Plot Hole People
Forget Mental States. Judge Actions.
I’ve been a college reporter, lived abroad as a teacher, worked the Mandarin mission for the Navy and NSA, rode submarines, researched for corporate law, and consulted for major defense contractors.
But lately the one experience I find myself leveraging more than the others is my more recent experience as a J6er.
I’ve criticized the Sedition Hunters for avoiding the topic of current and past BLM and Antifa violence despite the fact that it’s extremely relevant in the defense of what went on that day in January 2021.
I’m the one who thinks it’s relevant and so I feel once more that we need to examine how the Conservative protesters acted during that one four-hour protest and compare it with what’s been going on for months now in these anti-ICE protests being run by the establishment Left.
In particular, I’d like to, once again, bring up the whole pitchfork incident. I’ve touched on this before but if you’re not familiar with the story, the short version is like this:
At the US Capitol, there was a locked door preventing protesters from ascending one of the four main staircases by which people were filtering up to the West Terrace. That door was eventually unlocked by a mystery person and I was the first protester through the bottom door. I was immediately surprised to discover a pitchfork lying next to the stairs at the bottom of the staircase. I had a bad feeling that if I left it alone, I would regret it. So I picked it up and carried the pitchfork in one hand and a Trump flag in the other hand (which I also picked up because I feared someone might trip on it). Then I proceeded to walk up the stairs. The flag is visible on video, but because of the pixilated nature of the only digital footage that shows me with the pitchfork, it’s hard to see. But if you know it’s there, you can tell. Now eventually I worked with other protesters to secure the pitchfork from the premises. It travels down and away from the Capitol, never to be seen again.
Seriously. I have no idea who put it there nor do I know where it went.
What I do know is that no one on either side of the protest was hurt by a pitchfork that day.
It took me a while to figure out what to do with the pitchfork. You can see in the video how I start going towards the tunnel, where the cops were arrayed and fully visible from my vantage, but then turn away and try to get it back down the stairs.
Understand that I’m former intel. I did missions at the TS//SCI//Special Access Program level. Unlike HUMINTers (human intelligence) SIGINTers (signals intelligence) aren’t practiced liars. Our clearance signifies a radical commitment to the truth even in circumstances where the truth could significantly hurt us personally or professionally. We are a community that unfailingly abides by all the rules and obeys all commands.
To put it in more modern parlance, we are all always maxed out on Goodboi points.
Knowing this, I think you can infer that when I contemplated what to do with the pitchfork my first thought was to take it up the stairs and hand it over to the police.
One question that no federal agent, prosecutor, or judge ever asked was: Why didn’t you do that?
It only took a few steps in that direction for me to realize that a bearded, long-haired, six foot two inch tall man lumbering up the steps while holding a pitchfork is a scene that could’ve gone very wrong.
I realized that the cops would have every right to fear for their lives and shoot me before I got halfway up the stairs. Unlike the Ashli Babbitt shooting (which I hadn’t yet known had occurred) that shooting would’ve been justified. But at the same time, you’d have a shot protester bleeding out on the steps like a true martyr. From that point, I think the theatricality of the scene would’ve massively exacerbated the situation.
Seeing this probable turn of events in my mind, I decided against trying to hand the pitchfork over to the cops, even though that left me standing in the middle of a very emotional protest with a very conspicuous weapon I desperately didn’t want.
Last week was a very odd week for me. The anniversary of Jan 6 is a time of high emotion and very mixed feelings. I think you can tell that from my writings.
Yet the week had so much more in store. On Tuesday, the Democrats went into a high dudgeon bemoaning the Insurrection that Never Was. They relied on tired and disproved talking points that an uncoordinated gaggle of unarmed protesters nearly toppled the world’s greatest superpower. In the span of four hours.
So that was the mood among Democrats on Tuesday last week.
The following day, Wednesday, the same people who screeched about insurrection by tourists were suddenly self-proclaimed experts in the law of self defense for law enforcement.
On Tuesday, any Conservative who looked funny at a DC Metro cop deserved life in prison.
The next day, it became an inalienable right for every citizen to ignore police instruction, resist arrest, and run over cops with an SUV.
The waves of mental pain induced by the massive cognitive dissonance of this segment of the population nearly gave me a migraine.
They were the same people. How could they possibly think both ideas were true? How do law enforcement go from sacred and untouchable pillars of the community one day and a Stasi scourge the next?
The Good shooting and subsequent events where protesters taunted, jeered, impeded, and even hit law enforcement officers sent many Conservatives back to their whiteboards. It was another event, like the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk assassination, that had people seriously wondering what exactly happens in the mind of a Leftist that makes it react in ways that are both counterintuitive and counterfactual?
One psychologist surmised that Leftists suffer from four mental disorders: Histrionic Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Anti-Social Personality Disorder, and Borderline Personality Disorder.
