SCOTUS stops the election interference....cold!

In other words, you think there might be something to them. Those darkies aren't keepin' their place!

Wrong. Even some conservative jurists thought Trump shouldn't be on the ballot because of the Fourteenth Amendment, but I agree that interpretation of the Amendment shouldn't be left to each state.

Stereotyping again? I'm somehow associated with U.S. policy outcomes you don't like. BTW, the Bern isn't somebody I'm not sure about. Socialism doesn't appeal to me at all.

There you go again, putting words in my mouth. I have no problem with voter ID, but I do have problems with laws tailored to keeping minorities from voting: restricting the number of polling sites in minority communities, prohibiting giving water to people standing for hours to access their right to vote, and eliminating things like early voting.
How Republicans are trying to prevent people from voting after ‘stop the steal’
Under the Radar, Right-Wing Push to Tighten Voting Laws Persists
https://www.washingtonpost.com/
Ironically, Republicans may have shot themselves in the foot with that one! Bad strategy? How the Republican attack on voting rights could backfire

 

Oooh. “January 6 invasion”, now. I was told it was an insurrection but invasion sounds even more salacious. Good one. I can’t figure out how the “retrumplicans” (I really like that one) who are the most heavily armed demographic in the country, with the most military training and even combat experience, all seemed to forget their weapons at home and failed to use even basic small-unit movement tactics, so they had to resort to “manhandling” the police. Freaking amateurs. Thank god our brave capitol plice were able to get them out by… telling them the building was closing and asking them to leave.

 

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No. Did you read the book? I was referring to the rampant violence and other crime he depicted and the various anti-white attitudes and policies he mentioned. They seemed very far fetched at the time. Unfortunately they seem much less so now.

 

So those scenes in which the mob was battering thru doors and windows and beating up on Capitol police were fake news? Crisis actors? Antifa? yadda yadda yadda.
New January 6 video shows three hours of violent assault on police | CNN Politics
https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/fiel...seeks-publics-help-in-identifying-them-070621
‘They Got a Officer!’: How a Mob Dragged and Beat Police at the Capitol (Published 2021)

Invasion: an occasion when a large number of people or things come to a place in an annoying and unwanted way. Cambridge English Dictionary: Meanings & Definitions

 

Dont know. But it certainly wasnt Juno beach. And I’m fairly certain that if the “retrumplicans” had wished to stage any form of insurrection, there would have been far more than fisticuffs.

 

If there had been an armed attack, push would have come to shove! That would probably have made lots of folks think twice. What the attack was about was mainly to prevent Congress from completing the formalities of declaring the winner of the election. Pence didn't play the desired role. Hence the cry: "Hang Mike Pence!", followed by construction of a gallows. Many of the participants seem to have been unwitting dupes, called there by their President and promised it would be "wild".

It was an interesting time here on HF. We had some newcomers like some dude with a skeletal icon foretelling us about the momentous events that were going to occur, and a step up in QAnon-style rhetoric about Democrat "pedophiles". And shortly after, some kind of showdown in which a bunch of people--including a mod named Orison and a prominent AltLite "Great Replacement" theory believer called "Six-eyed Shaman"--departed. Since I wasn't privy to the behind-the-scenes intrigue, I have no idea what that was all about. But it was interesting.

 

Alright. But I’m interested in your categorization this time. You’ve demonstrated a clear propensity for it. How would you categorize the event? Was it an invasion? An insurrection? Some heavy handed lobbying? A mostly peaceful and boringly un-firey protest? Something else entirely? I’m interested in YOUR categorization, not that of Webster or some news source or some academic source. I’d like to read YOUR choice of a descriptor or label and YOUR reasoning for it, rather than yet another appeal to authority via a link or citation. I’m truly hoping you’ve not been in academia so long as to be incapable of forming your own thought, using your own experience and reasoning. Citations, especially in the social sciences, have become harder and harder to differentiate from an academic circle-jerk.

