If Wednesday was the final act of Donald Trump’s circus, @RepMoBrooks is one of the ringmasters. For weeks now, he has been lying to the public and whipping people into a frenzy that he and crew were going to “stop the steal” Wednesday.

Check his Twitter feed for the last month. Speeches and statements pushing debunked conspiracy theories based on absolutely nothing. Also, promising that they were going to use their power to overturn the election even after his own Republican colleagues said it wasn’t possible.

After spinning this false narrative, stoking this fire and encouraging “Patriots” to show up at the Capitol to fight and “stop the steal”, he then is the first speaker at the rally and says this.

So, @RepMoBrooks, Wednesday was the day the people he charged up, manipulated, and lied to decided to go into the chamber and take names and “kick ass” just as he said. As a result, 5 people are now dead including a LEO that was trying to protect him from the melee he incited.

There are now bullet holes in the Capitol. Windows were busted and offices were vandalized. Bombs were found around the building. Mo’s “Patriots” showed up with guns, Molotov cocktails and zip ties to help him kick ass and “stop the steal”. Blood was shed on the Capitol grounds.

1) This is how we, all of humanity, move forward unite & focus on a beautiful empowered future together.
Data source is a Navy Super Soldier (Yes like Captain America), the same one who infiltrated ANTIFA & BLM posing as Trump supporter in the Capitol event on 1/6/21 & seized..

If you stand with Trump and haven't written to your Senators yet to ask them to object to the swing state electors, please do so. I am copying my letter in a longer thread below if you need an example. #stopthesteal

Senator ***,

I am a regular citizen and patriot and I'm frustrated and concerned about the election irregularities and the responses that I'm seeing from the Republican party in regard to Trump's justified actions to shine a light on the fact that this was a stolen election.

Most all of these swing states violated the Constitution by changing election law without the approval of the legislature. If there was no voter fraud at all, that alone invalidates this election. And yet the Supreme Court refuses to take it up. We are hearing now that Justice

Roberts yelled at his colleagues when they cited Bush v. Gore as precedent for hearing the case. He told them that at the time of Bush v. Gore we didn't have rioting in the streets. There is more at stake than ANTIFA starting phony riots in the streets on behalf of Soros and the

Democrats. We no longer have a Constitution if the Republican party sits idly by and lets Biden into the White House. I'm not for creating a new party but I can tell you this, there will be severe political consequences for the Republican establishment if this isn't fixed.

So I was traveling with Mattis in 2017 when Trump made his infamous “fire and fury” comments amid escalation with North Korea over its nuclear program, and obviously talk of a preemptive strike. (Thread)

Mattis looked exhausted and was desperately avoiding engaging in discussion about what Trump had said. He kept insisting that he would “leave the rhetoric up to the President” but you could see that he was trying to hold back a hell of a lot of thoughts.

Staff told me at the time that he wasn’t getting a lot of sleep (he never really did anyway) but that despite his constant insistence that he kept other people up at night, he was having a difficult time sorting a way out of the situation.

Later that year, on another trip with Mattis this time to Asia, I asked him about what he thought of nuclear madman theory. It was my way of trying to get him to engage on what we were seeing from Trump, since he is a student of history, without making him utter Trump’s name.

For those unfamiliar, nuclear madman theory predates Nixon, but he’s closely associated with it as he was working with aids to suggest to the North Vietnamese that he might just be crazy enough to nuke them, and that they should therefore negotiate a settlement.

At the moment, POTUS is sitting on a stack of Trump cards that he's just waiting to unleash...a royal flush!
He has court cases that will go to the Supreme Court and thanks to the Texas case, he's now aware how to file them properly...under article 3 not 2...

Big week for tech platforms & free speech!

- Twitter & FB banned Trump
- Apple & Google banned Parler
- Amazon kicked Parler off AWS
- Stripe stopped handling payments for Trump campaign

I just wrote a 4,000 word piece on these issues.

Here's a thread with my 10 takeaways...

1. Contrary to what many people have been claiming, no, Big Tech is not more powerful than the government.

The government can tax you, imprison you, and kill you. It can even nationalize private companies.

Tech companies can delete your free account.

2. Trump may be banned from Facebook and Twitter, but he’s still the president of the United States and he has not been silenced.

As @ModeledBehavior reminded us, only 22% of adults use Twitter. (And only 10% are daily active users).

Twitter is not real life.

3. Banning right-wing extremists or those who incite violence is not a slippery slope toward an Orwellian dystopia, and it’s certainly not a civil rights issue (contrary to what @willchamberlain might claim).

Every platform bans some users for speech issues, including Parler.

4. Repealing Section 230 would not solve any of these issues (and might make them worse).

People who claim "this is why we need to repeal 230" are lying to you (or severely misinformed).

Follow experts like @jkosseff & @mmasnick to learn what Section 230 actually says and does.

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My deepest thoughts about Donald Trump that you probably won't like.

What if the entire left right war is theater? Shut out all the arguments, policy differences, hate, love, ally, opponents, and think about the cumulative direction we're heading to as a planet. ->

I'm concerned there's an element in the world that is bulldozing its way forward to amassing resources regardless of the arguments happening in politics or society as a whole. It's as if they're living alongside us but in a different dimension altogether.  ->

A dimension where their will is as good as done.

If there's one thing this pandemic has taught me, it's if there ever was a nefarious force that achieved power they could tell us scared comfortable folks to sit down and shut up and we would do it. ->

Their whole 'plan' would be to make us pay attention to them. To pay attention to every detail, to every sound they make, to how their lips move as they tell us how much danger we are in.