Another theory floated by scifi author Devon Ericksen posits that Leftists have forsaken their humanity by relinquishing personal agency in order to adopt the mental operations in the same manner as an LLM (Language Learning Model.) LLMs are the core of what makes AI work. They are programs that produce certain life-like results based on massive amounts of “training” through the processing of whole reams of written information.
As a result, these people, like AI, don’t understand objects in objective space time the way the rest of us do. Ericksen explains:
What I mean is that humans who are large language models do not have a robust world-object model to counterweight their language model. They are able to manipulate symbols, sometimes adroitly, but they are on far shakier ground when trying imagine the objects those symbols represent.
He continues:
You cannot confront her with the logical inconsistencies in her worldview, because her object model doesn’t actually have any, it’s not complex enough for that.
The relevant parts of her world-object model can be summed up as follows:
“If I say Goodthing, I get headpats and cookies from all the people like me.”
That model is simply not big or complicated enough to contain notions like self-defense or vehicular assault. She has no theory of mind for a man whose job includes violence. She cannot explain or predict his behavior.
It is too far away from her daily experience to fit into her reality at all.
And if she can’t imagine things like these, how can she possibly imagine concrete meanings for vast and complex ideas like demographic replacement, culture shift, and western civilization?
This is not about intelligence or lack of it. This is about what her brain is trained to do.
Her upbringing, education, and life did not force, or even encourage, her to develop a robust world-object model. It wasn’t necessary for her to get safety, approval, or cookies. She just had to be glib.
So it really didn’t matter if she had an IQ of 125, or whatever, because if she did, then she was just an IQ-125-large-language-model, and only used that brain capacity for writing clever poetry, and saying things that aligned her to her local social matrix.
She couldn’t actually understand the world no matter how smart she was, because her brain was trained up wrong.
The model feels valid. It helps to understand why someone would make the types of choices that so clearly could lead to their doom. To put it simply, Good and her spouse didn’t grasp the apparent outcome because their mental models could not accommodate reality.
They were like someone walking around wearing VR goggles. What they were interacting with in their virtual world wasn’t the same thing that was happening in real life.
Some have noticed that after the shooting Good’s spouse asked why the cops had to “use real bullets” as if she assumed that when an officer draws a gun, he has a choice as to what kind of bullets a gun can fire. It’s not a gun, but a Star Trek phaser in her mind.
This would support the idea that the two were fundamentally disconnected from reality. Like a child who jumps off his house wearing a cape thinking he can fly, they discovered the disconnect between reality and mental construct.
There are similar other theories that involve brainwashing or hypnosis. These are the types of exotic ideas I’ve entertained myself. Although my preferred term is “menticided.”
I have two problems with these models.
One is that they feel overly complex. Very simple things are being over-pathologized and they rob Leftists of a certain degree of their humanity by denying their rational minds and personal autonomy. The LLM model posits that these people have systematized their thought into unnatural processes, becoming little more than AI running on biological hardware. The Personality Disorder model adds another disorder for each trait that cannot be attributed to the ones already evident making it more of a pastiche than a qualified analysis.
The other problem is both these models fail in their analysis to provide a clear method for dealing with the Left. The attitude at the end is, “Wow. This is really bad. But what are you going to do about it?”
I’d like to add my own observation for consideration. This isn’t a refutation of other people’s theories, but just what I noticed.
I believe that Good and her spouse are liars and it’s their lies that got them into this situation. I believe they understood the risks but freely chose to do the things they did because they believed their actions would benefit them in some way.
The primary reason for this conclusion is that their version of events doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
Let’s go back to J6. We’ll compare it with Venezuela. In order to take the “insurrection” side of the argument sincerely, you have to believe that a disorganized, uncoordinated, and unarmed group of people who dejectedly left for their hotels by curfew in DC were more of a threat to the future of the Republic than the Delta Force team that toppled the tiny dictatorship of Venezuela with space weapons.
From the raid launch to the time Maduro was aboard the USS Iwo Jima roughly 4-5 hours elapsed. That’s about the same amount of time J6ers protested at the Capitol. In Venezuela, it also took hundreds of planes, along with helicopters, drones and a weapon that exists only in legend now.
That’s what it took to depose a tin-pot dictator in Venezuela.
Yet, according to Leftists, I and my fellow protesters very nearly did the same thing to the United States without so much as a Snickers in my pocket.
This is what I call the “plot hole” at the center of Leftist J6 hysteria.
It lies at the core of the government’s justification for how it reacted to the event, but reality revealed that it was merely a politically useful narrative.
From that plot hole come various other narrative inconsistencies. The inaction on the pipe bomber is one that still hasn’t been explained. Why didn’t the FBI prioritize what was obviously the greatest threat: a dangerous weapon capable of killing multiple people at a time? Why instead divert resources to picking up the unarmed people like me who caused no damage or harm despite having been in a position to do so?
