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deadpresidents · 6 days
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Hypothetically what do you think would have happened if the january 6 rioters had gotten to pence or pelosi before they got safe?
At this point, I almost dread answering questions like this anymore because I know the kind of hate mail it will unleash for the next few days, but it's important to keep talking about what happened on January 6, 2021 since so many people are trying to normalize it. That includes many people whose lives were in danger that day, as well as the former President who tried to hold on to power by encouraging his supporters to launch a violent insurrection and is now referring to those who have been brought to justice for attempting a coup as "patriots" and "hostages".
I genuinely believe that there were people in that crowd who would have killed Vice President Pence, Speaker Pelosi, and certain Congressional leaders if they had reached them on January 6th. I think there are people in that crowd who were ready to hold lawmakers hostage. Why else did they have handcuffs and zip ties? To help the Capitol Police maintain order? (Oh yeah...that's right, thanks for reminding me: they violently attacked the police -- some even beat police officers with the "Blue Lives Matter" flags that they brought with them.) Now, I do not think that everybody who was at the Capitol on January 6th -- or even the majority of those who took part in the insurrection -- were willing to go that far. I think a lot of them got swept up in what was happening and went with the flow. That doesn't excuse what they did. The flow that they got swept up in was still a fucking insurrection, and anyone who took part in that deserves to be held accountable. But I think there were certain elements embedded throughout that crowd that were much more organized and prepared to fully execute their plans for a coup after disrupting the certification of the Electoral College votes.
I actually think Vice President Pence was probably in more danger than even Speaker Pelosi or some of the Democratic leaders because Trump was so actively calling him out in the days and hours before the insurrection. I think that's why Pence is so adamant now about not supporting Trump. I mean, think about how disgustingly loyal and subservient Pence was to Trump throughout those four years until basically the first few days of January 2021. But even as other Republican leaders are crumbling and offering their allegiance to Trump again in 2024, Pence is standing by his decision not to endorse or support Trump, and I think that's because he realizes that Trump absolutely almost got him (and his family, who were with him in the Capitol on that day) killed on January 6th. Shit, even Mitch McConnell has folded and endorsed Trump again despite the fact that Trump has spent the last three years not only insulting him but also making racist attacks and questioning McConnell's wife's loyalty to the United States all because Elaine Chao had the audacity to resign from Trump's Cabinet in the wake of the insurrection. Yet Mike Pence -- who spent the better part of four years following Trump around like Paul Heyman follows Roman Reigns...
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...THAT same Mike Pence is steadfastly refusing to endorse Trump because he has personal experience about how real of an existential threat Trump is. Some of those people at the Capitol were very serious about following through on their chants to "Hang Mike Pence", and not only does Pence realize that, but he also knows now that Trump -- who refused to take actions that would have helped clear the Capitol more quickly -- said "he deserves it" when hearing about those chants.
That's what is so scary about the insurrection, its aftermath, and the Trump Republican Party's redefinition of what happened that day. It almost worked. They stormed the United States Capitol and invaded both chambers of Congress. They carried Confederate flags into the United States Capitol -- even the fucking Confederate States of America didn't successfully invade Washington, D.C. and plant their flag in the Capitol. They were willing to hurt and probably kill some of America's elected leaders. And the people who helped plan and instigate the events of January 6th have spent the three-plus years since then learning from their mistakes and figuring out how to be successful next time. And guess what? "Next time" is only a few months away.
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Barely a day after former President Donald Trump was indicted for the third time, some Senate Republicans are already trying to undermine the credibility of the federal judge who was randomly assigned to preside over his trial.
Here’s a detail they’re hoping you won’t notice: They unanimously voted to confirm her.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), speaking on his podcast on Wednesday, accused U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan of being “relentlessly hostile” to Trump and claimed that she has “a reputation for being far-left, even by D.C. District Court standards.”
But Cruz voted to put Chutkan into her seat on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in June 2014. So did every other Senate Republican when she was unanimously confirmed, 95-0.
