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Re: Ma & Pa Kettle Go to Washington..........

Post by kbot » 01-09-2021 05:21 PM

From 2016............

What the Pizzagate conspiracy theory borrows from a bogus satanic sex panic of the 1980s
Americans are more paranoid and easily misled than ever. And that's dangerous.

Dec. 8, 2016 at 11:28 a.m. EST

Responding to incendiary, unfounded online rumors from paranoid corners of the Internet that Washington pizzeria Comet Ping Pong was the center of a child sex-trafficking ring led by Hillary Clinton and her confidants, Edgar Welch drove six hours from North Carolina to the city to investigate. After allegedly firing a rifle into the floor of the restaurant in pursuit of evidence of these nonexistent crimes, Welch was arrested and faces four felony charges, including felony assault with a deadly weapon.

The restaurant’s owner and employees had been subjected to escalating harassment and threats over several weeks leading up to this event. Nearby restaurants — said by online conspiracy theorists to be linked by underground tunnels to Comet Ping Pong — were also dragged into social media attacks and were harassed and threatened by anonymous callers. The tunnels, of course, do not exist. And there is no child sex-trafficking ring run by Clinton campaign officials out of a pizza parlor. The entire scenario is a fantasy dreamed up by feverish minds. And it is not the first time.

Pizzagate traveled from one platform to another along the ultrarapid circuits of social media. But if there is something striking about the speed with which the story spread, there is nothing new about its essential form.

Pizzagate shares much of its content with an outbreak of collective hysteria over imaginary occult pedophile rings three decades ago, which can now summed up in three words: satanic-ritual abuse. At the beginning of the 1980s, it seemed eminently plausible to many people that an extensive underground network of sadistic devil worshipers was sexually torturing large numbers of children in preschools and day-care centers across the country — and that these activities had somehow gone undetected for years, if not decades.
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Post by kbot » 01-09-2021 05:25 PM

Facts matter............ you'd think a lawyer would know that.

I know Trump supporters don't but that's another matter

Dominion Voting Systems files $1.3 billion defamation lawsuit against pro-Trump election attorney Sidney Powell

Dominion Voting Systems has filed a defamation suit against the pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell, seeking $1.3 billion in damages.
Powell, a former lawyer for President Donald Trump's campaign, has pushed a debunked conspiracy theory that the election-technology company falsified results in the 2020 presidential election.
Dominion's new lawsuit outlines numerous falsehoods in Powell's election lawsuits and public statements about the election and Dominion's involvement.
The voting technology company alleged that her conspiracy theories were all the more damaging because they were amplified by Trump and right-wing media outlets.

Dominion Voting Systems filed a defamation lawsuit on Friday against the pro-Trump attorney Sidney Powell, seeking $1.3 billion in damages.

For months Powell pushed a false conspiracy theory alleging that Dominion's election technology helped to falsify the result of the 2020 presidential election by switching votes from President Donald Trump to Joe Biden.

Her convoluted — and debunked — theory alleged Dominion was secretly in cahoots with a rival election-technology company, Smartmatic, and had links to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who died in 2013.

"Far from being created in Venezuela to rig elections for a now-deceased Venezuelan dictator, Dominion was founded in Toronto for the purpose of creating a fully auditable paper-based vote system that would empower people with disabilities to vote independently on verifiable paper ballots," Dominion's lawsuit said.
https://www.businessinsider.com/dominio ... ges-2021-1
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Re: Ma & Pa Kettle Go to Washington..........

Post by Raggedyann » 01-09-2021 07:43 PM

kbot wrote: 01-09-2021 04:54 PM Another member of the brain trust - Q-Anon "shaman"?????? (WTF?!???!?!?!) Jake Angeli

Jake Angeli, Capitol riod helmet, arrested by Feds
Arizona resident Jacob Anthony Chansley, 33, also known as Jake Angeli, was busted Saturday, officials announced
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Federal agents have arrested the rioter seen wearing a horned-headress and holding a spear during Wednesday’s rampage through the Capitol.

Arizona resident Jacob Anthony Chansley, 33, also known as Jake Angeli, was busted Saturday, officials announced.

Chansley — who looked like an extra from “Conan the Barbarian” — “was identified as the man seen in media coverage who entered the Capitol building dressed in horns, a bearskin headdress, red, white and blue face paint, shirtless, and tan pants,” Justice Department officials said in a statement.

“This individual carried a spear, approximately 6 feet in length, with an American flag tied just below the blade,” the feds added.

Chansley — who appears in footage from Wednesday’s chaos standing on the dais in the Senate chamber — was charged with knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority, and with violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.

