Terry Bouton
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Historian of the American Revolution and democracy. Author of Taming Democracy. Countering online disinformation with the ridicule it deserves.
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My wife and I attended the “Stop the Steal” Trump Insurrection on Wednesday (as observers, NOT participants) and there are FIVE big take-aways from what we witnessed and heard outside the Capitol that I'd like to share. (We took all the pictures below). 1/22
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I am convinced that if Congress doesn’t act to do something about this quickly, these people are going to keep going and the unrest and violence will get more widespread and more uncontrollable. This is a crisis. It’s real. It’s happening. It must be taken seriously. 22/22
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Most of these protests involved tens of thousands of mostly white, middle-aged people (meaning race wasn’t the only reason for the disparate police presence). Even the March for Science had far more police for a non-partisan event featuring “Bill Nye the Science Guy.” 8/22
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2) There is no doubt the Capitol was left purposefully understaffed as far as law enforcement and there was no federal effort to provide support even as things turned very dark. This contrasts sharply with all of other major protests we have attended. 6/22
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A lot has been made of the contrast to the overwhelming police presence at Black Lives Matters protests in the fall, and this is certainly true. But there was also A LOT more federal law enforcement presence at every single previous protest we have attended in DC. 7/22
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Preppy looking "country club Republicans," well-dressed social conservatives, and white Evangelicals in Jesus caps were standing shoulder to shoulder with QAnon cultists, Second Amendment cosplay commandos, and doughy, hardcore white nationalists. 3/22
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1) This insurrection wasn’t just redneck white supremacists and QAnon kooks. The people participating in, espousing, or cheering the violence cut across the different factions of the Republican Party and those factions were working in unison. 2/22
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The most alarming part to me was the matter-of-fact, causal ways that people from all walks of life were talking about violence and even the execution of “traitors” in private conversations, like this was something normal that happened every day. 21/22
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(Wanted to make sure my wife, Noelle, received due credit for the photos).
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5) These people are serious and they are going to keep escalating the violence until they are stopped by the force of law. There were many, many people there who were excited by the violence and proud and excited about the prospect of more violence. 19/22
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We eavesdropped on conversations for hours and no one expressed the slightest concern about the large number of white supremacists and para-military spewing violent rhetoric. Even the man in the “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt wasn’t beyond the pale. They were all “patriots." 4/22
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Numerous rioters shouted at the police, saying some version of “we had your back, now you need to have ours.” All of the Capitol officers we saw—Black, white, Latino, male, female—seemed alarmed by what was happening and continued to try to do their job faithfully. 14/22
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By contrast, there was a tiny federal police presence at “Stop the Steal” despite weeks of promises of violence spread on social media by well-known far-right radicals, many of whom had long histories of inciting violence. 9/22
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4) There were also no clear crowd rules imposed for Stop the Steal like there were for all the other protests we have attended. All of the “liberal” protests of the last four years we attended had a long list of things you could not bring that were enforced at the Capitol. 16/22
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And it wasn’t just the white nationalists, Second Amendment radicals, and QAnon boneheads. I can’t adequately describe the blood lust we heard everywhere as we walked over the Capitol grounds, even from mild-mannered looking people. 20/22
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3) The Trump rioters only supported law enforcement as long as they believed law enforcement was supporting them. Rioters, many carrying Thin Blue Line flags, seemed convinced that the Capitol Police would turn against the government and join them. 13/22
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None of these standard rules applied to Stop the Steal. There were poles and flags and backpacks and body armor EVERYWHERE. We didn’t see any guns or knives. But there were certainly people brandishing flag poles as if they were weapons. 18/22
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Once the FBI team got Babbitt out, they left and no other federal officers arrived in the more than two hours that followed. The small Capitol Police force was left to deal with the chaos by themselves. 12/22
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I'm sure there were Republicans there who were horrified by what was happening. But the most common emotions we witnessed by nearly everyone were jubilation at the take over and anger at Democrats, Mike Pence, non-Trump supporting Republicans, and the Capitol Police. 5/22
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At these protests, there were no poles or sticks, no backpacks, no weapons or body armor, etc. There were sometimes security check points to go through to get onto the mall or Capitol grounds. 17/22
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And the crowd reviled them for it. They booed the police and FBI swat team, calling them traitors and murderers. A man on the back Capitol steps ripped up a Thin Blue Line flag, the torn stripes fluttering down over a crowd briefly chanting “fuck the police.” 15/22
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When we arrived, the only forces present were the clearly overwhelmed Capitol Police. The only reinforcements that arrived were other Capitol Police. There were a handful of DC Metro police, but they had accompanied the ambulances to take away the injured. 10/22
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The only other federal law enforcement presence was an FBI Swat team of about eight officers who arrived to provide cover for the Capitol Fire and EMTs there to extract Ashli Babbitt, the QAnon radical who was shot inside the Capitol Building. 11/22
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The most worrisome moment was when a crowd surrounded a Black reporter for DC's ABC affiliate. They asked why a Black reporter was sent. They demanded he say, "Truckers are heroes!" on air. When he refused, a man repeatedly shouted "LEAVE!" in his face. He left, visibly shaken.
