Jump to content

~*The Capitol Hill Beer Belly Putsch Official Thread*~


Recommended Posts

32 minutes ago, thewhyteboar said:

I mean it's an obvious false flag right? "Kamala" rhymes with kabbalah, "Harris" has 6 letters, just like "silver," which obviously means the 30 pieces of silver offered to Judas. Open your eyes. 

 

Sound logic seems legit.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

38 minutes ago, thewhyteboar said:

I mean it's an obvious false flag right? "Kamala" rhymes with kabbalah, "Harris" has 6 letters, just like "silver," which obviously means the 30 pieces of silver offered to Judas. Open your eyes. 


Republican Latinos like to call her “Que mala” (how bad) and I hate it.

  • Haha 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

WWW.MSN.COM

A 22-year-old woman who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was drunk and driving in the wrong direction on Wednesday night when she killed a young mom and seriously injured another driver, authorities said. Emily Hernandez was driving west in the eastbound lanes in Franklin County, Missouri, just after 7 p.m. when she crashed into another car that spun into the median strip and struck cable barriers, police said...

 

 

I'm not in favor of the death penalty. Except for all the times that I am.

  • Like 1
  • Guillotine 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

On 1/7/2022 at 5:57 PM, MarSolo said:

Ted Cruz would be a great friend to have, especially when you want to throw a party and you need a house to completely trash.

 

Ted’s daughters are going to grow up to completely hate him and it’s going to be AWESOME.

They already do.  This was 5 years ago.

 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Matt Taibbi wrote a great article about the Cheney homecoming, unfortunately gated by a Substack subscription.

 

I don't always agree with Taibbi--like Greenwald, he can be 'both-sidesy' to a fault and he's a little too blase about the Trump phenomenon--and I can see why you might not like his somewhat 'much ado about nothing' take on January 6th, but he definitely nailed why it's a very very bad thing for the Dems to be kissing Cheney's ring:

 

Quote

January 6th was Trump dipping a toe in the lake of strongman politics. The reason it wasn’t worse is because Trump has also been constantly mislabeled as a HitlerStalin, or Pinochet. The man has no attention span, no interest in planning or strategy, and most importantly, no ability to maintain relationships with the type of people who do have those qualities (like Steve Bannon). Even if he wanted to overturn “democracy itself” — I don’t believe he does, but let’s say — Trump has proven over and over he lacks the qualities a politician would need to make that happen.

 

Which brings us back to Cheney. All those things Trump is rumored to be, Dick Cheney actually is. That’s why it’s so significant that he appeared on the floor of the House yesterday to be slobbered over by the Adam Schiffs and Nancy Pelosis of the world. Dick Cheney did more to destroy democracy in ten minutes of his Vice Presidency than Donald Trump did in four years.

 

Seeing leading Democrats nuzzling the man George Bush called “Iron Ass” summed up the essential problem of the ordinary person trying to find a political home in this landscape. 

***

It was under Cheney’s watch that we turned into a country that snatched people off the streets all over the world, put them in indefinite detention in an archipelago of secret hell-holes, threatened to rape their family members, and resorted to techniques like “rectal feeding” so often that one Guantanamo Bay prisoner had to bring a special pillow to sit in court.

 

The core principle of Cheney’s politics was protecting his new bureaucracies of murder and open-ended detention from legal challenge. That meant creating structures that were legally invisible. Are you on a watch list? Has the FBI sent out a National Security Letter to your telecom provider? Have you been approved for “lethal action” and put on the kill list? Courts repeatedly declined to listen to complainants with such questions because the secrecy of the programs made it difficult or impossible to prove they had a cause of action, a perfect Catch-22.

 

Even members of congress were often unable to find out about whole ranges of programs unless an accident like the Edward Snowden revelations came their way. Cheney built a government inside a government that simply did not recognize the authority of the other branches.

And why it would be bad for Dems to normalize Cheney-ish neoconservatism's authoritarian approach to the rule of law in attempting to battle the pandemic:

Quote

The types of policies that Cheney instituted relied upon the idea that government was capable of making unassailable decisions about, say, who was a real terrorist and who was just a taxi driver or a small-town cop in Yemen. He was successful in taking the courts out of the business of reviewing the detention of human beings because he argued that when it came to terrorism, our “professionals” didn’t make those errors. Cheney’s idea of justice was the same kind of insane authoritarian whack-off fantasy as the “surgical strike,” only even more dangerous because it had wider potential applications.

