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George Rebane

A zealot is one who identifies intimately with his message, and opposes all efforts to reasonably falsify the message because doing so would also falsify him.

A brief compendium of current observations for the record.

Conservatives are (fascists, racists, white supremacists, … pick one or more) and work constantly to have government limit individual freedoms, diminish America’s liberties, and promote an autocratic government – so goes the progressive/Democrat/lamestream narrative.  This is witnessed daily and well documented in progressive activist literature like ‘Don’t Think of an Elephant’ by George Lakoff.  The latter is actually a best-selling leftist communication handbook into which is marbled the Marxist/socialist manifesto.  What the leftwing elites count on is the ignorance of their audience who cannot connect the dots between an autocratic state and big government based on central planning and control.  This deficiency prevents them from seeing that all conservative efforts in governance and public policy are directed in exactly the opposite direction – a minimally funded smaller government with fewer laws and regulations based on federalized maximum local control.  Such governments cannot generate and maintain collectivist public policies which need a massive government to enforce and implement.  Nevertheless, this Big Lie continues.

America’s Left and their Democrat Party public face are desperately attempting to pass federal voting legislation (HR1, ‘The Voting Rights Act’) that will foster and facilitate the entrenchment of a political monopoly based on Marxist/socialist ideology.  The selling point, hysterically touted by Team Biden, is that America’s current election laws limit voting rights, especially those of protected classes.  The evidence to oppose this attack on constitutional federalism is abundant and readily available, but totally buried by the lamestream media.  Only conservative outlets inform their audiences of how the states’ voting laws compare, and about public attitudes that favor policies which restrict the voting franchise to American citizens, and minimize opportunities for election irregularities and fraud. (more here)  Our Left tells Americans that such voter integrity policies are racist/fascist/etc designed to limit voting access to minorities, when nothing could be further from the truth.  Nevertheless, this Big Lie continues.

Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine have fallen victim to Mammon and politics of the most reprehensible, insidious, and deadly kind.  Both medicines have been widely used worldwide as a prophylaxis and treatment for a number of maladies, including Covid – extensively reported in these pages – but proscribed by our federal government and big pharma.  The former to establish precedents and new avenues of government control, the latter to keep effective off-patent medicines out of reach so that high margin patented medicines remain the only alternatives to combatting the pandemic.  The effectiveness of IVT and HCQ have been demonstrated in countless studies and clinical cases.  It’s now so bad that Covid patients on death’s door cannot be administered either medicine by court order (more here).

The death rate of Covid ‘vaccines’ is another scandalous cover-up by our federal government.  In the program to maximize vaccinations, the data on vaccine-related deaths is withheld by the CDC and the FDA.  No vaccine is entirely safe, and every one has its own mortality rate due to various complex – mostly anaphylaxis – reactions to the prophylactic.  According to government data, the death rate within 14 days of being vaccinated for standard flu is about 120 per 100,000, and for shingles it is about 21 per 100,000.  It turns out that for Covid, the equivalent death rate within 14 days of getting jabbed is 190 per 100,000.  When this rate is applied to the millions of people vaccinated, then the Covid vaccines have killed over 388,000 Americans alone.  And with the incidence of breakthrough infections, the efficacy of the vaccines is yet to be determined.  One thing is certain, no government agency wants to talk about this, and all continue to stonewall legitimate queries submitted to them.  (more here and here)

The destruction of the FBI by the Left is almost complete – they are now being repurposed as the nation’s new Stasi.  As evidence, consider that today the FBI finally acknowledged that last week’s attack on the Texas synagogue was an act of Islamist terrorism.  They were the last to know what was immediately obvious to the man on the street across America when informed that one Malik Faisal Akram was the attacker who demanded the release of Aafia Siddiqui, another convicted and jailed Islamist killer.  AG Garland did the best he could to bamboozle the American public as long as he could before national ridicule made him tell his FBI lackeys to announce that the attack was “a terrorist-related matter”.  No kidding Kemosabe.

A more standard law enforcement fare for today’s FBI is launching domestic terrorism investigations of parents who go on public record to oppose local school boards about the content of the curricula – e.g. the tenets of CRT – taught to their kids.  On such matters the FBI is right on the spot ferreting out those subversive parents who don’t toe the line laid down by leftwing dominated teachers unions.  Gotta get those parents out of the way of our educators who are concerned first about their students right after they have their pension negotiations in the bag.  Actually, there may be an issue or two, like paid days off for Covid safety, that may still consume their attention before they get to the kids.