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We spent four hours walking around the “Peoples Convoy” Trucker encampment at the Hagerstown Speedway in MD. Anyone dismissing this as a failed event by the crazy fringe is missing the big picture.
Here are five important take-aways. 🧵
(Photos by
@_Noelle_Cook
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@donwinslow
I ran into Van Jones in Venice Beach after "He became President of the United States in that moment, period." Trump had just done something heinous and I asked Van if he regretted saying that. He said, "No, I'm proud of what I said." When they tell you who they are, believe them.
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Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah is a perfect song for the moment. "It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah" acknowledges the grim situation we are in. This inauguration is the deeply bittersweet celebration of realists, with no illusions about the challenges of the days ahead.
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The People's Convoy wasn't a failure. It was a movement-building event that drew thousands to Hagerstown & to overpasses & convoy stops across the US. These are exactly the kinds of hands-on, personal experiences that build connections, solidify commitments, & recruit new members
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Nevertheless, this was clearly a new effort to mainstream far-right beliefs by muting the white nationalism and violence of the Capitol Insurrection and prior protests. This was rebranding the right in broad, vague ways to recruit followers and mask internal differences.
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3) This was White America. Despite the “everyone is welcome” framing, it was 99% White people. The talk was about uniting Americans across class lines. The rally was “led by our blue-collar boys” (heard often) but was "bringing blue-collar and white-collar America together.”
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4) This was a movement-recruiting event. It was designed to draw people in with a family-friendly, carnival atmosphere. Free food & drinks. Booths, activities, a prayer tent. Revving engines, honking horns, bright lights. "Sign My Truck" with sharpies. T-shirt and flag vendors.
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2) There was a clear attempt to appear more mainstream. The focus was a big-tent ideology of “Freedom.” Although started by anti-vaxxers, it was re-framed as “protecting our liberties” in ways that allowed for diverse beliefs. Christian Nationalism mixed with QAnon spiritualism.
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Still, there were violent undercurrents. Lots of talk of resorting to other (unspecified) means if non-violent protest didn’t work. Random shouts of “Fetch the Rope” and "hang him" greeted the reading of the names of US Senators who voted to uphold pandemic restrictions.
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There were people meeting & networking. Everyone seemed to be a Podcaster. Social media contact info was posted on dashboard signs. People stood in circles, bragging about past rallies & protests. “J-6ers” wore their participation in the Capitol Insurrection as a badge of honor.
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The convoy had its own entertainers: several DJs & a country music singer with a new CD about to drop. After dark, there were high-quality fireworks & a ceremony with truck headlights and giant flags. There was funnel cake. It was like a county fair without the rides & livestock.
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Part of the recruiting was electoral. Republicans were portrayed as freedom's hope, Democrats its enemy. A guy riding an electric scooter with a bullhorn declared “All Democrats are pedophiles, no exceptions.” Much talk about the importance of voting at all levels of government.
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It was pitched as being "open to all people, regardless of party, race, religion...” Plenty of Proud Boys, etc., but few overt expressions of white nationalism. (Note: Lots of Trump gear, but no one was talking about him. Not one person mentioned Russia or Ukraine all day).
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5) It's non-violent...for now. Bad press and paranoia about FBI infiltration seemed to drive calls for non-violence. Organizers called off the drive to DC because: “It's a trap!” The main organizer: “We know there are people here for the wrong reasons and we know who you are!"
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1) There were thousands of people there. About a hundred semi-trailer cabs and hundreds of convoy pick-up trucks and SUVs filled nearly every spot in the huge Speedway parking lot. Tents were everywhere. On top of this, thousands of locals came for the day from MD, PA, WV, VA.
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@MelanieDesi
@_Noelle_Cook
Oh absolutely. That and the causal way people were discussing violence. When Noelle and I were walking the Capitol grounds on Jan 6, we heard people having conversations about hanging Pence and Pelosi like they were talking about get the car's oil changed.
