Michelle in middle, anti-mask fanatic Cassandra Ferragamo on left, Michelle’s mysterious tanned BF [Update – Mark Simon, arrested 1/28] on right. (Before the storm! See comments below for more on Cassandra.)
Don’t worry, we saved it for her because we think it’s exciting and valuable. Presumably it’s not too incriminating for a law-abiding cop-respecting lady like Michelle, but it could provide evidence of OTHER folks’ lawbreaking for the authorities. Remember, there have now been SIX deaths due to this glorious insurrection, two of them Capitol Police! And Michelle could make a good witness for the FBI, as could her unnamed tanned boyfriend who gives a few rowdy rebel-yells in the last twenty seconds of this video:
This tanned boyfriend Mark Simon has a thing for putting up what looks like a peace sign – maybe he means “victory” Nixon-style – while hollering in exhilaration – first time, “The Capitol baby — YAAAHHHH!” Second time, “Yo. AAAAGGGGHHHH!” And third time, “Twenty-twenty-one-donald-TRUMP” [sticks out tongue for some reason.] Who is this well-spoken, mysterious, tanned boyfriend, whose pictures are all over Michelle’s Facebook wall but whose name she keeps a secret? None of us know – yet. [Mark Simon – Jan. 28.]
DC is for lovers.
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The couple that recalls Newsom on the pier together stays together!
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Our curiosity as to who exactly from HB or the OC in general helped overrun the Capitol for Trump is insatiable! A lot of Michelle’s Facebook friends boast about the great adventure… such as Tito Ortiz campaign manager Rick Brown, who actually got on a Trump Bus at the HB Pier on DECEMBER 28 to get to DC TEN DAYS LATER for the hellraising – what commitment! What time on his hands! Sadly though, just like Michelle, his social media is scrubbed clean of the weeks since – but why? There’s nothing he was ashamed of or trying to hide, is there? Well, maybe Rick also saw something that could be helpful to investigators! [UPDATE Jan. 20 – the FBI is looking for Rick. Wow – Tito’s campaign manger on the lam!]
Tito campaign manager Rick Brown, Michelle, and … Hey guys, it’s Tito himself!! (We’re still trying to determine what the Great Big Mayor Pro Tem was doing that day.)
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With Tito’s gf Amber, she of the #SaveOurChildren charity, at what must be Tito Central!
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Michelle says Recall Gavin, while Tito says “Make Childhood Great Again,” and someone in the background frets over the media’s ignoring sex trafficking! It could be a little early for the Mayor Pro-tem to be planning for his second childhood, but hey, CTE and all…
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It was COLD in DC January 6. But it’s also wrong to deprive America of this valuable history due to simple skittishness over legal exposure…
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Not necessarily connected to Michelle Peterson, but just in case we’ve got the FBI’s attention by now (or the SAPD), we’ve captured more OC-to-DC braggadocio, from one of the stars of DECEMBER 6’s “Bristol Melee” in Santa Ana. Remember that menacing tub of lard Joe Vargas, who helped his fellow Trumpies beat the shit out of three innocent Santa Ana passersby that day? Well of COURSE he was in DC one month later – too bad he hasn’t been arrested yet for the SA mayhem, he couldn’t-a been well-behaved in Washington. We’ll close for now with our Joe “lard boy” Vargas collection:
AND IN DC:
Update 1/20, Vargas removed most of his incriminating videos from IG
1. Lard Boy leads DC MAGAt crowd in purloined “Whose House? Our House!” chant:
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2. He records his chickenhawk hero belching out a bit of hatred before sending his minions off to the slaughter.
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3. Lard Boy LOVES “Hoody” Giuliani, who had just incited the crowd to “Trial By Combat!”
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4. And finally, Lard Boy gets all Fan Boy with murderer-bailer-out the “My Pillow Guy.”
WE HOPE THIS POST IS HELPFUL.
FBI is listening!
I’m disappointed that apparently none of them showed off their “souvenirs” — which might be worth an extra year or two in prison.
‘Yeah’!….’LOCK UM.. ALL UP’!!!
That’s not usually a slogan I’d be comfortable with, but … THEY STARTED IT!!
We at least need Trump, Cruz, Hawley, Giuliani, and Chapman’s John Eastman locked up. Also any capitol police who helped and co-operated (although I just saw a cool video of a friendly looking black guard who cleverly drew the protesters who were looking for Senators to a more harmless location.)
I’ll issue a pro forma objection to locking up lawyers over the actions of their clients here, but as I see an angry mob at the gates I will now simply step aside.
Giuliani? Was that an “action of his client” when he egged the mob on to “Trial by Combat?” Or fed them incendiary lies for the last half year at least?
If you don’t know the incendiary claim to be a lie, there is arguably an ethical responsibility to promote it (if you don’t quit the case.) It’s called “zealous advocacy.” But if you’re talking about his “Trial by Combat” comment, that could certainly be prosecuted as his own incitement.
I really want to know what Jorly Eastman did, so I can feel right about piling on. Promoting even a woefully stupid theory isn’t likely “incitement.”