[18jan22 update]  Open and free critique of government is a fundamental principle upon which America was founded.  And the continuance of that right has been the mainstay of our republic since its birth in revolution, which itself is the ultimate critique of government by its citizens.  All roads to tyranny start with the state proscribing the critique of government.  We in the United States have a long history of criticizing our government, its policies, and actions both domestic and foreign.  Everyone has exercised that right, built into our founding documents, without second thought of suffering retribution from any institution of government.  This is not to say that it hasn’t happened (e.g. the IRS going after conservative 501c3 organizations).  But when such illegal retributions have been discovered – usually uncovered by an alert media – they have been roundly rejected by all Americans, resulting in public censure, ending of careers, and even legal actions against the perpetrating scoundrels.  Those days are gone.  Today, firmly on the doorstep of autocracy, we have the Democrats in power openly deploying federal intelligence and law enforcement organs to punish critics of its rogue and radical politicians and policies, and even those opposing state and local leftwing authorities illegally mandating laws and regulations about schools, the pandemic, academe, border porosity, elections, and corporatist enterprises that seek government favor. (more here)  What portends even worse for the republic is that a large share of Americans now favor such government reprisals that formerly were the hallmarks only of communist and fascist governments, and tinpot dictators of backward (e.g. shithole) countries.

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151 responses to “Ruminations – 17jan22 (updated 18jan22)”

  1. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    Paul’s Scab Picking o’ the Day got me thinking about representatives of the sides.
    Team Blue Foot Soldier: https://i.insider.com/5ed13ab13ad86118b11aa003
    Team Red Foot Soldier: https://media.babylonbee.com/articles/article-7717-1.jpg
    Both shirtless, they share a kind of formless rage against the machine.
    ” Maybe the Whiskey Rebellion?”
    Add alcohol, instant friskiness. Like they say:
    Newcastle Brown can sure smack you down
    You take a greasy whore and a rollin’ dance floor
    You know you’re jailhouse-bound
    Revolution in a nutshell. A kind of mass inebriation.

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  2. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    “Steve…..you like to lurk! Wanna weigh in on Scenes question……..”
    While I’d be interested in hearing it, you probably need to run an organization of size to see the value of the ‘Mission Statement’. Worker bees and business lampreys need not apply.
    Scott Adams could probably churn out a few I guess.

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  3. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    “Today, firmly on the doorstep of autocracy, we have the Democrats in power openly deploying federal intelligence and law enforcement organs to punish critics of its rogue and radical politicians and policies, and even those opposing state and local leftwing authorities illegally mandating laws and regulations about schools, the pandemic, academe, border porosity, elections, and corporatist enterprises that seek government favor. (more here) What portends even worse for the republic is that a large share of Americans now favor such government reprisals that formerly were the hallmarks only of communist and fascist governments, and tinpot dictators of backward (e.g. shithole) countries.” —Dr. GJ Rebane
    I find nothing objectionable in the above writing. Maybe ‘shithole countries’ since Paul believes that there are no shithole countries. Sudan? Somalia? Somalia was a shithole, then they kicked the Marxists out, along with Ilhan Omar.
    Interesting side note, propaganda related. Illhan Omar’s daddy was a government “teacher of teachers.” When the War Lords overthrew the Communist government in Somalia, the first thing the new mob did was hunt down and kill the members of the Marist regime. Thus, daddy and kids had to flee…for their lives, lol. A government teacher of teachers. Apple did not fall far from the tree.
    https://i0.wp.com/www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2021/12/bro.jpg?

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  4. cashniglio Avatar
    cashniglio

    Posted by: scenes | 19 January 2022 at 09:02 AM
    Team Blue Foot Soldier:

    Just so mad I gots to beat this cash register to death.

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  5. mlbniglio Avatar
    mlbniglio

    asaroso
    A Spanish slang word meaning bothersome, annoying, etc. This word may also refer to a person who is bad luck or brings bad luck to someone.
    Bob- Can I please have those $20 i asked you for?
    Juan- no.
    Bob- please?
    Juan- no.
    Bob- pleaseeeee?
    Juan- damn man que asaroso que eres!
    I thought you were playing with MLB’s “Red Ass”……today I am educated!

