- Learn from the last election Corky ...

As it turns out, Trump Lost.... or would have had it not been for Voter Suppression.

Do the math...

DOJ asks judge to drop order barring Oath Keepers from visiting Capitol

Stewart Rhodes, previously sentenced to 18 years for seditious conspiracy, was at the Capitol Wednesday chatting up lawmakers and reporters.

The Justice Department is asking a federal judge to drop his recent order barring Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes " who was freed from prison by President Donald Trump earlier this week " and several top allies from entering Washington D.C. or the Capitol without permission."

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"During the trial, prosecutors revealed a Jan. 10, 2021, recording of Rhodes in which he said "My only regret is they should have brought rifles" to the Capitol.

"We could have fixed it right then and there," Rhodes said. "I'd hang ------- Pelosi from the lamppost."

Although Trump pardoned most Jan. 6 rioters, he opted to commute the sentences of most of the defendants who faced charges of seditious conspiracy."

"Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government."

It lays out a rationalization to investigate and then prosecute the investigators and attorneys in the federal government who looked into Trump's many ties to Russia and Putin.

It then goes after those who tracked down and imprisoned January 6th seditionists, and tried (unsuccessfully, thanks to Merrick Garland's timidity) to prosecute Trump for his attempts to overthrow the 2020 election and to steal top-secret nuclear and espionage secrets (which he allegedly then made available to random foreign spies passing through Mar-a-Lago).

The "Weaponization" EO makes clear from the start that it's not about ending but, rather, beginning the weaponization of the federal government. It starts right out with a proclamation of Trump's victimhood:"

All that at the thread link.

1Nut is what's known in the industry as a very Shallow Fake indeed.

Small Fake, Stupid Fake, and Fake Up also apply.

"Stay with me and I'll give you the means, methods and, most important, the key calculations.

But if you're expecting a sexy story about Elon Musk messing with vote-counting software from outer space, sorry, you won't get that here.

As in Bush v. Gore in 2000 and in too many other miscarriages of Democracy, this election was determined by good old "vote suppression," the polite term we use for shafting people of color out of their ballot. We used to call it Jim Crow.

Here are key numbers:"

Much more on the Republican "Klan Plan" for the election at the thread link.

Also a great little interview with Greg Palast, NY Times is here:

"Oath Keepers founder barred from D.C., U.S. Capitol unless judge signs off

A federal judge on Friday barred Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group who was convicted of seditious conspiracy in connection with the Capitol riot, from entering Washington, D.C. or U.S. Capitol without the court's permission.

Rhodes was convicted by a federal jury in 2022 of seditious conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of President Trump's supporters. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta sentenced Rhodes to 18 years in prison, calling him a threat to the country and democracy."

"Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers, showed up at the US Capitol this week, dining at a Dunkin inside the Longworth House office building. The Associated Press reported that Rhodes "met with at least one lawmaker during his visit and chatted with others" while on Capitol Hill.

He gave interviews outside the DC jail, where he said he wanted prosecutors to be tried for their "crimes". Rhodes was not pardoned " his sentence was commuted, and he was released early.

He wants a full pardon.

Rhodes suggested January 6 should be remembered in history as "patriots day".

He has not expressed regret for his role in the riots, saying his members were entrapped and their responses to police force were understandable.

"We were there to protect Trump supporters from Antifa," he said in a video after his release."

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Thanks, Trumpers! You built this!

It should make you almost as proud as gun violence being the leading cause of death in children.

- I don't count in my state.

Yet you assail people in states where their votes do count for not agreeing with you.

- Do you ever have a clue?

#49 | Posted by Sycophant

Not to be obvious, but that answer to that is NO, he has never had a clue. Never even smelt one.

"In summary, the present results mirror the results obtained in adult samples, with similar relationships of more or less equal magnitude between cognitive abilities and ideological attitudes, and with even stronger relationships for emotional abilities," the researchers wrote.

"The very concept of ideological attitudes' almost necessitates that its developmental roots go back in time. Many people are committed to politics, but in reflecting on the political' they do not always think in terms of specific policy issues.

Ideological attitudes, after all, have a different compass, one that aligns with values and norms. Such values and norms likely develop at younger ages and are amenable to socialization, making people responsive to specific ideological attitudes."

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And... as one can tell around here, this correlation of Authoritarian leanings in any direction leads to weaker cognitive and emotional abilities.