The Trump era law and order thread

Back on topic:

Wiretaps are bad again.

Eh, not bad. You’re luckier than you know, my friend. I only wish I could keep my tv habits down to an hour per day. :smiley:

They caused the situation, more or less on purpose. It’s only a problem for them now that it’s backfiring politically.

Do not call up what you cannot put down.

Someone who splits their time equally between Breitbart and Forumosa.

:tada::tada::tada:

TFW your guy is so paranoid that he won’t commit to a peaceful transition of power.

He’s drained so much out of the swamp that there isn’t even any democracy left!

Thank god the GOP has at least enough decency to come out against him on this. Senators lining up to tweet that no, Donnie, you don’t get to stay in the White House if you lose. Just like every four years since 1792, you gotta move out if voters are fed up with your shit.

Only difference between Donnie and previous presidents is that if he gets voted out, he doesn’t get to retire to the ranch. He’s probably gonna have to go to jail, and I think he knows it…

He won’t go to jail. I’m pretty sure there would be a plea bargain made that avoided any jail time even if some crime warrants it. The US wouldn’t want to look that bad. It’s probably nothing anyways.

Seriously. That was the complaint.

Covfefe!

Somebody tell me again what the SPLC is good for.


Just right-wing militia doing their patriotic duty to murder opponents and follow Trump\s advice to “Liberate Michigan”

Enjoy that smear while it lasts. It’s becoming increasingly clear that these were anarchists.

Not all militia are right wing as has been noted elsewhere one of these guys is pictured in front of an anarchist flag.

Don’t let the facts get in the way of your narrative though.

It’s both worrying and comforting:

  1. Right-wing anti-maskers are dangerous.
  2. Right-wingers are too stupid to organize anything like this properly.

Fox posted a YouTube video in June, mentioning Whitmer’s handling of the pandemic as one of his motives for the plot.[2] According to his employer, Fox espoused anti-police and anti-government views, along with support for the boogaloo movement, and had recently become worried about the U.S. becoming a communist country and Democratic politicians taking away his guns.[22] Croft’s social media accounts depicted him wearing a tricorne and a sweatshirt with an insignia associated with the Three Percenters militia group. He expressed support for the Russia investigation origins counter-narrative and believed the investigations into President Trump constituted an “uprising”.[16]

Brandon Caserta was depicted wearing a Hawaiian-style shirt associated with the boogaloo movement in a TikTok video; and on Facebook, he praised Kyle Rittenhouse, a civilian who shot and killed two protesters during unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Caserta was also a “COVID-19 denier” and supported the QAnon conspiracy theory.[24] His belief system apparently became more extreme following Whitmer’s implementation of the statewide lockdown. His social media activity originally consisted of posts about comedy shows and podcasts, motivational quotes, and selfies; but following the lockdown, he began “liking” posts about conspiracy theories regarding Bill Gates, as well as memes about hogtying police officers.[16]
Pete Musico was active on YouTube, where he posted video blogs against taxes, gun control, and the so-called deep state. A video posted in 2019, entitled “Gretchen Whitmer Interview”, depicted him railing against her policies around automobile ownership. Musico was also active on Gab, where he promoted the unfounded claim that there is an ongoing campaign to kill white people in South Africa. He also followed the accounts of Proud Boys organizer Joe Biggs and InfoWars personality Owen Shroyer. On Twitter, he expressed support for Donald Trump and conspiracy theories regarding Bill and Hillary Clinton, and the high presence of mercury in vaccines.[12] Two of the suspects, twin brothers Michael and William Null, were photographed at a protest held by Michigan United for Liberty, a right-wing group protesting against Whitmer’s COVID-19 lockdown orders, at the Michigan State Capitol on April 30.[25]

Sounds like antifa!

Sorry, that’s from Wiki if you want to look it up.

Brandon Caserta, one of the six described in an FBI affidavit, posted several memes endorsing the deadly shootings by Rittenhouse. One shows Rittenhouse laughing underneath the text: “when you’ve smoked 3 commies before you can legally smoke cigarettes.”

Caserta’s activity on YouTube further suggests his worldview: He subscribed to Project Veritas, an outlet known for pushing right-wing disinformation, and the channel run by Ben Shapiro, also considered by some experts to be a gateway to online radicalization, among others . Caserta’s Facebook likes included one for the page “Michigan Revolution,” whose profile photo shows a man dressed in Revolutionary War–era clothi ng and holding an assault rifle paired with the text “NEW AMERICAN REVOLUTION.”

So, do you think they got haircuts to get all those funny looking antifa dreadlocks cut off, or are they all BLM types wearing whiteface?

Also two of those arrested posing at the right-wing militia protest at the Michigan legislature, which was totally not a right-wing gun-nut covidiot protest, and anywhere they were probably just there to make right-wingers look bad, knowing they would be arrested later

By the way…

Anybody who couldn’t see this coming isn’t fit for power.

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In his decision, Judge Thomas S. Zilly of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington wrote, “Plaintiffs plausibly allege that the City’s actions—encouraging CHOP participants to wall off the area and agreeing to a ‘no response’ zone within and near CHOP’s borders—foreseeably placed Plaintiffs in a worse position.”

While Zilly dismissed the plaintiffs’ claim that the city violated their constitutional rights to equal protection by treating them differently from other city residents or CHOP occupiers, he allowed the plaintiffs’ three other legal claims to proceed.

The plaintiffs’ three other claims allege that by allowing CHOP to operate for a month before police eventually shut it down, the city unlawfully took their private property for public use with no compensation, restricted their ability to fully use their property to conduct business and failed to protect the businesses from a danger of the city’s own making.

If only there were video evidence of this. :roll_eyes:

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