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  6. Scott O Avatar

    BT 8:17 – That AG article led me to the articles written by Julie Kelly about the “plot” to kidnap the gov of Michigan.
    Given what we already know about the FBI added to those articles, I’d say the fibbies (at least at the top) are truly headed for KGB or Stasi level atrocities.

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  7. Bill Tozer Avatar
    Bill Tozer

    Be careful what you ask for, media.
    JUDGE MAGNUSON: COVID TRUMPS
    https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2022/01/judge-magnuson-covid-trumps.php

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  8. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    So now Eric Trump is a gangster according to Trump. Eric Trump took the 5th 500 times in the Congressional hearing into Jan 6. Here’s what Trump has to say about pleading the 5th:
    On the campaign trail in 2016, Trump bashed Hillary Clinton after some members of her staff invoked the 5th amendment during a congressional investigation.
    “You see the mob takes the Fifth,” he said during one rally in Iowa. “If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?”
    https://www.rawstory.com/eric-trump-pleaded-fifth-amendment/

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  9. Scott O Avatar

    Paul 10:52 – “So now Eric Trump is a gangster according to Trump.”
    …according to Trump
    And we know how Paul hangs on Trump’s every word.
    Paul’s very busy, but never too busy for the latest about his homie.

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  10. Jose Coyote’s Magical Toot Band Avatar
    Jose Coyote’s Magical Toot Band

    @ 10:54 am
    And what does this have to do with any of the topics of this post?? Perhaps your topic de jour might best be put in the Sandbox.
    -Conservatives are (fascists, racists, white supremacists, … pick one or more)
    -America’s Left and their Democrat Party public face are desperately attempting to pass federal voting legislation (HR1, ‘
    -Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine have fallen victim to Mammon and politics of the most reprehensible, insidious, and deadly kind. Both medicines have been…
    -The death rate of Covid ‘vaccines’ is another scandalous cover-up by our federal gov…
    -The destruction of the FBI by the Left is almost complete
    -A more standard law enforcement fare for today’s FBI is launching domestic terrorism investigations of parents who go on public record to oppose local school boards about …
    -18jan22 update] Open and free critique of government is a fundamental principle…
    ???????????????????????

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  11. Gregory Avatar
    Gregory

    Worth reading, link at end:
    “11. Long marches are long. When Herbert Marcuse and the rest of the Neo-Marxists and critical theorists of the Frankfurt School finally took to heart Antonio Gramsci’s directive to seize “cultural hegemony” and first conceived of launching Rudi Dutschke’s “long march through the institutions,” it was only the start of the 1970s. It was not until almost fifty years later that their dream was realized. However much the last several years may have seemed like an avalanche of shockingly rapid ideological coup d’états to those who saw power abruptly change hands in their institutions, one after another, this suddenness was an illusion. Coups only succeed if the backers necessary to support them are already in place. And it took literally a generation of young intellectuals and activists simultaneously inspired and disillusioned by the left-radicalism of the 60s entering into and seeding the institutions, rising into positions of power, and cultivating another generation of trained foot soldiers for their influence to fully flower.
    Now, much as Marcuse was lamenting in 1971 that “the fact that the radical Left has no equal access to the great chains of information and indoctrination is largely responsible for its isolation,” the Right and its moderate liberal fellow travelers today find themselves isolated and impotent in turn. And yet, in response, they appear to have no patience whatsoever for executing their own counter-march through the institutions, instead mostly trying to either force the institutions to behave differently through political power (mostly pointless), or fleeing from the institutions entirely in a bid to create new ones from the ground up (a longshot, if more promising). Either way, they seem to hope everything achieved by the left can be reversed in the matter of only a few years, which is naïve on multiple levels because…
    12. Culture wars are generational wars, and the young are woke as hell.”
    https://theupheaval.substack.com/p/no-the-revolution-isnt-over

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  12. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    I thought it was pretty profound when our ex-President considers his son to be a gangster. SWhat is your opinion on the matter Scott? Why would Eric Trump plead the 5th 500 times if he didn’t have something to hide that might be criminal? Anyway that’s his dads take on the matter of taking the 5th-only for the guilty of gangsters.

