This is why we need to lock Red Coup organizers up - Eastman reiterates that his coup plot is still "solid"

Back in September, investigative journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa published a book titled Peril, outlining various crimes and juicy drama from the Trump administration. One of the most important things revealed by the book is that Trump lawyer John Eastman crafted one of the most coherent plots to overthrow the election.

The Eastman memo was a simple two-page document that outlined 6 clear steps on how the Vice President and Congress could overthrow the election during the counting of electoral votes on January 6th. Eastman soon fleshed this plan out into a six-page plan. CNN published both memos on September 21st. Below is an excerpt of the 6 steps:

"So here’s the scenario we propose:

1. VP Pence, presiding over the joint session (or Senate Pro Tempore Grassley, if Pence recuses himself), begins to open and count the ballots, starting with Alabama (without conceding that the procedure, specified by the Electoral Count Act, of going through the States alphabetically is required).

2. When he gets to Arizona, he announces that he has multiple slates of electors, and so is going to defer decision on that until finishing the other States. This would be the first break with the procedure set out in the Act.

3. At the end, he announces that because of the ongoing disputes in the 7 States, there are no electors that can be deemed validly appointed in those States. That means the total number of “electors appointed” – the language of the 12th Amendment -- is 454. This reading of the 12th Amendment has also been advanced by Harvard Law Professor Laurence Tribe (here). A “majority of the electors appointed” would therefore be 228. There are at this point 232 votes for Trump, 222 votes for Biden. Pence then gavels President Trump as re-elected.

4. Howls, of course, from the Democrats, who now claim, contrary to Tribe’s prior position, that 270 is required. So Pence says, fine. Pursuant to the 12th Amendment, no candidate has achieved the necessary majority. That sends the matter to the House, where the “the votes shall be taken by states, the representation from each state having one vote . . . .” Republicans currently control 26 of the state delegations, the bare majority needed to win that vote. President Trump is re-elected there as well.

5. One last piece. Assuming the Electoral Count Act process is followed and, upon getting the objections to the Arizona slates, the two houses break into their separate chambers, we should not allow the Electoral Count Act constraint on debate to control. That would mean that a prior legislature was determining the rules of the present one — a constitutional no-no (as Tribe has forcefully argued). So someone – Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, etc. – should demand normal rules (which includes the filibuster). That creates a stalemate that would give the state legislatures more time to weigh in to formally support the alternate slate of electors, if they had not already done so.

6. The main thing here is that Pence should do this without asking for permission – either from a vote of the joint session or from the Court. Let the other side challenge his actions in court, where Tribe (who in 2001 conceded the President of the Senate might be in charge of counting the votes) and others who would press a lawsuit would have their past position -- that these are non-justiciable political questions – thrown back at them, to get the lawsuit dismissed. The fact is that the Constitution assigns this power to the Vice President as the ultimate arbiter. We should take all of our actions with that in mind."

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/20/politics/trump-pence-election-memo/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/21/politics/read-eastman-memo/index.html

And here is an excerpt from the detailed six-page memo:

"BOLD, Certainly. But this Election was Stolen by a strategic Democrat plan to systematically flout existing election laws for partisan advantage; we’re no longer playing by Queensbury Rules, therefore.

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I have outlined the likely results of each of the above scenarios, but I should also point out that we are facing a constitutional crisis much bigger than the winner of this particular election. If the illegality and fraud that demonstrably occurred here is allowed to stand—and the Supreme Court has signaled unmistakably that it will not do anything about it—then the sovereign people no longer control the direction of their government, and we will have ceased to be a self-governing people. The stakes could not be higher."

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/21/politics/read-eastman-full-memo-pence-overturn-election/index.html

The gaslighting is unbearable. Eastman needs to be put on trial and executed for treason. Otherwise, in Eastman's own words, "the illegality and fraud that demonstrably occurred here" will be "allowed to stand", and the people will "no longer control the direction of their government, and we will have ceased to be a self-governing people." I agree with those words 100%. But it is not the Democratic Party who is attempting to destroy the government, it is Eastman and the Republicans.

Eastman's own words are warning us of what is to unfold. We need to take them seriously.

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Eastman had previously attempted to help overthrow the election by aiding in Trump's unsuccessful lawsuits. Eastman also joined Trump on January 6th and addressed Trump's rally. Now we know why Trump was putting so much pressure on Pence--he was going all in on the last-ditch plan authored by Eastman.

"After the election, Eastman represented the Trump campaign in its attempt to intervene in several Republican states’ unsuccessful attempt to have the Supreme Court overturn the election. The court rejected that suit on Dec. 11. The following month, Eastman, Trump and Pence discussed their options.

“You really need to listen to John,” Trump told Pence in the Jan. 4 meeting with Eastman, according to CNN’s description of “Peril”’s reporting. “He’s a respected constitutional scholar. Hear him out.”

Pence reportedly sought out his own counsel too, including from the Senate parliamentarian and former Vice President Dan Quayle — both of whom said his authority included counting the Electoral College votes and nothing more. Pence opted to take that advice and count the Electoral College votes as the states had submitted them, certifying Biden’s win.

Responding to the Post’s reporting on his memo, Eastman told the paper that the document merely “explored all options that had been proposed.” But on the day of certification itself, Jan. 6, Eastman was standing on a stage outside the White House to tout the memo’s theory. He was joined by Giuliani, who demanded “trial by combat!” over Trump’s election lies.

“All Vice President Pence has to do is send it back to the states to recertify, and we become president, and you are the happiest people!” Trump would tell the crowd later that day.

Eastman was one of several speakers to address the D.C. rally Trump had beckoned — the rally that turned into a mob — and he didn’t mince words.

“We know there was fraud,” he said, falsely. “We know that dead people voted.”

Then, he aimed his fire squarely, and publicly, at Pence.

“All we are demanding of Vice President Pence is this afternoon at 1 o’clock, he let the legislatures of the states look into this so we get to the bottom of it and the American people know whether we have control of the direction of our government or not!”"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-the-newly-revealed-e2-80-98eastman-memo-e2-80-99-fits-into-trump-e2-80-99s-election-theft-conspiracy/ar-AAOG4zU

"Two speakers immediately preceded Trump on stage that day: Rudy Giuliani and John Eastman, legal advisers to Trump who made the case that Pence could and should prevent the counting of slates of certified Electoral College votes that day.

“Every single thing that has been outlined as the plan for today is perfectly legal,” Giuliani said at the rally. He continued (emphasis added):

I have Professor Eastman here with me to say a few words about that. He’s one of the preeminent constitutional scholars in the United States. It is perfectly appropriate given the questionable constitutionality of the Election Counting Act [sic] of 1887 that the Vice President can cast it aside and he can do what a president called Jefferson did when he was vice president. He can decide on the validity of these crooked ballots, or he can send it back to the legislatures — give them five to 10 days to finally finish the work.

When Eastman spoke that day, he echoed Giuliani’s claims regarding the conspiracy theory that voting machines had fraudulently changed the vote tallies in Georgia. “We now know, because we caught it live last time in real time, how the machines contributed to that fraud,” Eastman said of the Georgia Senate and 2020 presidential-election results. “They put those ballots in a secret folder in the machines, sitting there waiting until they know how many they need.”"

https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/10/john-eastman-vs-the-eastman-memo/

On the evening of January 6th, Eastman sent an angry email to Pence's office, which can only be interpreted as Eastman blaming Pence for the coup attempt's failure.

"The More We Learn About John Eastman’s Involvement in Trump’s Coup, the Worse it Gets

While rioters raged through the Capitol, he blamed Mike Pence for the insurrection.

[...]

According to an email obtained by the paper, Eastman (who was responding to an angry email from a Pence staffer) wrote that “The ‘siege’ is because YOU and your boss did not do what was necessary to allow this to be aired in a public way so that the American people can see for themselves what happened.” What’s more, the Post reported, Eastman continued to advocate for the electoral college results to be rejected after Congress returned to business following the riot.

Eastman, at the time (but no longer) a professor at the University of California Hastings College of Law, had spoken alongside Rudy Giuliani at Trump’s rally on the National Mall that morning, where he alleged widespread fraud from Georgia voting machines and stated that if Pence didn’t delay the certification of the Electoral College, “We no longer live in a self-governing republic.”"

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/10/the-more-we-learn-about-john-eastmans-involvement-in-trumps-coup-the-worse-it-gets/

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On October 22, after Eastman started drawing media attention, he gave an interview where he tried to cover his criminal ass by saying his memo was not "viable" an was "crazy". ...Hmmm, he, Giuliani, and Trump sure thought it was viable during their coup attempt.

"“So anybody who thinks that that’s a viable strategy is crazy,” Eastman tells National Review.

[...]

“The memo was not being provided to Trump or Pence as my advice,” he insists. “The memo was designed to outline every single possible scenario that had been floated, so that we could talk about it.”

[...]