That includes Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who nonsensically claimed Wednesday that “any conviction in D.C. against Donald Trump is not legitimate.”
“The judge in this case hates Trump,” Graham said in a Fox News interview. “You can convict Trump of kidnapping Lindbergh’s baby in D.C. You need to have a change of venue. We need a new judge. And we need to win in 2024 to stop this crazy crap.”
Aides to Cruz and Graham did not respond to requests for comment on how the senators square their votes to confirm Chutkan with their criticisms of her ability to be a fair judge.
Tuesday’s federal indictment of Trump accuses him of serious crimes related to the 2020 presidential election and the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection: conspiracy to defraud the United States, conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights.
Chutkan, a Jamaica-born former assistant public defender and an appointee of former President Barack Obama, has already been overseeing cases related to the Jan. 6 attack. She’s handed out some of the most aggressive sentences yet to rioters who took part in the violence that day. Of the 11 cases that have come before her, she imposed tougher sentences than those sought by the Justice Department seven times and matched what the Justice Department was seeking four times, according to an Associated Press review.
In all 11 cases, Chutkan sentenced the defendants to prison time.
This is what is likely driving the GOP attacks on Chutkan: They know she’s not likely to go easy on Trump now.
Beyond trying to discredit the judge, some Republicans, like Graham, are parroting Trump’s absurd demand for a change of venue. The former president has called for moving his case to the “more diverse” and “politically unbiased nearby State of West Virginia!” (Virginia and Maryland are much closer to D.C., for what it’s worth.)
Not a single Republican raised concerns about Chutkan during her nomination hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee in February 2014. In fact, only one GOP member of the committee even showed up to the hearing: Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), who was only there to rave about a separate Texas judicial nominee on the schedule. He left before Chutkan was up.
Cruz and Graham were both members of the committee at the time.
Neither attended Chutkan’s hearing.
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mysharona1987 · 1 year
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Something for MAGA folks to think about.
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newsrepertoire · 1 year
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I wonder if House Republicans will commemorate the two year anniversary of a failed fascist coup by still failing to get a Speaker elected
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emperornorton47 · 4 months
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I almost get the feeling he's trying to break away from Trump.
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thefrankshow · 3 months
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The Monsters are Due on Maplestreet
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saywhat-politics · 1 year
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Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes temporarily removed the governor of Brasilia's federal district late Sunday in response to the assault on Brazil's Congress, Supreme Court, and presidential palace by thousands of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro, CNN reports.
Brasilia Gov. Ibaneis Rocha was "painfully silent" during Sunday's riot, Moraes said after handing down the three-month suspension. Rocha "not only made public statements defending a false 'free political demonstration in Brasilia,'" but "also ignored all appeals by the authorities to carry out a security plan."
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blinkiesreal · 6 months
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more political blinkies for ur tastes,,,
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Democracy!
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conurecc · 1 year
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Was LibsOfTikTok At The CAPITOL RIOT?
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🔴 NEW VIDEO 🔵 so known coward Chaya Raichik of LibsOfTikTok's face was alleged to be revealed by ChudsOfTikTok so she finally decided to go mask off & went on Tucker Carlson's show
shortly after, Chad Loder, who researches extremism & disinformation made a good case that she may have been in restricted grounds at the Capitol on January 6
nobody is surprised but if anything comes of this i will be laffin
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eternalistic · 7 months
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mysharona1987 · 2 years
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authorkims · 5 months
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David Pepper's thread continued here:
"No primary.
No general.
How easy? Pay the filing fee, get some signatures. And he gets to come right back to the legislature with no accountability to the people whatsoever.
No wonder he doesn’t think we’re a democracy!
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On the strength of his unopposed election victories—on that unmistakable mandate from a people who had no choice in the matter—Johnson decides it’s time to run for Congress.
And then he encounters the marvels of lopsided districts.
He wins in 2016, 2018 and 2020…
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…with the winning margins we have come to expect in a gerrymandered world.
