I’m sorry, there really just wasn’t any headline other than this that says what normal people feel about this, me included.
From Fox News:
The Department of Justice on Friday announced that Donald Zepeda of Maryland and Jackson Green of Utah have been charged with felony destruction of government property following a climate change stunt that involved dumping red powder on the encasement protecting the U.S. Constitution in the National Archives Rotunda.
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The climate activist group Declare Emergency was behind the act.
In its press release, the Department of Justice said that Zepeda and Green’s stunt had caused more than $50,000 in damage.
They also say in the release:
Green previously was charged in a separate act of vandalism at the National Gallery of Art that occurred on November 14, 2023. Green was charged with one count of destruction of National Gallery of Art property for that offense. As a result of that offense, U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson had ordered Green to stay away from the District of Columbia and stay away from all museums or public monuments. On February 22, Judge Berman Jackson ordered that Green be held in the D.C. jail for violating the conditions of his release.
I hope they both rot in jail.
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They both need a bad roommate, one who greets them every morning with “you my b!tch”.
Ironically, they will seek out petroleum based Vaseline.
That sounds cruel and unusual to me. I’d teach them what the Constitution represents, but not by violating it.
The text is “… cruel AND unusual ….”
From what I hear, it is not all that unusual.
My interpretation. Vote for me for Judge.
There are no adherents to The Constitution in prison.
Neither the Constitution nor the Big Ten rules for life
But first let us perform on them gender affirming care by cutting off their tallywackers and changing their pronouns before putting them in a cell with a boy named Sue.
Do you wanna be the husband or the wife?
I wanna be the husband!
Good then get over here and suck your wife’s d—
Do we know what happens to the people who really are behind the action of these two puppets. What about the guy that walked away with the broken jeans and light colour jacket who definitely was part of the operation? And the person taking pictures who did not have to leave the room when everybody else had to?
Yes, the cameraman needs to be prosecuted as part of the conspiracy.
AND anyone who provided any outside funds to these now at least three clowns to perform this felonious act.
New TRUMP! administration MUST produce a taskforce to compile all the conspiracies behind all the acts of violence and damage to federal buildings during TRUMP!’s inauguration, and the ongoing “protests” surrounding his presidency, finding the MOST CONSERVATIVE jurisdiction where any co-conspirator resided or had even a bank account where any of the money came from, as the location for the prosecution.
Selective prosecution as per the last 3+ years MUST be used to tax the leftist billionaire cabal of BILLIONS, especially Zuckerberg, the Alphabet corp. owners, and the leftist news cabal at the NYT, Washington Post and etc.
Among the first balancing of the budget legislation, a simple requirement that all of the “free press” must show that they have verified any repeated “news” and if not, at the head of the article, in the largest font used in the article of the headline, clearly specify “ALLEGED”.
Any “news” agency who refuses to follow the law shall not be allowed on ANY US federal property. Any local or state government which allows a so designated non-compliant news agency on THEIR property shall lose all federal funds for ALL purposes immediately. This last case being HOW the balancing of the budget will be possible and thus why the requirement is allowed in the legislation. Such legislation is allowed, by congressional rules, with a 50%+1 vote.
4 years of scorched earth policies are what is required to change the course of the corruption of this country as evidenced by the actions of NY and Atlanta DAs and the Brandon DOJ’s “Special Persecutors”.
Except the court cases would drag on for years – way past the 4 years you think will clear things. The next president will be either a Democrat or a RINO and will get all charges dismissed.
You are arguing that the First Amendment be abolished as part of a “scorched earth” policy against the Left.
That’s beyond dumb. It’s an attack on the Constitution itself. Just who, I wonder will be the ultimate and omniscious arbiter of the Truth? The freakin’ Government?????
When in human history has THAT worked out?
What’s the difference between the Biden administration getting Facebook and Twitter to censor articles and postings *they* didn’t like, by calling them “disinformation”, and *you* demanding the press VERIFY the correctness of every article before allowing it to be published. ?
Not a freaking thing.
Just like the progs, you need to stifle your Inner Fascist.
