Self-defense Bak
main notes brike? 1 26
no lnx
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1 26 BROKE BY NOTES PIX
--> BAK
2 23 prolly belated
exhortation to violence is always defense, righteous; we do not fight but we will finish it
// demonization
apocalypse is end days battle between good and evil
violence 4 civil war 2 // big lie militia tyrant
neo-nazi pledge 18 words? defend white women and babies from black rapists?
see racism GRT caravan xeno --> mass shooter
maga jan 6 take back our country, defeat evil villains who stole it; they are irrational power-mad who will stop at nothing but our force
see retaliation, real victim
see self-reliance rugged indiv macho male
DEFEND KIDS, FAMILY // QANON PEDO
SEE WATTERS FOX HYPE VIOLENT RHET ELIM BUT SELF DEFENSE // RETALIATION
see rubber glue
// sure we use dirty tricks but they did it 1st so we had to defend ourselves/ make level playing field [plus they are so evil any ends justify the means)
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aurora co trump rally mug shot poster of illegal murderers
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Fruitless thoughts and prayers. Familiar calls for de-escalating toxic partisanship. Promises to do something about the teen mental health crisis, violent video games, the epidemic of alienation and hopelessness. By now we are all accustomed to the ritual reactions to routine incidents of horrific gun violence that plague our country like no other wealthy nation on Earth, where firearms are the leading cause of death (https://www.kff.org/mental-health/child-and-teen-firearm-mortality-in-the-u-s-and-peer-countries/) for children.
But if the usual, feckless responses to gun violence are maddening in a country that can’t get its act together (https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/the-long-failed-history-of-gun-control-legislation/) to pass even marginal, commonsense gun safety measures, the reaction of Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden to the hideous assassination of rightwing provocateur Charlie Kirk this week was downright reprehensible.
As soon as the news broke that Kirk was shot (https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/09/10/repub/charlie-kirk-shot-during-event-at-utah-valley-university/) while on stage at Utah Valley University, Van Orden began a stream of increasingly unhinged social media posts (https://x.com/derrickvanorden/status/1965876647229530540) blaming Democrats and the media for the murder and declaring “the gloves are off.”
“The leftwing political violence must stop now,” Van Orden tweeted. In another post (https://x.com/derrickvanorden/status/1965953007977464109) he wrote, “The left and their policies are leading America into a civil war. And they want it. Just like the democrat party wanted our 1st civil war.”
Contrast that with the statements (https://wisconsinexaminer.com/briefs/wi-lawmakers-condemn-violence-continue-security-discussions-after-charlie-kirk-assassination/) from other Wisconsin politicians.
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Wisconsin U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin said, “there is no two ways about this: political violence has no place in America. I am keeping Charlie and his family in my thoughts in this truly horrifying moment.”
Van Orden’s fellow Wisconsin Republican, U.S. Rep. Tony Wied said, “There is absolutely zero place for political violence in our country.”
“Violence against anyone because of their political beliefs is wrong. Violence against others is wrong,” Gov. Tony Evers said. “Violence is never the answer for resolving our differences or disagreements. Wisconsin joins in praying for Charlie Kirk and the Utah Valley community and first responders.”
None of those statements mollified Van Orden, who told reporters in the U.S. Capitol that “every one of you” is responsible for Kirk’s death.
Reposting a news clip of Democratic Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, who called for the nation to de-escalate political violence and come together, Van Orden wrote (https://x.com/derrickvanorden/status/1966212027971518591), “Too late. You have sown the wind.”
“I am not sure they understand what they have done,” Van Orden ranted (https://x.com/derrickvanorden/status/1965965568315437374). “They missed in Butler, but it is on now.”
Never mind that in Butler, Pennsylvania, the would-be assassin who targeted President Donald Trump (https://www.alternet.org/2020/11/trump) was a registered Republican (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3gw58wv4e9o). Or that, as Van Orden spewed accusations against Democrats and journalists, the identity of the shooter who targeted Charlie Kirk was still unknown. When a reporter pointed that out to Van Orden, he replied (https://x.com/rachel_schilke/status/1966146690731143324?s=61), “You know what? Knock it off.”
Actually, it’s Van Orden who needs to knock it off.
Seizing on political violence to try to stoke more political violence is as dangerous as it is disgusting.
Far from recognizing the human tragedy for all of us as our country descends into this nightmare, Van Orden capitalizes on murder, whether the victims are liberals or conservatives, imposing the same crude narrative about a war with violent leftists every time.
After the horrible double murder of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark, Van Orden falsely characterized (https://x.com/derrickvanorden/status/1934244906194624824) the suspected shooter, a right-wing religious fanatic (https://minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/15/vance-boelter-accused-of-assassination-of-dfl-house-leader-melissa-hortman-apprehended/) whose list of intended targets included Democrats and abortion providers, as an anti-Trump protester who “decided to murder and attempt to murder some politicians that were not far Left enough for them.”
He seems to revel in the prospect of more violence. Unfortunately, his tone is matched by Trump, who issued his own threatening statement, politicizing the attack and claiming that it is part of a pattern of leftwing attacks on conservatives. “For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now,” Trump said. “My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity, and to other political violence.”
Of course, it is Trump who has a long history of inviting political violence (https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-violent-rhetoric-timeline/680403/) against Democrats and members of the press. Van Orden is copying him by escalating that rhetoric in Wisconsin.
Online, Van Orden’s belligerent posts got mixed reviews. Some people demanded that he explain what he means when he says “the gloves are off,” condemning him for encouraging hooliganism. “So you plan on using this to start Civil War II?” one person posted. “You don’t think things through before you say them.
You people fantasize about killing your fellow Americans like it’s a full-time job.”
Others celebrated his statements. “No other way to fix it at this point,” one of Van Orden’s followers replied to his post. “We need a 2-3 day national purge. We do business with whatever is left of the left.” Appended to the comment was a GIF celebrating Kyle Rittenhouse for shooting Black Lives Matter protesters in Kenosha.
It’s unlikely that Van Orden, who has been unwilling to face his own constituents (https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/06/02/pocan-holds-town-hall-in-van-ordens-district-calls-gop-budget-the-worst-hes-ever-seen/)at an in-person town hall will actually lead the violent attacks against his fellow Americans he fantasizes about online. But feeding that violent fantasy is clearly inspiring for some people. And that’s exactly why it’s got to stop.
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Nov 8, 2023What a study of 18 anti-government extremists arrested in connection with Jan. 6 tells us about QAnon and militia fusion.
From flags etched (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/checked-by-reality-some-qanon-supporters-seek-a-way-out) with burning Qs to “Where we go one, we go all” T-shirts (https://abcnews.go.com/US/qanon-emerges-recurring-theme-criminal-cases-tied-us/story?id=75347445) and the infamous “QAnon Shaman (https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/17/politics/jacob-chansley-qanon-shaman-january-6-sentencing/index.html),” the presence of QAnon at the Jan. 6 Capitol attack was palpable. Also prominent (https://www.start.umd.edu/sites/default/files/publications/local_attachments/Capitol%20networks%2024x18.pdf), albeit somewhat less visibly, were various insignia signifying membership (https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2021/far-right-symbols-capitol-riot/) in far-right extremist groups like the Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, and Three Percenters.
The affiliations are distinct and without obvious overlap. QAnon adherents and these anti-government extremist groups seem entirely separate. They emerged as independent entities. People who dissected the early “Q drops” on 4chan and 8kun or who reposted QAnon conspiracy theories were not necessarily anti-government extremists, and their activities were primarily online. Oath Keepers, Proud Boys, and Three Percenters, by contrast, were defined by anti-government extremist beliefs and tended to mobilize offline in structured groups. But Jan. 6 brought many of them together. Which raises the question: Did QAnon adherents and far-right extremists turn up at the Capitol through independent motives, or did they share something in common?
The evolution and convergence of the groups’ ideologies has been a significant topic of discussion among researchers. But fewer of them have considered the question in the context of Jan. 6.
With that in mind, I conducted a study (https://extremism.gwu.edu/into-the-abyss-QAnon-in-US) of 18 individuals arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 attack. All individuals have alleged links to both QAnon and one of three far-right extremist groups: the Oath Keepers (nine of the 18), the Proud Boys (four of the 18), or the Three Percenters (five of the 18). My review of court documents, social media posts, and reporting about their cases—as well as scholarship on extremism—revealed three shared ideological pillars: a belief in government corruption, apocalypticism (https://doi.org/10.3138/cras.38.1.119), and a responsibility to defend (http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07393140220145225).
QAnon
First emerging on 4chan (https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-qanon-conspiracy-theory-a-security-threat-in-the-making/) in 2017, QAnon is an umbrella of loosely connected conspiracy theories that revolve around the central idea “that a cabal (https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-qanon-conspiracy-theory-a-security-threat-in-the-making/) of powerful elites controls the world, using their power to covertly abuse children.” QAnon spread mainly across social media (https://www.csis.org/blogs/strategic-technologies-blog/no-one-immune-spread-q-anon-through-social-media-and-pandemic), creating communities of the conspiracy’s followers on mainstream platforms. The wide range of conspiracy theories it includes gives QAnon a broad appeal (https://www.nytimes.com/article/what-is-qanon.html), leading to a diverse demographic of followers: women (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8022489/), non-Republicans (https://morningsidepost.com/articles/2021/3/8/who-are-qanon-supporters-5-revealing-findings-from-survey-data), and individuals who are well educated (https://morningsidepost.com/articles/2021/3/8/who-are-qanon-supporters-5-revealing-findings-from-survey-data) and financially secure.
QAnon has become well known (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/08969205211069614) for its conspiracy theories surrounding the coronavirus pandemic and the 2020 presidential election. For instance, QAnon formed the backbone of viral conspiracy theories (https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-53997203) doubting the origin or existence of the pandemic, which helped inspire a wave of protests (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9637904/) across the U.S. against lockdown procedures and other government mandates. Before, during, and after the 2020 election, online QAnon communities latched onto conspiracy theories of a “deep state (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676746/the-storm-is-upon-us-by-mike-rothschild/)” interfering in the 2020 election to steal Donald Trump’s election win, including the beliefs (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676746/the-storm-is-upon-us-by-mike-rothschild/) that “middle-of-the-night dumps of fake mail-in ballots [swung] red states to blue” and “Republican votes had been changed or thrown out thanks to foreign plots, complex CIA vote-harvesting programs, and the machinations of a truly evil election administrator—the voting-machine company Dominion.”