Whatever Eastman’s intent may have been when he wrote the memos, most media outlets have accurately described their content. The two-page memo includes prescriptive language: “So here’s the scenario we propose.” The final version of the memo is less prescriptive about how Pence should prevent the counting of Biden’s electoral votes on January 6, but both versions of the memo include the following sentences: “The fact is that the Constitution assigns this power to the Vice President as the ultimate arbiter. We should take all of our actions with that in mind.”

[...]

While Eastman calls the two-page memo a “preliminary” memo for “internal discussion” purposes only, there is plenty of evidence that it reflected the official position of Trump."

https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/10/john-eastman-vs-the-eastman-memo/

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Days later, on October 26, investigative journalist Lauren Windsor talked to Eastman and recorded Eastman reiterating his support for the coup plan. Eastman once again blamed Pence for the coup's failure (see the video at the link below):
https://twitter.com/lawindsor/status/1453110960638496770

In the following days, Windsor released 3 more videos of her conversation with Eastman.

Part 2:
https://twitter.com/lawindsor/status/1453365068779835393

Part 3:
https://twitter.com/lawindsor/status/1453885240707977217

Part 4. This is one of the most interesting videos, as Eastman says he, Trump, Giuliani, and 300 Republican legislators met on a conference call on January 2nd. He may be referring to state level legislators, who were being encouraged to decertify their states' electors. Although, it could also be referring to meeting with Republicans in federal Congress in order to run through their plan for the Coup Vote. Worse, Eastman says in "every precinct across the country" there are "homegrown" Republican agents who are preparing to steal the upcoming elections.
https://twitter.com/lawindsor/status/1454108075225276425

At the same event, she also recorded a video of Claremont Institute President Ryan Williams saying Eastman was "still very involved with a lot of the state legislators and advising them on election integrity stuff."
https://twitter.com/lawindsor/status/1453477418245574656

(Please watch the full videos, each one is only around 2 minutes long.)

"John Eastman Busted On Camera Bragging About His Coup Memo

[...]

Eastman told the activist that there was “no question” that his legal reasoning was solid.

Eastman also said that the reason why Pence ultimately didn’t go along with the lawyer’s plot was because the then-vice president was “establishment guy at the end of the day.”"

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/john-eastman-undercover-video-election-memo-coup

"Former Trump lawyer says his coup plan would have worked if it wasn't for Mike Pence

No regrets: John Eastman is caught on camera bragging about his plan to overturn the 2020 election

John Eastman, the former Trump lawyer who authored the infamous "coup memo" on how to overturn the 2020 election, was caught on camera saying his coup plan would have worked if it wasn't for former Vice President Mike Pence."

https://www.salon.com/2021/10/27/video-former-lawyer-says-his-coup-plan-would-have-worked-if-it-wasnt-for-mike-pence/

Is the Biden administration going to let him get away with that? Is Attorney General Garland going to allow an unrepentant coup plotter to continue plotting coups? General Flynn still hasn't been arrested, despite repeatedly advocating for a military coup, so I guess they don't care...

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If every single Republican politician and member of Trump's inner circle who helped to organize the coup are not arrested, they will launch another coup in the near future. Eastman just boasted about how his plan is still "solid". If the Democratic Party decides there is no punishment for HIGH TREASON, then of course Republicans are going to try again and again and again until they finally seize power.

So far, nearly 700 people have been charged for participating in the Insurrection:
https://www.insider.com/all-the-us-capitol-pro-trump-riot-arrests-charges-names-2021-1

Many of them were arrested for nothing more than trespassing on the evidence that their phone GPS showed them inside the Capitol. Yet Eastman and others who CREATED AND IMPLEMENTED A PLAN TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT are not arrested? Yet Eastman and others (like General Flynn) who are on film bragging about the coup attempt and encouraging Republicans to attempt another coup are not arrested?

Meanwhile, more and more far-rightists are literally asking when they will be allowed to start murdering us:

"At this point, we're living under corporate and medical fascism. This is tyranny. When do we get to use the guns? No, and I'm not — that's not a joke. I'm not saying it like that. I mean, literally, where's the line? How many elections are they going to steal before we kill these people?"

https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/pushing-election-lies-tpusa-audience-member-asks-charlie-kirk-when-they-can-use-guns

The fact that people like Eastman and Flynn have not yet been arrested demonstrate that the Democratic Party has abdicated their duty to govern, and that our nation does not have a functional federal government. Insurrection participants have been arrested over phone GPS data, but documents and videos from the COUP ORGANIZERS clearly showing how they organized and directed the coup attempt and how they continue to advocate for another coup apparently aren't enough evidence of a crime...? If that is so, we do not have a functional system of laws or a functional system of government.

We are not safe when Republicans are openly plotting another coup and when Republican voters are explicitly asking when they can cease being "civil" and just start murdering us. All non-treasonous Americans need to get armed, train, and organize within our communities to defend ourselves from the coming chaos.

The traitors aren't even trying to pretend to be nice anymore. They are literally plotting our murders as we speak. We should heed their warnings and prepare now, or it will be too late when they knock on our door to slaughter us.

Democrats lost the Virginia Governor's election, and will keep losing

The projections for the Virginia Governor's election are in:

Republican Glenn Youngkin defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the Virginia governor's race Tuesday night, CNN projects, rolling back progressive gains in Virginia as he became the first Republican to win statewide office in the commonwealth since 2009.

McAuliffe's loss in a state that President Joe Biden won by double digits last year showed the enormous challenges that Democrats are facing next year as they attempt to maintain control of the US House and Senate. McAuliffe, who served as governor from 2014 to 2018 in a state that does not allow successive terms, had struggled to find a message that would galvanize Democrats at a time when Biden's approval ratings have sagged and the party has been unable to deliver a clear message amid bickering over the President's agenda in Congress.

[...]

Late Tuesday night, Youngkin was exceeding the performance of the previous Republican gubernatorial candidate four years ago and also significantly outperforming Trump's margins in the Virginia suburbs, which had been trending increasingly Democratic. McAuliffe's margins, by contrast, fell below the tallies in previous contests of Biden and Virginia's current Democratic governor, Ralph Northam, in key areas throughout the state.

[...]

Without a tangible achievement to point to from Democratic-controlled Washington, McAuliffe didn't hide his frustration. He demanded that members of Congress "do your job and quit the posturing," in an interview with CNN.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/02/politics/virginia-election-results/index.html

I saw in the media that they are blaming this on the lack of major legislation that has been passed in Congress. That probably contributed to this result, no doubt. But they are overlooking the real reason. They are overlooking the reason that is so obvious to every single average American.

The reason no one bothers to vote for the Democratic Party? They are unwilling to enforce the laws against the political party that organized a coup attempt and tried to overthrow our government. They are unwilling to enforce the laws against the political party which continuously reaffirms that they view the coup as a valid strategy to hold on to power. They are unwilling to enforce the laws against a political party who has openly promised "bloodshed" against us and is promising to carry out another coup in the future.

Ever since the surprising loss in the Presidential election in 2016, American citizens have clearly said that the Democratic Party is losing ground because they are out of touch and have abandoned the needs of regular Americans. The politicians have heard us, for sure. It is easy to imagine them as wealthy elites who never leave their gated neighborhood and old codgers who don't even know what an internet is, but the staffers of these politicians consist of many young people who are truly aware of the attitudes and views of young and non-elite Americans. The politicians have heard us, and they know why they are really losing.

At this point, the Democratic Party has not just passively abandoned us--they are actively betraying us by refusing to enforce the laws against the political party which committed literal treason and attempted to overthrow the government itself.

Why the hell would any of us go to vote for this party when they appear to be controlled opposition??? Life gets worse for us after every election, no matter who is in power. At some point, the difference between the lesser of the two evils and the greater of the two evils is so small that this sort of metaphor isn't enough to begrudgingly get people to the polls.

As the media correctly points out, the results of the Virginia Governor's race are important, because they are a taste of what is to come. Trumpists are still as strong and energetic as ever. And Democrat voters are just as demoralized as ever. Congress is split almost evenly in both the House and the Senate. With results like these, which party do you think will gain the upper hand after the November 2022 midterms...?

There is a way forward for the Democratic Party to inspire voters, but the party seems more and more unwilling to do it each passing day. We DEMAND justice against all of the traitors within the Republican Party who attempted to overthrow our government by attempting to steal the 2020 election. The politicians in the Republican Party who supported the insurrection and coup attempt should have been kicked out of Congress due to the 14th Amendment, but the Democrats don't even have the will to do something as basic as that... Of course they are going to lose elections if they are unwilling to do their job and enforce some of the most basic and clear parts of the Constitution.

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Yet, as terrible as democracy is, it is what we currently have. Getting demoralized and not voting at this moment in history will be disastrous for Americans. As soon as the Republican Party retakes control of the government, they will carry out another self-coup and attempt to overthrow the government entirely once more. So, anyone who reads this blog and agrees with the opinions expressed here needs to go and vote.

