This overreaction is more political then defensive There will be massive disappointment from CNN and the lot when there is no violence Think about that....
The intent is to have no violence. If they had taken proper steps on January 6th there would have been no violence or entry into the Capital.
The Memo: Rally in support of Jan. 6 rioters is new headache for GOP https://thehill.com/homenews/the-me...port-of-jan-6-rioters-is-new-headache-for-gop Saturday’s planned rally in support of the Jan. 6 insurrectionists comes at just the wrong time for the Republican Party — or at least for those within the GOP who want to move on from former President Trump. Trump’s tumultuous final days in office are back in the headlines because of revelations from a forthcoming book by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa of The Washington Post. The House select committee on the riot at the Capitol is ramping up its work. And now Saturday’s rally will be one more reminder of the darkest day in recent political history. This is hardly ideal for those within the GOP who feel they otherwise have an opening to attack President Biden and his party over the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan as well as other issues like immigration and inflation. Everyone in Washington, regardless of political affiliation, has noted that California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) handily defeated a recall effort on Tuesday by explicitly casting the man most likely to replace him, conservative radio host Larry Elder, as a proxy for Trump. “Republicans want the midterms to be a referendum on Biden,” GOP strategist Alex Conant told this column. “The Democrats will want it to be about Donald Trump. It’s clear that every Democrat is going to do what Newsom did in California and try to make their own reelection about the former president.” So far, it looks like the Sept. 18 event at the Capitol could be a fairly small affair. It has been organized by a former Trump campaign aide, Matt Braynard, but he has asked that attendees not wear pro-Trump clothing or carry Trump signs. Anyone not honoring that request, he tweeted on Tuesday, “will be assumed to be an infiltrator.” The event has divided the far right. NBC News reported on Wednesday that the rally has drawn dissent on extremist forums, with some participants suggesting it is a “false flag” operation intended to ensnare attendees. The Proud Boys have been critical of it. Its members are not expected to attend. The rally’s ostensible purpose is to protest the treatment of people who have been arrested for their part in the events of Jan. 6. The basic argument of the organizers is that those people have been targeted for political offenses. In fact, around 140 police officers were injured on Jan. 6. According to a Justice Department statement in July marking six months since the riot, “at least 165 defendants have been charged with assaulting, resisting or impeding officers or employees, including over 50 individuals who have been charged with using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury to an officer.” More than 600 people have been arrested in all. The Department of Homeland Security expects around 700 people for Saturday’s event. Although some Republican lawmakers have criticized the treatment of people arrested, none have yet said they will attend the rally. Two of Trump’s most fervent supporters in Congress, Reps. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), have said they do not plan to go. But the event is sure to draw abundant media attention. Security arrangements are already being beefed up. Temporary fencing was due to be erected around the Capitol on Wednesday evening. On Capitol Hill, the House Sergeant at Arms William Walker sent a memo Tuesday evening advising all members of Congress and their staff “to avoid the U.S. Capitol Complex on September 18th.” Even if the event proves peaceful, some experts on extremism caution that it is part of a larger, troubling picture where the basic tenets of American democracy are being eroded. Heidi Beirich, co-founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, said she was “pretty sure” Saturday’s event would be far smaller than Jan. 6, when thousands of people converged on the Capitol. But, she added, the bigger problem was “the whitewashing of what happened on Jan. 6, trying to recast the people who stormed the Capitol as people practicing civil disobedience or comparing them to Martin Luther King. It’s just ridiculous.” She added that such claims amounted to “one more prong of attacking our democracy.” Republicans would prefer not to get drawn into that discussion at all. But the upcoming rally may make it unavoidable. “Republicans do well when they are talking about issues and what their ideas and policies are,” said GOP pollster David Winston. Right now, he said, the GOP needs to be focused on, “What’s the solution in terms of improving health care? How do we get the economy really growing? Answering the questions that really matter to people.” Anything else, he lamented, “doesn’t really move the ball forward.” But the long shadow cast by the former president hangs over everything. On Tuesday alone, Trump issued four emailed statements — one alleging voter fraud in California even with polls still open, one hitting Facebook, one complaining about unnamed moderates in the GOP and one calling Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a “dumbass.” The hit on Milley came after revelations in the Woodward and Costa book that Milley had spoken twice to his Chinese counterpart to reassure him that the U.S. would not launch an attack as Trump’s presidency neared its end. Milley was also reported to have agreed with Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.) assessment that Trump was “crazy.” The conversation took place on Jan. 8, two days after the Capitol riot. For the GOP, the road ahead is still blocked by the debris of the recent past.
