As armed, burly goons roam D.C.’s streets, besieged residents say “it’s the little things” that give them solace, which is why they’ve embraced as their new folk hero “The Sandwich Guy,” the pissed-off, pink-shirted, possibly drunk veteran and DOJ attorney who one recent night lost it, got in a goon’s face, yelled “F** you! You F**king Fascists!” and heaved his sub at him.
He was arrested and fired, but a grateful city has joined in his valiant subrising, joyfully proclaiming, per Bowie, “We can be gyros just for one day.”
These totalitarian days, the nation’s capitol is thronged with “an alphabet soup” of so many alleged law-enforcers – National Guard, Customs and Border, DHS, DEA, Capitol Police, US Marshals – many people feel “they walking the streets like there’s a war going on.”
G With ongoing risks to D.C.’s precarious local autonomy – a bogus DOJ probe into “fake” crime data, a GOP push to end home rule, their purported leader’s threat to take over and “run it really, really properly” (God knows what that means) – the tensions were evident Wednesday with a massive show of force outside Union Station, where regime hacks Hegseth, Vance and Miller came to survey their armed carnage, swagger about and hand burgers to a pointlessly deployed National Guard.
Predictably – polls show over 80% of residents oppose the seizure – they were met by boos, jeers, “Free D.C!” and, for Vance, “Go fuck a couch, J.D.”
It got worse when they opened their fetid mouths. Vance smirked it’s good they were there in one of D.C’s most crime- free spots because there are so many (gasp) “vagrants.”
Repulsive, sing-songy white supremacist Stephen Goebbels Miller “erupted in a manic fascist rant,” babbling the thugs will now let black people feel safe even though he doesn’t know any, and besides, “We are not going to let these crazy communists destroy a great American city.”
“All these demonstrators, they’re just elderly white hippies, they’re not part of the city and never have been,” he snarled brown-shirt style as the multi-hued-and-aged crowd booed. (Hegseth sneered.)
“We’re gonna ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they’re 90 years old.” Vile, hateful, clueless, entitled, agitprop assholes ‘R us. From we the people: Better a stupid white hippie than a Nazi loser any day.
Amidst so much rancor, hubris, racism and mindless flexing of military force, residents say, “People do want to fight back – just resisting and not being beat down by all the crap that’s going on.”
Which is how “a sandwich became a symbol of resistance in a surreal time,” the people’s way to combat an autocrat’s illegal seizure of their city and a primal, if petty, “collective scream for everyone who loves D.C., “One Small Sub for Man…One Giant Gesture for Democracy.”
Enter, possibly having imbibed a bit, Sean Charles Dunn, a 37-year-old veteran and trial attorney who on the night of Aug. 10 famously brought a sandwich to a gun fight when he confronted a pack of masked-and-kitted-up cops and border patrol guys “performing official duties” – aka standing aimlessly on 14th Street NW glowering at innocent passersby in a performative show of firepower for their mob boss leader.
A brief video of the encounter has gone viral. A fuller version shows Dunn first across the street, holding a wrapped hoagie, yelling to a guy filming, “See these fascists right here in our city?” Then he turns toward them, yelling, “Shame, shame, shame.” The guy laughs: “That’s the truth, you ain’t talking shit.” Later, Dunn strides purposefully toward the swarm of uniforms, stops in front of one, points in his face and yells, “F**k you! You f**king fascists! Why are you here? I don’t want you in my city!”
Police say he “continued his conduct for several minutes” before crossing the street, coming back, “winding his arm back and forcefully throwing a sub-style sandwich” at the agent, “striking him in the chest.”
All hell breaks loose. Up to 20 goons, with nothing else to do, give chase, handcuff and arrest him. He’s later released, then re-arrested in a hyped-up DOJ video, “Operation Make D.C. Safe Again.”
It got worse when they opened their fetid mouths. Vance smirked it’s good they were there in one of D.C’s most crime- free spots because there are so many (gasp) “vagrants.”
Repulsive, sing-songy white supremacist Stephen Goebbels Miller “erupted in a manic fascist rant,” babbling the thugs will now let black people feel safe even though he doesn’t know any, and besides, “We are not going to let these crazy communists destroy a great American city.” “All these demonstrators, they’re just elderly white hippies, they’re not part of the city and never have been,” he snarled brown-shirt style as the multi-hued-and-aged crowd booed. (Hegseth sneered.)
“We’re gonna ignore these stupid white hippies that all need to go home and take a nap because they’re 90 years old.” Vile, hateful, clueless, entitled, agitprop assholes ‘R us. From we the people: Better a stupid white hippie than a Nazi loser any day.
Amidst so much rancor, hubris, racism and mindless flexing of military force, residents say, “People do want to fight back – just resisting and not being beat down by all the crap that’s going on.”
Which is how “a sandwich became a symbol of resistance in a surreal time,” the people’s way to combat an autocrat’s illegal seizure of their city and a primal, if petty, “collective scream for everyone who loves D.C., “One Small Sub for Man…One Giant Gesture for Democracy.”
Enter, possibly having imbibed a bit, Sean Charles Dunn, a 37-year-old veteran and trial attorney who on the night of Aug. 10 famously brought a sandwich to a gun fight when he confronted a pack of masked-and-kitted-up cops and border patrol guys “performing official duties” – aka standing aimlessly on 14th Street NW glowering at innocent passersby in a performative show of firepower for their mob boss leader.
A brief video of the encounter has gone viral. A fuller version shows Dunn first across the street, holding a wrapped hoagie, yelling to a guy filming, “See these fascists right here in our city?” Then he turns toward them, yelling, “Shame, shame, shame.” The guy laughs: “That’s the truth, you ain’t talking shit.”
Later, Dunn strides purposefully toward the swarm of uniforms, stops in front of one, points in his face and yells, “Fuck you! You fucking fascists! Why are you here? I don’t want you in my city!” Police say he “continued his conduct for several minutes” before crossing the street, coming back, “winding his arm back and forcefully throwing a sub-style sandwich” at the agent, “striking him in the chest.”
All hell breaks loose. Up to 20 goons, with nothing else to do, give chase, handcuff and arrest him. He’s later released, then re-arrested in a hyped-up DOJ video, “Operation Make D.C. Safe Again.”
Dunn was charged with one felony count of “assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers (of) the United States,” a federal charge that carries up to ten years in prison.
The dangerous perp, it turns out, is an attorney who worked as an international affairs specialist in the Justice Department’s criminal division. He’s also an Air Force veteran who served in Afghanistan from 2006 to 2011, with a stint in Kandahar.
He earned over a dozen awards during his service, including the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Air Force Good Conduct Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Air Force Legacy Service Award and National Atlantic Treaty Organization Medal.
After news of the foot-long fray, the Air Force Times couldn’t believe “this nonsense” (over) assault with a deli weapon,” noting Dunn’s lawyer “questioned whether this deli-quence meets the standard for a felony charge.”
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