John Wayne's Fu Manchu 🇺🇸✝️

Recovering lawyer, recovering SW Eng. Texan. I'm probably doing this thing all wrong. BLM/Antifa are terror orgs. Democrats are an organized crime family.

[Frank (Ephraim) Zelenko @frank_zelenko]

@BasilTheGreat Test run my @$$. They didn’t count on Dr Zelenko throwing a big fat monkey wrench in their entire plan. He found the covid treatment protocol that saved everyone who used it. Here’s Dr Zelenko explaining how it’ll work on every other virus that they’ll likely throw at us as well.

[Tony Seruga @TonySeruga]

🚨 J6 Gallows Mystery Solved? 💥

https://t.co/YJ3cEMSsAu has received a tip identifying the leader of the group that built the J6 gallows, commonly referred to as “Mr. Coffee.”

Background

The gallows constructed on the Capitol grounds on January 6, 2021, is one of the most potent pieces of propaganda imagery in recent American political history — and the gap between what was presented to the public versus what actually existed is instructive.

🪢 The Physical Structure: What Was Actually There

The gallows were not a functional execution device. It was a scaled-down, structurally unserious prop — roughly 8 to 10 feet tall, built from what appeared to be common lumber (2×4s and plywood), hastily assembled with visible hardware-store brackets.

The noose hung from a crossbeam that would have snapped under any real weight. The platform, such as it was, lacked any trapdoor mechanism. No counterweights, no release system, no structural engineering of any kind.

Anyone who's spent time around actual construction knows the difference between something built to kill a man and something built for theater. This was theater.

Crucially, attached to the structure was a “THIS IS ART” sign — a detail that was systematically scrubbed from virtually all mainstream media coverage. The sign explicitly framed the gallows as a symbolic statement, not a functional threat.

📺 The Media Transformation

What the public was shown was a carefully curated visual narrative:

- Tight-cropped images of the gallows with the Capitol dome in the background, implying scale and menace
- Complete omission of the “THIS IS ART” sign in broadcast segments and print coverage
- Narrative framing that treated the gallows as evidence of a premeditated assassination plot — “Hang Mike Pence” being the chant attached to it
- Prosecutorial use of the gallows imagery during hundreds of trials while systematically withholding the sign and the miniature scale from juries

The visual grammar was deliberate. A gallows silhouetted against the Capitol dome is a powerful image. Add context — it’s tiny, it’s labeled as art, it couldn’t hang a golden retriever — and the whole narrative collapses. So the context was removed.

⚖️ The Jury Problem

During J6 trials, federal prosecutors introduced the gallows as evidence of intent and premeditation. They showed photographs. They played footage. They asked witnesses about the chanting.

What they did not do:

- Inform juries about the miniature scale and structural non-functionality
- Introduce the “THIS IS ART” sign into evidence or even acknowledge its existence
- Allow defense attorneys to contextualize the gallows as political street theater — the kind of symbolic prop that appears at protests across the political spectrum
- Permit meaningful cross-examination about whether anyone genuinely believed this structure could be used for an actual hanging

This is a textbook example of prosecutorial framing by omission. You don’t need to lie if you can control what the jury sees. The gallows became what the prosecution needed it to be: not a protest prop, but a weapon. Not symbolic speech, but conspiracy evidence.

🎭 The “Art” Defense Nobody Heard

The sign itself is the smoking gun. “THIS IS ART” is a declaration of symbolic intent. It’s a statement about meaning, not mechanics. In the context of political protest — where effigies are burned, coffins are carried, and guillotines are wheeled around at various demonstrations going back centuries — a miniature gallows with an art disclaimer is unambiguously political theater.

The media’s decision to crop out, ignore, or actively suppress this sign transforms the gallows from a crude piece of protest art into an instrument of attempted murder in the public imagination. That transformation was not accidental.

🔍 Who Was Responsible?

Responsibility falls on multiple layers:

1. The builder(s) — There are videos showing the structure being assembled and transported. Multiple individuals were involved in its construction and placement. The gallows was not some spontaneous eruption; someone planned it, built it off-site, and brought it in. Identifying specific builders has been complicated by the fact that the structure was treated as evidence of a crime rather than as protected political speech, which disincentivizes anyone from coming forward to claim authorship.

2. Media outlets — CNN, MSNBC, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and virtually every major outlet ran with the gallows imagery without context. The editorial decision to crop out the art sign and omit the scale was made in newsrooms across the country. This wasn’t one bad actor — it was institutional consensus about what narrative to construct.