Story tip – Biden Bemoans Climate Change at the Border After an Illegal Immigrant Raped a Utah Girl – PJ Media
They thought they would be getting so much leftist ass. Turns out their cellmates will.
They might be grateful for that.
Pretty in pink.
Unfortunately, this damage is only the tip of the non-melting iceberg that the green movement in general has caused. It’s measured in trillions of dollars.
The Greens’d not have caused anything without the willing connivance of politicians and legislators.
I’ve watched hearings before the US House and Senate, in which prominent scientists such as John Christy, Dick Lindzen and others testified that there’s no good science behind the emissions-cause-warming claim.
Then prominent consensus climatologists would testify to alarm.
The legislators chose how to react. They have gone pell-mell into alarmist legislation.
I used to communicate science to Anna Eschoo, my once-local Congresswoman. She was dismissive. They all let themselves be seduced and then closed their minds to confutation. That’s how the trillions went.
True Pat, but the politicians and legislators couldn’t do it without the ignorant compliance of the general population who “trust the Science” without a glimmer of understanding.
The general population must revive the healthy practice of applying hot thick fossil fuels and feathers to their politicians and legislators.
The original tar and feathers was pine tar for ship building, liquid at room temperature. The purpose was humiliation, not injury or death.
Injury and especially death are much more effective!
I think not a single Republican voted for the trillion dollar IRA climate bill. There is a difference.
A worthy acronym usurped by a Glans President
Billions of tax dollars went out, millions were redirected to congressional offshore accounts. 10 for you, 1 for me. Power has absolutely corrupted. The politicians are all bought and paid for.
They should definitely get their orange jumpsuits, but I’m not clear how a bit of pink powder results in a $50,000 clean-up charge. Surely a handheld vacuum and a few wet wipes ought to have done the job? Or did it stain the marble dais that the encasement stands on?
It such buffoonery is financed like for Mann, they probably won’t have to pay a penny …
I’m disappointed you didn’t take the time to look into it before commenting. I confess I haven’t either, but given the care I’ve seen with archaeologists and art restorers dealing with historical artifacts, I suspect they’ll minimize contact and use small brushes, filtered clean air, and absolutely no liquid on anything marble. Maybe on the glass.
We’re not talking car detailing here!
I had no idea the case was also historically important. I assumed it would be airtight and bulletproof, given the importance of the contents.
Airtight bulletproof and filled with an insert gas like argon or perhaps nitrogen with no oxygen intrusion
A lot of people were in line to view the Constitution, and they had to be sent home. The exhibit was also closed the next day. A lot of those people may have to wait years before they have another chance to visit DC. I don’t know how you account for that.
As others mention, the clean-up was done carefully so as not to do damage. Photos show folks with cotton swabs. No water because of the pigment in the powder.
National Archives working to clean up red powder dumped on Constitution display by protesters | AP News
From your link –
That answers my question.
Consider just what it they were cleaning.
Just what was the power?
It would need to be tested and identified before doing anything other than collect a sample.
It may have contained a biohazard, for example.
They wouldn’t have just called in a janitor.
They would have called in experts to be sure it didn’t damage the case and gotten to the The Constitution itself.
Still, Fifty Grand? I know the US Gummint isn’t exactly interested in economization, but…
Several of the cleanup crew were toting hammers in their belts.
In this case, the costlier the better … and present the perpetrators with the bill payable in community service hours… say several thousand hours
At $10 per hour, A $50,000 cost would give them 5000 hours community service
You have to consider the incidentals, such as in ‘why did that 2 mile trip in an ambulance cost me $10,000?’. It probably required the help of employees from at least six different unions plus a full swat team.
The clean-up was performed by the US Government, or a government contractor, after and environmental impact statement had been prepared.
I think making them lick it clean would have been better just sprinkle a little ghost pepper dust on it first
Everything government touches becomes unaffordable. How many tax dollars you think those ”guards” ”protecting” the place cost ?
8 billion people in the world, 50% of them are below average intelligence.
I know this is off-topic, but I have read the average IQ in Gaza is 85. It has been speculated that inbreeding is causing the problems (although “nurture” could be a factor, considering the “children’s programming” regularly promotes the murder of Jews).
