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2020 Election Fallout 13: Sedition And Arrests


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Texas teenager speaks out about turning in his father over this. 

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A Texas teenager who alerted federal authorities about his father's alleged role in the Jan. 6 siege on the U.S. Capitol says he wants others to know that "it's OK to come forward."

"I want people to know how awful this political strain can be on certain people," Jackson Reffitt, 18, told ABC News' T.J. Holmes in an interview airing Tuesday on "Good Morning America."

"And I feel like I should have to have the voice to tell people that it's OK to come forward," he added. "Your moral compass is going to be absolutely just the right thing."

The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested Jackson's father, Guy Reffitt, at their home in Wylie, Texas, northeast of Dallas, on Jan. 15. He is accused of unlawful entry on Capitol grounds and obstruction of justice.

This kid absolutely did the right thing by turning in his terrorist father. 

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Two more morons are out of a job

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Two Virginia police officers who photographed themselves inside the U.S. Capitol building during the January 6 riot have been fired. Sergeant Thomas Robertson and Officer Jacob Fracker are also facing federal charges.

Robertson and Fracker were terminated from their jobs with the Rocky Mount police department on Tuesday, according to a statement from the town of Rocky Mount. The two were charged in federal court January 13 with unlawful entry into a restricted area and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, and had been on unpaid leave from their jobs during a town review.

Robertson and Fracker, who were off-duty at the time, bragged about storming the Capitol on social media. The social media posts and a selfie of the two standing in front of a statute inside the Capitol, with one of them pointing and the other making an obscene gesture, were cited by federal investigators in a criminal complaint.

In a comment on social media, Robertson allegedly said he was "proud" of the photo because it showed he and Fracker were "willing to put skin in the game," the complaint said.

I hope they're both going away for quite a while.  As in decades.

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5 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

And R's want Trump to get away with it.

 

And reich wingers will be right fucking there to spout off about how pro cop they all are. They should stick their thin blue line garbage where the sun doesn’t shine 

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More than 30,000 voters who had been registered members of the Republican Party have changed their voter registration in the weeks after a mob of pro-Trump supporters attacked the Capitol - an issue that led the House to impeach the former president for inciting the violence.

The massive wave of defections is a virtually unprecedented exodus that could spell trouble for a party that is trying to find its way after losing the presidential race and the Senate majority.

It could also represent the tip of a much larger iceberg: The 30,000 who have left the Republican Party reside in just a few states that report voter registration data, and information about voters switching between parties, on a weekly basis.

Voters switching parties is not unheard of, but the data show that in the first weeks of the year, far more Republicans have changed their voter registrations than Democrats. Many voters are changing their affiliation in key swing states that were at the heart of the battle for the White House and control of Congress.

We finally found what it would take

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52 minutes ago, 47of74 said:

Ok, I'm curious as to how long these switching voters had been registered Republican, particularly with the trend towards Republican registration before the election. I think it's likely that at least some switched to influence the primaries and are now switching back, and others (quite possibly particularly in Arizona) are stepping away from the crazy. 

I kind of hope there's a longer analysis with more data available.

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12 hours ago, 47of74 said:

This is interesting, but I'm not sure it is necessarily a good thing across the board.  I have a family member who was a long-time Republican who left the party in protest to register Independent when OFM was nominated.  He still believes in old-school Republican principles and is not a Democrat, so Independent it is.  In our state, this means he is no longer eligible to vote in a primary - which also means his moderating influence on the party has been lost.  If the only Rs left in the party are hard-core right-wing nutjobs, we will continue to see hard-core right-wing nutjob nominees.

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Yeah that figures

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A Black man who participated in the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection was denied bond and will be held in jail until trial even as many white participants in the insurrection attempt have been granted release until their days in court.

Emanual Jackson, 20, who reportedly is homeless and mentally ill, will not be released from prison pending his trial. At the detention hearing in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Jackson was ordered held without bond pending trial. Jackson, who allegedly beat a group of Metropolitan and U.S. Capitol police officers with a metal baseball bat, turned himself in to authorities on Jan. 18.

