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  GOP: "Break out the sharpies!"
context: Beginning election night and continuing through January 6th and
  thereafter, Donald Trump purposely disseminated false allegations of
  fraud related to the 2020 Presidential election in order to aid his effort
  to overturn the election and for purposes of soliciting contributions.
  These false claims provoked his supporters to violence on January 6th.
  Knowing that he and his supporters had lost dozens of election law-
  suits, and despite his own senior advisors refuting his election fraud
  claims and urging him to concede his election loss, Donald Trump
  refused to accept the lawful result of the 2020 election. Rather than
  honor his constitutional obligation to “take Care that the Laws be
  faithfully executed,” President Trump instead plotted to overturn the
  election outcome.
  Despite knowing that such an action would be illegal, and that no
  State had or would submit an altered electoral slate, Donald Trump
  corruptly pressured Vice President Mike Pence to refuse to count
  electoral votes during Congress’s joint session on January 6th.
  Donald Trump sought to corrupt the U.S. Department of Justice by
  attempting to enlist Department officials to make purposely false
  statements and thereby aid his effort to overturn the Presidential
  election. After that effort failed, Donald Trump offered the position of
  Acting Attorney General to Jeff Clark knowing that Clark intended to
  disseminate false information aimed at overturning the election.
  Without any evidentiary basis and contrary to State and Federal law,
  Donald Trump unlawfully pressured State officials and legislators to
  change the results of the election in their States.
  Donald Trump oversaw an effort to obtain and transmit false electoral
  certificates to Congress and the National Archives.
  Donald Trump pressured Members of Congress to object to valid
  slates of electors from several States.
  Donald Trump purposely verified false information filed in Federal
  court.
  Based on false allegations that the election was stolen, Donald Trump
  summoned tens of thousands of supporters to Washington for Janu-
  ary 6th. Although these supporters were angry and some were armed,
  Donald Trump instructed them to march to the Capitol on January 6th
  to “take back” their country.
  Knowing that a violent attack on the Capitol was underway and
  knowing that his words would incite further violence, Donald Trump
  purposely sent a social media message publicly condemning Vice
  President Pence at 2:24 p.m. on January 6th.
  Knowing that violence was underway at the Capitol, and despite his
  duty to ensure that the laws are faithfully executed, Donald Trump
  refused repeated requests over a multiple hour period that he instruct
  his violent supporters to disperse and leave the Capitol, and instead
  watched the violent attack unfold on television. This failure to act
  perpetuated the violence at the Capitol and obstructed Congress’s
  proceeding to count electoral votes.
  Each of these actions by Donald Trump was taken in support of a
  multi-part conspiracy to overturn the lawful results of the 2020
  Presidential election.
  The intelligence community and law enforcement agencies did suc-
  cessfully detect the planning for potential violence on January 6th,
  including planning specifically by the Proud Boys and Oath Keeper
  militia groups who ultimately led the attack on the Capitol. As January
  6th approached, the intelligence specifically identified the potential
  for violence at the U.S. Capitol. This intelligence was shared within the
  executive branch, including with the Secret Service and the Presi-
  dent’s National Security Council.
  Intelligence gathered in advance of January 6th did not support a
  conclusion that Antifa or other left-wing groups would likely engage
  in a violent counter-demonstration, or attack Trump supporters on
  January 6th. Indeed, intelligence from January 5th indicated that
  some left-wing groups were instructing their members to “stay at
  home” and not attend on January 6th.20 Ultimately, none of these
  groups was involved to any material extent with the attack on the
  Capitol on January 6th.
  Neither the intelligence community nor law enforcement obtained
  intelligence in advance of January 6th on the full extent of the ongo-
  ing planning by President Trump, John Eastman, Rudolph Giuliani
  and their associates to overturn the certified election results. Such
  agencies apparently did not (and potentially could not) anticipate the
  provocation President Trump would offer the crowd in his Ellipse
  speech, that President Trump would “spontaneously” instruct the
  crowd to march to the Capitol, that President Trump would exacerbate
  the violent riot by sending his 2:24 p.m. tweet condemning Vice
  President Pence, or the full scale of the violence and lawlessness that
  would ensue. Nor did law enforcement anticipate that President
  Trump would refuse to direct his supporters to leave the Capitol once
  violence began. No intelligence community advance analysis pre-
  dicted exactly how President Trump would behave; no such analysis
  recognized the full scale and extent of the threat to the Capitol on
  January 6th.
  Hundreds of Capitol and DC Metropolitan police officers performed
  their duties bravely on January 6th, and America owes those individu-
  als immense gratitude for their courage in the defense of Congress
  and our Constitution. Without their bravery, January 6th would have
  been far worse. Although certain members of the Capitol Police lead-
  ership regarded their approach to January 6th as “all hands on deck,”
  the Capitol Police leadership did not have sufficient assets in place to
  address the violent and lawless crowd.21 Capitol Police leadership did
  not anticipate the scale of the violence that would ensue after Presi-
  dent Trump instructed tens of thousands of his supporters in the
  Ellipse crowd to march to the Capitol, and then tweeted at 2:24 p.m.
  Although Chief Steven Sund raised the idea of National Guard support,
  the Capitol Police Board did not request Guard assistance prior to
  January 6th. The Metropolitan Police took an even more proactive
  approach to January 6th, and deployed roughly 800 officers, including
  responding to the emergency calls for help at the Capitol. Rioters still
  managed to break their line in certain locations, when the crowd
  surged forward in the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s 2:24
  p.m. tweet. The Department of Justice readied a group of Federal
  agents at Quantico and in the District of Columbia, anticipating that
  January 6th could become violent, and then deployed those agents
  once it became clear that police at the Capitol were overwhelmed.
  Agents from the Department of Homeland Security were also
  deployed to assist.
  President Trump had authority and responsibility to direct deploy-
  ment of the National Guard in the District of Columbia, but never gave
  any order to deploy the National Guard on January 6th or on any other
  day. Nor did he instruct any Federal law enforcement agency to assist.
  Because the authority to deploy the National Guard had been del-
  egated to the Department of Defense, the Secretary of Defense could,
  and ultimately did deploy the Guard. Although evidence identifies a
  likely miscommunication between members of the civilian leadership
  in the Department of Defense impacting the timing of deployment,
  the Committee has found no evidence that the Department of Defense
  intentionally delayed deployment of the National Guard. The Select
  Committee recognizes that some at the Department had genuine
  concerns, counseling caution, that President Trump might give an
  illegal order to use the military in support of his efforts to overturn
  the election.
  
