Does anybody really believe Donald J. Trump wanted
a free and fair election? I certainly don't -
As reported by the Post’s Craig Timberg:
“The website, TheDonald, played a far more central role in the January
6th Capitol insurrection than was previously known,” he said. “There
are thousands of posts — with tens of thousands of comments — detailing plans to travel to Washington and engage in violence against the U.S.
Capitol. The ultimate end goal of this violence was, on behalf of Trump, disrupt the Congress and overturn the presidential election.”
Because the posters on this site used pseudonyms, Advance Democracy
could not identify them; the logical assumption is that the website
and its contents are now being analyzed by the FBI and other law
enforcement agencies to track the former users through more forensic
means. As the Post explains, the website itself grew out of a Reddit
forum that served for some time as a “safe space” for racists and conspiracy theorists. Eventually, chafing at Reddit’s moderation rules,
the forum became a standalone site, with its web address owned by an
Army Veteran named Jody Williams. Williams disbanded the site after
the Jan. 6 riots at the Capitol.
The Post article cites a treasure trove of intensely violent comments
and discussions on the site in the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6
assault. Many of those comments clearly go well beyond the aspirational
fever dreams of “keyboard commandos,” and involve meticulous and well-coordinated plans, including “shared diagrams of the tunnel
systems beneath the Capitol complex,” discussion of travel and funding resources, and most notably, proposed methods to inflict violence,
some of which were then employed by the rioters.
Dailykos.com
Gonna be a fun ride in 2024. How many times can The Donald cry "Foul"
after being a two-time loser? Will we still have a Republic if he gets
his way?
--Lee
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I Take A Sheet In The Pool
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