Attempted Coup in the United States: Tracking Investigations and Fallout

Kick em out and take away their veteran’s benefits

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“Coup” plan B, right on schedule:

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She’s gotta sell those Q shirts somehow.

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Clegg also blamed regulators for leaving Facebook—which reaches an audience of more than 2.7 billion users—to make its own decisions without having the guard rails of regulation to fall back on.

Ah, Nick Clegg.

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Fallout?

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But the inquiry into the Capitol assault, a huge effort that has focused its attention on as many as 400 people, took an important turn this week as prosecutors filed their first serious conspiracy charges, accusing three members of the right-wing militia group the Oath Keepers of plotting the incursion in advance. If, as they have promised, investigators are hoping to narrow their gaze on organized extremists who may have preplanned the attack, they are going to have to use a different and more difficult-to-master set of skills.

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Is there a single one of these terrorists and traitors who hasn’t been released on recognition of their whiteness?

https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/21/riley-june-williams-nancy-pelosi-laptop-capitol-jail-release

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I would think that once the Oathkeepers, Three Percenters, and other groups of recessive traitors are officially designated as terrorist organizations, that effort would get a bit easier.

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Are you implying that “official designation” can and should be used as a end-run against evidentiary requirements?

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A dude with that many guns cannot possibly be the one in whom Trump incited an erection.

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No, not in the slightest. Only that with that designation in place, a lot of friction would likely fall away in terms of finding them.

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Gross, as they are all gross, but also damn our “media” for trying to normalize or ignore the constant grift, the lying as a way of life.

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and then we couold have a Maxiprocesso.

Seriously, if the case against the proud boys (or whomever organized it) isn’t as tight as a drum, the country could repeat Fort Smith’s mistakes.

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I’ve been worrying about that, too. Not sure it’s a coincidence that I just learned about that trial this winter. You obviously already know about it, but if anyone else is interested, Embedded did a good overview:

36 minute listen.

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Totally working class behavior there.

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