  edit to add link: Jan. 6th Committee Final Report >
  
  Isn't 8 like literally perjury? >
  
  He broke several laws word for word over the past 30 years and no one has blinked an eye so far. It’s disgusting what money does, if you or I committed just a single one of Trump’s dozens of crimes, we’d be in jail for 20 years at least. >
  
  While people go to jail for stealing a piece of pizza >
  
  While homeless people get arrested for trying to sleep somewhere warm. >
  
  A lot of people for minor stuff got life in prison in California for 3 strikes law >
  
  We traded a mid WNBA player for an internationally wanted arms dealer and terrorist to save her from prison over weed. Money made that shit happen. 
  Meanwhile poor people that were arrested in the 90s for a fucking dub bag are still in jail today. >
  
  GOP: Yeah, trying to overthrow the government and nullify the will of the people through and armed insurrection is bad but did you know the president has a son who struggled with drug addiction?! What’s the REAL crime? >
  
  Actual evidence of a legitimate conspiracy to overthrow the election and the conspiracy subreddits have crickets on it. A dick pic and they go crazy. Further proof of how useless they are >
  
  *useful
  Someone paid a lot of money for them to poison the well >
  
  So true.
  In these muddied waters of alternative facts and lost values, the snakes and eels thrive. >
  
  The GOP has had only one plan in mind for decades. That is moving America toward a fascist coup. But ideally without much of a problem, as the US has been steadily moving right for years, and so long as they continued to do what they needed to with their long political game things would have been different. They wanted an eloquent, charming, handsome fascist instead of Trump. That could make the US public be like "Fascism is a good brand for us!"
  Instead, they got Trump. And his viciousness, his ignorance, his narcissism, his ability to be both easily manipulated and a loose cannon was very shocking to them...and it moved their plan forward too fast. His momentum made them put their plan forward a decade or so.
  "We can use these MAGA people as Brown Shirts!"
  His base is easily inflamed and capable of being made to act. They embraced conspiracy, anti-intellectualism, anti-science, anti-journalism, anti-medicine, anti-immigration, anti-Semitism, anti-race, anti-Leftism rhetoric far too easily. Helpful. Sure. Beneficial. Sure. But it also made their plan a bit too easily understood. We all know the game the GOP is playing now. They have no other choice but to go all out. 
  They can't win anything fairly now. The only thing they can do is move their plan of Christofascist coup forward. All they can do now is inflame their base to hatred, mainstream fascism, further support their agenda, and unleash them on school boards, city councils, throughout all forms of politics, into the streets to fight, into the queer community to kill...
  They're following all of the cliche tactics of fascists. 
  It shows they're losing. They won't have the youth in their churches much longer. Their sexism and their cruelty and their oppressive nature will not serve this generation. They are losing power. They are dying. And the GOP's death song has given rise to a fascist corpse. 
  Things are only going to get worse. More violence. More attacks. More inflammation. More exterminist rhetoric.
  I wonder if they'll martyr Trump to get his base to support a more controllable, and controlled, fascist.
  TLDR: Arm, train, build skills, network, build community. Join the SRA. John Brown Gun Club. Or your local mutual aid group. >
  
