Thread by @DempseyTwo

Folks, there are certain Members of Congress doing things that are of true public service. @RepZoeLofgren is such a member. This is something that has flown under the radar, but is extremely important for our democracy. It has to do with the #14thAmendment. 🧵👇🏻

The 14th amendment is the one that basically says, if you engaged in insurrection, you can’t hold public office.

@RepZoeLofgren has released this doc.

housedocs.house.gov/lofgren/Social…

Please read it or just follow along in the thread below. (But read it, to form your own conclusions)

The document outlines 121 Members of Congress social media posts. It shows their name, district, state, committees they sit on (ie armed services, intelligence 👀) and social media posts they sent before, during, and after the Insurrection. I place them into one of 4 categories:

1. THE TOE DIPPERS

These Reps do just the bare minimum to partake in online rumor mongering. Just a quick reference to ‘election irregularities’, then nothing more. They can still say they helped, but they did the least required amount to do so. But they did still do so...

These would be the Reps I would want to question first. Were they aware of message coordination, any message expectations, were they asked to follow certain talking points, were they given a choice as to whether or not they were willing to participate further? If so, by whom?

If there are any deals to be made for leniency, to save careers, images, etc, it may be from this group. Not quite willing to get any wetter than their toes, but perhaps willing enough to maybe think about upholding their oaths with the benefit of hindsight.

Then, there are...

2. THE BIG LIARS

These were the Reps who not only made mention of election irregularities, they were screaming fraud. These Reps were using their social media posts day after day, echoing each other’s messages. These were the ones who spread the Big Lie of a stolen election.

They signed onto lawsuits without evidence, they sent letters to AG Barr, they tweeted and retweeted the same talking points, the same flyers and memes, using the same language post to post. There were even ‘Russia Hoax’ (📌1) mentions in these posts. These reps fall into...

3. THE DISINFORMATION CAUCUS

These weren’t just lies about the election being stolen. There was disinformation and propaganda being spread too. Those in the Disinformation Caucus comprise all the Big Liars, but expand upon it further.

The Disinformation Caucus include those members of Congress that used their social media posts to purposefully disseminate misleading disingenuous arguments that still seek to create a false equivalency between the insurrection and the George Floyd summer protests.

They tried to say that Antifa and BLM were behind the insurrection. They tried to draw a false equivalency to insurrection in an effort to ‘both sides’ this into normalcy.

The Disinformation Caucus also continued to sing from the same hymnals in their social media gripes about created boogeymen, suggesting ‘Nancy did it too’, ‘Big Tech’, ‘USPS’ as well as blaming Antifa and BLM.

But what is strange, is that not all of the Republicans sang the same song though. The Freedom Caucus (📌2) for instance are the group pushing the ‘blame Antifa/BLM’ (the second big lie) message. This message has also been echoed by Senators Ron Johnson and Chuck Grassley too.

It really looks like not only is a pattern emerging, but there is coordination to all of this. What’s another word for coordination? Collusion. Yea, that works. Oh...Conspiracy! Yea! Conspiracy. That’s the word. Thanks. Conspiracy. So who conspired...?

4. THE DISINFORMATION CAPOS

These are the Reps who have the most to fear in relation to the 14th amendment and much, much worse. If the messages were handed off to certain Republicans for certain ‘airwaves’, these were the ones giving the marching orders. Which means what?

It means these were the Reps in on the planning and dissemination of disinformation. They had to be working in concert with the highest levels of the trump campaign coordinating which message, on whose social media, when etc.

In the @RepZoeLofgren document, there is mention of news outlets that would have the Disinformation Caucus on their air, allow them to spread the Big Lies. There is even a reference to Dan Bongino calling for ‘biggest political rally in modern history’ as early as November 5th.

The Disinformation Capos were also actively using ‘Stop the Steal’ rhetoric. These are the most vulnerable to the 14th amendment. It could be reasonably argued, everyone named in the @RepZoeLofgren document was engaging in Insurrection, but the Disinformation Capos are shooins.

Some of these Disinformation Capos were present at the rally just prior to the Insurrection. People like Mo Brooks from Alabama (see below).

https://twitter.com/dempseytwo/status/1347973420185747460

📌2. I put a pin in the Freedom Caucus to return to it now because it is very important. The Freedom Caucus is chaired by Arizona’s Andy Biggs. AZ was the 1st State objected to on Jan 6th. It was members of the Freedom Caucus who promoted the ‘It was Antifa and BLM’ lie. And...

https://twitter.com/dempseytwo/status/1358396651614928900

The Freedom Caucus for all intents and purposes grew out of the Tea Party. The mother of the Tea Party hosted the rally at the Ellipse the day of the insurrection. You can read a lot more about that (and one Senator Rand Paul) here 👇🏻👀👇🏻

https://twitter.com/dempseytwo/status/1366377963223212035

You guys, an Insurrection is the attempt to overthrow our government. That is what it is. It is a means to end democracy. That is just a fact. There are currently 121 Members of Congress that fit into all or some of the 4 categories outlined above.

There are others still in the US Senate. And others still unknown to us. We can speculate and wonder if there are any TV hosts or outlets willing to provide air time to broadcast propaganda to millions...

We can wonder if any administration officials, campaign staffers, former presidents, former presidents family members, were involved. Did they direct any of this activity?

📌1. Where did they get the message that Russian election interference was a ‘Hoax’?

https://twitter.com/dempseytwo/status/1296217467308650496

@RepZoeLofgren gives us quite a road map to the 14th Amendment here to expel these members. The only way to know where it leads is to follow it.
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I fear making this too long a mega thread but thought it was important to show my work...

https://twitter.com/dempseytwo/status/1369331240197840901