So..5 people are dead as a result of Chumps stunts to avoid prosecution and litigations
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The Capitol mob didn’t come out of nowhere. It was a response to the concerted attack on 2020’s election results crafted by elite right-wing politicians, academics, and attorneys. No law professor played a bigger role in Donald Trump’s plot to overturn the election than John Eastman. As the president’s actual attorneys backed away from his coup, Eastman rushed in to fill the void, attempting to bolster the scheme with incoherent legal theories. When Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton urged the Supreme Court to overturn the election by nullifying millions of votes, it was Eastman who intervened on Trump’s behalf to endorse Paxton’s suit. When Trump exhorted Vice President Mike Pence to award him a second term by unilaterally disqualifying electoral votes, it was Eastman who advised Pence that he could, indeed, throw the election to Trump. And when Trump needed a putative legal scholar to lend credence to his pre-insurrection rally, he brought out Eastman to deliver a speech alongside Rudy Giuliani, ringleader of the president’s efforts to steal the election.
It is no surprise that Eastman, a white supremacist on the far-right fringe of the conservative legal movement, played a major role in the president’s failed coup. What is remarkable—and, with each passing day, extraordinarily damning—is the Federalist Society’s refusal to address Eastman’s role in the insurrection. Eastman is not only a member of the Federalist Society, the network of conservative attorneys that provided the legal scaffolding for Trumpism. He is the chairman of the organization’s Federalism and Separation of Powers practice group and a frequent participant in its public events. The Federalist Society’s refusal to expel, condemn, or distance itself from Eastman in any way indicates that the organization is untroubled by the subversion of American democracy.
Eastman has spent much of his career promoting blatant lies. He gained notoriety in August when Newsweek published his column questioning the citizenship of Vice President–elect Kamala Harris. Eastman argued that Harris may not be an American citizen—and, thus, may not qualify for vice president—because her parents had not become U.S. citizens when she was born. In reality, the Constitution guarantees beyond debate that the children of immigrants who are born in the United States become American citizens at birth. But Eastman has spent decades denying this fact, instead proposing the objectively false theory that these children do not receive birthright citizenship. His racist theory would require the government to strip citizenship from millions of Americans, most of them nonwhite, and subject them to deportation. (Newsweek later apologized for running his piece.)
More at https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/01/john-eastman-federalist-so
ciety-capitol-insurrection.html
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
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According to the article cited the riot was really - yes, REALLY!! - a coup! Because, as the author claims ...
Quote:And these are the signs:
I know the signs of a coup when I see them.
Quote:So ACCORDING TO THE AUTHOR, TRUMP DID ***NOT*** HAVE CONTROL OF THE MILITARY FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES.
The Military: this episode (BLM protest) emphasized the nonpolitical position of the U.S. military.
OOPS.
Maybe ... not a coup.
Quote:Putting a crony in charge of the PO is SOP for every president ...
Communications: Trump put a loyalist in charge of the Post Office.
Quote:According to the author, the m$m continued to function and broadcast stories, fabrications, and editorials that were anti-Trump. So. TRUMP DID NOT HAVE CONTROL OF THE MEDIA.
He did not take TV and radio by storm ...
OOPS.
Maybe ... not a coup.
Quote:To be unbiased here, the democrats and the m$m were FAR worse in leaks of anonymous unevidenced claims of lawbreaking, and ginning up political investigations of anyone associated with Trump, and Trump himself; all this done with the support of the FBI, CIA, and NSA, along with the sister agencies of the other of the Five Eyes. And it's not that any of Trump's rhetoric factually happened. It's obvious TRUMP DIDN'T HAVE CONTROL OF THE JUDICIARY.
The judiciary: Trump frequently called for investigations into his opponents and for courts and law enforcement to “lock them all up!”
OOPS.
Maybe ... not a coup.
Quote:The author seems confused about democracy. According to his thinking, popular support and votes are to be ignored in favor of preordained outcomes. If Trump gets support from fellow Republicans who're looking at their districts and states, AND COUNTING UP VOTES, it's democracy in action. And once again ...
The legislature: Finally, Trump usurped the Republican Party. ... 147 Republican members of Congress, led by Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, did endorse some of Trump’s efforts to challenge the election results and overturn the constitutional order. So did Senators Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz and six other politically ambitious senators who wanted to tap into Trump’s popular support.
OOPS.
Maybe ... not a coup.
If democrats* don't do any different, how are they any better?
And when Biden* fails to keep his promises - or even promote them-I'll be happy to laugh at his skinny saggy ass parading all over town in his New Clothes™.
