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"Democrats Are Already Planning Their Own ‘Insurrection’ If Trump Wins"
Advice for the right: Allow the demonstrators to go where ever they want to. Understaff the police but have an excessive amount of law enforcement waiting. Infiltrate the demonstrators ranks and encourage them to break the law. Once sufficient peaceful protestors are in place shoot the nicest most law abiding demonstrator to death to incite the rest. Then pull out the waiting troops and fir rubber bullets and stun grenades into the crowd that you have now made angry by the shooting and beatings of wives and grandmothers. Then conduct a massive lawfare action and hunt down every demonstrator and capture them at their home with swat teams in the hope that they might resist and you can shot them on live TV. Abuse the demonstrators family while you are there and trash their house too. Get the most dishonest and evil lawyers and judges to prosecute and sentence them to unusually long jail terms in prisons staffed by racist who will punish them everyday they are there. When your evil actions are exposed stand together and deny everything and destroy all the evidence and lie to congress. Hire bots to go on social media and call everyone who complains a liar. Continue to punish American citizens who won't vote for you and call them names in press conferences. Keep calling the insurrectionists even in the face of overwhelming evidence that they were set up while they were peacefully and constitutionally demonstrating. It's great fun because they know you are lying and there isn't anything they can do about it. Don't forget to go on the TV show with five Harpies and all of you can laugh at and denigrate those good Americans whose life you destroyed. QUOTE: A Democrat-controlled Congress might vote to disallow a GOP Electoral College victory and hand the election to Biden or a replacement. . . Democrats have spent the last three years labeling former President Donald Trump and any other Republican who questioned the 2020 presidential election results as “insurrectionists.” Questioning alone is not insurrection, which requires action to revolt against civil authority. The statute on seditious conspiracy includes a conspiracy to use force to "prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States". Trump is not charged with insurrection or seditious conspiracy, but conspiracy to defraud and conspiracy to obstruct. QUOTE: Democratic prosecutors and judges have imprisoned thousands of people for being present at the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. A thousand people or so have been charged, hundreds convicted. The vast majority were given pretrial release. The majority of those convicted have been given parole or short terms in prison. Those with the longest sentences were convicted of seditious conspiracy. As for the judges, many were appointed by Obama, but others were appointed by Reagan (e.g. Judge Royce C. Lamberth, who presided over the trial of the so-called Q-Anon Shaman) and Bush (e.g. Judge John Bates ruled that just because Trump lured followers to storm the Capitol does not absolve them of criminal liability—the Capitol is not the president's domain). All defendants had the right to trial by jury. QUOTE: Having convinced themselves that Trump is an authoritarian threat to American democracy While Trump is arguably a threat, undermining the electoral process would constitute an even bigger threat. There is little likelihood that an effort by a few errant Democrats to disenfranchise voters would be successful. This is how the electoral count is supposed to work. This is NOT it is supposed to work. There were plenty of Democrats who claimed that questioning the validity of the results of the 2020 election were trying to overturn the election.
Your minimizing the effect of “a few errant Democrats to disenfranchise voters” is nonsensical first because it assumes there would only be a few and second because Democrats made the same charges against Republicans since 2020. Interesting that you think the proper way dispute the electoral count is to do so without required signatures. mudbug: There were plenty of Democrats who claimed that questioning the validity of the results of the 2020 election were trying to overturn the election.
Some. That's because there was an actual attempt to illegally stop the electoral count, there was no legal reason to contest the electoral votes, and it is arguable that these Republicans were acting to further this attempt. mudbug: Interesting that you think the proper way dispute the electoral count is to do so without required signatures. Huh? Gore presiding over the electoral count in an election he lost (even if you think the Supreme Court was wrong) as he overruled objections per the rules was positively majestic, an emblem of the rule of law and the peaceful transfer of power in a democracy. A conspiracy to stop the electoral count by storming the capital was ignoble. Do not forget that all of the 2000 Mules from the movie "2000 Mules" and most of the 42000 Mules they identified but chose not to include in the move, are identifiable by their phone. And the NGOs (that provided the fake ballots) and many of those in the NGOs are also identifiable by their phone. And not a single one of them were ever investigated by law enforcement. They could still do this. The FBI or local LEO/AG's could get this info and bring them to trial.
OneGuy: Do not forget that all of the 2000 Mules from the movie "2000 Mules"
Just because someone makes a claim doesn't make the claim true. Just because someone passes near a ballot dropbox doesn't mean they deposited ballots. A lot of dropboxes are near post offices and other government buildings. Gee whiz. They may just work down the street. It's junk. When True the Vote, the source for the filmmaker, was ordered by a Georgia judge to provide evidence of voter fraud, they admitted they didn't have any. Conservative group tells judge it has no evidence to back its claims of Georgia ballot stuffing. How can you investigate something without evidence? There was video too. And "just because" doesn't get it. Investigate. No one is above the law. The money used to pay them off was laundered. Multiple crimes and investigation was stifled. Two tier justice is not justice.
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2024-03-02 16:15
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OneGuy: There was video too.
The person in the video is suing for defamation. He was delivering ballots for his family, as allowed by law. OneGuy: Investigate. No one is above the law. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation investigated and could find no evidence to support the claim of ballot stuffing. State election officials opened their own investigation based on True the Vote's complaint, but True the Vote first refused to cooperate, then admitted under court order that they didn't have any evidence.
