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[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Actually insane.

Who is reading all that bullshit?

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

The latest Truth Social post from the president of the United States.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

I think the most important thing to remember about early voting data is that nobody really knows anything.

I’d rather be us than them, but don’t get complacent.

Go vote. Let’s win this fucking thing.

[Will Sommer @willsommer]

MAGA data guru Data Republican says the early vote data is so depressing for the GOP, she can’t share it with her audience.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

@HuzzahHonzi @wcpeper Potentially - depending on how you want to read the 2nd Amendment.

Unfortunately, the GOP isn’t happy with simply having a photo ID (or even a REAL ID) to register to vote.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

@Therealtesp Could you send me some examples of that? I legitimately haven’t seen it

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

For approximately the 94th time since 2008, Republicans are threatening civil war again.

Must be about to lose another election.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

@WadeMiller Wade, are you honestly telling me you aren’t seeing and hearing the calls to subvert the election from people close to Trump?

Would you support the insurrection act or martial law in order to seize ballots or voting machines?

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Wade, respectfully, the flaw in your premise:

“Nobody invokes the Insurrection Act over people walking down the street with signs. It doesn't happen.”

Trump and his allies are *openly* floating using the Insurrection Act to seize voting machines or ballots in order to upend an election they expect to lose.

Nobody wants violence. It would be nice if conservatives could focus on the brewing constitutional crisis instead of pearl clutching over the leftist boogeyman of the week.

Also, Republicans have been threatening civil war since we dared to elect a Black man. 🤷‍♂️

[Wade Miller @WadeMiller]

I've been going through the Democracy Files leaks @DataRepublican has been releasing, and whether or not any of this ultimately meets the legal bar for seditious conspiracy. The plan these organizers are discussing doesn't hold together unless you assume their "non-violence" language is masking their true intentions from public consumption.

Their red line is the Insurrection Act as a potential triggering action, there may be others, but all of the potential triggering acts that have been hinted at are lawful actions. Nobody invokes the Insurrection Act over people walking down the street with signs. It doesn't happen. The Guard deployments in LA and Portland last year to counteract violent protestors weren't even the Insurrection Act. The only scenario where it actually gets invoked is one where there is sustained violence that local authorities can't or won't control.

So if your entire plan is built around what happens after the Insurrection Act is invoked, you are building a plan around mass violence happening. You can say "non-violence" as many times as you want. The plan doesn't work without the violence. That's a wink and a nod tactic to cya legally.

But understand the logic flow of what comes next. In the transcripts published by The Post Millennial and WECU, the talk is about governors becoming "the leading governing authority," about how to "wall off these illegitimate individuals," and about moving "into an extra-constitutional process." In other words, the federal response has been labeled illegitimate before anything has even happened.

That's where this starts to matter legally. The seditious conspiracy statute covers conspiring to oppose by force the authority of the United States, or to prevent, hinder or delay by force the execution of any law. The Supreme Court said back in 1887 that if federal officers carrying out the law are forcibly opposed by people who conspired for that purpose, that is exactly what the statute was written for.

If violence breaks out, and the federal government steps in to protect communities, and these same organizers then use ongoing violent protests to tell governors and the public that the federal government is no longer legitimate, that bleeds out of activism and into something far more serious.

Advocating an idea isn't a crime necessarily and the courts have been clear about that. But there is a big difference between teaching an abstract idea and lining up the lawyers, the bail money and the governing plan for the day after.

Maria Stephan, who co-leads the Horizons Project, the group that co-wrote the toolkit for these organizers, wrote in 2020 that calling the George Floyd protests violent riots "is simply untrue" and that the looting and vandalism were "a minute portion" of it, "largely committed by opportunists." Erica Chenoweth, whose 3.5% rule keeps coming up in these circles, co-wrote that claims the protests were overtaken by rioting "are false." Paul Zeitz wrote last year that troops had been "deployed against peaceful protestors" in LA. So they are obviously hiding behind legalese to cover their tracks while having a background of defining violent protests as non-violent.

All of this tells you exactly how they'll describe the violence when it comes. “It isn't really violence, it's a tiny percentage, it's opportunists, and the real threat is the federal response.”

They're being evasive and misleading, intentionally.

The question now is what the full archive shows. If anyone on these calls is planning to physically resist federal law enforcement once it shows up, or keeps backing these movements after they've clearly turned violent, that's not politics anymore. And it’s worth repeating this last point. If the organizers of this say “peaceful protest” now, but advocate for advancing their plan to delegitimize the authority of the United States government after violent protests break out, they will be exposed to more obvious legal scrutiny.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

@Imkillintime @WadeMiller You reposted like four calls for civil war *yesterday*

I don’t really give a shit where I lost you, tbh.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

@wcpeper Could you point me to some of those seditious plans you’re referring to?

Best I can tell, people on my side just want to be able to vote without interference.

[Acyn @Acyn]

TRUMP on HIGH GAS PRICES: We’re making money like we’ve never made before. They’ll say: President Trump is bragging about all the money they're making while people are suffering at the pump. I don���t give a damn. We’re making a freaking fortune.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Oh good, we’ve made it to the “advertising discrete partnerships with the CIA” stage of this goatfuck.

I remember when Marco was supposed to be the reasonable one.

[Secretary Marco Rubio @SecRubio]

To those who seek to create positive change in Cuba - now is the time.

The disappointment of failed promises, corruption, and the privileged lives of only a few; seize this opportunity to create the change you desire through a discrete partnership with the CIA.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

In any normal world, this lawsuit would be met with universal condemnation.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Breaking news: The Justice Department has moved to preemptively block certification of the results of Alaska’s Senate race if Republican incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan loses his tight race against Democrat Mary Peltola next month. https://t.co/2lu3CsGgaE

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

More GOP voter fraud? GASP. Say it ain’t so

[Sam Stein @samstein]

NEW: Scott Presler allowed multiple out of state GOP operatives to use his home in Pennsylvania to vote in the '24 election. Those operatives then left the state. Election lawyers say this could be in violation of PA voting laws.

via @BrendanHartnett

https://t.co/zr2RrGFWUt

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

@averagjoe3 I snort laughed at this one.

[Lunar Surfer @TheLunarSurfer]

@AtlantaFalcons I must say, I was not expecting to wake up this morning to see that the Atlanta Falcons are preparing to invade Poland

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Do yourself a favor and read these comments.

Might be the best comment section I’ve ever seen

[Atlanta Falcons @AtlantaFalcons]

New PFP 👀

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

@RealBensonBear The comments are hysterical - I think most people know it’s a throwback (I hope)

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

This is fucking insane.

It reads like a bad spy novel. The corruption is almost cartoonish at this point.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. https://t.co/8AyV60gg1X

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Again:

Why does Musk have operational control over any *military grade* version of anything.

That’s not how DOD contracts work.

[Alex Ward @alexbward]

NEW: Trump called Musk and asked him to lift restrictions on a military-grade version of Starlink in Ukraine that the SpaceX chief had throttled, U.S. officials said.

The system was working more normally Thursday, shortly after their conversation, per Us and Ukrainian officials

[Joe @electionsjoe]

By far the funniest outcome humanly possible