he was detailed to look after someone special who would find this all quite embarrassing. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2021-08-28 01:41 |
| #1 Not only does Byrd believe he showed utmost courage, he says he saved countless lives. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2021-08-28 01:19 |