  See the book Gangsters vs Nazis by Benson >
  
  Never read it! Thanks! What's it about? >
  
  TLDR a Jewish judge recruited and organized Jewish mobsters and boxers to stand up against the Bund at their meetings and rallies across the country. >
  
  Fascinating. Thank you. >
  
  The first photo in the report on page 20. Rudy at Four Seasons Total Landscaping. This is the legacy left by this embarrassing clown car. >
  
  The GOP is the legacy left behind by Trump. They realize that they can do anything, including insurrection and working for authoritarian foreign regimes, as long as they stick together as a family. 
  Nothing is off limits now as their propaganda machine is too powerful for reality to matter. The next leader will be even more evil and successful, going full fascist. >
  
  DeSantis >
  
  Very likely. That dude is pure evil. >
  
  same moral values as Trump with a touch more intelligence is very worrying >
  
  meaning zero moral values >
  
  No prosecution.  No Democracy. >
  
  Exactly... >
  
  If Trump doesn't get prosecuted despite all this the US really is a banana republic. >
  
  Kinda makes me want Democrats to lie cheat and steal in the same way just to convince Republicans to vote on updated protections. >
  
  Oh for sure, that'll play out great /s >
  
  Pursuant to your number 1.
  Trump actually started with his bullshit election fraud crap as soon as he knew he would be running against Joe Biden, who he knew would (and did) beat him "like a drum." >
  
  An old woman was carted off to jail for not paying her trash bill, and yet the orange shitgibbon committed treason and insurrection and is still free to run amuck. The scales of American justice are not equal. >
  
  THEE top line is, Trump is GUILTY AF. He is a fckg traitor. >
  
  So... >
  
  Toplines: 1: Trump, his son and his inner circle are a bunch of conniving traitors who're also too cowardly to do their treachery in the open, which is part of the reason they failed. >
  
  What is most striking about this whole thing is that they didn't really commit to what they were doing.  They focused so much on trying to make it seem like it was spontaneous that they forgot to make it successful and thank god for that!  
  Trump is the big winner in terms of the most corrupt, traitorous and insurrectionally inept president ever.   History is not going to be kind to him, his family or their accomplices. >
  
  Fuck history. I need the DOJ to not be kind to him. >
  
  The entire world needs the DOJ to not be kind to him.
  Believe it or not, like it or not, the rest of the world sees what we do and they copy us or learn from us (and other high profile countries).  If Trump gets a pass, other fascists will copy him around the world.  Also, if we don't do something about this now, its going to happen again here and the next guy/gal might not be such a pansy about it. >
  
  In Ontario (And other provinces), we have conservative leaders doing the same shit. Racism and ignorance are skyrocketing, land is being sold off in shady deals to cronies, etc. >
  
  Forever more the term "Trumpian Crime Wave" will have meaning. >
  
  Losing the election was bad enough. After the riot, the only two things he'll be remembered for is January 6, and endless controversy. >
  
  Stolen top secret documents that he was too stupid and defiant to give back quietly. >
  
  I need to point out something in the photo that no one is talking about.
  He's standing behind bulletproof glass. >
  
  Admittedly that seems like a standard precaution as he was the president at the time and out in the open. >
  
  I don't know about you but when he was speaking that day I knew he imagined himself going down there, and saying something close to the lines of we the people have spoken and I'm in charge.  
  I mean that was his plan. And now everybody knows it. >
  
  
  They also recommend the creation of a "formal mechanism" to evaluate whether those who took part in the insurrection should be barred from holding future government office on federal and other levels.
  
  Future? So if they're already in office, they're safe which is what has been happening over and over again. >
  
  My god. No matter the “side” you’re on, this is it, defined in facts, one man almost came very close to flipping this country upside down-he must pay the price and suffer consequences >
  
  You could spend another 2 years investigating and not reveal all the corruption. Wish the Senate would take up and continue the investigation. >
  
  For every instance of "trump" replace that with "the republican party".  Because they are the same.  They wanted the same thing.  They would have been OK with him continuing. >
  
  There are no consequences for a failed coup, only if you are on the wrong side of a successful coup. >
  
  Hitler was jailed after the Beer Hall putsch, his first coup attempt. Unfortunately for history, prison didn’t change his tune. >
  
  Pretty much what we already knew. Hopefully the DOJ follows through on some recommendations.
  Mean while the GOP put out a “report” blaming Pelosi for the whole thing