In Poor Taste … To Say The Least!

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My jaw dropped and steam began coming out of my ears when I read about the latest board game being released this Saturday, January 6th.  Does the date ring any bells?  Yes, it is the third anniversary of the horrible attack on the United States Capitol – an attack designed to overthrow the 2020 election and allow a wanna-be dictator to remain in office indefinitely; an attack that killed several people and injured hundreds more; an attack that destroyed property belonging to We the People.  And this new board game?  Called “Storm the Capitol — TrueAnon Edition”, it is a mockery of the events of that day.

The game celebrates the events of that day and those who participated in it!!!  WHAT THE HELL … ???  Does anybody think this is funny?  I certainly do not!  It would be like … like making a game out of the events of 9/11 or the Holocaust!!!

The game, which sells for $65, is based on the events that unfolded on January 6th and allows players to, according to its creators, “Relive one of the funniest days in American history!”  Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr … There is NOTHING funny about murder and mayhem, nothing in the least bit humorous about the attempt to overturn a duly elected government!!!  Any fool who would buy this game needs … a serious re-booting of his brain and maybe a kick from a boot to his posterior, as well!

According to Newsweek, players can …

“… play as one of the six patriot characters, you go from room to room, where you’re dealt either an ‘event’ card, ballots—the game’s equivalent of points—or nothing.

The goal is to get 100 ballots and make it to the final room, where former President Donald Trump waits for players so that he can take them on his helicopter and change the results of the 2020 election to his favor ‘or ratify the real results of the 2020 election,’ which amounts to winning the game.”

Care to take a wild guess about what sort of people came up with the idea and developed this monstrosity of a ‘game’?  Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr …  One Twitter user said “January 6th was about having fun with your friends—and this January 6th, that amazing feeling is coming back,” while another joked that it should have been made available before Christmas.  Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr …

What a slap in the face this is to the family of slain officer Brian Sicknick, to Michael Fanone, Caroline Edwards, Aquilino Gonell, and all the other officers injured while trying to protect the Capitol and its legitimate occupants that fateful day.  What a slap in the face it is to all of us who care … about this country, its people, and its future.

Officer Aquilino Gonell testifying before the J6 committee

Officer Michael Fanone testifying before the J6 committee

Officer Caroline Edwards testifying before the J6 committee

In Memoriam — Officer Brian Sicknick who gave his life to protect democracy

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61 thoughts on “In Poor Taste … To Say The Least!”

  2. You know, this is even a slap in the face of one of their own, Ashli Babbitt, killed for endangering a police officer and not standing down. I wonder if anybody who developed this game thought of the people who loved her.

    I’m not sticking up for any insurrectionist. I’m just saying-she may have been having fun right up to the moment she died, but she flipping died flipping committing flipping sedition.

    Rightwingers pretty much are always about the money, though. They’ll separate rubes from their hardearned bucks on this game, and move on to the next thing.

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    • Good point, Ali!!! They’ve tried to paint Ms. Babbitt as some sort of a hero, else an innocent victim — she was neither, but was a criminal who got what she deserved, but in this case, yes, they are demeaning her as well as the others who died or were injured. I’m just so disgusted over the very idea of this ‘game’ that I think if I were to go into a store and see it on the shelves, I would throw every one of them to the floor and stomp them to smithereens with both feet!!!

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  4. Nothing surprises me anymore.
    This morning saw 25% of Americans think the FBI was involved in 1/6. With this many stupid and horrible people, we are surely doomed. Yes write letters ( but it does no good) and vote (and I wonder about that)..I do vote.

    This shows how sick our society really is. I can only imagine how many will buy this game and the money the orange turd gets from it.

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    • When I read that news story about 25% thinking the FBI initiated J6, I had the exact same thought … there are far more really stupid people in this country than I ever thought!!! I still write the letters, will continue to vote, for it’s the main tools in our toolbox, so we cannot give in to despair and let our tools rust!

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      • I’m in Fla..letters don’t good. Remember it’s DuhSantis here, but I absolutely vote. I’m also a member of my local Democratic Club…we get together once a month..mostly just talk and vent…
        People are afraid of going door to door or passing out literature…
        I’m hoping there are more democrats that just don’t speak out, but will not vote red. One can hope..

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        • Maybe in your case, letters to the editors of the newspapers would be more effective than letters to your representatives. But yeah, Mary, we have to keep trying … you just never know when you might make someone sit up and think for a change.

