And let's review what we know about January 6th as of now.
January 6th was all part of Trump's plan to overturn the election.
This plan is outlined in the so-called "Eastman Memo". This is the legal justification for Trump's plan to overturn the election. As we all know, Trump needed Pence to be an arbiter rather than just a vote-counter.
Since Pence would not go along with the plan, they needed to get Pence out of the way. The Eastman memo anticipates this contingency. Step 1 of the memo/plan says:
VP Pence, presiding over the joint session (or Senate Pro Tempore Grassley, if Pence recuses himself)
Everything done by the Trump team on January 6th was aimed at stopping Pence. If they could get Pence out of the way, he could be replaced with Grassley or someone else who would do their bidding.
By 2:24pm that day, Trump's militia had taken control of the Capitol. Trump got word from Sen. Tommy Tuberville that Pence had been removed from the floor. That's when Trump sent his tweet instructing the militia to kill him.
Trump tweeted:
“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!” They got the message loud and clear. Video shot just 4 minutes after Trump's tweet featured chants of "Hang Mike Pence".
They got the message loud and clear. Video shot just 4 minutes after Trump's tweet featured chants of "Hang Mike Pence".
And news reports confirmed that this was the mob's intention.
Jim Bourg, a Reuters picture editor in Washington, said on Twitter: “I heard at least three different rioters at the Capitol say that they hoped to find Vice-President Mike Pence and execute him by hanging him from a Capitol Hill tree as a traitor. It was a common line being repeated. Many more were just talking about how the VP should be executed.”
The January 6th committee will undoubtedly fill in more details. But make no mistake about it. The plan all along was to "Stop the Steal" by stopping the electoral count and stopping Pence.
The attack on the capitol was no accident. It was not a spontaneous demonstration that got out of hand. It was an orchestrated, violent attack intended as a means to keep Trump in power. Trump knew exactly what he was doing when he illegally sent the crowd to the Capitol that day. It was all part of the plan.
You left out the part where you think Trump hired people to kill Pence. 😂😂😂😂👏👏👏👏
And let's review what we know about January 6th as of now.
January 6th was all part of Trump's plan to overturn the election.
This plan is outlined in the so-called "Eastman Memo". This is the legal justification for Trump's plan to overturn the election. As we all know, Trump needed Pence to be an arbiter rather than just a vote-counter.
Since Pence would not go along with the plan, they needed to get Pence out of the way. The Eastman memo anticipates this contingency. Step 1 of the memo/plan says:
Everything done by the Trump team on January 6th was aimed at stopping Pence. If they could get Pence out of the way, he could be replaced with Grassley or someone else who would do their bidding.
By 2:24pm that day, Trump's militia had taken control of the Capitol. Trump got word from Sen. Tommy Tuberville that Pence had been removed from the floor. That's when Trump sent his tweet instructing the militia to kill him.
Trump tweeted:
They got the message loud and clear. Video shot just 4 minutes after Trump's tweet featured chants of "Hang Mike Pence".
And news reports confirmed that this was the mob's intention.
The January 6th committee will undoubtedly fill in more details. But make no mistake about it. The plan all along was to "Stop the Steal" by stopping the electoral count and stopping Pence.
The attack on the capitol was no accident. It was not a spontaneous demonstration that got out of hand. It was an orchestrated, violent attack intended as a means to keep Trump in power. Trump knew exactly what he was doing when he illegally sent the crowd to the Capitol that day. It was all part of the plan.
You left out the part where you think Trump hired people to kill Pence. 😂😂😂😂👏👏👏👏
Trump didn't have to hire them. Trump just gave the word and they were willing to do it for free.
"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence."
Most militias are well-armed. The militia that stormed the Capitol had 2,500 marauders but only 3 firearms. That doesn't seem very well-armed.
But they had flags. Can be used as weapons.
And sat in chairs and took selfies.
Biggest threat to Democracy ever
Flags can indeed be used as weapons ... in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Kristy Swanson wielded a flag against the evil vampire Rutger Hauer in the final battle.
