Rs are broadcasting their sinister plans. MSM isn't sounding the alarm:
Evidence is everywhere: the right is planning to end representative govt if it fails to legitimately return #TFG to the WH -clear a few months after #J6 that the RW propaganda apparatus was laying the groundwork to try again in 2024. #FoxNews & #MAGAMedia spent the weeks after the 2020 election fabricating & amplifying election fraud lies... to institutionalize TFG's #TheBigLie.
Election deniers are legitimizing #TheBigLie, normalizing insurrection & giving the go ahead for another #J6.
#TFG's surrogates face Qs about whether they’ll accept the results of the 2024 election, & they all echo some version of TFG’s contingent line: If there’s no cheating *define to mean “if Trump wins”—then, yes, they’ll accept the results. These are vexing dodges bc exposing the underlying bad faith requires some depth of explanation & repetition.
It's about time that some of the Republican traitors serve time:
Appeals court upholds Steve Bannon contempt of Congress conviction. A fed appeals court on Fri upheld the criminal contempt of Congress conviction of former Trump WH senior aide Steve Bannon for refusing to testify and provide docs to the HSE CMTE that investigated #J6. It makes it more likely that Bannon will soon have to begin serving a sentence of 4 months in jail for his conviction.
Poll-driven “balance” reps. a dubious safe harbor when the central issue is preserving or abandoning free & fair elections, sovereignty & the #ruleofaw. #J6 wrote Trump’s intentions in blood. He promises more depredations & his authoritarian platform calls for turning the fed bureaucracy into his personal instrument. He vows to make the DOJ a weapon of “retribution” against his enemies, & raises the specter of violence “if we don’t win.” https://zeteo.com/p/as-a-veteran-reporter-ive-always
“One of the most persistent lies about the Capitol attack — often made by Republican politicians and right-wing media figures — is that none of the hundreds of rioters who stormed the building had guns.” Alan Feuer NYT
John Banuelos who fired his gun twice on #J6 has a case in the Prettyman Federal Courthouse in DC today
Others who had guns, were convicted & sent to prison:
Guy Wesley Reffitt: 7+ years
Christopher Alberts: 7 years
Mark Mazza: 5 years
Does AG Garland FEAR #TFG, R Sens., Reps...? *Silent for 3 years re R senators/MOC who were complicit with #J6 & has done little to hold #TFG resp. for his crimes.
"MEANWHILE, AT THE PRETTYMAN FEDERAL COURTHOUSE IN DC:
John Banuelos, the Trump enthusiast who fired the first shots at the Capitol on Jan. 6, is making his initial appearance virtually, from jail." @ryanjreilly
Mar 8, 2024
BREAKING: A Trump fanatic who fired two gunshots during the Jan. 6 Capitol attack is in custody.
Sedition Hunters IDed him three years ago.
NBC News named him two years ago.
Last month, another #J6 rioter published footage of the gunshots.
Now he's been arrested & charged.
They’ve yet to rule on either Trump’s #immunity claim or the #Jan6 case disputing the use of the #obstruction of an official proceeding by defendant Fischer that could impact #Trump as well as other #J6 defendants.
Brother: "My family will never see Brian Sicknick’s smile again, or hear his voice...
Many have tried to discredit Brian, his fellow officers, & those who sought to find out the truth of how & why J6 occurred. Many still deny that J6 wasn't a “peaceful protest.” If we refuse to denounce a mvt that brought us to the very brink of our destruction -we'll never recover. Can we heal the wounds inflicted on J6? I've deep doubts now. https://www.salon.com/2024/05/04/my-brother-officer-brian-sicknick-after-january-6-continued-to-pull-my-family-apart/
Believe #TFG when he says he'll incite another #J6 coup attempt, if he loses:
TFG on Wed didn't commit to accepting the results of WI's pres. election if he doesn't win & again promoted: falsehood - he won the WI in 2020.
He'd accept the results of the Nov election showing he lost "if everything's honest -if everything's honest, I'd gladly accept the results" -in an interview Wed. "If it's not, you have to fight for the right of the country.
#TFG will attempt another #J6, if he loses; Rs: OK.
TFG said in a new interview -doesn’t think there'll be political violence around the 2024 election bc he believes he’ll win -but that it “always depends on the fairness of an election.”
