Brandon Straka on X - "This is Capitol Police Officer Michael Fortune. Officer Fortune sued me under the KKK Act alleging that I violated his civil rights and that I conspired with white supremacists to commit assault and battery against him on January 6th. In discovery, we were able to compel Officer Fortune to answer exactly where he was when I allegedly caused his assault and battery and violated his civil rights. His response? "I was in Annapolis, Maryland". (see excerpt from his interrogatory responses below) When asked what the nature of his injuries were that he was suing me for, he responded, "Exposure to pepper spray, bear spray, fire extinguishers, and other pollutants", "heightened stress and anxiety", and "exhaustion and soreness". (see below) *In addition to having never seen or met Officer Fortune in my entire life, I also had no chemical pollutants with me on January 6th, and didn't spray any. Officer Fortune's attorneys at the Soros-funded law firm "Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights Under Law" approached me and my attorney for a financial settlement. Initially, they told us that they could not calculate the value of Officer Fortune's injuries without first having access to my bank statements to assess my net worth. Obviously, I told them to get ****ed. Then they returned to us and told us that for $120,000 they would drop the lawsuit against me by Officer Fortune and the other 7 black and brown Capitol Police officers (I had no contact with any of these officers on J6 and have never met any of them. I also had no contact with ANY officers on January 6th, and was never accused of or charged with any violent crimes or acts of violence.) Once again, I told them to get ****ed. And now, the remaining counts against me of assault and battery were dismissed, and the case is now over. This case against me has clearly demonstrated how the left will use their lies about racism and white supremacy (and their lies about J6) to game the system, knowing these false allegations carry weight and power, and that they can be used to drag people through the legal system to try to extort money out of people through settlement or judgement. Any police officer who participated in this scam should be forced to retire in disgrace."
🇺🇸ProudArmyBrat on X - "Senator Schumer threatening 2 Supreme Court Justices with the consequence of a violent attack from an angry mob! “You will pay the price! You won’t know what hit you!” THIS was inciting a dangerous insurrection!"
Lawyers react to Trump 14th Amendment loss, Gorsuch mention - "The Colorado Supreme Court’s Tuesday 4-3 decision disqualifying former President Donald Trump from being president again, under the insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment, sparked wide-ranging reactions from legal experts who see the U.S. Supreme Court’s involvement as inevitable. For that reason, the state high court’s noticeable namechecking of Neil Gorsuch and the justice’s 2012 decision from when he was a U.S. Circuit judge on the Tenth Circuit also grabbed attention."
Of course, all the Democrats who cheered the BLM riots will not be removed from office
The allegations of hypocrisy are stupid, since the immigrant case was a very clear disqualification
Since this is going to go to the US Supreme Court, we might get an answer on whether Trump really participated in an insurrection. Not that this will convince his haters, naturally
'Made-up procedure' dooms Colorado court's decision to toss Trump from ballot: CNN expert - "A CNN legal expert on Wednesday blew apart Colorado Supreme Court’s historic decision that threw Donald Trump off the state’s ballot — and effectively accusing the justices of making up the rules as it went along... Honig said there was no chance the decision would stand because the 14th Amendment clearly says rules governing it had to be set by Congress — and that had not been done."
Jason Willick on X - "What predicts Colorado Supreme Court justices' vote on Trump disqualification? Not party—all are Democratic appointees—but law school. All Ivy League grads voted to disqualify. All Denver Law grads voted not to disqualify."
Daniel Baldwin on X - "Alan Dershowitz: “There is no power in a state court to enforce the 14th Amendment.” Section 5 reads: “The Congress shall have the power to enforce…the provisions of this article.” The Colorado Supreme Court’s disqualification of Trump spits in the face of the rule of law."
