#SeditionHunters - three weeks ago the DoD Inspector General released a Jan 6 timeline so discrepant with former statements that it couldn't fit in our timeline. Now a bombshell memo call Lt. Generals Charles Flynn and Walter Piatt "unmitigated liars". 1/ politico.com/news/2021/12/0…
Former DC National Guard Col. Earl Matthews focuses on claims that it took hours to prepare National Guard to deploy to the Capitol, says those statements “constituted the willful deception of Congress.” 2/
Maj. Gen. Walker, former commander of the DC National Guard, had immediately called for the IG report to be retracted - it threw him under the bus, claimed he got a call at 4:35 PM to deploy the Guard and sat on it til 5:08 PM. Walker says that's a lie. 3/ washingtonpost.com/national-secur…
Walker says NG was ready to go immediately, no planning needed, no reason for delay. He called the report "inaccurate", "incomplete", and "sloppy". (It is certainly sloppy, listing one phone call at both 2:20 & 2:22 PM.) Links to all documents and to our timeline will follow. 4/
For context, here is our timeline, showing both events at the Capitol and DoD / police communications, based on reports that came out soon after Jan. 6th. Link here is timeline in table form. Sources document to follow. 5/ docs.google.com/document/d/1jx…
Here's the sources document - screenshot highlights the period when DoD says Walker was called 4:35 PM; he says 5:08. Either time was too late to help much, though. The US Capitol seems saved largely by city police (DC, VA, MD) with FBI SWAT backup. 6/ docs.google.com/document/d/1yM…
The National Guard deployment in that timeline was based off a memo issued by the DoD on January 11. 7/ media.defense.gov/2021/Jan/11/20…
Here's the new DoD IG report of Nov 18. Among the odd changes: events in the crucial period from 4-4:40 PM are moved earlier by 5 minutes. Originally the 4:18 PM verbal authorization of state NG came 1 minute after Trump's "go home" Tweet at 4:17 PM... 8/ s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2111…
Politico links to another timeline, not widely known, issued by DC NG on Jan 7. It highlights (boldface, italics!) that the time from the first call for assistance til "final approval from McCarthy and Miller was two hours and fifty-six minutes" 9/ politico.com/f/?id=0000017d…
Here is the shockingly blunt memo on the DoD IG report: "at least two general officers of the Army engaged in repeated violations of 18 U.S.C. §§ 907, 1001, 1621. One of these general officers [Charles Flynn] now leads an Army Service Component Command." 10/
And a possibly relevant update (h/t @visionsurreal): Former Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, brother of Gen. Charles Flynn of the Matthews memo and scheduled to give his deposition to the January 6 Committee today... has been "granted [a] short postponement". 11/
A correction: Gen. Charles Flynn's rank was mis-stated in the first Tweet as Lt. Gen. Wikipedia "On November 30, 2020, [Flynn's] nomination for promotion to general was submitted to the U.S. Senate and was confirmed by voice vote of the full Senate on December 20, 2020". 12/
Timelines don't prove culpability, but they are informative, suggestive. They tell you what MIGHT have led to what. So let's add: on Nov. 25, 2020, 5 days before recommending Charles Flynn's promotion, Former Pres. Donald Trump pardoned Michael Flynn. 13/
Since we're talking NG timelines, let's re-up a puzzle: Shortly after 3:30 PM, Disclose.tv & Press secretary Kayleigh McEnany Tweeted that the National Guard was being deployed. Why? That info was rebroadcast on InfoWars, widely heard. 14/
What happened near 3:30 PM? The NG timeline suggests that Acting Def. Sec Miller issued some statement then, but there's no Miller statement in the DoD timeline. This discrepancy has been very concerning. Here are the Tweets in context, and the timing from the NG memo. 15/
The NG memo also lists a 3:31 PM event: "REDCON1 recommended by Gen. Flynn". (REDCON = "full alert"). Is this related to the deployment Tweets that come within minutes? But this event is completely absent from the DoD IG report, which has - oddly - 22 blank minutes just then. 16/
Inspectors General should be the final arbiter of truth, the watchdogs. The gaping blanks here, unexplained discrepancies with previous timelines, and internal inconsistencies are all a huge red flag, even beyond what the report says. This is not how IG reports should look. 17/
An update to unwind confusion - an exhaustive recap of Jan 6 NG decisions near 3:30 PM, h/t a helpful VA resident.