And Dr. Jordan Peterson has noted, it is illegal in the US to recruit people with an IQ lower than 83 into the military.
Too bad there is no such rule for congress…
In subsaharan Africa the average IQ is around 65.
Using what tests? Western tests for western societies? If you fall for nonsense like that which doesn’t even pass the smell test, you must be a greenie.
IQ test…1 question
What comes next
If The Gates closing
A) scurry
B) Hotfoot
C) Decarbonize
D) Compartmentalize
This is the correct answer.
IQ tests measure the ability to pass an IQ test, yet there are many ways to measure intelligence.
(ex-member of Mensa)
This one is also good…
There are five houses, each painted a different color. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. These five owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. No owners have the same pet, smoke the same cigar, or drink the same beverage.
The question is, who owns the fish?
Here are the clues:
“Too bad there is no such rule for congress…”
But then we never would have gotten the Hank Johnson gem into the public record.
8 billion people in the world, 9 billion of them are below average intelligence.
Mathematically impossible, but I understand where you’re coming from!
Mathematically impossible
Perhaps, but I’m sure you could convince 10 billion people that it’s true.
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”― George Carlin
Well, it seems at least for J6er’s, they turn off the heat and take their blankets away at DC jail.
They could be very soon wishing that climate change could keep them warm …
The “This is worse than J6” discussion last time was fun, can we have it again? 😀
I hear that there’s a new Awards competition similar to the Darwin Awards.
It’s called the “Nothingburger Of The Century Award”.
J6 won by a country mile.
The runner-up was CoP28.
Covid panic falls in there someplace
What else do you do for fun?
No, Lusername, you may not.
Say, I wonder if Zepeda could be a ‘newcomer’ (undocumented Democrat)?
Speak of well below average IQ….. and the Luser turns up .. as though called.
My political statement of the day… the way the Liberals and Democrats (but I repeat myself) so flogged the J6 Activities, I quickly realized if it hadn’t happened, they would have had to create it. From there, it was quite easy to surmise, they created it.
I thought the acting performances by lead cast members Nancy and the greek chorus were a little too bland.
Like they were all reciting the script from the prompter board at the side of the stage.
Occasional bursts of passionately-delivered lines were predictably lost on the assembled members of the production’s crew (ie the media).
These performances should have been saved for live, improv gigs for audiences who weren’t composed of people with blue, green or orange hair.
“I quickly realized if it hadn’t happened, they would have had to create it.”
That’s what the fake bombs were for at the DNC and across the street from the RNC. Since the nimrods stormed the capital, they didn’t need the bombs. Now they have to explain those away.
I love the last sentence of the article!
May their cells be cold so they learn the value of warmth.
May their food be cold so they learn the value of cooked food.
May their clothes be coarse homespun wool so they learn the value of modern life.
May their shoes be simple poorly fitting cheap oak tanned leather strap sandals with used tire soles.
May their water be weather warmed bucket retrieved open well water.
May their toilet be open holes into pits.
No television, no electronics at all. An abacus would be nice.
May their writing materials be iron gall ink and broken waterfowl quills.
May they be forced to make their own paper for writing from their used TP.
May they have access to libraries by mail, but no news.
No malice, but I and others are pissed at their blind ignorant self indulgent selfishness.
May they soon reach room temperature. Just kidding, of course.
How about their IQs?
Can’t fix stupid.
(thanks for the set-up, K — heh, heh).
I can fix stupid. But, it’s going to hurt.
No worries, climate change will soon raise room temperature to their body temperature.
Personally I think they’re lucky no patriot was there that day or they might have had broken knee caps
The only thing these people ‘create’ is a giant pain in the @ss
Art for art’s sake, mental illness for god’s sake
Somebody should just ask these guys what they hope their actions will cause to get done. If they say saving the planet in any form, then ask them for their reasoning as to why and how this would be achieved. Perhaps asking them to explain scientifically might be too much, particularly as all the analysis of existing data shows clearly that no man made actions have caused any noticeable climate change. Hence man made actions will have almost zero effect.
“We are determined to foment a rebellion,” one man said, in a video posted on social media. “We all deserve clean air, water, food and a livable climate.”
