Last week I wrote about local bullies, and those that terrorize the citizens that elected them locally and nationally. More often than we might have thought, those elected bullies, unsated by the billions they suck from their people’s coffers, opt to extend their reign indefinitely. When they do so, they morph from being barely restrained autocratic bullies, into full-fledged, unrestrained, dictators.
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Roxanne Tellier – There’s A Riot Going On
Posted in COVID 19, life, Opinion, politics, Review with tags 9/11, APNews.com, Bill Hagerty, Business Insider, Capitol, Capitol Hill, Cindy Hyde-Smith, consequences for their actions, Cynthia M. Lummis, DBAWIS, Der Spiegel, Electoral College, fundraised, Gab, insurrectionists, James Lankford, January 6, John Neely Kennedy, Josh Hawley, Kennedy’s assassination, Marsha Blackburn, MeWe, Mike Braun, Mo Brooks, Muriel Bowser, National Guard, NPR, Parler, Pearl Harbour, Pentagon, People’s House, Public Enemy Number One, QAnon, Republican, Republican Attorneys General Association, Rick Scott, Roger Marshall, Ron Johnson, Roxanne Tellier, Rudy Giuliani, Rule of Law Defense Fund, Ryan McCarthy, Sedition Caucus, segarini, Steve Daines, Ted Cruz, TheDonald, There’s a riot going on, Tommy Tuberville, Twitter, United States on January 10, 2021 by segariniAhead of the mob violence on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, there had been weeks of incendiary rhetoric and planning in plain sight, on Facebook, Twitter, and on far-right websites like Parler, Gab, TheDonald, and MeWe. There had been a virtual landslide of conspiracy theories, disinformation, and lies about fraudulent voting, often coming directly from the POTUS and his favoured minions.
Prior to the insurrection, Advance Democracy had found more than 1,480 posts on Twitter from QAnon-related accounts, promoting violence. When it became clear that VP Pence was unable to overturn the results of the election, and unwilling to ‘try’ to do so, right-wing extremists began to plan the murder by hanging of Pence, whom they believed to be committing a traitorous refusal to act.