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11/27/23 Update:
In the 3 years since Jan. 6, my wife
@NCookBouton
, an extremism researcher, has been closely studying women of the insurrection. She's about to sign a book contract! And a British filmmaker is making a documentary based on her research. Noelle's a great follow!
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An Update:
Noelle put together a webpage with her photos and our videos from our time there (2-5PM).
You'll see some familiar faces from the FBI's Most Wanted List, including the Camp Auschwitz guy and the man who put his feet on Nancy Pelosi's desk.
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So the last 24 hours have been a little crazy since that post went viral. I have footage to post in a bit but I've been doing things like this today. Room rater score: zero.
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Peak National Review.
Could only be topped if they asked for Abrams' SAT scores.
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Just to be clear. The leading US history org responds to book bannings, teacher firings, curriculum censoring, & SC rulings that badly misuse history by telling scholars to retreat to obscure subject matter with no contemporary relevance to avoid the appearance of "presentism."
How do historians undertake their chosen profession with integrity in an era of unrelenting presentism? asks AHA president James H. Sweet in
#AHAPerspectives
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Dear Insurgents:
You aren't the 1776 Patriots who overthrew British rule.
You're the misguided "Whiskey Rebels" of 1794, who believed they could go to war against their government because "the people" would rise and join them.
They were wrong. And so are you. 1/5
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DeSantis is repeating Gordon Wood's misleading post-1619 Project take:
"In fact, the Revolution created the first antislavery movement in the history of the world. In 1775 the first antislavery convention known to humanity met in Philadelphia..."
-Power and Liberty (2021)
Emperor Desantis gives his absurdly false version of how he expects history to be taught: “It was the American Revolution that caused people to question slavery. No one had questioned it before we decided as Americans that we are endowed by our creator with unalienable rights.”
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Regardless of how this plays out, it's clear the Democrats have a deep, diverse, and talented bench of smart, compelling people. Quite the contrast with a party whose future rests with Hawley, Crenshaw, Greene and clowns like Ben Shapiro and Charlie Kirk.
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The framing is brilliant. Centering the extreme violence against the Capitol Police and their heroism protecting Republican senators frames the Republicans' choice as saving Trump's ego or stabbing heroic Capitol Police in the back who gave their bodies and lives to save them.
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The Proud Boys--and all their far right allies--still have a plan. Which is why they have been so involved at all levels of the People's Convoy. And why they are advocating convoy protests on state capitols. Jan 6 wasn't an ending. It was part of the beginning.
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Republicans, honest question: How far do you follow your emboldened Proud Boy, QAnon, violent white supremacist base? How far will you go in pursuit of power? Or out of fear? Will Lindsey Graham be defending statehouse takeovers? Or lynchings? Where does this end? It's not clear.
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I love that Trump's personal injury lawyer opened the door for witnesses by denying facts unnecessarily. They could have just skated through with evasive answers. Then van der Veen channeled Trump and called Tuberville a liar & Tuberville proved unwilling to go under the bus.
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Jeff Adams, a mathematician at UMD sent me links to video he shot of Stop the Steal before the riot and asked me to post them. Jeff was there as an observer like I was. His videos capture the march to the Capitol and the crowds there before the riot. (All sent to FBI)
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Think the People's Convoy is going away? Think again. They have busy been mainstreaming and movement-building. You probably heard that they met with Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Ron Johnson (R-WI). But there's been a lot more going on. 🧵
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@laurencarley3
We sent all pictures and video to the FBI right away and spoke to an agent in the local regional field office. He was mostly interested in the pictures and video. The agent was familiar with the thread and tv, radio, and podcast interviews I had done. He was grateful for the help
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This apology doesn't address any of the substantive issues. Sweet even doubles-down on his condemnation of "presentism." People weren't critiquing the essay because it was clumsy. Sweet made his vision of history and historians quite clear. That vision is what alarmed many of us.
Please read this apology from James H. Sweet regarding his recent
#AHAPerspectives
column. "I apologize for the damage I have caused to my fellow historians, the discipline, and the AHA. I hope to redeem myself in future conversations with you all."
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@DoctorOcto
@gmaw_meidas
@_Noelle_Cook
When something like 40 million people are willing to believe QAnon crazy conspiracies, astroturf can be amazingly effective. Look at what it's done in Russia!
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At the Constitutional Convention, Ben Franklin proposed starting each session with a prayer. Alexander Hamilton replied that the delegates were not in need of "foreign aid." Later when asked why the Constitution made no mention of God, Hamilton curtly replied, "we forgot."