How Democrats Are Preparing for Postelection Chaos - The Atlantic (aka "Democrats Won’t Cede the Streets This Time")
From September 2020. Ironic, given how much they condemn and obsess about the Capitol Riot
Tou Thao Sentence: Double Standard of Justice - "as many as 548 of the individuals arrested and charged with crimes following the 2021 Capitol riot — 1,033 total arrestees minus 485 final sentences so far — still simply remain in jail. Few on the right sympathize with rioters and public brawlers of any stripe, but it is hard not to contrast this treatment with that of the hundreds of black-clad Antifa fighters picked up during the 2020–21 Black Lives Matter riots — which did $2 billion or so in total damage — many of whom had their cases quickly tossed out of court by “blue”-city DAs’ offices. Speaking as a political scientist, I can attest that a lack of institutional trustworthiness as blatant as what we currently seem to be seeing generally has significant consequences for a nation. To give one example: An under-discussed reality is that “J6” itself was in large part the result of nearly a decade of public and law-enforcement toleration of rioting, dating back at least to the Michael Brown riots in 2014 Ferguson. Between 2012–13 and 2020 in the United States, the African-American murder rate nearly doubled, murders overall rose above 20,000 per year, and public disorder was almost never harshly punished. Famously and absurdly, Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake once described at least part of her riot-control strategy as giving youth mobs “space to destroy.” For that matter — while on the subject of trust, and without endorsing the man’s zany theories about “Krakens” and other sea life — one thing that potentially fueled Donald Trump’s assertions that the 2020 election was stolen from him was the reality of extensive bipartisan gamesmanship with the election rules throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. Thirty states, including California, Illinois, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, greatly expanded opportunities for fully healthy citizens to vote by mail in 2020. Most also allowed more of the third-party vote-collection practices collectively known as “ballot-harvesting,” often on legally dubious grounds. Partly as a result, remarkable videos trended throughout the 2020 campaigning season — such as the famous viral clip of a self-proclaimed campaign operative from Ilhan Omar’s Minnesota congressional district driving around in a car visibly packed chock-full with ballots. “I have 300 ballots in my car right now,” he unsubtly proclaimed. “Numbers don’t lie. You can see my car is full. All these here are absentee ballots.”"
Apple draws outrage after sending iPhone users news push alert suggesting 9/11 led to Capitol riot - "The company's iPhone users received an alert saying: 'How the 9/11 attacks ushered in an era of fear and mistrust in the U.S. - and set the stage for the January 6 insurrection'... The push notification linked readers to a podcast interview with documentary filmmaker Michael Kirk, who has a new film being released by PBS' Frontline called America After 9/11. In the documentary, at least one commentator - former national security adviser for President Obama Ben Rhodes - suggests that the Capitol insurrection was the 'logical endpoint' of the '9/11 era.'"
John LeFevre on X - "Officer Aquilino Gonell (under oath): “I was bleeding from both hands, [had] a maimed foot, hit on the head, sprayed with pepper and bear spray, beaten, punched, pushed, pulled, and assaulted." The video:"
Brandon Straka on X - "🚨Newly released footage of Matthew Perna (seen in red sweatshirt) shows Matthew walking calmly in the Capitol shooting video. Matthew pled guilty to initial charges, believing he may face 6-12 months in prison. Only after pleading guilty did the DOJ inform Matthew that they would seek a TERRORISM enhancement to his sentencing, which would raise his sentence to a potential 9 years in federal prison. 4 days after receiving news that the DOJ would push for this sentencing enhancement, Matthew went into his garage, put a rope around his neck, and hung himself. @GeriPerna @mattgaetz @mtgreenee @MTGrepp @RepTroyNehls @julie_kelly2 @Evans4WV @bennyjohnson @DineshDSouza @SebGorka @dbongino @TuckerCarlson @gregkellyusa @DonaldJTrumpJr"
End Wokeness on X - "BREAKING: Rep. Jamaal Bowman has been charged with one misdemeanor count of falsely pulling a fire alarm. This is a JOKE. The crime was obstruction of congressional proceedings. That is a felony under federal law 18 U.S.C. § 1505. Up to 5 years in prison. Bowman could have also been charged on obstruction of justice. Class A felony that carries a punishment of up to 30 years in prison. If he was a J/6 protestor, he would be in solitary confinement and facing years in prison"
Matt Wallace on X - "🚨THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA WHERE OUR GRANDFATHERS GREW UP IS OFFICIALLY DEAD🚨 Owen Shroyer is being forced to go to prison for 60 days. He did not hurt anyone or steal anything… of course those things are often met with a much smaller punishment! No… he did something much worse according to the elites. He challenged their rule by peacefully protesting on January 6th. He did not enter the Capitol or even instruct anyone else to. He will have to sleep in a cell this holiday season and have a permanent criminal record because he said words they don’t like after investigating something they don't want anyone questioning. ACCORDING TO THIS RULING, IT IS NOW ILLEGAL TO PROTEST UNLESS YOU ARE SUPPORTING AN ESTABLISHMENT-APPROVED CAUSE ⚠️ Is it time to stand up to the elites and remove them from power once and for all?"