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One of the persistent mysteries of the past week is what leads Republican House members—some of whom had to crouch on the floor of the chamber while the Capitol was under attack while others were whisked into unidentified locations for their own safety—to refuse to accept who was to blame for the insurrection. With the exception of the 10 Republican House members who voted alongside the Democrats to impeach the president, and a smattering of Republicans who acknowledged that the events of last week could easily have ended their lives but wanted to convene a commission to investigate matters, a non-trivial number of Republicans took to the floor on Wednesday to insist that the real injury of January 6, 2021 was to their own free speech rights. This was perhaps best embodied in the galactically stupid visual of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the QAnon supporting representative from Georgia, who falsely tweeted that Trump would stay in office after inauguration day, wearing a mask that read “CENSORED” as she spoke freely on the House floor, as captured on national television.
There was also Rep Jim Jordan’s inexplicable claim that one cannot “have a functioning First Amendment when cancel culture only allows one side to talk” (again, he was saying this freely on the floor of the House of Representatives).
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Yeah, run away from your claim that Jan 6, 2021 was a coup ...
... because it obviously was not, and you can't show it was by any available FACTS.
I'd run away from it too, if I were you! 
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To get back to the title for a bit: So..5 people are dead as a result of Chumps(sic) stunts to avoid prosecution and litigations (sic)
This is a really, really silly claim ... far beyond silly. It ASSumes that Trump could indefinitely postpone leaving the presidency for all his natural-born days. That could never happen in any human-controlled scenario.
Trump will leave the White House. It could have happened in 2025, but it's going to happen in 2021. There was never any doubt. Unless an asteroid hits the planet or there's some extreme unforeseen event that stops the global clock, it's a certainty.
So Trump forever escaping whatever awaits him in the future - especially due to a less than 24-hour riot by a few thousand people - is a total fantasy.
All this sturm un drang is manufactured hysteria by the democrats* and the m$m.*
Oh, and while Biden* may be an acceptable face on the Deep State, don't expect him to do anything vital for you, the US, or the planet.
If democrats* don't do any different, how are they any better?
And when Biden* fails to keep his promises - or even promote them - I'll be happy to laugh at his skinny saggy ass parading all over town in his New Clothes™.
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Quote:
Originally posted by second:Quote:If everyone is guilty of something, is no one guilty of anything? The tactic behind whataboutism has been around for a long time. Rhetoricians generally consider it to be a form of tu quoque, which means "you too" in Latin and involves charging your accuser with whatever it is you've just been accused of.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
There was no shortage of "I'm With Her" shirts in 2016.
Let's not pretend this is a one sided deal, just because EVERYBODY is forced to wear a mask out in public even if they're not peacefully setting buildings on fire.
If you wear a dumb shirt out in public, don't be surprised when dumb people do dumb stuff to you.
I haven't been accused of anything, you fucking weirdo.
Don't wear dumb shirts out in public.
And at the end of the day, we're going to pretend what happened in DC was worse than your standard Chicago riot after the Bulls win.
M'kay.
lol
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Originally posted by 1KIKI:
This is a really, really silly claim ... far beyond silly. It ASSumes that Trump could indefinitely postpone leaving the presidency for all his natural-born days. That could never happen in any human-controlled scenario.
Oh, and while Biden* may be an acceptable face on the Deep State, don't expect him to do anything vital for you, the US, or the planet.
I see no evidence that anyone has explained that to Chump. Rational ppl knew he wouldn't get away with lying his way into four more years, but it's beyond clear his minions were happy to help him try.
You know what I expect to get out of Biden??
NOT TRUMP behavior and persona. I am thrilled enough with that
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To get back to the title for a bit: So..5 people are dead as a result of Chumps(sic) stunts to avoid prosecution and litigations (sic)
This is a really, really silly claim ... far beyond silly. It ASSumes that Trump could indefinitely postpone leaving the presidency for all his natural-born days. That could never happen in any human-controlled scenario.
Trump will leave the White House. It could have happened in 2025, but it's going to happen in 2021. There was never any doubt. Unless an asteroid hits the planet or there's some extreme unforeseen event that stops the global clock, it's a certainty.
So Trump forever escaping whatever awaits him in the future - especially due to a less than 24-hour riot by a few thousand people - is a total fantasy.
All this sturm un drang is manufactured hysteria by the democrats* and the m$m.*
Oh, and while Biden* may be an acceptable face on the Deep State, don't expect him to do anything vital for you, the US, or the planet.
If democrats* don't do any different, how are they any better?
And when Biden* fails to keep his promises - or even promote them - I'll be happy to laugh at his skinny saggy ass parading all over town in his New Clothes™.
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Nothing is going to happen to Trump after he leaves office.
Hell... now that Big Tech has locked his voice out, he can't even tweet and keep himself relevant.
Once we start going to war with the Middle East again Trump is going to slide right down the memory hole like all the chants of Lock Her Up did.
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"The Confederacy was not part of the US, was never part of the US, will never be a part of the US.
They are traitors to democracy.
They are enemies of a multiracial democracy, and they will never have glory in our history, in our present or in our future.
Period."
@AOC
https://twitter.com/People4Bernie/status/1349222954672869377
I stand with my girl. Why can't you?
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