Yesterday, violent right-wing terrorists forced themselves into the U.S. Capitol after a pro-Trump protest that everyone on the planet – except, oddly enough, everyone involved in law enforcement – knew would escalate to dangerous levels, leading to a day that the United States will never have to and never have to live. And, According to Haystack, there were some familiar faces in the crowd outside the White House, specifically Ariel Pink and John Maus. The two appear in a photo posted by Washington DC filmmaker Alex Lee Moyer asking Pink tweet that he was there to “show peacefully [his] support for the president ”and that he“ went back to the hotel and took an afternoon nap ”before all the rioting started. So that’s cool, right? He was just there to express how much he liked the idiotic despot who drove the protesters into a rage in the first place and for the past four years convinced people that he was universally loved and that the only possible explanation for anything that bad happens to him, a major conspiracy of Antifa supersoldiers who (despite the name) the real fascist. So if “I was just at the peaceful White House rally” was supposed to be a defense, that’s pretty damn stupid.
As for Maus, his explanation is a little harder to analyze. He posted a link on Twitter to a piece of religious writing from 1937 it condemns the idolatry of specific people or governments, which appears to be anti-Trump, but other than that, he offered no explanation. Also, as pointed out by our friends at Jezebel, he was one of the musical artists involved in Adult Swim’s short-lived all-right sketch display Million dollar extreme presents: world peace and apparently refused to consider the possibility that the people he worked with were anything but ‘nice’. After all, as he told Noisey in 2017, they did not “burn crosses or do anything like that.” Again: fucking stupid.
This brings us to Alex Lee Moyer, who told Haystack in an email that she was there because she ‘felt compelled to record what happened’. To this day, Moyer was probably best known for TFW No GF, a sympathetic documentary about light bulbs allowed by angry white guys on the internet eventually tell their side of the story. In a post on her private Instagram, Moyer shared it the photo with Pink and Maus along with the caption: “The day we almost died but had a great time.” A good time! Good for her. One could hypothetically ask how you would almost die if you were just at the “peaceful” rally in the White House and not the siege of the Senate, but whatever. The point is, she’s had a wonderful time, which – after consulting our handy map on ‘Explanations of people who were in the riot’ – is … let’s see here … oh yeah, fucking stupid.