3. Federal prosecutors — The decision to present the gallows to juries as evidence of murderous intent, while withholding exculpatory context about its miniature scale and explicit labeling as art, is the most consequential layer. This is where the propaganda became state action with prison sentences attached.

4. The January 6 Committee — The committee’s televised hearings featured the gallows prominently. Liz Cheney and others referenced it repeatedly as evidence of intent to assassinate the Vice President. The committee had access to all the same footage showing the scale and the sign. They chose not to include it.

🎬 The Video Record

Hundreds of hours of videos exist. Independent journalists and alternative media have preserved and published footage showing:

- The full structure with the “THIS IS ART” sign clearly visible

- Wide shots establishing the miniature scale relative to the crowd and surroundings

- The gallows being moved and positioned — clearly lightweight, handled by a small number of people without equipment

- The surrounding crowd treating it as a photo-op prop, not as a functional device

This footage has been available. It simply wasn’t shown on the networks that shaped public perception, and it wasn’t admitted in the courtrooms that determined guilt.

The gallows is a case study in how selective visual framing, combined with prosecutorial power and media coordination, can transform a crude piece of protest art into the centerpiece of an insurrection narrative. The sign said it was art. The scale confirmed it. Neither fact was allowed to matter.

The identity of the builders remains officially unsolved — but the circumstantial picture is far more interesting than the “we just don’t know” shrug the FBI has offered for years.

🕵️ The Known Unknowns: What the Video Record Shows

The House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, under Chairman Barry Loudermilk, obtained and released Capitol surveillance footage that establishes a precise timeline:

- ~6:00 AM, January 6 — A group of five individuals assembles on the National Mall, hours before any rally or crowd has gathered
- White van arrival — Three individuals unload pre-fabricated wooden pieces (on wheels) from a full-size white van parked north of Constitution Avenue
- Taxi arrival — Two additional individuals arrive separately by cab at 1st and C Streets NW
- 6:30–7:15 AM — The group constructs the platform and two main pillars, leaving off the crossbeam and noose
- Coffee run — The apparent group leader and one other person walk north on 3rd Street to the only coffee shop open at that hour — located directly across from FBI headquarters
~1:00 PM — The group returns, now five strong, and the leader (having changed from a trench coat/fedora/scarf ensemble into a baseball cap) installs the crossbeam and bright orange noose — precisely as the Capitol breach begins
- Immediately after — All five men leave the grounds and are never seen again

👤 The “Group Leader” — Dressed for a Costume Party

The man identified in surveillance footage as the apparent leader wore a getup that screams theatricality:

- Long trench coat
- White scarf
- Fedora-style hat
- Walking cane

This is not standard Trump rally attire. This is central casting for “mysterious provocateur.” He later changed into a baseball cap before the 1:00 PM noose installation — a wardrobe swap consistent with someone who understood cameras were watching and wanted to manage his visual signature.

☕ The Coffee Shop Detail

This is the detail that should make anyone’s antenna go up. The group leader and his companion walked to get coffee at the only shop open at that hour — and that shop sits directly across from the J. Edgar Hoover Building, FBI headquarters.

Ed Martin, the attorney who has represented over 100 J6 defendants and who first obtained and publicized the surveillance footage, has been blunt: either these men were FBI agents, or they wanted to appear to be FBI.

The coffee run wasn’t random. In a city with hundreds of coffee options, at an hour when only one is open, you don’t accidentally end up at the one across from FBI HQ unless you know exactly where you’re going.

🎭 The “THIS IS ART” Sign — A Legal Shield?

The sign is not a minor detail. It may have been a deliberate legal hedge. The National Park Service permit regulations for the Mall include language permitting "ethnic arts and crafts" as displays. Labeling the structure as art — however absurd — potentially provided a layer of protection against immediate removal by Capitol Police.

And critically: Capitol Police not only did not remove it, but they completely ignored it. Despite explicit regulations prohibiting temporary structures of any kind on Capitol grounds, the gallows sat untouched from 6:30 AM until evening. A structure built in plain view of hundreds of surveillance cameras, on the most heavily policed patch of grass in America, was allowed to remain all day. Either the Capitol Police were catastrophically incompetent that morning, or someone wanted it there.

🔍 The Suspect Pool: Who Benefits?

No one has been charged. The FBI, after deploying the full weight of federal law enforcement against ~1,300 J6 defendants — including grandmothers charged with misdemeanor trespassing — has somehow failed to identify five men who built a gallows on camera in front of the Capitol.