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On that gallows: I was at "Stop the Steal" as an observer and
@housewifeangst
and I saw it in person. That wasn't a makeshift prop. It was made with real lumber and built to be solid. It's hard to escape the conclusion that someone made that with the potential be put into use.
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@IlliniMJ
@_Noelle_Cook
The old fashioned kind of epiphany where you walk around for four hours, talk to a lot of people, observe, and listen to conversations. And then apply what you have learned from other reputable sources.
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As an historian of the first domestic insurrection against the US in 1794, I have a history lesson for the 2021 insurrectionists: Your violence will backfire.
Dear Insurgents:
You aren't the 1776 Patriots who overthrew British rule.
You're the misguided "Whiskey Rebels" of 1794, who believed they could go to war against their government because "the people" would rise and join them.
They were wrong. And so are you. 1/5
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Bruce Castor has some learning to do about the creation of the Constitution. At the Convention, the Founders CONSTANTLY referenced British precedence as a touchstone for the government they were creating. They also referenced other governments and the history of prior republics.
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Continuing the long, self-defeating tradition of blaming “presentism” for the declining influence of academic history rather than recognizing how timid and inept the AHA has long been in engaging non-academic audiences, countering the misuse of history & showing our public value.
How do historians undertake their chosen profession with integrity in an era of unrelenting presentism? asks AHA president James H. Sweet in
#AHAPerspectives
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@anneapplebaum
It goes without saying that Navalny is one brave freedom fighter, taking it right back to Putin and directly challenging his masculinity, greed, and sanity. Let's hope he lives long enough to see a new Russia.
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@Farrellenko
@MichaelHattem
@_Noelle_Cook
Yeah, no one there seemed remotely interested in that. Either ignorance or they weren't sure who they were supposed to be rooting for.
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@SamFord7News
It was ugly and Sam hung in there until it was clearly not going to stop and was only drawing a larger crowd of shouting White folks. I'm not sure what they would have done, but violence was a distinct possibility. There was a definite mob mentality building.
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@MollyJongFast
Marc Short is there to announce that Mike Pence remains an obscenely ambitious man with no moral compass who will live out the rest of his days licking Donald Trump's boots no matter how hard or how many times he gets kicked in the face.
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This statement is a devastating indictment of Trump's state of mind and his inexcusable inaction. And she's calling on staffers around Trump and Pence to join her in blowing the whistle on this. Hope they listen!
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Insurrection Pro Tip: Don't combine sedition with an anti-mask protest.
Everyone getting arrested and losing their job for storming the Capitol building are realizing why their grandparents wore hoods.
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@Tavita2
@_Noelle_Cook
A recent study estimated that 40 millions Americans believe part of QAnon stuff is true. It's more mainstream than you think.
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@MEPFuller
Lindsey Graham could teach a masterclass in obfuscation, red herrings, and whataboutism.
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@AshleyRParker
You would skip the page with the fox.
You would skip the page with the box.
You would skip pages here and there.
You would skip pages everywhere.
You do not like Seuss pages, "Scram!"
You do not like them, Ashley I am.
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Lt. Michael Byrd did more than he knows. I was at the Capitol Insurrection observing on the east (non-mall) side and witnessed the difference his actions made. Shooting Ashli Babbitt stopped another wave of violent insurrectionists from entering the Capitol.
Officer who shot Ashli Babbitt during Capitol riot breaks silence: 'I saved countless lives'.
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@hillmikedc
He actually pointed that out to the people harassing him several times. It didn't register at all with them. The guy in the photo (who was speaking in tongues later that evening) said he didn't know what Sinclair was but was sure it was Fake News.
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We saw this guy everywhere when we were there, always surrounded by the leaders spewing the most violent rhetoric. Glad they got him.
CBS News’
@CBS_Herridge
reports the rioter wearing a “Camp Auschwitz” sweatshirt has been arrested in Newport News, Virginia, according to a law enforcement source.
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@gtconway3d
George Conway supports overturning Roe v. Wade. He's part of the Federalist Society, the chief architect of the effort to dismantle Roe and stack the courts with conservative justices. He soft pedals his conservatism. But that's who he is.
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A reminder that "high crimes and misdemeanors" sets a LOWER threshold for conviction than criminal law because the Founders believed that elected officials should be held to a higher standard. They specifically did not include criminal penalties as part of impeachment.
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Took my first trip to Twitter jail yesterday. Evidently the phrase "stick a fork in" violates the terms of service. I am grateful for that fork, however, which I fashioned into a shiv for protection on the inside.