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2024-03-02 16:23
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Z: Some. That's because there was an actual attempt to illegally stop the electoral count, there was no legal reason to contest the electoral votes, and it is arguable that these Republicans were acting to further this attempt.
And how was that attempt supposed to work? Were the house and senate chambers going to be flooded by insurrectionists? Did the FBI not understand that danger? Why wasn't there sufficient troops around the capitol? Why were the magnetic doors to the capitol not locked? No legal reason to contest the electoral votes? Several governors, state supreme courts, and other secretaries of state changed the way that elections were held in their states. This is unconstitutional. There were massive irregularities such as vote counts being held without representation from both parties. Vote counting was shut down in the middle of the night (which has never been done before) and vote counts continued with no representatives of the parties to watch. There were multiple identical ballots submitted. In some (all?) states the signature verification was nonexistent which was the only way to verify the validity of the ballot. mudbug: And how was that attempt supposed to work?
They did stop the electoral count, in fact. They were attempting to pressure Pence and the Congress, create chaos, undermine the Electoral Count Act, nullify the election, and throw it to the House . See memos by John Eastman, an attorney retained by Donald Trump. A stupid crime is still a crime. mudbug: Were the house and senate chambers going to be flooded by insurrectionists? They did flood the chambers, in fact. mudbug: Several governors, state supreme courts, and other secretaries of state changed the way that elections were held in their states. This is unconstitutional. . . There is a judicial process for that. Most changes were consistent with authority granted by statute. Other changes were not allowed by the courts. But you're just waving in the general direction. Please provide your best specific example. I would also plant far right extremist agitators into common sense forums and online places of honest discussion. I would call it Operation: Zachriel. ;)
You are apparently trying to draw an equivalence. Most of what you wrote is wrong, but we'll respond to just two points.
Anon: Allow the demonstrators to go where ever they want to. If people violently storm the Capitol to stop the electoral count, they should be prosecuted regardless of political party. Anon: Keep calling the insurrectionists even in the face of overwhelming evidence that they were set up while they were peacefully and constitutionally demonstrating. In fact, there is a lot of evidence showing that many people planned for the riot. Some were even convicted of seditious conspiracy, which requires a showing of intent. (Others were just following the mob but still broke the law.) Our government, the left, seems committed to opening a nuclear war with Russia in Europe. Or it could be the Middle East or in the China Sea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1i1w0Hp5EI&t=112s They have started down a path that we may not be able to backtrack from. IMHO if Trump were to win in November the Obama/Biden administration will initiate nuclear war.
Has anybody noticed that the people who claim there was no election fraud are the same ones who fight tooth and nail any attempt to investigate the matter?
Seems to me, anyone who actually believed the claim that everything was on the up-and-up would welcome investigations that would prove the claim. Has anyone ever noticed that the same people who say there was no fraud in the 2020 election have claimed election fraud in every presidential election won by Republicans since 2000? Remember when Hillary Clinton said GW Bush was “selected, not elected?” None of my Democrat friends remember this.
The federal debt passed $1 trillion in 1981. Today the federal debt is almost $35 trillion and it is increasing at the rate of $1 trillion every 100 days. This is insane. What is actually happening is that various people organizations and countries are looting the U.S. and our congress and administration is abetting them. When they send billions to Ukraine or other countries a lot of that money never gets there, it ends up in someone's pocket or is furtively siphoned off to fund some NGO often intended to harm the U.S. directly or indirectly. Much of the money used to fly "newcomers" to South and Central America so they can come up and cross our border comes from U.S. taxpayer dollars stolen from poorly conceived bills allocating that money to multiple questionable purposes. The bills in congress are intentionally designed to coverup what the bill actually does exactly so this money can be stolen. Our entire economy is being propped up like some Potemkin village so that it doesn't prematurely collapse before the billionaires, foreign elite and enemies of our country have siphoned off the last dollar from America. For example, the stock market appears to be doing great but it is being propped up by the fed to continue the fantasy that everything is fine so that the looting can continue unabated. This will all crash down on our heads. Our dollar will become like the Weimar Marks and our economy will crash into a great depression. The only question really is when will the great charade collapse under the weight of the lies and subterfuge? And THAT too is part of the plan. The elite and enemies of the state will use that chaos and suffering to buy up whatever is left of our country. If Trump is elected he will try to stop all this and THAT is why they won't let him get elected.
Joe Biden just purchased a $47 million mansion in DC. Close to the Chinese embassy! Why? How? Where is the money coming from?
Please provide some specific information about that claim. Thanks!
The "escape hatch" subtitle in the article about failing California schools didn't really show up in the article itself, unfortunately. There was a brief mention of legislative undermining of a limited charter school program, but nothing at all about vouchers and true school choice.
It's kind of fun to see Republican Steve Garvey leading Adam Schiff in the senate race, though. Could some portion of California finally be shaking itself awake? California has more voter fraud than it does honest voting. At every level the vote fraud is perpetrated by the Hispanic political mafia. They don't even make much effort to hide it. Schiff will win and within ten years there won't be a national or local Republican in office from California. The rest of the nation will go the same way.
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