Gohmert calls for violence . . .
That looks like somebody linked to the wrong tweet. Here’s a better one by Aaron Rupar, including video clip of Gohmert interview on Newsmax:
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I’m sure I can’t be the only one who keeps reading Kernodle as Kernoodle.
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Several outlets are carrying stories about Proud Boy plans to dress like BLM or antifa, in order to (presumably) get those groups blamed for any violence or mayhem committed:
https://thehill.com/homenews/news/532362-proud-boys-to-attend-jan-6-dc-rallies-incognito
One might safely assume that right-wing media outlets will highlight any “BLM violence” or “antifa violence,” regardless of who actually did the deeds.
And of course Trump would make any use of that he might think he can get away with.
You know, with all the talk, my major impression is these guys couldn’t organize a coup in an Retirement Village. I mean, the cops in DC have to be the most well-briefed people in the country, with weeks to plan for this ‘coup’…not too mention that the mayor has probably been discussing things with the DC National Guard–there is one-- (and they with their counterparts in VA and MD, not to mention the Pentagon) on contingency plans and deployments. And then tell their (hoped-for) opponents how they will be dressing…
To borrow from an old movie I’m fond of, I’ve seen better organized riots…
A stupid coup can still be a coup:
He does look kind of like fossilized jism found in the Palestinian sands and carbon dated to 13 AD.
(Philip Roths’s Portnoy character surely wasn’t the first Jewish teenage boy to indulge himself…)
Texas GOP committee member says Sen. Mitt Romney “should be introduced to our friend Mr. Guillotine.”
Article well worth reading! Scary.
Bookmarked.
The stupidity here was the FDA charging the $14K in the first place!
That article proved to be the first in what eventually became a “trilogy of collapse”:
No, no, he’s saying that Republicans need to be “as violent as BLM and antifa”. Which is true: They do need to decrease their violence to that low level.
Ted Cruz (R-Asshole) wants the people to calm down and stop throwing gas on the fire they started:
The Congresswoman from QAnon apparently didn’t get sworn in today because she refused to wear a mask.
I think you meant “Noted Seditionist Ted Cruz (R-Asshole)”, there.
I haven’t seen anyone claiming that the Proud Boys (or other thugs planning to attend Trump’s violence-o-rama on Jan 6) ARE the coup.
No one, so far as I know, is picturing the dumb guys somehow storming the Pentagon and wielding the nukes, or anything else that would result in them ‘gaining power.’
The point of the dumb thugs creating Mayhem For Donald is not that THEY will gain power, but that their violence can be used as an excuse to declare martial law and let Mike Flynn live out his authoritarian fantasies (all in the name of the Dear Dollhands Leader, of course). The excuse will serve to justify declaring DDL ‘President for Life,’ and all the rest of the deep-sixing of the rule of law.
No one is worried about Proud Boys taking over.
Kelly Loeffler didn’t vote on whether to override the veto of the defense appropriations bill, and when asked about it, she refuses to answer whether she would have voted to uphold or override.
Profile in Courage.
In fact, following the usual playbook, after helping the Dear Leader take over, the Proud Boys will all be executed “night of the long knives” style.
A stunning display of “leadership” from someone facing a new election in two days.
How can anyone seriously support someone who simply refuses to tell you how’d they vote on an issue, even as that issue is up for a vote? This wasn’t some hypothetical “gotcha” question. It was a real vote in the real Congress! It’s literally the job she claims to want to do!
I’m really torn on this one. On one hand, it’s a stupid Republican idea. But on the other hand, it is valuable in pointing out the rank hypocrisy and deluded belief system of those fighting the election results.
Texas Representative Chip Roy moved that the elected representatives from the 6 states that Trump alleges had election fraud, not be sworn in. He stated: “And while the legislatures of those states have sent us no formal indication that the results of these elections should not be honored by this body, it would confound basic human reason if the presidential results were to face objection while the congressional results of the same process escaped without public scrutiny,”
Of course, his motion was voted down 371-2. But his call for consistency from the “voter fraud” people will live on.