Of course our so called "justice system" just has to let terrorists go home and spend time with mommy but a homeless and mentally ill black man they don't want to do a fucking thing. 

 

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More than 30,000 voters who had been registered members of the Republican Party have changed their voter registration in the weeks after a mob of pro-Trump supporters attacked the Capitol -

@47of74, I thought it was interesting that Jeff Flake tweeted the numbers for AZ.  It's close to 10,000 Repubs abandoning ship in that state. 

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On 1/25/2021 at 1:32 PM, AmazonGrace said:

Garret Miller  apologizes to AOC and says he was just following orders.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/01/25/capitol-riots-garret-miller-says-he-was-following-trumps-orders-apologizes-to-aoc.html

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He is being held without bail so I will assume the apology was an attempt to show remorse on the advice of his attorney.

Oh, yay! The Nuremberg Defense!  It doesn't get you off and I don't think it lessens the punishment unless you can show exactly who gave you your orders, and that they are being charged. 

On 1/25/2021 at 3:23 PM, AmazonGrace said:

I'll take "people who peaked in high school for $200", Alex

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Gundersen is reportedly 26 years old and reportedly graduated high school nearly nine years ago, in 2012. 

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8 hours ago, Becky said:

If the only Rs left in the party are hard-core right-wing nutjobs, we will continue to see hard-core right-wing nutjob nominees.

Will this mean a new party, or more independents running though? Or will the disaffected former Republicans vote for other candidates, or not vote? They can put up reality-challenged candidates all they want, but that doesn't mean they'll get elected if only a small minority are voting for them. 

I guess what I'm curious about is whether this will mean more people standing against the odder candidates, either as Independents or as members of a new party.  I can't see the Republicans lasting if they keep putting up candidates that a majority dislike.

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Another Branch Trumpvidian own goal

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There is no group in this country that loves snitching on itself more than Trump supporters. Half the reason those who rioted at the Capitol are being arrested is because they felt the need to document themselves committing a crime. A man who was caught on video yelling “We did it, yeah!” while rioting at the Capitol was arrested after being kicked off a plane for repeatedly yelling “Trump 2020!”

According to CNN, on Jan. 8 John Lolos was on a Delta plane leaving Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in D.C. when he wouldn’t stop yelling “Trump 2020!” The plane was taxiing, but like a good Black parent, the pilot turned the plane around because Lolos wouldn’t cut that shit out. Lolos was eventually kicked off the plane and sent back to the gate.

An airport police officer identified only as Officer Braddock witnessed Lolos being escorted from the plane, but didn’t think too much of it. It was only 45 minutes when Officer Braddock was scrolling through Instagram that he saw a video of Lolos, in the exact same clothes he wore at the airport, exiting the Capitol building during the riot.

After realizing it was Lolos on the video, Office Braddock notified the Capitol Police Dignitary Protection Division, who were already onsite at the airport. The agents approached Lolos, informed him that he was not free to leave, and found the flags from the video among his possessions during the arrest.

 

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Zip tie guy has to stay in the can

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A federal judge has ordered that the Capitol rioter known as “zip tie guy” remain in custody.

U.S. District Chief Judge for the District of Columbia Beryl Howell issued the ruling Sunday just days after a pre-trial memo revealed that Eric Munchel and his mother, Lisa Eisenhart, had allegedly stashed weapons outside the building before the attack.

During the Jan. 6 insurrection, Munchel was photographed wearing military fatigues and carrying plastic zip ties that are used for hand restraints as he jumped over seats in the Senate chamber. According to the pre-trial memo, he also toted a Taser in a holster on his hip.

Munchel and Eisenhart were allegedly videotaped on Munchel’s own cell phone, which was taped to his chest, discussing stashing weapons before they entered the Capitol. They then appeared to hide a “tactical bag,” the pre-trial memo stated.

He needs to never have another day as a free person for the rest of line.

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Some scary stuff to start or end your Friday with. Of course it's a thread and I still don't remember how to bring a whole thread over. Then again I've been up since 3am so ...babbling now

 

 

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