January 6th, 2021

by on January 6, 2024 at 12:01 am
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Three years ago, President Trump told the crowd to “peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard,” when they went to the permitted Capitol Protest. During Trump’s speech, Ray Epps leaned over to speak to someone who quickly started taking down barricades at the Capitol. Capitol Police fired flash bangs at the crowd. People broke down barriers. People rioted. They broke doors and windows open and entered the Capitol. One was shot in the neck and killed with a firearm, and three died after the police used less-lethal weapons. In other parts of the protest, nobody knew anything odd was going on. Capitol Police held doors open for Protestors, leading them through the Capitol in peace. All of this “seen on video” later released to the public.

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January 5th, 2021

by on January 5, 2024 at 12:01 am
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Three years ago, as crowds were arriving to protest what they considered an election filled with fraud, a man named Ray Epps told the crowds that they were going to have to enter the Capitol tomorrow. The suspicious crowed chanted “Fed! Fed!” in response, since everybody knows the man in your group telling you to break the law is probably the Fed trying to entrap you into breaking the law so the Feds can arrest you. After the events of Jan 6, he would be quickly added to the FBI’s most wanted list, then taken off it. The FBI has clearly stated that he has never been an FBI source or employee, and the government is now asking for him to be jailed for six months for his conduct.

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January 4th, 2021

by on January 4, 2024 at 12:01 am
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Three years ago, people were coming to the capital to take part in a permitted protest against what a large percentage of the American population thought was an election filled with fraud and cheating. Intelligence suggested that bad people were going to do bad things at the protest, and Trump approved local law enforcement to be able to call on the National Guard to maintain order and protect both the protestors and the capitol. Capitol Hill said they didn’t need DOD support to maintain order and did not make the call.

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Politics of Jack of Harts

by on January 3, 2024 at 12:01 am
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I keep most politics out of my stories, but I do have the military and the police as good guys. Given current politics that would label it heavily right wing. 😉 Most of the viewpoint characters are from places like the Republic of Texas or Northern Minnesota, both of which have a frontier mindset. Several characters are from the New England Federation, which is more of an Oligarchy posing as a futuristic Democracy. Very cheap fusion power and fabricators make anything necessary to live, making it very much a post-scarcity economy in the vein of Star Trek. Money still exists, but it is used for luxuries, not necessities. That makes politics different, though as in all things, the more things change, the more things stay the same…

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BattleTech Alpha Strike

by on January 2, 2024 at 12:01 am
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Halloween and Thanksgiving snow has come and gone, and Minnesota brought us New Years ice good and hard. But don’t worry, because I ring in the New Year with another game of BattleTech Alpha Strike this coming Friday, 5PM, at Gamez and More.

Rochester Minnesota, on the west end of River Center Plaza across from Silver Lake Shopping Center on North Broadway.

Join me between 5pm and 7pm if you want to play a quick game or two of Alpha Strike.

I bring everything needed to play, so just bring yourself.

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