Eat Up with Stupid
I burst out laughing at this one, and thought you might enjoy it, too. Bryan Betancur, a self professed white supremacist and member of the Proud Boys, was arrested by the FBI for his role in the attack on the US Capitol on January 6th. That’s not news, since a lot of white supremacists have been arrested for their role in the attack where 5 people died and scores injured. The news is how Betancur was tracked down…he was wearing an ankle monitor stemming from a conviction for burglary. That’s right folks, this genius participated in insurrection against the federal government while on probation for a felony conviction. Sheesh.
It gets even better – he’s from Silver Spring Maryland and lied to his probation officer that he was going to DC to…wait for it…pass out Gideon Bibles. He’s been tracked to the Trump rally at the Ellipse just south of the White House to the Capitol with the rest of the criminals. He’s now in FBI custody for not only his role in the attack, but also for violating his probation by lying to his probation officer and his continued participation in several white supremacist organizations.
White supremacists, like gun-nuts, are generally not known for their intelligence, but this guy takes the cake. If stupidity was a violin, this guy would be the Stradivarius of stupidity.
The *real* problem isn’t necessarily that white supremacists are stupid, it’s that they usually get away with it…
1El Jefe, federal judges deserve a good laugh in the course of their otherwise tedious daily stroll with attorneys trying to dazzle them with dull documents. Bryan will provide some lucky judge with a lifetime career worth of laughs and retirement anecdotes.
While Bryan carried his tracking device around his ankle in his defense it wasn’t taking selfies like his fellow genius gal and guy pals did … oh wait. Did he carry the genius brigade accessory,
2the auto-confession phone, too?
I expect he’ll claim that he invaded the Capital to put a Gideon’s Bible in each senator’s desk
3There’s about to be a run on ankle monitors for a few hundred more bryan-like idiots where their attorneys get them released pending trial. It’ll be a big job to track them all but chances are they’ll cluster around like rats.
4What gets my goat is the judge in Tennessee who’s allowing the guy with the zip ties to await trial at home and not in jail.
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/22/capitol-riot-zip-tie-cuffs-ordered-released-461550
And the other judge who’s allowing the 22 year-old woman who stole Nancy Pelosi’s laptop to go home to her mother. We all know this would be the case if these people had a different skin color.
5All “very fine people”…the BEST people.
Meanwhile, the Bernie memes are keeping me highly entertained. The crocheted Bernie may be my favorite so far!
6Should be “would not be.” Gah.
7Once the dust has settled (which will take years as courts are so crowded) the historians are going to have a field day with this era. Right now we just need to make sure this NEVER happens again!
8What I am worried about are the smart ones who were either not caught or smart enough to send in the canon fodder. Those guys are a real threat. As Juan Cole says, at the start of the war being stupid gets you dead and it makes for a great amount of evolutionary pressure. Just look at Hezbollah today in Southern Lebanon.
9I’ve always thought that if the white supremacists really want to sell what they are peddling they would keep their people away from television cameras and hot mics. These people are not poster children for a master race, but this one really is a product of the lower end of the gene pool. I have to admit he was creative. Going to DC to pass out Bibles? However, it doesn’t say much for the parole officer who swallowed that.
10I think in near time we will be finding out just how many in that crowd were wearing ankle bracelets. Darwin Award winners, all of them!!!!
11Maggie @11; strictly speaking, in order to qualify for a Darwin Award, you have to die in exercise of your stupidity. These guys, and a few gals with them, are just garden-variety Stupid, with a capital S.
12BillR says: @12
And the act involved needs to end a gene line, which means death before procreation. https://darwinawards.com/rules/
13John in Denver @13;
Yes, that’s the important part.
14Sometimes I wonder if these guys think they’re so pure white, they’re invisible?
15Rick @15: They might be if it weren’t for what they’re full of…
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