Oath Keepers, Three Percenters, Proud Boys, and the Militia Movement
:{:{The 18 arrestees I studied all have alleged ties to anti-government groups, including the Oath Keepers, the Three Percenters, or the Proud Boys. Although there is some variation in whether the groups are properly described as militias—for instance, the Proud Boys are sometimes described as “street fighters (https://abcnews.go.com/US/proud-boys-oath-keepers-controversial-groups-involved-major/story?id=56687836)” rather than a militia—researchers have often (https://acleddata.com/2020/10/21/standing-by-militias-election/) considered them (https://www.csis.org/blogs/examining-extremism/examining-extremism-militia-movement) in the broader context (https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/sites/www.middlebury.edu.institute/files/2022-07/Understanding%20the%20Militia%20Movement%27s%20Role%20in%20J6.pdf?fv=KmF2uzRZ) of what’s known as the “militia movement (https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/militia-movement-2020).” Founded in Lexington, Massachusetts, in 2009 by Elmer Stewart Rhodes III, the Oath Keepers (https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/oath-keepers) aim to recruit former military and law enforcement personnel, and they operate in local and state chapters scattered across the country. The Oath Keepers seek to uphold their interpretation (https://www.csis.org/blogs/examining-extremism/examining-extremism-oath-keepers) of the Constitution against perceived federal tyranny. }:
The Three Percenters (https://newlinesinstitute.org/nonstate-actors/extremism/the-three-percenters-a-look-inside-an-anti-government-militia/) are a decentralized movement founded in 2008 with multiple organizations that adhere to its ideology. Their name originates from the false historical belief that only 3 percent of American colonists fought against the British, leading to their claim that only 3 percent of Americans are needed to overthrow today’s tyrannical federal government. Finally, the Proud Boys (https://ctc.westpoint.edu/pride-prejudice-the-violent-evolution-of-the-proud-boys/) were founded in New York City in 2016 and functioned as a street-fighting group violently opposing those they viewed as threatening the values of “Western culture,” such as Antifa, Black Lives Matter, feminists, immigrants, Muslims, and others. The Proud Boys have collaborated in the past and continue to collaborate with radical anti-government extremist groups, white nationalists, and neo-Nazis in events that frequently result in violence.}:
The Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters have occupied prominent places in the militia movement since their creation because of their ideologies (https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/assets/pdf/combating-hate/The-Oath-Keepers-ADL-Report.pdf) centered around militia conspiracy theories like the New World Orde (https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/three-percenters)r. The Proud Boys, sometimes referred to as an “alt-lite (https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/proud-boys-0)” street fighting group, have recently taken a clearer place (https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/sites/www.middlebury.edu.institute/files/2022-07/Understanding%20the%20Militia%20Movement%27s%20Role%20in%20J6.pdf?fv=KmF2uzRZ) alongside the Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters in the militia movement. In the months leading up to the Capitol attack, the Proud Boys became increasingly connected (https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/proud-boys) with numerous militias, and their ideological similarities were on display when they collaborated (https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/oath-keepers-leader-coordinated-proud-boys-capitol-riot-prosecutors-say-n1261928) with the Oath Keepers on Jan. 6.
:{:{For that reason, it is helpful to consider all three groups in the broader context of the modern militia movement in the United States, which dates back to the 1990s (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/01/january-6-capitol-riot-arrests-research-profile.html). The movement, composed loosely of militias and anti-government extremist groups, formed in reaction (https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/militia-movement-2020) to federal gun control measures and deadly standoffs between civilians and federal agents.}:
Groups within the movement continue to be characterized (https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/ideology/militia-movement) by their emphasis on paramilitary activities and belief that the U.S. government is tyrannical, collaborating with the New World Order to oppress Americans under the rule of a one-world government. The militia movement gained momentum (https://www.csis.org/blogs/examining-extremism/examining-extremism-militia-movement) from its inception around 1992 (corresponding with the Ruby Ridge standoff) until the late 1990s. However, after Timothy McVeigh bombed the Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995—an act that had been reportedly inspired (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/01/january-6-capitol-riot-arrests-research-profile.html) by pro-militia literature and conspiracy theories—the movement’s activity declined significantly (https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/militia-movement-2020). Another wave of anti-government groups in the militia movement emerged after the election (https://www.csis.org/blogs/examining-extremism/examining-extremism-militia-movement) of President Barack Obama in 2008. Finally, the militia movement rose in a third wave (https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/01/january-6-capitol-riot-arrests-research-profile.html) after the election of President Trump.
With each of these resurgences, the dominant ideology of the militia movement has shifted (https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/militia-movement-2020). Most notably, the focus pivoted away from targeting the federal government after Trump—whose candidacy the militia movement had supported—won the election. Instead, focus moved toward “other perceived enemies (https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/militia-movement-2020), such as Antifa” and opposing “state-level gun control measures, state-level pandemic-related restrictions, and Black Lives Matter protests.”}:
The Militia Movement Meets QAnon
Recently, dominant ideologies within the militia movement have shifted yet again, this time finding a rallying point around QAnon conspiracy theories. As early as 2019, the Southern Poverty Law Center released a report claiming (https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019/04/23/qanon-conspiracy-increasingly-popular-antigovernment-extremists) that anti-government extremists “are increasingly subscribing to and propagating the QAnon conspiracy theory, which asserts that pro-Trump forces will soon take down the so-called deep state.” Throughout 2020, as members of extremist groups coalesced in what researchers have termed a “militia-sphere (https://www-jstor-org.proxy.library.georgetown.edu/stable/26954256),” their messaging latched on to QAnon conspiracy theories.
The confluence is perhaps not surprising, as both ideologies share three common ideological foundations. The first is a deep belief in government corruption. For the militia movement, the corruption is located in the American federal government, particularly among members of the Democratic Party (https://www.csis.org/blogs/examining-extremism/examining-extremism-militia-movement). Several conspiracy theories that took root decades ago serve to reinforce this belief. For example, the New World Order (https://www.middlebury.edu/institute/academics/centers-initiatives/ctec/ctec-publications/new-world-order-historical-origins-dangerous) conspiracy theory, which originated in the 1990s, claims that a cabal of global elites has infiltrated the U.S. government and is actively working to erode American sovereignty with the goal of eventually bringing all Americans under a global government through the United Nations. The militia movement claimed that government corruption was evident from Jewish banking conspiracy theories (https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203352069), alleged communist infiltration (https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203012581) into the federal government, and COVID-19 conspiracy theories (https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/canadian-journal-of-political-science-revue-canadienne-de-science-politique/article/do-covid19-conspiracy-theory-beliefs-form-a-monological-belief-system/C9730961E7C7C37AA5E204A3EDD84965/share/b9525828dc6db959f260a21d4bcd481ff5bf6fa8).
For QAnon adherents, the corruption is also located within the American federal government, where a purported cabal (https://ctc.westpoint.edu/the-qanon-conspiracy-theory-a-security-threat-in-the-making/) of elites practicing Satan-worshiping rituals and running a child sex-trafficking ring are secretly plotting against Donald Trump. When Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, QAnon adherents extended that theory, decrying an alleged leftist conspiracy to steal the election.
:{:{Suddenly, QAnon election fraud conspiracy theories’ claims (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676746/the-storm-is-upon-us-by-mike-rothschild/) aligned quite well with the militia movement’s preexisting ideological foundation of federal government corruption. Arrestees echoed QAnon concepts of the deep state and 2020 election fraud while combining them with militia ideas like communist infiltration of the federal government, with one arrestee claiming (https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.227549/gov.uscourts.dcd.227549.61.0.pdf) that the “country has been SOLD to CHINA,” since “China gave us a god damn virus, they stole our elections, [and] bought our politicians.” }:
Other arrestees interpreted QAnon 2020 election conspiracy theories as further evidence of preexisting government corruption founded in militia ideas of global government takeover, alleging that the election was stolen by (https://banned.video/watch?id=6042e0452b9ec530ff1459e2) a “criminal, corrupt government establishment that has been compromised by foreign nations that are under the control of global, elite technocrats.”}:
The second ideological pillar QAnon and the militia movement share is known as apocalypticism—the belief that the end of society as we know it is imminent. In the militia movement, this apocalyptic theme presents itself through predictions of a future conflict (https://newrepublic.com/article/155217/far-rights-apocalyptic-literary-canon) between members of the movement and the federal government (either a second revolutionary war or a second civil war). Militia members believe that they will triumph at the end of this conflict and have an opportunity to rebuild a utopian society (https://newrepublic.com/article/155217/far-rights-apocalyptic-literary-canon) from the ashes of the previous American civilization. In QAnon, apocalypticism is most evident in the prophecy of the “Storm (https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/qanon),” a day of reckoning in which the agents of the deep state will be revealed and arrested before being shipped off to Guantanamo Bay to face military tribunals and eventual execution.
My review of the 18 Jan. 6 arrestees’ social media posts and digital communications (https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5746/files/2023-03/into-the-abyss-final.pdf) identified apocalyptic rhetoric echoing—and even merging—both QAnon and militia movement ideologies. The arrestees imagined widespread violent conflict against the government in which “patriots” would purge the federal government of “treasonous” political leaders and reconstruct their ideal society, sparked by patriots’ intervention in the political processes of Jan. 6. All of this is consistent with the militia movement’s historical embrace of violent, revolutionary rhetoric, resting largely (https://doi.org/10.3138/cras.38.1.119) on the idea that the American people are headed toward an unavoidable “future conflict with the federal government.”
:{:{The third shared ideological pillar is the notion of a responsibility to defend}:. QAnon, in imagining nefarious actors in almost all aspects of public life, built a community of “people who are determined to think you’re in danger (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676746/the-storm-is-upon-us-by-mike-rothschild/), and that it’s their job to protect you, while the only real danger is their protection.” Although notably applied to children, as seen in QAnon adherents’ consistent “save the children (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/28/technology/save-the-children-qanon.html)” messaging, QAnon’s responsibility to defend also included Donald Trump and his presidency following the 2020 election.