See my link above, @ur momisugly 9:28
Great recruitment tactic.
“We just did something stupid! Come join the stupid rebellion!”
““We all deserve clean air, water, food and a livable climate.””
Well, if you are in a developed country , you pretty much have clean air, water, food.
And from the fact you are wearing a jacket and a thick shirt, we can assume you would prefer also to be a bit warmer.
So.. what is your complaint, dolt !!
I hope they keep their backs to the wall.
Put them in a cell with Jeffy Epstein’s former cell mate.
Can a “climate catastrophe” or, even better, a “climate collapse” be far behind?
There is no cure for climatitis.
How about “climate orgasm”?
OOOOOOH. Now I’m shakin’
Regards,
Bob
Did the Earth move?
No, the Earth came.
Sort of related…
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tylxBn-5rVQ
The people who scream “Climastrology!” the loudest are the ones who would never think of going without FF, and if you took away their FF they would go berserk. How such a mind set arises is beyond me, I just abhor their hypocrisy! Now the tide seems to be turning, so pass the popcorn please!
This unvarnished condemnation of hideously stupid vandalism is good.
Nevertheless, the author omitted the main point:
Their “protest” had no basis in ANY reality.
That is (as others have pointed out above):
there is no “climate change” happening — at all.
The term “climate change” means, in current usage, “HUMAN-caused, meaningful, shifts in the climate zones of the earth.” It is not happening. REPEAT: IT IS NOT HAPPENING — ANYWHERE.
There is mild, benign, warming which began around 150 years ago which, the data shows is controlled by natural forces (see, e.g., ice core data — CO2 lags temperature by around 800 years). Any human contribution according to the data is meaninglessly small and, thus, negligible.
Bottom line:
Human CO2 emissions WAY up. Global warming rate not.
GAME OVER.
Janice,
The game is played with virtual reality goggles. It is NOT over.
We must convince as many people as possible that there is NO CLIMATE EMERGENCY. This is not even vaguely a science question. It must be fought in the political realm where we are currently losing badly.
Okay. However, “We, The People,”* the players, unlike with a normal VR game, don’t realize that the goggles are not presenting reality.
The key, then, is to make the players realize that the goggles (made by lying “scientists” such as Mann and solar-wind-EV schleppers in loud plaid trousers) are fooling their brains, that, The Emerald City really is NOT green.
As you correctly stated: time to expose the goggle makers for the frauds that they are.
This is accomplished by a sweet, firm, voice saying:
“Take off your goggles and you will see reality.”
One example of doing this is those fine billboards saying things like:
CO2 IS PLANT FOOD.
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The instant article, unfortunately, only says, effectively:
“Keep the goggles on, children, just don’t pour your Kool-Aid into the breaker box and also, not on that original copy of Newton’s Principia.”
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*The sovereign in a republic such as the U.S. are, as that venerable document they attempted to deface, says, “We, the People,” thus, they must be convinced. That is, education of the voter is the “political” avenue we must take.
There are a great many who do most definitely refuse education, they explicitly don’t want to hear a word of it.
If, in some fantasy world, it was voiced by some of their favorite Party voices? Then there would probably be tar and feathers for heresy.
I remember Kool-Aid commercials when I was a kid where they said something along the lines of, “A cup of your sugar and a packet of our Kool-Aid …”
They actually showed a cup of sugar with a packet of Kool-Aid beside it.
That was back in the day when cereals were named “Sugar Pops” and “Sugar Frosted Flakes”, etc.
Then sugar became bad.
“Sugar” was dropped from the product names and it was toned down as a “selling point”. (No more commercials for Kool-Aid showing a cup of sugar.)
Too much sugar is bad, yet, some sugar is required or you die.
(Refined sugar is not the best source, but still…)
The movie “Apollo 13”, and in real life, CO2 levels might have killed them. But only because their source of O2 was compromised and their method of removing CO2 (filters) was exhausted.
The planet has effective and efficient and natural ways of, not just removing CO2 but of also converting it into O2.
Any effect CO2 has on temperature? Nature will deal with it as it always has, produce more food and O2.
