To follow on from my previous post, let me add the following video from right-wing influencer Benny Johnson, who appears to have been DHS’s guest in Portland.
Truly harrowing. Why, it reminds me of a time when I was a shift manager at McDonald’s and we had an unexpected rush. There were dozens of restless customers crowding the lobby, and we were understaffed. We were all hurrying about trying to spin up food production and get the orders out. When, over the din of the crowd, a customer yelled, “Lady! Those are my fries!” at one of the workers who had just placed a small fry into a to-go bag. He continued, “You’re all assholes! Especially him!” He was pointing at a guy who was, in fact, an asshole.
I still awaken, all these years later, in a cold sweat at the harrowing experience of facing down a largely peaceful crowd and a guy yelling obscenities at me! And I wasn’t even standing stories in the air with armed law enforcement at my side. No! I was mere feet from the shouter, with only a stainless steel counter separating us.
How could we not all see the need for troop deployments, given the evidence before our eyes?