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  5. I know that this just another money-raising, money-making SCAM for you know who’s bank account in order to help pay for all his legal suits and trials. No doubt whatsoever. They/He has no shame and in reality mocks everything our Core Founding Fathers did. From love letters between Abigail Adams and John Adams regarding this foundering new country…

    John:
    My dearest friend, Whether I stand high or low in the estimation of the world, my conscience is clear. I thank God I have you for a partner. In all the joys and sorrows, all the prosperity and adversity of my life, to take a part with me, to take a part with me in the struggle.

    Abigail:
    Should I draw you the picture of my heaart? You would know with what undescribable pleasure I have seen so many scores of years roll over our heads with an affection, heightened and improved by time. Nor have the dreary yeaars of absence in the smallest degree effaced from my mind the image of the dear untitled man to whom I gave my heart. You could not be, nor did I wish to see you an inactive spectator.

    John:
    Well posterity? You will never know how much it cost us to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make a good use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in heaven that I ever took half the pains… to preserve it.

    That passion and affection between two of the newest Americans should still burn today, if and only if, one knows the sacrifices paid and the liberties gifted by those who embrace it, live it, teach it, die for it, and breath it every single day of this life. And yet, THIS experience is the furthest demonstration of it by any MAGA supporter today. 😔

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    • I don’t have to wonder what the Founding Fathers would think if they were magically transported to this country today. It was inevitable that the country would change, evolve as times and technology changed, but … we took a wrong turn and now are nowhere near fulfilling the dream John Adams and the others shared.

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      • Couldn’t agree more Jill. If half (or more) of Americans truly, intimately KNEW and knew fully what the Adams went through and all the other Founding Fathers and the Philadelphia delegates sacrificed, and completely understood HOW a Republic Democracy ruled by Constitutional laws (not a few wealthy men) worked… and worked for THE PEOPLE, we would not be in this quagmire of division and on the brink of totalitarian authoritarian fascism!

        But our SCOTUS, our state supreme courts, and broken Electoral College later this year will all decide the fate of this country. I don’t know how else to put this colossal precipice we are at today. 🥺

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        • I genuinely have a fear that if Trump is allowed to take office again, within 6 months we will no longer be a nation “of the people, by the people, and for the people” but rather what I think of as a “plutocratic oligarchy”. 😞 Many call me an alarmist or say that is hyperbole, but I see myself more as a realist … I’ve studied history and I’ve seen enough of what Trump is capable of, plus I’ve read some of Project 2025 which sent chills down my spine.

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          • Yes, he audaciously pronounces publicly his Project 2025 and with no shame whatsoever—reminiscent of recent past dictators in Europe, Eurasia, and other continents. Here in Texas our radical Red officials, in all key positions across the board, have implemented the Texas 1836 Project:

            Texas’ 1836 Project

            These extremists will go to no bounds to dismantle and destroy 248+ years of relative brilliance and democracy this country has labored so hard to evolve and perfect.

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  8. I own a lot of hammers. 4 rock and 2 brick at least with 7 sledges of various weights. 🫤The easiest way to break up a rock is to make it laugh. This game will not crack all of the rock-brained idiots in the MAGA universe but it might break into a few. Riding the outrage train is fun but it isn’t all that productive.😒

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  10. Jill, well first the white washers spoke of the January 6 insurrection as being a vacation. Now it is a game to some. Really?

    January 6 only happens because Donald Trump was president. It only happens because his ego is so fragile, he cannot tolerate losing. As his niece Mary said two months earlier, “My uncle will burn it all down to avoid saying he lost the election.”

    As he was overheard in the White House by Cassidy Hutchinson, “I cannot tell people I lost, so go change it.” Of course, she testified under oath. Now, Trump sycophant Steve Bannon wants Hutchinson to be jailed the rest of her life. This is the same person who blew off a House subpoena. Testifying under oath is too risky for a Trump sycophant.

    We Americans deserve better. We must take every thing said by Trump or his sycophants with a grain of salt. Every thing. Trump has earned that level of skepticism.

    Keith

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    • PS – Ironically, I am reading Sports Illustrated writer Rick Reilly’s book “Who’s your caddy?” released in 2003. He caddied for or played golf with several golf pros and a famous golf course owner named Donald J. Trump. At the conclusion of the Trump chapter Reilly writes:

      “Loved Trump. Loved the lies. Loved the truths. Loved the bullshit. Loved the beauty. But, as I collapse into a hotel room that is finally, blissfully quiet, I decide Trump was absolutely truthful about one thing. One day is enough, Baby.”

