There should have been backup on the way at 7am.
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âŚU.S. prosecutors for the first time requested incarceration at sentencing hearings for nonviolent misdemeanor offenders in the storming of the U.S. Capitol.
The punishment comes after federal judges for months have questioned whether no-prison plea deals offered by the government to low-level Jan. 6 defendants are too lenient to deter future attackers from terrorizing members of Congress.
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Wow, what a load of horse shitâŚ
"Williams and his cohort are on a mission to tear down and remake the right; they believe that America has been riven into two fundamentally different countries, not least because of the rise of secularism. âThe Founders were pretty unanimous, with Washington leading the way, that the Constitution is really only fit for a Christian people,â
ââŚI think it would be bad for America if that longtime Christian core disintegrated. The Founders were pretty unanimous, with Washington leading the way, that the Constitution is really only fit for a Christian people.â
âI would modify that a bit and say a majority Christian people could maintain that. But if you donât think your rights ultimately come from a Creator, youâre halfway down the road to our modern confusion.â
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Telling us you havenât read any of the constitution without telling us you havenât read any of the constitution seems to be what passes for right-wing intellectualism these days.
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These twits really do not understand that their version of âChristianityâ would appear completely daft to the founders of the US.
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if only heâd really cut the police budget instead of supplementing his cuts with federal pandemic funding. nypd is still getting north of 5 billion a year.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-06/new-york-city-s-police-budget-is-increasing-again
New York, though, is the largest police department in the U.S. and has among the highest numbers of officers per capita. There were 436 officers per 100,000 residents in the city in 2019, compared with 249 in Los Angeles and 223 in Houston⌠New York spent $638 per person on police in 2020
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i am curious about quote you quoted:
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do my mom and dad count? they sure did a lot of creating some 30 odd years ago.
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was the world just murder death kill before jesus showed up? here i thought white supremacists loved the (false) idea that they are somehow genetically closer to greek civilization than any other people on earth. but if no one had any rights because there was no jesus, then how did democracy even work?
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The Treaty of Tripoli was started under Washington and completed by Adams. It was approved unanimously - by the founders.
Washington was clear about inclusion of other religions in his Touro Synagogue visit and writings.
He also said about hiring people to work at Mt. Vernon
â When acquiring workmen for Mount Vernon, he wrote to his agent, "If they be good workmen, they may be from Asia, Africa, or Europe; they may be Mohammedans [Muslims], Jews, or Christians of any sect, or they may be Atheistsâ
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Similarly:
Tell us you havenât read the entire Bible without telling us you havenât read the entire Bible⌠which is what passes for that right-wing white-power evangelical âChristianity.â
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Like others on the far right, Rhodes appeared to believe conspiracy theories about Trump secretly holding onto damaging secrets that would destroy the left. Rhodes encouraged Trump to leak those supposed secrets on fringe sites like 8chan.
âAt the very least, do the mass declassification and data dump,â Rhodes wrote. âYou still have absolute authority as President and Commander-in-Chief to declassify any files held by the CIA, FBI, NSA, etc. Use trusted elite units you know are still loyal to the Constitution to get it done (to seize the servers and dump the data on 4Chan, 8Chan, etc).â
Rhodes included the text of that letter in an email blast to Oath Keepers titled âOATH KEEPERS WARNING ORDER PART I.â In it, Rhodes warned followers of the âvery high possibilityâ that the Biden administration would supposedly take out the power grid and begin carrying out targeted strikes on conservatives.
âWithin the short term, we face a very high possibilty [sic] of an intentional âcomms downâ scenario where black hats take down/shut down all communications in the US - No cell service, no internet, no land lines. A comms blackout. This could also include a take down of electrical power. An intentional power blackout. Worst case scenario would be an EMP [electromagnetic pulse] strike,â Rhodes told Oath Keepers on Jan. 13. âThe purpose of such a comms down/blackout will be to minimize our ability to communicate and to pin people in their homes as the black hats and their terrorist allies conduct a ânight of the long knivesâ decapitation strike to arrest or otherwise take out patriot leaders, potential leaders, and highly skilled personnel.â (The reference to the ânight of the long knivesâ was the second time Rhodes compared the Biden administration to Nazis in that email.)
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And there was a blackout! Albeit under Greg Abbotâs watch.
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How to say that youâve heard of an historical event, but never actually read any of the details.
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Ah yes⌠thereâs a name that rings a bellâŚ
There were no email addresses linked to military or government employers in the trove, but 10 sign-ups noted their military ranks in an optional âtitleâ field, which ranged between corporal and colonel, including three men who offered the rank of lieutenant colonel.
The Guardianâs investigation of the record showed that the majority of these are retired, but some have gone on to work in other sensitive roles.
The records show, for example, that one sign-up was a former lieutenant colonel in the US Marine Corps and that his service included stints at the corpsâ headquarters in Quantico, Virginia, before taking a position at Northrop Grumman, a defense contractor.
Another sign-up, on 7 January, was apparently another Marine veteran who also worked as a bodyguard for the military contractor Blackwater, in a US government program to provide personal protection in theaters of war like Afghanistan and Iraq.
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To parrot a poster in that thread, âOnly three?â.
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I smell a plea deal!
Good. Go after the ones with real power.
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â Alexander is a convicted felon, after pleading guilty to felony property theft in 2007 and felony credit card abuse in 2008. Alexander first appeared in conservative politics in the Tea Party era under the name âAli Akbar,â organizing a group called the National Bloggersâ Club that was tied to âshady data collection operations.ââ
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These insurrectionists shouldnât be allowed to plea down to lower than felony level crimes; even if they are allowed to serve their sentences outside of prison.
That will prevent them from owning guns. Violent insurrectionists should be permanently barred from owning firearms.
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