Meme - Jake Shields @jakeshieldsajj: "He was out on bond for a separate murder when he killed this 11 year old and his stepfather They held January 6th protesters with out bail while letting out brutal murders"
Ryan Dawson @RyLiberty: "They Hate you
'He was just barely 11': Gang member free on bond for capital murder when he executed boy, stepfather who tried to shield him from bullets, gets life
Desmond Hawkins got a life sentence for the"
January 6 Committee Hearing So Boring NBC Cut to Golf Instead
Meme - "Whoever thinks the government can be overthrown with a militia, doesn't know how tanks and jet fighters work."
"But you claim the Government was almost overthrown on Jan 6, by unarmed people merely walking into a building"
Both sides are retarded
Meme - Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer: "Speaker McCarthy has held the gavel for less than three months. But by sharing the January security footage with Fox News, he has already done more than any party leader in Congress to enable the spread of Donald Trump's Big Lie."
Elon Musk @elonmusk: "Do you want us to remove this video? *peaceful moving through the Capitol*
tokenblackguyusa: "Elon is the greatest troll of all times!"
Ladies and Gentlemen, I Give You the Face of the Ky. Capitol Insurrection...'The BlueAnon Shaman' - "While watching what the left would consider an insurrection, an invasion of the Kentucky State Capitol building on Wednesday by trans activists, I saw this gentleman and wondered where I'd seen someone like him before. Then, it dawned on me. I have the perfect name to give the face of the Kentucky State Capitol Insurrection...You ready for this? "The BlueAnon Shaman!" Behold the greatness that is a man dressed as clown Satan protesting against children not being able mutilate their genitals."
Weird. I thought attacking democracy was bad
Gun control activists storm Tennessee State Capitol as fears of a left-wing uprising loom - "Gun control activists were seen storming Tennessee's State Capitol Thursday amid rising fears of a left-wing uprising at a rumored protest in Washington, DC. Footage of the insurrection shows progressive protesters battling with cops as they attempted to gain access to the legislature in Nashville. Hundreds of people were seen inside the lobby and yelling from the gallery at concerned lawmakers. The protest against guns comes after transgender shooter Audrey Hale on Monday gunned down six people, including three nine-year-old kids, at a Christian school in Nashville. In a separate demonstration, trans activists yesterday invaded Kentucky's State Capitol in Frankfort to protest a Republican-backed bill to ban transgender procedures for children. Among the mob was a self-described 'genderqueer clown nun', who immediately drew comparisons to the QAnon Shaman of the January 6 riot... While most condemned the attack - which left three nine-year-olds and as many school staffers dead - several unrelated fringe, extremist groups have surfaced claiming the shooting was a consequence of ongoing oppression of trans people in Southern, more conservative states. One such group, the Trans Radical Activist Network (TRAN), seemingly took notice of this chaos, and used the opportunity to rebrand a planned three-day procession previously called the Trans Day of Visibility as 'a day of vengeance.'... Most remained peaceful, while others were seen battling with officers tasked with keeping a clamp on the unrest... In the case of Kentucky, several protesters were also seen shouting at Republican reps, as well as speaker of the house David Osborne, before being physically removed by state police. The 19 arrested - angered by the prospective passing of a law that would limit medical treatments for transgender people under 18 - were charged with third-degree criminal trespassing... Websites such as Etsy are still being used to sell pro-gun and trans merchandise, with stickers that say 'defend equality' with assault rifles"
AOC uses anonymously sourced Rolling Stone article to justify calling for GOP reps to be 'expelled' - "These sources allegedly said that they were offered a "blanket pardon" by the Oval Office for illegal activity, but the story they then detail is a quote from Rep. Paul Gosar that would have to be deciphered with decoder ring from a Cracker Jack box in order to be understood as the offering of a presidential pardon... One person was killed during the riot, Ashli Babbitt, a Trump supporter and Veteran, was shot by Capitol Police Officer Lt. Michael Byrd. Byrd faced no charges, though internal police documents reveal that there was "no good reason for shooting" Babbitt... Despite her calls for the expelling of duly elected representatives, the article admits that no one was talking about marching on the Capitol. That wasn't at all part of the planning... Rolling Stone has a history of spreading hoaxes, such as a recent hoax about the drug Ivermectin, which was spread further by MSNBC host Rachel Maddow. Rolling Stone also fabricated a story about a rape on a college campus, for which they eventually were found guilty of defamation."
Pennsylvania teacher suspended for attending January 6 Trump protest. Not riot, protest.