"If we don’t win, you know, it depends. It always depends on the fairness of an election.”
If TFG decides he doesn’t believe the election was “fair,” he’s not prepared to rule out the possibility of pol violence.
Important question: when have large-scale student movements been on the wrong side of history?
I may be biased by my progressive leanings (no, scratch that, I'm definitely heavily biased by them) but it seems like we can reliably look to the young to see the direction we should be moving.
I don't care where you stand politically or your views on the fucked up situation in Gaza, everyone should be standing up to loudly support the rights of students across the globe to protest.
@FantasticalEconomics@lednaBM
One thing that I wish that more people would accept is that protesting is fine, but if you break laws, like putting paint on paintings in museums, shutting down traffic, or trespassing than the state has a responsibility to take steps to protect everyone else's rights as well.
For example, I was not arrested for this because I kept the kids on the sidewalks
Are the cops always in the right? Of course not, but protesters are not always in the right either eg #J6
This level of antidemocratic, unethical, elitism: unfathomable before #J6.
"The (male) conserv. SCJs lined up to declare that the REAL threat to democracy wasn't Trump's attempt to steal the 2020 election, but the DOJ's effort to hold him accountable -almost entirely worried about the prosecution, not -alleged crime🚨. Just ducked out of arguments. DIDN'T go very well Smith's team. Thomas/Alito/Kav. think Trump's J6 prosecution is unconst. Maybe Gorsuch too. Roberts: skeptical-."
-MJ Stern #TFG
"Dems have no problem pointing out #TFG's responsible for RvW bc he stacked the ct. But it’s the same unpopular ct. that’s helping him run out the clock on accountability for #J6. Run against the whole corrupt unit."
-B Beutler
"We must spend these next months shouting from the rooftops: Pres Trump & his MAGA allies created & empowered this broken & corrupt SC- you've the power to change it."
JUST IN: #SCOTUS signals it may undermine more common #Jan6 charges as justices ask DOJ to respond to petition challenging 'disorderly or disruptive' charges v. Russell Alford. DC Cir ruled charges valid even for nonviolent protesters.
DOJ had deemed Alford's petition unworthy of a response, but today #SCOTUS asked for one
So, I mentioned earlier that the criminal orange stochastic terrorist had started the day before opening statements in his trial by calling for his MAGA cult to stage protests at court houses across the nation.
Well, afterwards he called on the New York police to stop guarding his court house so that they could go onto Columbia's private property and roundup the rich "homeless" kids hanging out there burning American flags and flying Hamas'.
Breaking: Nathan Noyce of neo-nazi group Patriot Front was arrested in Richmond, VA today for allegedly participating in the January 6, 2021 attack on Congress.
Something will stick, #TFG will likely be the defendant in more trials, soon:
#J6 lawsuits agst Trump may advance despite criminal case. The judge ordered Trump to begin describing the basis for his claim that he's immune from the lawsuits.
Trump has used his claim of pres. immunity as a shield from both criminal charges & lawsuits related to his actions in the chaotic weeks leading up to J6. SC: will hear arguments next week on the immunity issue in the criminal case.
A brave journalist's voice cries out for #democracy:
The miracle of modern medicine has allowed me to launch this newsletter. The American experiment in self-gov. may not have much time left. Voters face a pres. choice -could determine our democratic system.
Biden governs in service of the entire country -works with pol adversaries & allies to seek consensus.
#TFG is a perpetrator of stochastic terrorism, but AG Garland has kept his commitment to be apolitical. Since when is it political to let a known domestic terrorist, who incited multiple acts of violence, incl. massacres & #J6, threaten judges..?
“It's no longer just a mere possibility or a reasonable likelihood that there exists a threat to the integrity of the judicial proceedings. The threat is very real.
President Biden delivered a ferocious condemnation of criminal defendant Donald Trump, ahead of the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, warning that Trump directed an insurrection and will aim to undo the nation’s bedrock democracy if he returns to power.
TODAY: Feds seek 3-years prison in Jan 6 case of Alex Harkrider
They say he "admitted to wearing body armor (w/ a plate carrier).. described the tomahawk axe he admitted to carrying as a 'tactical stick'..described walking around the evening of January 5 to 'check out the area.