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Jun 3, 2022 • 9 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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#SeditionHunters - at the impeachment trial in 2021, we saw chilling footage of Sen. Chuck Schumer trying to evacuate and nearly running into invaders - he did a U-turn and fled. Now we know who he encountered: the hulking Proud Boy Joshua Pruitt, #BaldBulldog. 1/
Here's what Schumer nearly ran into - a massive, muscled bodybuilder, inducted into the Proud Boys only in November as they prepped for the Capitol attack. Read about encounter in Pruitt's new Statement of Offense - he just pled guilty (h/t @emptywheel) 2/
documentcloud.org/documents/2205…
Minutes before, at 2:28 PM, Pruitt (#BaldBulldog) helped lead the mob breaking the police line in the Crypt above. They seemed fixated on getting down to the Visitor's Center quickly. 3/
Maryland Proud Boy Pruitt moved separately from the main Proud Boy crew breaking into the Visitor's Center, the #OrangeTapeGroup (mostly from the Kansas City chapter). In the Visitor's Center they all came together though - Pruitt here w/ bare arms. 4/
The hulking, intimidating Joshua Pruitt #BaldBulldog was a fairly late addition to the Proud Boys. He was inducted only at the first DC "rehearsal rally", on Nov 14, 2020. Video from Brendan Gutenschwager. 5/
Pruitt was inducted a month before PB leader Joe Biggs' famous text Dec. 19, right after the attack was green-lit, saying they needed better-quality Proud Boys: "Let's get radical and recruit real men". But maybe recruiting stepped up already in Nov. 6/
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
Pruitt's guilty plea may help us understand one of the ongoing Jan 6 mysteries: the goal of the rush to the Visitor's Center. To intercept lawmakers, block police reinforcements, something else?
(Here's longer impeachment footage, Swalwell narrating) 7/
And for the record, here's a selfie from Joshua Pruitt #BaldBulldog, posing with an assault rifle. We are incredibly lucky that the Capitol attack was not worse than it was. 8/
Update: just pulled Josh Pruitt #BaldBulldog in Capitol surveillance cam. Here he's moving from the Crypt toward the stairs down to the Visitors' Center, a bit over 2 minutes before his near-miss with Schumer. Neither he nor the #OrangeTapeGroup seem in a hurry, no urgency. 9/

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Jan 20
As Elon Musk gives the Nazi salute in DC, let me just say that it was very clear, 4 years ago, at least to me, that Jan 6 was a precursor, and that this would be the result if we did not investigate it thoroughly - not the footsoldiers but the ones who gave orders that day. 1/
Some people say Jan 6 was more like the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch than the 1933 Reichstag fire, but either way, the analogy holds. The attack was planned; the Proud Boys were sub-contractors; there were people on the ground directing. And we missed it. 2/
Jan 6 is still relevant. Because there was so much effort to erase it, one key task is preserving its memory and its evidence. More broadly, resisting in a way that Germany did not in the 1930s. We need to read our history and listen to historians. 3/
lucid.substack.com/p/its-day-one-…
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Jan 14
To all who will read the Jack Smith report on Tuesday - be warned that it's even worse than expected on the physical attack. It's just wrong. Like this: the attack did not start with 1000s of people marching from the Ellipse. It started with a few hundred, led by Proud Boys. 1/ Image
What you won't find here: the 200+ Proud Boys who marched around the Capitol, kicked off the attack, and helped in nearly every breach. The gang who were convicted of seditious conspiracy. In this report, they don't exist. 2/
documentcloud.org/documents/2548…
You also won't find: the money used to pay militia to attend. "It's all paid for", people whispered. Who paid? You won't learn that. You also don't see: the online campaign before the attack. This early flier said noon - soon they switched to 1 PM. 3/
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Nov 12, 2024
Dear pundits saying no worries, Trump can't round up 10M migrants because their work is needed for the US economy: stop. Deporting people is hard. Locking people up and making them work, that's easy. Remember, MOST camps in Germany from 1938 were "Arbeitslager" - labor camps. 1/ Image
It is critical to understand this and stop the bad takes. No one will put immigrants in camps and have them sit around. They will work in factories and on farms and in construction, without pay, just as happened in all prior historical examples. 2/
theholocaustexplained.org/the-camps/type…
Everyone now thinks of Germany's six extermination camps and their gas chambers: Auschwitz, Birkenau. But their bigger project was the hundreds of forced labor camps. At WWII's end they housed over 5M people, slaving to Make Germany Great Again. That's our analogy. 3/ Image
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Oct 20, 2024
This election won't see another Jan 6 - Trump can't raise a crowd. But there will be something new; his backers are desperate. In 2020 TX AG Ken Paxton was one of Trump's main allies. Now, 2 weeks before the election, Paxton previews a plan: to contest the Texas vote. 1/ Image
The scariest players in 2020 weren't Proud Boys; they were rogue state attorneys general, led by Ken Paxton: elected officials all in for sedition. It was Paxton for Texas who sued to reject the votes of the swing states. What will he do this year? 2/
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On January 6 morning, as the mob gathered at the Capitol, Ken Paxton spoke at Trump's rally: "Texas fights...Twelve straight lawsuits...", claiming Trump won deep red Texas only because he averted fraud. What will he do in 2024 for Trump and Ted Cruz? 3/
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Oct 17, 2024
Peter Thiel's sidekick Chuck Johnson is now accused of posing as an intelligence asset to defraud businesses. So let's ask: how in 2023 did SEVEN news outlets print Johnson's story that he and Thiel were working for the FBI, without calling his bs? 1/
semafor.com/article/10/16/…
The two outlets who named Johnson as their source are Business Insider and The Atlantic, but their stories were picked up by 5 others, and MANY outlets did worse: they printed versions of the story over April-Nov 2023 without naming sources. It was all bullshit - a campaign. 2/ Image
When Johnson started calling reporters to say he and Thiel were Super Secret FBI Sources, they should have have known this was 1) bs and 2) a PR campaign by Thiel. They should have asked: why would Thiel do this? What is his goal? Every leak has a goal. 3/
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People shocked by Evie magazine's article fawning over JD Vance's "classic beauty" and "blue laser beam...eyes that sent women swooning", please realize this is the same outfit that launched a menstrual cycle tracker funded by Vance's patron Peter Thiel. 1/ Image
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futurism.com/neoscope/peter…
Evie's use of "blue laser beam eyes" for Vance is funny since that phrase is borrowed from the parody ZDF did of Peter Thiel using the James Bond theme song: "Immortal libertarian, so refreshingly Aryan... with blue laser eyes into human demise..." 3/
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