It is most important to vote in election primaries, in order to replace the traitors in the Democratic Party with people who courageously challenge the status quo of the party and demand that justice be dealt. It is also highly important to vote in state-level elections, although they are rarely hyped as much as national elections.

A grassroots movement gets its strength from the bottom up, and we must never forget there are millions of others who think just like us. We just have to get involved in the system to actually get things done. And we should never forget that many Americans who are willing to do their duty have been elected not too long ago. Rashida Tlaib heroically demanded Trump be impeached the very first day a non-treasonous majority got sworn into Congress in January 2019 (which was also her first day in Congress). Ilhan Omar, another heroic American who was among the first politicians to ever call out Congress's crooked obedience to the apartheid state of Israel, also started in Congress in 2019. Eric Swalwell, who demanded a Crimes Commission to root out the corruption in the Trump administration, only joined Congress in 2013.

You could join them one day, so long as you participate in the system, rather than getting discouraged and dropping out completely (like Republicans and "establishment" Democrats want you to do).

We get discouraged because no matter if Republicans or Democrats are in office, life keeps getting worse. We get discouraged because the Democratic Party tells us to vote, and then nothing ever changes for the better. We get discouraged because brain-dead political activists tell us to write to our politicians, which never changes their minds on anything (you know, since regular people don't have a few million dollars in bribes campaign funds laying around like the lobbyists do).

What they don't want to tell you is that you can run for office yourself. What they don't want you to believe is that you are infinitely more qualified than 99% of the people currently in Congress. Yes. You are more qualified than them. Even if you have no experience in politics, as long as you are willing to enforce the law and not be a traitor to the American Dream, you are infinitely more qualified than them. "Experience" did not help Hilary Clinton beat Donald Trump. Many of the most "experienced" politicians (e.g. Pelosi, Biden, McConnell) are the most corrupt! All you need is a willingness to serve American citizens as a whole rather than the wealthy elite.

Yes. You are qualified not only to run for office, but to win elections. There is evidence that Republicans may even be hiring literal actors to run for office. Lauren Boebert was a high school drop out and only got a GED months before being elected. Ffs, TRUMP got elected to the office of PRESIDENCY! Literally all you have to do to get elected is go out there and tell the people what they need to hear.

If Trump and all these other literal con-men can do it, a sincere American like you can as well.

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The way for the Democratic Party to start winning elections is for people like us to run, and for people like us to inspire Americans by telling them what they need to hear: we will hold ALL of the traitors in the Republican Party responsible to the fullest extent of the law (and all of the traitors in the Democratic Party who have broken the law by covering up their corruption and enabling them). This kind of change isn't going to come from the corrupt, "experienced" mainstream of the Democratic Party.

We will replace them.

But in order to do so, we have to show up and engage in the system. Both the Republicans and corrupt "mainstream" Democrats want us to become discouraged and drop out entirely.

Six Years of Constitutional Crisis

We have been in a continuous state of Constitutional Crisis since at least March 16, 2016, when Republican Senator Mitch McConnell announced Republicans would not even hold a Supreme Court nomination hearing for Merrick Garland. McConnell had similarly been blocking hundreds of lower court appointments prior to this (in order to "save" them for a future Republican administration), so arguably the Constitutional Crisis was already ongoing by this point. But something as blatantly Unconstitutional as blocking a nomination hearing for a Supreme Court seat for 8 entire months was a turning point. Deepening this Crisis, during the lead-up to the 2016 election, multiple prominent Republican Senators said they would block any nominee a potential President Clinton would appoint throughout her entire 4+ years as president. (This is also early evidence of a Republican self-coup having illegally taken over the Senate).

Another Constitutional Crisis occurred when Trump was sworn in as President on January 20, 2017. From his very first moment in office, he was in violation of the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution. In addition, he was guilty of treason for his campaign's collusion with Russia, as evidenced by his infamous Presidential debate on July 27, 2016, where he asked that same enemy nation to hack his opponent. The media and the Democratic Party lulled Americans into complacency by telling us to spend years waiting for the results of the Mueller Report, so Trump could face justice. Instead, when the report was released, not only were we disappointed by the extremely-limited scope of the investigation, but Democrats and the liberal-leaning media helped to cover it up and kill any hopes of impeachment, despite the Report showing clear evidence of the Trump administration's crimes...!

Another Constitutional Crisis began during Trump's 1st impeachment. In December 2019, multiple Republican Senators openly declared they would refuse to be impartial jurors during the Senate impeachment trial. This included Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham. This was in direct violation of the Constitution, which states Senators must swear an oath during an impeachment trial. Since the 1700s, the language of the oath makes each Senator swear they will "do impartial justice". (By the way, in more civilized eras, oath breakers were executed). Further, many commentators pointed out that a number of Republican Senators were implicated in Trump's crimes. Would we let a burglar sit as an "impartial juror" in the trial of a co-conspirator...?

Most absurdly of all, Mitch McConnell openly declared the Republicans in the Senate were working directly with Trump to formulate his defense strategy for the impeachment. How can we allow impeachment to be the only Constitutional mechanism for removal of a criminal President when the criminals in the President's party control the Senate and work directly with him? "Checks and balances" can't even handle simple party-line-based corruption...

Another Constitutional Crisis began in June 2020, when Louis DeJoy was appointed as Postmaster General and began sabotaging the Postal Service in order to rig the 2020 election. Trump, in his public statements, was very clear about the motive behind the changes in the Postal Service--his goal was to make enough mail-in votes be delayed and literally "get lost" to tip the election in his favor. The sabotage of the Postal Service is the first event that we are publicly aware of in the months-long Republican coup attempt which culminated in the January 6th Insurrection.

The audacity of Republicans to attempt to rig and nullify an election (and the lack of consequences they faced for it!) marked a point-of-no-return in ths Crisis. At that particular moment, our government entered into a life or death situation which will either end with a Republican coup attempt successfully overthrowing the government, or a reestablishment of law and order where all responsible for the coup are placed in prison. There are no other possible outcomes. There is no turning back. This isn't just a game where you can shake hands and move on and forget about things when the dust settles. America will never spontaneously "go back to normal" unless justice is dealt. Every day since their election rigging attempts began, Republicans have repeatedly embraced the Big Lie and embraced every illegal tactic possible to "win" at all costs. They are digging in and gaining ground while the Democratic Party does nothing to hold them accountable under the law.

Another Constitutional Crisis was evident by January 10th, 2021. To summarize the issue, on January 3, 2021, the 117th Congress was officially sworn in to office. On January 6th, the Coup Vote and Insurrection occurred. Under the very clear language of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, all members of the US government and state governments who had engaged in an insurrection are forbidden from ever holding office. On January 10th Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi asked for official input on whether to pursue the immediate removal of President Trump using the 14th Amendment. This therefore signalled that she was keenly aware of this Amendment and its purpose. On January 11th, 48 Democratic politicians, led by Representative Cori Bush, introduced a resolution calling for the expulsion of all Republican politicians who supported the Coup Vote or Insurrection. Representative Bill Pascrell and others had already been advocating for enforcement of the 14th Amendment since December 11, 2020.

Although 55 politicians eventually ended up endorsing Bush's resolution, no results ever came from it, and the 147+ Republican politicians who organized and participated in a coup attempt to overthrow the US government are still serving in office and are currently making our laws... Trump's 2nd impeachment, the language used to establish the January 6th Select Committee, and statements by President Biden have legally established that the events of January 6th were indeed an insurrection and terrorist attack, and hence subject to the 14th Amendment. Yet the Democratic Party has decided to ignore one of the most important parts of the Constitution, by allowing politicians who violated their oaths by giving aid and comfort to domestic terrorists (i.e. treason as defined by the Constitution) and who violated the clear language of the 14th Amendment to continue serving in the government.

Yet another Constitutional Crisis began on January 13th, 2021, when Mitch McConnell announced he was going to delay Trump's 2nd impeachment trial until Trump was out of office, in order to miscarry justice. Ironically, minutes after voting to acquit Trump in the Senate impeachment trial on February 13, 2021, McConnell said Trump was indeed responsible for inciting the insurrection (i.e. the charge he was impeached for!). Yet, by February 25, 2021, McConnell was already supporting Trump's ambitions for a 2024 presidential campaign, demonstrating he was only disappointed that the coup attempt failed to result in a regime change, not that he was disappointed a Republican-organized coup attempt happened. Despite currently being the minority party in the Senate, Democrats have even allowed Republicans under Mitch McConnell to de facto retain control over the Senate...

Every day that the ongoing Crisis is not resolved, Republicans get bolder in their criminal behavior and double-down in their devotion to Trumpism. Every day they are raising the stakes and making their voting base even more riled up and prepping them for future "bloodshed". Every day that the Democratic Party delays justice, the danger that far-right terrorists pose to non-treasonous Americans increases.

