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(22,112 posts)event, since they'll probably more than likely be involved in future insurrection attempts again...
leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)Urban surveillance is simply a fact of everyday life now, and it there's an event in the near offing - especially one bound to be teeming with traitors, conspirators and just plain nut jobs - you just know that the various agencies will up their game significantly.
Imagine both the countless hours of investigation saved, and the higher clearance rate that cameras and facial recognition have brought them. Not that I think it's all an unreservedly good thing, but it is, in this case.
shelshaw
(533 posts)MLAA
(17,277 posts)malaise
(268,922 posts)The media will treat it like the usual bothsideism and pretend that they give a fuck about democracy.
If they cared, this would be boycotted Muslim terrorists with less harmful intentions would not be given coverage- they'd be locked up.
Quixote1818
(28,928 posts)C_U_L8R
(44,997 posts)Ha
makes you think they haven't???????????????
C_U_L8R
(44,997 posts)Ilsa
(61,694 posts)Pics of everyone going inside, hanging out in the lobby of the convention rooms. And the same for the insurrectionists down the block at the America First convention.
Chalco
(1,307 posts)Live in Florida. We're sick of DeSatan. Just like former president
he awards his people, companies with covid vacs, etc.
He's got to go.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)You deserve better.
When I saw that "Remove Ron" on the banner I thought for a second or two it was about Ron Johnson. Then it hit me. Duh...
Jilly_in_VA
(9,965 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,624 posts)I didn't know what "RemoveRon" meant.
This gives the banner a whole new context.
MarcATL
(81 posts)Clearly referring to voting, of course.
Chalco
(1,307 posts)There's a Twitter account, Facebook page.
Putting up signs like the one shown in this message.
I'm just a member. I don't run things.
My husband's name is Ron so when I received the first email from the group the message title was "Remove Ron" and
I freaked out thinking someone had something awful to say about my husband and was trying to blackmail us. Anyway,
I opened the email and saw it was about removing DeSatan.
I assume they got my email from the local democratic party.
lindysalsagal
(20,666 posts)You'd need a bigger plane.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)You'd have to have a squadron, or at least 2 or 3 C130s. Those things can carry a tank.
ancianita
(36,023 posts)those funding, scripting and strategizing at CPAC, even if it's mass scripting of the evangelical conservative Nazi adjacent alt-right wing. This is the GOP's message hardening in advance of Biden's work this next year, along with the campaign leading up to the Republican National Convention.
The corporate goal: to control all spending of the $7.8 TRILLION in taxes we pay every single year from here on out. We think the goal is political dominance (minority or whatever means) but it's really about the permanence of controlling the money behind the politics. Using alt-right politics to get there.
Too much joking around here will distract us from who and how to focus on what is a permanent state of campaign funded by corporations who intend to use every candidate and front group possible to establish corporate control at the next Democratic Party loss.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,563 posts)IMO, one just cannot maintain the level of concentration and effort indefinitely, and this has been, and will continue to be, a hard slog.
Battle fatigue.
ancianita
(36,023 posts)I do understand that battle fatigue can show up in one liner reactions. I do sympathize. And perhaps a place to do that is in the underground here. I get that. For that matter, it could be part and parcel of what the underground is about -- support in whatever form that takes. But (yep, here's the 'but' part) the corporate vs democracy war is coming to a head in the next four years and people also have to keep their focus (or develop focus) and effort on contributing helpful information.
Perhaps later, when intel comes out about CPAC's various "seminars" re Jan 6, those who rebound will
-- be better able to take seriously the self radicalization and regrouping validations that CPAC promotes to give trumpcult another year of for-profit crazy to identify with;
-- get the names of CPAC attendees, planners, speakers;
-- know what the newly twisted stories, proofs and strategies of conservatives will be,
-- most importantly, know who are the trumpcult's funders of crazy corporate hype politics.
Because in the past, when people haven't focused, a lot of rebounded energy has gotten wasted in sorting out the surprise, outrage, chewing on hype, etcetera and on and on. Perhaps sorting out will always be what democracy is about, anyway.
Just my opinion. Thanks for your perspective. (Gotta say, I love your name! )
Geechie
(864 posts)He has become a major thorn in the side of everything DeSantis during the past few years, performing stunts under the banner of "Grim Reaper" and "Herd Immunity."
Those of you who want to, please go to his facebook page & like: [link:https://www.facebook.com/daniel.uhlfelder.9|]
Brother Mythos
(1,442 posts)Insurrectionists need to be called what they are.
lame54
(35,284 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I love that movie!
Warpy
(111,245 posts)really should have the evangelical crowd rethinking a few things.
Well, the ones who were able to think in the first place.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,365 posts)Love it!
superpatriotman
(6,247 posts)When is Terrorism NOT Terrorism?
bdamomma
(63,836 posts)white privilege
Blue Owl
(50,349 posts)housecat
(3,121 posts)llashram
(6,265 posts)from a loser and his cult...
DBoon
(22,354 posts)The Alien Registration Act, popularly known as the Smith Act, 76th United States Congress, 3d session, ch. 439, 54 Stat. 670, 18 U.S.C. § 2385 is a United States federal statute that was enacted on June 28, 1940. It set criminal penalties for advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government by force or violence, and required all non-citizen adult residents to register with the federal government.
Approximately 215 people were indicted under the legislation, including alleged communists, anarchists, and fascists. Prosecutions under the Smith Act continued until a series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions in 1957[2] reversed a number of convictions under the Act as being unconstitutional. The law has been amended several times.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Act
"criminal penalties for advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government by force or violence" certainly applies the CPAC. I'm sure they would completely miss the irony of being prosecuted under an act formerly used to attempt Harry Bridge's deportation