QAnon conspiracy theories about the 2020 election imbued in Q’s followers that “Trump had no chance of losing (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676746/the-storm-is-upon-us-by-mike-rothschild/) as long as the election was conducted fairly and legally,” whereas a Biden victory “meant the election was stolen (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/676746/the-storm-is-upon-us-by-mike-rothschild/) and illegal.” By raising the stakes of Trump’s electoral loss to the destruction of fair government, QAnon election conspiracy theories created a responsibility to defend Trump’s presidency: A Trump loss, as one arrestee stated (https://conandaily.com/2021/08/23/rasha-abual-ragheb-biography-13-things-about-donald-trump-supporter-from-fairfield-new-jersey/), meant “we have zero democracy.” Likewise, many of the 18 arrestees alluded to the militia movement’s long-standing self-identification (https://doi.org/10.1080/07393140220145225) as saviors of the nation. They appeared to view themselves as “patriots” who had legitimate authority (https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs5746/files/2023-03/into-the-abyss-final.pdf) to use violence and intervene in political processes to defend the nation and Trump against the corrupt government and Antifa, who were trying to push through a “stolen” election.}:
Implications
:{:{These shared ideological foundations create common ground for otherwise unrelated groups, at least as they pertain to the 18 subjects of the study. The 2020 election and its aftermath revealed a bond between QAnon and the militia movement that is likely to persist (https://icsr.info/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ICSR-Report-Far-From-Gone-The-Evolution-of-Extremism-in-the-First-100-Days-of-the-Biden-Administration.pdf) because of the Biden administration’s perceived illegitimacy and threat to liberty. QAnon election fraud conspiracy theories may also draw in more extreme groups (https://icsr.info/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ICSR-Report-Far-From-Gone-The-Evolution-of-Extremism-in-the-First-100-Days-of-the-Biden-Administration.pdf) such as the “boogaloo bois," whose growing presence in the militia-sphere may represent the emergence (https://icsr.info/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ICSR-Report-Far-From-Gone-The-Evolution-of-Extremism-in-the-First-100-Days-of-the-Biden-Administration.pdf) of “a faction that is particularly receptive to opportunities to conduct violent actions under the umbrella philosophy of accelerationism.”}:
Researchers also fear that QAnon conspiracy theories may attract individuals from the mainstream to the militia-sphere, particularly when they are banned from social media for QAnon-related posts. Such individuals are then more likely to be exploited by (https://icsr.info/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/ICSR-Report-Far-From-Gone-The-Evolution-of-Extremism-in-the-First-100-Days-of-the-Biden-Administration.pdf) organizations in the militia movement and other far-right groups on alternative social media platforms.}:
The confluence of ideas presents opportunities for reciprocal radicalization (https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/26954256). There is also a risk of broader ideological convergence (https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/terrorist-threat-fractured-far-right), which “confuses counterterrorism defenses, eroding predictability and challenging law enforcement and intelligence categorizations,” making it harder for authorities to “adequately prepare countermeasures, let alone warn and defend potentially targeted communities and sites.”
Now, the 2024 presidential election is approaching, again conjuring images of Q flags waving alongside fatigues-clad extremists in stack formation. In the face of these far-right convergences, was Jan. 6 only a snapshot?
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On Jan. 6, the influence of QAnon on rioters was evident in the mountain of social media videos and photos depicting their raid on the Capitol complex.
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An abiding sense of loyalty to the fringe online conspiracy movement known as QAnon is emerging as a common thread among scores of the men and women from around the country arrested for their participation in the deadly U.S. Capitol insurrection, court records reveal.
The FBI first labeled QAnon and its fluid online community of supporters as a "dangerous extremist group" in August 2019, and over the past two weeks it has featured prominently in criminal indictments filed against many of those alleged to have participated in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, including a number accused of egregious crimes.
Among them is Douglas Jensen, the bearded man seen in a viral video wearing a distinctive "Q" T-shirt, menacing a lone black U.S. Capitol Police officer as he led rioters through the halls and pushed the mob deeper into the Capitol building. Jensen later told investigators that he "intentionally positioned himself" toward the front of the mob so his T-shirt would be visible to cameras and "Q" could "get the credit," according to an FBI affidavit.
A man later identified as Douglas Jensen confronts police as Trump supporters demonstrate on the second floor of the Capitol near the entrance to the Senate, Jan. 6, 2021.
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Cleveland Meredith Jr., who the government also believed to be a supporter of QAnon theories, allegedly posted online about his desire to execute House Speaker Nancy Pelosi by "putting a bullet in her noggin on Live TV," according to court records. He went to Washington, D.C., armed with multiple firearms and more than 2,500 rounds of ammunition in his possession, according to prosecutors. He was late to the rally because his car broke down.
At least three more individuals charged on Tuesday are believed to be supporters of the QAnon theory, according to new FBI records.
The high profile of QAnon adherents in the Capitol riots represents what experts describe as a stunning evolution from a harmless fringe forum for people peddling outlandish conspiracies to a gathering space for those intent on plotting domestic terror -- and the transformation could present a vexing new challenge for law enforcement.
"We don't have a good predictor of where it's going to go," said Mary McCord, a former federal prosecutor and expert in homegrown terror groups who called it "extremely troublesome" to see some elected officials fanning the flames of twisted QAnon theories.
MORE: How Trump obliterated norms and changed the presidency (https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trumps-legacy-obliterated-norms-chipped-institutions-end/story?id=75275806)
"You actually have elected members of Congress who, at best, are not condemning Q, and at worst are actually espousing some of the crazy conspiracy theories -- dangerous conspiracy theories," McCord said.
Two newly elected members of the House of Representatives pushed QAnon messages ahead of the 2020 election (https://abcnews.go.com/alerts/elections)s. And notably, President Donald Trump (https://abcnews.go.com/alerts/donald-trump) brushed aside questions about QAnon when pressed about it before the election in October, saying he knew "nothing" about it.
"I do know they are very much against pedophilia, they fight it very hard," Trump said while refusing to condemn the false theories at an Oct. 15 town hall (https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-trump-denounce-qanon-baseless-osama-bin-laden/story?id=73620659) event.
Just weeks earlier, at a White House press briefing in August, the president said QAnon followers "love the country" and added that he appreciated their support -- which in turn helped embolden belief in the movement.
"He said a whole lot by not saying a whole lot at all. For a lot of us supporters, we knew that he really couldn't come out and say, 'Oh yes, I support it," Gina Sink, 55, a QAnon supporter from Lexington, N.C., told ABC News at a Trump rally in September following the president's comments.
"Following the November 3, 2020 election, many QAnon adherents began pushing false and discredited theories of massive voter fraud and that the 2020 election had been 'stolen' from President Trump," the Department of Justice warned in a new affidavit on Tuesday.
MORE: President Trump does not denounce QAnon, baseless Osama bin Laden conspiracy theory at town hall (https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/president-trump-denounce-qanon-baseless-osama-bin-laden/story?id=73620659)
On Jan. 6, the influence of QAnon on rioters was evident in the mountain of social media videos and photos depicting their raid on the Capitol complex. Several rioters were seen wearing "Q" clothing, and chanting slogans tied to the movement. In a Jan. 13 bulletin prepared by the FBI for law enforcement partners, federal agents reported that "symbols associated with QAnon conspiracy theories" were widely displayed by rioters.
In charging documents, federal prosecutors have noted the apparent influence of QAnon among several participants accused of threatening violence during the siege.
Jacob Chansley, the horned helmet-wearing rioter (https://abcnews.go.com/US/qanon-shaman-remain-custody-doj-calls-insurrectionist-harshest/story?id=75275972) who was one of the most widely recognized from the incident, is also believed to be a supporter of QAnon theories.
Jacob Chansley yells inside the Senate Chamber, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C.
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"Chansley is an active participant in -- and has made himself the most prominent symbol of -- a violent insurrection that attempted to overthrow the United States Government on January 6, 2021," government prosecutors said, using some of its bluntest words yet to describe the riot.
The Jan. 6 attack proved deadly to at least two QAnon adherents. Rosanne Boyland, 34, who was reportedly crushed by the crowd at the Capitol complex, had recently started following QAnon conspiracy theories online, her sister later told the Associated Press. And Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by a U.S. Capitol Police officer inside the Capitol, was later characterized in an FBI bulletin as "an alleged QAnon-supporter."
Ashli Babbitt in a driver's license photo from the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration (MVA).
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QAnon, which first surfaced in 2017, rests on the baseless theory (https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/men-qanon/story?id=73046374) that Trump is fighting against a global network of billionaire pedophiles, devil-worshipping Democrats and baby-eating Hollywood stars and their "deep state" counterparts embedded in the U.S. federal government's sprawling bureaucracy. A growing group of followers consumed and contributed to the false narratives first on the freewheeling social media site known as 4chan, then on other social media sites, fueled by what they thought were cues from "Q," a secret intelligence official they believed was leaving clues about government corruption. It is not clear if "Q" even exists.
Many of the claims are dark and outlandish, and for years adherents to the theory were considered mostly fringe and not a significant threat. They had "keyboard bravado," as one FBI special agent said last week, and were confined to the darkest corners of the web.
But recently, numerous violent incidents have been linked to people who support QAnon theories, and recent polling suggests that the conspiracy theories are reaching wider audiences than previously thought. For example, more than one in three Americans believe a so-called "deep state" is working to undermine Trump -- another unfounded conspiracy commonly peddled by QAnon users -- according to an NPR/Ipsos poll conducted in December.
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For law enforcement officials seeking to prevent future violent attacks, the rise of QAnon is presenting fresh challenges. Authorities tasked with monitoring online extremism must now grapple with how to evaluate and combat emerging plots without infringing on constitutionally protected free speech.
"We have to separate the aspirational from the intentional and determine which of the individuals saying despicable things on the internet are just practicing keyboard bravado, or they actually have the intent to do harm," said FBI agent-in-charge Steven D'Antuono during a press briefing last week.
