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  #2643767 28-Jan-2021 17:47
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At last, violent extremism alert: National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin - January 27, 2021 | Homeland Security (dhs.gov)

 

 

The Acting Secretary of Homeland Security has issued a National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin due to a heightened threat environment across the United States, which DHS believes will persist in the weeks following the successful Presidential Inauguration.  Information suggests that some ideologically-motivated violent extremists with objections to the exercise of governmental authority and the presidential transition, as well as other perceived grievances fueled by false narratives, could continue to mobilize to incite or commit violence.

 





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  #2643771 28-Jan-2021 18:19
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Using USAF assessments of force size and casualties, January 6 would be described thus:

 

"On January 6, two heavily armed battalions of irregulars launched a coordinated assault on the Capitol, with 142 casualties.

 

The attack was incited by a psyops action led by Donald Trump."

 

 





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  #2643797 28-Jan-2021 19:14
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The New York Times - McConnell Was Done With Trump. His Party Said Not So Fast.

 

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WASHINGTON - Three times in recent weeks, as Republicans grappled with a deadly attack on the Capitol and their new minority status in Washington, Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky carefully nudged open the door for his party to kick Donald J. Trump to the curb, only to find it slammed shut.

 

So his decision on Tuesday to join all but five Republican senators in voting to toss out the House’s impeachment case against Mr. Trump as unconstitutional seemed to be less a reversal than a recognition that the critical mass of his party was not ready to join him in cutting loose the former president. 

 

Far from repudiating Mr. Trump ... Republicans have reverted to the posture they adopted when he was in office - unwilling to cross a figure who continues to hold outsize sway in their party. ...

 

 


and ...

 

The Washington Post - Republicans back away from confronting Trump and his loyalists after the Capitol insurrection, embracing them instead.

 

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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell announced little more than a week ago that the mob that attacked the U.S. Capitol had been “provoked” by Donald Trump.

 

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Trump “bears responsibility” for failing to respond more quickly to the bloody incursion.

 

But that was then.

 

The nation’s two most powerful elected Republicans have signaled that they are ready to look past questions of responsibility for the violent effort to overturn the result of the presidential election, as they maneuver to avoid a divisive battle within the Republican Party and try to position it to reclaim power in 2022.

 

McConnell (R-Ky.) voted Tuesday against a procedural motion to proceed with Trump’s impeachment in the Senate, while McCarthy (R-Calif.) planned to meet with Trump in Florida on Thursday to mend relations that were frayed by the Jan. 6 attack, according to an adviser to the former president. ...

 

 

 

 

The worm has not turned.   😒





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  #2643924 29-Jan-2021 08:40
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  #2643925 29-Jan-2021 08:44
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The Washington Post -  Republicans assign QAnon supporter to House education committee

 

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Top Democrats in Congress on Thursday blasted congressional Republicans for assigning to the House education committee Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) - who has identified with the QAnon cult and called deadly school shootings “false-flag” operations. ...

 

 

 

 





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  #2644018 29-Jan-2021 11:07
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And so it goes on. None of those sods have learnt a thing. America is a lost cause, it seems. Shame on those gutless btards.


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  #2644021 29-Jan-2021 11:11
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freitasm:

Hartland man pleads guilty in Whitmer kidnap plot, says he'll cooperate



It always amazes me that many terrorists have above-average intelligence, some University education, marketable skills, with a pleasant if not dull future likely.

Osama bin Laden was a member of the wealthy bin Laden family. His mother was from a secular middle-class family, and he went to university.

I could understand being a terrorist if you were homeless or under-educated, with very little chance of that changing, but it's usually not the case.

Regarding this American terrorist, was there any thought to kidnapping a governor might not end well, unless he was seeking suicide by cop?

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  #2644040 29-Jan-2021 11:40
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Dumb people are followers. Hulk smash! They aren't big on initiative or imagination. Smart people are arrogant. They think they have all the answers and everyone else is inferior, so their plan could not possible go wrong.

 

 





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  #2644303 30-Jan-2021 09:02
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BBC article showing how low the GOP have sunk. It's way beyond pitiful.

 

A Republican grandee pays court to Donald Trump - BBC News

 

The picture must have been taken after McCarthy pulled his trousers up.


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  #2644371 30-Jan-2021 11:39
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It look like Trump's getting ready to grab him by the pussy.

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  #2644403 30-Jan-2021 13:00
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SJB:

 

BBC article showing how low the GOP have sunk. It's way beyond pitiful.

 

A Republican grandee pays court to Donald Trump - BBC News

 

The picture must have been taken after McCarthy pulled his trousers up.

 

Trump looks positively machiavellian whilst Kevin McCarthy looks post-coital. 🤩





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  #2644436 30-Jan-2021 16:18
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  #2644459 30-Jan-2021 18:46
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The Washington Post - Opinion - The ‘civil war’ for the soul of the GOP is over before it began. Trump won - again. 

 

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The supposed civil war within the Republican Party is over. The neo-Confederates have won.

 

Just three weeks ago, congressional GOP leaders set out to reclaim their party from President Donald Trump and his violent supporters. 

 

Trump had frequently emboldened white supremacists and domestic terrorists, but never more visibly than when he recruited and incited those who sacked the Capitol on Jan. 6 - and then did nothing for hours as they rampaged, hunting for lawmakers, in hopes of overturning the election. 

From that deadly spree emerged a glimmer of hope that Republicans would, finally, distance themselves from Trump. ...

 

Yet just three weeks after feebly trying to quit Trump, they have relapsed. 

 

Thanks to the cowardice of McCarthy and the perfidy of McConnell, the GOP now comprises two relatively harmonious factions: those who actively sabotage democracy, and those who tacitly condone the sabotage. 

 

Trump is gone; Trumpism reigns. ...

 





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  #2644640 31-Jan-2021 09:33
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America would be a very interesting place politically under MMP (for example), but they're quite resistant to change and I can see confusion would abound.


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  #2644654 31-Jan-2021 10:36
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quickymart:

 

America would be a very interesting place politically under MMP (for example), but they're quite resistant to change and I can see confusion would abound.

 

Someone in this topic or an other said "you would have a better chance of America going totally metric than a change in their political voting system". Like changing their gun policy this is just another 3rd rail you do not touch.

 

Nope, Trump will try and do a Ross Perrot and start up a 3rd 'spoiler' party which will do irreparable harm to the GOP and slightly dent the Democrat's and if they get any seats, House and/or Senate, then America will stagnate and become the self for-filling stinking political swamp it is quickly becoming. It will be a "once great nation' just like the Mongols, Greece, Rome, France, UK etc, destined for the history books and doctorate dissertations.





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