Most militias are well-armed. The militia that stormed the Capitol had 2,500 marauders but only 3 firearms. That doesn't seem very well-armed.
But they had flags. Can be used as weapons.
And sat in chairs and took selfies.
Biggest threat to Democracy ever
"If Dr. Eastman and President Trump's plan had worked, it would have permanently ended the peaceful transition of power, undermining American democracy and the Constitution."
"If Dr. Eastman and President Trump's plan had worked, it would have permanently ended the peaceful transition of power, undermining American democracy and the Constitution."
To be clear, this is a quote from a federal judge in a recent lawsuit that John Eastman tried to bring against the January 6th committee. The lawsuit backfired because, as John Adams said, "Facts are stubborn things".
Generations of Republican leadership in rural areas have led to extraordinarily entrenched violence. Generation after generation of rural Americans have grown up in violent situations with murder and rampant drug use.
send in the national guard? DO SOMETHING. Or has political correctness kept Republicans from following tried and true crime stopping tactics?
Did not know: Rural America has seen a surge in violent crime. “I’ve never seen these numbers before,” said one South Carolina sheriff about homicides. Homicide rates in 2020: ✔️rose 25% in rural America ✔️rose 30% in urban America
Dan Frosch, Kris Maher and Zusha Elinson | Photographs by Andrea Morales for The Wall Street Journal
Murder rates didn’t soar only in cities during the pandemic. Homicide rates in rural America rose 25% in 2020, the largest rural increase since the CDC began tracking such data in 1999. Small-town sheriffs and prosecutors are...
"If Dr. Eastman and President Trump's plan had worked, it would have permanently ended the peaceful transition of power, undermining American democracy and the Constitution."
Generations of Republican leadership in rural areas have led to extraordinarily entrenched violence. Generation after generation of rural Americans have grown up in violent situations with murder and rampant drug use.
send in the national guard? DO SOMETHING. Or has political correctness kept Republicans from following tried and true crime stopping tactics?
Did not know: Rural America has seen a surge in violent crime. “I’ve never seen these numbers before,” said one South Carolina sheriff about homicides. Homicide rates in 2020: ✔️rose 25% in rural America ✔️rose 30% in urban America
I don't see too many rural areas/towns on this list ...
The twenty cities in the United States with the highest murder rates (murders per 100,000 people) are: St. Louis, MO (69.4) Baltimore, MD (51.1) New Orleans, LA (40.6) Detroit, MI (39.7) Cleveland, OH (33.7) Las Vegas, NV (31.4) Kansas City, MO (31.2) Memphis, TN (27.1) Newark, NJ (25.6) Chicago, IL (24) Cincinnati, OH (23.8) Philadelphia, PA (20.2) Milwaukee, WI (20.0) Tulsa, OK (18.6) Pittsburgh, PA (18.4) Indianapolis, IN (17.7) Louisville, KY (17.5) Oakland, CA (17.1) Washington D.C. (17.0) Atlanta, GA (16.7)
Flags can indeed be used as weapons ... in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Kristy Swanson wielded a flag against the evil vampire Rutger Hauer in the final battle.
No way the American military could defeat hundreds of people carrying flags.
Flags can indeed be used as weapons ... in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Kristy Swanson wielded a flag against the evil vampire Rutger Hauer in the final battle.
No way the American military could defeat hundreds of people carrying flags.
I take full responsibility. He's not Trump. Mission Accomplished. Biden could end up being the second worst President ever (behind Trump of course), and I will still be glad I voted for him. ANYONE but Trump. Again, mission accomplished. Biden will not attack our Democratic Republic, so we could slip into a DEPRESSION while Biden is in office and I wouldn't care. There could even be evidence that the Depression was a direct cause of what Biden did in office, and I would STILL be glad he's in there rather than Trump. I won't LIKE a Depression, but it is better than having a serial lying autocrat who tried to overturn a fair election in office...and it's not even close.