In the wake of the Capitol attack, the FBI prepared a document meant to assist law enforcement partners in identifying QAnon "indicators" online, defining phrases and hashtags used by its followers. But the document also notes that "the FBI does not initiate any investigative activity based solely on the exercise of First Amendment activities."
MORE: The men behind QAnon (https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/men-qanon/story?id=73046374)
In a separate bulletin distributed to law enforcement partners on Jan. 13, the FBI warned that conspiracy-minded followers of QAnon may feel emboldened after the perceived "success" of the Capitol assault.
"Some [domestic violent extremists] view the 6 January event as a success, in conjunction with the potential to exploit follow-on lawful gatherings and ideological drivers -- including conspiracy theories, such as QAnon -- likely will also inspire some [domestic violent extremists] and others to engage in more sporadic, lone actor or small cell violence," the bulletin warned.
Ahead of the inauguration, law enforcement officials are keeping a close watch on the threat posed by QAnon-aligned "lone wolves." The Washington Post reported Monday that the FBI privately warned its partner agencies that QAnon adherents have discussed returning to Washington for Joe Biden's swearing-in, posing as National Guard troops.
*ABC News' Alex Mallin contributed to this report.
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Jan. 6 Defendant Known as QAnon Shaman Sentenced to 41 Months (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/17/us/politics/qanon-shaman-jan-6-sentenced.html)
Nov 17, 2021A version of this article appears in print on , Section A, Page 19 of the New York edition with the headline: Jan. 6 Rioter Known as QAnon Shaman Gets 41 Months.
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Democracy Dies in Darkness
Conservative media is familiar with Buffalo suspect’s alleged ‘theory’
The scene Sunday morning after the deadly shooting Saturday in Buffalo. (Libby March for The Washington Post)
By Paul Farhi
Updated May 15, 2022 at 4:26 p.m. EDT|Published May 15, 2022
The suspect in Saturday’s killing of 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket allegedly wrote a document endorsing “great replacement theory,” a once-fringe racist idea that became a popular refrain among media figures such as Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham of Fox News and conservative writer Ann Coulter.
Before the shooting rampage that also left three wounded, the suspect, Payton S. Gendron, 18, allegedly posted a lengthy document invoking the idea that White Americans were at risk of being “replaced” by people of color because of immigration and higher birthrates.
Gendron, who is White, allegedly indicated that he chose a neighborhood with a large number of Black residents for his alleged attack. In the document that Gendron is suspected to have written, he indicated that he was radicalized online. There’s no indication that he watched Carlson’s program.
The theory was once confined to far-right White extremists, who cast immigration as part of a plot by “elites” to take political and economic power away from White people. It has gained broader circulation in recent years as a talking point among prominent conservative media figures.
On Sept. 22, Fox News host Tucker Carlson misrepresented past immigration remarks by President Biden to suggest the existence of the “great replacement theory.” (Video: Adriana Usero/The Washington Post)
Carlson, whose weeknight program is typically the most popular on Fox News, has been an especially avid promoter of the thesis. He has mentioned variations on the idea in more than 400 episodes since 2016, according to a New York Times analysis of his program. In April of last year, he said on Fox News that people from the “Third World” are immigrating to the United States “to replace the current electorate” and “dilute the political power of the people who live there” — language that essentially distills the replacement thesis.
He was more explicit in a video posted on Fox News’s YouTube account in September. Carlson said President Biden was encouraging immigration “to change the racial mix of the country, … to reduce the political power of people whose ancestors lived here, and dramatically increase the proportion of Americans newly arrived from the Third World.”
White nationalists and racists have celebrated Carlson’s endorsement of an idea they have championed for years. At the same time, Carlson’s rhetoric prompted the Anti-Defamation League to call for his firing.
The organization noted that racists have spouted the theory in perpetrating violent attacks, such as the killing of 51 people in mosques in New Zealand in 2019, and the killing of 23 mostly Hispanic shoppers in a Walmart in El Paso the same year.
After he was called out for promoting the theory in April 2021, Carlson said on his show: “I mean, everyone wants to make a racial issue out of it. Oh, you know, the white replacement theory? No, no, no. This is a voting right question.”
A Fox News spokesperson on Sunday afternoon pointed to examples of Carlson speaking against violence on his program but had no further comment.
Other Fox News hosts besides Carlson have picked up the theme, giving it a veneer of respectability, at least within the conservative media ecosystem.
Ingraham, another prime-time Fox News host, told viewers in 2018 that Democrats “want to replace you, the American voters, with newly amnestied citizens and an ever-increasing number of chain migrants.” During a monologue on her program last year, she called immigration an “insurrection [that] seeks to overthrow everything we love about America by defaming it, silencing it, and even prosecuting it. This is an organized mob funded by billionaires, it’s supported by celebrities.”
Fox host Jeanine Pirro has also echoed the tenets of the “replacement” idea during an appearance on a syndicated radio program in 2019. She said liberals and Democrats were pursuing immigration policies that are “a plot to remake America, to replace American citizens with illegals who will vote for the Democrats.”
The same themes have been echoed for years by such prominent conservative media figures as Coulter, Bill O’Reilly and the late Rush Limbaugh.
O’Reilly, who formerly occupied Carlson’s spot on Fox News, told Fox News’s Sean Hannity on his radio show in 2020 that undocumented immigration would cause “traditional America to vanish.” Limbaugh said in 2018 that immigration from Central America was intended to “dilute and eventually eliminate or erase what is known as the distinct or unique American culture. … This is why people call this an invasion.”
Coulter wrote about the alleged threat to American culture posed by immigrants in a book in 2015 titled “Adios, America: The Left’s Plan to Turn Our Country into a Third World Hellhole.”
Charlie Kirk, a conservative pundit who heads Turning Point USA and sometimes appears as a guest on Carlson’s program, defended Carlson’s “replacement” advocacy last year. After playing a clip of Carlson’s comments on Fox News, Kirk commented: “Nothing he said there is controversial. It’s factual and it’s true.” He later added that he was “so proud” of Carlson for promoting the theory.
Last month, Kirk tweeted: “There is an undeniable War on White People in The West.”
Matt Walsh, a contributor to the Daily Wire, also tacitly endorsed the idea during a program he hosted last summer.
“So we’re bringing in a flood of immigrants across the southern border, non-White,” Walsh said in the video. “We’re putting policies in place with the express purpose of having fewer White people in universities and positions of power. And we’re celebrating the reduction in the White population. I mean, it sounds like [liberals] want to replace White people. So this is replacement, is it not? And you’re happy about it?”
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October 14, 2024, edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, streamed on Rumble
CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): This election is literally about are we allowed to fight back against invading armed hordes. Let me say that again — this entire election is about are we allowed to fight back against an invading armed fighting force and hordes and swarms of people that want to take our stuff, take women, and loot the entire nation. These are landing parties on the United States of America. Donald Trump's campaign is a rejection and a refutation of the Third World conquering America.
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kevin roberts herit action 2025:
7 24 second am revo 116 peaceful if left lets it = self-fefense BS polar demonization/ projection
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Monday, June 11, Politico's Alexander Burns reported (https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/06/11/canada-us-civil-war-00162521) that some Canadian government officials are worried about the possibility of civil war breaking out in the United States. In a 37-page document titled "Disruptions on the Horizon," (https://horizons.service.canada.ca/en/2024/disruptions/) a Canadian government office called Policy Horizons Canada argued that officials in Ottawa should make preparations for that grim possibility.
The report warned that if "U.S. ideological divisions, democratic erosion, and domestic unrest escalate," the result could be "plunging the country into civil war."
Only a day after Politico's article was published, Wired's David Gilbert reports (https://www.wired.com/story/january-6-rioter-leading-armed-national-militia-from-prison/?bxid=5cc9e1a92ddf9c1a7adeb052&bxid=5cc9e1a92ddf9c1a7adeb052&cndid=33542172&cndid=33542172&esrc=Wired_etl_load&esrc=Wired_etl_load&hasha=4cd65e6f13e96b085461a2f067de529d&hasha=4cd65e6f13e96b085461a2f067de529d&hashb=88841ccb4014de8d4659bfe2002ce70e0cfcf715&hashb=88841ccb4014de8d4659bfe2002ce70e0cfcf715&hashc=38184dadd161b45a42491ce03ec5c3dd1e15c98752f1de267670070fb7159528&hashc=38184dadd161b45a42491ce03ec5c3dd1e15c98752f1de267670070fb7159528&source=Email_0_EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&source=Email_0_EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_content=WIR_Daily_061224&utm_content=WIR_Daily_061224&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_061224&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_061224&utm_medium=email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_source=nl&utm_term=WIR_Daily_Active&utm_term=WIR_Daily_Active) that far-right Edward "Jake" Lang — who is incarcerated while awaiting trial for his alleged role in the January 6, 2021 insurrection (https://www.lohud.com/story/news/politics/2024/05/08/capitol-riot-rally-planned-for-defendant-jake-lang-at-brooklyn-prison/73599918007/) — "is now using encrypted messaging channels to create a nationwide network of armed militias in all 50 states."
READ MORE: Biden campaign uses KKK, January 6, Trump and Putin images in new ad (https://www.alternet.org/send/biden-putin-trump/)
Lang, federal prosecutors allege, swung a baseball bat (https://www.courthousenews.com/rioter-who-hit-police-with-a-baseball-bat-loses-bid-for-jail-release/) at police officers during the attack on the U.S. Capitol Building.
"Though he has been in prison for over 1200 days, Lang is working with a network of election deniers and conspiracists to promote the North American Patriot and Liberty Militia, or Napalm for short," Gilbert reports in his June 12 article for Wired (https://www.wired.com/story/january-6-rioter-leading-armed-national-militia-from-prison/?bxid=5cc9e1a92ddf9c1a7adeb052&bxid=5cc9e1a92ddf9c1a7adeb052&cndid=33542172&cndid=33542172&esrc=Wired_etl_load&esrc=Wired_etl_load&hasha=4cd65e6f13e96b085461a2f067de529d&hasha=4cd65e6f13e96b085461a2f067de529d&hashb=88841ccb4014de8d4659bfe2002ce70e0cfcf715&hashb=88841ccb4014de8d4659bfe2002ce70e0cfcf715&hashc=38184dadd161b45a42491ce03ec5c3dd1e15c98752f1de267670070fb7159528&hashc=38184dadd161b45a42491ce03ec5c3dd1e15c98752f1de267670070fb7159528&source=Email_0_EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&source=Email_0_EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_content=WIR_Daily_061224&utm_content=WIR_Daily_061224&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_061224&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_061224&utm_medium=email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_source=nl&utm_term=WIR_Daily_Active&utm_term=WIR_Daily_Active). "The group officially launched last week with 50 state-specific militia groups on Telegram."