The question is who had motive and means:

1. Federal Assets or Informants

The coffee shop location, the pre-dawn timing (before any MAGA crowd), the pre-fabricated construction (they didn’t build it on-site from raw lumber — they unloaded finished pieces), the costume changes, the disappearance without a trace — this is tradecraft, not amateur hour. The FBI’s complete lack of interest in identifying the builders, despite having facial images and a white van, is either staggering incompetence or something else entirely.

2. Anti-Trump Operatives

Ed Martin’s theory — that the gallows was a plant by actors seeking to create the most damaging possible visual for the Trump movement — aligns with the facts as we know them. The gallows were constructed hours before any protesters arrived. It was positioned for maximum photographic impact, perfectly framed by the Capitol dome. The builders left before the crowd formed and returned only to add the noose at the exact moment the breach began — then vanished. The entire operation reads like a psyop designed to produce a single indelible image.

3. The David Dempsey Connection

FBI affidavits identify a man known as #FlagGaiterCopHater — later identified as David Nicholas Dempsey — who was filmed in front of the gallows delivering a monologue about hanging politicians. Dempsey was a violent actor at the Capitol that day, attacking police with a crutch, a metal pole, and chemical spray. He’s been charged. But the affidavit treats him as someone who used the gallows as a backdrop, not someone who built it. The builders remain a separate, unidentified group.

🚩 Why No Investigation?

Chairman Loudermilk has publicly stated that the FBI has no suspects. The January 6 Committee — which had access to all this CCTV footage — never released information about when or by whom the gallows were built. They simply showed the finished image, spliced it with “Hang Mike Pence” chants recorded elsewhere, and let the implication do the work.

If the gallows were genuinely built by Trump supporters as a murder threat, identifying and prosecuting the builders would be the single most damning piece of evidence in the entire J6 narrative.

Instead, the people who built the central propaganda image of January 6 remain ghosts — despite being caught on camera, despite arriving in a traceable white van, despite one of them wearing a costume that would make him identifiable at 100 yards.

That’s not an investigation that failed. That’s an investigation that was never meant to succeed.

GPS—we have known from day one that at least 2 of the 5 regularly use a keycard-required secure parking garage for the J. Edgar Hoover Building.

Vehicular entrances are from 9th Street NW and 10th Street NW (not directly from Pennsylvania Avenue, which is the main public facade).

It is a secure, restricted facility for FBI employees and authorized personnel only. Public parking is not available there.

And now, the https://t.co/YJ3cEMSsAu tip received early this morning sheds additional light on what we have suspected all along.

We are vetting the tipster, but they knew details not released to the public, including a party the “Group Leader/Mr. Coffee” had attended in the past, where they wore the same attire, i.e., long trench coat, white scarf, fedora, and a walking cane.

[John Wayne's Fu Manchu 🇺🇸✝️ @USobusted]

@TheAliceSmith I suspect if we had access to the financial systems in the Middle East, we'd find numbered accounts of western politicians with hundreds of billions of dollars that were paid to facilitate the invasion of Europe, Canada, and the US.

[bitchuneedsoap @bitchuneedsoap]

Here’s what one Signal message uncovered.

I messaged a group admin asking how my family in NJ could help the Delaney Hall protesters. Within minutes she sent me a supply list and a Venmo donation link.

The supply list wasn’t water bottles. It was P100 respirators (tear gas grade), military-spec impact goggles, welding gloves for picking up hot tear gas canisters, helmets, body armor, and Sudecon chemical decontamination wipes. That’s a military/law enforcement product most people have never heard of.

The Venmo link: @cosechanj. That account belongs to Jenny Garcia. She’s the main organizer of the Delaney Hall protests.

Quoted in the American Prospect, Newsweek, and TIME. Listed as the official press contact.

She is not a volunteer. She is a professional organizer.

Venmo feeds are public. I pulled hers.

Payments labeled “Commissary” (money for detained immigrants to buy food inside the facility). “Commissary / phone accounts fund” (keeping detainees’ phones active). “DSA meeting” (Democratic Socialists of America). “Mutual aid.” “F ICE.”

Same account. Uber rides. Cumbia dance classes. A cafe called Pika’s Fika.

Protest donations and personal spending. One feed. No separation.

So who pays Jenny Garcia?

She holds three titles at three organizations.

Detention Watch Network. DC-based. $7.2 million in assets. Ford Foundation funded.

AFSC. Classified as a church. No public donors. Tides Foundation gave them $221K.

Cosecha NJ. The @cosechanj Venmo name. Files two 990s. Reports $0 in salaries. Every year. Every officer. Nobody gets paid.

