Capitol Insurrection / rebellion thread

[Paranoid Android]

New emails show two GOP lawmakers offered advice to Trump’s team on challenging election



I posted above and evidence has come out about Sen. Mike Lee, Utah. Sadly this traitor will suffer no consequences. Swore an oath, was looking to overturn an election and will keep trying.

At this point we the people, just want our government overthrown. Stated multiple times, that coups are not always successful the first time, but history has shown when those are not punished, they succeed on the second or more attempts.

More context to story:

In reality, Lee was aware of the gambit nearly a month before he claimed.

On Dec. 8, Lee texted Meadows, “If a very small handful of states were to have their legislatures appoint alternative slates of delegates, there could be a plan,” Lee wrote.

[PACOX]

Jesus. The worst thing about Republicans isn't their politics, it's their coordination and how they will cover for each other despite inner-conflict. The government is slowly uncovering a conspiracy by the government to subvert the government.

If this was going on in any other country there would be mass protests, forced resignations, recounts, other countries sending foreign aid while making UN speeches. Shamelessness.

[Endus]

Jesus. The worst thing about Republicans isn't their politics, it's their coordination and how they will cover for each other despite inner-conflict. The government is slowly uncovering a conspiracy by the government to subvert the government.

If this was going on in any other country there would be mass protests, forced resignations, recounts, other countries sending foreign aid while making UN speeches. Shamelessness.

Not "by the government". By a single private party organization.

That makes it, in dictionary terms, a "coup". There's an ongoing slow coup, and nobody's got the balls to prosecute the offenders for trying to suborn the government.

[Redwyrm]

But will he be wearing his finest spray-on hair for the House committee?

I really want to take a magnet to that image to see if the "hair" moves.

[Edge-]

Ms. "The best. Is yet. TO COME!" is speaking with the committee today -

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/u...committee.html

Kimberly Guilfoyle, the fiancée of former President Donald Trump’s eldest son, met with the House committee investigating the U.S. Capitol insurrection Monday — more than a month after she abruptly ended a voluntary interview with lawmakers — according to a person familiar with the matter.

Guilfoyle, 53, arrived Monday morning at the federal office building on Capitol Hill where the committee has been conducting its virtual and in-person interviews to sit down with lawmakers, according to the person who spoke to The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to discuss private testimony.

The committee investigating the attack had requested testimony and records from Guilfoyle, who spoke at the rally Trump held on the White House Ellipse on Jan. 6, 2021, before the riot at the Capitol aimed at overturning Trump's election loss. Lawmakers say that Guilfoyle, who was a chair of the Trump Victory Committee, the fundraising arm of his campaign, also raised funds for the rally and was in direct contact with its key participants and organizers.

Guess they don't need to threaten every one of these people with legal actions for failure to respond to a subpoena.

[cubby]

New emails show two GOP lawmakers offered advice to Trump’s team on challenging election



I posted above and evidence has come out about Sen. Mike Lee, Utah. Sadly this traitor will suffer no consequences. Swore an oath, was looking to overturn an election and will keep trying.

At this point we the people, just want our government overthrown. Stated multiple times, that coups are not always successful the first time, but history has shown when those are not punished, they succeed on the second or more attempts.

More context to story:

In reality, Lee was aware of the gambit nearly a month before he claimed.

On Dec. 8, Lee texted Meadows, “If a very small handful of states were to have their legislatures appoint alternative slates of delegates, there could be a path,” Lee wrote.

And since their first treasonous coup attempt didn't work, they have since passed laws in some states that allow the legislature to "overturn" the literal vote, in case "discrepancies" are "discovered".

If Trump runs in 2024, the coup will happen then.

[PhaelixWW]

If Trump runs in 2024, the coup will happen then.

Is this the start of CoupAnon?

[Edge-]

https://www.politico.com/minutes/con...-words-to-gop/

Here's the latest: Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) said Tuesday he has never spoken to the leaders of the Oath Keepers despite newly revealed text messages showing that the group discussed contacting and protecting him during the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

“Like many public figures, Rep. Jackson is frequently talked about by people he does not know,” a spokesman for the Texas freshman said. “He does not know nor has he ever spoken to the people in question.”

The backdrop here: Jackson notably remained on the House floor during the attack and was one of the last lawmakers to leave the chamber during the evacuation. The leaders of the Oath Keepers, including founder Stewart Rhodes, are facing the gravest criminal charges to emerge from the Jan. 6 attack. Rhodes and 10 others are charged with seditious conspiracy.

Oath Keeper chatter: Questions about Jackson’s potential contacts with the extremist group arose late Monday, when a trove of text messages among the group’s leaders were filed on the docket in their criminal case by Ed Vallejo, one of the defendants.