30% (2016)
30% (2018)
35% (2020)
And then in 2022, back to his roots, he runs unopposed.
No wonder he thinks we’re not a democracy!
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Bottom line: the now-Speaker of the House is the perfect example of the modern extremist
He’s spent his entire career in a world devoid of democracy, and of no accountability
It’s how he entered—his initial entree unopposed (that’s pretty rare, actually. Not even a primary)
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It’s how he rose.
It’s his most recent race.
It’s all he’s ever known!
And it’s how all the unabashed and toxic extremism he’s espoused along the way has essentially gone unchecked the entire time.
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Of course these guys are going to be extremists when they thrive in a world where they CAN be extremists, & never face any real opposition (often no opposition at all) despite extremism that only a few years ago was soundly rejected by his own party
Mike Johnson IS the..
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current generation of GOP leaders.
No accountability—ever! Which means all the incentives they face encourage them to keep being extreme.
And none of this will end until we do two things.
One…end gerrymandering. It’s poisoning everything by removing almost all…
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…accountability from politics.
It’s fueling the insane and extremist behavior of the House and so many of the American statehouses that are careening out of control.
Two…run everywhere!!
Johnson is not a rare case. We have a crisis of unopposed extremists..
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like him everywhere.
Democrats focus so much on a few swing states we have decided it’s OK to let the Mike Johnsons of the world, or the Tennessee Republicans of the world, or the book banners, or the abortion banners (no exceptions) , and so on, do all they’re doing…
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…in statehouses, and not even face opposition in elections that follow their extremist actions.
Just look at these charts:
80% unopposed in Louisiana!
48% in Tennessee!
43% in Arkansas!
42% in Texas!
On and on. Unopposed!
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"And rising to offices as high as Speaker of the House. And we
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…largely stand to the side and let it all happen without an iota of accountability or opposition.
Not even a door knock saying: “did you know that friendly, bespectacled state rep of yours is actually a total extremist?”
Mike Johnson is the epitome of that current…
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…generation of right-wing extremists
And his career path a perfect example of HOW they are rising all over—rewarded for extremism—through a system of rigged districts and a collective decision that running against these people at those levels doesn’t matter.
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Look around at what’s happening to this country and tell me it doesn’t matter!
We have to start running everywhere, folks. Bringing accountability everywhere. Until we do, all this will keep happening.
Mike Johnsons and Jim Jordans and MTGs will keep emerging everywhere,
…generation of right-wing extremists
And his career path a perfect example of HOW they are rising all over—rewarded for extremism—through a system of rigged districts and a collective decision that running against these people at those levels doesn’t matter.
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Look around at what’s happening to this country and tell me it doesn’t matter!
We have to start running everywhere, folks. Bringing accountability everywhere. Until we do, all this will keep happening.
Mike Johnsons and Jim Jordans and MTGs will keep emerging everywhere,
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Along with hundreds of others like them in statehouses we will never hear of, we will not run against, but who will be doing great damage every step of the way, while rising through the ranks.
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By the way, there IS a way to run everywhere
It starts with showing people we value people running everywhere.
How do we do that? We crowd-fund support to candidates running against the Mike Johnsons of the world, in tough districts
In Ohio, we started this.
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We call it Blue Ohio. It’s starting to work.
To learn more, check it out here:
Sign up. "
"If we don’t start running everywhere, our future will be Mike Johnsons doing damage in states across the country, and Mike Johnsons rising to the..
…highest offices in the land, without ever experiencing democracy any step along the way.
And that continues to be dangerous as hell to our country.
END rant."
Follow David Pepper to learn more about how you can help stop it:
https://www.meidastouch.com/news/new-speaker-mike-johnson-blamed-school-shootings-on-the-teaching-of-evolution
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ancappunk · 1 year
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I like how an "insurrection" was started by a totally unarmed force that immediately retreated when basic bitch pigs came and were gone when SWAT forces arrived.
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