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  13. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    guilty or gangsters

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  14. profoundniglio Avatar
    profoundniglio

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 19 January 2022 at 12:18 PM
    I thought it was pretty profound …..

    I’m sure you did.

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  15. scene Avatar
    scene

    re: Gregory@12:05
    Say, that is a good article. Even mentions Peter Turchin, so it’s A-OK.
    “18. Partisanship is still getting worse, and Wokelash 2.0 is entirely possible. Donald Trump may not have been the cause of the Revolution, but his presidency certainly helped send it into overdrive. Worked into frothing-at-the-mouth levels of outrage, the ranks of the #Resistance were easily converted to Wokeness on the purely tribal need to be for whatever Trump was against, traditional liberal principles be damned.”
    Well, that sounds familiar.
    I was considering a couple more bullet items for something like that.
    . Wokeness is non-creative. To live and proper, it requires a host to prosper…kind of like one of those parasites that replaces the brain of an insect and controls it. Without an existing pile of resources and infrastructure to take over, they are nothing. Imagine a, from-scratch, Woke University.
    . The Woke have a demographics problem and so is self-limiting. Part of being Woke is an attempt to import the 3rd World at as great a rate as possible. The thing is, the Third World is large and has a fairly high birth rate. It’s not like Somalis in Minneapolis, Muslims in Europe, La Razans in the US give a shit about urban US liberal white people concepts like the primacy of transsexuals. In the end, prison politics take hold and silly liberal concepts disappear.

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  16. Joe Coyote’s Magical Toot Band Avatar
    Joe Coyote’s Magical Toot Band

    profoundniglio @ 12:39 pm
    ‘I thought it was pretty profound …..”
    Examples of that kind of profoundness definitely belong in the Sandbox.

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  17. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    from DonB’s article:
    “Biden is also the most polarizing president in Gallup’s history of polling…”
    lol. No doubt it’s part of that ‘healing’ process.
    I suppose it’s what you get when you’ve got a ‘Weekend at Bernies’ Whitehouse run by 30 year old political appointees and Herr Doctor Jill Biden. Good Gawd what a disaster.
    “As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
    Quite a few people thought that Trump was heading there, but we’ve now reached HL Mencken’s concept of the office.

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  18. Scott O Avatar

    Golly Paul – I guess you’re just too ‘profound’ for us!
    Maybe you could address the issues as stated above by George?

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  19. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George
    A mob may or may not be planned etc. However show me something in the definition that says it can’t be. There is ample evidence that aspects of the mob attack on the Capitol were planned in advance by various pro Trump groups. Just look at all the pro Trump flags that were inside the the Capitol after the break in. Do you deny that?
    https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/01/photos-trump-mob-capitol-congress-insurrection-electoral-college/

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  20. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Everyone should remember that everything the tinfoil hat brigade says has as much truth as this from the former mayor of nirvana silly. lol –
    MISS (from Editorial Board member Tom Durkin): To the directionally challenged. In a video recording Jan. 12 at a Healthy and Free event in Pasadena, gubernatorial candidate Reinette Senum told the unseen audience she is “not a politician” and that Nevada County is “west northwest” of Sacramento.
    😉

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  21. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 157pm – If it’s a ‘planned mob’ with a purpose, it’s not a mob. Mobs arise spontaneously without a cohesive purpose (members are participating for their own purposes, not always known to themselves). And, of course they had Trump flags. Supporting Trump was the purpose of the planned demonstration of thousands on the National Mall from which a small group broke away and became the mob that stormed the Capitol.

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  22. newsniglio Avatar
    newsniglio

    MISS (from Editorial Board member Tom Durkin):
    The bridge troll that Don Rogers uses to fill column inches in the Pennysaver of the Pines and pays with old pizza crusts lying around the newsroom? That Tom Durkin?

