Violent thugs and hooligans brutally attack police officers in D.C.

Seems appropriate considering the post above.

 

Opinion: The Jan. 6 Capitol attack was, in fact, a violent insurrection

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opin...MOMN1LgQQCRkcwMcbdmkX6C-M4qV-O3UqqFfvfte2Dz2s

 

140! That is a lot of alleged police officer assaults from the group the “Backs the Blue”.

 

Tourists. Or as Trump called them yesterday, “peaceful people.”

 

There is a 41 minute video from NYT that I have not yet viewed which is supposedly very impactful. Missed it if posted previously

 

I'm sure those officers were feeling all the love the lying sack of shit keeps talking about.

 

“Peaceful people…great people.”

Trump on Jan. 6 insurrection: 'These were great people'

 

Trump admits to lying about poll numbers he doesn't like

 

thanks. I’ve started it but need to finish. They do a great job of syncing videos, radio, etc on the same time line.

 

from the article.

“Now, if it's bad ideas, I say it's fake. If it's good, I say that's the most accurate poll perhaps ever.“

DJT

 

I know I need to but have not been able to

 

“Stress is the body's natural response to a real or perceived threat. A riot is an example of an acute stressor, and this type of event could trigger the heart to work harder, by increasing heart rate and blood pressure, which could conceivably trigger the formation of a clot that travels to the brain and causes a stroke," said Lindsey Rosman, an assistant professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.“

Sicknick death ruled 'natural' but experts say stress can set off strokes - CNN

 

Marcy does a deep dive into all the record evidence that the OathKeepers had the QRF cache of weapons outside DC ready to call on if DT called them up as his militia, etc. A lot of evidence, a lot of guns, in Va., even with preagreed dropoff sites

On January 3, Jessica Watkins told Bennie Parker that they didn’t need to bring weapons because the QRF would be there. “We are not bringing firearms. QRF will be our Law Enforcement members of Oathkeepers.” But then that same day she reversed the instruction. “Weapons are ok now as well. Sorry for the confusion.”

On January 4, Stewart Rhodes made the Oath Keepers’ plan to have a QRF nearby public.

As we have done on all recent DC Ops, we will also have well armed and equipped QRF1 teams on standby, outside DC, in the event of a worst case scenario, where the President calls us up as part of the militia to to assist him inside DC. We don’t expect a need for him to call on us for that at this time, but we stand ready if he does (and we also stand ready to answer the call to serve as militia anytime in the future, and anywhere in our nation, if he does invoke the Insurrection Act).

Both Watkins and Grods appear to have brought their own weapons. On January 4, before she got to the Comfort Inn, Watkins asked the Florida Signal list where to drop weapons off before any operations. “Where can we drop off weapons to the QRF team? I’d like to have the weapons secured prior to the Op tomorrow.” According to Mark Grods’ Information, he “brought firearms to Washington, D.C.” — which may have exposed him to further criminal liability — “and eventually provided them to another individual to store in a Virginia hotel.”

Kenneth Harrelson also appears to have dropped guns at the Ballston Comfort Inn. On the 5th, Harrelson asked for the location of the “QRF hotel.” Kelly Meggs responded by asking for a DM. Three hours later, Harrelson showed up at the Comfort Inn for an hour.

"One if By Land, Two if By Sea:" What We Know of the Oath Keepers' January 6 Quick Reaction Force | emptywheel

 

Pauline Bauer, a Pennsylvania pizzeria owner who allegedly stormed the Capitol and told a police officer to “bring Nancy Pelosi out here now… we want to hang that (word removed) bitch”, has filed court documents claiming to be a divinely empowered entity immune from laws.

Bauer has demanded to represent herself in court, appeared to threaten a court clerk with prison time, and declared herself a “self-governed individual” with special legal privileges.

Bauer does not simply appear in court, she clarified during a June 11 proceeding via Zoom. “I am here by special divine appearance, a living soul,” she told a judge that day, while stating that she did not want an attorney.

“I do not stand under the law,” she said. “Under Genesis 1, God gave man dominion over the law.”

Pizzeria Owner Mounts Truly Bizarre Defense for Jan. 6 Riots

 

Some serious sovereign citizen vibes with this one…

 

There’s a Word for What Trumpism Is Becoming
The relentless messaging by Trump and his supporters has inflicted a measurable wound on American democracy.
David Frum
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The Trump movement was always authoritarian and illiberal. It indulged periodically in the rhetoric of violence. Trump himself chafed against the restraints of law. But what the United States did not have before 2020 was a large national movement willing to justify mob violence to claim political power. Now it does.

Is there a precedent? Not in recent years. Since the era of Redemption after Reconstruction, anti-government violence in the United States has been the work of marginal sects and individual extremists. American Islamic State supporters were never going to seize the state, and neither were the Weather Underground, the Ku Klux Klan killers of the 1950s and ’60s, Puerto Rican nationalists, the German American Bund, nor the Communist Party USA.

But the post-election Trump movement is not tiny. It’s not anything like a national majority, but it’s a majority in some states—a plurality in more—and everywhere a significant minority, empowered by the inability of pro-legality Republicans to stand up to them. Once it might have been hoped that young Republicans with a future would somehow distance themselves from the violent lawlessness of the post-presidential Trump movement. But one by one, they are betting the other way. You might understand why those tainted by the January 6 attacks, such as Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, would find excuses for them. They have butts to cover. But Hawley is being outdone by other young politicians who weren’t in office and seemed to have every opportunity to build post-Trump identities—including even former Trump critics like the Ohio Senate aspirant J. D. Vance. Why do people sign up with the putschists after the putsch has failed? They’re betting that the failed putsch is not the past—it’s the future.

What shall we call this future? Through the Trump years, it seemed sensible to eschew comparisons to the worst passages of history. I repeated over and over again a warning against too-easy use of the F-word, fascism: “There are a lot of stops on the train line to bad before you get to Hitler Station.”