"It isn’t just that these senators are putting the interests of a single man ahead of the interests of the nation; it’s also a tacit admission that the only constituents that many Republicans consider worth representing are their most partisan supporters."nytimes.com/2021/02/12/opi…
"Republican senators hoping for even a fig leaf to cover the cowardice of a vote to acquit had to have been disappointed. They were given no plausible excuse for failing to hold a dangerous man to account." washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump…
"The “boogaloo bois” cast the summer’s racial justice protests as a useful cover to kill law enforcement, and according to federal prosecutors in California, that was exactly what Steven Carrillo did." theintercept.com/2021/01/12/boo…
"it’s hard to know how seriously to take the boogaloo threat. Some are likely just joking when they “shit-post” about shooting cops or “yeeting alphabet boys”—killing government law-enforcement agents." theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
Ethnic groups, religious minorities, and marginalized people view hate groups more seriously that the mainstream. It's a mistake to ignore organized hate mixed with violent threats when linked to the President of a country. splcenter.org/hate-map
"The officials also cited the “pivotal role” the group played in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Proud Boys were key instigators of the riot, a Wall Street Journal video investigation found." wsj.com/articles/who-a…
If you don't think there is a potential for violent acts inside this nation then you need to spend more time in insurgencies and with the people who start them. nytimes.com/2021/02/06/us/…
We have the tools to take out the trash. And we had a chance to decapitate the bin laden of this movement before he used reelection as a platform for hate and violence. But the GOP failed to recognize a threat to their own existence let along the nation. law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18…
Let's add an ugly wrinkle. Seditionists/Fuckerists that have direct linkage and/or funding from with Russia, China and Gulf dictatorships. Flynn had Russia and Turkey, Bannon has Guo, Prince has UAE/KSA and China. The FBI is swamped with co-conspirators.
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The bad actors and the criminal evidence are in plain sight but the GOP is too terrified to watch their own slow death by poisoning from within. nytimes.com/2020/03/07/us/…
The same tactics used against the left will be used against the right. With strong evidence of foreign financial support that goes straight to the White House through carpetbaggers like Jared Kushner and Steve Bannon. All designed to degrade our country. abc.net.au/news/2020-11-0…
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