Ashli Babbit died yesterday.
35 years old, a California native and a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, Babbitt served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Later, with the National Guard, she was deployed to Kuwait and Qatar. She met her first husband in the service and they married, divorcing in May of 2019.
"She was never afraid to speak her mind...and in a way, this was her way of speaking her mind", her ex-husband said to reporters.
The "this" ,that was "her way" he is referring to, was going to the 'rally' that assembled in front of the White House, listening to a 'president' call for a march to the Capitol building, marching to that building, taking part in what became an armed mob storming barricades, entering the Capitol to occupy, vandalize and desecrate. As windows were smashed, the 35 year old Air Force veteran, wearing a "Trump flag" around her waist, who was "speaking her mind" jumped on a pane and joined others in crawling through a window.
And was shot to death by Capitol Police reacting to the assault on the premises.
Babbitt was a passionate supporter of Donald Trump and had posted frequently on social media echoing Trump's conspiracy theories and false claims of massive voter fraud. She posted combative videos about American immigration policy, expressed support for a border wall. Tweeted a picture of herself in a "boat parade" in San Diego, wearing a shirt that read, "We Are Q", referring to QAnon, the radical right conspiracy theorists. She had publicly called for Mike Pence to resign and be charged with treason, Posted numerous videos of Trump rallies and of the 'supporters' headed to DC for yesterday's 'protests'.
In her last post, she offered "nothing will stop us...they can try and try and try but the storm is here and is descending upon DC in less than 24 hours...dark to light..."
The 'storm' arrived as advertised. And once the clouds of tear gas had blown away, the 'storm' had resulted in, at least, one fatality.
The original announcement reported that she was killed by a gunshot fired by a Capitol Police officer who was reacting to the assault of an armed mob on the United States Capitol building. A first in contemporary American history.
She was shot. But she died from a toxic reaction
To an unconscionable passel of half truths, false claims, outright lies sold, all very legally, in small, but constant doses, in the forms of "tweets'. By a failed con man/real estate hustler /television game show host who took insecurity, uncertainty, fear and paranoia and concocted a recipe of snake oil never before seen and, likely, never again to be equaled.
The irony practically screams out loud. That a young and dedicated veteran of service to her country should die...at the blood stained hands of her "Commander-In-Chief"...
Ashli Babbitt died yesterday.
She was shot.
But she died from something she swallowed. Something she bought quite a while ago.
Snake oil.
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