Gilbert continues (https://www.wired.com/story/january-6-rioter-leading-armed-national-militia-from-prison/?bxid=5cc9e1a92ddf9c1a7adeb052&bxid=5cc9e1a92ddf9c1a7adeb052&cndid=33542172&cndid=33542172&esrc=Wired_etl_load&esrc=Wired_etl_load&hasha=4cd65e6f13e96b085461a2f067de529d&hasha=4cd65e6f13e96b085461a2f067de529d&hashb=88841ccb4014de8d4659bfe2002ce70e0cfcf715&hashb=88841ccb4014de8d4659bfe2002ce70e0cfcf715&hashc=38184dadd161b45a42491ce03ec5c3dd1e15c98752f1de267670070fb7159528&hashc=38184dadd161b45a42491ce03ec5c3dd1e15c98752f1de267670070fb7159528&source=Email_0_EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&source=Email_0_EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_content=WIR_Daily_061224&utm_content=WIR_Daily_061224&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_061224&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_061224&utm_medium=email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_source=nl&utm_term=WIR_Daily_Active&utm_term=WIR_Daily_Active), "Lang claims that the Telegram groups already have 20,000 members, including pastors, farmers, former military personnel, and currently serving sheriffs. However, multiple experts who reviewed the channels tell Wired said that figure was wildly overestimated and that the real figure was closer to 2500 members. But a group this size, they warn, is still large enough to cause a serious threat."
The Wired reporter notes that (https://www.wired.com/story/january-6-rioter-leading-armed-national-militia-from-prison/?bxid=5cc9e1a92ddf9c1a7adeb052&bxid=5cc9e1a92ddf9c1a7adeb052&cndid=33542172&cndid=33542172&esrc=Wired_etl_load&esrc=Wired_etl_load&hasha=4cd65e6f13e96b085461a2f067de529d&hasha=4cd65e6f13e96b085461a2f067de529d&hashb=88841ccb4014de8d4659bfe2002ce70e0cfcf715&hashb=88841ccb4014de8d4659bfe2002ce70e0cfcf715&hashc=38184dadd161b45a42491ce03ec5c3dd1e15c98752f1de267670070fb7159528&hashc=38184dadd161b45a42491ce03ec5c3dd1e15c98752f1de267670070fb7159528&source=Email_0_EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&source=Email_0_EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_content=WIR_Daily_061224&utm_content=WIR_Daily_061224&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_061224&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_061224&utm_medium=email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_source=nl&utm_term=WIR_Daily_Active&utm_term=WIR_Daily_Active) "tensions around" the United States' 2024 presidential election in November "are already at an all-time high," adding that "many Republicans refuse to say if they will peacefully accept the outcome of the November election."
Devin Burghart, executive director at the Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights (IREHR), told Wired (https://www.wired.com/story/january-6-rioter-leading-armed-national-militia-from-prison/?bxid=5cc9e1a92ddf9c1a7adeb052&bxid=5cc9e1a92ddf9c1a7adeb052&cndid=33542172&cndid=33542172&esrc=Wired_etl_load&esrc=Wired_etl_load&hasha=4cd65e6f13e96b085461a2f067de529d&hasha=4cd65e6f13e96b085461a2f067de529d&hashb=88841ccb4014de8d4659bfe2002ce70e0cfcf715&hashb=88841ccb4014de8d4659bfe2002ce70e0cfcf715&hashc=38184dadd161b45a42491ce03ec5c3dd1e15c98752f1de267670070fb7159528&hashc=38184dadd161b45a42491ce03ec5c3dd1e15c98752f1de267670070fb7159528&source=Email_0_EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&source=Email_0_EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_content=WIR_Daily_061224&utm_content=WIR_Daily_061224&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_061224&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_061224&utm_medium=email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_source=nl&utm_term=WIR_Daily_Active&utm_term=WIR_Daily_Active), "We've noted considerable energy being put into resurrecting far-right paramilitary activism right now. The growing talk of 'Second Amendment remedies' to unfavorable electoral outcomes is a serious cause for concern. Militia groups like Napalm promote political violence and sow the seeds for another potential insurrection."
Lang is presently incarcerated at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn while awaiting his trial, which is set for September.
READ MORE:'This isn’t a joke to us': Far-right evangelicals aim to enlist Trump in 'censorship regime' (https://www.alternet.org/trump-censorship/)
Lang told Wired (https://www.wired.com/story/january-6-rioter-leading-armed-national-militia-from-prison/?bxid=5cc9e1a92ddf9c1a7adeb052&bxid=5cc9e1a92ddf9c1a7adeb052&cndid=33542172&cndid=33542172&esrc=Wired_etl_load&esrc=Wired_etl_load&hasha=4cd65e6f13e96b085461a2f067de529d&hasha=4cd65e6f13e96b085461a2f067de529d&hashb=88841ccb4014de8d4659bfe2002ce70e0cfcf715&hashb=88841ccb4014de8d4659bfe2002ce70e0cfcf715&hashc=38184dadd161b45a42491ce03ec5c3dd1e15c98752f1de267670070fb7159528&hashc=38184dadd161b45a42491ce03ec5c3dd1e15c98752f1de267670070fb7159528&source=Email_0_EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&source=Email_0_EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_DAILY_ZZ&utm_brand=wired&utm_brand=wired&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_content=WIR_Daily_061224&utm_content=WIR_Daily_061224&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_061224&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_061224&utm_medium=email&utm_medium=email&utm_source=nl&utm_source=nl&utm_term=WIR_Daily_Active&utm_term=WIR_Daily_Active), "I thought it was necessary to get organized in case these encroachments, these violations of our civil liberties, our natural rights were to escalate to a point where it'd absolutely be untenable and that we would need to defend ourselves. There is a tyrannical wave that has hit America that we've never seen before. And so, it's time that people get organized in case they escalate to something that basically puts our very lives in danger."
READ MORE:'Trump in 2028': GOP-aligned organization calls for abolition of presidential term limits (https://www.alternet.org/trump-term-limits/)
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KILL TO DEFEND HIGH HEELS?!
mma 5 24
May 22, 2024, edition of Newsmax's *Eric Bolling: The Balance
ERIC BOLLING: I have to bring some of these things up. You're so right about all these things. License to kill - now, mind you, Mar-a-Lago is a secure location. It has U.S. Secret Service all over the place all the time. Those documents weren't gonna get stolen or mutilated during a raid.
License to shoot and kill — there were innocent people standing around Mar-a-Lago. People staying there, friends, guests. What happens if Donald Trump is there and sees someone — an FBI agent roughing up Barron Trump or Melania Trump in their — in her closet, which we know they went through, and decides to push back? Is there gonna be a gunfight at Mar-a-Lago because the FBI and the Secret Service are going to get into it? I'd also like to point out that picture we showed a couple of times with the classified documents that FBI gave us was fake, staged. Those aren't the documents they found. The documents they found that were classified, didn't have those markings on it.
That is a picture the FBI put together to make it look worse than it was. I can't even begin to tell you how angry I am at what's going on because they can do — Stephen, the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was put in place for this and they're showing us that they are a tyrannical government that we need to be armed to protect ourselves from. Am I wrong?
Media Matters' Matt Gertz previously discussed (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/how-right-wing-echo-chamber-constructed-biden-assassination-plot-against-trump) the MAGA claims regarding FBI guidelines on use of force at Mar-a-Lago:
Over a handful of hours on Tuesday, the right’s conspiracy theory ecosystem concocted a sinister plot by President Joe Biden to assassinate his predecessor out of the banal fact that FBI agents received standard instructions on the use of force before conducting a court-ordered search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence in 2022.
Hundreds of pages of filings (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/21/us/trump-mal-motion-to-suppress-govt-response.html) were unsealed (https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/21/politics/mar-a-lago-documents-walt-nauta-donald-trump?cid=ios_app) on Tuesday in Trump’s classified documents case, revealing that the former president — who is charged with 40 federal criminal counts (https://www.politico.com/interactives/2023/trump-criminal-investigations-cases-tracker-list/) related to his alleged willful retention of documents after leaving the White House — had multiple documents marked “classified” in his bedroom that were discovered months after the 2022 search.
Credible outlets reviewed the documents and produced a wave (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna153337) of news (https://abcnews.go.com/US/special-counsel-suspected-additional-obstruction-effort-trump-classified/story?id=110438582) stories (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-mar-a-lago-documents/) detailing (https://www.axios.com/2024/05/21/trumps-classified-documents-bedroom-mar-a-lago) what a judge described as “strong evidence” of Trump’s allegedly criminal acts (https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/05/21/trump-florida-classified-documents-motions/). Meanwhile, Trump’s MAGA media supporters ginned up a counternarrative based on a credulous reading of a deceptive argument from Trump’s lawyers that was included in the unsealed documents.
A Fox News reporter has since noted (https://x.com/JacquiHeinrich/status/1793426202365145454) that the same “standard” use of force policy was in place when FBI agents visited the home of President Joe Biden.
Regarding Bolling's claim that the photo at Mar-a-Lago was staged, The New York Times reported in 2022 (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/31/us/politics/trump-photo-classified-documents.html):
On Wednesday, Mr. Trump took to his social media site to say that “the F.B.I., during the raid of Mar-a-Lago, threw documents haphazardly all over the floor (perhaps pretending that it was me that did it!), and then started taking pictures of them for the public to see.”
But the genesis of the photograph appears to be in keeping with standard protocols for how federal agents handle evidence they come across in a search.
The folders were arrayed by agents at Mar-a-Lago after being removed from what the filing indicated was Mr. Trump’s office — they were not discovered scattered on the floor, according to two federal law enforcement officials.