They have authority in three important facets; one is a positional authority, ->

two is an authority by qualification, and the third is authority by experience. I mean, we would be insane to not listen to such a message, and yet. We still wouldn't know if the sprinkling of truth we find is all the truth there is to be known. ->

As usual, so much vying for our attention. But tonight two members of Biden team gave the most detailed interview to date abt incoming Admin’s plans for dealing w asylum, Central American migration, & the southern border. It was more a statement of purpose than an action plan. 1/

There are very encouraging signs and, as expected, some lacunae. A few noteworthy details: (1) The advisors said Biden will “expand legal pathways for migration...allowing people to apply for refugee resettlement & temporary worker and employment-based programs” in the region. 2/

All presidential admins (some MUCH more cynically than others) stress the dangerousness of the overland journey to the US. It obviously *is* dangerous. It’s also true that large #s of those arriving at US border don’t qualify for asylum under strict dictates of US imm law. 3/

All legal/policy/humanitarian experts I consult agree: there need to be *more* ways, not less, to give people a chance both to seek asylum & come to US legally (if not permanently) to work. Regional processing helps w this. Language used by Biden team is good in this regard. 4/

What else is striking abt Biden team’s language from interview? (2) Asylum officers will adjudicate claims. This is on the progressive wish-list. It’s a practical and humane way to give people speedier relief and take pressure off of a beleaguered immigration court system. 5/

(1/x) We need to organize to protect each other and fight this while we still have some semblance of freedom. There are police forces across the country with military grade weapons and probably the vast majority are very loyal to Trump,

(2/x) and then the military itself (though I’ve heard mixed things about soldiers’ loyalties to Trump) and national guard. Just like when there’s a BLM protest and the national guard shows up in a day, if there’s a coup, police are *already* everywhere, and then

(3/x) the national guard and military can also be deployed throughout the country within a day. They can also massively ramp up censorship online and increase tracking down and arresting people for their political organizing or news-sharing. All the above, & many very bad things,

(4/x) have of course already *been* happening for the whole course of US history, but that doesn’t negate the fact that living under a dictatorship will be a massive change on a massive scale with violence and repression ramped up even more every way to opposition or even

(5/x) just perceived opposition. This is how dictatorships work. It’s in the history books. I’ve read about it in Chile.

Let me say that some of the dark operators have actually seen the Light and are now helping the Alliance and President Trump to carry out the Plan and are working alongside our Light ones. For that, I am truly grateful!

Let's put a thread together of folks who have stated that President Trump invited them to DC on January 6th, shall we?

First up is Amy Kremer who started the Tea Party and was head of Women for Trump during the election and then started Women for America First to organize a national bus tour for Trump to contest the election results and plan all of the DC rallies including Jan 6th.

Amy Kremer states on bus tour for Trump 1/5:
"Pres. Trump hasn't asked much from us. He's asked for our vote and he's asked for us to come to Washington, DC on Jan 6 to stand with him...The President has asked us to come and we will be there."

Amy Kremer's partner James Lyle also confirms Trump invited them to the rally on January 6th which he shares with the crowd gathered outside for the national bus tour for Trump on 1/5. He also mentions how Amy's daughter Kylie is up in DC setting up the rally.

In this OAN interview Kylie Jane Kremer discusses plans for the January 6th Trump March to "stop the steal". She states that the White House will be the backdrop for it and that Trump is aware retweeting her post "the CAVALRY is coming, Mr. President."

Lol I love the internal conflict that America has with holding white people accountable as a group and individual. The storyline shouldn’t be Trumps response!! His lack of response is sinister when the real storyline is that he incited and his people funded the shit.

The fact that a sitting President can not only incite but then be associated with those who fund and then he is the guy who is expected to respond and fix it is a microcosm in whiteness and lack of accountability. How the cops responded to white criminals another version of it.

For such a pro criminal pro solitary pro death penalty pro law and order place. This is a pretty easy investigation. One start would be pull in all of the law enforcement agencies involved. Focus on where they got their orders and who did they communicate with.

Then pull people like Giuliani, Meadows, Trump family and inner circle, get phones and then question. They will have to lawyer up. It’s the Feds if the lie that’s a punishable offense when the Feds talk to you.

The investigation and inquiry has to happen regardless. Instead the other major political party who identify themselves as conservative and the chosen people who happen to be all white men for the most part voted Trump as their leader at a mtg while all this shit going down.

A rundown of Trump’s worst offenses:

Refused to release tax returns

Accepted emoluments in violation of the Constitution (we sued)

Hired daughter and son-in-law, costing lives

Put a “Muslim ban” in place, that mysteriously left out countries where Trump did business

Was GW Bush more fascist than Trump?
This good @michelleinbklyn column highlighted for me why I'm not the left.
Because not only do I disagree with those who say Bush was worse than Trump, I don't think "who was more fascist?" is a useful

Much of left discourse fixates on fascism. Some use "fascism" to mean any right-wing govt, anything bad about govt, or sometimes just "bad thing."
But even those who are more precise fixate on it, which leads them to search for parallels to historical cases and fascist theory
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Instead of asking questions like "closer or farther from a free society?" or "how strong are these institutions?," the fixation on fascism leads to "how much does this resemble 1920s-30s Italy or Germany?" and "how close is this to that scholar's description of fascism?"
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But fixating on the danger of a fascist takeover in America misses the more salient threat of democratic backsliding.
Simplifying a bit, fascism features strong institutions to impose its vision on society while democratic backsliding features weakening institutions.
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So some lefties say Bush was worse than Trump because Bush created DHS after 9/11 while Trump tried to duck responsibility with COVID rather than use it to seize power like an American Reichstag fire.
But it was Trump's weakening of institutions that posed the big danger.
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