 

“Professionals” do make errors, about everything from terrorists to viruses. In fact, a fair number of the people seeking this enhanced authority are dumber than average. You don’t have to like Donald Trump to recognize the dire threat represented by a clique of mediocrities with just enough brains to use their offices to organize the criminalization of their opposition.

 

Think about how badly we botched the War on Terror, how many bombs we dropped in the wrong places, how many innocent people we turned into prisoners while suffering global delirium tremens, using 800 military bases loaded with Hellfire missiles to scratch all over at bugs that weren’t there. That madness made us a villain across the planet, exponentially increasing the risk of terrorist attacks. Are we really going to bring that show home?

 

  • Thanks 1
  • True 2
Link to comment
Share on other sites

471_SEDITION_2000.jpg?w=1200&h=630&crop=
WWW.MOTHERJONES.COM

Looking back at historical trials of sedition, a pattern emerges.

 

Quote

 

As of this writing, 695 people have been charged for federal crimes related to the January 6, 2021, Capitol breach—crimes motivated by the lie that Joe Biden won because of nationwide election fraud. Of those 695 people, not one has been charged with sedition, defined in the US Code as two or more people conspiring to “overthrow, put down, or to destroy” the government, “prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law,” or “by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States.”

 

January 6 defendants came armed with bats and bear spray and stun devices and guns and zip ties, aiming to overthrow the election by any means necessary. They called for the execution of the vice president. They assaulted law enforcement, bludgeoning officers with American flagpoles and police barricades. They stormed the Senate floor, stole mementos, and seized government files. They told us what they were there to do—for weeks ahead of time, in some cases—and they very nearly did it.

 

But no one has been charged with sedition, because America does not talk about violent expressions of white supremacy as sedition. Even when it manifests as a coup against America itself.

 

 

  • True 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites


 

Quote

 

Receiving a presidential pardon for subverting the government is not a novelty in the United States, though the Trump era made it almost a stamp of approval for criminal behavior. In an interview with Rolling Stone, an organizer of the “Stop the Steal” movement claimed that, before the Capitol breach, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Az.) promised a “full pardon” for their “hard work” and said Trump was also on board.

 

“I would have done it either way with or without the pardon,” the organizer, who was granted anonymity by Rolling Stone, added. Gosar joined 197 other House Republicans who voted not to impeach Donald Trump for “incitement of insurrection,” absolving Trump of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which forbids any person who has “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against” the United States from “hold[ing] any office…under the United States,” itself a pardon of sorts.

 

Of course, now that Trump is out of office, the January 6 rioters aren’t going to get pardoned anytime soon. But the insurrectionists and their leaders have an awful lot in common with another group of white people who tried to destroy the country: Confederate soldiers. And the era of Reconstruction offers lessons for what happens when the government allows traitors posing as patriotic legislators to remain in its midst.

 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

11 hours ago, CitizenVectron said:

 

 

 

 

 

Guys help. I can't tell the difference between an ideology that wants to create a more just and eligalitarian society and one that just wants to make Germany/Italy/insert country great again. Making said country great again may require but certainly isn't limited to killing followers (and their variations) of previously mentioned ideology, killing Jew, Slavs, and other racial minorities, and waging wars of aggression.

 

  • True 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

This one seems a little more serious than the slap on the wrist charges.

 

13dc-riot-1-facebookJumbo.jpg
WWW.NYTIMES.COM

The F.B.I. arrested Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the far-right militia, in a major step forward in the investigation into the attack on the Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump.

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

44 minutes ago, ThreePi said:

This one seems a little more serious than the slap on the wrist charges.

 

13dc-riot-1-facebookJumbo.jpg
WWW.NYTIMES.COM

The F.B.I. arrested Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the far-right militia, in a major step forward in the investigation into the attack on the Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump.

 

 

Actual sedition-like charges, huh? 

 

Well, well, well!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...