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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: i-node who wrote (1582779)1/11/2026 12:47:01 PM
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She received no warning,

Wrong.
Was Ashli Babbitt warned?

Babbitt had been warned not to proceed through the window: one witness recalled that "A number of police and Secret Service were saying 'Get back! Get down! Get out of the way!'; [Babbitt] didn't heed the call."

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she was unarmed and posed no threat to any person,

No way to know that. She wore a coat and had a backpack on. She could have had anything from multiple pistols to a TV backpack nuke. Or cannisters of sarin. Or...

Turns out, she didn't. But if you are charged with guarding the lives of the highest elected officials in the land and a bunch of people with weapons have broken into the facility, fighting with security all the way with you being the last point of resistance, do you go "Shucky darn. She's a good looking white woman. I should just let her through"....

there was a blockade preventing her entry into the other room

Um, the door with the window she was climbing through was blocked, also. It didn't make much difference, now did it? The mob had already broken into the fucking building.

Look, if she were black and was backed by an angry crowd that broke a window to your office and you were sitting at your desk with a gun, what would you do? Invite her to tea?
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