Cont: Trump’s Coup - Part 2

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Matthew Ellard said:
I forgot this gem of information about Patrick Byrne, batting for the Sidney Powell Qanon team.

"Byrne claims he’s been serving as a government informant, feeding information since 2015 to the “Men In Black,” as he puts it, on Maria Butina, a vivacious Russian grad student with whom he struck up a romantic relationship. She is currently serving an 18-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to conspiring to act as a foreign agent, in connection with her efforts to infiltrate conservative political circles before and after the 2016 presidential election."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/lauren...tocks-mad-king-patrick-byrne/?sh=2a456f9753a5
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So that's two people on the Powell team who are not even tangentially intersecting with reality: Powell, and Byrne. Then there's the third member: Flynn...


OK, so now there's three people on the Powell team who are not even tangentially intersecting with reality...
 
How does the discussion of Trump's coup extend past the peaceful transfer of power away from the Trump administration?

Shouldn't all the coup proponents be wallowing in private shame right now? Shouldn't everyone else be moving on other more pertinent concerns?

This thread should have died on inauguration day. Rent free, I guess.
 
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How many want to see all these rioters tried in the District of Colunbia as opposed to their home states?

Instead of facing all white or close to all white juries they get jurors from an 80 percent African American jury pool.
 
theprestige said:
How does the discussion of Trump's coup extend pasta the peaceful transfer of power away from the Trump administration?

Shouldn't all the coup proponents be wallowing in private shame right now? Shouldn't everyone else be moving on other more pertinent concerns?

This thread should have died on inauguration day.
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What does "pasta" have to do with a coup? Is that some kind of Italian dish I'm unfamiliar with?
 
theprestige said:
How does the discussion of Trump's coup extend past the peaceful transfer of power away from the Trump administration?

Shouldn't all the coup proponents be wallowing in private shame right now? Shouldn't everyone else be moving on other more pertinent concerns?

This thread should have died on inauguration day. Rent free, I guess.
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LMAO! Yeah, right, the attempt at violent overthrow of our democracy happened almost a month ago. And the transfer of power happened more than a week ago! We should just move on even if both the mechanisms and people who might have contributed to the threat are still in place.

Odin's eye what a bad take, but it's the one conservatives have settled on again I guess.
 
theprestige said:
How does the discussion of Trump's coup extend past the peaceful transfer of power away from the Trump administration?

Shouldn't all the coup proponents be wallowing in private shame right now? Shouldn't everyone else be moving on other more pertinent concerns?

This thread should have died on inauguration day. Rent free, I guess.
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Really? You think it's a good idea to bury one's head in the sand? Whatever happened to personal responsibility? That one can attempt a coup de etat and pay no penalty for that action? That we should just ignore a violent insurrection?

Now we should care about the legislature governing?
Let's see, what did the GOP Senate do the last 4 years? Was it 300 or 400 House bills that never even got a hearing in the Senate? I think the do nothing Republican Senators can spend a week or two between filibusters to preserve democracy and judge Trump for his high crimes.
 
Susheel said:
Well, it constantly reminds him that for the past four years he had hitched his wagon to that orange embarrassment because "it hurt the liberals".
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First the GOP refused to even hear witnesses and evidence in the first impeachment trial and suggested that Trump had learned his lesson to now saying it doesn't matter that Trump has been stoking and inciting domestic terrorism for the last s months. That it doesn't matter.

Now this isn't really about Prestige, since he is responding exactly like how the GOP has been responding to Trump for the last 4 years.

First, it was that Trump would learn to be Presidential.
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You can't take what he says literally.

He's never going to do those awful things.

He's not really a racist.

It doesn't matter he's violating the emoluments clause.

Or that he didn't pay taxes.

And since he's President he can ignore subpoenas and justice.

And he can blackmail foreign governments to launch and announce phoney investigations into his political opponents.

He can use the Post Office to suppress the vote.

He can launch a disinformation campaign into the security of our election.

He can plan a rally at the White House for gun nuts ( A clear violation of the Hatch Act BTW) and a march to the Capitol on the day Congress certifies the vote.

Trump can tell them over and over again without evidence that democracy is being stolen from them and they must stop the steal and prevent the trannsfer of power. That they must fight, fight and stop it. His rally included threats against his own VP, it included his lawyer to tell them they must make this a "trial by combat" Over and over again during this rally they were encouraged to fight.

And because he said "peaceably" once it is all ok? Keep in mind that Trump when asked on multiple occasions if he would promise there would be a peaceful transition he made it clear that he could care less about it being peaceful.

