January 6th Commission investigating coup attempt.
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Schiff piles on DOJ after Mueller prosecutor criticizes Jan. 6 investigation
Rep. Adam Schiff, a member of the Jan. 6 committee, raised the alarm after a top prosecutor in Robert Mueller's special counsel investigation criticized the Justice Department inquiry into the Capitol riot.
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Trump administration officials are forming a 'shadow government' to take immediate control in 2024:
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Originally posted by THG:
Trump administration officials are forming a 'shadow government' to take immediate control in 2024:
No they aren't. Do you honestly think that Trump would ever in a million years do anything in the shadows that he couldn't take credit for.
Get fucked, moron.
This is just your Legacy Media prepping your stupid ass for claiming that the entire system is rigged when Democrats DESERVEDLY lose everything in November after you've been denying that mail-in fraud election was fraud, that the economy has been in shambles, that crime has been out of control and that the quality of life for a majority of Americans has been taking a nose dive for the last two years.
It's so sad how they've split your psyche in two. You're hardly a person anymore at this point.
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The case for charging Trump with manslaughter
During the next Jan. 6 committee hearing I will be listening for evidence of a crime that has gone largely undiscussed.
By Barbara McQuade, MSNBC Opinion Columnist
The loss of life was predictable in light of the size of the mob, their emotional state and their use of force. We recently learned from Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony another key fact — then-President Donald Trump knew that the crowd was armed, adding to the risk that someone would be killed. According to Hutchinson, this risk was also foreseeable to White House counsel Pat Cipollone, who urged White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to persuade Trump to take action to stop it. According to Hutchinson, Cipollone told Meadows: “Something needs to be done or people are going to die and the blood’s going to be on your f---ing hands. This is getting out of control.”
First Amendment concerns about political speech could create sticky legal issues. So instead, prosecutors could focus on acts of criminal omission.
Unlike most members of the public who have no duty to take action to prevent a crime, a president has a constitutional duty to “take care that the laws be faithfully executed.” The president also serves as commander in chief of the armed forces. On Jan. 6, when Trump was alerted that the situation at the Capitol was getting “out of control,” he had a duty to call in the National Guard to quell the violence. According to Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley, Trump did not do so. Nor did he call any other government agency to intervene.
On Tuesday, we heard testimony from Cipollone that Trump could have gone to the press briefing room and made a statement on camera asking the mob to disperse, and that Trump refused. Trump also had a direct communication channel in the form of Twitter, but instead of posting a tweet asking the crowd to go home, Trump rekindled the flames by tweeting that Pence lacked the “courage” to toss out the election results. It was not until the 187th minute of the riot that Trump put out a video-recorded statement asking the mob to go home. I believe his three hours of inaction could amount to an omission necessary to prove that first element of manslaughter.
Second, prosecutors would need to show the required mental state — that Trump acted without due care, which is another term for negligence. For criminal liability, prosecutors must show not just simple negligence, but gross negligence, an extreme deviation from the standard of care. Here, Trump certainly was aware, or should have been aware, of the risk of death at the Capitol. And yet he failed to take action. Testimony from staffers who urged him to act will be important at the upcoming hearing, especially for establishing a failure to take due care.
Third, prosecutors would need to prove that his act of omission caused one or more of the deaths. To prove causation, prosecutors must generally prove that the death was a reasonably foreseeable result of the act of omission. Here, it was reasonably foreseeable that a mob of thousands of angry people, whom Trump knew were armed and angry, would cause the death of another person. Even if Trump was unaware that the mob would breach the Capitol, it was reasonable to foresee that an overmatched Capitol Police officer or a member of the crowd would be killed. And of course, that is just what happened.
Even if this result was not foreseeable during Trump’s speech on the Ellipse, it certainly became foreseeable during the 187 minutes that he sat watching television coverage of the mayhem at the Capitol.
More at https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/did-trump-commit-manslaugh
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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You two are so sad.
Trump's going to be your President again.
Maybe if the guy you voted for wasn't so inept and didn't surround himself with a bunch of worthless diversity hires that are all terrible at their jobs, Democrats would have easily won in 2024 and Trump would have been as senile as Joe* is by 2028, but Democrats have failed in every measurable aspect for 2 years now.
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Quote:Imagine a world in which political norms have broken down. Senators use bad faith arguments to block the government from getting anything done. An autocrat rigs elections and gives himself complete control over the government. Even stranger, many voters subscribe to the autocrat's personality cult and agree that he should have absolute control. Trump? No. Welcome to Rome in the first century B.C.E. The republic that had existed for over 400 years had finally hit a crisis it couldn't overcome. Rome itself wouldn't fall, but during this period it lost its republic forever.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You two are so sad.