“The fact that we had a bunch of our traitors in office hunker down, put on their gas masks and retreat into their underground bunker, I consider that a win,” Chansley told NBC News after the riot.

This article was first published on NYPost.com
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/jake- ... 1610219370

Didn't take long............

Oh, and the other dude wearing his work ID. Priceless............ got fired the next day.

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Re: Ma & Pa Kettle Go to Washington..........

Post by Doka » 01-09-2021 09:30 PM

Your article didn't mention the guy has 5 kids, wonder if they have horns too? :D

Who knows who he belongs to, don't see any takers on either side......
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Post by kbot » 01-09-2021 09:40 PM

Guess he just kinda threw all that away doing Trump;s bidding.

As he said, "Trump invited me........."

Idiot
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Post by Raggedyann » 01-10-2021 04:55 PM

Democracy - written by Leonard Cohen. The Lumineers version is haunting and the best IMO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puM93_LV3b4

It's coming through a hole in the air
From those nights in Tiananmen Square
It's coming from the feel
That this ain't exactly real
Or it's real, but it ain't exactly there
From the wars against disorder
From the sirens night and day
From the fires of the homeless
From the ashes of the gay
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A

It's coming through a crack in the wall
On a visionary flood of alcohol
From the staggering account
Of the Sermon on the Mount
Which I don't pretend to understand at all
It's coming from the silence
On the dock of the bay
From the brave, the bold, the battered
Heart of Chevrolet:
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A

It's coming from the sorrow in the street
The holy places where the races meet
From the homicidal bitchin'
That goes down in every kitchen
To determine who will serve and who will eat
From the wells of disappointment
Where the women kneel to pray
For the grace of God in the desert here
And the desert far away
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A

Sail on, sail on
O mighty Ship of State!
To the Shores of Need
Past the Reefs of Greed
Through the Squalls of Hate
Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on

It's coming to America first
The cradle of the best and of the worst
It's here they got the range
And the machinery for change
And it's here they got the spiritual thirst
It's here the family's broken
And it's here the lonely say
That the heart has got to open
In a fundamental way
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A

It's coming from the women and the men
Oh baby, we'll be making love again
We'll be going down so deep
The river's going to weep
And the mountain's going to shout Amen!
It's coming like the tidal flood
Beneath the lunar sway
Imperial, mysterious
In amorous array
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A

Sail on, sail on oh my dear Ship of State
To the Shores of Need
Past the Reefs of Greed
Through the Squalls of Hate
Sail on, sail on, sail on, sail on

I'm sentimental, if you know what I mean
I love the country but I can't stand the scene
And I'm neither left or right
Just staying home tonight
Getting lost in that hopeless little screen
But I'm stubborn as those garbage bags
That Time cannot decay
I'm junk but I'm still holding up
This little wild bouquet
Democracy is coming to the U.S.A
To the U.S.A
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Post by kbot » 01-10-2021 06:39 PM

Oh, it gets better RA............ remember how Trump and his supporters yelled "train the swamp"???????

Well, here's the result - and direct evidence.

Treason!!!!

Months ahead of Capitol riot, DHS threat assessment group was gutted: Officials

The Homeland Security intelligence branch faced scrutiny over the summer.
ByJosh Margolin andLucien Bruggeman
January 9, 2021, 7:18 PM

In the months leading up to Wednesday's deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the Trump administration gutted a key federal agency responsible for funneling intelligence and threat assessments to law enforcement partners across the country, two federal officials with direct knowledge told ABC News.

As a result, officials said, the information vacuum left behind may have deprived law enforcement in Washington, D.C., of a key avenue for actionable warnings that could have helped officers prepare for the inbound threat posed by right-wing extremists who gathered on the National Mall on Wednesday.

"Prior to Jan. 6, there were mountains of pre-existing intelligence that should have been collected, analyzed and disseminated to the federal, state and local authorities," one of the officials told ABC News.

One of the officials said that by Monday night, for example, Department of Homeland Security intelligence leaders had received field reports detailing that people known to law enforcement were heading to the Capitol, and that they were heading there in many cases with weapons and ropes.
MORE: Investigators combing through massive US Capitol crime scene in wake of pro-Trump riot

"Several officials were aware of this intelligence and also assessed violence was likely," said one official.

However, "no specific plans were put in place ahead of time as it would have been done in the past," he said.

Had the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis been operating at full capacity over the previous months, the officials said, U.S. Capitol Police would have had a clearer picture of the "specific and credible" threats of violence posed by groups planning to attend Wednesday's rally.

