Coup in the USA?

[Jopsy Pendragon]

But no one’s ever had experience dealing with the zombie apocalypse and that’s what this feels like.

52 years of zombie apocalypse movies... you'd think we would have been better prepared.

 

[Dakota Tebaldi]

And the surprisingly sane attorney hired to take the lead on Trump’s impeachment unsurprisingly quit.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-top-impeachment-lawyer-left-013032667.html

It quickly became the entire legal team. Allegedly, there was an impassable dispute where the legal team insisted that his defense should be centered around the constitutionality of impeaching an ex-president whereas Trump insists that the impeachment trial needs to be a platform for his election-fraud conspiracy theory.

 

[Eunoli]

It quickly became the entire legal team. Allegedly, there was an impassable dispute where the legal team insisted that his defense should be centered around the constitutionality of impeaching an ex-president whereas Trump insists that the impeachment trial needs to be a platform for his election-fraud conspiracy theory.

To be honest, I see this as an attempt to foment another uprising during the course of the trial. He would literally be committing the crime he was on trial for while on trial.

..... and the Republicans would still acquit.

 

[Eunoli]

This is one of the worst things I've read about this so far. Miller should be arrested and prosecuted for sedition and insurrection.

Trump Defense Secretary Disarmed D.C. National Guard Before Capitol Riot

On that same day, former acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller issued a memo to the secretary of the Army placing some extremely unusual limits on National Guard forces for that event. It's not a to-do list. It's a list of thou shalt nots. A long list. A list that says guard forces can't arrest any of the pro-Trump protesters, or search them, or even touch them. And that's just for starters.
The full memo shows that the D.C. Guard did receive a request from D.C. government for guard presence during the Jan. 6 event. Miller responds promptly to go ahead, so long as the soldiers are given no weapons, no body armor, and no helmets. They can bring agents like pepper spray or flashbangs. They can't share any gear with Capitol Police or Metro D.C. Police. They can't … really do much of anything.

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

Greene needs to be hit where it hurts. Her constituents. Amazon and the Teamsters union should create a depot in neighboring Alabama and tell Greene's constituency in northwest Georgia "You chose an unhinged lunatic to represent you and we don't feel our drivers are safe entering your counties. You can pick up your stuff over here, we're not delivering it to your homes or stores."

The problem is, they really only had the option to vote for her, or not vote - she bullied the Dem out of the race. I know, my mom is stuck with her.

Yeah I live in one of five counties, out of sixty-seven, that tend to vote Democratic and Republicans still sometimes win. What happened in the Georgia Senate races was unbelievably remarkable. I hope that the Democratic voter base will maintain that momentum and encourage similar dedication in Alabama.

And Florida. I want Rubio gone, and not replaced with Murder Barbie.

If they do for drug busts, why not with insurrectionists?

Drug busts aren't on the federal level, usually. different laws apply, iirc.

I think the Biden administration is going to handle it, to the extent it can be handled. So far they have been very smart about everything.

But no one’s ever had experience dealing with the zombie apocalypse and that’s what this feels like.

Maybe the AG will, but I think if possible Biden is going to stay above it as much as possible. Hopefully this also includes investigations into the insider on the days leading up and on the 6th.

This is one of the worst things I've read about this so far. Miller should be arrested and prosecuted for sedition and insurrection.

Trump Defense Secretary Disarmed D.C. National Guard Before Capitol Riot

Yes, and if Gosar is right and we've got a war, treason.

 

[Cristiano]

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

We also need to expel Gaetz, Gosar, Biggs, Brooks, Tuberville, Green, Boebart, and any other member of congress that aided and abetted this. And you know, if they -have- declared war on us [Gosar says we're at war] then they need to be tried at traitors and not just seditionists.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Free]

This is perfect.

They stormed the Capitol to overturn the results of an election they didn't vote in | CNN

They were there to "stop the steal" and to keep the president they revered in office, yet records show that some of the rioters who stormed the US Capitol did not vote in the very election they were protesting.

www.cnn.com

One was Donovan Crowl, an ex-Marine who charged toward a Capitol entrance in paramilitary garb on January 6 as the Pro-Trump crowd chanted "who's our President?"

Federal authorities later identified Crowl, 50, as a member of a self-styled militia organization in his home state of Ohio and affiliated with the extremist group the Oath Keepers. His mother told CNN that he previously told her "they were going to overtake the government if they...tried to take Trump's presidency from him." She said he had become increasingly angry during the Obama administration and that she was aware of his support for former President Donald Trump.

Despite these apparent pro-Trump views, a county election official in Ohio told CNN that he registered in 2013 but "never voted nor responded to any of our confirmation notices to keep him registered," so he was removed from the voter rolls at the end of 2020 and the state said he was not registered in Ohio. A county clerk in Illinois, where Crowl was once registered, also confirmed he was not an active voter anywhere in the state.

 

[Jopsy Pendragon]

This is perfect.

They stormed the Capitol to overturn the results of an election they didn't vote in | CNN

They were there to "stop the steal" and to keep the president they revered in office, yet records show that some of the rioters who stormed the US Capitol did not vote in the very election they were protesting.

www.cnn.com

Why pay when you can steal? Why vote when you can just have your chosen cult leader take over?

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The people who obtained copies of material posted to Parler and then deleted (or hidden when Parler went offline) are publishing them on a timeline

What Parler Saw During the Attack on the Capitol

ProPublica sifted through thousands of videos taken by Parler users to create an immersive, first-person view of the Capitol riot as experienced by those who were there.

projects.propublica.org

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Capitol rioter seeks OK to travel to Mexico’s spring break haven

A former mayoral candidate from Texas who is charged in the Capitol riot is seeking a judge’s permission to travel to a sun-soaked region of Mexico for a “bonding retreat” with em…

nypost.com

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Free]

Off the Rails: Inside the craziest meeting of the Trump presidency

Four conspiracy theorists marched into the Oval Office on Dec. 18. Chaos ensued.

www.axios.com

It was early evening on Friday, Dec. 18 — more than a month after the election had been declared for Joe Biden, and four days after the Electoral College met in every state to make it official.

"How the hell did Sidney get in the building?" White House senior adviser Eric Herschmann grumbled from the outer Oval Office as Sidney Powell and her entourage strutted by to visit the president.

President Trump's private schedule hadn't included appointments for Powell or the others: former national security adviser Michael Flynn, former Overstock.com CEO Patrick Byrne, and a little-known former Trump administration official, Emily Newman. But they'd come to convince Trump that he had the power to take extreme measures to keep fighting.

 

[Sovereignty]

Maybe the threat of defamation lawsuits is having an effect.

 

[Jolene Benoir]

Maybe the threat of defamation lawsuits is having an effect.

That is how it should go EVERY time one of them starts with their spiel.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

A Pennsylvania Mother’s Path to Insurrection

How claims by Rudy Giuliani and Alex Jones spurred a parent of eight to become one of the Capitol riot’s biggest mysteries, and a fugitive from the F.B.I.

www.newyorker.com

We wonder how people get radicalised and start supporting Daesh and al Qaeda and so on -- well, that would seem to be an example of it happening.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Aribeth Zelin]

What do you expect from Foe news?