Attempted Coup in the United States: Tracking Investigations and Fallout

He’s good people

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“ According to court records, Pezzola allegedly had ideas of killing Vice President Mike Pence if presented the opportunity.

Pezzola’s online profile says he’s a veteran of the Marines.”

“ Among other things, the release says, “The affidavit also alleges that Pezzola and others stated that they would have killed anyone they got their hands on, including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Vice President Michael Pence. The affidavit alleges that, in the days after the event, members of the group said that the group would return to Washington, D.C., and kill every single ‘m-fer’ they could.”

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It says they STATED that they would have… so why today are there umpteen bullshit news stories about the FBI “walking back” on accusations that the insurrectionists were intent on killing people?

Yet the “Walking Back” story itself reiterates that there WAS intent to do such a thing. Most of these assholes only read headlines. They see that and they start shouting from the rooftops that the FBI was wrong. Headline writers need to stop worrying about clicks and start worrying about the truth.

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If the “news” today worried about the truth above engagement, trump would have been called out much more forcefully yeas ago.

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Yeah, this and so much of the similar is coming across (to me) as some kind of BS, “boys will be boys” or “that’s just locker room talk.”
At what point do your public, published words bear weight???

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Depends. Are you a liberal?

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Hahaha, you know I am!
If I weren’t, I’d likely be calling for unity right now, while holding a gun to the head of someone/something you loved.

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It could be that the FBI are confused.

They’re expecting an insurrection plot with leaders and a hierarchy, but what they’ve got is a criminal zeitgeist. When they’re looking for an organized group, but what they’ve got is a flashmob of lone wolves, they’re out of their element.

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I was thinking earlier that I would love to hear what Trump is saying about them privately. I would bet good money he is cursing them for being so disorganized and not getting the job done. I bet he isn’t angry they did it, I bet he is angry they didn’t accomplish the coup.

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The only question of heirarchy is whether it’s Trump-Jared-Ivanka-Mitch or Trump-Ivanka-Jared-Mitch.

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Well… They aren’t leaders, they’re influencers.

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He wasn’t sending his best, I guess. :man_shrugging:

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I dunno, it was kind of a Four Seasons Landscaping level insurrection. His bench isn’t very deep, in any way you want to use the word.

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Nothing revolutionary, just a lot fancy science words for “small penis insecurity”, but I’m surprised seeing that picture that the Trumpies don’t do more with the fact that a block “45” is awfully close to a swastika.

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Good people taking action:

Separately, a group called ShutDownDC gathered 500 volunteers to message DC area Airbnb hosts. The group sent messages to the managers of 3,400 properties in the region—polite ones, according to ShutDownDC organizer Alex Dodd. The messages alerted the Airbnb hosts to an upcoming threat and asked them to please refrain from booking anyone in their homes in the days surrounding the inauguration.

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Seditious Republican Representative Lauren Boebert’s communications director has resigned less than two weeks after taking the job.

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Excerpt from below: The fallout has been swift. Several thousand Arizona Republicans have abandoned the party since the U.S. Capitol riot that Trump helped to incite, with the majority of the defectors re-registering without a designated party, according to state elections officials. Business leaders are publicly recoiling from the GOP after party officials thrust Arizona into the center of Trump’s failed effort to overturn the election results, further dividing an already fractured party.

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Keep at it Kelli Ward!

Meanwhile:

Eschaton

Saturday, January 16, 2021

Also Sowing, Reaping

Atrios at 14:44

Update:

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/man-toting-unauthorized-inauguration-pass-and-loaded-gun-arrested-in-d-c

I did wonder about one handgun and a huge amount of ammo being much of an assassination kit, though still weird. To me.

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I hope firearms weren’t planted further downstream of the checkpoints before those checkpoints were set up.

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