Foundation money pays Garcia through DWN and AFSC. She organizes under Cosecha’s name. Cosecha claims to pay nobody.

More coming.

[John Wayne's Fu Manchu 🇺🇸✝️ @USobusted]

@GingyNorth A virtual forest of them downtown. I was marveling at how many when I had dinner at Jack Ryan's a few years ago.

[John Wayne's Fu Manchu 🇺🇸✝️ @USobusted]

@TheOklahoman_ Were you educated in a Minnesota Quality Learing Center? Murder... Illegal Alien.

[John Wayne's Fu Manchu 🇺🇸✝️ @USobusted]

@On3 This won't pass constitutional muster, it's a waste of time and paper.

[John Wayne's Fu Manchu 🇺🇸✝️ @USobusted]

@shipwreckedcrew The Dems seem to enjoy doubling down on setting money on fire in Texas senate races, long after it's clear their candidate will lose. I wouldn't count on them pulling money for those other races, based on past behavior; their dreams of taking Texas are just too tempting.

[John Wayne's Fu Manchu 🇺🇸✝️ @USobusted]

@lonestarmango @Arkypatriot FWIW - they love watermelon rinds... which was a very frequent occasion on my back porch in Lakeway before the city prohibited feeding them. And they climbed 15 feet up a multi-level concrete patio to feast on my bougainvillea.

[John Wayne's Fu Manchu 🇺🇸✝️ @USobusted]

@WeaponOutfitter Look at a US continental roadmap. The density of roadways and the parcels of land divided by heirs over several centuries are unmistakeable. The almost linear reduction in density of roads and increase in the size of land parcels as you head west is very clear.

[John Wayne's Fu Manchu 🇺🇸✝️ @USobusted]

@aledonzis @ValueExpected @agingroy I'll always wonder how much his wife might have influenced this decision. No way to know, but based on the little I know about her, it seems like something she might have encouraged.

[John Wayne's Fu Manchu 🇺🇸✝️ @USobusted]

@CNviolations Consistent with what I observed at Texas Instruments in the 1980s... MTS was awarded when you started as a new hire and managed to stay for 5 years.

[John Wayne's Fu Manchu 🇺🇸✝️ @USobusted]

@ElViejoMalave No, it emphasizes the aspects of the game that always made baseball a thinking man's game... It clarifies many things we intuitively knew were true. I appreciated the shifts and the emphasis of strategy and have been disappointed in the "adaptations" in the name of watchability.

[John Wayne's Fu Manchu 🇺🇸✝️ @USobusted]

@mattbramanti Randall's is like my much larger, better stocked, and cheaper 7-11. It's not useful for actual grocery shopping, but it's ultra convenient for those last-minute items and faster/cheaper than a rush InstaCart.

[Las Vegas @Vegas]

The road to America250 starts here. This Memorial Day, Hoover Dam lit up to honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice — and the display runs through July 4. Plan your visit at https://t.co/GloC9XqUWc

[John Wayne's Fu Manchu 🇺🇸✝️ @USobusted]

@TimRunsHisMouth In Austin this will mean sunrise will be after 8am from just before Thanksgiving until the end of February. And that completely sucks for myriad reasons. Standard time was standard time for a good reason. I'd completely support perpetual Standard time, but not this.

[John Wayne's Fu Manchu 🇺🇸✝️ @USobusted]

@ROCKInTheUSSA @MorEdge_Insight Amen. Though we should specifically request Basque cops... not Spanish cops. The Basques are in many ways a completely separate nationality.

[John Wayne's Fu Manchu 🇺🇸✝️ @USobusted]

@WhitakerTA_ Any comment on this new report? https://t.co/A7onK235tP

[Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 @Bubblebathgirl]

🚨 BREAKING: US & Iran expected to announce draft PEACE DEAL within 24 hours

According to an exclusive from The Washington Times, a draft proposal has been agreed upon to end the fighting on all fronts. Announcement possible by Sunday afternoon.

Negotiators including VP JD Vance, Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, and Iranian officials have signed off. Mediated heavily by Pakistan with Qatar’s involvement.

This could turn the fragile 6-week truce into a permanent peace — addressing the Strait of Hormuz, Iran’s nuclear program, sanctions relief, and reopening shipping lanes critical for global oil.

President Trump has pushed hard on this — mixing tough talk with diplomacy. If it holds, it’s a major win for stability in the Middle East.

Will this be a real breakthrough or more talks?

(Video: AI)

[John Wayne's Fu Manchu 🇺🇸✝️ @USobusted]

@CaryHorati1254 @DailyMail @grok Thank you!