It's all initiated by Virginia & Maryland racing to help. At 3:29 PM, VA Gov. Northam posts a widely-seen Tweet that he's sending the VA Guard + state police 18/
Northam's words are repeated by Disclose.tv at 3:32 PM & shown on InfoWars at 3:34. Then at 3:36 PM, Kayleigh McEnany confusingly Tweets that "the National Guard" is coming at "Trump's direction", though no-one seems to have yet authorized state NGs to enter DC. 19/
Gen. Daniel Hokanson in DC hears of the plan to mobilize the VA NG & calls the VA Adjutant General at 3:46 PM. Then it's MD's turn: at 3:47 Gov. Hogan Tweets his plan to help & Hokanson calls their AG at 3:55. (Below is from a Jan 8 press release). 20/ defense.gov/News/Releases/…
We don't know what was said in those calls, but at least they're consistently reported in Jan. In the new IG report, though, Bowser disappears from the timeline; the 3:46 VA AG call is gone; and 3:55 PM is now "General Hokanson initiates communications with state governors." 21/
The IG report was supposed to clarify the DoD response to requests for help at the Capitol. In Jan, MD Governor Hogan expressed his frustration: "we aren't getting answers". The IG report doesn't give those answers - instead opens new questions. 22/ usatoday.com/story/news/pol…
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As weird as it is to see Trump, his VP, SecDef, and SecState out in DC with hardly any security, it is weirder that it was Codepink that was protesting. Codepink is an astroturfed "women for peace" group whose "peace" means giving Putin whatever he wants. Slavishly pro-Russia. 1/
Codepink has left such a long trail of dubious actions and shadowy funding that @P_Kallioniemi, who posts about Russian influencers, needed 23 Tweets to outline it all. If they are involved, tonight's events were not a normal protest. 2/
Medea Benjamin, Codepink co-founder, is so committed to Putin's talking points that she wrote an entire book about the Russia-Ukraine war rehashing them: Ukraine provoked the invasion! 2014 in Ukraine was not the people's liberation but a US coup! Nothing about this is normal. 3/
Welcome comrades to the new free-speech university UATX, created by the co-founder of Palantir! Today after early-morning calisthenics we will discuss the writings of the Palantir CEO and also co-founder. Be ready to discuss his belief that companies must take over the state. 1/
Tomorrow's topic: how Joe Lonsdale and Alex Karp exemplify Merit and not Woke DEI! Both
* were student friends of Peter Thiel. Lonsdale edited Thiel's Stanford Review.
* spent their entire careers in companies created or funded by Thiel
Next week: "Freedom is Slavery"
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Comrades - building an empire of proteges is not Woke DEI but Righteous Merit! Because your friends obviously have more Merit than those, well, other people. Competitive job applications bad, hiring your friends good! - UATX. Where Speech is Free! stanfordpolitics.org/2017/11/27/pet…
Eric Schmitt's blood-and-soil nationalism at Peter Thiel's NatCon this week is making news - but this isn't new. Schmitt's staffer Nate Hochman, posting here, was fired in 2013 from Ron DeSantis' campaign for pushing a video where the Florida flag turns into a Nazi Sonnenrad. 1/
MO Senator Eric Schmitt hired Hochman AFTER he got internationaly famous for using a Nazi symbol. That tells you a lot. Schmitt didn't mind the Sonnnerad, or Hochman's later work pushing conspiracy theories about immigrants. 2/ theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
When you listen to Eric Schmitt deny that America was founded on an idea about liberty - he says it was just meant as a homeland for white people - remember this guy is fine with Nazi Sonnenrads. And he's now in the US Senate. It can happen here. 3/
The guy who is going viral complaining that "we" have judges who aren't what "the founders intended" is... based in Italy, named his substack after a cultish Russian philosophy, and uses a profile picture of a man who grew up in Nazi Germany and became a mercenary in Africa. 1/
Note that this account isn't "captivedreamer7", the now-famous racist who is actually Canadian. This guy seems truly European from his posts and his pretentious Substack, which is very focussed on the German officer Ernst Junger (anti-Nazi at the end). 2/ web.archive.org/web/2025080301…
His profile picture is another German soldier: Rolf Steiner was too young to join the Nazis (though his father did). Like Junger he went to the French Foreign Legion, then tried to overthrown the government of France and fought in a French mercenary unit in the Biafran war. 3/
The techbro takeover of the US continues: while CDC employees "clap out" their principled leaders who resigned, Trump swears in a 2-decade Peter Thiel advisor to lead CDC. Thiel's Palantir already has all your data. He controls your VP. Now he controls your public health too. 1/
No one's even trying to hide the Thiel takeover anymore. Jim O'Neill's been a key Thiel lieutenant for nearly 20 years. He ran the Thiel foundation, Thiel's Clarium Capital and Mithril Capital (the one that employed JD Vance). 2/ citizen.org/article/jim-on…
Jim O'Neill's not just a Thiel lieutenant, he's a true acolyte, pushing all Peter's fruitcake ideas: building government-free floating cities. Achieving eternal life. Getting kids to drop out of college. And he says drug safety testing is for wimps. 3/ technologyreview.com/2025/06/30/111…
Trump's posts are getting really transparent. His plan for power - probably Jan 6, certainly now - is to create a violent, chaotic event and order in troops. He's saying it plainly now. He's also invoking the antisemitic Soros conspiracy created by his own political mentors. 1/
What's happening in the US makes more sense if you get that it's the same group of people doing the same things, over and over. The Soros conspiracy was created by a US political advisor - Roger Stone's mentor - to elect Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orban. 2/
The US is not special, and our would-be fascist overlords - not just Trump but Silicon Valley techbros - look to Hungary as a model. Orban crashed his economy and made Hungary the poorest country in Europe, but he got power and that's what they want. 3/