The Justice Department would not comment on the specifics of the photograph. But it is standard practice for the F.B.I. to take evidentiary pictures of materials recovered in a search to ensure that items are properly cataloged and accounted for.
AGREES W ALL BS
stepHen miller lawless regime that’s in power
host go after joe sixpACK...
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right-wing media figures have spent the last year hyping the potential for mass political violence and baselessly asserting the 2024 election will be stolen. In a new interview with Time magazine, former President Donald Trump appeared to give fuel to both of those trends.
In the interview (https://time.com/6972022/donald-trump-transcript-2024-election/), Trump refused to condemn or discourage any future violent actions by his supporters if he loses the general election in November. When asked by Time whether he was concerned about political violence following the election, Trump responded: “I think we're gonna have a big victory. And I think there will be no violence.” Time later followed up, asking, “What if you don’t win, sir?”
“Well, I do think we're gonna win,” Trump responded, adding, “I don't think they'll be able to do the things that they did the last time, which were horrible.”
“And if we don't win, you know, it depends,” he said. “It always depends on the fairness of an election. I don't believe they'll be able to do the things that they did the last time. I don't think they'll be able to get away with it.”
Trump has long pushed (https://apnews.com/article/trump-2020-election-lies-debunked-4fc26546b07962fdbf9d66e739fbb50d) election denialism and is currently facing charges for attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election, including attempting (https://www.justsecurity.org/87236/trump-on-trial-a-model-prosecution-memo-for-federal-election-interference-crimes/) to prevent certification of the results during the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. He has also been open in his embrace of street vigilantism, famously instructing (https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-race-and-ethnicity-donald-trump-chris-wallace-0b32339da25fbc9e8b7c7c7066a1db0f) far-right extremist gang the Proud Boys (https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/09/23/proud-boys-extremism-book-00057703) to “stand back and stand by” following large-scale anti-racist demonstrations in the summer of 2020.
Beyond Trump’s own comments, consumers of right-wing media have been fed a steady diet of commentary that normalizes political violence, making it appear inevitable. In one particularly clear example from March, BlazeTV’s Steve Deace said (https://www.mediamatters.org/steve-deace/blazetv-host-steve-deace-i-think-there-will-be-violence-after-election-regardless), “I think there will be violence after the election regardless of the outcome,” and wished that “Trump had acted the way we wanted him to in the summer of 2020” by cracking down harder on the left-wing protests, predicting that it “would have rallied people that were either on the fence and sick of all that crap or inspired his own base all the more.”
These right-wing fantasies about large-scale violence often take the form of claiming the United States is headed toward another civil war as a result of left-wing provocation.
Last August, on the same evening that Trump surrendered (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/24/donald-trump-to-be-arrested-in-georgia-live-updates.html) to authorities in Georgia on charges he’d acted to overturn the state’s 2020 election results, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin appeared (https://www.mediamatters.org/newsmax/newsmax-sarah-palin-calls-civil-war) on Newsmax.
“I think those who are conducting this travesty and creating this two-tiered system of justice and I want to ask them, ‘What the heck? Do you want us to be in civil war?’ because that's what's going to happen,” Palin said. “We're not going to keep putting up with this."
Palin agreed with the host that “we need to get angry,” adding, “We do need to rise up and take our country back.”
The same month, Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was asked (https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-responds-audience-question-about-forming-militias-you-needs-have-systems) a question about whether right-wing activists should form militias, and responded by warning that “the bad guys are trying to provoke us into a civil war.” He then advised the audience that “you need to have systems and backup plans of self-sovereignty [if], God forbid, our entire society falls apart and/or our government becomes even more tyrannical and authoritarian,” concluding, “That's why we have the Second Amendment."
Trump and right-wing media are in a feedback loop, each feeding the other's fantasies about impending political violence and rigged elections.
In October, Daily Wire host Micheal Knowles argued (https://www.mediamatters.org/michael-knowles/daily-wire-host-suggests-judge-allowing-lawsuit-regarding-trumps-eligibility-office) that a judge’s decision to allow a challenge to Trump’s candidacy based on the 14th Amendment meant that “we are dangerously close to the conditions that we were at in 1860."
“And I'm not one of these catastrophists who says that we're always going to be on the brink of civil war, and we're all gonna — I'm certainly not encouraging civil war by any means,” Knowles said. “But it could happen. … Civil wars happen. And the liberals would appear to be cultivating the conditions to make it much more likely."
January saw right-wing media figures turn the civil war rhetoric (https://www.mediamatters.org/immigration/right-wing-media-escalate-civil-war-rhetoric-after-supreme-court-rules-against-texas) on overdrive after the Supreme Court allowed (https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-immigration-texas-razor-wire-9daef6bd316211b6633ece718e505187) the Biden administration to remove razor wire Texas state authorities had placed along the U.S.-Mexico border.
On his January 23 show, Kirk said that if Texas ignored the ruling, “some people would say, ‘Well, that's the seeds of a civil war,’” adding, “By the way, I'm all on board."
In the same episode, Kirk told (https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-there-border-invasion-and-native-born-americans-you-better-buy-weapons) his audience: “Native-born Americans, you better buy weapons, everybody. Have a lot of guns at your disposal. I would never leave your home without a weapon. It's the new country we live in. It is Mad Max. Biden is creating Mad Max. You're on your own."
The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh argued (https://www.mediamatters.org/matt-walsh/warning-civil-war-matt-walsh-red-state-governors-will-need-ignore-supreme-court-and-do) that “the solution is obvious, which is that red state governors will need to ignore the Supreme Court,” warning ominously that “the last civil war was unimaginable until it wasn't. That was a lesson this country learned in the middle of the 19th century. And if the Biden administration is somehow still in office after this next election, then just as abruptly, we might have to learn it again.”
Walsh’s then-colleague Candace Owens similarly claimed (https://www.mediamatters.org/candace-owens/candace-owens-we-are-edging-very-closely-civil-war), “We are edging very closely to a civil war."
Even when right-wing figures aren’t normalizing civil war rhetoric or rationalizing mass violence, they extoll the virtues of breaking the law on behalf of the MAGA movement.
In March, former Trump adviser Steve Bannon told (https://www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon/steve-bannon-you-have-be-prepared-go-prison-trump-movement) attendees at a right-wing activists conference, “You have to be prepared to go to prison” in order “to take on the deep state.” Just days later, Kirk defended (https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-defends-newly-charged-tpusa-linked-jan-6-insurrectionist-declaring-you) a Turning Point USA activist charged in the January 6 Capitol riot, calling the case “typical Soviet-style indictment BS” and promising, “I'm gonna keep on standing behind her.”
“These are modern day hostages that are being held by this regime,” he added.
In the Time interview, Trump said he would “absolutely” consider pardoning the more than 800 people who have been sentenced for their role in January 6, who he has also referred (https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2024/03/23/trump-jan-6-rioters-rhetoric-campaign/) to as “hostages,” “political prisoners,” and “patriots.” (Earlier this month, a group of Proud Boys appeared (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/20/trump-rally-proud-boys-north-carolina/) outside a Trump rally in North Carolina, with one member holding a sign demanding the release of January 6 prisoners.)
Another key aspect of Trump’s Time interview is his false insistence that the 2020 election was fraudulent, and that the only way he could lose in November is also rigged against him.
Here again Trump has myriad allies in right-wing media. In January, Fox News was already casting doubt (https://www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-and-suppression/foxs-2024-election-denial-push-underway) on the 2024 election, with host Laura Ingraham baseless claiming, “The Democrats are going to stop at nothing” to win, including trying “to game the system or yeah, maybe even cheat.”
Bannon frequently makes the same accusations. Just in the last few months, he’s said that Democrats need (https://www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon/steve-bannon-democrats-need-phony-fake-voters-win-elections) “phony fake voters” to win and claimed (https://www.mediamatters.org/steve-bannon/steve-bannon-only-way-they-defeat-trump-they-steal-it-he-unstoppable), “The only way they defeat Trump is they steal it.” In March, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones appeared (https://www.mediamatters.org/alex-jones/alex-jones-steve-bannon-we-know-they-are-publicly-trying-steal-election-again) on Bannon’s podcast and declared, “We know they are publicly trying to steal this election again.”
For his part, Kirk recently hosted (https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirks-shadow-rnc-event-highlights-centrality-2020-election-lies-conservative) an entire conference devoted to election denialism with the expressed purpose of “competing right up against” the Republican National Committee, which was holding a winter meeting in the hotel next door.
All of these comments together create a media environment where consumers of conservative news are prepared to reject the outcome of the November election if Trump loses. Those same audiences have been primed to expect — or potentially engage in — right-wing vigilantism following a Biden victory.
Last July, a poll (https://apnews.com/article/2024-election-poll-voting-machines-confidence-trust-8efb007d94c2b37a510f9d866e3c6031) from The Associated Press found that “only 22% of Republicans have high confidence that votes in the upcoming presidential election will be counted accurately compared to 71% of Democrats, underscoring a partisan divide fueled by a relentless campaign of lies related to the 2020 presidential election.” Separately, a March poll (https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/1-in-5-americans-think-violence-may-solve-u-s-divisions-poll-finds) from PBS found that “28% of Republicans strongly agree or agree that Americans may have to resort to violence in order to get the country back on track.” (That number was 12% for Democratic voters.)
Trump and right-wing media are in a feedback loop, each feeding the other's fantasies about impending political violence and rigged elections. The Time interview makes clear that Trump will continue to pour fuel on this fire.
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he gets away b/c of 1 demonization 2 tammany daly machine holdover BS 3 everybody does it, all politics is corrupt/crooks 4 endless rep of lie Big Lie is tribal signifier
// sure we use dirty tricks but they did it 1st so we had to defend ourselves/ make level palying field [plus they are so evil any ends justify the means)
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Wisconsin Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski is calling for Republican Bob Spindell to be removed from the Wisconsin Election Commission (https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4353841-wisconsin-fake-trump-electors-2020-2024/) for being one of the fake electors who, in 2020, tried to help former President Donald Trump overturn the election results in that state. When Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wisconsin) appeared on CNN on Monday night, December 11, host Kaitlan Collins asked if he favored removing Spindell from the Commission in light of his role in the "fake electors scheme."