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And, no, I am not overusing the term "Constitutional Crisis". All of these events listed above are a direct violation of the Constitution and existential threat to the functioning of the US government. All of these events raise fundamental problems that the Constitution is unable to provide answers to. We have seen that any constitution-based government relies on goodwill, unwritten norms, and simple willingness to uphold written rules in order to function. When the only politicians who are not actively trying to overthrow the government don't even have the will power to enforce what is explicitly written in the Constitution and laws, what then? The house of cards collapses on itself.

These Crises will not go away simply by ignoring them or telling ourselves they weren't "real" Crises. Downplaying the danger and telling ourselves "it can't happen here" is exactly how we ended up with Donald Trump as President and how we ended up with the majority of the Republican Party supporting a bloody coup attempt. Sticking our heads in the sand and telling ourselves "this isn't really happening" is how the Republican Party spent months publicly organizing a coup in plain sight, while explicitly telling us over and over again that their entire goal was to overthrow the election. Yet somehow the coup attempt caught many off guard.

All of the Crises listed above remain fundamentally unresolved. Even if they appear to no longer be ongoing (e.g. Scalia's court seat has been filled, Trump's Emoluments Clause violations seem less important now that he is out of office, etc.), the fallout from failing to act on them will have vast repercussions. By allowing the malicious effects from these Constitutional Crises to remain in place, the actions that caused the Crises have become the new normal. The traitors who repeatedly launched our nation into Constitutional Crisis have reaped tremendous victories from their actions and have not faced a single repercussion. There have been no legal repercussions and their popularity has soared among their voting base...

All of these Crises, including launching a bloody coup attempt to remain in power, are all part of the Republican playbook now. They have purged their party leadership of anyone who disagrees, have repeatedly defended the Insurrection, and have announced their intent for future "bloodshed" against us. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party, by their refusal to enforce the most basic of laws and principles outlined in the Constitution, have established inaction into their new normal.

In the span of a few short years, Republican tactics have elevated from corruptly blocking a judge, to outright collusion with an enemy nation, to launching a bloody coup attempt to overthrow the government itself. And why wouldn't they do so, when their opponents have essentially legalized every one of their crimes? Every step of the way, Republicans were emboldened because the Democratic Party refused to hold them accountable for their crimes...

And throughout all of this, the mainstream media has spent the past 6 years gaslighting us by downplaying the Constitutional Crises, telling us they weren't real or hadn't actually happened yet. Even now, there are op-eds being published speculating on whether a Constitutional Crisis has actually happened...

The political landscape in the US is thus: one party of literal terrorists who tried to overthrow the government and one party who are too apathetic and incompetent to uphold the most basic of laws and Constitutional remedies to punish terrorists for committing the highest crimes possible against the state.

This is a crisis. There is no room for debate or speculation on this fact.

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While I obviously hope that the January 6th Commission will lead to criminal convictions for all the Republicans who participated in the coup attempt, the Biden administration's Justice Department and the Democratic Party itself don't inspire much confidence. The next potential Constitutional Crisis will revolve around the findings of the January 6th Committee and whether the Biden administration punishes those politicians who organized and supported the coup attempt. If the Democratic Party decides to cover up the Insurrection by not pursuing criminal charges of the highest magnitude against all the politicians who organized, supported, aided, and abetted the coup attempt in any way, then the United States will collapse.

That is not hyperbole. How can a government exist when there are no repercussions for a political party not only blatantly disregarding every section of the Constitution, but when that political party faces no punishment for a bloody coup? Logically, the only outcome to such a scenario is that the coup-plotting political party tries again and again until they are eventually successful and attain the power they crave. Indeed, this is already obvious, since the Republican Party has openly declared they embrace the Insurrection and the Big Lie that Trump is the only rightful President of the US.

Arresting a rag-tag gang of insurrectionists on the basis that their phone GPS coordinates showed them trespassing in the Capitol means nothing when the politicians who spent months promoting the Big Lie to establish a pretext for the Insurrection, the politicians who themselves spent months attempting to overthrow and nullify the election, the politicians who coordinated the logistics and timing of the Insurrection the first place, and the Trump administration officials who directed the Insurrectionists to march to the Capitol and hold a "trial by combat" are not also arrested for their crimes. There are 74 million people who could one day be directed to repeat the Insurrection and worse. All it would take to prevent a future insurrection is to arrest the treasonous individuals who organized and led it in the first place.

Ultimately, as citizens we must prepare to defend ourselves in the very likely scenario that things get much, much more chaotic in the near future. Until these Constitutional Crises get resolved and the US government is no longer in danger of inevitable collapse, I have a duty to tell all non-treasonous Americans that we must arm ourselves, train, and organize within our communities to weather the storm.

Elected politicians in the US government are promising future bloodshed against us and future coup attempts to destroy our nation. We would be insane not to heed their warnings. When Trump came into office, I rolled my eyes at doomsday predictions that Trump would attempt to declare martial law and overthrow the government. Yet, here we are... Worse, the Democratic Party is refusing their duty to uphold the law and punish those terrorists in the Republican Party who tried to overthrow our government. As long as they refuse to uphold the laws, we are not safe and must prepare to defend ourselves and our communities.

If we fail to prepare now, it will be too late when the worst case scenario unfolds.

When the institutions failed during the American Revolution, all we had left to defend ourselves was each other and an appeal to heaven.

Surprise, Israel committed war crimes in their May attacks, using US-made weapons

Happy 4th of July. While we celebrate how the US fought against tyrants to achieve our own liberty, for over 70 years the US has been helping a foreign nation commit an ethnic cleansing to take liberty away from others. While we cheerfully listen to fireworks and gossip about Florida apartments collapsing into sinkholes, spend at least a moment to think of all the Palestinians who live in constant fear of US-made bombs bursting in air and all the Palestinians who've had their apartments collapse from US-made bombs. Somewhere along the road, our government lost the Spirit of '76.

On June 24th, investigative journalists from the New York Times published a 14-minute video with new information about the Israeli airstrikes on May 16 that murdered 44 Palestinians:

https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000007787471/israel-airstrikes-gaza.html

One of their main findings involved mapping the exact locations where Israelis used precision-guided bombs to target the densely-populated Rimal neighborhood in Gaza. Israel claimed they attacked a "Hamas command center" and tunnels underneath the residential apartment buildings, but provided no evidence that the alleged Hamas infrastructure existed. Israel claimed that the (presumably non-existent) Hamas infrastructure beneath civilian buildings would constitute a violation of international law, but by not warning civilians before bombing, Israel itself committed a war crime.

Not that "international laws" mean anything, since Israel will face no punishment. In fact, they admitted they hadn't bothered to warn civilians before, because no one punished them for it and therefore no one thought it was a big deal. This is just another of the countless crimes Israel has committed since its creation in 1948.

The bombs used by Israel were 2000 pounds, and the New York Times video says they are the heaviest type of bomb most militaries use on a regular basis. And Israel launched them not at heavily-fortified military targets, but at civilian apartment buildings. At least 4 of them were dropped near the apartment buildings which were completely destroyed. The bombs used US-made guidance systems. The video shows a serial number recovered from the debris, indicating at least one of the bombs had equipment manufactured by Boeing. (Boycott, divest, sanction, and arrest the apartheid profiteers at Boeing!)

Victims who were interviewed said they went to Rimal because they viewed it as safer than elsewhere in Gaza, as it was not attacked by Israel in their 2014 bombing campaign.

The Israeli Air Force launched over 100 guided bombs on May 16th, with over 30 of them landing in Rimal. Plotting the strikes on a map, Palestinian government buildings and a hospital were targeted, in addition to residential apartments. 3 days after the attacks, professional war criminal Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed a map which listed the destroyed apartment buildings as "not attacked".

The Israeli military said it hit all of their "intended targets", which we may assume were the apartment buildings, hospital, and civil government buildings.

In the 2-week-long campaign of carnage, Israel destroyed hospitals, a building serving as the headquarters for a few international media outlets, and over 2000 homes.

"The skyline of the metropolis – home to almost 600,000 people – has been significantly altered since May 10 when hostilities escalated.

Along with at least 2,000 housing units destroyed and more than 15,000 other units damaged, Gaza’s already run-down infrastructure was also badly hit.

The United Nations reported that six hospitals, nine healthcare centres and a water desalination plant were damaged during the fighting."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/6/3/will-israel-be-held-accountable-for-war-crimes

Amnesty International and others have said it was likely that the Israeli attack constituted a war crime, but good luck ever holding Israel accountable when the US gives it over $3.8 billion in military funding each year so it can carry out its ethnic cleansing. Good luck ever holding Israel accountable when the US vetoes every UN resolution which attempts to condemn Israeli crimes. Good luck ever holding Israel accountable when President Joe Biden gave Israel an additional $735 million in funding as a reward for their attacks in May. (Yes, you read that correctly, he gave an apartheid state MORE MONEY after they committed war crimes against civilians.)

