rioters planning a sequel behind bars… wait. does that mean they’ve finally arrested trump, stone, and bannon?
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I’m sure there are perfectly reasonable and totally unsuspicious reasons for why he’d want to try and prevent people from seeing these things. Right? /s
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Yeah - there’s some bad shit there besides the insurrection he’s quaking about.
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Internet sleuths need to find at least 9 more people so it can be called The 700 Club haha
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Pence allowed other lawmakers to speak before they returned to counting the votes, and said he wasn’t counting the time from his speech or the other lawmakers against the time allotted in the Electoral Count Act.
Eastman said that this prompted him to email Jacob to say that Pence should not certify the election because he had already violated the Electoral College Act, which Pence had cited as a reason that he could not send the electors back to the states.
“My point was they had already violated the electoral count act by allowing debate to extend past the allotted two hours, and by not reconvening ‘immediately’ in joint session after the vote in the objection,” Eastman told The Post. “It seemed that had already set the precedent that it was not an impediment.”
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Anyone who would be more interested in buying the home because of it, already know anyway.
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And if she’d kept the quiet part quiet, she might have got away with it too.
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Stern claims that at least two people representing a Flynn-linked group called “Patriot Caucus” approached him earlier this year after a public speech, offering to hire his firm to gather “dirt” on officials and recruit others to assist in the plot. One of the men allegedly told Stern that they had retained the services of active intelligence officials “both domestic and foreign.”
“They wanted to gather intelligence on senators, judges, congressmen, state reps, to move them towards the audit,” Stern said. “The word ‘move’ was emphasized tremendously. It was clear to me what they wanted was not traditional opposition research — what they wanted was to extort and to literally move people towards the audit with dirt.”
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So it turns out that even the far-right social media platform Parler thought their users’ posts about plans for the January 6 insurrection crossed a line and reported those users to the FBI. Which of course did nothing.
Other ominous messages were posted on Parler, which had recently begun communicating with the FBI after its attorneys had decided some posts were so threatening that they required law enforcement notification.
On Dec. 22, Parler had sent the FBI three screenshots from a user who threatened to kill politicians. On Jan. 2, the company passed along more, including a series of posts by a user making threats about Jan. 6. “This is the final stand where we are drawing the red line at Capitol Hill. I trust the American people will take back the USA with force and many are ready to die,” the user wrote, adding: “don’t be surprised if we take the #capital building.”
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“Photo in listing for Virginia house appears to have edited out a plaque referencing the Confederate general”
It’s right by the front door. You can’t miss it.
(It is one ugly home on the inside.)
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His former house in Arlington cemetery is fuck-ugly on the outside. The fake marble looks like someone smeared shit on the columns.
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Holy.
Fucking.
Moly.
This is a horrific and utterly relevant read about another attempted coup in the U.S., not even 100 years ago.
1/In 1933, a group of bankers and industrialists tried to overthrow the US Government and kill FDR.
They recruited Gen. Smedley Butler to lead an army of 500,000 “veteran supersoldiers” patterned on the French “Croix de Feu”. Their gripe?
The departure from the gold standard.
2/Butler, a respected WWI veteran, heard them out, if only to learn what they were up to. He had no interest in the gold standard or in abusing the trust of veterans. After a few months he’d had enough. He reported the plot to Congress.
3/Butler’s extraordinary claims were met with skepticism and derision, but Congress held hearings and found his claims of a plot to be accurate. Butler was smeared in the press for being ‘senile.’
He was 52.
Read “The Plot to Seize the White House.”
4/That plot, organized by industrialists such as J. Howard Pew, JP Morgan affiliates, Dow Chemical, GM, Remington firearms, Mellon, PPG, EF Hutton, Rockefellers et al, was soon forgotten — they owned (or influenced) the media that might cover it.
5/Pew was close friends with Robert Welch, who went on to found the John Birch Society on the same set of principles as the 1933 plotters: the gold-standard and staunch anti-communism. JBS festered, and failed to establish true mainstream support for its agenda.
6/In 1981 after the election of Reagan, JBS bigwigs regrouped and created the Council for National Policy. The CNP was largely responsible for planning and executing the January 6th insurrection, COVID disinfo, and is obsessed with gold — and now crypto.
7/Today, we’re simply re-litigating the New Deal. We’re reliving the 1933 Business Plot, and the dark anti-communist fever dreams of the John Birch Society. IT’S THE SAME STUFF. Until we deal with this anti-democratic strain in society, we’ll keep repeating the same conflict.
Compare this chatter from 2021 (“creeping socialism! communist fears!”) to that from 1933, 1946, 1981 and tell me it’s not the same crazy paranoiac anti-democratic strain of ideas from the same people.
I’ll wait.
(boldface text = emphasis mine)
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The NPS repainted the columns in 2019.
I’m partial to the commitee of fine arts original restoration scheme:
Contradicting the authorizing legislation, the Department, largely at the insistence of Charles Moore, the director of the United States Commission of Fine Arts, furnished and interpreted the Mansion to “the first half of the republic.” This decision was based, in part, on the popularity of the Colonial Revival movement which was still popular in 1925. The Mansion was restored to the period of George Washington Parke Custis, and no furniture manufactured after 1830 was accepted. This approach negated Lee’s role and presence at Arlington. src
though George Washington Parke Custis was still a slaver, so…
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Oh boy the feud between him and Trump is going to be something else
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Well, there’s something you’d think would show up in US history classes…
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