Coup in the USA?

[Katheryne Helendale]

Hoo boy...

Jim Acosta: Trump advisers are trying to talk 'insane' Trump 'off the ledge'

On Thursday's edition of CNN's "OutFront," correspondent Jim Acosta gave new details about former President Donald Trump's delusion that he could be "reinstated" as president later in the year."How seriously is Trump believing this insane theory?" asked anchor Erin Burnett."It's insane and very...

www.rawstory.com

 

[Romana]

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Is America heading to a place where it can no longer call itself a democracy?

Voting rights are threatened across the US and Trump allies are vying to control elections in multiple states. Can US democracy survive the post-Trump onslaught?

www.theguardian.com

Evernote link because why not

If America Were a Foreign Country, We’d Know Its Democracy Is Dying

Biden knows that our biggest challenge at home and abroad is the struggle between pro-democratic and pro-authoritarian forces. He’s fighting to make sure that the right side wins.

www.thedailybeast.com

 

[Romana]

Is America heading to a place where it can no longer call itself a democracy?

Voting rights are threatened across the US and Trump allies are vying to control elections in multiple states. Can US democracy survive the post-Trump onslaught?

www.theguardian.com

Evernote link because why not

If America Were a Foreign Country, We’d Know Its Democracy Is Dying

Biden knows that our biggest challenge at home and abroad is the struggle between pro-democratic and pro-authoritarian forces. He’s fighting to make sure that the right side wins.

www.thedailybeast.com

If it does, I'm out.
I'm not going to wait for them to kill me ,I'll beat them to it.

 

[Free]

 

[Romana]

Same guy:
He even let them in himself. Why's he still in office ?

 

[WolfEyes]

Same guy:
He even let them in himself. Why's he still in office ?

He isn't.

Mike Nearman, Oregon state representative, told to resign by House speaker after letting rioters into Capitol

Tina Kotek has already stripped Mike Nearman of his many of his legislative duties, and fined him for building damage.

www.oregonlive.com

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

He isn't.

Mike Nearman, Oregon state representative, told to resign by House speaker after letting rioters into Capitol

Tina Kotek has already stripped Mike Nearman of his many of his legislative duties, and fined him for building damage.

www.oregonlive.com

It doesn't look like he's been removed from office yet, though he had been stripped of all his committees and his building access badge.

 

[WolfEyes]

It doesn't look like he's been removed from office yet, though he had been stripped of all his committees and his building access badge.

Let me rephrase that. He isn't, he just don't know it yet.

Oregon Rep. Mike Nearman intended to allow demonstrators to breach Capitol, new report suggests

A workplace investigation into Nearman's actions on Dec. 21 could lead to consequences when lawmakers take up the matter next week.

www.opb.org

It will ultimately be up to the House Conduct Committee, a four-member panel evenly split between Democrats and Republicans, to decide whether Nearman’s conduct violated legislative personnel rules and, if so, what the consequences should be.

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Let me rephrase that. He isn't, he just don't know it yet.

Oregon Rep. Mike Nearman intended to allow demonstrators to breach Capitol, new report suggests

A workplace investigation into Nearman's actions on Dec. 21 could lead to consequences when lawmakers take up the matter next week.

www.opb.org

They just need to take away his red stapler.

 

[Romana]

 

[Romana]

PS to previous post:


Mind you, his password and PIN were ridiculously guessable anyway :

 

[Free]

Good on the Oregon House members.

Oregon Republicans call on GOP state lawmaker to resign after video shows him appearing to tell protesters how to enter closed state Capitol

Republican members of Oregon's House of Representatives have called on an embattled member of their caucus to resign after newly surfaced video showed him appearing to give protesters insights into how to access the state Capitol, which led to a scuffle between protesters and police last year.

edition.cnn.com

 

[Free]

Militia plotted ‘war’ against California cops, impersonating Antifa, taking up arms if Trump invoked Insurrection Act, feds say

Recently filed court records shed new light on a California-based militia known as the Grizzly Scouts, whose members included Steven Carrillo, the man accused of murdering two law enforcement offic…

www.mercurynews.com

In the weeks before a gunman allegedly killed two officers in separate shootings last year, prosecutors say he and other members of an extremist militia known as the Grizzly Scouts held firearms trainings, scouted protests, and laid out terms of “war” against police.