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  23. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Cryin chuck gets a gift –
    Senate GOP campaign arm sends Schumer gift basket for forcing vulnerable members to take filibuster stand
    NRSC sent Schumer a fruit basket ahead of major Senate ‘nuclear option’ vote
    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-republicans-nrsc-schumer-gift-basket
    😉

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  24. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Did creepy grampa joes destruction of the American energy industry end up making vlad rich and fueled the military adventurism? –
    Whip Scalise claims Putin using funds from surging gas prices to finance Ukraine border military buildup
    Scalise blames Biden energy policies for Russian economic gains
    https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/whip-scalise-putin-funds-surging-gas-prices-finance-ukraine-border-military-buildup
    😉

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  25. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George
    Your definition of a mob is yours only and does not appear in any definition I was able to find. Where did you get that definition?
    Also are you aware that the leader of Oath Keepers and 10 other Individuals have bee indicted in Federal Court for Seditious Conspiracy and other offenses related to U.S. Capitol Breach on Jan 6 2021?
    https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-oath-keepers-and-10-other-individuals-indicted-federal-court-seditious-conspiracy-and

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  26. Walt Avatar

    MOB,, Emery? I give you ANTIFA.. BLM.(Marxists)
    Riots, lootings, killings burning of entire blocks.
    MOB robberies of businesses. ALL on the Liberal side of things.. You DENY that? How many times were those described by your proggy press as “peaceful”?
    Better clean your own house before pissing and moaning about others.

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  27. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    Another massive creepy joe lie for the ponytail of ignorances ilk to ignore –
    https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2022/01/19/report-biden-sending-46-officials-to-beijing-olympics-despite-diplomatic-boycott/
    😉

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  28. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    This is direct from the Department of Justice
    “The seditious conspiracy indictment alleges that, following the Nov. 3, 2020, presidential election, Rhodes conspired with his co-defendants and others to oppose by force the execution of the laws governing the transfer of presidential power by Jan. 20, 2021. Beginning in late December 2020, via encrypted and private communications applications, Rhodes and various co-conspirators coordinated and planned to travel to Washington, D.C., on or around Jan. 6, 2021, the date of the certification of the electoral college vote, the indictment alleges. Rhodes and several co-conspirators made plans to bring weapons to the area to support the operation. The co-conspirators then traveled across the country to the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area in early January 2021.
    According to the seditious conspiracy indictment, the defendants conspired through a variety of manners and means, including: organizing into teams that were prepared and willing to use force and to transport firearms and ammunition into Washington, D.C.; recruiting members and affiliates to participate in the conspiracy; organizing trainings to teach and learn paramilitary combat tactics; bringing and contributing paramilitary gear, weapons and supplies – including knives, batons, camouflaged combat uniforms, tactical vests with plates, helmets, eye protection and radio equipment – to the Capitol grounds; breaching and attempting to take control of the Capitol grounds and building on Jan. 6, 2021, in an effort to prevent, hinder and delay the certification of the electoral college vote; using force against law enforcement officers while inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021; continuing to plot, after Jan. 6, 2021, to oppose by force the lawful transfer of presidential power, and using websites, social media, text messaging and encrypted messaging applications to communicate with co-conspirators and others.
    On Jan. 6, 2021, a large crowd began to gather outside the Capitol perimeter as the Joint Session of Congress got under way at 1 p.m. Crowd members eventually forced their way through, up and over U.S. Capitol Police barricades and advanced to the building’s exterior façade. Shortly after 2 p.m., crowd members forced entry into the Capitol by breaking windows, ramming open doors, and assaulting Capitol police and other law enforcement officers. At about this time, according to the indictment, Rhodes entered the restricted area of the Capitol grounds and directed his followers to meet him at the Capitol…..
    more here:
    https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/leader-oath-keepers-and-10-other-individuals-indicted-federal-court-seditious-conspiracy-and

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  29. deadniglio Avatar
    deadniglio

    Senile grifter says what……

    Biden says nation weary from COVID, but US in a better place


    President insists he has “outperformed” expectations in dealing with pandemic.

    “In a better place”……usually a sentiment reserved to soothe the relatives of a person who has died after suffering a long illness. And aren’t we really only a couple of months from seeing Clueless Joe shadowboxing in his bedroom like Ferdinand Marcos when he was on the comeback trail!?