“Dr. Ronnie Jackson - on the move. Needs protection. If anyone inside cover him. He has critical data to protect,” one unidentified member of the Oath Keepers group text said at 3:08 p.m.

“Help with what?” Rhodes replied. “Give him my cell.

Who did Ronnie speak to? What did Ronnie know? When did he know it? What "critical data" did he have that needed protecting?

Man, sure seems the committee needs to start going after their colleagues for like, you know, working with groups trying to kidnap/kill them.

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https://www.businessinsider.com/uber...22-4?r=US&IR=T

And today in, "Insurrectionists and Capitol rioters are actually Very Smart People" we have Jerry Daniel Braun.

What did Jerry do?

Prosecutors say a Washington, DC-area Uber driver reached out to the FBI in January 2021 to share information about an apparent rioter. The driver told investigators that a passenger acknowledged tearing down a barricade at the US Capitol immediately following the siege on January 6, 2021.

The driver, who identified the passenger only as "Jerry" at the time, said the man had a white beard and a visible injury near his right eye. The driver said Braun was picked up about a mile from the US Capitol grounds and dropped off at a hotel in Arlington, Virginia.

A portion of Braun's ride was captured on video by a dash cam in the Uber, according to court documents, during which the driver engaged Braun in conversation about the siege.

"So, has it been violent all day?" the driver asked, according to prosecutors.

"Well, it started around right when I got there," Braun responded. "I tore down the barricades."

"You did?" the driver asked. "Why?"

"Well, because, so we could get to the Capitol," Braun replied.

"Well, how'd that work out for ya?" the driver responded.

"Well, it looks like, uh, Biden's gonna be our president," Braun said.

Investigators used Braun's hotel reservation and license to confirm that he was indeed the same man in the Uber dash cam video, prosecutors said. Agents then set out to find more video and photographic evidence of Braun's conduct during the riot.

Not much, just took an Uber home after a day of rioting and then bragged about it, on camera, to his driver.

Again, note the bolded line at the end: Overturning the results was always the goal, no matter how many times Republican officials lie and say it wasn't.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/20/u...interview.html

Alex Jones now talking with the DOJ about his possible interview related to Jan 6.

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https://www.thestate.com/news/local/...260581587.html

Not an insurrectoinist - he was in prison at the time and still is - but one of the Proud Boys just got indicted for threatening the lives of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and two federal judges in South Carolina.

Eric Rome, 33, an inmate in the S.C. Department of Corrections, also sent letters he said contained anthrax to the U.S. Supreme Court and a federal courthouse in Portland, Oregan, the eight-count indictment said.

Rome made some of the threats by telephone while an inmate in the S.C. Department of Corrections, the indictment said.

Rome, who is being held at the maximum security Kirkland Correctional Institution outside Columbia, is serving a multi-year prison sentence out of Greenville County for firearms violations and armed robbery. He is eligible to leave prison in 2030.

“Our intent is war on the federal government and specifically the assassination of the feds Marxist leaders Joe Biden and Kamala Harris,” Rome said on a voicemail left at a Department of Corrections phone.

Just a reminder that extremist groups are indeed filled with extremists.

And that thankfully, extremists are not very smart. I think threatening officials from a federal prison where all outgoing calls and mail are monitored is uh...a special kind of stupid. Unless he just really wants to spend the rest of his life in prison, in which case he's doing a bangup job.

[gondrin]

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https://www.thestate.com/news/local/...260581587.html

Not an insurrectoinist - he was in prison at the time and still is - but one of the Proud Boys just got indicted for threatening the lives of Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and two federal judges in South Carolina.



Just a reminder that extremist groups are indeed filled with extremists.

And that thankfully, extremists are not very smart. I think threatening officials from a federal prison where all outgoing calls and mail are monitored is uh...a special kind of stupid. Unless he just really wants to spend the rest of his life in prison, in which case he's doing a bangup job.

You know, if these people had a brain cell between the lot of them, they would know that no President(or high ranking executive official), Federal elected Representative or Federal Judge ever opens up random mail or packages without being checked first for things like Anthrax and the like. This has been a policy and thing being done for a long while now.

It never surprises me on how dumb these people are.

[Edge-]

https://www.rollingstone.com/politic...tests-1341795/

Marjorie Taylor Greene testifying under oath continues the long Republican tradition of having selective amnesia -

Pretty much, but your testimony as you sit here today under oath is that you didn’t talk to anybody in government about the fact that there were going to be large protests in Washington on Jan. 6?” the attorney asked.

“I don’t remember.”

She was asked if she talked to Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.)