In recent court filings, federal prosecutors in the Bay Area have revealed the most extensive details yet on the investigation into the May 29, 2020 fatal shooting of Federal Protective Service Officer Dave Patrick Underwood in Oakland, and the June 6, 2020 killing of Santa Cruz Sheriff Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller in an ambush in Ben Lomond.

The documents paint a picture of the alleged shooter, Steven Carrillo, not as a lone actor but a member of a Northern California-based anti-government organization that — in its rhetoric and actions — was preparing for deadly attacks on law enforcement. The Grizzly Scouts — most of whom are still at large — identify with a loosely-affiliated, nationwide militia movement that uses the name “Boogaloo” and favors Hawaiian shirts and violent rhetoric, but the Scouts’ activities appear to be more carefully plotted.

 

[Romana]

Judge Finds Proud Boy’s Pleas to Get Out of Jail 'Without Merit,' Highlighting Vulgar Threats He Made Against People Who 'Ratted' Him Out

Finding a Proud Boys member's complaints of inadequate medical care behind bars "without merit," a federal judge issued a scathing ruling on Wednesday explaining why he kept him in jail—and revealing his vulgar Facebook tirades against the "pu**y ass bitch" he believed "ratted" him out following...

lawandcrime.com

 

[Romana]

From the Proud Boys to the Three Percenters.
And there's Mangy!

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Trump-inspired death threats are terrorizing election workers

‘You and your family will be killed very slowly’: Trump's false voter-fraud claims sparked a campaign to terrorize election officials and workers nationwide.

www.reuters.com

 

[Romana]

“No one at these places will be spared unless and until Trump is guaranteed to be POTUS again.”

Either these people really don't know how government and elections work, or they just want an excuse for their terrorism. Maybe both.
There's no way Frontbutt can be guaranteed to be president in 2024.
I didn't think I could have a lower opinion of him than I did, but he keeps finding new depths. He won't condemn them, unless he thinks it will help his case once he actually realizes there will be one.
I remember his response on 1/6 to Republicans leading with him to intercede with his rabid fans was "I guess they care more about the election than you do ".

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Either these people really don't know how government and elections work, or they just want an excuse for their terrorism. Maybe both.
There's no way Frontbutt can be guaranteed to be president in 2024.
I didn't think I could have a lower opinion of him than I did, but he keeps finding new depths. He won't condemn them, unless he thinks it will help his case once he actually realizes there will be one.
I remember his response on 1/6 to Republicans leading with him to intercede with his rabid fans was "I guess they care more about the election than you do ".

Oh, I think they understand how elections are supposed to work but they just don't like it much.

 

[Free]

Oregon Rep. Nearman is toast.

Oregon Rep. Mike Nearman expelled from Legislature in historic 59-1 rebuke

The Oregon House voted 59-1 Thursday to expel Rep. Mike Nearman, the first time it has ejected a sitting representative.

Lawmakers removed Nearman because he let far-right demonstrators, some of whom were armed, into the Capitol on Dec. 21 while lawmakers were holding a special session. The Capitol was closed to the public due to the pandemic and remains so.

Surveillance video captured Nearman, a four-term Republican, opening a door and exiting the building, stepping aside so that demonstrators waiting at the entrance could quickly slip into the building. The demonstrators clashed with police who attempted to expel them from the building and allegedly sprayed police with bear mace.

Last week, a video from earlier in December surfaced which showed Nearman instructing viewers how they should wait outside an entrance to the Capitol and text his cell phone. Then, “somebody might exit that door while you’re standing there,” Nearman said, a plan he dubbed “Operation Hall Pass.”