A small handful of politicians, led by Rashida Tlaib, courageously called Israel an apartheid state after these attacks. For the first time in US history, mainstream politicians have begun correctly labeling Israel as an apartheid state which must be boycotted and sanctioned immediately. The discourse has forever changed. See my previous article for more information on this:

https://authenticamericandream.blogspot.com/2021/05/mainstream-media-and-politicians-calling-out-israeli-apartheid.html

Right-wing propaganda heavily targeted Ilhan Omar after she joined in calling Israel an apartheid state (likely due to her courageously pointing out that US politicians on the Foreign Affairs Committee should not be expected to be obedient to Israel a few years ago). Republicans have recently attempted to censure Omar, Tlaib, Pressley, and AOC for their comments on Israel.

Not only did politicians call Israel out for its apartheid system, but mainstream journalists have been as well. During the attacks in May, Israel destroyed a building which housed the headquarters for Associated Press and Al-Jazeera, in order to obscure coverage of its war crimes. Considering that the US media has for decades been so silent on the plight of the Palestinians, would US-based investigative journalists, such as those at the New York Times, have bothered to investigate the attacks in more depth and write this story if Israel had not attacked the press? Or if heroic people like Rashida Tlaib had not demonstrated true leadership by taking a stand against apartheid? Maybe, maybe not. But what is certain is that the discourse on Israeli crimes is forever changing in the US, and we have a duty to ensure that passively ignoring and supporting apartheid never again becomes an acceptable position.

 

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New York Times journalist Evan Hill summarized the video on his Twitter (which also contains some additional details not stated in the video).

https://twitter.com/evanhill/status/1408051858816520195

If you're too lazy to watch the full 14 minute video, at the very least, I would recommend watching the excerpts where they interviewed the victims of the attack:

Interview with the Qawlaq family. At least 2 bombs landed directly outside the apartment building they were in, causing it to collapse. They had gone there because they believed the neighborhood would be safer than elsewhere in Gaza. Shoukry Al Qawlaq was trapped in the rubble for 11 hours.

https://twitter.com/evanhill/status/1408057468987580416

 

 

Interview with Riad Ishkontana. The bombing murdered his wife and four of his children. He and his daughter Suzy were trapped in the rubble for over 6 hours.

https://twitter.com/evanhill/status/1408056377956782083

https://twitter.com/evanhill/status/1408064221766578185

https://twitter.com/evanhill/status/1408058001366290446

Of course, these interviews from the New York Times are far from the only accounts from Palestinian victims of apartheid. Just like the rest of us, thousands of Palestinians use websites like Twitter and directly share their deepest fears with the rest of the world, while most of us choose not to look.

https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1393618761454952454

https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1393162154535231488

https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1393731483601448960

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So, what can we do to stop Israeli crimes? Boycott, divest, and sanction Israel and any companies which profit from Israeli apartheid. In addition, we must boycott major donors of apartheid-supporting US politicians. Support from the American public, universities, and politicians caused America to become a leader of the anti-South-African-apartheid BDS movement in the 1980s. Now it has come time to do the same for the anti-Israeli-apartheid BDS movement.

Refer to the previous article for more a more detailed analysis:
https://authenticamericandream.blogspot.com/2021/05/mainstream-media-and-politicians-calling-out-israeli-apartheid.html

Mainstream media calls out Democrats for refusing to uphold the law

Finally. Months too late, but we have reached another milestone. The past few months have been so jam-packed with news of Republicans becoming more criminal and Democrats continuing to enable them, that I have a number of posts I haven't finished writing yet. However, this new milestone is something to pay very close attention to and deserves immediate coverage, especially as the floodgates open and more mainstream reporters start using the same rhetoric.

"The Biden administration is enabling a Trump comeback

Democrats think enforcing the law on their opponents is somehow unfair

Democrats have had what any sane political party would consider a remarkable stroke of luck: Donald Trump, the leader of their opposition has (allegedly) committed many, many crimes, both while serving as president and before, and Democrats now control the federal law enforcement apparatus. As Barbara McQuade and Joyce White Vance write in The Washington Post, Trump is almost certainly guilty of obstruction of justice during the Mueller investigation, of attempting to solicit bribes from Ukraine, and of multiple campaign finance violations (and likely much, much more).

But so far, Attorney General Merrick Garland is resisting a full-scale investigation of Trump. For instance, he declined to open a criminal investigation of the recent revelation that the Trump Department of Justice spied on journalists and his political enemies (instead handing the issue over to the comparatively toothless inspector general). On the contrary, Garland's DOJ is continuing to spend public money defending Trump from a defamation suit filed by writer E. Jean Carroll (who accused Trump of rape). At the same time they are arguing that suits against Trump and his attorney general Bill Barr over the brutal attack on Lafayette Square protesters should be thrown out, and as Greg Sargent writes at the Post, actively concealing multiple documents related to Trump's abuses of power and alleged crimes. So far, Garland is effectively conspiring with Trump to help him escape accountability.

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Republicans look for any way to camouflage their ruthless will-to-power with a tiny fig leaf of neutrality — just look at Mitch McConnell's ever-evolving "rules" for Supreme Court confirmations — and if they can't find one, they proceed anyway. Meanwhile Democrats shrink from action if they imagine Chuck Todd scolding them, even if they are remedying some historic injustice in the process.

By the same token, conducting an investigation that even appears to be politically motivated gives most establishment liberals the vapors. "One of Trump's most flagrant and dangerous norm breaches was his repeated, publicly stated desire that the Justice Department prosecute his real and perceived political enemies," wrote law professor Andrew Kent at the liberal establishment website Lawfare in December. He then developed an explicit argument to allow Trump to get away with breaking the law:

    Avoiding any hint of perpetuating this kind of awfulness, so reminiscent of tyrannies and banana republics, is an entirely plausible reason why Biden could want to avert criminal enforcement action against Trump and his circle. [Lawfare]

For some reason Kent does not discuss the fact that powerful people being able to break the law with impunity is also highly characteristic of "tyrannies and banana republics" — indeed arguably more so than politically motivated prosecutions, because those could still be directed at actual legal violations, even if motivations were not completely pure (such as, to pick an example at random, if the previous president committed a bunch of clumsily obvious crimes). By definition, the rule of law means that nobody, not even presidents or former presidents, should be able to break the law without consequence.

Any nine-year-old could instantly understand this point, but jingoist chauvinism runs so deep in the liberal legal establishment that it is basically impossible for them to imagine American politicians being really corrupt and deserving of jail time.

[...]

But it seems fecklessness runs so deep in the Democratic Party that not even basic self-preservation can motivate them to enforce the law against the rich and powerful. Garland should discover some principles or he should resign."

https://theweek.com/donald-trump/1001705/why-is-attorney-general-garland-covering-for-trump

Although Garland is in control of the Department of Justice, he is not the only one who could have enforced basic consequences on Republicans who committed the highest crimes possible against the state.

Back in December, Representative Bill Pascrell correctly declared that Republicans who tried to throw out legal electoral votes in order to change the outcome of the election were not qualified to be seated in Congress on the basis of the 14th Amendment.

"Pascrell wrote a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Chairwoman Zoe Lofgren, explaining his reasoning by citing the 14th Amendment, which states no person should hold any civil or military office who has “engaged insurrection or rebellion” against the US.

“Men and women who would act to tear the United States government apart cannot serve as members of Congress,” Pascrell wrote. “These lawsuits seeking to obliterate public confidence in our democratic system by invalidating the clear results of the 2020 presidential election attack the text and spirit of the Constitution, which each member swears to support and defend.”"

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/calls-for-gop-not-to-be-seated-in-congress-a-look-at-the-fallout-from-texass-brazen-election-lawsuit/ar-BB1bRYj8

"14th Amendment. Section 3. No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."

Ever since the insurrection and Coup Vote which took place on January 6th, and Trump's impeachment for INCITEMENT OF INSURRECTION, it has become undeniable that the Republicans who organized, engaged in, and aided an insurrection are illegally serving in our government. Democratic party leadership was well aware of this Amendment, but nevertheless allowed them to be sworn in, making Democrats complicit in the whole affair by ILLEGALLY ALLOWING TERRORISTS TO BE SWORN IN TO CONGRESS.

"On January 10, 2021, Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House, formally requested Representatives' input as to whether to pursue Section 3 disqualification of former US president Donald Trump because of his role in the storming of the United States Capitol on January 6.[188][186] Unlike impeachment, which requires a supermajority to convict, disqualification under Section 3 would only require a simple majority of each house of Congress.[187][189]

The Section 3 disqualification could be imposed by Congress passing a law or a nonbinding resolution stating that the January 6 riot was an insurrection, and that anyone who swore to uphold the Constitution and who incited or participated in the riot is disqualified under Section 3.[186]

[...]