You know the answer and I know the answer. We don’t need an explanation from the DoJ no matter who’s running it to understand that this incongruous situation is, in and of itself, a clear indicator that the FBI was exaggerating the true impact we had on the government.
It wasn’t a true story. They knew it wasn’t a true story. It was a useful story that they could leverage to justify rounding us up.
It’s a plot hole because the actions taken are inconsistent with the reasoning behind it. If I were a writer working on a story inspired by the events of Jan 6, I would be forced to revise my story to iron out that pipe bomber detail so it makes sense.
There are other plot holes in Jan 6.
One big point that drives our detractors crazy is the fact that we were never asked to disperse until we were already leaving. Why did that order come so late? We believe it’s because if the gathering was indeed declared unlawful around 3pm as opposed to around 5pm, the majority of protesters would’ve dutifully complied with law enforcement and the event would’ve ended.
Why did the police behind Ashli Babbitt take cover as she climbed through the window instead of putting her in cuffs? They could catch her after she was shot, but not pull her back to safety and custody?
Why weren’t the actions of virtuous protesters rewarded? If the threat was actually real, why do we only hear about the protesters that dragged Michael Fanone out of the tunnel and not the protesters who convinced him to holster his gun while telling the other protesters to back off? Why didn’t the protesters who quelled the crowd around Fanone and the ones who calmly backed off get recognition for saving officers’ (plural) lives if indeed the scene was so deadly to law enforcement as they say?
Why did the DoJ have to invent a law to charge protesters?
Why did the judges go along with any of this?
We’re so used to calling Leftists out on their hypocrisy that we lose sight of the fact that these aren’t momentary lapses in self awareness. They’re plot holes. The mark of a sloppy writer or whatever you want to call the people who craft their political narrative.
They aren’t confused or biased. They’re deliberately misrepresenting facts to justify actions they want to take.
Renee and Rebecca Good were doing the same thing.
There are in fact several plot holes in their version of events.
Plot Hole 1: Trump is a dictator and ICE are his gestapo.
We all know what the incongruity is here. If Trump were a dictator, he’d be making a sweep of the country to arrest his political opponents. Like Biden did with us.
Democrats may say this is the case, but their actions reveal a completely contrary understanding. No J6er violently resisted arrest by the FBI. We have guns and protein. Resisting was possible at any number of levels of violence. None of us did so.
Yet every Leftist protester resists law enforcement or helps others to resist. That’s the whole point of these protests. J6ers acted consistently with the understanding that Biden was a tyrant. Leftists manifestly do not. The only conclusion is that they’re lying for effect.
Plot Hole 2: Renee Good and her spouse were afraid of ICE and both the command to drive and the subsequent action were the result of that fear.
Manifestly untrue. Throughout the day including up to the moment Good was shot, their attitude towards the police betrayed not fear but defiance. They organized obstruction efforts. When directly approached and challenged, they brayed and taunted. They allowed their vehicle plates and faces to be recorded. The reason people have such a hard time understanding their mindset is because their attitudes were so incongruous with the severity of the situation. Literally no one who has watched the scene believes Good was afraid.
And yet, by the time ICE approaches her vehicle and commands her to step out, she had already committed the same crime that I was convicted of: 18 USC 111: “Assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees.” When I was convicted, the prosecution wanted 5 years.
Plot Hole 3: Drive, baby Drive!
Having had their faces and plates recorded by federal law enforcement, there was literally nowhere in the country the couple could have gone to hide from the long arm of the law. Rebecca verbally acknowledged this fact as the ICE officer was recording her. At that point, both Renee and Rebecca knew they could not hide.
If that’s the case, why step on the gas pedal?
It’s not confusion or fear because they were both calm in the presence of the officers. And it wasn’t to get away because at that point they knew what I knew when the feds knocked on my front door: there’s no escape.
That leaves only one logical reason to step on the accelerator.
It’s the same reason the officer fired.
“But she was scared!”
Specious. That’s not what happened. It’s what they want you to think. Why? So other Leftists can continue acting the fool and stop law enforcement from removing illegal aliens who vote Democrat. It’s not an explanation. It’s manipulation.
Let me get personal again. Five months is the amount of time between when my wanted picture came on the FBI’s J6 website and the day I was arrested. During that time, do you think I lived a normal life?
No. I barely left my house. I was afraid of being run up on by feds while I was shopping or going to church. Every damn morning, I would go to my front window and peek between the blinds and count the number of cars parked on my street, taking note of their make and model. When I did leave home, I constantly looked over my shoulder.
I was scared. I was scared of the feds.
I didn’t go out of my way to force an interaction between them and showcase a breezy bravado, “It’s okay, dude!”