This makes it easy to identify the mentally ill... 21 million Americans say Biden is ‘illegitimate’ and Trump should be restored by violence, survey finds https://theconversation.com/21-mill...d-be-restored-by-violence-survey-finds-168359
Wasn't there supposed to be some mass insurrection last weekend? National guard called up, everyone on high alert? What was it, about a dozen people showed up? But the fascist left must keep the boogeyman alive to keep their authoritarian administration in place.
You still have not figured out how preventative measures, prevent stuff. Over and over, you are stumped by how prevention stops things being as bad as they could be with no action at all. Well that and exponential growth which is bizarrely incomprehensible to you. Feck it, I thought Foundation was a movie but its a series. That makes sense and makes it more possible.
The Legal Architects of Trump’s Failed Coup May Finally Face Real Consequences https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/10/john-eastment-jeffrey-clark-coup-consequences.html The intellectual ringleaders of Donald Trump’s failed coup are finally facing the threat of serious consequences for their integral roles in the legal plot to overturn the 2020 election. No lawyers did more than John Eastman and Jeffrey Bossert Clark to try to hand Trump an unearned second term. Eastman developed and promoted the theory that Vice President Mike Pence could reject Joe Biden’s victory, then endorsed it at the Jan. 6 rally that fomented the insurrection. Clark urged his Justice Department superiors to pressure several legislatures into awarding their electoral votes to Trump even though Biden carried their states. Both men remain practicing attorneys. Now, however, their ability to practice law is under threat. On Monday, a bipartisan group of lawyers, including two former federal judges, asked the California bar to investigate Eastman. One day later, a different bipartisan group of lawyers, including two top-ranking Justice Department officials under George H.W. Bush, asked the D.C. Court of Appeals’ disciplinary panel to investigate Clark. These requests could lead to the revocation of Eastman’s and Clark’s license to practice law, a critical first step toward stigmatizing the malignant theories both men pushed for months. Given that the conservative legal movement has refused to criticize their work as out of bounds, the complaints also provide a new opportunity for the mainstream legal establishment to confirm that a lawyer who tries to overthrow an election has proved himself unfit to practice law. Both letters are supported by a remarkable roster of heavyweights. The Eastman letter was signed by retired judges on the state and federal level, state attorneys general, U.S. attorneys, and governors. It highlights Eastman’s key role in the development of the theory that Pence could toss out Biden’s victory on Jan. 6 when counting electoral votes. In two memos, Eastman laid out a putative pathway for Pence to unilaterally reject Biden electors from seven states, effectively disenfranchising tens of millions of Americans. He championed this idea at Jan. 6’s “Stop the Steal” rally onstage with Rudy Giuliani (whose law license was later suspended). And he spread baseless conspiracy theories all the while, insisting that Trump lost due to widespread fraud of which there was no evidence. (On Jan. 6, he claimed that Democratic operatives hid Biden votes in a “secret folder” within voting machines.) Eastman also filed a brief on Trump’s behalf asking the Supreme Court to overturn the election by nullifying millions of valid votes. (Much more at above url)
This is what 1/6 taught Nancy We all figured that the Capitol building was a hard target, but 1/6 taught is the building is a soft target , with security on the same level as a shopping mall 1/6 was like a dry run exercise that showed the failure of Nancy who is accountable for security at the capitol.... Imagine if 1/6 were 50 ISIS strapped with explosives.
Apparently you aren't letting the facts stand in the way of your narrative. Posts falsely cite Pelosi as responsible for security during Capitol insurrection https://apnews.com/article/fact-checking-afs:Content:9909210228