On January 11, 2021, Representative Cori Bush (Democrat from Missouri) and 47 cosponsors introduced a resolution calling for expulsion, under Section 3, of members of Congress who voted against certifying the results of the 2020 US presidential election or incited the January 6 riot. Those named in the resolution included Republican Representatives Mo Brooks of Alabama and Louie Gohmert of Texas, who took part in the rally that preceded the riot, and Republican Senators Josh Hawley of Missouri and Ted Cruz of Texas, who objected to counting electoral votes to certify the 2020 presidential election result.[188][186]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution#Storming_of_United_States_Capitol

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene was removed from her House committee positions in early February 2020 (just a few weeks after Democrats took back control of Congress) due to advocating for an insurrection and murder of political opponents long before January 6th. Why can't Congress do the same for all the other Republicans who did the same thing with respect to the January 6th insurrection??? While we need Garland to pursue criminal charges against all these treasonous politicians, the Democrat party, by controlling Congress, has many things they could do to reduce the power of the politicians who tried to overthrow our government.

Ffs, back in August 2020, Representative Eric Swalwell advocated for Congress to set up a Crimes Commission to investigate all of the criminal behavior that took place during the Trump administration. That was almost a year ago. He said that around the same time Republicans began attempting their massive campaign to steal the 2020 election by sabotaging mail-in voting. I think a lot of us have forgotten about that since the insurrection has taken center stage...

Since August 2020, Democrats should have been planning and organizing the legislation to enact the Crimes Commission and implemented it immediately after taking back control of the government. Instead, Democratic politicians are ACTIVELY ALLOWING TERRORISTS TO REMAIN IN GOVERNMENT AND MAKE OUR LAWS. We have terrorists making our laws because the Democratic party wants them there.

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Over the past year, the media has been slow, but left-leaning and non-treasonous writers have independently come to many of the same conclusions and reiterated nearly every major talking point I've posted on this blog. Millions and millions of everyday Americans have come to the same conclusions as well.

The media is always a few steps behind when it comes to saying things that the most strongly-opinionated bloggers and everyday people are already saying. It doesn't look like Democrats are going to change their course and do their duty. So, what are the next rhetorical milestones the media will escalate to?

Currently, the media is just now beginning to grapple with the fact that not only did we not have a functional government under Trump, but we still don't have one under the Democrat party. A few weeks ago, the media already reached the milestone of acknowledging that Republicans are going to try a coup again in the future. (One of the many topics I haven't had a chance to cover yet).

What's next? Concerningly, I think the only new talking points the media could escalate to next are that non-treasonous Americans, left-wing Americans, and "non-white" Americans need to utilize their 2nd Amendment duties to defend themselves and their communities from the impending far-right tyranny.

The mainstream media has already told us to stay calm and that multiple "blue waves" would fix our government and hold all the criminals accountable. But voting did nothing. The Democratic party is helping the Republicans cover up their crimes by refusing to hold them accountable for literally trying to overthrow the government via a terrorist attack. Republicans have purged their party of leaders who dare to say Trump fairly lost the election. (Another topic I haven't had a chance to cover yet.) Republicans openly declare again and again that their followers need to become more violent and that the party itself has no remorse for the tactics they employed to steal the 2020 election (from sabotaging mail-in voting, to nullifying electoral results at the local level, and even launching a bloody insurrection to kidnap and kill anyone who refused to illegally reinstate Trump). State-level Republican politicians in numerous states have passed laws making it more difficult to vote and stripped power from the types of election officials who helped thwart their coup attempt in 2020.

Ideally, in the 2022 election, non-treasonous Democratic politicians would be able to win primaries and take control of the party away from the current "leadership" who are enabling Republican terrorism. But the fact that the Democrats have had two "blue waves" and literally did less than the bare minimum legal duty isn't going to inspire voters to show up to the polls. Hell, Trump would have won the 2020 election if he wasn't a moron and didn't intentionally make the pandemic worse. Trump could have won if he wasn't a complete moron and didn't publicly announce his plan to sabotage mail-in voting multiple times and instead did it all silently. Despite Biden's record-breaking numbers in the overall vote totals, the margin of victory in "swing states" was closer in 2020 than in 2016--in what should have been the largest landslide in US history, Biden almost lost. He won by only 44,000 votes in the "swing states" determining the electoral vote outcome. In 2016, the margin was 80,000. Despite technically controlling the Senate, Democrats de facto have given up control of it to the Republicans (another topic I haven't had a chance to cover), and Democrats only have the slimmest majority in the House at the moment.

Even if, against all odds, Democrats maintain a majority after the 2022 election, bureaucracy probably won't save us. Since people are sick of placing their hope in the bureaucracy, the media is running out of talking points to escalate to.

Currently, Republican politicians like Cawthorn and Gaetz are advocating that their followers utilize the 2nd Amendment to fight the supposedly-tyrannical government that they are currently part of. Rightists have been utilizing rhetoric like this non-stop for decades. So it really isn't that crazy to think that left-leaning mainstream news outlets and politicians might soon start saying the same things.

"Republican Congressman Madison Cawthorn Casually Suggests Armed Citizens Should Overthrow the Government.

The GOP lawmaker insisted assault weapons should be legal so people can stop “tyrannical government[s],” like the one he’s employed by.

The modern Republican Party talks a big game about being the party of “law and order,” yet strangely it’s they—and not Democrats—who’ve been involved in all the coups and insurrections of late. [...] Meanwhile, on Wednesday, Republican representative Madison Cawthorn suggested that assault rifles must stay legal so that civilians can overthrow the U.S. government, i.e. his current employer.

Appearing on Newsmax to discuss AR-15s and military weapons, the North Carolina lawmaker told host Chris Salcedo that “The Second Amendment is not written for sporting. The Second Amendment is so that if a tyrannical government ever wants to rise up, we can stop them.” Then he made a…rather strange historical reference! “If anybody ever wants to say, ‘Oh, well you know what? Citizens with a few small firearms would never be able to stop the federal government,’ I absolutely disagree, he said. “Ask the Viet Cong how they handled the Marines and the Army in Vietnam.”"

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/madison-cawthorn-viet-cong

Cawthorn is correct regarding the importance of the 2nd Amendment. But non-treasonous Americans aren't going to be able to stop Cawthorn and the Republicans once they overthrow the US government, because left-wing Americans barely own any guns compared to far-rightists or the leftist Viet Cong. Left-wing and "non-white" Americans won't even be able to defend themselves when the far-right militias come hunting for them.

If you think that's insane, that's literally what the QAnon cult had been prophesizing and waiting for--Trump's call to action to begin the purge of all left-wing Americans in "The Storm". In 2005, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, far-right militias literally went "hunting" for "blacks". Over a year ago Ahmaud Arbery was lynched in broad daylight. ...And let's not even get started on what the KKK and other groups did during the Civil Rights era and Jim Crow era. Far-right psychopaths are heavily-armed and lying in wait all across the country, training, and ready to rise up when the time comes.

If I haven't convinced you of the intentions of rightists, last month Representative Matt Gaetz told rightists they have an "obligation" to use the 2nd Amendment against tech companies who don't want far-rightists on their platforms. They aren't even trying to talk with dog-whistles or euphemisms anymore. They simply state their criminal intentions directly and plainly. Republican politicians are openly telling their followers to murder people who disagree with them.

"Cawthorn’s comments follow remarks from Rep. Matt Gaetz wherein the Florida lawmaker lashed out at tech companies for harboring alleged conservative biases, telling supporters: “The internet’s hall monitors out in Silicon Valley, they think they can suppress us, discourage us. Maybe if you’re just a little less patriotic, maybe if you just conform to their way of thinking a little more, then you’ll be allowed to participate in the digital world. Well, you know what? Silicon Valley can’t cancel this movement, or this rally, or this congressman. We have a Second Amendment in this country, and I think we have an obligation to use it.”"

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/madison-cawthorn-viet-cong

The Republican party is openly encouraging terrorism and feels no remorse for their coup attempt. General Flynn and other members of the Trump administration keep advocating for another coup. This is going to keep getting worse in the following years. They will keep getting bolder and bolder, because they have faced zero consequences and the Democratic party doesn't even seem like they want to stop them.

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The media has always been too little too late when it came to their analysis of the Republican coup attempt and all other political developments. What I predict will happen next is that (Republican-instigated) far-right terrorist attacks will continue to kill us, and once enough of us have been "sacrificed", the media will pose the disingenuous rhetorical question that maybe left-wing Americans should consider owning guns to defend ourselves. Once the violence against us becomes too regular to ignore, the left-leaning media will then start to encourage gun ownership. However, by then it will be too late. Rightists will have such an extreme advantage in terms of training, organization, and rates of gun ownership that the odds will continue to be stacked dramatically in their favor. This is not even considering the fact that countless police forces throughout the nation are filled with far-rightists who have defended far-right militias while left-wing protestors are routinely mutilated by police firing "non-lethal" weapons directly into their faces. Nor is this considering that, by the time things get this chaotic, Republicans will likely be in the position to carry out another coup.