Johnson, in response, accused Democrats of using fake electors and told Collins, "These folks did nothing different than what many Democrats have done in many states. It has happened repeatedly."
Collins asked Johnson to back up his claim (https://newrepublic.com/post/177482/republican-senator-ron-johnson-evidence-free-claim-democrats-fake-electors), and The New Republic's Ella Sherman notes that he was "left flabbergasted" when he couldn't offer any evidence.
POLL:Should Trump be allowed to hold office again? (https://www.alternet.org/2022poll-2656328721-2656635245-2657039473-2659450392/)
Johnson told Collins (https://newrepublic.com/post/177482/republican-senator-ron-johnson-evidence-free-claim-democrats-fake-electors) to "just check the books" for examples of Democratic fake electors, but when she asked, "Which books?," the Wisconsin senator had no specific examples to offer.
Sherman notes (https://newrepublic.com/post/177482/republican-senator-ron-johnson-evidence-free-claim-democrats-fake-electors), "Johnson is right that fake elector schemes have been found across the country — but they were all backing Trump. In addition to Wisconsin, Nevada, Michigan, and Georgia have all charged fake electors in their states. There is yet another investigation into a similar scheme in Arizona. Meanwhile, Trump faces separate charges in Georgia for the whole plot."
READ MORE:Wisconsin secretary of state calls for 2020 fake elector to be removed from election board (https://www.alternet.org/2666543828/)
*Watch the video below or at this link (https://www.alternet.org/fake-electors-wisconsin).
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Fox News’ Jesse Watters reacts to the Colorado Supreme Court ruling: "The left wants violence" | Media Matters for America (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-jesse-watters-reacts-colorado-supreme-court-ruling-left-wants-violence)
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Tucker Carlson and Kyle Rittenhouse campaign for pardon of Texas man convicted of murdering Black Lives Matter protester
Carlson: “George Soros can’t pay for people to put his political opponents in jail and then have a Republican governor ignore it”
WRITTEN BY MEDIA MATTERS STAFF (https://www.mediamatters.org/author/media-matters-staff)
PUBLISHED 04/10/23
CARLSON (HOST): PERRY IS BEHIND BARS TONIGHT, BUT THE GOVERNOR HAS INSTRUCTED THE PARDONS BOARD TO WORK ON AN EXPEDITED REVIEW. THAT'S REQUIRED BY LAW IN TEXAS IN ORDER FOR A PARDON TO OCCUR. BUT HE IS PARDONING THIS MAN. THAT IS OBVIOUSLY THE RIGHT THING TO DO. GEORGE SOROS CAN'T PAY FOR PEOPLE TO PUT HIS POLITICAL OPPONENTS IN JAIL AND THEN HAVE A REPUBLICAN GOVERNOR IGNORE IT.
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CARLSON: How do you think Daniel Perry feels tonight sitting in jail?
KYLE RITTENHOUSE (GUEST): I can only imagine. He's probably sitting there wondering what happened. He defended himself. He knows what he did was right.
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CARLSON: As he was driving for Uber. I mean, the least powerful person in our society attacked by one of the worst people in our society, who's out there rioting. As in your case, you were trying to defend a used car lot and a child-- convicted child molester tried to kill you.And they took the convicted child molester's side. Do you see parallels here?
RITTENHOUSE: Absolutely, and you see the double standard in this case. People aren't talking about the fact of the person -- the second person who attacked Daniel Perry by -- after -- after Sgt. Daniel Perry defended himself against Garrett Foster, he was then shot at three times by a person who was never charged by the Travis County D.A. -- somebody who recklessly fired a slew of shots -- who -- at Daniel Perry's car. And they don't want to talk about that. They don't want to talk about the recklessness of that and they don't want to charge him. It's a double standard. And it's not okay.
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Levin appeared on Fox & Friends March 31, 2023 to denounce the indictment of Donald Trump (and plug his book).
When news broke Thursday that a Manhattan grand jury had voted to indict former President Donald Trump, Trump and his supporters were quick to portray him as an innocent victim and to suggest that his prosecution spelled the end of democracy in America.
The charges follow an investigation into a hush money payment made to former adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election. With the indictment under seal, the exact charges have not yet been made public, though some news reports suggest Trump faces about 30 charges (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/31/trump-faces-about-30-criminal-counts-in-new-york-indictment.html) and that he is expected to be charged (https://www.npr.org/2023/03/31/1167281449/trump-indictment-charges-key-takeaways) with falsifying business records to cover up the payment.
Trump himself displayed his trademark narcissism Thursday, writing (https://twitter.com/petemont/status/1641783586834505730?s=20) in one of many urgent emails, “We are living through the darkest chapter of American history.”
The always-blustery right-wing pundit Mark Levin ranted (https://rumble.com/v2fmk8m-trump-indicted.html?mref=9yobh&mc=2cpbn) on “Fox & Friends” Friday morning, “We have crossed the Rubicon. This is atyrannynow.”
Right-wing youth leader Charlie Kirk, who heads Turning Point USA, claimed (https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1641603280676753408?s=20) that the indictment of Trump is a “designed campaign” by the left to provoke right-wing violence “to justify the next phase of their takeover of the country.”
Ali Alexander, a leader of the “Stop the Steal” effort to keep Trump in power after his 2020 loss, wrote on his Telegram account, “TRUMP INDICTMENT refocuses some things. We’re approaching Luciferian-triggered civil war. We must fight Them.May God bless and forgive us where we fall short.”
Far-right broadcaster Pete Santilli—who last week said that if Trump were arrested, the military and law enforcement should round up and execute former President Barack Obama and other members of the “criminal cabal”—reacted to the news by telling his viewers (https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/1641818863875530759?s=20) that “these leftist, gun-grabbing Maoists, you will never have a peaceful resolution with. They’re going to come and kill you.:
amid reports that New York law enforcement officials are preparing for possible violence, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted (https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1641793406539030528?s=20), “I’m going to New York on Tuesday. We MUST protest the unconstitutional WITCH HUNT!”
Although details of the indictment haven’t been made public,Sen. Ted Cruzused his “Verdict” podcast to denounce (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/verdict-with-ted-cruz/id1495601614?i=1000606715966) the indictment as “utter and complete garbage,” describing himself as angry and “heartbroken” over what he called a “devastating” blow to the rule of law. Cruz claimed that the Manhattan investigation was an effort by “radical Democrats” to “steal” the 2024 presidential election.
Cruz said the indictment would boost Trump’s election campaign, a sentiment (https://www.facebook.com/jacksonrlahmeyer/posts/pfbid0NWR146827P62mdznoEVAvdbLTz9uyPkBRK7NGNmmETqiv4tEgmKxjUZwktfkD4iVl) echoed (https://rumble.com/v2fk322-toto-tonight-live-maga-2.0-begins-now.html) by other far-right followers of the twice-impeached former president. The Christian Broadcasting Network’s David Brody said the indictment had made Trump a “political martyr.”
On “FlashPoint,” a show that appears on evangelist Kenneth Copeland’s Victory Channel that was a steady source of misinformation about the 2020 election and Jan. 6 insurrection, failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate and election denier Kari Lake denounced (https://www.facebook.com/TheVictoryChannel/videos/955633398902124/) what she called “false, phony charges.” Trump’s supporters, she said, are “tried and true” and will stay with him “all the way.”
Trump’s religious-right backers also rallied around him (https://currentpub.com/2023/03/31/trump-is-indicted-how-are-evangelicals-responding/), with Franklin Graham calling it (https://www.facebook.com/FranklinGraham/posts/pfbid0rSmMAJmGApXTyuVN2p2omjQL9KBZfxwt9z5X7u4NUGtejktHardFdkj3GPQziasEl) a “shameful day for America.”
As noted by religion scholar Diana Butler Bass (https://dianabutlerbass.substack.com/p/trumps-unholy-week?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) in her latest newsletter, Trump has been using increasingly messianic and apocalyptic languagein reference to his legal troubles in an effort to maintain religious-right support.Trump followers who believe he is anointed by God and is being persecuted like Jesus by the legions of Satan is “a theo-political wild card we’ve got to pay attention to,”Bass writes. She points to the biblical story of Jesus’ arrest in whichone of his disciples attacked one of the soldiers. While Jesus insisted, “Put your sword back into its place; for all who take the sword will perish by the sword,” Bass warns, “Do not expect the same from Trump.”
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do evil/justice in the name of democracy
rubber glue retaliation
[best w sean connery voice]
https://www.mediamatters.org/michael-knowles/daily-wires-michael-knowles-calls-indictments-prominent-criminal-libs-you-should (https://www.mediamatters.org/michael-knowles/daily-wires-michael-knowles-calls-indictments-prominent-criminal-libs-you-should)
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MICHAEL KNOWLES (HOST): Pretty much every campaign finance matter is bogus because money is fungible. So if you give X amount of money to a candidate's campaign committee, that can land you in prison. But if you give ten times that amount of money to a Super PAC, that's totally fine. If one group gives money, it's okay. If an individual or a different group gives money that can be a big problem. So it's all basically bogus. But the reason this is especially bogus is that Trump is the candidate and candidates can give as much money to their campaigns as they want.
So even if the prosecutors in New York argue that this was an improper donation to the campaign -- maybe it was done through a kind of improper channel, maybe the paperwork was a little bit off. But it's still Donald Trump donating to his own campaign. It's so patently absurd. It's so obvious that the Democrats here just want to stop the people from having a chance to re-elect Donald Trump because they're afraid that if Trump can appear on a ballot, they're afraid that if Trump can mount a real presidential campaign, that the people will vote for him. And so they're doing everything they can - they tried to disqualify him using the 14th Amendment. They tried to -- they had multiple suits to try to keep him off the ballots in different states around the country. They have tried to impeach him multiple times. They tried -- now they're trying to lock him into prison, from which place he could still run for president, but it obviously would hurt his campaign if he were stuck in a jail cell instead of holding rallies.