“I don’t remember.”

She was asked if she talked to Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.)

“Sorry, I don’t remember.”

What about anyone in the White House?

“I don’t remember.”

Did she hear anyone mention the potential for violence on Jan. 6?

“I don’t remember.”

LET'S BRING THIS BACK ONCE MORE



We really need to make sure Republicans all take cognitive tests before entering the government, because it seems like there are some serious memory issues for these folks.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/co...ying_that_she/

"Did you call Nancy Pelosi a "traitor to the country", right?"

"I'm not answering that question, that's speculation."

"You've said that Ms. Greene."

"I haven't said that."

"Can we have exhibit 5 please?"

"Oh no, wait, hold on now...well yes I actually did!"

These fuckin dishonest, or deeply forgetful clowns.

[Captain N]

I understand that Ronald Reagan was once heralded as some kind of Republican God, but the current crop really needs to stop cosplaying his Alzheimer's.

[Edge-]

I understand that Ronald Reagan was once heralded as some kind of Republican God, but the current crop really needs to stop cosplaying his Alzheimer's.

Wild how this is a multi-decade trend. Starting at least with Umberto Gonzales (likely earlier), going to Jeff Session (also an AG like Gonzales!) and extending to other Republican officials like Greene and a few others in recent years.

Is there something in the water that Republicans are drinking?

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https://twitter.com/cspan/status/1517539290905030657

Greene, being asked if she said Nancy Pelosi committed treason, which is punishible by death, thinks it's cute and funny to play games.

Did she say it?

"According to the CNN article I did."

Which is a ratshit spineless answer, but she's a fuckin ingrown toenail of a human being so that's not surprising.

[Edge-]

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1517539588922818562

Greene, being asked if she liked a tweet supporting shooting Speaker Pelosi in the head...

First tries to blame CNN

Then tries the Ted Cruz defense, "It could have been anyone in my office that liked that pornographic tweet! I don't know who did it!"

[Edge-]

Greene: We were so confused. We thought Antifa or BLM was breaking in



She just had to get BLM and ANTIFA in this, didn't she lol

I hope she has persistent UTI's that never clear up, this dishonest piece of fuckin racist ass shit.

[jonnysensible]

everytime i see MTG i always think of Nadine Dorris. Just absolute Labrador brains. Nothing going on.

[cubby]

That'sy big fear too, almost everyday on NPR I'm hearing about this state or that state fighting and voting on limiting voter rights and all, but blatantly rigging the rules for future elections to ensure unfair victories...


So disgustingly blatantly obvious tactics, yet we all just discuss them and collectively /gasp all while continuing to allow this litigated bullshit to continue.

How can the system not be broken at it's core if these "legal" changes are just allowed to happen to disenfranchise millions of US voters? What democracy?

Agreed.

The problem is that there is no way to "fix" it short of a complete Constitutional rewrite.

The system is broken - we're just seeing it blatantly now.

[Kathranis]

I hope she has persistent UTI's that never clear up, this dishonest piece of fuckin racist ass shit.

MGT unironically strikes me as the kind of woman who gets toxic shock syndrome because she forgets to take her used tampons out.

[Edge-]

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/0...trump-00027213

“The testimony also suggests that you agreed to talk to the President, but had to make multiple efforts to persuade President Trump to act,” the letter continues. Then it quotes from the transcript of Kellogg’s interview.

“And so presumably the first time she [Ivanka Trump] went in, it wasn’t sufficient or she wouldn’t have had to go back at least one more time, I assume. Is that correct?” the transcript reads, quoting the investigator who was interviewing Kellogg.

“Well, yes, ma’am,” Kellogg replies. “I think she went back there because Ivanka can be pretty tenacious.”

But multiple witnesses have described that specific episode differently to the panel, according to two people familiar with the testimony to the select committee. Those other witnesses, including the former president’s daughter herself, have testified that Trump sent out a tweet supporting Capitol Police just a few minutes after she first went in and asked him to say something about the attack, the people said.

He sent out that tweet at 2:38 p.m., saying, “Please support our Capitol Police and Law Enforcement,” he wrote. “They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!”

In other words, according to these witnesses, it only took the president’s daughter a few minutes to get him to send out a statement responding to the violence.

Someone is lying to Congress, here.

[Drutt]

CNN also published a few thousand texts today. One of which was MTG calling for “Marshall” Law. I’m sure the inability to spell will save her.

An obvious reference to the Marshall Plan. We all know what she meant!

/s

[Edge-]

An obvious reference to the Marshall Plan. We all know what she meant!

/s

"Marshall Law" results in the "Gazpacho Police" knocking on your door and asking for your papers!