Understand that Willard Hotel war room participant Boris Epshteyn *didn’t* tweet—97 minutes after the January 6 insurrectionists first breached the USCP perimeter—that rioters should leave the Capitol. He merely said they should stay *peaceful*.

Team Trump needed them to *stay*.
PROOF research confirms it was widely understood that Stop the Steal intended to occupy the Capitol—and that it was this occupation that Trump needed. He didn’t need violence; he was indifferent to that. He needed an *occupation*. Next time @AriMelber will get the question right.
The key is to never ask any of the coup plotters about violence. It is not legally required for them to be charged and they will indignantly claim to have known nothing about it in advance. That may or may not be true, but it is beside the point. They knew about the *occupation*.
When you ask a coup plotter about violence, you’re wasting airtime. It may be shown that Ali Alexander knew what his Arizona Proud Boys were going to do, but proving he communicated it to the White House may be hard. Proving that everyone knew of a planned occupation is not hard.
The best way to understand the violence on January 6 is that it was intended to metaphorically and literally open the doors to a several-day Capitol occupation. Those who started the violence were working with Alexander—Arizona Proud Boys—but the occupation remains the key issue.

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(ICYMI) Media catches up to PROOF on Finchem, Rogers, Waldron, and the *major* insurrectionist movement still under way in Arizona—which is only getting more dangerous.
(PS) Remember that—as PROOF reported—Ali Alexander was boasting, within a matter of hours of the Capitol attack, that he'd long been in contact with Arizona officials *and* knew of their direct contacts with *Trump*. He then led Proud Boys to DC alongside the Oath Keeper Finchem.
(PS2) In the Alexander-Finchem-Trump nexus you have the White House, Stop the Steal, the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers—all of the key players in the insurrection. I will say it again: the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers were tasked with *opening the Capitol doors* to an occupation.
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I recommend this book to anyone who wants to be prepared for what’s coming: Russia invading Europe for the second time in a decade, and Russia working to get Trump back in the White House—so he can continue aiding Russian aggression—even as the GOP parrots Kremlin talking points.
No one who read this book when it was a national bestseller is at all confused about what’s happening in Ukraine right now, because they understand what Putin is doing and—as importantly—they understand that the Republican Party (especially Trump) will *aid* Putin as he does it.
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(MORE) THE INDEPENDENT (UK): “Donald Trump Jr. Posts Strange Rant: ‘Joe Biden is what stands between us and nuclear-capable China’; People Criticise Donald Trump Jr.’s Video, One User Calls it ‘Deranged, Slurred, Unnatural, Speech’” independent.co.uk/news/world/ame…
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“It’s a pandemic of bureaucracy! It’s not real anymore!”

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I KILLED FOUR THOUSAND AMERICANS *YESTERDAY*
PS/ It’s hard to fully underscore how nonsensical what she’s saying is. Yes—we discovered that cloth masks aren’t as effective as had once been hoped. So what the hell do you take from that? When we mask up, we need to wear N95 masks. What does she take from it? No masks anymore!
PS2/ She lies in saying we were told getting vaccinated would preclude infection. No—we were told vaccination would lead to less serious illness. That’s *just* what happened. So what should we do? Get vaccinated and boosted! What does she think we should do? Nothing, apparently!
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I never worked a terrorism case but this sounds like a terroristic threat? Can anyone with expertise in this chime in? She uses the future tense, gives a time and place, says she'll be armed, indicates what her political goal is...I mean I'm not saying I know—I'm honestly asking.
(PS) She also says her weapons will not just be "loaded" but "ready [to be fired]." I'm *pretty* sure law enforcement needs to make contact with her ASAP if they haven't already. Anyway, I'm tweeting this out to see if I'm missing something, and if not to give it more attention.
(PS2) Um, I'm sorry, but, in response to the article below... just *no*. I don't think you can say what this person said; have the school board *go your way* (negating your threat); and then apologize and have it be okay. This needs to be looked into ASAP. whsv.com/2022/01/21/off…
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This is so short-sighted on the part of MLB. I agree with the Rays that the “sister city” idea—a defiantly metamodern one—is likely to be the future of professional sports. But we may be a few decades off from that, and no one really expects MLB to be a trailblazer in *anything*.
IOW the internet has changed our notion of space/time irretrievably. In a way we never did before, we understand that two seemingly contradictory concepts can occupy the same space. I think it’ll ultimately be seen as a “throwback” to view sports teams as tied to *only* one city.
Consider: if a pro sports team played just *one game* in your city of 100,000 each year—but *without fail*—don't you think your city would start to think of that team as being “yours” as well as others’? Suddenly fandom is disseminated/diffused in a way that elevates *everybody*.
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