Peaceful protests liberals disapprove of are wrong. Violent protests liberals approve of are justified
Feds Spend Millions Building Massive Database on January 6 Riot, None on Antifa - "$6.1 million is just for starts. That figure could explode to $25.9 million, according to the database listing... The only person killed in the Capitol melee was an unarmed veteran, Ashli Babbitt, who was shot, reportedly, by Capitol Police Lt. Michael L. Byrd. Babbitt was reportedly shot without being issued a verbal warning. No fewer than 535 people have been arrested thus far, and the FBI is seeking the public’s assistance to identify another 300. No one has actually been charged with sedition or trying to overthrow the government."
Capitol Police Lieutenant Who Shot Ashli Babbitt Says He Saved 'Countless Lives' At Capitol Riot - "USCP Lieutenant Michael Byrd, a 28-year veteran of the police force charged with protecting the U.S. Capitol complex and the nation’s lawmakers, appeared on NBC News on Thursday night to tell his story of what happened on Jan. 6."
Police are only not allowed to shoot thugs attacking them
Only In Your Imagination Was That An Attempted “Coup” - "We are being told that a “coup attempt” no longer needs to be understood as constituting an “attempt” to seize control of the government — as had generally been the common understanding of the term before the events of yesterday, which have caused the entire political and media establishment to go completely haywire... the idea that this was a real attempt at a “coup” — meaning an attempt to seize by force the reins of the most powerful state in world history — is so preposterous that you really have to be a special kind of deluded in order to believe it. Or if not deluded, you have to believe that using such terminology serves some other political purpose. Such as, perhaps, imposing even more stringent censorship on social media, where the “coup” is reported to have been organized. Or inflicting punishment on the man who is accused of “inciting” the coup, which you’ve spent four years desperately craving to do anyway. He’s already been effectively banned from Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter — a rubicon-crossing event in the suppression of political speech which, of course, is being cheered by all the usual suspects who otherwise claim to be stalwart defenders of enlightened liberal values. At no point yesterday was the American government at risk of being “overthrown,” as members of Congress have laughably suggested. Per usual, our guardians of consensus can’t bring themselves to describe what unfolded with any degree of dispassion or calm. Instead we’re told by the incoming Senate Majority Leader, for example, that January 6, 2021 will now “live in infamy” right alongside December 7, 1941. Elected officials issued emotional notices that they were “okay,” like they had just narrowly avoided being crushed in an earthquake, or escaped the World Trade Center on 9/11. This is made all the more odd because the only person upon whom lethal force was committed appears to have been a Trump-supporting woman who was shot point-blank in the throat by a Capitol Hill police officer. She’s now dead. Congress was temporarily inconvenienced. Journalists and pundits, glorying in their natural state — which is to peddle as much free-flowing hysteria as possible — eagerly invoke all the same rhetoric that they’d abhor in other circumstances on civil libertarian grounds. “Domestic terrorism,” “insurrection,” and other such terms now being promoted by the corporate media will nicely advance the upcoming project of “making sure something like this never happens again.” Use your imagination as to what kind of remedial measures that will entail... the notion that Trump has “incited” a violent insurrection is laughable. His speech Monday afternoon that preceded the march to the Capitol was another standard-fare Trump grievance fest, except without the humor that used to make them kind of entertaining. Trump didn’t command that his followers physically breach the Capitol Building. In fact, after previously saying he would join the march, he seems to just have gone home to tweet and watch TV. So, basically his normal routine on a typical day, minus a trip to the golf course. Trump has never had the concentration, organizational acumen, or ideological coherence to mount a bonafide “coup,” and a mob intrusion which was swiftly dispersed by armed agents of the state doesn’t change that. Shortly after the breach, he released a video instructing his followers not to take Senators hostage or imprison Mike Pence, but to “go home.” No factions of the federal government joined the mob on Trump’s orders, because he didn’t bother issuing any. The whole episode never stood a the remotest chance of preventing the certification of Joe Biden, much less overthrowing the government. It was just another goofball charade, and in that sense a fitting end to the Trump presidency. Still, there are many people who in positions of power who would like you to believe that a real-life “insurrection” is genuinely underway, and to develop a kind of exaggerated mythical understanding of what occurred at the Capitol. Because it will enable them to seize additional powers — not through a “coup,” but through the vast inflation of an alleged threat, which is always how they do it."
Report: Milley Told Military Officials Not to Take Orders After Capitol Riot - "Milley had two back-channel phone calls with China’s top general to reassure him that the U.S. would not attack, even promising to give him a heads up if it did."
