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There's a WELCOME INSURRECTIONISTS banner flying over CPAC now (Original Post) highplainsdem Feb 2021 OP
They literally should be taking pictures of every single one of these thugs participating in this SWBTATTReg Feb 2021 #1
They probably are. nt leftyladyfrommo Feb 2021 #18
I'd be shocked if they weren't. BobTheSubgenius Feb 2021 #27
Yes, it's a giant roach motel shelshaw Feb 2021 #19
Perfect description MLAA Feb 2021 #32
Get thee to the greatest page malaise Feb 2021 #2
Are they trying to write our ads for the midterms? LOL nt Quixote1818 Feb 2021 #3
The FBI should park a marked van out front C_U_L8R Feb 2021 #4
👍 Budi Feb 2021 #5
..👍🏼 uponit7771 Feb 2021 #9
What DENVERPOPS Feb 2021 #10
Those are the unmarked ones C_U_L8R Feb 2021 #11
Pics of all the auto license plates, even rentals. Ilsa Feb 2021 #26
I'm a member of the Remove Ron group on Twitter. Chalco Feb 2021 #6
I sincerely wish you luck. Mike 03 Feb 2021 #7
They can do double duty and use it in Wisconsin too! Jilly_in_VA Feb 2021 #8
Thanx for clarifying JohnnyRingo Feb 2021 #25
What are you guys doing to get him out? MarcATL Feb 2021 #31
Making it a thing here is Florida. Chalco Feb 2021 #36
Luckily, his name isn't Rumplestiltskin. lindysalsagal Feb 2021 #12
Or if you wanted to list all the RWNJs and traitors that need to go. BobTheSubgenius Feb 2021 #28
None of this should be amusing. Anti-Ron stuff shouldn't distract us away from serious attention to ancianita Feb 2021 #13
I often look at humour in these situations as a pressure relief valve. BobTheSubgenius Feb 2021 #29
I understand, Bob. And I can see the value of it. And the flying banner is funny. ancianita Feb 2021 #33
I believe this is the work of Daniel Uhlfelder Geechie Feb 2021 #14
How appropriate! Brother Mythos Feb 2021 #15
Here's the vid... lame54 Feb 2021 #16
Hah! Perfect! smirkymonkey Feb 2021 #24
This plus havint a Golden Pig for people to worship Warpy Feb 2021 #17
That's just brilliant! A HERETIC I AM Feb 2021 #20
Why isn't it being treated like an ISIS meeting? superpatriotman Feb 2021 #21
That's bdamomma Feb 2021 #23
Bwah! Blue Owl Feb 2021 #22
ya just can't fix stupid housecat Feb 2021 #30
what can be expected llashram Feb 2021 #34
Is the Smith Act still on the books? DBoon Feb 2021 #35

SWBTATTReg

(22,112 posts)
1. They literally should be taking pictures of every single one of these thugs participating in this
Fri Feb 26, 2021, 03:21 PM
Feb 2021

event, since they'll probably more than likely be involved in future insurrection attempts again...

BobTheSubgenius

(11,563 posts)
27. I'd be shocked if they weren't.
Sat Feb 27, 2021, 12:40 PM
Feb 2021

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.

malaise

(268,922 posts)
2. Get thee to the greatest page
Fri Feb 26, 2021, 03:21 PM
Feb 2021

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.

Ilsa

(61,694 posts)
26. Pics of all the auto license plates, even rentals.
Sat Feb 27, 2021, 12:27 PM
Feb 2021

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)
6. I'm a member of the Remove Ron group on Twitter.
Fri Feb 26, 2021, 03:31 PM
Feb 2021

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)
7. I sincerely wish you luck.
Fri Feb 26, 2021, 03:37 PM
Feb 2021

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...

JohnnyRingo

(18,624 posts)
25. Thanx for clarifying
Sat Feb 27, 2021, 12:14 PM
Feb 2021

I didn't know what "RemoveRon" meant.
This gives the banner a whole new context.

Chalco

(1,307 posts)
36. Making it a thing here is Florida.
Sat Feb 27, 2021, 02:28 PM
Feb 2021

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.

BobTheSubgenius

(11,563 posts)
28. Or if you wanted to list all the RWNJs and traitors that need to go.
Sat Feb 27, 2021, 12:43 PM
Feb 2021

You'd have to have a squadron, or at least 2 or 3 C130s. Those things can carry a tank.

ancianita

(36,023 posts)
13. None of this should be amusing. Anti-Ron stuff shouldn't distract us away from serious attention to
Fri Feb 26, 2021, 04:41 PM
Feb 2021

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)
29. I often look at humour in these situations as a pressure relief valve.
Sat Feb 27, 2021, 12:45 PM
Feb 2021

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)
33. I understand, Bob. And I can see the value of it. And the flying banner is funny.
Sat Feb 27, 2021, 01:41 PM
Feb 2021

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)
14. I believe this is the work of Daniel Uhlfelder
Fri Feb 26, 2021, 04:48 PM
Feb 2021

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|]

Warpy

(111,245 posts)
17. This plus havint a Golden Pig for people to worship
Fri Feb 26, 2021, 05:05 PM
Feb 2021

really should have the evangelical crowd rethinking a few things.

Well, the ones who were able to think in the first place.

DBoon

(22,354 posts)
35. Is the Smith Act still on the books?
Sat Feb 27, 2021, 02:11 PM
Feb 2021
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
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