It's so obvious that these guys fear Trump and want to do everything they can to prevent the people from having a choice-- that this is the silver lining of this whole storm cloud. The silver lining is that I think we can finally dismiss, once and for all, all the ridiculous piffle that the Democrats tell us about our sacred democracy. Our -- Donald Trump and the Republicans are a threat to our sacred temples of democracy, our cherished norms. We don't act like this in America. We are better than this. No, you're not better than this. You're breaking all the norms. You are undermining our allegedly sacred democracy. You're jailing your political opponents like a two-bit dictator in a banana republic, which some of us conservatives have observed for a long time.So, okay, that's how they want to play, fine. I do not want to hear it anymore about our sacred democracy or any of that other stuff. Don't want to hear it one little bit.
What should the Republicans do in response? I think that a Republican governor or, more precisely, I guess a Republican attorney general, should arrest a prominent criminal lib. There is no shortage of candidates of prominent liberal politicos who have committed crimes. Look around the Clinton circles. Look around the Biden circles. Look at Clinton and Biden themselves. Plenty of big criminal libs out there who have completely gotten off the hook. And there are plenty of Republican governors and attorneys general out there -- I think you would need a Republican governor as well as an attorney general, because if the attorney general indicts a big prominent criminal lib and there's a Democrat governor, the Democrat governor will apply political pressure or eventually, probably, just pardon the criminal lib. So I think you need to have a Republican governor there as well.
But let's do it. Let's -- let's indict a big criminal lib. Let's -- let's indict two of them. That they are going after our guy, let's go after five of their guys. There's no risk here. Some people push back against this suggestion. They say, well, we're better than them, Michael. We're -- yeah, sure. I think we are better than them. I'm not suggesting we do anything illegal or unjust. I'm not saying we go after an innocent lib, I'm saying we should go after a criminal lib against whom the law has not been applied. The argument against doing that is that we want topreserve our norms and we don't want to live in a country where we throw the vanquished political opposition into orange jumpsuits. I agree. I don't want to live in that country.But the only reason for which we should be concerned about that norm is if the norm continues to exist. The libs are breaking that norm, that's not our fault. We have nothing to say. We're saying don't violate the norm. Don't -- don't start arresting the opposition leaders in our country. But if they're going to do that, then we've got to play the game. Otherwise we're just surrendering to the people who are abusing our political system the most.
So, okay, they want to indict Trump? Fine. I want to see every Republican governor and attorney general with the political capital, with the power to do so, to indict prominent criminal libs. And I think you should indict multiple and you should throw the book at them and you should find every stupid little fake misdemeanor charge and you should trump it up as high as you possibly can. Okay? You -- the reason that you have to do this, the reason this would be good for our political order is because it would show the libs that there are consequences to their actions. It would discourage further predations on our political order.
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Appearing to confess frustration, far-right Republican governor Ron DeSantis (https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/?s=Ron+DeSantis) says he is remaking Florida’s education system because even after turning the state’s Democratic Party into a "rotten carcass on the side of the street," the left "can still impose their agenda on my people."
That "agenda," apparently includes so-called Critical Race Theory (CRT), Environmental, Social, and Corporate Governance (ESG), and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs, according to far-right Fox News host Mark Levin who told the Florida governor the right is "in a culture war."
"We didn't start it," Levin told DeSantis. "But what I call the Marxist left, they started it. It is devouring our institutions. It is devouring our politics. It's devouring the private sector."
DeSantis did not disagree.
READ MORE: 'I Struck a Nerve': Robert Reich Makes the Case for Calling Ron DeSantis a 'Fascist' (https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/09/i-struck-a-nerve-robert-reich-makes-the-case-for-calling-ron-desantis-a-fascist/)
As he uses the power of his office to pave the road for a likely 2024 run for the White House, DeSantis has not gone unnoticed. He has been accused of being "an Honest-to-God Semi-Fascist (https://prospect.org/politics/altercation-ron-desantis-is-an-honest-to-god-semi-fascist/)," turning Florida into "a laboratory for fascism (https://www.salon.com/2023/02/07/florida-is-officially-a-laboratory-for-fascism-in-the-us/)," running his state "like a fascist (https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/02/ron-desantis-defamation-legislation)," and being a "fascist for our time (https://theberkshireedge.com/ron-desantis-a-fascist-for-our-time/)" and a "one-man civil rights wrecking ball, determined to neutralize any group that doesn't conform to his dangerously narrow view of social order."
All those accusations were before his Sunday night Fox News interview with Levin, who warned that "in the classrooms" there is "the sexualizing of little kids." Levin also said, "Disney, Walt Disney has to be rolling in his grave right now what's happened to Disneyland and Disney World and these other events in the culture."
Asked why he decided to take "the lead in taking this on as far as governors go," DeSantis bragged, "I got reelected November 2022. Largest vote than any Republican governor [in] Florida history has got, largest vote margin any governor candidates ever got. 1.5 million votes."
"I can win by 1.5 million votes. Make the Democratic Party in our state, basically, a rotten carcass on the side of the street. And yet, the left can still impose their agenda on my people if I'm not looking after fighting ESG and other woke companies and some of the stuff going on in the universities and the schools."
"And so I think I have an understanding that these fights are far broader than just one particular election. Yes, you do have to fight the woke in the halls of government and in the legislative chambers, and we have super majorities as Republicans in Florida so we will win all those fights, but you also have to be willing to defend your folks against thisagenda being shoved down their throatfrom all these otherinstitutions,where these people aren't necessarily coming up for election."
DeSantis has infamously veered into pushing his supporters into local school board positions of power (https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-covid-health-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-b64d994ca9f2215d4326b395c5385b2d).
"So you talk about things with like the young kids and with Disney, and I see that not just through the eyes of a governor but also through the eyes of a dad," DeSantis continued. "You know, we have a six, a four, and a two-year-old at home. And we just believe as parents, we should be able to send our kids to school, have them watch cartoons without having somebody's sexual agenda shoved down their throats."
READ MORE: 'Political Theater': Conservative Rips Ron DeSantis for 'Sucking Up to the Anti-Vaxxers' (https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2022/12/political-theater-conservative-rips-ron-desantis-for-sucking-up-to-the-anti-vaxxers/)
"And so when this issue came up, with the sexualization of the curriculum, of course in Florida, we think that that's inappropriate. And you know what? Republican, Democrat, Independent parents agree with us overwhelmingly."
That's debatable. In October Florida Politics (https://floridapolitics.com/archives/561035-poll-majorities-oppose-ron-desantis-backed-stop-woke-and-parental-rights-laws/) reported, "Majorities oppose Ron DeSantis-backed 'Stop WOKE' and parental rights laws," including his "Don't Say Gay" law.
In January, a study by UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute (https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Dont-Say-Gay-Impact-Jan-2023.pdf) found a large percentage of LGBTQ parents say they are concerned their families will be negatively impacted by DeSantis' laws, including HB 1557, the "Don't Say Gay" law – with some saying they already have been.
"Almost 9 out of 10 (88%) LGBTQ+ parents are very or somewhat concerned about the impact that HB 1557 will have on them and their children, with one in four reporting they have experienced anti-LGBTQ harassment since the law was passed and one in five reporting becoming less out in their communities since the law was passed. Parents have considered a variety of coping strategies in response to the bill, including moving out of the state (56%) and moving their children to a different school (11%). Over 16% of LGBTQ parents have already taken steps to move their families to another state."
Watch a short clip or the full interview below or at this link (https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2023/02/desantis-on-fighting-the-woke-i-made-the-democratic-party-a-rotten-carcass-yet-they-can-still-impose-their-agenda/).
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https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/fox-news-host-says-expect-vigilante-justice-because-das-dont-do-anything-anymore
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aha recall you cannot negotiate with irrational, so only force violence defend yourself family; rabid dog foams at mouth
not just foreign, black but horde mob is powerful and irrational thus must kill; note hype fear; two scary mysterious tech cell phone [5g] and dna germ [ plus brainwash
https://www.mediamatters.org/alex-jones/alex-jones-says-gang-racist-foaming-mouth-black-people-are-coming-your-family-advises
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Infowars host and chief conspiracy theorist Alex Jones warned on Sunday's show that "foaming-at-the-mouth Black people" would wage war on white populations after they flee "race-specific bioweapons" attacks in Africa later this decade. Jones issued these racist predictions while declaring himself a "vessel" of God.
"They intend on making the world so hellish in the build-up to 2030 that everybody will just 'wink, wink' when they release the race-specific bioweapons starting with Africa that are gonna wipe that continent absolutely out. And you'll be under such invasion from the refugees of the economic warfare in Africa that you will quietly, while you're playing cards with your buddies say, 'well, it had to be done.'And when you go along with that metaphysically, spiritually, culturally, the devil's got your soul," said Jones.
"So I don't like the big giant African hordes being brainwashed against us and the left programming brown people to hate white people. It's all part of a plan, folks. It's all part ofa very sophisticated planand I don't just study history. I don't just study the New World Order," Jones continued. "I have the Holy Spirit. Doesn't mean I'm a perfect vessel, far from it. But I do have deep connection to God and God tells me that if I take part in wiping out the brown people, the Black people, that I will be cut off from God. We’re supposed to lift each other up."
READ MORE: 'I don't tell lies': Alex Jones blabbers of 'self-fulfilling prophecy' after bankruptcy bid blows up in court (https://www.alternet.org/alex-jones-self-fulfilling-prophecy/)
Jones then encouraged responding through violence.
"Now that doesn't mean when a gang of racist,foaming-at-the-mouth Black people come to rape, rob, or kill you, which is just, it's out of control right now, that you don't defend yourself and kill every person you need to protect your family if they're attacking you," he suggested.
"That said though, just because they're brainwashed, some of them, and are being part of that doesn't mean we have to fall into the brainwashing either," the right-wing provocateur added. "And they tell you everything they're doing in the movie, the 'Kingsman,' where they send out the program through the cell phones andcell phone towers to make everybody start killing each other. That's what Klaus Schwab talks about, the angrier world, this is part of that plan. And so the Black people that have succumbed to this have succumbed to it through mind control. Doesn't make them any less dangerous."
Watch below via Media Matters for America (https://www.mediamatters.org/alex-jones/alex-jones-says-gang-racist-foaming-mouth-black-people-are-coming-your-family-advises) or at this link (https://www.alternet.org/kill-every-person-you-need).
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the Department of Health and Human Services among a range of other sources, according to the material.