The way I acted was consistent with how someone who fears federal law enforcement behaves.
Let’s look at history. Oskar Schindler, the protagonist from the movie Schindler’s List which is based on a true story. How did he help the Jews? Did he walk up to the SS and suggest they get sandwich and that he didn’t care if they knew his face? Did he make it clear that he disagreed with their actions and wanted to thwart them?
Oskar Schindler behaved in a manner consistent with someone who recognized the threat posed by the Nazi regime.
Did the Goods act in a manner consistent with their stated motivations and “beliefs?”
The whole reason they were there in the first place, ostensibly, was to “resist” a tyrannical regime. The same regime that Democrats and the media have been saying that ICE agents are disappearing and somehow deporting full-fledged citizens.
Yet the actions taken by the Goods were not consistent with their reason for interfering with law enforcement.
That’s a plot hole.
And if they misrepresented their reason for even being there in the first place, why would we accept their reason for trying to run over an ICE officer? Why?
Just like when I when I challenge the Biden DoJ’s J6 narrative, all I’m doing is taking their words at their face value. It was an insurrection. The bomb was real and capable of harming multiple people. MAGA represented an existential threat to the Republic.
I listened to what they said, and I used my imagination to picture how they should have reacted, and then compared that to what actually happened. And that’s where you find the plot holes.
According to the Goods, they were freedom fighters in a resistance movement, then they became defiant and belligerent towards what they likened to the SS, and then suddenly they became quaking and helpless victims. From before that day and throughout that day, they changed who they were according to what they needed. Like the Goods, everything about this case from the protests to the reactions are merely performative.
If they believed what they said, they would’ve acted in a manner consistent with those beliefs. Like I did. Or like Oskar Schindler did.
Like Ashli Babbitt did. She too was a victim of police violence. But throughout the day, she was the same person. From start to bloody finish, Ashli was Ashli.
The Goods were not. They changed.
I can imagine a prosecutor successfully using this very angle of attack against Rebecca Good in trial. That’s the benefit of my theory of Leftist psychology. It explains and presents a predictive model. It also does not strip the Goods of their personal agency and individual morality. But most of all, it’s not a psychological theory but a tactical assessment. And because of that, it provides us with a workable and effective counter to the Leftist tendency to force us to LARP in their perpetual fan fictions.
By looking only at their motivations and not being sidetracked by their questionable mental condition, this Plot Hole Theory accounts for a number of traits unique to Leftists:
Lying
Hypocrisy
Disinformation
Appeals to emotion
“Software updates” (i.e. random changes in what triggers them)
Associating with trans and Muslims (personal license)
Inwardly main character while as behaving like broken NPCs (i.e. “experts” who don’t know what a woman is)
Love of censorship (projecting their own weaponization of speech)
Total disinterest in debate (speech is manipulation and not idea-sharing)
Immunity to cognitive dissonance (because reason and logic were never factors)
Strong party appeal to women (communication habits are generally more emotional and manipulative)
Strong party appeal to criminals, deviants, and experts who are constantly seeking to leverage their positions to exercise more power over others
The overblown tantrums whenever they don’t get their way
Plot Hole Theory also relieves Conservatives of certain assumptions that impede rational and just reaction to Leftist ploys.
One is that we assume people have core beliefs and structure their reasoning around those beliefs. We look at Leftism as an ideology and intone seriously about the flaws and dangers of Marxism, atheism, materialism, utilitarianism and so forth. The Left does not operate at an ideological level at all. Ideological people would actually yearn for debate over street combat.
All they care about is being left alone to do what they want no matter the consequences. That is the assumption, the means, and the object of all that they do. Hence appeals to truth, reason, consistent logic, morality, or common sense have no impact and never will.
They know they aren’t being sincere and they don’t care.
Just because the Left frames everything in narratives which they themselves don’t rationally agree with, doesn’t mean we have to play along. In their minds, we may be characters in their stories, but they don’t control what we say or do. I have a pen. You have a pen. We can just as easily summon our own main character energy.
And the best way to counter them is to ruin their story by running right up to their fourth wall and break it. Preferably with maximum consequences like what will happen to Rebecca Good when her case finally goes to trial.
This assessment doesn’t necessarily invalidate those other models saying that Leftists also are four layers of crazy or have completely broken minds like the Personality Disorder and LLM models suggest.
Attacking the plot holes hits Leftists right in their narratives. It exposes them as callous, manipulative phonies whose only real goal is getting license to do whatever they want and live without consequences.
We don’t need to navel gaze about their psychological state or how they’ve rewired their brains. Consequences like prison and lost prestige will lear them real quick. Their ploys will no longer act as a smokescreen for bad behavior but as a signal flare that they’re the real villains.
Not in their story. But in the only narrative that really matters: the story that is true.
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