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2021 Coup And The Aftermath
Bogart
Streetwise HerculesRegistered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
Streetwise HerculesRegistered User, Moderator Mod Emeritus
Talk about the violent attempt at regime change in the despotic failed state that is the USA.
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please no more coups
I am legitimately concerned about what's going to happen March 4th, or whatever new date they decided the comet is going to come and save them. Hopefully a lot of them will be busy with trials at the time, but even still.
i'm taking hope that the countrywide MLK Day protest was a complete nothingburger and maybe they'll just be loud online in what remains of their social media circles
Yeah, but hoping that fascists just stop fascisming is pretty cold comfort.
Tweeter is AOC, a congressperson from New York
investigating Robinhood over the stonks thing going on
From AOC:
"This is unacceptable.
We now need to know more about @RobinhoodApp ’s decision to block retail investors from purchasing stock while hedge funds are freely able to trade the stock as they see fit.
As a member of the Financial Services Cmte, I’d support a hearing if necessary."
AOC: The latest development in the GME stock craziness looks bad and I think Congress should take notice
Ted Cruz: Me too! Let's be friends now! Can I get an RT and some of your cool followers?
AOC: Maybe the GOP is moving on from Jan 6th but I sure as hell am not! GFY and resign, Raphael!
Which, as AoC points out, is kind of a fucked up double standard and says she'd be willing to look into it as a member of the commerce committee. Ted Cruz "agreed" with that sentiment, and you've seen the rest.
It’s even better cause she rightfully points out his complicity in the attempted insurrection and murder
We need these legislators who have stirred up these mobs and advocated for violence to be removed from their offices and barred from holding office. Now, by censure and expulsion, not by voters at the ballot box, because if there are not serious consequences for those on the inside who encouraged, aided, and abetted this coup attempt, it WILL happen again, before and/or druing the next election.
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(tweeter is a CNN reporter specializing in social media stuff)
I am, of course, absolutely positive that MTG's entire public Twitter and Facebook history hasn't been scraped and archived by every other major newspaper in the United States among any number of private citizens, right?
It's literally how they know what's been deleted. The Internet is forever.
Please don't equate her with Magic the Gathering. Her fantasies cause real world harm.
But fuck you — no, fuck y'all, that's as blunt as it gets"
- Kendrick Lamar, "The Blacker the Berry"
The deck she is playing with falls far short of the tournament legal 60 card minimum.
Law and Order ≠ Justice
A Judge and Federal Prosecutor don't know that Save the Children is a front for QAnon. IT'S LITERALLY YOUR FUCKING JOB TO KNOW THIS.
As a terminally online weirdo who has been watching this fucking car crash happen in slow motion for the last 2+ years, this is killing me. Part of the reason the 6th happened is because Very Serious and Professional people thought it was simply below them to understand this shit. CATCH THE FUCK UP, PLEASE.
Just a point of order: Save the Children is a real charitable organization founded in 1919, and in no way related to Qanon.
The hashtag #savethechildren has been coopted by Qanon. And qanon has used the phrase as a rallying cry.
I'm sure the real Save the Children is not happy.
should be possible to learn, what's their website say?
Yes, but seeing as how QAnon has successfully run events with the name "Save the Children" then they've co-opetd more than just a hashtag.
Lots of articles about starving children in Syria and kids in Africa not getting the education or medicine they need. Same stuff they've had since 1919.
You can see for yourself if you like: https://www.savethechildren.net/
They're incredibly well-respected. I've literally grown up hearing about the good they're doing. They have daughter orgs in 31 countries. Do you not have them in the US?
Tweeter is cspan noted purveyor congress.
I'm glad they highlight the craven assholery of putting this insurrectionist child murder supporter on the education committee.
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Seconded this. In Norway their daughter organisation is called Redd Barna(Save the Children in Norwegian) and is the standard by which all other charitable organisations are measured. I can personally say that it was the first charity that I even knew existed as a child.
The judge got his ass and sentenced him to pretrial detention.
The judge also had some nasty words for Barnett's lawyer for making baseless misconduct claims against the prosecutors.
oh.
I keed. Save the children is a great charity as far as i know.
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You'd think so, but they seem to be turning normal Republican voters crazy rather than putting them off. You can't go on the internet without hearing millennials lamenting how their parents no longer talk about anything but bizarre right-wing conspiracy theories, and many of these people were apparently normal before the GOP started hacking their minds.
Push X to doubt. Moderate Republicans have shown they can pinch their noses so tight to get past the stink of crazy that a candidate could spray the whole lot of them with thioacetone and they'd just skip the post-voting snack.
Mitt Romney still voted with Trump 75% of the time.
A moderate Republican is called a Democrat.
For what it's worth: The Judge may have known the answer and just wanted to develop the record.
The prosecutor answered as strongly as one should if you don't have literal receipts signed 'Q'. It seems less wishy washy when you compare it to Defense counsel only pushing back by stating their client claims it wasn't related; a technically true statement that insulates them from it being blatantly untrue.
Broader context from the thread:
Do they hold typically hold rallies? Because the only context I’ve heard about “Save the children” rallies has been QAnon folks trying to borrow some legitimacy.
Especially with Facebook the GOP has created a closed information loop. That's the real danger.