The_Metatron wrote:

THWOTH wrote:

Azaghal wrote:It's amusing that people who think that America is well on its way to becoming the Fourth Reich appear to have much less interest in doing things like doing martial arts training or hitting the firing range than in becoming scuffed Sherlock Holmes clones trying to figure out the identity of a "troll" who finds thoroughly dumb claims thoroughly dumb.

Like a full magazine and a well placed kick is ever going to out do a fascist state with its hand on the riens of power and a monopoly on violence. The character weakness or moral failings of non-Fascists are not responsible for Fascism or its insipid ideology.

That’s something the drooling gun nuts can’t seem to grasp. In their minds’ eyes they always, always, always leave out the fact that when the gub’mint comes for you, they win. They always come to win. No private citizen has ever held off the gub’mint. Sooner or later, the gub’mint wins.

But, karate. Target shooting. That’ll get the gub’mint’s attention.

Yes, Azaghai. I know you will read this. We’re laughing at you. And, there isn’t a single thing you can do about it.

Hundreds of Members of Extremist Group Oath Keepers Worked for U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Leaked Roster Shows
https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/hundreds-of-members-of-extremist-group-oath-keepers-worked-for-us-department-of-homeland-security-leaked-roster-shows


More than 300 people identifying themselves as current or former employees of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or affiliated agencies appeared on an internal roster of the Oath Keepers, a right-wing anti-government group whose leader has been convicted of sedition.

A Plot To Overturn An American Election

TPM has obtained the 2,319 text messages that Mark Meadows, who was President Trump’s last White House chief of staff, turned over to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack. Today, we are publishing The Meadows Texts, a series based on an in-depth analysis of these extraordinary — and disturbing — communications.

The vast majority of Meadows’ texts described in this series are being made public for the very first time. They show the senior-most official in the Trump White House communicating with members of Congress, state-level politicians, and far-right activists as they work feverishly to overturn Trump’s loss in the 2020 election. The Meadows texts illustrate in moment-to-moment detail an authoritarian effort to undermine the will of the people and upend the American democratic system as we know it.

The text messages, obtained from multiple sources, offer new insights into how the assault on the election was rooted in deranged internet paranoia and undemocratic ideology. They show Meadows and other high-level Trump allies reveling in wild conspiracy theories, violent rhetoric, and crackpot legal strategies for refusing to certify Joe Biden’s victory. They expose the previously unknown roles of some members of Congress, local politicians, activists and others in the plot to overturn the election. Now, for the first time, many of those figures will be named and their roles will be described — in their own words.

Alan C wrote:34 GOP house reps [that are known about?]
Not an insignificant number and quite the insurrection caucus.

Edit: Just saw Rep Rick Allen's text to Meadows, he went full Jesus. Disturbing.