Once that happens, the tyranny that will be unleashed might even make us nostalgic for the do-nothing Democrats. Once that happens, left-wing Americans won't even be able to get a gun and we will probably be shipped off to concentration camps. Once that happens, and QAnon cultists are able to carry out their purge of all liberal-leaning news reporters, there won't even be a mainstream media left to belatedly tell us what we already knew.

If you remember back to the Bush and Obama presidencies, conspiracy theorists complained non-stop that the government would send all non-compliant people to "FEMA concentration camps". Obviously that was never going to happen. But, today, we literally have QAnon followers in Congress and countless more politicians and other government officials who have been so brainwashed by "alternative facts" that they would likely have no problem implementing such things against their perceived enemies. They are literally living in a different reality than us and think we are just NPCs and not real humans. The Trump administration already put immigrant children in concentration camps. Why would Republicans stop there? (All of this, of course, assumes they won't just launch a full-on civil war with Bosnia-style mass killings.)

If you don't think things will actually get "that bad"...you were alive during the bloody coup attempt a few months ago, yeah? I never thought we'd be living in this reality either, but here we are. Right-wing politicians and militias are telling us the future is only going to continue to get much worse, and Democratic party politicians are perfectly fine with allowing that. Welcome to the New Normal. We criticized Trump for his "magical thinking" that simply wishing bad things would go away would actually make it into a reality, yet the False Left is doing the exact same thing when they believe things will just get better spontaneously, rather than continuing to get much worse.

Every non-treasonous American has a duty to arm themselves, train, and organize with community members so we can protect ourselves from whatever tyranny and terror will be inflicted on us in the near future. For a glimpse at how chaotic things can get in "developed" nations within recent memory, go look up what happened during The Troubles in Ireland or the Yugoslav Civil War. Or you can go look up what happened in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015, or in Michigan in 2020 for what's already happening in the US...

The world doesn't have to be like this. But we need to take our present reality seriously if we are going to have any hope of changing the future. The world would have been better off if guns were never invented, but anti-2nd Amendment Democrat politicians are leading sheep to the slaughter. Every left-wing American, every "non-white" American, and every non-treasonous American needs to get armed with whatever means are legally available to you. Being armed is not enough--you also need to train. Training is not enough, you also need to organize with your community so you can defend one another when the time comes.

I sincerely hope that the Democratic party begins following the law, but we are not safe until they do. We are not safe when Republican politicians and far-right militias constantly warn us that even more violence is coming. We can ignore their warnings at our own peril.

...And when this nightmare is over, we will still have to approach the difficult question of reframing our government on a new system that isn't fundamentally prone to tyranny of the majority. Democracy gave us slavery, Jim Crow, and Trumpism. Voters who were upset about the end of slavery gave us Jim Crow. Voters who were upset about the end of Jim Crow gave us Trumpism. As long as people like that can vote, this shit isn't ever going to go away.

This is why we need to lock up the Red Coup supporters - Flynn calls for coup again

Retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn is back at it saying we should have a Myanmar-style military coup.

On May 30th, Flynn was one of the key speakers at a QAnon conference.

"QAnon’s biggest celebrities threw a three-day conference in Dallas over the weekend—and it didn’t disappoint.

Whether you wanted to hear a former U.S. Army general calling for a military coup or Roger Stone’s social media adviser calling for Hillary Clinton’s execution, there was something for everyone.

[...]

A sitting Congressman appeared on stage and literally embraced QAnon influencers. Dozens of members of a shadowy militia provided protection—some with their own pugs in tow. And then there was Kraken-lawyer Sidney Powell trying to sing the national anthem.

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The “For God & Country: Patriot Roundup” event took place over Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in downtown Dallas with thousands of QAnon supporters each paying at least $500 for a ticket to the event.

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The organizer of the event, John Sabal (known online as QAnon John), claimed prior to the event that it wasn’t a QAnon conference, despite multiple high-profile QAnon figures speaking there.

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The event was a coming-out party for many well-known figures in the QAnon world, but it also highlighted just how far the conspiracy movement is bleeding into mainstream Republican politics, with one sitting Congressman, Rep. Louie Gohmert, speaking on stage, along with the chairman of the Texas GOP, Allen West.

The event continues on Monday morning with more speakers addressing the crowd, but here are the wildest moments so far from the Dallas event:

Former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn called for a coup

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For his part, Flynn has attempted to distance himself from QAnon, but that’s hard when you post a video of yourself and your whole family reciting the QAnon oath or, you know, headlining a QAnon conference.

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While speaking on stage, Flynn was asked by an audience member who said he’d been in the military: “I want to know why what happened in Myanmar can’t happen here?”

After cheers from the crowd died down, Flynn responded: “No reason. I mean, it should happen here.”"

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7bebg/qanon-conference-wildest-moments-from-patriot-roundup-dallas

Here's the video of him saying it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76kuhlTQOIg

To see his advocacy for a military coup back in December, see here:

https://authenticamericandream.blogspot.com/2020/11/mainstream-media-finally-calling-out-trump-coup-attempt.html#FlynnMartialLaw

To read about how Trump actually considered the feasibility of his plan, see here:

https://authenticamericandream.blogspot.com/2020/12/trump-considered-military-coup.html

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Unfortunately, just as before, most people aren't taking his comments seriously enough. Last time, the comments of Flynn and others resulted in an actual coup attempt where people died and the Vice President and members of Congress came within literal minutes of being murdered. Why aren't we taking this more seriously now that we know words have consequences and that the Republican party is genuinely fine with bloody coups if it allows them to keep power?

"Retired four-star Gen. Barry McCaffrey on Monday slammed retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn for calling for a Myanmar-like coup in America during a QAnon conference last weekend.

“This is harmful. This is putting the country at risk,” McCaffrey said on MSNBC. “I have never heard anything like this, probably in the last hundred years. This kind of, just completely irresponsible, provocative language.”

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McCaffrey predicted the Department of Justice was going to be “hard-pressed not to consider whether this language is criminal in nature.”

[...]

Last year, Flynn retweeted a call for Trump to keep the White House by force, and reportedly urged Trump to use the Insurrection Act to declare martial law to stay in power.

[...]

Flynn resigned after just 22 days as Trump’s national security adviser following reports that he had lied about his contact with a Russian official. He pleaded guilty in 2017 to lying to the FBI about his secret dealings with Russian ambassador to the U.S. and suspected spy Sergey Kislyak during the presidential transition, then battled to withdraw his plea.

Trump pardoned Flynn in November after he lost the election. Flynn maintains his military title and collects a full pension."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/barry-mccaffrey-michael-flynn-coup_n_60b58e6fe4b0ead2796c1d5c

(Was McCaffrey even alive in 2020, when Flynn previously advocated for a military coup and the Pentagon leadership and all former living Secretaries of Defense had to make public declarations reassuring the public that they wouldn't support a military coup??? We were within minutes of Trump being able to carry out his plan to declare martial law).

Meanwhile, the Lieutenant Colonel punished by Trump because his brother spoke out against corruption is stating the plain facts:

"A colonel fired by Trump offered to prosecute Michael Flynn by court-martial for calling for a military coup in the US

[...]

Army Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman offered to court-martial Michael Flynn, Donald Trump's former national security advisor, after Flynn appeared to call for a military coup in the United States.

"With these seditious remarks Comrade Flynn may have crossed the line for recall to active duty and court-martial," Vindman said on Twitter on Monday.

Vindman, who's part of the Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, the legal arm of the Army that comprises serving officers, added, "As a JAG I'm qualified and also happy to prosecute this case."

Vindman is the twin brother of Alexander Vindman, the retired Army lieutenant colonel who came to prominence in 2019 after testifying before Congress about Trump's dealings with Ukraine. The Trump White House fired Yevgeny Vindman in February 2020."

https://www.businessinsider.com/vindman-trump-prosecute-michael-flynn-for-calling-for-military-coup-2021-6

"A DC Metropolitan Police officer who was brutally assaulted while defending the US Capitol during the January 6 insurrection said Wednesday evening that Michael Flynn's recent comments about a Myanmar-style coup in the US could "absolutely" lead to more violence.

Michael Fanone, who was stun-gunned several times and beaten with a flagpole during the attack, told CNN's Don Lemon on "Don Lemon Tonight" that Flynn's remarks amount to "the exact type of rhetoric which ultimately resulted in the attempted insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6."

[...]

"It's insane to hear that type of rhetoric being used not 6 months out from the insurrection at the Capitol," Fanone said Wednesday.

The officer has been vocal in recent months about the danger of downplaying the Capitol riot and the false claims that fueled it. Fanone told CNN last month that he was "shaking for the better part of the day" after watching House Republicans repeat a number of false claims about the riot during a congressional hearing.