Should we ignore the many times he did this because he used the word "peaceful" once? Should we ignore the slow response of the National Guard and Homeland Security and Trump's total inaction during the riot? Our Commander in Chief had a responsibility to respond and what did he do? He watched TV and cheered the rioters on.

Is the man going to be held accountable for nothing? There are more than a 100 rioters who are facing serious charges and Trump just walks away?

Prestige seems to think so. Still offering dispensation for Trump.

Screw that.
 
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Whacko pro-Trump "election fraud" CT lawyer Lin Wood is under investigation in Georgia for voter fraud. My irony meter just blew up.
 
Stacyhs said:
Whacko pro-Trump "election fraud" CT lawyer Lin Wood is under investigation in Georgia for voter fraud. My irony meter just blew up.
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A pro-Trump attorney who pushed conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election, including allegations of voter fraud, is reportedly under investigation for illegal voting. CBS Atlanta affiliate WGCL-TV cites a high-level source in the Georgia Secretary of State's office as saying that office is investigating whether Wood voted "out of state" — in Georgia even though he was actually a resident of South Carolina at the time of the November election.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pro-tr...gation-for-alleged-illegal-voting-2020-02-03/

I suppose that's one way to know whether voter fraud has taken place, actually do it yourself. ;)
 
theprestige said:
How does the discussion of Trump's coup extend past the peaceful transfer of power away from the Trump administration?

Shouldn't all the coup proponents be wallowing in private shame right now? Shouldn't everyone else be moving on other more pertinent concerns?
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Oh, I know you really would prefer we forget all about that and never mentioned it again. :rolleyes:


theprestige said:
This thread should have died on inauguration day. Rent free, I guess.
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All you do here lately is trolling. That says a lot about what your ideology that you support has to offer.
 
Fast Eddie B said:
While McConnell didn’t name her directly, he did say this in a statement today:

“Loony lies and conspiracy theories are cancer for the Republican Party and our country. Somebody who's suggested that perhaps no airplane hit the Pentagon on 9/11, that horrifying school shootings were pre-staged, and that the Clintons crashed JFK Jr.'s airplane is not living in reality. This has nothing to do with the challenges facing American families or the robust debates on substance that can strengthen our party."

I think we can guess who he was referring to, though.
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Yeah, anyone who has a problem with that statement is probably taking too personally. "Hey, is he talking about me?" If you have to ask that question, then yeah, I think there's a problem.
 
Skeptic Ginger said:
I'm pretty sure that's where the Trump party was 4 years ago.
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True but four years ago there was no need to have a conversation about the will of the people since they won under the rules of our system (though lost the popular vote). This time they lost on both counts (electoral and popular) and the idea of what the voters wanted never came up.
 
acbytesla said:
First the GOP refused to even hear witnesses and evidence in the first impeachment trial and suggested that Trump had learned his lesson to now saying it doesn't matter that Trump has been stoking and inciting domestic terrorism for the last s months. That it doesn't matter.

Now this isn't really about Prestige, since he is responding exactly like how the GOP has been responding to Trump for the last 4 years.

First, it was that Trump would learn to be Presidential.
and
You can't take what he says literally.

He's never going to do those awful things.

He's not really a racist.

It doesn't matter he's violating the emoluments clause.

Or that he didn't pay taxes.

And since he's President he can ignore subpoenas and justice.

And he can blackmail foreign governments to launch and announce phoney investigations into his political opponents.

He can use the Post Office to suppress the vote.

He can launch a disinformation campaign into the security of our election.

He can plan a rally at the White House for gun nuts ( A clear violation of the Hatch Act BTW) and a march to the Capitol on the day Congress certifies the vote.

Trump can tell them over and over again without evidence that democracy is being stolen from them and they must stop the steal and prevent the trannsfer of power. That they must fight, fight and stop it. His rally included threats against his own VP, it included his lawyer to tell them they must make this a "trial by combat" Over and over again during this rally they were encouraged to fight.

And because he said "peaceably" once it is all ok? Keep in mind that Trump when asked on multiple occasions if he would promise there would be a peaceful transition he made it clear that he could care less about it being peaceful.

Should we ignore the many times he did this because he used the word "peaceful" once? Should we ignore the slow response of the National Guard and Homeland Security and Trump's total inaction during the riot? Our Commander in Chief had a responsibility to respond and what did he do? He watched TV and cheered the rioters on.

Is the man going to be held accountable for nothing? There are more than a 100 rioters who are facing serious charges and Trump just walks away?

Prestige seems to think so. Still offering dispensation for Trump.

Screw that.
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