Speaking of GAME OVER… if instead of rising CO2 and rising temperature, CO2 dropped by 140ppm and temperature dropped by 2C since pre-industrial times, where would we be?
The earth’s “natural” climate is ice age.
Not so, only during an ice age. The history seems to be that at least 75% of the time since life arose on the planet it has been much warmer, with no ice, year around, at sea level.
In actuality, the Earth has been in an “Ice Age” for the last 4 million years, with only occasional breaks, or interglacials, allowing the vast ice sheets to melt, which doesn’t change the fact we are in a Ice Age. At the beginning of the Ice Age, there was 40,000 years of ice caps, separated by 10,000 to 15,000 years of interglacial, but over the last million years or so, there has been 100,000 years of ice caps, separated by 10,000 to 15,000 years of interglacial, which seems to indicate the Ice Age is deepening. We can thank the current interglacial for civilization, pretty much. Going through what we can surmise, we may be overdue for another freeze-over, but that’s not entirely certain. At least, it hasn’t happened yet. When it does freeze over, what happens to civilization is, I think, a very good question.
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If there was a climate emergency, governments everywhere would be building all the nuclear reactors they could. They are not so there is no climate emergency.
Do you forget the “emergencies” where the solution was special Kool Aid? That is more likely from many governments.
” nuclear reactors ” !? What government are you thinking of?
Most are more likely to be constructing arks, as did Noah.
“ Noah’s instructions are given to him by God (Genesis 6:14–16): the ark is to be 300 cubits long, 50 cubits wide, and 30 cubits high ”
Or, the top of a wind tower might hold about 20 people and animals. The new ark.
Green is a perfect name for a climate terrorist.
Religious zealots always destroy historical artifacts and kill all infidels. They think reacting to their true beliefs in negative ways is a good idea. It’s nothing new. Islam destroyed thousands of Buddhist artifacts because of idol worship.
Hasn’t the Red Army, to pick just one out of the hat, done much the same when they take over?
I know most won’t agree with me but I think the time has come to reconsider corporal punishment, jail time and fines no longer mean anything.
Couldn’t resist a bit of research. The ‘sponsoring organization’ is found at DeclareEmergency.org. The web banner proclaims ‘Resolute nonviolent climate action’.
Then there is the usual we’re all gonna die over the top stuff starting with “Billions of people will starve to death” (um no, planet is greening) and ending with “ We still have two or three years to avert the worst of the climate catastrophe.”—- Specifically citing a UK professor’s proclamation of same from 2021. Well, it is now 2024 so according to them it is already too late to matter.
They next feature an appeal (donation box) for legal financial support for the two idiots (Tim is one) that they proudly picture ‘nonviolently’ defacing the National Gallery of Art.
They sure have an odd definition of ‘nonviolent’. At least Tim was resolute. Violated his conditions of release on the National Gallery violence and now sits resolutely in the slammer for coming back to DC and doing it again.
No Rud, that’s true. They mean when Sri Lankan style ‘organic’ farming is enforced and there’s no longer any fossil fuel allowed for farm equipment.
and it’s a feature, not a bug.
They think that they are major Climate players but they are just Dumbasses.
I just gotta say, in that screen-cap above, the guy on the left still has a smirk on his face, but the guy on the right.. his face seems to reflect an “oh s***” realization.
Taking bets on “His glasses are made from plastic.”
Taking bets on “His glasses are made from plastic.”
Now if that red material was chili powder…
Cuff them. “OK boys, you’re the First Responders to the clean up. Lick it all up.”
Sorry, Anthony, that’s a bit harsh, although I’m sure you didn’t mean it literally.
Yes, they are idiots who caused criminal damage and deserve to go to jail, but to rot, nah.
Cue the downvotes 🤣
They like “pink” so dress them in pink when you send them to jail !
I’m sure the “boys” will love them !
No issue with that, bnice
There is a similar case in the UK. A group of extinction rebellion loonies smashed the glass doorway of JP Morgan’s offices in London causing £306,000 damage. The trial judge was not sympathetic.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1872240/extinction-rebellion-jp-morgan-lloyds-london-climate-change