January 6th Commission investigating coup attempt.
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Why Is So Little Known About the 1930s Coup Attempt Against FDR?
Business leaders like JP Morgan and Irénée du Pont were accused by a retired major general of plotting to install a fascist dictator.
Donald Trump’s elaborate plot to overthrow the democratically elected president was neither impulsive nor uncoordinated, but straight out of the playbook of another American coup attempt – the 1933 “Wall Street putsch” against newly elected Franklin Delano Roosevelt. If the plotters had been held accountable in the 1930s, the forces behind the 6 January coup attempt might never have flourished into the next century.
America had hit rock bottom, beginning with the stock market crash three years earlier. Unemployment was at 16 million and rising. Farm foreclosures exceeded half a million. More than five thousand banks had failed, and hundreds of thousands of families had lost their homes. Financial capitalists had bilked millions of customers and rigged the market. There were no government safety nets – no unemployment insurance, minimum wage, social security or Medicare.
Economic despair gave rise to panic and unrest, and political firebrands and white supremacists eagerly fanned the paranoia of socialism, global conspiracies and threats from within the country. Populists Huey Long and Father Charles Coughlin attacked FDR, spewing vitriolic anti-Jewish, pro-fascist refrains and brandishing the “America first” slogan coined by media magnate William Randolph Hearst.
On 4 March 1933, more than 100,000 people had gathered on the east side of the US Capitol for Roosevelt’s inauguration. The atmosphere was slate gray and ominous, the sky suggesting a calm before the storm. That morning, rioting was expected in cities throughout the nation, prompting predictions of a violent revolution. Army machine guns and sharpshooters were placed at strategic locations along the route. Not since the civil war had Washington been so fortified, with armed police guarding federal buildings.
FDR thought government in a civilized society had an obligation to abolish poverty, reduce unemployment, and redistribute wealth. Roosevelt’s bold New Deal experiments inflamed the upper class, provoking a backlash from the nation’s most powerful bankers, industrialists and Wall Street brokers, who thought the policy was not only radical but revolutionary. Worried about losing their personal fortunes to runaway government spending, this fertile field of loathing led to the “traitor to his class” epithet for FDR. “What that fellow Roosevelt needs is a 38-caliber revolver right at the back of his head,” a respectable citizen said at a Washington dinner party.
In a climate of conspiracies and intrigues, and against the backdrop of charismatic dictators in the world such as Hitler and Mussolini, the sparks of anti-Rooseveltism ignited into full-fledged hatred. Many American intellectuals and business leaders saw nazism and fascism as viable models for the US. The rise of Hitler and the explosion of the Nazi revolution, which frightened many European nations, struck a chord with prominent American elites and antisemites such as Charles Lindbergh and Henry Ford. Hitler’s elite Brownshirts – a mass body of party storm troopers separate from the 100,000-man German army – was a stark symbol to the powerless American masses. Mussolini’s Blackshirts – the military arm of his organization made up of 200,000 soldiers – were a potent image of strength to a nation that felt emasculated.
A divided country and FDR’s emboldened powerful enemies made the plot to overthrow him seem plausible. With restless uncertainty, volatile protests and ominous threats, America’s right wing was inspired to form its own paramilitary organizations. Militias sprung up throughout the land, their self-described “patriots” chanting: “This is despotism! This is tyranny!”
Today’s Proud Boys and Oath Keepers have nothing on their extremist forbears. In 1933, a diehard core of
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Nah. I won't even read it.
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Growing up in a Republic was nice... Shame we couldn't keep it.
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Quote:Roosevelt struck a deal with the plotters, allowing them to avoid treason charges – and possible execution – if Wall Street backed off its opposition to the New Deal. The presidential biographer Sidney Blumenthal recently said that Roosevelt should have pushed the New Deal through Congress, then reneged on his agreement and prosecuted the plotters.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Nah. I won't even read it.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
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Whatever dude. You don't even know what point you're trying to make anymore and nobody else on this board could possibly give a shit less.
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GOP's Paul Gosar got early warning to leave Capitol on Jan. 6 from 'Stop the Steal' organizer
Anew report from Rolling Stone reveals that Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) was warned by "Stop the Steal" organizer Ali Alexander to leave the United States Capitol building on January 6th, 2021 before rioters incited by former President Donald Trump breached the building.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-s-paul-gosar-got-early-war
ning-to-leave-capitol-on-jan-6-from-stop-the-steal-organizer/ar-AA16k1wr?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=5498ee65906d42b0a0830fe3b6e6244e
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There was no coup. There was no insurrection. 
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Anew report from Rolling Stone...
P.S. "A new" is spelled "A new". Not "Anew".
Did you fuck up that copy paste job, or are the idiots at Raw Story just as bad at spelling as you are?
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Proud Boys 'intend to subpoena' Trump at their seditious conspiracy trial:
Members of the Proud Boys are reportedly telling former President Donald Trump to stand back and stand by for a subpoena.
According to New York Times reported Alan Feuer, members of the Proud Boys who have been accused by the government of engaging in a seditious conspiracy are saying they "intend to subpoena Donald Trump as a witness at the trial."
Although it's not clear why members of the gang would want Trump to testify on their behalf, many other January 6th defendants have argued that broke into the Capitol and violently clashed with police officers because it was what the former president wanted them to do.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/proud-boys-intend-to-subpoena-tru
mp-at-their-seditious-conspiracy-trial-report/ar-AA16KnoZ?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=3997c91016e84e2e8ce3ba10ebeef5a0
What can you say? I know, incredible.
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Trump will be fine.
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There was no coup attempt. There was no insurrection.
There is also no such thing as a funny Leftist comedian.
Duckman knew that back in the mid 90s.
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