Conspiring with foreign powers used to be considered treason
No one elected Mark Milley - The Spectator World - "There is no evidence President Trump was planning any kind of strike against China, or Iran, or Florida. No battle plans were being drawn. Miller supposedly took these actions after Trump signed an executive order removing US forces from Afghanistan. Woodward and Robert Costa write that Milley was concerned that Trump would ‘go rogue’ post election loss. Milley held meeting and phone calls without Trump’s knowledge and directed staff, ‘No matter what you are told, you do the procedure. You do the process. And I’m part of that procedure.’ Milley then went around the room to each general and demanded what the book is calling ‘an oath’. The trouble is, Milley wasn’t legally granted any of these extraordinary powers. The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff essentially usurped the chain of command and attempted to take civilian control of the United States military away from a duly elected president, simply because of his own gut feelings tinged with a bit of paranoia. The larger problem at hand is that no one elected Gen. Milley to anything. It is not the job of the military state, or the intelligence state (James Comey) to override the governing authority granted to the president of the United States... Unelected bureaucrats and generals holding secret meetings with hostile foreign nations are the things that lead to actual banana republics and military juntas, not mean tweets and yelling at journalists. Even Trump antagonist and MSNBC regular Alexander Vindman admits as much and is calling for Milley’s immediate resignation. Vindman tweeted, ‘If this is true GEN Milley must resign. He usurped civilian authority, broke Chain of Command, and violated the sacrosanct principle of civilian control over the military. It’s an extremely dangerous precedent. You can’t simply walk away from that.’... You have to wonder: if Milley was willing to overstep his authority in January, what’s stopping him from believing that an 80-year-old Joe Biden might be incapacitated to the point of not being able to make clear headed decisions regarding actions in, say, Afghanistan? Media pundits and Milley defenders aren’t looking at the long game. But they should. Milley does not become a patriot by suddenly aligning with the wild fantasies of #Resistance Twitter. If he’s willing to overstep his authority with imagined scenarios in the Trump era, how far would he be willing to go in the real world? How much authority was Milley granted on President Biden’s catastrophic Afghanistan withdrawal? How much say did Milley have in a drone strike that reportedly targeted and killed a US-aligned aide worker and seven children in Kabul?"
Senator Marco Rubio Calls on Gen. Mark Milley to Resign
Opinion | What if January 6 Wasn’t a Coup Attempt, General Milley? - The New York Times - "General Milley had no direct evidence of a coup plot. But in the days after Mr. Trump’s electoral defeat, as the president filled top military and intelligence posts with people the general considered loyal mediocrities, General Milley got nervous. “They may try,” but they would not succeed with any kind of plot, he told his aides, according to the book. “You can’t do this without the military,” he went on. “You can’t do this without the C.I.A. and the F.B.I. We’re the guys with the guns.” While some might greet such comments with relief, General Milley’s musings should give us pause. Americans have not usually looked to the military for help in regulating their civilian politics. And there is something grandiose about General Milley’s conception of his place in government. He told aides that a “retired military buddy” had called him on election night to say, “You represent the stability of this republic.” If there was not a coup underway, then General Milley’s comments may be cause more for worry than for relief... Jan. 6 was something familiar: a political protest that got out of control. Contesting the fairness of an election, rightly or wrongly, is not absurd grounds for a public assembly. For a newly defeated president to call an election a “steal” is certainly irresponsible. But for a group of citizens to use the term was merely hyperbolic, perhaps no more so than calling suboptimal employment and health laws a “war on women.” Nor did the eventual violence necessarily discredit the demonstrators’ cause, any more than the July 2016 killing of five police officers at a rally in Dallas against police violence, for instance, invalidated the concerns of those marchers. The stability of the republic never truly seemed at risk. As Michael Wolff writes of Mr. Trump in his new book, “Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency,” “Beyond his immediate desires and pronouncements, there was no ability — or structure, or chain of command, or procedures, or expertise, or actual person to call — to make anything happen.” Mr. Trump ended his presidency as unfamiliar with its powers as with its responsibilities. That is, in a way, reassuring... Republicans had — and still have — legitimate grievances about how the last election was run. Pandemic conditions produced an electoral system more favorable to Democrats. Without the Covid-era advantage of expanded mail-in voting, Democrats might well have lost more elections at every level, including the presidential. Mr. Wolff writes that, as Republicans saw it, Democrats “were saved by this lucky emphasis; that was all they were saved by.” Nor was it just luck; it was an advantage that, in certain places, Democrats manipulated the system to obtain. The majority-Democratic Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ruled in favor of a Democratic Party lawsuit to extend the date for accepting mail-in ballots beyond Election Day... The result was not a coup. It was, instead, mayhem on behalf of what had started as a legitimate political position. Such mixtures of the defensible and indefensible occur in democracies more often than we care to admit. The question is whom we trust to untangle such ambiguities when they arise."