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  30. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 423pm – Au contraire Paul. The definition of ‘mob’ that I have given is one that almost all well-read people (not imbued with a leftwing 1/6 agenda) would accept as concurring with their literary experience. Today dictionaries are neither monolithic nor reliable in their definitions of English – scholarship has long abandoned the profession of semioticians. Most meanings of words used in socio-political commentaries have now reverted to political correctness, and others are decorated with dubious semantics that reflect the abbreviated education of people sporting majors in the humanities. A cursory perusal of recent editions of major dictionaries confirms this.

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  31. trialniglio Avatar
    trialniglio

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 19 January 2022 at 04:36 PM
    Well then be a dear and get back to us when there are convictions Punch.

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  32. Walt Avatar

    Embot. You mean the current DOJ? The Proggy gestapo?
    The dept. of injustice that does the mule party’s bidding?
    The one that is investigating parents of school kids instead of real criminals? THAT DOJ?

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  33. proboscis infecti Avatar
    proboscis infecti

    Where are the convictions? Lock her up, lock her up, lock her up.

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  34. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    With Hillary there were not even indictments fish. This is the real deal. Did you bother to read the link I provided?

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  35. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    WEell George with the indictments I noted we are way beyond the mob definition of what happened Jan 6. Did you read the link I provided? They were indicted for Seditious Conspiracy which i9ncludes pre planning their activities on Jan 6, a farcry from the spontanious “mob” event that you embrace. Would you agree that Jan 6 was a ” breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6″ zas defined in the indictment?

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  36. George Rebane Avatar

    PaulE 539pm – Well, of course it was a breach of the Capitol, because breach means successful entry through barriers meant to deny entry. So what’s your point?
    Are you confusing indictment with conviction?

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  37. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    George
    Here’s more quotes
    Rhodes texted the group chat at 1:25 p.m. remarking: “Pence is doing nothing. As I predicted.” And then again at 1:40 p.m. he wrote: “All I see Trump doing is complaining. I see no intent by him to do anything. So the patriots are taking it into their own hands. They’ve had enough.” Minutes later Rhodes texted that he was on his way to the Capitol.
    The new indictment released Thursday offers fresh details of Rhodes’ involvement in the alleged plot:
    It records a Signal message Rhodes sent two days after the election calling on his followers to refuse to accept the result: “We aren’t getting through this without a civil war. Too late for that. Prepare your mind, body, spirit.”
    Two days later, on Nov. 7, Rhodes sent a similar message calling for an action at the Capitol: “[W]e must now do what the people of Serbia did when Milosevic stole their election. – Refuse to accept it and march en-mass on the nation’s Capitol.”
    On December 11, he sent a message to deputies warning that if Biden were to take office: “It will be a bloody and desperate fight. We are going to have a fight. That can’t be avoided.”
    On New Year’s Eve, Rhodes texted: “There is no standard political or legal way out of this.”
    On the day of Jan. 6, the indictment quotes Rhodes calling the insurgents, “Actual Patriots. Pissed off patriots[.] Like the Sons of Liberty were pissed off patriots[.]”
    It also alleges for the first time that Rhodes himself was part of the breach, alleging he “entered the restricted Capitol grounds on the northeast side of the Capitol.”
    Shortly after 3 p.m, the indictment records, Rhodes was texted with an update that Congress members inside the building had been given gas masks and were trying to get out. Rhodes’ alleged reply: “fuck em.”
    In alarming detail, the indictment also alleges that Rhodes bought and stockpiled thousands of dollars of firearms and tactical gear, both in the build up to Jan. 6 and in its aftermath:
    “On December 30, 2020, RHODES purchased two night-vision devices and one weapon sight for approximately $7,000.”
    “On January 1 and 2, 2021, RHODES spent approximately $5,000 on firearms and related equipment, including a shotgun, scope, magazines, sights, optics, a bipod, a mount, a case of ammunition, and gun-cleaning supplies.”
    “On January 3, 2021, RHODES departed Granbury, Texas, and began traveling to the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.While traveling, RHODES spent approximately $6,000 in Texas on an AR-platform rifle and firearms equipment, including sights, mounts, triggers, slings, and additional firearms attachments.”
    “On January 4, 2021, while still traveling toward the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area, RHODES spent approximately $4,500 in Mississippi on firearms equipment, including sights, mounts, an optic plate, a magazine, and various firearms parts.”
    The indictment alleges that the Oath Keepers’ efforts to undermine Biden’s election did not stop with the breach of the Capitol: “Throughout the evening of January 6, 2021, the co-conspirators discussed the need to continue fighting to stop the lawful transfer of presidential power.” It records enthusiastic text messages Rhodes sent that night, including: “Patriots entering their own Capitol to send a message to the traitors is NOTHING compared to what’s coming.”
    https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/steward-rhodes-oath-keeper-arrested-jan6-conspiracy-1284236/

