uspol; restatement from Birdsite
The whole invasion of the Capitol is admittedly pretty scary-- it's just that's it's scary like being in the proximity of a really drunk brown bear.
People are still gonna suffer. There's gonna be a lot of noise and a lot of teeth-gnashing about how the fuck a bear got a hold of a fifth of Everclear AND got inside. It demonstrates a very clear and present security risk, not to mention some serious questions about local wildlife policy.
But the odds of the bear sustaining any focus or achieving any goals is zero. The bear has no plans. The bear is just blindly angry. Taser the damn bear, drag it outside and figure out how to keep it from happening again. This seems like a reasonable alternative to running around screaming "OH MY GOD THE BEARS ARE TAKING OVER!"
bear metaphors
It *is* an entirely fair counterpoint, BTW, that the guy at the security gate is not only also a fucking bear, but was seen drinking out of the same bottle of Everclear. :p
And yes, they were invited in by that other bear that's been hanging out in the backyard for the last four years. But Animal Control has already been called, and it still doesn't mean that there are gonna be one, let alone, fifty drunk bears still there in a week. :p
So yeah. It's still really bad that drunk bears got inside the house. We are sure as fuck gonna have to replace the carpets, the drapes, and perhaps a few dozen of the people.
BUT IT STILL DOES NOT MEAN BEARS NOW OWN YOUR HOUSE FOREVER, GOD FUCKING DAMMIT, SO STOP ACTING LIKE THIS IS A REASONABLE CONCERN. BEARS ARE FAR TOO STUPID TO COMPETENTLY SIGN A LEASE. GOD DAMNIT IT, YOU SAW THAT ORANGE ONE TRY. :)
(I'm not yelling at any of you in particular, least of all the multiple folks who quite reasonably extended the metaphor to include Trump and DC police. The yelly all-caps part is directed at... sigh... leftist Birdsite, mostly.)