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Violent thugs and hooligans brutally attack police officers in D.C.

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by orangeblue_coop, Jan 6, 2021.

  1. mdgator05

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    Reading the charging documents, it appears that the plan was to leave people in the suburbs with guns, occupy the capitol overnight, and then have the people in the suburbs come in with the guns as reinforcements on January 7 (presumably after Trump declared martial law or something).
     
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  2. g8rjd

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    Kind of gives a new meaning to this from that treasonous loon, Boebert, doesn’t it?

     
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  3. citygator

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    Ladies and Gentlemen… we have an insurrection.
     
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  4. ursidman

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    Apparently, Rhoades, the Oath Keepers leader was a Yale Law School graduate.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...17e292-7492-11ec-bc13-18891499c514_story.html

    Tasha Adams, Rhodes’s estranged wife and a vocal critic, said her husband had become increasingly radical in the years before Obama was elected. Adams said she cared for their children while Rhodes studied constitutional law at Yale and then served as an aide to libertarian then-Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.).

    By 2008, Adams said, Rhodes was on a more militant path, imagining himself as “the next George Washington.” When she expressed misgivings about the then-fledgling Oath Keepers project, Rhodes reassured her, she said.

    “He swore to me there would never be any actual militia training,” Adams recalled. “He said this is about pushing the First Amendment to the absolute limit and that’s it. We called it the libertarian version of the ACLU.”

    In reality, according to extensive interviews with his associates and extremism trackers, Rhodes is a couch-surfing propagandist whose thousands of recruits paid membership dues but mostly acted as “keyboard warriors,” disseminating violent rhetoric but rarely showing up in great numbers when Rhodes called.

    From an LA Times Article I am unable to get the url for
    He coerced his wife into stripping to pay the rent.
    The estranged wife of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes talks about her role in the group accused of playing a part in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
    By DEL QUENTIN WILBER

    With Adams contemplating becoming a professional ballroom dancer, the couple struggled to make rent; she says Rhodes began to press her to find a more lucrative trade.

    "Every day," Adams recalls, "he was like, 'You should be a stripper and make more money.'" She took up exotic dancing, earning $100 a night.

    “I wanted a house with a treehouse for Dakota. I thought, man, I struck the jackpot," she says, describing her emotion upon Rhodes' acceptance by Yale. "I’m married to a future Yale Law School graduate!”

    But Rhodes turned down high-paying internships his first year and took a nonpaying summer gig at a conservative think tank. He was more interested in causes than money, says Adams, adding, “I knew then I was never going to get the treehouse." She says Rhodes charted a similar course after graduating in 2004, working mostly in smaller practices or as a freelance writer of legal briefs.
     
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  5. Kirby

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    Yes…They got Ray Epps!…..Oh wait
     
  6. sierragator

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    So much for it being just a tourist visit. NEXT
     
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  7. BLING

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    That’s about the worst use of a Yale Law School degree imaginable! Yowzers…

    On the the bright side, an Ivy League law grad forcing his wife into stripping to support his anti-government Y’all Quida movement. That sounds like a potential Will Ferrel movie!
     
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  8. g8rjd

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    Somebody’s posting disinformation in a sad effort to be funny, it seems.









    And this one is just the icing on the cake for folks pushing this narrative:

     
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  9. NavyGator93

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    The fact that he blows off actual insurrection news to grasp at the straw of a conspiracy theory that is easily proven false tells you a lot about the poster.
     
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  10. BossaGator

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    Stewie just sounds like kind of a loser
     
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  17. duchen

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    Good defense. S'mother Dude else did it. A dude who was not at the capital. He was responsible for an insurrection that wasn't.
     
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  18. gatorchamps960608

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    Always, always, always, these dimwits will believe an alternative explanation that points the blame elsewhere than the obvious answer.

    It's all the mental conditioning they have received from Fox, OAN and the like.
     
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  19. g8rjd

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    Just caught up in the seditious moment…

     
  20. rivergator

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    How members of the rightwing media reacted to Oath Keepers being charged with sedition:



    Fox News and key right-wing allies grasp for response to Oath Keepers sedition indictment