After reports of *GUNFIRE* inside the Capitol building, Trump attorney Sidney Powell retweeted this post expressing support for the rioters: “I’m trying to be upset about this, but what other method do people have?” #sedition#treason 1/
2/ This was after reports of an armed standoff too. Here is the complete Kyle Becker post.
3/ She apparently got the memo later and started trying to blame it on “Antifa.”
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Before the election, Republicans killed a proposed law, the #SAFEAct, which would have required robust manual audits for all federal races & banned internet connectivity to voting systems. You & your Republican colleagues have unclean hands on the issue of election integrity. 1/
This is reminiscent of the US attorney firing scandal under Bush/Cheney/Rove. The concern was that they had fired US attorneys who refused to propagate the mass voter fraud myth. In response to a subpoena, the Bush WH claimed to have “lost” 22 million emails. 1/
The most vicious & destructive political idea is that “freedom” includes freedom to f#CK over other people, including by (for example) making them sick & polluting our shared planet. Freedom to kill endangered species (see Eric & Don Jr) is effed up too. You shld be ashamed. 1/
2/ In the midst of the Flint water crisis, House Speaker Paul Ryan wrote an op-Ed opposing the EPA’s Clean Water Act, which several #KochBrothers businesses had lobbied against. Because they want “freedom” to poison our water. desmogblog.com/2016/01/19/fli…
3/ “What the Koch brothers have bought with their huge political outlays is, above all, freedom to pollute.” Leave it to the #Kochs to ruin a word like “freedom.” nytimes.com/2010/10/04/opi…
Texas’ Rep. Louie Gohmert was "one of just four votes against bill to make lynching a federal hate crime
House voted 410-4 on historic Emmett Till Anti lynching Act, 120 years after first effort to enact a federal ban." 1/ dallasnews.com/news/politics/…
2/ "[F]or more than a century, a key impetus for a federal ban on lynching has been to allow federal law enforcement to step in when local police don’t."
3/ Nonetheless, Gohmert said lynchings should be prosecuted by states which provide stiffer sentences for lynching than the proposed federal Act would have provided, ignoring the concern that some states might not prosecute lynchings to begin with.