Following a tip now (from Mr Ashleigh Aitken!) that Chapman University’s nutty professor John Eastman, 2010 AG candidate and Kamala Birther, was at the great event, not just participating but riling up the crowd at the side of Rudy Giuliani! That will deserve its own story once I find out more.
Stepping further aside now. Putting my car keys in the door and unlocking it.
The list of radicalized MAGAt insurrectionists is grown and also includes:
HB Councilman Tito Ortiz’s campaign manager Rick Brown;
Irvine heir Morton Irvine Smith;
former La Habra Police Chief Alan Hostetter;
HB MAGAt tweaker Christopher Drew;
and OC GOP Central Committee Member & Rossmoor Community Services District Director Dr Jeff Barke’s partner in the Trump-sponsored front group “America’s Frontline Doctors,” a shady physician named Dr Simone Gold, who is actually #21 on the FBI’s insurrectionist Wanted List!
OK, neither-Larry-Tribe-nor-Laurence-Taylor, we need a source on this information for it to stay up. Create a fake e-mail address, if you need to, and send Vern a link, so that we can check out your source. Please understand: this may all be true, but you could be trying to us up. We’ll leave it up with that “flag warning” for now. No offense intended; just being responsible.
I know who it is, I’m not sure why he didn’t use his real name, but we’ve been FB friends a while, and I’ll msg you who it is if you need. (I did quote him as a “former OC GOP insider” in my story on the Seven Seditionists.)
And his e-mail is not fake.
I said that he should create a fake email, presuming that he wanted to preserve his anonymity, as with Tito Watch. Anyway, I got it. Still want to see the source, if possible.
He showed me a bunch of em, it got to be overkill. Mostly now-deleted Twitter and Instagram stuff saved by activists. None of these are controversial claims.
Michael Penn sent me the C-Span clip of Eastman speaking with Giulani; I haven’t watched it yet but you might want to since I know you had been starting a piece on Eastman: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4933578/user-clip-rudy-giuliani-professor-john-eastman
This clip provoked this letter to the LA Times, from Wylie, Loretta, and 150+ others involved with Chapman: https://www.facebook.com/michael.penn.39395/posts/3500988086792109
Maybe we should reprint that letter!
And the LA Times’ Daily Pilot acknowledged this blog and this story today, in Matthew Szabo’s “Huntington Beach far-right activists were at U.S. Capitol during riot.” Thanks, Matt! It’s pretty rare for a newspaper to acknowledge a blog.
https://www.latimes.com/socal/daily-pilot/news/story/2021-01-11/huntington-beach-far-right-activists-were-at-u-s-capitol-during-rio
Well, all righty then! Yes, let’s publish the letter — and the call-out from the Pilot!
A trackback from a Somali publication: that’s not something that you see here every day!
Along with a large mob of Trump MAGA’S, Cassandra Ferragamo ATTACKED a young black woman on Jan.6 in downtown L.A. Cassandra ripped the woman’s wig off and cheerfully brandished it, screeching, “I just took the first scalp of the civil war.”
She needs to be arrested and charged for her hate crime.
Yes, I became aware of that yesterday. Jubb is talking about the bizarre looking woman on the left in the first photo of this story.
Huh. Lard Boy removed all videos from his Instagram. Oh well, I’m sure others have got them by now.
I guess this post WAS pretty helpful – Michelle’s “mysterious tanned boyfriend” has been identified AND arrested by the FBI. His name was Mark Simon!
And apparently this story (and my sharing of Michelle’s video) helped them. From this NBC story: “Agents also said they reviewed blog posts in which Simon was seen in videos with a female companion, including one message titled, “From HB to DC: (redacted) and tanned BF help Storm the Capitol for Trump!””
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/local-2/capitol-riot-arrest-social-media-huntington-beach/2513569/
I liked the story’s headline, ‘In the Capitol Baby’: Social Media Leads to Arrest in Huntington Beach in U.S. Capitol Violence.” I guess Mark’s third quote, “Twenty-twenty-one-donald-TRUMP [sticks out tongue]” was less headline-worthy.
KABC’s Jessica De Nova story was even better than the very good one by KNBC’s Eric Leonard and Andrew Blankstein, for a reason that discerning readers will probably find obvious:
Under the circumstances I feel entitled to post the entire story above, but if KNBC has a takedown request it is invited to send a message to vernpnelson at-sign gmail period com to give us a phone number where we could call them (to verify their identity.) If they want us to whittle it down to just the boldfaced portions above, we will dejectedly comply.
By the way, Ms. De Nova and Messers Leonard and Blankstein, we’d love to talk to you sometime about our coverage of the Poseidon Desal Project and Disneyland’s role in commandeering Anaheim’s municipal government. THOSE stories are more than one-day wonders!
any clues about #Swedishscarf guy who is wanted #102 and is seen in so many HB and L.A. Qanon and trump rallies? I am surprised he has not been identified since he is a regular.
Looks like people just slowly walking in and out..turns out there were several FBI agents planted there.. I have a close friend who lives there..and ..you left narrative is bull