      This chapter and one paragraph portray why people pay attention to him – Reilly called it “one collosal Trumpaloooza,” but it also reveals why people tire of him and his schtick quite rapidly. The final prescient sentence uttered by Trump is you can only take being with him one day. Another reference is also telling – Reilly said Trump cannot stand the conversation subject to not be about Trump or what Trump said. He will commandeer it and bring it back to him.

      Keith

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      • For me, one HOUR would be more than enough!!! That Rick Reilly could spend a whole day with him and not be physically ill speaks volumes! I cannot even imagine what a nightmare Melania must be living, but then she seems to think it’s worth it for all the ‘things’ his money can buy her.

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    • Quite so … it all points back to Trump and his pathetically fragile ego that requires constant stroking. I was reading a David Brooks column earlier talking about ‘zero-sum ideologies’ and he noted something Trump said in one of ‘his’ books: “You hear lots of people say that a great deal is when both sides win. That is a bunch of crap. In a great deal you win — not the other side. You crush the opponent and come away with something better for yourself.” And that mentality led us to January 6th because the petulant little ‘man’ could not accept loss. But to glorify that day, to make a mockery of the lives lost that day … is just beyond unconscionable.

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  13. When riots are, celebrated like, a country’s birthday, when, people see, nothing wrong with this picture, then, there IS, a, HUGE, problem, and the, younger generations are, being, raised on these, incorrect, values, with the country sinking, to the depth, of, that, abyss, with, no way, up.

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    • You make a good point … younger generations will grow up believing that this sort of thing is okay … and it ISN’T!!! Hopefully, parents will teach their children the right things, but far too many parents are just this sort of stupid, I fear.

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  14. I suggest they make a game about chasing Donnie Duck. The first one to capture him can shoot him beyond all recogniton. Now! That would be funny!!!!!!!!!!! Oh and bury him at a pig farm!!!!!!🤣😅🤣

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    • Seems only fair at this point! But … I wouldn’t do that to the poor pigs … better to send his body on one of Elon Musk’s spaceships to some faraway galaxy where nobody will have to smell the stench!

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      • One of my best stories. An empty pig farm, dead piglets and chicken bones strewn about and a generator clacking in the background. Add a dozen cars with no drivers and hyperthymesia memory of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Ending with a decision. Can I outrun two 1/2 ton boars down a 100 yard canyon or swim across a 1/4 acre sewage lagoon? Anyway pig farms don’t generally stink until you dig them up. Bury him next to Ivana she never mindended in real life.

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  15. I wonder if the players are assigned board markers to use during the ‘Game’. Who would find it funny tto be assigned a piece of hemp rope as theirs and if they land on a certain square if they can use it to lynch Mike Pence (for bonus points). Do you think they’ll have tour guides to show these ‘innocent’ players where to find certain rooms to create mayhem and destruction and maybe find some
    Republican senators cowering inside cupboards or being helped to escape by members of the Capitol Police? Since Trump did not make an appearance that day at the Capitol, getting to him and an escape helicopter might be difficult. As with Monopoly, I wonder if they have a square to send players directly to jail? Hugs

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    • Who knows? It wouldn’t surprise me if some of the board markers were dressed like that one dude with all the body paint and the faux fur hat. I do like your idea of a “Go directly to jail” square! And NO “get out of jail free” card!!! Sigh. Cwtch

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  16. It seems like anything goes these days. I don’t wonder someone will develop a game of fighting climate change or ignoring it and developing fossil fuel resources — or some fool thing. Capitalism is all about makng a profit, and it seems like our MAGAt neighbours have money go burn, despite all their comnents on Joe’s Bidenomics.

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  17. Has the development and production of this atrocity been researched? What do you want to bet it leads back to the great orange pumpkin’s machinations?? Ridiculous!!!

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  18. Since Amazon is selling colour books (more than one edition) of serial killers and these get a sicken number of likes, and there is a tendency, particularly amongst American military boardgames to think the German armed forces of WWII were kinda of ‘heroic tops’ (the number of games with poster boy Wehrmacht covers is annoying) – nope not surprised at all. The Idiot Market is ever a profitable one.
    Regarding the game. this sort of stuff has been bubbling around for years; a premise of a US civil war with a ‘libertarian’ undertone is not uncommon. And more than a few game developers have been shoving their own political agendas in American Civil War games for years- ‘Gallant Lost Cause y’all. Eeeehah!’ and such stuff.
    I returned to military wargaming during my retirement then began to lose the taste because of this grouping. It’s not all like that, but the unpleasant smell is lurking in the corner.
    To repeat.
    Don’t you hate it when you are not surprised.

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