"I was on the phone with dozens of other officers who were just absolutely traumatized by the rhetoric that was being used. And I understand politics. You know, I get that, you know, there's a push to try to, you know, win back the House in the midterm elections. I understand all of those things," he said.

"But some things supersede politics. You know, this isn't about the political future of one party. This is about right and wrong."

Asked Wednesday evening about Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell's efforts to rally GOP senators in opposition to a bill that would've created an independent bipartisan January 6 commission investigating the circumstances of the attack, Fanone said he was "absolutely sickened."

"Here I am escorting the mother of a dead policeman while she and myself advocate for the formation of a commission to investigate the circumstances which resulted in her son's death -- and you have a leader on Capitol Hill who's making phone calls asking for personal favors and doling out political capital to push for a no vote on that commission," Fanone said.

"It was absolutely disgraceful.""

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/02/politics/dc-police-capitol-insurrection-michael-flynn-cnntv/index.html

Finally, more people willing to state the plain facts:

"Michael Flynn should be sitting in prison awaiting trial for sedition: former White House attorney

Richard Painter says Flynn's recent comments about a military takeover should land him in prison for sedition

[...]

Appearing on CNN on Tuesday afternoon with host Ana Cabrera, former White House ethics attorney Richard Painter expressed his disgust with former Donald Trump official Michael Flynn for his continuing comments about the 2020 election, saying his weekend comments about a military takeover should land him in court and in prison for sedition.

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"Ana, this is a call for a coup and this is not the first time that Michael Flynn has done this," Painter began. "Back in November, after the election, he met with Donald Trump in the White House and they talked about having a military takeover with the United States military, entering Pennsylvania and other states to redo the election -- that was sedition."

"I wrote at the time that that was sedition and should have been criminally charged as sedition by Michael Flynn, and also, perhaps, Donald Trump as an accomplice," he continued. "Michael Flynn has repeatedly called for a military takeover of this sort and this is sedition and it can be prosecuted as sedition; a pattern of conduct, particularly the overt acts in the White House back in November, not just one statement here"

"Second, General Flynn, retired from active duty, is subject to the Uniform Military Code of Justice and he should be court-martialed," he added. "If a former general said this, they would have him in Leavenworth, Kansas right now, ready to face court-martial. This cannot be accepted.""

https://www.salon.com/2021/06/01/michael-flynn-should-be-sitting-in-prison-awaiting-trial-for-sedition-ex-white-house-attorney_partner/

If you're able to read, here's a law Flynn violated. This isn't even a military law that would require him to be brought back into active duty to face punishment, like the article above advocates. It's a regular old law that every person here is subject to. (Well, maybe Republicans and other elites aren't subject to it.) Flynn violated this law long after Trump pardoned him for his previous crimes, so there is absolutely nothing stopping him from being arrested and tried immediately. Every day the Biden administration and Attorney General Garland wait to arrest him is a day that they are aiding and abetting the next Republican coup attempt by giving them all this time to organize and openly declare their intent.

"18 U.S. Code § 2385 - Advocating overthrow of Government

Whoever knowingly or willfully advocates, abets, advises, or teaches the duty, necessity, desirability, or propriety of overthrowing or destroying the government of the United States or the government of any State, Territory, District or Possession thereof, or the government of any political subdivision therein, by force or violence, or by the assassination of any officer of any such government;

[...]

Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both, and shall be ineligible for employment by the United States or any department or agency thereof, for the five years next following his conviction."

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2385

Meanwhile, what does Biden do? He gave some pathetic speech on how democracy is in peril. As fundamentally flawed as democracy is, the current peril is because he and his administration are doing nothing to punish those politicians and other individuals within our own government who just attempted a coup. Coup or no coup, it is impossible to have a functional government if that government is unable--or worse--unwilling to enforce its own laws against severe crimes.

"Democracy itself is in peril, here at home and around the world. What we do now -- what we do now, how we honor the memory of the fallen will determine whether or not democracy will long endure," Biden said.

[...]

He spoke of the rising wave of autocratic rule across the world and argued, as he often does, that "liberation, opportunity, justice are far more likely to come to pass in an democracy than an autocracy."

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/31/politics/biden-memorial-day/index.html

(Wtf is wrong with you Biden, democracy just gave us Trump, the Republican party is democratically disenfranchising millions of voters, and you just gave the democratic state of Israel nearly a billion extra dollars in funding to continue its system of apartheid which it democratically keeps voting for. And in case you've forgotten, democracy gave us slavery, Jim Crow, ethnic cleansing of Native Americans, and all kinds of other stuff too. Democracy is a system devoid of empathy which panders to the lowest common denominator and the most selfish of voters and political grifters.)

To drive home the absurdity in the lack of law enforcement regarding all the coup organizers and supporters--George Floyd, a random person, was summarily executed while being arrested for allegedly using a counterfeit $20 bill. Flynn, a retired General, former National Security Advisor for the President, and member of Trump's inner circle, has called for a military coup multiple times and faced no consequences. Democratic party leaders at least acknowledged Floyd when they strangely thanked him for "sacrificing his life", but Democratic party leaders act like Flynn doesn't exist. Flynn's crimes pose an existential threat to our nation and the evidence is public record, while Floyd's alleged crime wasn't even proven at the time of his arrest and murder at the hands of police.

When our system of government and law enforcement have double standards this extreme, we have to face the unfortunate fact that we may not even have a functional government anymore. All thanks to democracy, if we want to be even clearer about it.

***

Most critically, it is not just Flynn who thinks this way. 147 Republicans voted to overthrow the election to illegally keep Trump in power. And as I keep warning, the Republican party shows no remorse for the insurrection and has fully embraced coups as part of their strategy to hold on to power at all costs.

Flynn was in the military long enough to work his way up to General. He knows very well the gravity of his words and the fact that a military coup is nothing to talk lightly about. He is just as serious about these statements today as he was in 2020.

Back in December 2020, Flynn advocated that Trump declare martial law in order to hold "new elections" to keep him in power (i.e. launch a military coup). Even worse, Michael Flynn's brother, Charles Flynn, is an active duty General and was one of the people who made the decision to delay the National Guard during Trump's coup attempt!

Michael Flynn faced no punishment for advocating the highest crime possible against the state--and so he is back at it. Charles Flynn and countless other individuals in the military and law enforcement chain of command who were either complicit in the coup or who were otherwise totally negligent in their duties are still in the same jobs, ready to be deployed again.

As I keep warning, the far-right danger in the US is not going to go away quietly. This is why all left-wing Americans and all non-traitorous Americans need to (legally) arm ourselves, train, and organize within our communities so we can be prepared when the next far-right disaster takes place. The clock is counting down.

How many more Flynns are out there? On May 10th, 124 retired Generals, Admirals, and other military officers signed a statement repeating the far-right narrative about election fraud and Biden's mental stability. (Holy shit, and they were fine with the stable genius of Trump?) Active duty and former military members made up a disproportionate amount of people participating in the insurrection. A few weeks ago, Major Christopher Warnagiris was the first active duty military member to be charged for his role in the insurrection. Retired Lieutenant Colonel Larry Brock was one of insurrectionists who had zip tie handcuffs to take politicians hostage.

A group of over 130 Republican politicians in the US House and Senate (a majority of their party!) consistently voted to invalidate electoral votes, voted to overthrow the results of the election, voted against impeachment and voted to declare that impeaching Trump was Unconstitutional, voted to defend Marjorie Taylor Greene for her comments supporting overthrowing the government and murdering political opponents, and, most recently, to cover up the January 6th insurrection by killing the commission to investigate it.

Even mainstream propagandists entertainment news hosts like Tucker Carlson are continuously advocating that Republican supporters need to throw "a real insurrection"... Far-right militias keep telling us we are on the brink of a "hot" civil war. The Republican party has purged its leadership of anyone critical of Trump and Trump himself for some reason believes he will be "reinstated" as President in August. We can ignore all these warnings at our own peril.

Despite this grave danger, Biden and the Democrat party have refused to punish those individuals within our government who organized, aided, and abetted the Red Coup. We are not safe when one of our major political parties are literal terrorists who tried to overthrow the government (and are declaring they will try again in the future), and when the other political party is doing nothing at all to punish them for committing the highest crimes possible against the state. The Democratic party is paving the way for the next Republican coup, and their coverup of the coup (by shielding Republican coup participants from legal punishment) makes them complicit in the whole matter.

***

One of the key concepts of the federalist system of government we have in place is that power devolves back to the people when other levels of government become tyrannical or abdicate their duties. For the time being, we must ensure our communities will be safe and can weather the storm of the next far-right assault on America, and do what we can to restore a functional government before the Republican party (with assistance from Democratic party acquiescence) overthrows it.

You know what, I'm starting to wonder if decades of False Left anti-gun advocacy was done intentionally in order to set up the conditions where the far-right could overthrow the government without resistance...