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The Capitol Insurrection was a radicalized middle and upper middle class uprising. This is why swift, hard consequences are so important. Lost jobs, customers, clients, and credit from banks can start bringing this thing to heel.
Among those arrested in the Capitol Hill insurrection so far:
- an Olympic gold medal winner
- a CEO
- a sitting State Representative
- a retired Lt. Col in the military
- off-duty police officers
- the son of Judge
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So, insurgents, knock off the violence. If you don't, you're going to envy the so-called "Whiskey Rebels." Because the actual label history will give you—and the real world consequences you will face—will undoubtedly be much, much worse. 5/5
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Heads up on getting the 2nd Pfizer shot: don't plan on doing much the next two days. Some people get body aches, headache, fever, chills, etc. about 12 hour after the 2nd shot that can last 24-48 hrs. Got mine Wed am and barely left bed Thurs. Improved today but still feeling it.
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@CharlesWMcKinn2
We are doing well. Glad to see you seem well also. Best part of going viral has been reconnecting with old friends. 6 years ago both my parents developed Alzheimer's and I shelved my career to care for my mom and see my dad. Nice to get back into it, and with a bit of a bang!
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@SteveSchmidtSES
I doubt anything happens to McCarthy at all. When was the last time Republican leadership held anyone in their caucus to account for any serious ethical violation? Lying is nothing to them. Republicans only punish Rs who tell the truth about what the party has become.
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Pretty much spot on. Even without Trump we still live in crazy town where a sizable minority plays politics with a pandemic with nearly 1/2 a million Americans dead. It's psychotic.
BIDEN: let’s work together to save American lives
GOP: lol no
BIDEN: ok I’ll do it without you
GOP: what happened to uNiTy
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And that's just Benezet. Quaker and Protestant antislavery activism in the 13 colonies started a century before the Revolution & can be found in Britain and elsewhere.
@ProfMSinha
wrote a great, award-winning book covering this and much more.
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That there are enough legit Nazis in Congress to have a Nazi Caucus is so 2021.
EXCLUSIVE: A pickup truck parked at the U.S. Capitol and bearing a Three Percenter militia sticker on the day of the Jan. 6 riot belongs to the husband of freshman U.S. Rep. Mary Miller of Illinois, who approvingly quoted Adolf Hitler a day earlier
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This is why immediate, powerful consequences are so important. QAnon is a middle and upper middle class "movement." Most of them lack the stomach for violence and will respond to lost jobs, clients, customers & social shunning by backing down.
Online far-right movements are splintering in the wake of the Capitol riot, as some radical anti-government movements show signs of disillusionment with the relatively hands-off approach of some QAnon conspiracy theorists amid warnings of future violence.
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@ZTPetrizzo
When we went to Hagerstown two-weeks in, several people let us in on the "privileged knowledge" that ANTIFA had supposedly planted a bomb in nearby woods the night before. Word had it a trucker found it with night-vision goggles. And then apparently diffused it. So MacQyver
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Reminder: The Founders wanted the Senate to operate on simple majority votes with few exceptions: impeachment, ratifying treaties, constitutional amendments, and overriding vetoes. The current filibuster use is a recent practice that was developed to kill civil rights legislation
NEW —> 'A tremendous sea change': Democrats see a path to remaking the Senate filibuster
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@ThePlumLineGS
Given that every poll about Biden or the Democrats or policy proposals stands at about 56% and has been at that mark for months, isn't the real story more about the stabilization of a new political coalition? This kind of consistency is what political realignment looks like.
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@CipherKnot
@NCookBouton
Look, this is ancient alien technology encoded in your DNA. If you want keep vibrating at low frequencies and get left out the transcendence, sit home with your lack of super human alien powers, and wonder why you never get invited to the cool starseed parties, that's on you.
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The really frightening thing is that a majority of Florida voter keep re-electing these people--and that the margins seem to keep getting wider the more anti-science, racist, and authoritarian Republican leaders get.
Florida Republicans now looking at rescinding measles & mumps vaccine requirements, while continuing to spread disinformation that the Covid vaccine isn't "proven to work"
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Don't mess with historians.
Or teachers with plagiarism detection software.
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Well it's good to see that Donald Trump's "Advisory 1776 Commission" isn't trying to foment more rebellion or anything.....
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Gordon Wood is wrong: The 1775 antislavery meeting wasn't even the first antislavery meeting for the guy who supposedly started the movement. Quaker abolitionist Anthony Benezet had been mobilizing Quakers, speaking out, & publishing antislavery pamphlets since the 1750s.
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