Coup in the USA?

[Katheryne Helendale]

*Cues the sad trombone*

Seems the MAGAts have been getting a lot of that lately.

 

[Khamon]

crawling back into their holes

 

[danielravennest]

Wait what? Since when does Medicaid pay out any cash to patients or am I reading that wrong? asks the person who has been on it for the past 5 years.

No, the mandate is for any healthcare provider that *accepts* Medicare and Medicaid payments to get their staff vaccinated. It has nothing to do with patients.

 

[Free]

Memo shows how close Georgia GOP chair came to enabling Trump coup • NC Newsline

Memo shows how close Georgia GOP chair came to enabling Trump coup; 2020 presidential election results; Georgia GOP Chair David Shafer

www.ncpolicywatch.com

Take, for example, the events of Dec. 14 at the Georgia State Capitol. On that date, Democratic electors met in the state Senate chambers to formally commit the state’s 16 electoral votes to Joe Biden. The event was ceremonial in nature, yet required under the U.S. Constitution.

Largely overlooked at the time – there was a lot going on – was a second meeting held that day in a committee room at the Capitol, this one convened by Georgia GOP Chair David Shafer. In that meeting, Shafer and his fellow Republicans approved a fake second slate of pro-Trump electors to be sent to Washington, on the grounds that Trump had really carried Georgia and that Biden’s victory was based on fraud.

There was, is, and never will be any evidence whatsoever of that claim, as multiple recounts, investigations and court cases have demonstrated. But as we’ll see, the legitimacy of that fake slate of electors didn’t really matter. What mattered was the ability to claim that the competing slate existed.

 

[Romana]

Memo shows how close Georgia GOP chair came to enabling Trump coup • NC Newsline

Memo shows how close Georgia GOP chair came to enabling Trump coup; 2020 presidential election results; Georgia GOP Chair David Shafer

www.ncpolicywatch.com

I remember reading about that. It was one of the many things I lost sleep over at the time.
They weren't the only ones, and I was really afraid it would be a thing.

 

[Soen Eber]

I remember reading about that. It was one of the many things I lost sleep over at the time.
They weren't the only ones, and I was really afraid it would be a thing.

It will be a thing in 2024. They're pulling it straight from the 2nd and 3rd world playbooks, c.f. Hungary, Poland and a number of failed African states.

 

[Argent Stonecutter]

It will be a thing in 2024. They're pulling it straight from the 2nd and 3rd world playbooks, c.f. Hungary, Poland and a number of failed African states.

Wow, second world. Been a while since I've seen that referenced unironically.

 

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Thread by @ProDemocracyRTs on Thread Reader App

@MarkJacob16: I used to edit Page 1 stories for the Chicago Tribune, including many from Washington. In this thread, I explain why the media (including me) have been unintentionally complicit in the rise of fascism ...…

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[Argent Stonecutter]

Also actually swinging the balance the other way because Hillary Clinton didn't play a nice cake-baking First Lady back in the '90s and the press got salty about that.

 

[Romana]

You'd think insurrectionists would be happy to have their deeds shared far and wide

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Romana]

Thread :

 

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Facebook warns whistleblower will allege on "60 Minutes" it contributed to Capitol riot

She'll accuse the tech giant of contributing to polarization in the U.S., Facebook's Nick Clegg wrote in an internal memo.

www.axios.com

 

[WolfEyes]

Facebook warns whistleblower will allege on "60 Minutes" it contributed to Capitol riot

She'll accuse the tech giant of contributing to polarization in the U.S., Facebook's Nick Clegg wrote in an internal memo.

www.axios.com

That's what happens when jackasses like Zuckerberg don't do the "right thing" to start. None of it had to happen. He sat on his ass and did nothing until enough people screamed long enough and got the law on his ass. I have zero sympathy for him or his greed.

 

[Romana]

 

[Free]

Capitol Rioter Represents Himself, Admits to 2 New Felonies

Brandon Fellows was advised against representing himself, but he ignored that warning.

www.thedailybeast.com

A Capitol rioter who allegedly smoked weed in a senator’s office on Jan. 6 decided to represent himself in court on Tuesday—and it went exactly as badly as could have been expected. Washington, D.C. news network WUSA reports that the wild hearing opened with a judge advising Brandon Fellows against representing himself, but he ignored that warning and went on to bolster the case against him by admitting to two new felonies.

"If the world doesn't come to an end in the next thirty or forty years,' he said, 'we may be facing disaster."
~Robert Charles Wilson, Spin

 

[Innula Zenovka]

‘If it were the UK, police would have opened fire’: the explosive film about Trump’s Capitol Hill rioters

It was the day rampaging Trump supporters stormed the Capitol – and almost derailed democracy. Now, using footage from rioters’ cameras, an unsettling film takes you into the thick of the mayhem

www.theguardian.com

Evernote link

Had the House of Commons been in comparable jeopardy, he says, “ there would have been massive bloodshed – with that level of threat, I think police would have definitely opened fire. It’s just astonishing that the Capitol police didn’t.”

That's the bit I just don't understand -- it wouldn't have unfolded like that in London, I'm sure, because the geography around the Palace of Westminster and the Abbey makes it comparatively easy for the police, if necessary, to stop marches and demonstrations from getting too close, but if a mob had managed to break through and tried to storm the building, then certainly they'd have met a vigorous response if officers thought their or the MPs' lives were in danger (and they're firearms officers armed with Heckler and Koch MP5 semi-automatics who've received anti-terrorist training from our Special Forces).

 

[Romana]

At the time of the attack, he and Roberts had been working on a film about the Black Lives Matter protests and civil unrest of the summer of 2020, centring on the alleged fatal shooting of two people by 17-year-old pro-police vigilante Kyle Rittenhouse, in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Alleged? Nothing alleged about it. He did it, his victims died, and he was arrested at the scene...and the cops took him for McDonald's.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Alleged? Nothing alleged about it. He did it, his victims died, and he was arrested at the scene...and the cops took him for McDonald's.

Newspapers' lawyers and editors get very unhappy indeed, at least in the UK, if the word "alleged" isn't attached to any report of a criminal matter in which the defendant has not yet been convicted.

Had The Guardian omitted the qualifier then, should he plead lawful self-defence or the defence of another and the jury acquit him, then the paper would potentially be facing a large bill for libel in the English courts if he wanted to make an issue of it.

So "alleged" until the suspect is safely convicted.