Those threats foreshadowed an unprecedented breach of the Capitol complex on Wednesday, and culminated in the loss of five lives, including a Capitol Police officer deployed to help protect members of Congress as they gathered to formally certify President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College triumph.

The operations and staffing at DHS' Office of Intelligence and Analysis had been slashed in the wake of controversy surrounding the department's response to civil unrest in Portland, Oregon, over the summer, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The agency came under scrutiny at the time for disseminating reports to law enforcement agencies that included journalists' tweets about documents that were leaked from the department.

As a result, at least two critical intelligence-gathering programs were essentially shuttered, and the office's routine of issuing planning bulletins to police in advance of major public events was all but terminated.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/months-ahead- ... d=75155673
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Post by Raggedyann » 01-10-2021 09:57 PM

So glad Trump will be gone in 9 days. I must admit I feel calmer since the election just knowing he won't be around. Now if they can finagle it so he can't ever run for office again we can all breathe a lot easier. :)
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Post by kbot » 01-11-2021 06:46 AM

Yeah, well, despite inciting a riot resulting in multiple deaths, he plans on going to the Alamo. No need to dig deeply into the background motives/ symbolism, RA...........

Trump’s farewell tour includes border wall stop in Alamo, Texas, on Tuesday
Ousted president will tout ‘promises kept,’ though Mexico has paid nothing for the controversial project despite his many assurances to voters.

WASHINGTON — Eight days before reluctantly leaving office, President Donald Trump will visit the border in South Texas on Tuesday to tout partial construction of the massive wall he promised to deliver — far more than critics wanted, far less than he wanted, and none it funded by Mexico.

At last count, some 452 miles has been built. About 12 miles of that is along segments of the border without any barrier before. The rest replaces shorter and less sturdy barrier.

The project has cost $15 billion so far, just $4.5 billion of that provided by Congress. Trump diverted the rest from the military budget when lawmakers balked at full funding.

It’s not quite the “big, beautiful wall” he promised during the 2016 campaign when he suggested that nearly all of the 1,954-mile frontier would be walled off. By the time he leaves office, it will be about 40% fenced. President-elect Joe Biden has vowed to halt construction, though he won’t dismantle whatever the Trump administration leaves behind.

Trump has not been seen in public since Wednesday morning, when he stoked the passions of a crowd that would soon be rioting at the Capitol.

https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politic ... n-tuesday/
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Post by kbot » 01-11-2021 06:55 AM

Saw this yesterday. Coming from someone who lived in post WWII Europe and saw firsthand the chaos caused by the Nazis, this is a powerful message.

Governor Schwarzenegger called it - Trump his enablers and many of his followers what they are: Nazis, treachery, engaging in self-righteous insurrection

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Best quote I've heard so far..........
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Sentiment is rising that this was an inside job - the Right Wing Trump Terrorists had help. Trump guts DHS intelligence agencies. Agency responsible for passing along information to other agencies can't do it because THEY'RE NOT THERE ANYMORE........

We have a GOP freshman member of Congress from Colorado actively tweeting from inside the Capitol that House members are being moved - effectively communicating with terrorists.

These criminal activities need to be exposed and the GOP members of Congress removed ASAP per the Constitution
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Trending on Twitter.............
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Post by Raggedyann » 01-11-2021 02:36 PM

Sooo fitting and funny! Duck Dynasty!
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Post by kbot » 01-11-2021 03:09 PM

Raggedyann wrote: 01-10-2021 09:57 PM So glad Trump will be gone in 9 days. I must admit I feel calmer since the election just knowing he won't be around. Now if they can finagle it so he can't ever run for office again we can all breathe a lot easier. :)
There's hope........... but you just know that he'll keep spewing his crap somehow. Probably get his own show or something. He feels the need to stay relevant.

It's sad really........
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Post by kbot » 01-11-2021 03:14 PM

Raggedyann wrote: 01-11-2021 02:36 PM Sooo fitting and funny! Duck Dynasty!
Well RA, many started wondering in real-time, what is taking SO LONG for someone to act? As time goes by and people talk, we're finding out that Trump gutted the agency, so intelligence sharing couldn't happen. THAT alone bears investigation as this affect national security.

Also, we find that there appears (at least on the optics) that there was some (maybe not intended) collaboration between members of the GOP and the terrorists such as real-time tweets regarding movement of Congressional members

The there is the active participation by GOP members of Congress to .obstruct Congress at various levels - which have legal remedies.

No matter what, the GOP is emerging as something more than a pathetic 2021 version of the Know-Nothing Party, and likely a group with domestic terrorism ties, and maybe active participation.

Hopefully, jail time is in their future.
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