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  38. Don Bessee Avatar
    Don Bessee

    And he wonders why he does not get invited to dinner parties @551!
    😉

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  39. readniglio Avatar
    readniglio

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 19 January 2022 at 05:32 PM
    Did you bother to read the link I provided?

    No! Why would I?

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  40. quoteniglio Avatar
    quoteniglio

    Posted by: George Rebane | 19 January 2022 at 05:49 PM
    Are you confusing indictment with conviction?

    Quotes George! Who needs convictions…..Punch has quotes!

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  41. arrestniglio Avatar
    arrestniglio

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 19 January 2022 at 05:32 PM
    With Hillary there were not even indictments fish.

    Other than being the next democrat sacrificial lamb in a presidential election what does Hillary have to do with anything?

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  42. Walt Avatar

    Emery’s mental well being is on par with Biden’s.
    Back to using the words of others, instead of actually using his own.
    Biden can’t even recall what words he said just within the last week. “NO! I didn’t say that,, go look it up” And plenty did.
    Uh,, yaaa,, you did say that.
    How’s that “enormous progress ” Emery?? Trashing the economy count?

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  43. Paul Emery Avatar
    Paul Emery

    Fish
    The Repubs under Trumps direction were constantly chanting about Hillary to “lock her up” without even an arrest or indictment. Yet Walt describes as fake the legitimate indictment of a dozen or so Oath Keepers including their head guy.

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  44. pottyniglio Avatar
    pottyniglio

    Posted by: Paul Emery | 19 January 2022 at 06:29 PM
    You realize that merely chanting “Lock Someone Up” doesn’t result in them being locked up….. in this country…….yet.

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  45. scenes Avatar
    scenes

    I just had to look through the history of Paul’s latest scab to pick, this ‘mob’ business.
    Quote:
    “George
    You claim a mob defination (sic) is one that “that assemble spontaneously without planning, organization, or cohesive purpose.” I don’t see anything that uses that wording in a defination (sic) of a mob.”
    Honestly folks, it’s built into the word ‘disorderly’. Sampling back through 150 years of dictionaries, that appears to be the common word. Planning/organization/cohesion rather implies order, disorder being, well, not order.
    GeorgeR: “PaulE 539pm – Well, of course it was a breach of the Capitol, because breach means successful entry through barriers meant to deny entry. So what’s your point?”
    Admittedly, they were simply let in in a lot of cases as I remember. Hey, it’s a big complicated event, there was a little of everything there. Probably a few bonafide Nazis, plenty of FBI plants, little old ladies, the ever-scary Proud Boys, accountants and bikers. A person could make anything they like out of it.
    Pretty interesting stuff. The Right hardly ever gets it’s knickers in a twist enough to show up at an event. Maybe they had just had enough.
    PaulE@5:51PM Quote is too big. Just put in the link with a paragraph to indicate the contents or draw a little interest. Someone might even read it.
    Better yet, write yer own material ya wanker.
    This’ll learn you George. Every thread is the sandbox when Mr. Emery is in town.

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    So Emery has no problem with Leftist “mobsters” but only takes issue with Right leaning protesters. Leftist riots good.
    Repub demonstrations BAD.
    So Emery, when the Right takes their bitch to the sourse (the rabid elected) That’s criminal in your mind. But the burning of innocent business is just fine. That’s protected violence.
    You sure have a warped sense of “justified”.
    Oh.. That’s right. You supported BLM in Nevada City. Marxist is as Marxist does.
    How many guns were seized in DC Emery? Kinda hard to have an overthrow while UNARMED.
    How come the FBI instigators have yet to be arrested?
    How come the ANTIFA scum was turned lose, and little old ladies wound up in solitary confinement?
    I know, tough questions for Capt. Crickets.
    You just keep whining about the meaning of mob.

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