 

The battery of weapons you’ve listed would barely (and poorly) arm a single infantry squad. How many thousands of people were there? You know if any significant weapons were present the news media would have had them laid out on display for effect.

As a former machine gunner, the phrase assault weapon has no power over me. Assault weapons proper (those capable of full auto fire) are not at all easily available, almost completely preclude well aimed shots, and unless they are used by someone with good training/ experience, tend to jam easily.

As to the tavor. There is a reason the tavor is not a widely adopted rifle. No, it’s not due to some ever-present anti-semitism. It is needlessly expensive, awkward to use, and not as accurate and reliable as more common alternatives.

As for this Rhodes person, I think their only tactical success has been in convincing you and those like you that they actually posed a threat to anyone. Kinda like shooting fish in a barrel I suspect.

 

Hmm. The phrase “means, motive, and opportunity” come to mind. They may have had the motive. I can’t seriously believe they had the other two unless you believe all the police and secret service in attendance that day amounted to keystone cops.

But “treason”? Now that’s a mighty serious charge. With some even more serious consequences. Not a term I would use lightly and I don’t even believe that any of our federal elected officials have the best interests of their citizens at heart.

 

Weapons? No. Insurrection? Yes. The dandelions on my front lawn stage more of an insurrection every spring than was staged on January 6th.

If assault weapon is a legal term applied as you have outlined, then it simply demonstrates the ignorance or dishonesty of our legislators.

I’m not saying the tavor can’t kill people. What I am saying is, if a group of people with any training at all in the use of military small arms wished to assault any target, let alone the highest branch of government of the most powerful nation in the world, they would not have chosen the ridiculous battery of weapons you listed. I’m sorry if you thought that list was scary and made your point but it was not and did not.

As to Mr. Rhodes, he may be truly guilty. I don’t know. In the age of political lawfare and selective application of the law and prosecutions, the judicial system has squandered the great respect that it once enjoyed. It won’t be easily or quickly restored.

 

Are you new to this conversation? I have stated previously that I’ve not voted since bush v gore. No, I don’t support any elected federal official. “Nor subscribe to any federal laws?” What are you, high? No, I have not always thought this way. I used to be quite the idealist: reality cured me.

“One individual had to be shot and killed…” Yeah she was a vicious beast who would have made AOC cry or flicked McConnells waddle if she had got the opportunity. I hope they pinned a medal on that brave cop for having the guts to shoot an unarmed woman in the neck. Unless the woman was black, of course. If she was, then someone should hang that cop.

 

Man, you must have some tough dandelions! One in five of the folks who participated in the event were charged with committing violent crimes, including 1,000 assaults against police officers. https://www.npr.org/2021/02/09/965472049/the-capitol-siege-the-arrested-and-their-stories#database Those rioters broke doors, smashed windows, vandalized offices, called for hanging the vice president and the Speaker of the House, and shut down the House and Senate of our republic for several hours. over 500 people were charged with criminal behavior, including assault, battery, and unlawful possession of firearms. One of these "dadelions", a Marine Corps vet and retired New York cop, used a flagpole to attack a police officer. Another knocked an officer to the ground and kicked him. Another struck an officer in the head with a skateboard. Then there was the jerk who used a police shield to pin poor Officer Hodges in a door jam, where video showed him screaming in agony while being crushed Dozens of Capitol and Metropolitan police suffered broken bones, brain injuries, and chemical burns from these maggots run amok. No big deal? Those officers were doing their duty defending their country's capitol!

 

Well sure but, “come on man,” it was after the summer of firey but mostly peaceful protests. They had watched it on every screen for months. They knew no body cared about a little bit of rioting here or Molotovs there. Roughing up some cops? Nah, they was just defending themselves from police brutality. Besides, all cops are bastards, right? As for 1 in 5 charged with crimes? Shee-it, who ain’t been charged with multiple felonies? All these stupid laws are just “the man’s” way of keepin us down.

 

This literally had me in stitches!
Based!