Trump's going to be your President again.
Maybe if the guy you voted for wasn't so inept and didn't surround himself with a bunch of worthless diversity hires that are all terrible at their jobs, Democrats would have easily won in 2024 and Trump would have been as senile as Joe* is by 2028, but Democrats have failed in every measurable aspect for 2 years now.
How Rome Destroyed Its Own Republic
Augustus told Romans he was the only one who could save Rome. And they believed him. Trump did the same in America. And Trumptards believe him.
https://www.history.com/news/rome-republic-augustus-dictator
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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I can't even comprehend how somebody gets to be as stupid as you are.
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Quote:There is a very simple explanation, but you "can't even comprehend how" it works:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I can't even comprehend how somebody gets to be as stupid as you are.
The January 6 hearings: Which reality is ‘true reality’?
As the January 6th hearings continue and Americans watch new, seemingly undeniable video evidence of insurrection and quibble about whether Trump could reach the steering wheel of the Presidential SUV from the back seat, the ideas of Thomas Kuhn, the philosopher and historian of science who coined the phrase “paradigm shift” to explain scientific revolutions remain prescient as ever, even as we approach his 100th birthday.
Scientific revolutions, Kuhn argued, are very much like political revolutions… which brings us to the insurrection of January 6th.
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan famously said that you’re entitled to your own opinions, but not your own facts. We can have different values or commit to different policy proposals in order to realize our values, but we have to share a common foundation of facts. A Kuhnian would beg to differ, however, because people who come from different paradigms can, and do, believe in different realities. For decades now, in fact, that Kuhnian notion has inspired a growing number of American conservatives to build a new political paradigm that’s radically different from our current democratic structure.
For decades, Democrats and Republicans agreed on the norms and procedures that grounded our political reality: every eligible citizen should be allowed to vote; race, gender, and religious belief shouldn’t make anyone ineligible to vote (although it did take different amounts of time to reach consensus about who was eligible); all votes should be counted; and whoever gets the most votes wins the election, except in the case of Presidential elections, which are governed by the more complex rules of the Electoral College. These rules were all part of the political paradigm that Americans once widely accepted.
But things changed. In 1980, Paul Weyrich, founder of the Moral Majority, said “I don’t want everyone to vote…our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down.” His declaration started a new wave of voter suppression efforts intended to make sure not everyone would get to vote and to challenge which votes would be counted. In 2000, there was ambiguity about whether Al Gore received more votes in Florida than George W. Bush. The Brooks Brothers revolution showed that if Republicans raised enough of a fuss, Democrats would protect the paradigm rather than their electoral victory. They were willing to sacrifice the power that would come with electoral victory to protect the structural stability of the entire election process.
Over time, conservatives began to establish an alternative paradigm, setting themselves apart from what an unnamed Bush aide called “the reality-based community” of people who believe that political solutions derive from a “judicious study of discernible reality.” The aide defined the new conservative paradigm both brazenly and clearly: “That’s not the way the world really works any more… We create our own reality.” In 2017, Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway embraced the new paradigm by referring to the administration’s falsehoods as “alternative facts.” For adherents to that new paradigm, those alternative facts are absolutely real.
The new paradigm explains why it’s so much more difficult to have political conversations across party lines than it once was. Those of us who are members of the “reality-based community” rely on double-blind testing and statistics to determine whether certain facts, like the efficacy of masks and COVID vaccines, are rational to believe. Those who are members of the “alternative facts” paradigm have removed the scientific method from that role, replacing it with declarations made by powerful political and media voices. Between those two paradigms, we no longer agree
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Trump will run again to avoid consequences of January 6th
Four people with close ties to Trump told Rolling Stone that the twice impeached president has "spoken about how when you are the president of the United States, it is tough for politically motivated prosecutors to 'get to you.'"
The source who had recently had this conversation with Trump further told Rolling Stone, "He says when [not if] he is president again, a new Republican administration will put a stop to the [Justice Department] investigation that he views as the Biden administration working to hit him with criminal charges -- or even put him and his people in prison."
The list of illegal allegations against Trump is long. He's currently in the middle of two criminal investigations, allegations of election interference, and facing accusations of financial crimes (per the BBC). It appears that Trump believes he can turn his legal strife around by becoming president again in 2024, which may be a major motivation for running again.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-s-2024-motivation
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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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